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@harinezumiko
Makin’ me comms sheet and sticking it out there! Money is bad but I keep being afraid to put this out. Q_Q Here y’all!
The easiest way to plot with me is Discord, and payment methods are somewhat flexible, but include Paypal/Kofi/Cashapp. I’ll have the digital bases done hopefully this week, but until then, there are some of the smaller ones. Agates and squishy quartzes not included woop.
There are of course many refs in the my draws tag too!
Swarovski can continue to fuck off.
In 2021, Swarovski (the company that makes the very sparkly crystals you see in certain jewelry, on figure-skaters' twinkliest outfits, on red carpet dresses), decided they didn't want the grubby fingers of small-time jewelers, clothing designers and costumers and crafters on their shiny beads and rhinestones anymore. They decided to limit their sales to "luxury" and couture creators, not girls who sell stuff on Etsy. The tenor of their press release on the subject was snide and insulting. Resellers (like your favorite bead shop) would no longer be allowed to carry their product; the average Jane on the street would not be able to purchase them. You could only get them if you had an authorized business agreement that bound you to very strict brand behavior. And those of us who still had good stock of the crystals would no longer be "permitted" to use the brand's name in our listings for sale.
Every bead shop and craft supply place and many, many small clothing makers--wedding shops, prom and dancing dress suppliers, the sort of salt of the Earth mom and pop time machines of shops that are the backbone of the field--scrambled to find something that could replace them. The last of the stock dwindled quickly, all of us grabbing what we could get while there was any chance of it, and then it was gone and we no longer had any access.
I was Big Pissed about it at the time. It was just so goddamn stuck-up, when wholesalers and indie jewelers had made them so much money, when some people I knew--when *I!*--had been brand-loyal for decades. But with no recourse, everyone pivoted fairly quickly, most of us to Preciosa Crystals. Those are Czech, quite sparkly, and considerably less expensive than Swarovski. The faceting method they use is different, but not worse; any differences are hardly noticeable when you're seeing them as a hundred pinpoints of light.
Well, out of nowhere, Swarovski just dropped this: https://www.harmanbeads.com/swarovski-brand-policy-update
"Effective June 1, 2026, Swarovski updated the distribution and brand usage policies introduced in 2021. Businesses may now purchase Swarovski Crystals without signing a Brand Control Agreement, and Authorized Distribution Partners may once again sell Swarovski Crystals to resellers, including bead stores and online retailers. Businesses may also use the Swarovski brand name when following Swarovski’s Proper Use Guidelines. Designers, manufacturers, artists, brands, retailers, and resellers are now eligible to purchase Swarovski Crystals through authorized distribution channels."
They want us back. A lot of the companies who could have kept a brand relationship with them also have swapped to Preciosa, over the last half-decade, in solidarity with indie creators and out of a sour awareness that it could be them, next. And it doesn't hurt that Preciosa was able to expand their line quite a bit now that everyone who wanted sparkle had no choice but to go to them.
And I'm not seeing nearly anyone who intends to return. The feeling is, "Y'all told us to fuck off! Off we fucked! And now, that's what you can do, too!" I'm seeing a lot of "How many of us did you stab in the back?" comments from the people whose money they're hoping to attract.
And personally I'm sitting over here all rubby hands, mean snickering, because they really thought they were going to be able to outclimb the people who actually provided all their profits, and now here they are, hat in hand.
Okay shot in the dark, Tumblr, let's see if anyone is better at this than me.
I can't find a match for this piece on Shopgoodwill! I've tried reverse image searching, but I'm only finding Similar results.
"18k Yellow Gold Egyptian Revival Scarab Beetle Lapis Coral Necklace17"42.44g" Item Description 18k Yellow Gold Egyptian Revival Scarab Beetle Lapis Coral Turquoise Necklace17” 42.44g Unmarked Condition: Pre Owned Notes: Missing Stones the Clasp has a sharp edge and is dented
That's all the info it has! It's going off in 8hr and is above 1k, but I'm very ??? because I can't find a match of a reproduction, which to me suggests that even though it's an Egyptian Revival piece... it isn't one of the museum replicas or one by one of the houses that gets reproduced forever these days.
Anyone here on Tumblr Dot Com recognize this one? My next plan is seeing about the writing on the back.
Edit: The writing is ye olde butchered Tut scarab backing, alas, not a clue.
Once again being demoralized by people who can't read arguing about text that isn't unclear. Good god. 90% of the time if there's symbolism it's not subtle, and they can't engage with it at all. Even when it's explained by the team working on it.
