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Set the sea on fire

do you know how badly i just want to have one but i cant get one cause they're either super cheaply made knock-offs that fall apart worth 30$ or real ones that are so hard to get you just draw your own and name them coco and apple?

as well as the lafufu name Lola?

gerbilfat

I ended up buying one of these on a lark a couple of months ago at a convention and absolutely fell in love with them. I wish that they weren't sold as predatory blind boxes because I think that tarnishes what cute toys they are. TBH the official ones are actually nicely made, too, esp with how small they are and how much hand-finishing they need. It makes sense that the knockoff lafufus can be so terrible because they're cutting corners by simplifying the pattern, then the doll just looks kind of potato.

fleebites

06oct - dawn//fawn

(for ‘fucked up deertober’ by @murderbeast )

aardciaga

i like them

elodieunderglass

it's a well-known fact in the textile crafting community that "making objects from textiles" is an entirely separate hobby from "having a collection of materials to make things with."

crafters often refer to this collection as a "stash" or a "hoard."

it's normal to have, but sometimes comes with a certain awkwardness.

the problem is that it takes a very long time to make things from textiles - and it is extremely quick, fun and easy to get more materials.

Presents, impulse purchases, leftovers from other projects, things you bought FULLY intending to make something that you changed your mind about...

Another problem is that you genuinely DO have a plan for the materials! your intentions and desires are THERE!

and admitting that it isn't going to happen - or that your mind has changed, or you're no longer able to do them - can be really painful!

it's incredibly hard to say: "we are not the people who can do these things. we are not the people who WILL do these things."

but sometimes you need to.

it's a natural part of life. it might feel painful to let go of things that you really want to use, but won't. But clearing them out - and the attached guilt and shame - will make room for a lot more things in your life. Room for things you'll use. Room for the projects you'll do.

Room and space - not for hanging on to the shades of the ambitions and intentions and people you aren't - not being held for lives you don't have - but room and space for who you are today, and who you'll be tomorrow, and for the things you'll do.

Room and space to grow.

gerbilfat

I struggled with this for a long time. It was a process of learning to be honest with myself about things I would actually use vs. things I loved but would not. The size of my collection of Hobby Things had become a source of anxiety and guilt for me, the opposite of what making things with your hands should be. Re-homing these materials freed a lot of physical space but also gave me mental space to re-examine what was important to me when purchasing fiber, textiles, paint, paper, or whatever else I was looking at.

#text #shut up gerbilfat

This person wrote a manifesto I ain’t reading all that but this is literally the type of behavior im talking about the idea hobbies all cost money is so removed from reality if you have the time to pick up your phone and write 7 paragraphs on how im victimizing you with my offhanded post you have the time to watch a movie on YouTube with your very same phone instead come on now. How is you freaking out on the internet helping any of these issues

turbozarky

things that dont cost money: hiking, walking, birdwatching, identifying plants, drawing (you have a pen, reading (library), collecting rocks, dancing, singing.... etc wtc etc

if you cant find a hobby you can afford, thats a you problem. and if youre posting online, you have a device to do that, get some free games, trawl wikipedia, study something. stop picking fights online and do something else.

laird-o-gerblins

Literally, right now. What's a topic you're interested in? Go to the Wikipedia page. Read or skim as you like, and click links to new pages when you come across an aspect of Your Thing you're not familiar with, or would like to know more about. Take some notes, maybe doodle. Put on some background music from a live yt stream - or Hatnote, which is the Wikipedia editing audio thing, which I like layering over some green noise forest sounds.

lovertm

body paintings by Karen Turner

its-emimi

tanglefootcomic

I made some weird little watercolor and gouache paintings for a sci-fi-themed exhibition. I was miles out of my comfort zone and some of my paintings were Quite Bad but I had fun

grendel-menz

burning food is an inherited trait

houseofcatwic

Shawn Braley Illustration

corycatte

more sphinx designs, this time returning to a biblical theming that i had played with like... a decade ago.

auction on toyhouse / deviantart

breeyn

How it started:

How it’s going:

Just a lil reminder that even if it doesn’t feel like it, even if it feels so fucking slow and you can’t see it at all, you do improve when you keep doing the thing. I love you. Hang in there.

breeyn

I have no idea why this is doing the rounds again - I love you all so much - but have I got an update for you!! I can't show you yet but in a couple weeks when I'm allowed to, I'll show you the next snake in this evolution.

Y'all are wonderful

breeyn

I can reveal the next snake in the chain:

This piece is titled "The Secondary Eclipse Occurs When The Cooler Star Is Occulted By The Hotter Star", and it was created for Poetic Tiger's Invisible Threads show. The snake is 43" from end-to-end, and 39 of those inches are covered in sequins stitched on one-by-one. He's a big boy.

There are five years between lil snakey #1 and this one. Also important to note - I started making snakes because of fanart. If anyone tries to tell you fanart isn't "real" art, they're being a douche, and you can call them on it. Anything that gives us the joy to create is ✨peak real✨ We're honing and learning and growing more skilled no matter what we create as long as we keep doing it. So make whatever art you want. (With your hands, AI isn't art and does not count)

lsdoiphin

In the future Episode 2 of @forevergoldgame, the Convoy is actually going to actually get on the road and start traveling. That means characters depicted on horseback. That means an opportunity to overthink and overdevelop some "horses."

Usually I'd just hand some colored napkin scribbles to Dan but it sounded fun to clean it up a little bit more so that's what I did.

(I also played with designing some riding tack, but realistically the tack depicted here is probably not going to be something we want to have to recreate across insert illustrations, so take those designs with a grain of salt. Also, ignore all the missing straps and details that should be there but aren't.)

Also, as a side note... man it's NIGH IMPOSSIBLE to recreate a dapple gray coat in a simple cartoon cel style, holy shit.