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rookie sewing error committed (forgot that just because the pattern is drafted for someone almost exactly my height, that doesn't mean the length of the trousers is going to fit my preferences lmao)
the pants have cuffs so i might be able to salvage this project by just doing Long Cuffs but yeah. you live and you learn.
rookie sewing error committed (forgot that just because the pattern is drafted for someone almost exactly my height, that doesn't mean the length of the trousers is going to fit my preferences lmao)
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Courage, Anxiety, and Despair Watching the Battle by James Sant (ca. 1850) anyone?
[gravely loading bullets into a revolver] i will add nuance to this conversation
we are going to have some CRITICAL DISCUSSION if it KILLS ME
Putting a bloody lace handkerchief in my back pocket to indicate that I'm into Victorian tuberculosis roleplay.
conspicuous consumption
Goddamnit.
sewed a pair of shorts last week, then a pinafore for fiancé's stuffed bunny, and now i'm eyeing patterns for dice bags and makeup pouches (both of which i actually need)
i just want to sew!!
it should be illegal for things in drawers to accumulate dust. you were IN the drawer WHAT is your problem
Doggust day 8: Mail! I've been wanting to make something silly for my contact page for awhile. The frames were sketched digitally, painted traditionally.
scientists have recently announced that exoplanet HR 3499a is no longer believed to be potentially capable of supporting life, after new spectroscopic readings indicated that it doesn't even have a dishwasher. "i mean, it doesn't even have a fucking dishwasher," said the lead researcher. "I guess you could live there, but, like, would you really want to?"
so fun thing in the indie games sphere. the life and suffering of prince jerian was partway through the development process when the studio put up a kickstarter to get it across the finish line and fund some extras. seeing as i'd loved the life and suffering of sir brante, i backed it. i was extremely excited for it! i tracked the updates, i joined the server, i talked up the first game to anyone who'd listen.
and then as soon as it came out, accusations started rolling in about generative ai usage. a lot of very credible accusations, with too many examples to be able to handwave as baseless. and i wanted to handwave them as baseless so, so badly. i was complaining in dms to a friend that it just had to be a witch hunt. i didn't want to believe that this world i'd given my time and money, that i loved so much, could possibly have been made with generative ai. there wasn't a disclosure on steam, and gen ai had never been mentioned on kickstarter, and it was a little indie company, so surely they cared for the human element in the creative process--they wouldn't deceive their supporters by omitting how their game was being made, right? even if their art lead had history working with gen ai and was a proponent of its use, there was no way. right?
but then they replaced the art in question without saying one way or another that it was generative ai, just that "individual illustrations had been corrected". and then they merged every thread on the steam forum bringing up gen ai allegations into a single thread and deleted it. and then a couple small game news outlets covered the controversy, agreeing that the art in question was pretty damning.
and so i asked for and received a refund. bc i don't support studios that use generative ai at any stage of the process, let alone for the finished product. and it really sucks. you know? bc i love this world, and i love the writing, and i'd already invested so much into it: time, energy, care, money. but it matters to me that i live up to my principles, and making an exception for one game--even one i was really looking forward to--doesn't outweigh the harm that generative ai does.
this isn't to pat myself on the back or anything. it's an acknowledgement, i guess, of how much it can suck to want to play something or watch something and that thing you want to play or watch going against your own principles, and needing to grapple with the decision to continue regardless or to detach and see other people continue to have fun with that thing you were hoping to enjoy with them.
anyway. plenty of fish in the sea, plenty of unplayed games in the steam library.
friendly reminder that nott the brave knows four languages and is second only to caleb "eidetic memory" widogast in intelligence
even friendlier reminder that she once made viable acid in the back of a moving cart and has amateur glassmaking skills
friendly reminder that nott managed to reverse engineer a gun and bullets in order to craft her own ammunition, and reassemble the gun afterwards in a world where none of the party (but her!) had even heard of gunpowder or dynamite before.
friendly reminder that while caleb did teach her magic, they share very few spells, and two of them she knew first meaning that, though he taught her the basics, she figured out the vast majority on her own.
friendly reminder that while caleb and beau tend to be the ones to roll investigation in the party, it is nott who has the highest investigation of the mighty nein — meaning that if you hand everyone the same puzzle, it is nott — not caleb — who has the best chance of figuring out what it does.
At one of the absolute lowest moments of her life, when she was alone, miserable, and dealing with extra layers of dysmorphia, she:
Managed to escape captivity, again
Created a new name for herself by anagraming her own name, and did so with tragicomedy
Learned how to pick lock and disarm traps (some. the rope ones. let's not get overexcited here)
Learned Thieves' Cant, which is no joke--it's more a complex code than a language
Left her entire life behind in search of a solution to the problem her own self had become
Learned how to spot an enemy's weak spots and use them to her advantage in a way few other people manage
And that's before she even meets anyone else. This is all stuff she likely puzzled out on her own, alone, homeless and starving, because no one else would trust a goblin. This is all stuff a terrified 25-year-old woman from a little farming village figured out by herself, while keeping her eyes on her goal, keeping her delightfully sharp sense of humor, and keeping a soft heart under all that nervous bluster.
And that's at level 1.
They weren’t lying when they said that as an adult you have to fight for your life to practice your hobbies
They also weren’t lying when they said that when you fail to do so your soul shrivels up inside your body and dies
generally you shouldn't write run-on sentences because they get confusing and it doesn't give the reader a break. that doesn't apply to me though my run-on sentences are fun and understandable and they have a rhythm to it that makes you want to keep reading
first weekend without any plans since midsummer!! while working full time on weekdays!! so lucky to be employed but it's been A Lot. and we've already played some wingspan and taken a little walk around the woods, so i'm planning on just lazing around until monday
