and the universe told me

i love you, stranger!! | haiii i'm Laika!! | she/her or it/its | 18 | can and will bite >:3 | owner of @puppygirlflower

[keladi-caladium]

haii i'm laika

18/yo transbian

ameteur artist and writer

#meowriginal for my posts

#pawprinted for my art

[qthecardsmith]

Here's the pngs for thje custom set symbol I made for the Signalis X MTG set! (Not official, I am just insane) I am NOT a digital artist, I made this badboy using photoshop (+ some effects & coloring) and math! It's my first time ever designing a set symbol for any custom cards I've made, but I had a really good time making it! Anyway, all that's to say, if you'd like to make your own Signalis cards, you have my wholehearted blessing to go forth and use these set symbols for them, I'd be honored for my silly little art project to inspire more fledgling card designers and/or artists! Forgot to tag this in my last post, but I also hope you have a wonderful day! Don't forget to take care of yourself!

[qthecardsmith]

Mechanically, one of my favorite cards I have made to date! Really captures the essence of Elster's character, someone who will stop at nothing to "remember the promise", no matter how many times you kill her she always comes back stronger! I'm a very big believer in making flavorful and fun cards, I want to tell a story through my card design and in making this Signalis set I hope to really get across the themes and symbolism present in the game itself. I have so so much more I want to share about the design process of this set, but we can save that for another time! There's about 100+ more through this link here, check it out if you're interested: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UcWWS96DxKbpzpLk-59jbtL-G-ROb7pj

[yeehawpim]

[mgsr]

cats will be like please i need you to watch me wiggle around on this carpet please hey look look please look at me i’m wiggling

[c-53]

Please take my white ass to anor londo

[shadowysiren]

*grabs you with my long gargoyle-like arms and flies off witj you*

[c-53]

Oh thank god hold me tight you scary motherfucker

[dairymold]

[natalieironside]

My boyfriend was showing me his cat and I leaned over to kiss the cat on his soft little baby head and he went "meow" and scrambled away because I'd been wearing my headphones and I accidentally jabbed him with the microphone.

And I said "Damn, this is exactly like in the Iliad"

[rebels-cairn]

#explanation: this references the scene where Hektor the prince of troy goes to his wife after a battle and leans in to kiss his son #(who is still a baby and being held in andromache's arms) #but his son cringes away in fear of his father's battle helmet #it's a gut wrenching scene about how war dehumanizes you and separates you from the people you love #this interpretation implies that being a gamer is analogous

[psshaw]

[lilifred]

everyone's talking about the ibs/autism haha funny comparison thing while I'm still stuck on the concept that hamsters exist in the wild. like naturally

tf do you mean they're a wild creature. you find those ankle-biters at the pet store

[psshaw]

Not a biologist, but the evolution of mammals is way more granular than you might expect. Humans are the sole surviving species of the genus Homo, which was a real party before the other ones went extinct. You're in for a fun time.

Domestic cats are believed to be domesticated not from tigers, but from the African wildcat:

Which evolved to be small just because it's sometimes more useful to be small.

And no, hamsters are not off-brand rats. They're part of the rodent order, which includes beavers, moles, capybaras, guinea pigs (yes, also wild) and lots of other fun things:

[thesecretuncle]

Shit. This dude knows an extreme amount about a niche subject. Crazy what you can accomplish when you have treatment resistant IBS

[psshaw]

I want it on record that I shit mostly normal.

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Howling Wolf Figurine from Siberia, c.500-200 BCE: this carving measures just 11 cm (about 4 inches) tall, and it was created nearly 2,500 years ago

The figurine was crafted from a piece of wood and decorated with bits of shell inlay.

According to the Cleveland Museum of Art:

The subject, size, materials, and naturalistic style suggest that this small sculpture was made by one of the nomadic peoples of Western and Central Asia—perhaps the Scythians, who, with the Medes, conquered the Assyrians.

Sources & More Info:

Cleveland Museum of Art: Howling Wolf

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Howling Wolf Figurine from Siberia, c.500-200 BCE: this carving measures just 11 cm (about 4 inches) tall, and it was created nearly 2,500 years ago

The figurine was crafted from a piece of wood and decorated with bits of shell inlay.

According to the Cleveland Museum of Art:

The subject, size, materials, and naturalistic style suggest that this small sculpture was made by one of the nomadic peoples of Western and Central Asia—perhaps the Scythians, who, with the Medes, conquered the Assyrians.

