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@phemiec replied to your post: idk why but i’ve been stuck watching buzzfeed’s...
Contrapoints on youtube did an episode about this exact thing. Her “whats wrong with capitalism” series
the secret is that my recent discovery and subsequent binge of contrapoints is the true reason i actually started watching this series, and i've drawn a lot of the same conclusions as her it seems
it is hard to really determine exactly how much i enjoy contrapoints because i'm pretty sure i'm actually astral projecting during the entirety of each of her videos.
Here is the vid in question, btw! it puts a pretty nice point on this whole concept
idk why but i’ve been stuck watching buzzfeed’s Worth It and it’s just such a baffling cross-section of our culture
cut for length, sorry mobile users
like, the concept of a meal costing in the thousands of dollars doesn’t upset me at its baseline. most of what you’re paying for in a luxury experience is the experience itself, and when you combine that with really delicate or rare ingredients, or really difficult or time-consuming preparation, the cost makes sense pretty quickly for some things
but so much of it amounts to like, “we piled a bunch of really expensive ingredients on top of each other and then put gold on it, and we serve it in expensive glassware that you can keep i guess”
like there’s no experience there, the defining (and only) characteristic of the dish is that it’s expensive, and the fact that that’s enough to make something desirable -- not that it’s delicious or unique or part of a luxury experience, but simply that it’s expensive
just... resonates a deep wrongness to me that is so profound and so sad
also, and not to get TOO into it cuz much smarter people than me have written about this, but there’s the whole blatant aspect of racism in the culinary world, where non-western cuisine is inherently assigned significantly less value. since, you know, when they’re exploring foods like pho or peking duck or tacos their highest price-point item tends to be significantly less expensive AND represent the price of a full multi-course spread.
i mean, their “pork” episode focused on filipino food and the highest price “pork” was quoted as being $715, but that was the price of a feast that included a suckling pig, which was cured for 2 days and slow-roasted, but also included ribs, adobo chicken, red snapper, dinuguan, and a shitload of non-meat sides, that fed like 10+ people
whereas in their probably most infamous episode the eat a pizza that’s $2000 because there’s like, caviar and gold on it. and the pizza is disgusting.
and it’s like, all the more upsetting when u consider that the owner of the restaurant that served the roast pig talks about how her vision was to create a fine dining experienced based on filipino food because she grew up feeling ashamed and being made fun of for the foods that she ate. but like, this deluxe experience borne of love and perseverance is still worth less than a gross pizza with goddamn gold on it because like
the way we assign value is troubling, the way we distribute wealth is troubling, the disparity of value and the disparity of wealth means that they out here covering food with gold just to make it expensive enough to justify having all that goddamn money when so many people in this country and in this world are having sleep for dinner tonight
i have, however, come away from this experience with a list of cheap restaurants to visit next time i’m in LA though, so... ayyyy...
so here’s a worldbuilding thing i came up with that i think is cool
in snakeladders the kaleans (or at least the ones we meet in the story) have a written language comprised of glyph symbols which represent syllables (I think this is called logosyllabic?)
so kaleans who are living with humans and using human technology like to use text emojis
specifically, they use certain emojis to represent certain glyphs from their original writing system and their text messages are just walls of seemingly unrelated emojis that only they can glean any goddamn meaning from
you know, just like the youth of today (get off my lawn, jk, you’re beautiful don’t change)
@pigeonfancier reblogged your photo “dang tumblr it’s been a minute i havent just done like… random weird...”
#eee#okay I have missed seeing your art on here so bad#THE COLOURS#THE FACES#the perfect fucking linework#I'm always like#ideal goals of using a minimal amount of lines to show the maximum amount of motion#and your coloursssss#okay done gushing#but: eeeee
thanks! i’m so glad this stands out as like, a feature of my style because line economy is something im really trying to focus on lately. i was actually talking to @goldengoatblog about this when I was drawing it. design doll is amazing for posing the figures (here is the reference) but it obviously doesn’t twist and fold the flesh/muscles correctly. there’s a very specific way that the abdomen caves in and the flesh bunches up around the lower back when you bend back like how roadrunner is, that was a bit of a challenge to convey without going into too much detail for my style
so I’m super glad that it reads!
omg, i’ve been wanting to do like, timelapse art and tutorials and stuff, but I can’t decide whether i should focus in on character art, which there are already a TON of people doing, but with more of a emphasis on foundation and design economy, OR take a broader approach and walk through full illustrations
just putting a personal update here cuz i really been going through it
i just got whanged over the head with seasonal depression like... sometime last fall, and it feels like i’ve lost months of my life. like, days have been burning by without me even noticing, i’ve gotten behind on so much i want to do, i’ve accomplished so little
i’m financially wrecked, as usual, and desperately searching for a job with no luck
i still drive for bitesquad, but they discontinued their company fleet and now require drivers to use their own cars. paying for gas and having to deal with the wear and tear on my car makes this job barely worth it
i could be doing so much better financially if i could scrape myself up enough to do commissions, but it’s just so hard to take the first step when you constantly feel miserable and hopeless and scared
summer brings better mood days for me. i’m really learning that about myself. i can get a lot more done in the summer but fall and winter are really really hard for me
i’m about to move into a new house which is exciting! i’m trying to revitalize my online presence which is daunting. i think once i’ve caught up on backlogged work/commissions/etc i am going to try launching a youtube channel? we’ll see how that goes
also snakeladders. it’s another one of those things that just seems too huge to overcome but it wont be right until i get there
but yeah lol, depression is shit, try to avoid it if you can
Activity feed, dashboard notifications AND its happening in the App as well (where they’re also juggling post order despite me turning off anything that might do that). Notes show up fine on the actual posts, so far as I can tell, but our feeds are broken.
