Where I go to post my stuff

mostly random art ideas and story concept/theories of what ever I'm hyperfixiating on at the time

[sideblog230]

I decided to make a side blog from my main @kenamailani because I don't really like posting on my main since it's more for rebloging things I like or agree with. I try to just ghost through life, less anxiety that way. Anyway for this blog I'm going to be posting all my art and story concepts that never see the light of day.

[hexhomos]

PSA: AO3 HAS BEEN INFECTED WITH AI BOT COMMENTS.

Have you seen one of these dipshits? If you post regularly on ao3, chances are YES, but more likely you didn't notice nor suspect it was a bot. Sometimes they start off nice, or even praise you before getting nasty out of nowhere, like so:

But much like Grok, their newest obsession is nazism.

I don't know where they come from, or what purpose this could possibly serve other than suicidebaiting random people in the internet, I guess; but apparently they've started parroting names from real users to send these comments and shifting their general length to go by undetected. Maybe those are scrappers trying to train 'reviewbots' to be sold as part of some scam service promising to give feedback for newbie writers, who the fuck knows.

Here are more examples of the tone and backhanded compliments you can find in these:

If you regularly post on AO3 or interact with writers in it, please pass this along so they don't feel insane receiving bombs in their inbox. This is ridiculous.

[amingledyarn]

It's W.I.P. it out Wednesday! Show me your crochet WIPs!

[corneliushickey]

working on this pattern:

This is a pattern and not a physical item ! The Lightly Toasted crochet pattern is a cute PDF pattern to be able to crochet your own cardiga

[amingledyarn]

Oh wow this is beautiful! Cool yarn bowl btw.

[sideblog230]

I am working on a bunny doll. Still need to give them ears and embroider the face. Later I will make a little sweater/dress for them to wear.

[thevoidmeows]

Dipper! the dip-dop himself :]

Ford || Stan || Mabel || base pattern

more close-ups under the cut:

[i-crochet-things]

Cat Planet Amigurumi Pattern

The pattern is available above and as a free PDF download on Ravelry.

Check out my other patterns on Ravelry and Etsy.

Or Caturn, if you will.

Apologies for the lack of patterns recently; my area was hit pretty bad by Helene. Luckily things are starting to return to normal now.

This is an icrochetthings original pattern © 2024. For personal use only. Do not copy, sell, alter, or distribute this pattern or parts of it. You may sell a limited number of your handmade finished items provided you credit icrochetthings as the designer.

[aspendrawaw]

@shinybogcreature

pattern drop for the strawberry dragon!

[dunsparceappreciator]

Skipping the sales pitch, I spent all day just to make this and I'm very happy with the result!!

If anyone else has the urge to crochet a tiny little guy for yourself or someone you care about, you can download the pattern below and fold it into a zine <3 (pls tell me if this works. I'm happy to update this with a pdf instead!)

Available in both english and swedish as always!

[lxcke]

THE SWIMMING PIC HAS ME SOBBING 😭😭

[iridescent-sunshine]

In middle school, my parents went through a really ugly divorce. My mom got a boyfriend during it, which pissed my dad off.

One day I was out shopping with my mom and my sister called us asking us to come home because my dad had come into the house and absolutely fucking destroyed it. You could hear my dad in the background screaming that my mom better come home or he was going to kill us all.

We took him very seriously and rushed home, because he was unmedicated bipolar, had already broken things in our home, had been physically abusive to us in the past, had PTSD from war, and had access to guns. When we got home, my dad threatened to kill my mom and his four children (age 8, 13, 15, and 17) right in front of us. The cops told my mom that they can't legally make him leave because he hadn't actually touched a person yet and his name was on the mortgage. What they did instead is ask him politely to leave the premises for the night. My mom called his commanding officer (Army) to try to get some help and all he did was make my dad promise not to kill her. Both the cops and his commanding officer told my mom that his feelings were just really hurt because she brought her boyfriend around the kids, and that it was probably a good idea not to bring him around us anymore.

They did absolutely nothing to protect me and my entire family from my father's EXTREMELY credible threat, where he was physically present, had already been violent, and was actively threatening to kill us.

But I'm monstrously relieved to know that they took down Brianna Boston with $100,000 bail and a potential 15 year jail sentence for her vague threat to a corporation in general. Glad to know a woman with no firearms, no intent, and merely speaking out of frustration was considered a credible threat. When our justice system says "serve and protect," they clearly don't mean women and children in domestic violence situations. They don't mean the average person who's just fed up with a system that steals from us and puts our lives at risk every single day.

They just mean rich, white men and corporations.