Sources & More Info:

Cleveland Museum of Art: Howling Wolf

[barikios]

[sibarikupuame]

We are straight up broke broke can we get some help please we're an indigenous TMA system multiply disabled and homeless our wife is also TMA and multiply disabled any help you can send would be super appreciated or cash app is mariadeldesierto

--viscera

[sibarikupuame]

i am so tired rn i am nauseous. we are having a very, very hard time, and two of our other partners have just lost their housing and are currently taking a series of buses to where we live. i am too sleep deprived and brain damaged to ask gracefully; we need money. our other partners are currently on track to get here tuesday, but they don't have bank accounts they can access. if you can, please send us some money for food. we're now a group four disabled tma homeless systems who could use all the help they can get

[molabuddy]

^ guy drowning in blood

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

In my opinion it's a lot more healthy to be able to own that you dislike someone for petty reasons than to do all kinds of mental gymnastics to make everyone you don't really vibe with out to be a bad person actually

[sage-nebula]

[valtsv]

my that one friend that's too woke opinion is that in a similar vein to how you almost never see fat people or women without makeup on tv you never really see anyone experiencing incontinence issues unless it's a humiliating comedic moment at their expense and that's kind of scary

[valtsv]

like sorry to be the bearer of bad news but people piss themselves. when they're afraid. when they've experienced mental and/or physical trauma and their body needs a way to express that stress. when they've been sexually assaulted. when they get older and their muscles start to wear out from a lifetime of service. a not insignificant majority of people Will experience incontinence in their lifetimes and while there are steps you can take to manage it for your own comfort and others', there's simply no moral dimension to it whatsoever. & like i'm not saying every show and movie needs checkhov's bed wetting scene but we have seriously got to get more okay with acknowledging that somehow.

[valtsv]

[flying-potato2]

reblog if u wanna cuddle a trans girl right now

[wow-very-emo-such-bands]

What people think why i became a bookbinder: Oh she wants to explore her artistic horizon with those pretty leather bound books of hers. She even gives them out as gifts to her friends. It most likely helps her with anxiety or maybe she just wanted a more special costume made notebook.

Why I actually became a bookbinder: I just illegally downloaded and printed out several of my favourite fanfics and books and started binding them into books cuz I love reading them but looking at screens for too long gives me headaches.

[dial666]

op youre fucking big brained oh my god

[wow-very-emo-such-bands]

If you want to i can send you a link to some of the Tutorial videos i started binding my fanfic books.

[cyanidevamp]

PLEASE SEND ME THE LINK I WANT TO DO THIS SO BAD 

[alexstyx]

PLEASE SEND LINKS OP PLEASE I BEG YOU

[wow-very-emo-such-bands]

@laughuntilourribsgettough @starduststyx upon request: A tutorial playlist for my personal favourite bookbinding methods

Longstitch binding

https://youtu.be/a_LZ-BWhH_Q

2)Japanese Binding

https://youtu.be/j-r6c_trSxY

3) Belgian Binding

https://youtu.be/w-oct9Ttp1g

4) Coptic stitch binding

https://youtu.be/TdHo8NtDOXc

5) Case Bookbinding

https://youtu.be/Av_rU-yOPd4

[wow-very-emo-such-bands]

Update! Important

Hey everyone! OP here and geez this post has truly blown up over the years. However there are some things I wish to address that people have brought to my attentions and i URGE all of you to please reblog this version of the post from here on out.

The program i use to organise the different pages in the right order is bookbinder’s collate. It costs around €10 from what I remember and is really easy to use but there are other free programs too.

I made this post when I was 17 and was yet unaware of the legality and history surrounding fanfictions. Fanfictions have had a VERY LONG battle, especially given that back in the certain Authors and creators of Original IPs would straight up sue fanfic authors for copyright reasons. Even today Fanfics are in a copyright greyzone, because you cannot make money off of them as the IP the fanfics are based on do not belong to you.

Because of this blindspot of teenage-me assumed downloading fanfics was illegal. So as many have pointed out since: Printing and Binding fanfictions is not illegal IF and ONLY IF you bind them for personal use (like in my case I bind them into physical books because I cannot look at any screen for a prolonged time due to some slight visual impairments) and do not make money from it.

However, I have since been made aware of a disturbing rise in etsy stores and even Amazon pages which SELL bound fanfictions which were more often then not, not even written by the Etsy-store-owner. THIS is in fact very much illegal and can endanger the fanfic community and everything we have fought for in the past.

Now I do not claim that this post of mine is at the root cause of this rise in etsy-fanfic-binders. This post does not have that many notifications in the grand scheme of things and has never even made its way outside of tumblr.

All that being said i still receive daily comments and tags and reblogs of this post of people saying “oh i am so gonna do this!” And “Oh I will now bind my favourite fanfics too” so i do feel like i have the moral obligation to make sure that whoever get inspired to become a bookbinder through this post, won’t use it to harm fandom culture and fanfiction as a form of art all in the pursuit of greed for money