Yo @staff, @support What The Hell!
@ my followers: if you’ve replied to a post recently and it seems like I’ve ignored it there’s a good chance that I’ve actually completely missed it. Feel free to send an ask in instead until tumblr gets off their arse and fixes their hellsite.
yeah i was just about to make a post about this! since i use xkit to reply to replies, and that function only works thru the activity page and not the post notes, it means i can’t reply to replies like usual
since the same thing is happening on mobile i’m pretty sure it’s not because xkit
this damn website i swear, i really gotta gather myself up and move to twitter like everyone else...
but can i be real for a quick second about video games tho?
what is with all these devs like, abandoning the things that are iconic about their franchises to copy off each other’s papers?
bioware being like "i know y'all come here for character-heavy writing, single-player roleplaying experience with a strong element of player choice and relationship development, but we're gonna make destiny instead because destiny did so goddamn well. also we’re moving away from the ‘romance stuff,’ we’re calling it ‘romance stuff’ ‘cause we have to appear as snarky and disdainful about it as possible, despite it being kind of a cornerstone of our player experience"
bethsoft like “ok ok maybe FO4 wasn’t as good as New Vegas so here’s another goddamn Fallout game no one asked for! basically it’s Rust in a Vault suit and also you can shoot nukes at each other because that’s totally consistent with the tone and the message of the IP, which we’ve never ever misconstrued and have always done perfect justice! ALSO STOP ASKING US ABOUT ELDER SCROLLS GAW YOU’RE SO ANNOYING”
i mean i’m... definitely going to play both of these games and am cautiously optimistic about them because cautious optimism is how i try to live my life but godDAMN dude
Anthem looks badass, but.
Scenic post-apocalypse, city ruins reclaimed by overgrowth of plant life, very luscious, i actually love this aesthetic
The last holds of humanity in a giant walled city under threat of attack
Skirmishers made of or wearing patchwork electronics
The state of the world caused by the abandonment of some type of deity, presumably which granted them their advanced technology
“All that’s left is the Anthem.” Anthem could be the name of their city, but I’m willing to bet it’s more of a... you know, abstract calling or empowerment that grants those who embody it with superhuman strength or abilities. You know, like the Light. Becauase Anthem is LITerally Destiny.
sigh. they killed Mass Effect for that.
i hope... i hope there are hot aliens in starfield. bethsoft has succeeded in making me feel attraction to kitty cat people, orcs, and literal zombies so I’d like to see them make sexy aliens and/or robots
i havent just done like... random weird art for myself in a while, so enjoy some of roadrunner with @goldengoatblog‘s Grey. they’re... they’re friends
I was finally giving this program called Design Doll a try and I guess I really wanted to make it earn its paycheck (the program is free) by posing the dolls like THAT.
so anyway now im imagining the snakeladders shape of water AU where Friday is security and Southpaw is an equipment mechanic and Anjel is the grumpy gay artist and Raze is the shitty fishmonster and there’s a lot more cussin in sign language and Raze will spit a hardboiled egg right back at u but he’ll go ham on some balut
messy thoughts on shape of water behind the cut! vaguely spoilery but not too specific.
i liked the shape of water a whole lot but i guess i expected less racism from it given the movie’s premise and message
like, it was a beautiful movie but it was full of racist tropes that just stood out to me like neon and made it really difficult for me to fully enjoy the movie. i mean, you have to learn to ignore these things to be able to enjoy literally ANYTHING but idk, i wasn’t super prepared for it here and it tainted the experience for me somewhat.
it makes me more uncomfortable that no one is really talking about it in their discussions of the movie. my friend and i just kind of sat in silence for a second after the movie like, “so... what... what did you think of it?” trying to awkwardly feel out if we were on the same page and when we realized we were we just tore into it
i dont really want to get TOO deep into it because it’s exhausting to talk about and i have zero interest in debating it but like, they could have at least played down one of giles’ two unnecessary subplots (we could have learned everything we needed to know about him from the diner subplot tbh) to give zelda some more character development. like, i would be less angry at her portrayal as “sassy black friend” if they delved deeper into the nuance that she behaves this way at work as a form of security. i was hoping they would give her a moment of hidden depth, of clarity and competence, at some point in the film.
specifically, i weirdly expected her to be like “eliza iodized table salt is not the same thing as sea salt,” since they kept making a point to show the labels on those containers and i personally was damn near yellin that at the screen, but idk.