There's something to be said of people arguing with each other until they misconstrue surface-level text, too. None of these people have ever taken a creative writing class, but when they also GENUINELY don't like reading and can't read... then why are you chucklefucks complaining about the writing? You made up a worse, incoherent storyline, and got mad at it!
in my beautiful mind palace they’re married & have been lezzing out since day one 🙂↕️
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Out of nowhere, maybe, but with DOA very likely closing soon, someone had a good idea: moving doll profiles to tumblr. The doll profiles were one of my favorite parts of DOA, but what is my doll blog for if not doll info.
So very soon I'll be recreating my doll profiles here, probably in chronological order of when I got which doll. I'll link to them all on my "my dolls" page (linked on the blog) and maybe make a pinned post.
Related, but I've been slowly working on a neocities site with details about all my doll characters and their stories. It's far from presentable at present, but whenever it's ready to be seen, I'll let you all know.
yesss join us on the indie web
if you have an old style doll website to show off your collection, please drop a link and I'll add it to my great big list! (it's mostly BJD sites but any site dedicated to your dolls counts.)
pine island dolls (v2 Pandora's Toybox)
Reblogging this so that others can see! I'll try to remember this when I finish it (also reblogging to help with that lol).
RIP Cookiepants
Just found out one of my bridesmaids who recently had a baby died last month and I think part of my world collapsed. We just reconnected after years apart, and I moved across the country and was a state away from her, but I was giving her some room to be a new mom before I planned to finally storm her house this summer for our reunion. I missed her funeral. She was younger than me. Her baby was born in January.
I feel like I should reach out to our other friends from back in the day but also like that's a terrible thing to do after not talking to them, but everyone has pretty much abandoned Facebook and understandably her wife didn't directly reach out to me or I would've gone to the funeral.
I don't know what to feel or do. I loved this girl so much. So much of who I am folds back to when we were close. I know how much of an impact she had on me, and I feel like that means I should reach out to our other friends from back then to let them know too, but that also feels like overreach. I know I have to tag at least a few here. This isn't the kind of post I wanted to make about any of us.
Cookiepants, you have no idea how much you mean to me, even though I know I tried to tell you every now and then. I can't believe you're gone. I can't believe YGOTAS is still going. The Afterlife better have wifi for you.
I'll see you there someday, @ousamaa
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What the FUCK do you mean there's spoilers for the new AtLA movie and Zuko acknowledges a hot Airbender's bone structure and nobody's drawing ZukoxAang about it, do I gotta cook all my own food EVERY TIME...
i keep seeing ppl being like "just get an id, what's the big deal?" about the potential voter registration restrictions, and let me tell you a story i am actively dealing with
i work with unhoused people fleeing domestic violence, and i have a client rn whose driver's license expired in 2024, and she needs a new id to apply for apartments. ok, cool. problem is, she lost all her documents due to the domestic violence
so we call the dmv. dmv needs a birth certificate. like i said, she lost her birth certificate. she needs a new one. her birth certificate is from out of state
we look up how to get a new birth certificate. the birth certificate needs an id to order it. cool cool cool
ok then what about secondary options? well, she needs two secondary sources of identification to order a replacement birth certificate, and she only has one, because for everything else she needs an id. fishing license? need an id. fucking park pass? id. she could have her 18+ child use their birth certificate to vouch for her, except her abuser won't let her talk to her children, so that's a no go
ultimately we land on social security card. this is where we're at in the process rn. ofc she doesn't have her ss card, so we need to order that. social security also requires an id to request a new card, but they'll take a health insurance card with a picture attached (god fucking bless them). she has medicaid but doesn't have a physical copy of the card, so we have to figure out how to get that. then once we do that we have to upload it to the social security website, and if that doesn't work, we have to, god forbid, call the social security office (takes literal hours) and then make an appointment. she doesn't have transportation or cell service, so we would have to figure out a way to coordinate me getting her to the appointment in order to present the document
then we wait 10+ days for the replacement, that has to be mailed to me bc she is unhoused and doesn't have an address
then we need to submit her request for a new birth certificate, which we have to figure out how to pay for, bc it is not free. they're at least a month behind on requests, btw, so we are probably looking at may at the earliest for that to arrive
then we need to take the birth certificate to the dmv
dmv also requires two pieces of mail not from a po box. she doesn't have an address, she is unhoused. she can use the homeless shelter in town, but we will need to mail her stuff there and have her receive it first, and also then the homeless shelter address will now be on her new id, which landlords will recognize and may discriminate against her for
during all of this she is sleeping in a garage. it was negative one degrees this morning. also, forgot to mention, she is terminally ill. some days i legitimately don't know if she lived through the night. every day is a toss up
the absolute soonest she will have an id is probably late may. forget voter registration--most rentals won't let her apply without it. she won't be offered section 8 housing without it. she can't apply for ssdi without it. she is blocked at literally every corner without it, and the absolute soonest she can get it is late may. the dmv literally has her old card on file, and she knows the number by heart, but it doesn't matter. it doesn't count if it's expired, as if she's somehow become someone new
and that's all with the help of someone whose job it is to do this shit. imagine if she didn't have a caseworker. she has a ten year old donated iphone that only works on wifi, she can't even do her own research bc she doesn't have internet half the time. how the hell is she supposed to get anything done on her own?
