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How Megumi's day is going vs how Sukuna's day is going.
A once-in-a-lifetime shot â the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. đ đ
Sourcing the photos as taken by Mark Ham on Instagram, according to one of the replies.
Happy Pride month to the moon
from 'the bewildered equilibrist: an essay on buster keaton's comedy,' gilberto perez.
You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michaelâs 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 âseasonâ 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 wasnât sure how just yetâŠ
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 finishedâŠ
I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But Iâd 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 Iâll be doing more in the future Iâm sure.
writing tip #4174:
so what if your book is boring, some people like boring books
This morning, I received a comment on ao3 that reads, in full, "Please don't die"
I have no idea what this could possibly mean. Are they talking about the characters in the story? There is no MC death tag. Are they talking about the story itself? Babe, it updated last week. Are they talking about me, the author? I feel vaguely threatened.
It was on the first chapter of the story, too, not the latest one. And it's not spam bc they've commented before and are a real person. I try to respond to all my comments (though I never feel this is required of any author, js), but this one baffles me.
[x] <- ooh where's this link go
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âResting in the Fieldâ by Chaskymc on INPRNT
Starry Night Microsweater
2022 1.3" x 1.6" ~50,000 stitches, 76 stitches/inch 500+ hours in the making. Over 70 different colors of silk thread including thread combinations
Thatâs Althea Cromeâs work. Youâve seen her work before if youâve ever seen the movie Coraline because she did the teeny tiny star sweater and gloves for the stop motion puppets to wear.
She does, however, work even smaller.
Thank you @eloso - look at the tiny knits!
Years ago while house hunting we saw bathrooms with carpet, which was so cursed, but people actually get little rugs that surround the toilet. Why?? I guess you can clean those ones but I still don't like it
After 9 months of work, my Oseberg tapestry sweater is complete!
This was my first sweater knitted in the round, first stranded colourwork project, and my first time steeking. It was definitely my most challenging project so far, and a lot of learning and research was involved. I used a colourwork chart created by the very talented Molly Gifford, which is available for free on Ravelry
For reference, this is one of the fragments uncovered from the gravesite:
Some scholars think that the Oseberg tapestry includes the earliest known artistic depiction of Odin's ravens, Huginn and Muninn. So I added them to the sleeves as a little Easter egg.
I thought it would be an hour of listening to screaming and looking at pictures of draculas, but it was so much for frightening than fathomed
Writing advice #?: Have your characters wash the dishes while they talk.
This is one of my favorite tricks, picked up from E.M. Forester and filtered through my own domestic-homebody lens.  Forester says that you should never ever tell us how a character feels; instead, show us what those emotions are doing to a characterâs posture and tone and expression. This makes âI felt sadnessâ into âmy shoulders hunched and I sighed heavily, staring at the ground as my eyes filled with tears.â Those emotions-as-motions are called objective correlatives. Honestly, fic writers have gotten the memo on objective correlatives, but sometimes struggle with how to use them.
Objective correlatives can quickly become a) repetitive or b) melodramatic. On the repetitive end, long scenes of dialogue can quickly turn into âhe sighedâ and âshe noddedâ so many times that he starts to feel like a window fan and she like a bobblehead. On the melodramatic end, a debate about where to eat dinner can start to feel like an episode of Jerry Springer because âhe shriekedâ while âshe clenched her fistsâ and they both âground their teeth.â If you leave the objective correlatives out entirely, then you have whatâs known as âfloatingâ dialogue â we get the words themselves but no idea how theyâre being said, and feel completely disconnected from the scene. If you try to get meaning across by telling us the charactersâ thoughts instead, this quickly drifts into purple prose.
Instead, have them wash the dishes while they talk.
To be clear: it doesnât have to be dishes. They could be folding laundry or sweeping the floor or cooking a meal or making a bed or changing a lightbulb. The point is to engage your characters in some meaningless, everyday household task that does not directly relate to the subject of the conversation.
This trick gives you a whole wealth of objective correlatives. If your character is angry, then the way they scrub a bowl will be very different from how theyâll be scrubbing while happy. If your character is taking a moment to think, then they might splash suds around for a few seconds. A character who is not that invested in the conversation will be looking at the sink not paying much attention. A character moderately invested will be looking at the speaker while continuing to scrub a pot. If the character is suddenly very invested in the conversation, you can convey this by having them set the pot down entirely and give their full attention to the speaker.
A demonstration:
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âIâm leaving,â Anastasia said.
âWhat?â Drizella continued dropping forks into the dishwasher.
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âIâm leaving,â Anastasia said.
Drizella paused midway through slotting a fork into the dishwasher.  âWhat?â
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âIâm leaving,â Anastasia said.
Drizella laughed, not looking up from where she was arranging forks in the dishwasher.  âWhat?â
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âIâm leaving,â Anastasia said.
The forks slipped out of Drizellaâs hand and clattered onto the floor of the dishwasher.  âWhat?â
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âIâm leaving,â Anastasia said.
âWhat?â Drizella shoved several forks into the dishwasher with unnecessary force, not seeming to notice when several bounced back out of the silverware rack.
See how cheaply and easily we can get across Drizellaâs five different emotions about Anastasia leaving, all by telling the reader how sheâs doing the dishes? And all the while no heads were nodded, no teeth were clenched.
The reason I recommend having it be one of these boring domestic chores instead of, say, scaling a building or picking a lock, is that chores add a sense of realism and are low-stakes enough not to be distracting. If you add a concurrent task thatâs high-stakes, then potentially your readers are going to be so focused on the question of whether your characters will pick the lock in time that they donât catch the dialogue. But no oneâs going to be on the edge of their seat wondering whether Drizellaâs going to have enough clean forks for tomorrow.
And chores are a cheap-n-easy way to add a lot of realism to your story. So much of the appeal of contemporary superhero stories comes from Spider-Man having to wash his costume in a Queens laundromat or Green Arrow cheating at darts, because those details are fun and interesting and make a story feel âreal.â  Actually ask the question of what dishes or clothing or furniture your character owns and how often that stuff gets washed. Thatâs how you avoid reality-breaking continuity errors like stating in Chapter 3 that all of your characterâs worldly possessions fit in a single backpack and in Chapter 7 having your character find a pair of pants he forgot he owns. You donât have to tell the reader what dishes your character owns (please donât; itâs already bad enough when Tolkien does it) but you should ideally know for yourself.
Anyway: objective correlatives are your friends. They get emotion across, but for low-energy scenes can become repetitive and for high-energy scenes can become melodramatic. The solution is to give your characters something relatively mundane to do while the conversation is going on, and domestic chores are not a bad starting place.
I actually first learned this lesson when doing improv. Always have your character doing something, but donât make the scene about what your character is doing. Come in and start putting groceries away and confront your roommate about sleeping with your boyfriend while youâre putting the groceries away. Be working in a clothes store folding shirts and be reunited with your long-lost cousin while working. Etc etc.
And then much later (partially bc I started writing regularly years after I started doing improv but even then it took me way too long to figure it out) I realized this can be applied to writing, and itâs great. Anytime thereâs a long dialogue scene and it feels flat, rewriting it so theyâre doing something else - something that on the surface is totally unrelated to the conversation - is a sure-fire way to make it more dynamic and open up whole new avenues for conveying thoughts and feelings to the reader.