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drinking water when I have a headache should give instant relief. it should go away. what's even the point of drinking water if it can't do that

plaguedocboi

Alright we’ve all seen and been unsettled by fin whales breaching and minke whales breaching. Now may I present: Bryde’s Whale

ladyaithne

Nope. Don’t like it. Makes brain go “ewwzzzt!”

xiaq

I’ve been patiently waiting for a nice second-hand wood dresser to appear on fb marketplace or at Goodwill for months. Finally, I grabbed this one yesterday for $50.

My inspiration for this project are some dressers I saw at Anthropology that have gorgeous carved details. But I want my dresser to cost $200 or less rather than $2,000.

Of course I can’t add actual hand-carved wood, but I’ve got clay and some silicon molds + epoxy and a potential overconfidence in my DIY abilities.

First up, I removed the existing hardware and sanded this pretty lady down. She is now looking MUCH better without all those terrible stains (and the drawer pulls weren’t doing it for her, tbh).

Up next, I’ll give her a paint wash or three and start trying my hand at faking some carvings!

xiaq

She’s paint-washed and looking dandy. I’ll give her a light sand tomorrow and get to work on some fake carvings!

xiaq

So I actually ended up glazing her first to bring the wood grain back out a bit and add some depth to the color. The glaze was very finicky to work with, but did exactly what I wanted it to (a comparison of glazed vs unglazed drawers in the first pic). I have several silicon molds filled with drying resin and I will begin experimenting with “carvings” tomorrow!

xiaq

Oh yeah. This is gunna work just fine. BRB. Making and then painting c. 100 flowers and vines.

xiaq

She's coming along great! I’m going to wrap the foliage around the side up top and then start working on the bottom right bit.

xiaq

Alas, I ran out of flowers/vines so I will need to get more epoxy this weekend to finish the bottom corner. Shes so close to being done, though! The next update will be the last once I seal her and get the new hardware added. :)

xiaq

She’s DONE. Cost breakdown: $50 dresser, $30 molds, $35 epoxy, $6 paint, $8 glaze, and $4 drawer pulls. Total: $133.

I surprised even myself with this one and am so delighted by the outcome. I’ve been using her for a week and dusted her once (with the amount of seal I used, a fluffy swifter duster glides along all the finicky crevices just fine) and she seems sturdy. Time will tell! Thanks for all the kind words on this fun little journey.

cinnamon-for-synonym-talks

@hellenhighwater dunno if you've seen this, but this looks right up your alley!

hellenhighwater

Incredibly well executed!!

ladyaithne

I really didn’t NEED another DIY to dive into with hyperfocused intensity right after the holiday, but here we are.

This is gorgeous!

Why is food better when you’re drunk?

#drunkposting #yummy yum yum

androdragynous

being on tumblr for a long time but never reading homestuck like

ladyaithne

Same

zinjanthropusboisei

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These pictures are killing me

scarfanon

There are many animals I expect to see in caves, but I can confidently say that this was not one of them.

maneater-mela

The elephants yearn for the mines

ladyaithne

Obviously I went fantasy with this; but can you imagine some dwarven miners doing their thing and suddenly coming upon a herd of pachyderms? I can’t decide if they’d try and take them for mining machinery purposes or be so flabbergasted they close off that section of the mines. Just, "Nope. Didn't see that."

pangur-and-grim

a lot of you probably knows Belphie's story, but I'll summarize just in case.

