kirbykyodai

just video games and stuff i enjoy

[danielkahndyke]

[loiswasadevil]

Yes i'll unfollow you for being Catholic

[thesituation]

adjacent to the “yall can’t even boycott chick fil a” tweet yall can’t even give up shaving. what happened to bra burning feminism

[brunetterightsactivist]

listening to people in their literal mid 30s still talking about being in the gifted program and convinced they were part of some government experiments being drugged and put under hypnosis……..still needing to feel special as a grown adult like omg please give it a REST quite frankly nobody gives that much of a shit about you. respectfully. you sound like people saying they’ve been abducted by aliens

[fictionadventurer]

An important part of fighting against AI is to engage with artwork that can't be made by AI. Sing with friends, go to live concerts, make handcrafts, see a live theater show. It sucks that there are certain artforms--digital art, writing, recorded music--that can be easily faked by a machine, but there are still artforms that you can know aren't from a machine because the people are right there in the room with you. It's imperfect, it's amateur, it'll never get a huge audience, but it's also local and personal, and that's something beautiful that's much harder to corrupt with machines.

[siena-sevenwits]

I am living for these posts that don’t just say, “AI is bad,” (though we do need informational pieces too,) but propose hope and avenues for going forward. The joy in homespun, unpolished creativity,especially shared creativity, is more enormous than many people remember day-to-day.

[user-dullahan]

@hopepunk-humanity

[afloweroutofstone]

[caliblorn]

So a bonesinger and a tonal architect walk into a sound bar...

[cheese-in-orbit]

I have never wanted a miniature more than the fucking Squeedle from quar look at this goofy thing

[thegeekstressart]

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.

[chifanlema]

maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

[asphodelles]

malys

[dreadspires]

Quick warmup feat. Fulgrim 💜

[asphodelles]

vect

[escuerzoresucitado]

[floralynn-arts]

Beloved cousin, you can sleep without those night terrors now. OCs: Ange & Helmi (daughters of Sanguinius and Konrad)

[sixleggedboar]

Can somebody, not you Tzeentch, please catch this man and put him back together?

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Settle an argument for me. A Salamander, Ultramarine, other “Good Guy” (according to their fans) space marine would still off their parents if they were told to right? This seems obvious to me but like. They would not reject an order to spare a family member. Hell, I think there are guardsmen who would do that. I think this person has the wrong setting

Yes. Even a Salamander, who comes from a culture that enjoys familial bonds, would shoot a family member if told to. Astartes are indoctrinated, hyper-violent terror troops. If they’re ordered to shoot someone by a recognised authority, even if they don’t like the idea, they’re going to shoot. The number of astartes who potentially wouldn’t do that is vanishingly small, if it’s there at all. Astartes are not good people. Astartes are not safe people.