Brianna probably shouldn't have said what she said. But I'll defend her with my last breath because she stands for something that the vast majority of us already felt. That nobody is looking out for the average person. That nobody values our lives. That our justice system is unfair and will protect the rich fiercely, but not us. A rich CEO dies, and we'll support it and everyone defending it, because he was just one more person in the long line of powerful people that didn't protect us. He's just one more person who left us for dead when he had the power to help. And we are so sick and tired after decades of struggling that we just don't feel like we owe it to him to be the bigger person anymore.

Just so we're clear, this is not a threat of any kind. I have no access to firearms and I have no plans to, nor would I ever, harm anyone. This is not a manifesto or a potential motive. It is an analysis of the situation in context.

[bogleech]

bat opens up their little bat wallet to find they are all out of moths. A worthless $100 bill flies out for emphasis

[poondragoon]

From top-of-frame, a month flutters into the wallet. Confused, the bat looks "up" to see an equally-confused human standing "above" her, holding an open wallet containing a single $100 bill.

Camera rotates to reveal bat has been hanging upside down above a human doing the exact same visual gag and each ruined the other's bit.

Laugh track.

[legov7]

[realdonkeykong]

All so true. Why is the human Jon Arbuckle

[boobachu]

patron saint of moths

[cadillacjohnf1]

in case anyone was thinking about feeling sorry for that CEO

[theunfairfolk]

[sufficientlylargen]

@elodieunderglass That sure is a thing with legs!

[elodieunderglass]

It sure is!!!

[lobelee]

[toastyglow]

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

-The monk's name is Carnius (he/him) -The cult leader is Father Ruben (he/him) -The Voa's name is Ashivon (he/him) -The ex-nun's name is Sanga (she/her) -Their friend is named Ahnmivah (he/him)

Fan OCs you might see in the BG: https://docs.google.com/presentation/...

Song: Arsonist's Lullabye by Hozier Program Used: Storyboard Pro Patreon CONTENT WARNINGS: Canon-typical blood and violence, implied/referenced child abuse, religious abuse/public shaming, physical abuse generally, vomit

[funny-tik-toks]

[aleshakills]

I don’t think you’re ready to have an adult conversation about politics until you’re able to admit that there are things you love and enjoy that would not and should not exist in a just world. $8 billion dollar budget movies every other month don’t exist in a just world. New 900 GB AAA video games every year don’t exist in a just world. Next day delivery doesn’t exist in a just world. 80 different soda brands don’t exist in a just world. 

All of those things come from exploitation on some level, and if you wouldn’t trade those for a world where everyone can eat and have a home no matter who they are or what they do, I don’t know what to tell you. 

[captain-acab]

Man, this post makes me feel conflicted, because on the one hand, of the things listed, next-day delivery is the only one that DOES actually exist in the world today. The others are exaggerations, and while I understand the point being made, they do detract from it.

I understand—and agree with—that sentiment of, “I want slower deliveries by drivers who are paid better,” as one recent tumblr post put it. I absolutely agree with the idea that we need to produce and consume less as a culture, and that an actual substantive conversation about politics should involve willingness to relinquish the many modern luxuries that are built on exploitation.

I don’t think these are good examples of those luxuries, though.

Large budget movies are possible because consumers (and investors) are willing to pay for them. A large budget is actually a necessary component in making sure workers are being adequately compensated; the fact that they currently are often exploited by studios is a result of deliberate misallocation of resources, not anything intrinsic to the size of the production. Same thing goes with high-quality video games. As for releasing a new film/game every month/year, that’s only unsustainable because there’s only a handful of monopolistic studios doing it. In a well-regulated industry that encourages growth and competition, we could see tens, if not hundreds of studios producing big-budget films and games. And, with a well-compensated and socially-supported citizenry, consumers would have enough disposable income to support it.

Similarly, the problem with soda isn’t that we have 80 brands; it’s that we have two. And those two brands each own 800 different labels. In a healthy economy, these monopolies would be dissolved, and we could support well over 80 moderately-sized independent beverage companies producing their own sodas.

Same-day delivery, again, could be easily supported with proper allocation of resources. Currently, we have huge centralized distributors like Amazon exploiting gig-workers with slave-wages to ferry cheap mass-produced crap to people, and that’s what makes it bad, not the speed at which they do it. If instead, we had something like a super-robust USPS, with well-compensated deliverypeople working reasonable hours within a decentralized network of independent-but-cooperative suppliers, there would be absolutely no reason why you couldn’t get something delivered to you from the distro ten miles down the road within a day.

When we critique capitalism, and they respond, “Yeah, well capitalism made the cell phone you’re using!” our response shouldn’t be, “Oh shit u right,” it should be, “No, capitalism made the cell phone I’m using break after a year so I’ll buy a new one, and they use slave labor to do it while they pocket the rest.”

There are luxuries, and there are artificially-valued, mass-produced, built-to-break trash that are marketed as luxuries. But we don’t solve the problems of fast-fashion by saying, “Welp I guess I shouldn’t wear clothes.”

[jollyfurydragonballer]