This Blog Is A Welcoming Mess

Also titled: "How a bi mess handles a blog"

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[microsuedemouse]

these photos were assembled by Maya Barkai (taken and submitted by numerous photographers around the world) for the art project Walking Men Worldwide! :)

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[goth-queen]

[elfstrogenized]

You are perma tf'd into the first pokemon you generate on this website, how happy are you wit your new form

[saturn-flowr]

slime teacher: I want this essay in 12 point font Slimes New Roman

[koboldening]

Robber teacher: I want this essay in 12 point font Crimes New Roman

[nugget-gender]

wall teacher: i want this essay in 12 point font Climbs New Roman

[mx-m29]

citrus teacher: i want this essay in 12 point font Limes New Roman

[forgotn1]

poetry teacher: I want this essay in 12 point Rhymes New Roman

[the-breadgirl]

horology teacher: i want this essay in 12 point times new roman

[cellaspider]

Mime teacher:

[mildlybizarrecorvid]

herb teacher: i want this essay in 12 point Thymes New Roman

[minervakarsh]

Dirt teacher: I want this essay in 12 point Grimes New Roman

[hyperoperationfractallisation]

Calculus teacher: I want this essay in 12 point Primes New Roman

[skyporf]

aviation teacher: I want this essay in 12 point Flies New Roman

[shreekofjoy]

Finance teacher: I want this essay in 12 point Dimes New Roman

[squizmo333]

History teacher: I want this essay in 12 point Times Old Roman

[the-haiku-bot]

History teacher:

I want this essay in 12

point Times Old Roman

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[boss-of-armadildos]

Post corrections/clarifications are my favorite genre of humor: a compilation

[leaving-this]

i made a 2-part uquiz called Which Shakespeare character are you? and it has 50 possible results.  The first quiz puts you into one of 5 groups and links you to the group quiz that has 10 different characters each. Tag your results. :)

[leaving-this]

the funniest part of this is seeing people in the tags who want to get hamlet and get something from a play they’ve never read and they’re like UMM IM EMO??? i HAVE to be HAMLET idk who Edmund even is and I’m like… sweetie…. you’re Edmund….

[norapotwora]

My entry for Clip Studio Paint 46th international illustration contest!

Grandma never meet such big kitty before, and is very content of such a meeting.

Are you able to find all the cats? Try to count them before you swipe for close ups and let me know in the comment how much you was able to find!

A little story: This is a milestone when comes to my art. If you're familiar with my artistic output you very much know that all of my works - I don't even count isolated exceptations over the course of more than decade - are depiction of individual animals, occassionally pairs or groups, with or without decorative elements.

No scenes - interior or exterior - no environments at all. No history behind the artwork other than history that pet owners has in their hearts related to their relationship with the beloved pet.

As long as it's nothing wrong with that and I really enjoy drawing pets as well as I'm honored when a owner came to me to make a memorable artwork of their deceased pet, I really wanted to do something more for a very long time. I wanted to tell a story, and I wanted to make a personal art. Because believe it or not, I'm not making personal art for a couple of years already and it's just insane.

So here's one.

The ghosty cat is drawn in memory of my beloved Mr. Cat, who passed away back in 2022.

[dykepuffs]

A good barometer if you keep noticing that a certain length of time in your memory keeps being the hub of "when everything changed" or "Back before everything nebulously got weird" it's always worth checking if that year or time period coincides with a big change in your own life.

Did the world get a lot kinder and more reliable in 2014 or is that when you got a rich girlfriend and were spending more time in affluent areas? Was there a flourishing of queer culture in 2001 or is that just when you left home? Were winters harder before 2019 or was that just the last winter you spent working outdoors? Were pop stars more important in 1993 or were you just twelve?

[crazyintheeast]

And it can be both ! Say a decade ago I was was more involved with fan communities yes but there was also a ton of 24 episode season shows that kept us hooked all the time . Now could I get the same level of involvement in fandoms ? In theory yes but it will be far more difficult to access and it will be far more limited

Now did I change ? No but the easy access to fandom changed dramatically

Same for video games . I used to casually play video games now I barley do because it requires ridiculously powerful computers or takes a ton of space on my phone

I used to go out with my friends more often but now several of them have kids and they don’t reach out anymore . Could I do be the one to reach out more ? Sure but again the type of connection has changed

Both the world and we ourselves change constantly. It’s very good to be conscious and try to work to keep the stuff we love . Which is not easy but it is possible if you make an effort

or you can grow numb and just read fanfics and doomscroll all day

[jupiter-mokusei]

Fell Dragon Child.

[angeloncewas]

I'm proud of you

[angeloncewas]

If you had a horrible year. If you had a good year. If you're moving away for college. If you're staying in your hometown. If you have too many bad memories. If you can't remember anything. If you're just barely getting by. If you're in the best place you've ever been in. I'm proud of you for all the victories you've managed to claim along the way, and for the ones that lie just ahead of you too. Keep going, you're doing great.

[tiinamenzel]

bye👋

[nikpi]

snow art ☃️

[socialistfremenist]

[songthursh]

Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas 💙💗

Pic @stupidlynx and I worked on for last year @hats0ng Ace Attorney "Turnabout Christmas zine"!

[daftpatience]

this messed up vintage cat sewing pattern has tormented me since i saw it & like some other folks have done in that post - i tried my hand at tweaking the pattern to resemble the illustration (and my personal tastes) a little more. i've ended up with this, which i have only tested at a small scale and not this final version exactly (where i have done such things as further widening the cheeks and finalizing the leg shapes.) i bestow it upon you nice folks now 👐

go forth and make weird little beanbag kittens! pls show me if you do!

[daftpatience]

woah this got big!! and after another try i have another untested tweak for yall. this should help the weird pinchy side seams out. yey

[calltainn]

My first attempt! I made the pattern a bit smaller as I wanted it to be able to fit in a pocket, but then (accidentally but perhaps unavoidably) sewed it with a wider seam allowance than the resized pattern indicated, so the face is proportionally a bit too big and I lost some detail in the ear shape. I'm pleased with it though! It was fun to make something and to do some handsewing.

[daftpatience]

SOO CUTE AND TINIE 😭

[chthonink]

I tried this pattern a while back to try out some minky and I get no points for making the pattern well but looook at my boyyy

His name is Tofu. Thank you for sharing the pattern I will love him forever

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly