Yvonne’s Gay Blog (Glog)

She/They | 20 | 🏳️‍⚧️ | Typical deranged transfem Hai! My name’s Yvonne, aka Vanny

[ne0n-g0ld]

THIS IS A NO TERF ZONE !! 😡

BEGONE !!!!

[zegalba]

Plastic Chair in Wood by Maarten Baas (2008)

[keynes-fetlife-mutual]

I'm obsessed with this chair. The artist takes a flimsy hunk of injection-molded plastic that's been cost-cut to hell and back, and insists that we look at it with fresh eyes and understand its beauty. And they went about it in the most labor-intensive way I can think of.

Absolutely nothing about this design is convenient to execute in wood. Every piece is curved, most have compound curves. This is artisan craftsmanship: it's inherently slow, manual, and skilled. Notice, also, that most features of this chair must be thicker and heavier than on the plastic chairs being imitated. Injection-molded chairs can be produced in this shape in a matter of minutes with far less material at very low cost.

If these flowing, organic curves are so beautiful in polished wood, perhaps they are also beautiful in the mass-produced chairs that are far more accessible. Perhaps we should remember to admire designs that succeed enough to become ubiquitous. I don't know about you, but I'll never see injection-molded chairs the same way again.

[ifeltfree]

didnt get the responses i thought i would on discord so im bringing it here

which one gotta go

breadstick

rye chip

square pretzel

corn chex

wheat chex

circle pretzel

shae button / results

Voting ended onAug 6, 2023

[lobstersinmyhouse-deactivated20]

YOU MOTHERFUCKERS DON'T DESERVE CHEX MIX

[bearhole-deactivated20251019]

what the fuck?? the rye chip is the best -_-

[lobstersinmyhouse-deactivated20]

THE RYE CHIP IS THE BEST. CUNTS.

[caseyuptobat]

Friendly reminder that Gardetto's makes bags of nothing but the rye chips

[leahplease]

Listen

I have nothing against rye chips in a vacuum, but they interrupt the otherwise simple experience I enjoy in eating Chex mix with their sudden significant increase in hardness

[cumbunnywitch]

I think you mean they interrupt your terrible snack with exceptional flavor

[leahplease]

You could have just asked to have the rye chips out of my chex mix Ashley. I would have given them to you. But now I will not.

[acinongalli-deactivated20260529]

rye chips suck ass in chex mix. they need their own snack, instead of invading my chex mix.

[trapny]

Fuck you rye chips kick ass and if you don't like them then I will eat them instead because your opinion is valid but I refuse to have them removed all together. Bitch.

[acinongalli-deactivated20260529]

did you get it all out? do you feel better now trapny?

:3

[trapny]

They are the biggest fucking things in the chex mix and if you can't remove them yourself then that is your fault

[kirbylovesramen420-deactivated2]

Rye chips taste weird.

Partly why I prefer cheesy Chex mix

[trapny]

They taste good and that's why I'm not a god damn coward

[kirbylovesramen420-deactivated2]

Someone turn this into an ace attorney thing lol

[trapny]

It's done

[nando161mando]

If you want to know why people have lost faith in capitalism, this might help

[andyboops]

"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:

The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:

"A common leftist critique of superhero comics is that they are inherently anti-collectivist, being about small groups of individuals who hold all the power, and the wisdom to wield that power. I don’t disagree with this reading. I don’t think it’s inaccurate. Superheroes are their own ruling class, the concept of the übermensch writ large. But it’s a sterile reading. It examines superhero comics as a cold text, and ignores something that I believe in fundamental, especially to superhero storytelling: the way people engage with text. Not what it says, but how it is read. The average comic reader doesn’t fantasize about being a civilian in a world of superheroes, they fantasize about being a superhero. One could charitably chalk this up to a lust for power, except for one fact… The fantasy is almost always the act of helping people. Helping the vulnerable, with no reward promised in return. Being a century into the genre, we’ve seen countless subversions and deconstructions of the story. But at its core, the superhero myth is about using the gifts you’ve been given to enrich the people around you, never asking for payment, never advancing an ulterior motive. We should (and do) spend time nitpicking these fantasies, examining their unintended consequences, their hypocrisies. But it’s worth acknowledging that the most eduring childhood fantasy of the last hundred years hasn’t been to become rich. Superheroes come from every class (don’t let the MCU fool you). The most enduring fantasy is to become powerful enough to take the weak under your own wing. To give, without needing to take. So yes, the superhero myth, as a text, isn’t collectivist. But that’s not why we keep coming back to it. That’s not why children read it. We keep coming back to it to learn one simple lesson… The best thing we can do with power IS GIVE IT AWAY." - Joey deVilla, 2021 https://www.joeydevilla.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-superhero-style/

[cloutmask-replica]

Reblog to kill it faster

[precision-instrument]

I've been having a lot of feelings about the downfall of quality lately.

I ordered a pair of Dickies pants because pants are hard and workwear is usually reliable. When they arrived they were the scratchiest, most papery material--I can't actually call it fabric in good faith--and fit a full three sizes too small. A week later I found the same pair in a thrift store, dated 2017. These are actual pants. They fit, they're not made of asbestos. They're only separated by time.

