格物致知

most of the time I am drawing a bird and thinking about what to eat

[eusuchia]

hi welcome. you can call me finch

🌾 they/them / 30s / chinese / marxist / prairie boy in toronto (tragic)

I don't talk shop much but I am a tattooer by trade, fascinated by all kinds of representations of nature. I think evolutionary biology is the most interesting thing in the world and maybe in another life I am a paleoecologist but here I am drawing birds on people. it's a living

if you got here via fandom stuff sorry but I do not sideblog so you will get that mixed in with the other junk.

🌱 frequently tagged stuff:

art + textiles

scenes (place-based vibes)

reading notes

my art

my dog

photolog

babylon 5 / narn bin

all purpose star trek

disco elysium

[eusuchia]

submitted to my baser nature (started trying to make a chinese garden in planet zoo and immediately got in way over my head)

[eusuchia]

to be clear this does not function as a planet zoo habitat because the cranes can simply leave. but mostly they hang out and there are a few angles where you can get a really good screenshot out of it

[eusuchia]

I am cuba is such a good movie. and good looking. my own partner didn't know who I was in the anonymized streaming service groupchat until I started talking about how cool it is to see all the ways they're playing with contrast on the film. soviets were really doing some shit

[formlab]

Kirill Semenovich

[eusuchia]

partner showed me a companion overview for dark heresy and I hate to be excited about a video game but they put some really good weird hot women in that game....... I hope they don't get scared by their horrendous fanbase into making them more normal

[eusuchia]

my partner is almost every week coming home and reporting some absolutely evil self-defeating cost-cutting privatization-angling bullshit the school board is doing (e.g. they have just replaced their 'director' position with a 'ceo' who is a fucking dipshit with a commerce degree as you expect) and saying how the union will basically not do anything except maybe negotiate for salary and I just keep telling him theyve simply got to start killing people

[eusuchia]

submitted to my baser nature (started trying to make a chinese garden in planet zoo and immediately got in way over my head)

[eusuchia]

spring textures

[slunch]

tl;dr: all "algorithmically" pushed stuff on a newsfeed is mostly ads. nothing that's really surprising form this vulture article, but it is dismal and makes me grateful for one website where you only see things from people you follow WITHOUT horrible short-form video content

[bitchking-of-angmar]

The Feed Is Fake

What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?

https://web.archive.org/web/20260515113210/https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html

Have a paywall free link to the source!

[eusuchia]

it's so awesome that I alone out of the inhabitants of these various connected units live in all day perpetual sonic hell every time they start doing a new round of whatever construction next door with a rich tapestry of generators running constant hammering screwing ripping men screaming fucking dogshit dance music and that this has been going on for almost a year while our own side of the house is falling apart around us because our landlord doesn't give a shit but if he did actually fix the place it would basically mean evicting us because a lot of it would need complete replacement which can't happen while we live here so this is just how it is

[eusuchia]

booking my g2 road test for exactly 1 week before our roadtrip lmao. let us pray

[concentriccookies]

The finished goldenrod shirt! I am so pleased with how this has turned out!

The chest pocket is no longer functional. I was originally not going to embroider all the way through it, but i wasnt liking how it would sag when worn and how that inturrupted the lines of the plant. It was much easier to tack it down fully.

Its been so nice to be able to wear this finally! I got it done in time for (canadian) thanksgiving and it was the perfect warmth for the weather we had.

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[concentriccookies]

My linen quilt is finished!! This was made from all leftover linen from garments i've made- i always get way too much yardage, whoops- except the black. I was planning on using the black for garment things but then i had this quilt idea, so, pivoted.

This was a beast but im so so happy with how it turned out. Shes very moody.

It was machine pieced but hand quilted. I really fell in love with hand quilting while making this! Throwing on an audio book and just sewing for 3ish hours in the evenings was lovely and calming.

And if you ever want to quilt with linen, spray starch is your best friend. Lots of spray starch.

Also a lil banner i whipped up after from an extra repeat block i had!

[saint-vagrant]

REDSHIFTED

from SUPERPOSE | lighting inspired by david van dartel

[arcadebroke]

[eusuchia]

I don't have a strong sense of my pre-tattooing self I mean I have been tattooing in some way for almost as long as I have been an adult so the two are very intertwined. but I think without my job my social skills would be so much worse and I would be a worse person less interested in other people.

to be fair I know I'm not getting any true cross section and I'm lucky to have created a niche which selects for a lot of chill interesting people with interests similar to mine. but in general as much as I never become 'friends' with the vast majority of clients I have come to really enjoy being kind of conversant in a wide variety of subjects, at minimum enough to ask interesting questions. at max we are doing the aquinas talking philosophy meme and to get on the same wavelength as a total stranger like that is sooo funnn. small talk haters will never understand. the joy my textile/crafts minded people express upon finding out I know what they're talking about + am genuinely interested in their projects is particularly gratifying. talking shop is one of the best parts of learning a skill anyway lets fucking yap

[eusuchia]

I started watching some planet zoo youtube for background noise and I understand a certain amount of "I don't want to mispronounce this word because it's embarrassing" but god I haven't encountered that attitude in a while and it is SO much more embarrassing to instead have a whole bluster about how you don't want to even attempt pronouncing something because it's soooo long and complicated teehee especially when it is something like transliterated japanese or tagalog which have pretty straightforward text-to-pronunciation relationship. like you may mess up the stress but I think that is pretty forgivable. just sound out the letters like you're in kindergarten you can do it