Kate Creates Stuff

Kate / 31 / NorCal, USA. Too young and too old all at once. Disabled student, storyteller, and photographer. Have cane, will travel. She/her.✡️

[problemnyatic]

"I would kill for you. I would die for you" would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs for me? Would you let yourself be held for me? By me?

[beeezah]

OP i hope its okay to reblog with your additions bc they are good

[problemnyatic]

not only is it okay, I think i'd like that very much, thank you.

[andhumanslovedstories]

I’m very excited for my latest craft experiment, where I rhythmically slap sale rank oil paint onto a canvas and I see how long it takes to dry so that I can finally touch the paint textures I stare at so longingly in museums. 12 hours in, still wet. I am beginning to think this might take longer than I thought which you can imagine is quite a burden, as I am absolutely horned up to rub this paint.

[andhumanslovedstories]

You guys sound like you know what you’re talking about but I’m gonna touch it every twenty minutes just to be sure

[andhumanslovedstories]

I’ve put this canvas to age in the basement like a fine wine, along another recent masterpiece of mine “I put the paint on me hand and I slap the canvas like a bongo”

[andhumanslovedstories]

Paint slapped on 6/9, as of 6/22 (I mean actually it was a couple days ago but I didn’t fully check the dryness then so I can’t be sure):

It is rubbery feeling and the peaks of paint move when you flick them. The texture is not at ALL what I expected tbh and it makes me excited to try a different experiment, thick brush strokes, you know, those mad thicc ones that swirl real good

Here’s an additional shot with my coffee cup for a further sense of scale so people will understand that these canvases are small and therefore stop sending me asks about my supposedly gorilla sized hands, you bastards, you rotten bastards scared of the hands your minds gave me

I don’t know shit about art but isn’t this like a great example of art that pushes the boundaries of what art is? Like you’ve got your canvas with paint on it, but your reason for putting the paint there is totally different than why most people put paint on stuff. It’s like a study on texture or something.

[mazarinedrake]

Agreed, this is really cool and also I love the fact that you really wanted to touch some paint, so you just went out and bought a bunch of paint and made your own painting for touching purposes. That’s striking me as really really cool right now for reasons I can’t entirely articulate. 

[electronicgallery]

For reference: Really thick paint on a piece of art is called impasto. Another really fun way to do it is with a painting knife: you can make each stroke SUPER SMOOTH like cake icing, but with visible, touchable texture between the strokes.

More impasto:

art by Jan Ironside, who does THICK IMPASTO FLOWERS THAT I SO WANT TO TOUCH

[phoenix]

You LITERALLY sat down to watch paint dry…

[jhelenoftrek]

Museums should have stuff like this on display JUST so you can touch it. With a sign like, “Feel me up! I won’t alarm!”

[ms-demeanor]

make good art

[flip-this-table]

Only thing about thick impasto is that the paint can get a bit sharp sometimes. Like, I’ve cut my hand on dried impasto paint because the paint stroke was that pointed. -.-;

[ganymedecatamitus]

Every reply on this post is delightful

[nimthirial]

sorry this is not relevant at all but ive seen this post many times and EVERY SINGLE TIME “ stop sending me asks about my supposedly gorilla sized hands, you bastards, you rotten bastards scared of the hands your minds gave me” makes me spiral ive never laughed so hard thank you

[lou-the-naga-queen]

This entire thread is wonderful. What better reason to create art than pure human curiosity? 🥰

[remanence-of-love]

[homunculus-argument]

Jewish people do not proselytise like christians do. Judaism is an ethnoreligion, they are not interested in converting the entire world into being jewish. Converts are rare and need a good reason for wanting to do it - depending on the denomination, even wanting to marry someone who is jewish and joining one's partner's people may only barely be valid enough of a reason. Converting has to be a choice that you want to make, or something that God wants you to do. And therefore, there are only two possible explanations of why my Tumblr's targeted ads look the way they do.

The algorithm has somehow concluded that I am jewish and not reading the Torah enough, and would be interested in an app that'd make it easier to do while still busy shitposting on tumblr.

These ads are coming directly from God.

[katecreatesstuff]

Mazel tov! Welcome to the Jew side. We’ve got cookies… and gefilte fish and kugel and latkes. Are you hungry? There’s plenty. You look like you might be hungry. Have as much as you want.

I am a Jewish convert. We also don’t proselytize because your spiritual practices are none of our business and we don’t believe your “salvation” is dependent on accepting ours. Proselytizing is inherently self-centered: “I know what’s best for you better than you do.”

That said, I feel like Jews are missing an opportunity for a targeted ad campaign around guilting people into calling their mothers. Call it sharing our culture.

Torah app ads? Pfft. This is so niche that I feel like if you need a Torah app in your life you’ve already got a Torah app.

[expressions-of-nature]

Eastern Sierras, California by Ben Hatten Bach

[homunculus-argument]

Not to sound like I was raised by protestants, but I think those kids who argue that it's animal abuse to put working dog breeds to work doing the tasks they were bred and born for have simply genuinely never encountered the concept that they, too, could be genuinely happier if they could do work they found wortwhile and enjoyable. Like engaging in useful and constructive activities might genuinely make life better than a life of doing absolutely nothing because nobody's making you do anything.

