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I’m having art feelings, because toward the end of my craft fair yesterday a family with two kids I’d guess were in the 9-12 range hung around asking lots of questions about how I make dice, how I decide designs and pricing, etc.

They were mostly a MtG family so we looked at my spindown d20s, but I discontinued my +/- d6s last year so only had one minus die left. I offered it to the older kid who was asking most of the questions and he politely declined, because apparently I’d given him a free pair last year (what can I say, I love kids who ask good questions).

A few minutes later before the family left, the mom and younger kid came back and the mom asked if the offer for the free die was still open, because the younger kid had been too shy to say he would love it. So of course he instantly got the d6, but I was having feelings as a fairly shy person myself, so I also pulled out a spindown that wasn’t on display because it has a visible patch on the base where it had a void. I handed it to him and said something about how I hoped he would like it, and it could be a reminder that you don’t have to do everything perfectly to make art, that’s it’s okay to learn and experiment. He smiled and took his dice and they left.

And then the show ended and I packed up and went home and that was that.

Until this evening when I got an email from him thanking me for his dice and sharing that he made his very own die out of wood today.

And I’m just. I can’t. I love it so much. Keep creating, my little friend. And thank you for reminding me why community and mentoring in art is everything.

nocturnalityrpg

✨️ 𝕻𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖆 ✨️

I intended these to be more brightly coloured orange but they turned out more copper. I embraced this by painting the numbers in a colour you often see on old weathered copper!

cephalopodvictorious

modern Snow White where instead of a magic mirror it's just an AI chatbot driving the stepmother insane because it's programmed to agree with her and confirm her fears

greengableslover

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer. Here, you want to taste it?

FRIED GREEN TOMATOES (1991) dir. Jon Avnet

90s-kid-sad-adult

lie to me

salmon-n-hazel

Dandelions

My print shop: INPRNT

assiraphales

westley in the princess bride was so funny for being like ‘talk about this dead guy you loved lol’ and getting the tea about himself

assiraphales

oh he was ur true love? you thought he was hot n strong? rate him 1-10 and why

mysteryteacup

Okay first poll being taken too seriously. WHO, NOT INCLUDING THE COTERIE, IS THE BEST PRINCE FOR PURPEE?

Ghorse (Dog for Mayor, Horse for Prince)

Cody (We only have to drive out hated lupines, we like this guy)

Some fucking rando vamp from elsewhere (the Camarilla have questions)

Estelle Laurant (everybody has questions)

Bingo (we may have to kill Paddy)

Bigfoot (can the Camarilla even argue with it?)

Remaining time: 4 days 22 hours

dootdoodle

thinking about how cool nancy danderhoof is as just. a ttrpg mechanic. the only way that you can survive is if you can find a news story more noteworthy than the fact that vampires are real every single month. you can discover the story or even create it yourself, as long as you can give the journalist a reason to publish something other than the nature of your own existence

gettownsburnmoney

i really appreciate siobhan committing to madelaine's "i'm just a girl and i DON'T KNOW him" routine even when the dice failed her

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

sootchild

City Council of Darkness, Episode 9: A Bid, a Banksy, and the Bird in the Basement

Dream Team antics.

D20 Masterpost || Ep 8 || Ep 10

vanilaxbean

Suvi's escape

her biggest regret was not telling them she loved them...

assiraphales

its always the tiny gay cowboy and his tiny gay roman boyfriend, never the bi cowboy and his bi cowboy/martial artist boyfriend. owen wilson didn’t play a fruity western boy TWICE to be disrespected like that