Devon Rex cats are better for people with allergies (less shed fur + less Fel d1 protein in their saliva), so on February 16, 2024, I went the breeder route and put down a deposit. before Belphie even opened his eyes, he was mine!

every Friday, the breeder sent me a new photo. I had a broken leg, and was basically rotting in bed at that point, so it was the best part of my week. then, at 12 weeks old, I BROUGHT HIM HOME!

at first, he was so alive! like a wind-up monkey that never shut off. he dangled from the wall-hangings, savaged my feet as I walked, and used my elderly cats as jumping poles to do cool acrobatics over. but all this gradually faded.

first, he stopped playing. then he stopped climbing. then he stopped moving much at all. my vet ran tests on him and found multiple pathogens (calcivrius + mycoplasma), but the medication didn't help - he kept declining.

on September 17th, I woke up to find him swollen like a balloon. we finally had an answer: he had Feline infectious Peritonitis, aka FIP. before 2017, this would've been a death sentence. he would've kept bloating until he drowned in his own fluids. and before 2024, I would've been forced to inject him with black market drugs. but thankfully, South Tower Animal Hospital in Fergus, Ontario was doing a study on the oral medication! we drove two hours, enrolled him, and left with the GS-441524 pills.

and he went from those photos above.....to this:

I thought Belphie would die as a kitten. I'd accepted that he would never grow up. but now he gets to LIVE!

and all for the low cost of $7,553.....ahhhahaha........god.

that + a recent home disaster has wiped out my savings, but I still need to pay for Belphie's medication. to remain in this study, I need to do bloodwork monthly until Feb 2025, and he'll need daily pills until March 2025.

I've put a risograph print + enamel pin set up at greerstothers.shop. I hate asking for help, but if you'd like to support Belphie's continued treatment, please consider checking them out!

crippled-peeper

The American government in its entirety has always been the problem

ladyaithne

Alexander Hamilton ghost wrote this.

crippled-peeper

Do you think “ghost writing” is when a literal ghost takes control of someone and writes something? I am fascinated

ladyaithne

If that were the actual definition of ghost writing, the world would be a slightly better place.

#are you kidding? I think HE’D be fascinated

crippled-peeper

The American government in its entirety has always been the problem

ladyaithne

Alexander Hamilton ghost wrote this.

fuckyeahgoodomens

libraford

Today I was helping run the booth for the local queer non-profit at the farmer's market and a woman told me that she would like a flag, pointing to our little bucket of flags. So I picked up the bucket and I brought it over and asked her which one she'd like.

"Well, tell me about them!"

"Oh! Okay! This one is the inclusion flag- its for everyone, including allies."

"What's this one?"

"That's the bisexual flag: it represents people who are attracted to two or more genders."

"Hmm... what about this one?"

"That's the nonbinary flag: it represents people whose gender isn't strictly 'male or female.'"

"Hmm... what's this purple one?"

"That's the asexual flag: it represents people who may not feel sexual attraction the way that others do."

She put her hand to her chest and got this really curious look on her face. "Tell me more about that!"

"Oh, happy to! So like if you're out with your bestie and someone real fine walks by and she's like 'omg look at him' and you're like 'girl get a grip?' Or like you just don't get what the 'big deal' is about sex or why everyone is so weird about it? But there's also room for like- you don't fall in love with the way someone looks, you're attracted to the person- their sense of humor and their kindness, or there's something about their personality that just makes it click for you? That's asexuality, too!"

And she got real quiet and seemed to think about it for a minute. So I grabbed our little informational sheet about different queer identities and handed her a copy. "If you want to do some research, this is probably a great place to start."

She thanked me and took an ace flag, stuck it in her hair.

Sometimes when you're online all the time, its easy to think that 'everyone knows about (topic), there's no reason to keep talking about it so much.' But while the people on the internet are real people, the internet ISN'T real life. And there are lots of people who do need to know that they do have community!

One of the jokes is that I'm a lot of people's 'patient zero' for discovering that they're queer. This is why.

ladyaithne

(To take a brief break from Dragon Age posting…)

This is why offering knowledge (when asked) rather than assuming anyone at a pride event knows everything is so so so important. 💜

I know someone’s done it. Why hasn’t DragonAge: Taylor’s Version come across my dash yet?

#dragon age #datv #dragon age: Taylor’s version

The female inquisitor in DA:I walks like Meredith Grey, and you cannot change my mind. But if you could provide a better gif to prove my point, I’d love you forever.