[anexperimentallife]

Blue Heelers are herding dogs. When I had one, he decided his job was to herd our flock of cockatiels. I didn't ask him to, and in fact tried to dissuade him at first, but it worked out pretty well and kept him from getting bored. Not sure how well things would have worked out if we hadn't had something for him to herd and protect.

If you don't give your working dog a job, they will assign themselves one. Unfortunately, that job may sometimes be eating the couch.

[homunculus-argument]

The difference between a well-trained herding dog and an untrained herding dog is that a well-trained one won't start herding before you tell them to, and stops herding when told to do so. Herders will herd because herders must herd. I was there the first time my sister's dog (a shepherd breed) saw sheep for the first time. I swear I saw him blink like he suddenly remembered something, and instantly knew what to do. Genetic memory just clicking into place.

Everyone deserves to experience that at some point in their life. Blinking like a sheep dog seeing sheep for the first time. "Oh, right, so this was what I was supposed to be doing."

[valtsv]

oh man i hate this part *starts screaming in pain as i begin to pull a spear out of the pocket dimension in my eye*

[valtsv]

☝️ victim blaming

[foxes-in-love]

[passionpeachy]

the only people allowed to steal my art without credit are mexican taquerias who handpaint it on the wall like it's goku holding a taco. the rest of y’all gotta ask

[homunculus-argument]

Just saw somebody refer to the Pope as "the final boss of the catholic church", and someone else replying "I like the way you're implying that you'd first have to fight every single catholic on the planet before you get to fight the pope."

And I'm not sticking my spoon in there, but isn't that... Pretty much how it works? Like sure there are outliers, but I think it's safe to say that if you announced "I'm going to fight the pope", most catholics would reply with "absolutely fucking not" and would fight you first. One does not simply walk into the Vatican with full intentions to throw down with the pope without having to fight through like at least 5 levels of catholic security first.

[my-random--thoughts-deactivated]

Your daily dose of fluffy animal content ♡

[jelly-jam]

@cat-spotted

[thoughtstherapy]

[lidathedefiant]

After much research on the Plan of St. Gall and Benedictine monastic life, I have completed the first floor of the monastery as it would've looked during its height of operations, roughly 200 years, give or take, before Lida et al. find it on their travels. I will be making another floor plan showing it in ruins.

Something to note is that this is where they encounter the terror-feeder, because the Northern Reaches really was the gods' DeviantArt page. Though I modeled this on Christian monastic life, the experiences of these monks are fundamentally different and far less ascetic so I made some fundamental changes.

Let me take you through some of the design choices I made!

Directional focus is the Overlook of the Gods, so southwest. The cathedral points in that direction as do both chapels.

Original Benedictine monasteries had very limited access points to the inner sanctum. I modified this with a few extras, but I still maintained some separation between the acolytes and monks.

Which leads me to the big main storage room. This was actually a surprising distance from the kitchens in the Plan of St. Gall.

The original kitchen had no outside access, iirc, but was separated from the main building by a hallway. I maintained this here, as it was a pragmatic and not religious decision; kitchen fires wiped out a hell of a lot of monasteries and abbeys before they moved the building off. Now they still maintained zero outside kitchen access, condemning anyone trapped in the kitchen to death, but I digress.

Monasteries were fully self-sufficient. This bad boy would’ve had crops and livestock and breweries. I did not want to design all that out because it would be gone by the time Lisa et al. arrive, but I did keep chambers for the brothers-in-service.

This place would have had an old men’s rest home to account. Remember, part of the reason this monastery is so popular and well-maintained is because there’s too many men born in the Northern Reaches. (Don’t ask me why, I’m working on it.) So they would’ve had services for old impoverished men who couldn’t marry and had no families. I’m giving them three men assigned to the role and then an additional six that are cycled through the ranks to fulfill the mitzvah (by another name) of caring for others.

I eliminated the Benedictine conversation rooms, as Lida monks are free to talk, but kept the warming room out of practicality. It would be prohibitively costly to maintain fires everywhere. In monasteries that had dormitories, monks typically slept over the warming room, which will happen here. But unlike the ascetic Benedictines, I’ve given the brothers-in-service and others sleeping in beds far from the warming room little furnaces.

The conservatory is also not a traditional Benedictine room. My boyfriend asked the question of whether the era would’ve had such tech, but the gods gave them a lot of knowledge.

Now we get to the big question: what the hell is up with the arcana rooms? Well, I may have jumped the shark. In constructing this on Inkarnate, I saw they had summoning circles, and I wondered, what if they had been practicing forbidden magic? Not magic outlawed by the Magisterium, but the one form of magic outlawed by the gods? What if they had accidentally summoned the terror-feeder from cryo underneath the Overlook of the Gods and this was their downfall?

I don’t have all the answers yet and I have a whole second floor to build before I can demolish it, but it’s interesting to think about and damn this was fun to make.

[katecreatesstuff]

I’m so proud of this.

[thoughtstherapy]

[thoughtstherapy]

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

So when Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi he looked like this

But turning to the dark side changed his physical appearance. Most notably his eyes, which became yellow (a very typical Sith transformation in many species)

And while I know that Wookies are not supposed to be able to be force sensitive and therefore cannot become Jedi or Sith, all I am saying is that

.... You know?

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

As a tag?? You make the funniest comment on this post ever as a tag?

[markv5]

Так видит себя мой кот, когда я с утра не дал ему поесть

[dualityofsquid]

“this is how my cat sees himself in the morning before I give him food”