also, there was no story-serving reason that her husband had to be portrayed as lazy and shitty. and like i get that giles is supposed to be our narrator or whatever but we didn’t need him to be, eliza had a voice, that was the point
eliza was a phenomenal character and the film’s saving grace (next to the stunning visual design and cinemetography holy fucking moly). i guess i expected her to be a more passive romantic lead but damn, she was anything but. she was silly and clever and snarky and full of passion and fury, she knew what she wanted and what she was doing in every moment and did everything with full conviction. geez what a babe.
fishman was kind of boring. i get that he was just a plot device but i would have liked to have seen more of him, and his relationship with eliza, than more of giles’s sad life.
though i do wish there’d been a love interest for giles. even just a passing glance with someone, a hint that things would be okay for him.
anyway here’s hoping for a director’s cut with more fish lovin’ action. i’m furious that i had to look at strickland’s pasty thrusting buttocks but didnt get to see the main event. i know it’s hard to keep an R rating if you show a woman enjoying sex, so i’m hoping that’s the reason.
anyway. shape of water. it was nice, i would like for there to be more movies like this as a result of its critical acclaim. but it wasn’t as revolutionary as i’d been led to believe, or as inspiring as i’d hoped.
Y’all this has been a wacky winter! Weather giving us tons of delays in travel as well as shipping gummed up our process a bit for the last round of orders, but we’re finally ready to bring y’all some more of these awesome box sets!
Additionally, for those of you purchasing the set as a gift, we’ve come up with a cute little gift card design that we can mail to the recipient, so they can get in touch with us to start the customization process. We can also design you a printable card if that’s your preference, so you can print it from home and give it directly to your recipient.
If you haven’t seen this sweet collaboration project between me, @mulattafury, and my friend @goldengoatblog (their etsy ), let me tell you a bit about what we’re offering! It’s a combination gift set that includes a portrait of your gaming character, as well as a set of 7 polyhedral resin dice customized to suit your character! You can also include a customized crochet bag or wooden box for your dice.
The gift set comes with a framed 5x7 print of your portrait, printed with archival quality ink on premium matte paper. The prices are as follows:
- For $80: We still wanted to offer this price point for everyone! This gets you the framed portrait, with your dice in a little organza bag. All sets are attractively wrapped and packaged, with a few Roll With Style branded goodies thrown in to make a really attractive gift, or a treat for yourself after all the holiday stress!
- For $95: @goldengoatblog will crochet you an awesome little crochet bag for your dice, customized to suit your character!
- For $120: @mulattafury will consult with you to craft a handmade, magnetic-closure wooden box, customized to suit your character!
For all orders we will add an additional $7.15 to include priority shipping to your destination if shipping within the US. We are taking international orders and will figure out shipping on a case-by-case basis!
If you are interested in purchasing a gift set, email us at [email protected] and we’ll get the process started!
edit: I accidentally posted this on my main but check out @rollinstyle to see other samples of our work!
can i be honest tho i really do have some kind of seasonal depression i think, like i’m not sad i’m just exhausted and immobilized and so sick of being fucking cold :/
Me and Zorro (that’s my cuttin’ robot’s name now) have been working together to make some neat little pictures that you can stick to stuff and have forever!
I’m hoping to open a web shop soon and sell more stuff like this, art prints, and a few more goodies that are still in development. For now, though, give these a look and if you’d like your own set, or a high-res printable to make your own at home (transparent bg, but with an offset to make it super easy to cut with your own cutting machine if you have one!) use the links below to purchase through PayPal.
I’ll ship these wherever, though I am just shipping via regular ol’ first class mail so it might take a bit to get to you if it’s an international order!
Sticker sheets are around 3.5″x6.5″, I tried to include my hand in some shots for size reference. Printed sheets are $5USD and will be sent via USPS first class. Printables are $3USD and PayPal will send you to the download link as soon as you complete your purchase.
Edison & Echeveria
These sets feature silhouettes of echeveria succulents and vintage “Edison” bulbs printed in a reflective rose-gold foil. The foil is somewhat delicate – it won’t flake off or anything, but it will react to heat, water, and some types of sealants and adhesives. So, these stickers are great for your scrapbooks or bullet journals, but probably not ideal for putting on your phone or laptop.
If you purchase the printable sets, the designs will be in BLACK. This is so you can print them with a laser printer and foil them yourself. Heat transfer foil isnt terribly expensive and the foil can be applied using a laminator or even an iron in a pinch. Here’s a short video showing how!
These stickers are printed in color and laminated, so they should be pretty hardy! Also shiny! The laminate means they’re kinda stiff, but since they’re pretty big and dont have any fine details there shouldn’t be any issue with curling up at the edges, and I like that they’re pretty sturdy.
The printable file will include the 3 helmets in full color at high resolution. This set was designed to be easy to hand-cut so all you need to make your own is a printer!
Buy Eternity Sticker Sheet
Buy Eternity Printable
Hope you guys like these! Full disclosure, I’m having a bit of a financial emergency right now (had some unexpected expenses this week, starting with breaking my glasses last Saturday…) so it will really help me out a lot if you buy or boost.
As always, thanks for following and have a wonderful weekend!