so yeah, fuck you if you think requiring an id isn't voter discrimination. "just get an id" is privileged af thinking and it infuriates me every time i hear it. lawmakers know exactly what they're doing with that restriction, and it's absolute bullshit
Gonna chime in on this one with related BS because getting an ID and a passport is an ordeal right now even if you are housed!
I have a current driver's license for my previous address in another state. I have moved, but do not have my birth certificate or SS card. My new state does not take my current driver's license as a primary form of ID because it isn't RealID. So I have to order my birth certificate.
Order my birth certificate online. The estimated wait time, because everything is broken right now, is 95 business days. This is not the case if I order directly from the county I was born in... except that county needs a notarized request, and also only takes cashier's checks for payment. I could send someone in person, and they would hand it over within an hour, except that the only person I could send is my abusive mother who I've had no contact with for over a decade. Parents or adult children are the only ones who can go in person on your behalf, or your spouse, but my spouse is out here with me. It makes sense, but it's 2026, there has to be a better way.
Okay, fine, whatever. I call the company that has given me the 95 business day ETA. They say no, no, it is more likely 60 because I put the order in a few weeks ago. The new ETA is sometime in late May. In the time it would take to chase down a notary and get a cashier's check (my bank is in another state, but I can drive to that. It's a few hundred miles round trip), and to then mail that to the county in the other state, even if their processing time after receiving it is only a few days... mailing it back is another week+. We're looking at May either way.
And once the birth certificate arrives, I can get a state ID to update my residency, because I own my house and can provide proof that I pay utility bills and receive mail here. But the state ID is not a RealID. And I will still need RealID to fly and potentially a passport to vote.
To get either of those, I will need the social security card, which at that point is just Money and Time, but I can then pay to expedite for a passport afterwards.
It varies by state, of course. A few months ago, my wife's birth certificate got here in under a week. The bureaucratic element is the hardest part of being presented with absurd hoops.
A few years ago, I was housed, but didn't have a phone, and my ID had lapsed. There was no way I could have navigated hoops like this on my own--I would've needed someone like OP's help and at the time, I couldn't have gotten it.
"Just get an ID" works super well if you have money and all your documents in order, but it doesn't work if the system is also broken. And it is more broken than ever right now.
Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?
The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.
Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.
Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
Commission for Inkcache on insta The client gave me a sketch of their idea, and I fell in love with the antler concept. I thought it was the perfect project to test out my new 3d printer. I normally sculpt antlers out of thermal plastic because it is very durable, but it gets really tedious trying to keep everything symmetrical. The antler print wasn’t perfect, but after patching it, I think it came out gorgeous! Thank you for such a fun room guardian!
See how it’s made on my Patreon.
The direness of how many people are completely illiterate and just. Argue anyway. While not knowing what words are genuinely makes me want to leave the internet forever. Maybe it's good if the heat death of the universe happens, actually. Maybe then I will know peace. I actually hate experiencing bad faith illiterate pieces of shit responding smugly with gifs while being PATENTLY WRONG like I can't help you if you don't know what words mean
anyway hi every time I start being social online I am reminded to never do so in good faith, and probably I should keep that in mind forever!
I remember when it was a big shared sentiment in the queer community that "sex =/= gender =/= pronouns =/= physical appearance or expression" and. I feel like everyone even other trans people have forgotten about all that except the first part. and in many cases people forget the whole thing entirely
If I had a coin every time you offered me glue, I would have three coins. It’s not a lot, but it’s weird.
Happy hedgehog Valentines!