There's no wood used in interior design unless it's a custom build. I have a set of wealthy relatives who live in a condo. The downpayment for it was likely more money than I will see in my lifetime. The floors and the cabinets are all still laminate. I know I will never see real wood in a building constructed after 2000. Every "apartment hack" I see online has this very conspicuous, flat appearance because of all the paint and contact paper required to make these builds look personal in any way. The only natural materials are in the furnishings.

I've been harping on this for years, but everything is shit, nothing is designed to work, and "growth" and "profit" are just euphemisms for cutting corners until things are unworkable.

[macleod]

everything is more expensive, and everything is getting shittier.

[macleod]

[logorrhea5mip]

Sorry for the bad photo quality, Tumblr doesn't like posts this long.

[fuiru]

“One of my favourite Steve Jobs stories was the time the engineers working on the iPod brought their finished prototype to him in his office. He said it was too big, they needed to make it smaller. They said it was as small as they could make it, it couldn’t be made any smaller. So he took the prototype over to his aquarium and dropped it in. The iPod sank to the bottom, and as it did, tiny little bubbles came out. ‘See those bubbles,’ he asked. ‘They’re air inside the iPod. Make it smaller.’

“Another story about Steve Jobs was when they brought the prototype for the iPad 2 to his office. The engineers told him it was faster than the first iPad. He took it over to his aquarium and dropped it in. ‘Look how slowly it sank,’ he told them. ‘Make it faster.’

“One time a newly hired intern had been sent out to get Steve a sandwich. When she brought it to him, he looked at it. ‘I thought I ordered the beef on rye,’ he asked. She told him it was indeed beef on rye. He took it over to his fish tank and dropped it in. ‘Does that look like beef on rye?’

“He was always dropping things in that fish tank. We couldn’t stop him. We told him he had to stop, he wouldn’t listen. It was full of stuff that shouldn’t be in an aquarium.

“The fish had all died years ago. One had been crushed under an early generation iMac. The others were all poisoned. He didn’t care.

“It got to the point where there was no room for anything in the fish tank. When we emptied it after he died, we found a body in there. We never found out who it was.”

[brieflyshadywolf]

[scurviesdisneyblog]

More drawing tips by Disney artists Griz and Norm Lemay

[evilwizard]

new worldview where i think everyone else has free will and a rich, complex interior life while i am the only person who does not

[evilwizard]

Since I see a lot of people reblogging this with “#me,” or something similar, I just want to say something. I’m not going to pretend that anything I can say will reverse mental illness or undo depression. But I want to say it nonetheless.

Because of how light works, you are the center of the observable universe. If you drew a perfect map of space, and your friend several feet to your right did, they would be ever-so-slightly different at the edges. You’d have a couple of feet extra on the left side; your friend on the right.

Because of how time works, your past is utterly unchangeable—and the possibilities in your future are limitless. You alter entire timelines every time you take a breath.

Because of how the mind works, you will never be anyone else—and you will always be new. Today you isn’t yesterday you. Your personal experience is important. It has to be, because you’re the center of the universe, and because everything you do affects every other part of it.

If the universe is important, then by necessity you are important. If the universe is unimportant, then why not do your best to just relax and enjoy life?

Things are, generally speaking, rough right now. I don’t think I have to explain why. But all hope is not yet lost. If you love the world, then it is important. If you love the universe, then you love yourself. And if you don’t feel that way right now… then I’m really sorry that your situation has caused you to feel that way. But I truly believe (and hope) that you can get there. It starts with deciding to look out for number one.

Self-centeredness isn’t wrong. It’s holy. Done right, it’s a part of how the universe cares. Don’t be ashamed of self-love, and if you feel useless—just remember that there is no set purpose to life, other than to live it the way you want.

You aren’t an NPC. You’re not even a PC. You’re the P. Purpose lives within you, whether you can feel it right now or not.

Good luck now <|:^)

[soberscientistlife]

[whatbigotspost]

Always nice when math helps make it all the more clear how ridiculously reasonable the worker demands are.

This is what the studios have brought everything to a grinding halt for.

[digitaldiscipline]

[ryebreadgf]

based

[knightofleo]

Implicit storytelling in two tweets:

[bakuen]

[ralfmaximus]

Yeah. They did that. I bet the ‘clarification’ came as a result of some strong legal threats.

So be aware in the coming weeks that if your favorite actor reportedly says something shitty about the strike that makes your blood boil? Check the sources. There’s going to be a lot of uh, spin in the news.

[teantacles-deactivated20200702]

A cut transgirl romance comic by Garun

[malefic35]

This just restored my faith in humanity

[ne0n-g0ld]

It’s been a while since I’ve last drawn, so I decided to draw myself and my messy hair.

I’m not completely happy with it, but I don’t hate it either. I was going to work on it some more but I started on it late and it’s already 6am so I’ll go ahead and post it. At some point I’ll probably redraw it

(Halfway through I realized I forgot to add forearms, so that’s why the proportions look weird)

I’ll try to make art more often, and when I do I’ll post it here.

Work in progress pics

Sketch

Linework

Colored lines

Flats

Shading

Bonus bored-in-class phone doodle

(I’ve realized I always look depressed in my self portraits. I’ll draw a more cheery expression next time I draw myself)

[ne0n-g0ld]

I need someone to fuck me. Just absolutely ravage me. I should be limping the next day.