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spaghetti bead kandi cuff tutorial pog

hey there scene kid do u have a bunch of these fucking beads (spaghetti beads) with no clue how to use them up?

heres a pretty simple cuff i designed using these (under the cut)

so for a cuff like this you will need 36 spaghetti beads and 84 pony beads. (pls ignore my grimy ass carpet)

make a loop with twelve pony beads and twelve spaghetti beads, alternating like this.

do this two more times

ok so take two of them and do this kinda thing? idk how to explain it just look at the pictures

ok now go all the way around like that

do that one more time connecting one of the rings u just connected with the one u still have loose

you can add more layers to it if u feel like it but otherwise wam bam ur done and now u have used up some of those goddamned spaghetti beads

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Rating Star Emojis!

Apple. 11/10, perfect. I want to look at it forever. It’s nice and round without being too curvy. It’s shiny and shaded nice, and the right tones of yellow. I love it so much.

Google. 4/10 The ends are a bit too sharp for my tastes. I cant tell if I’m imagining the gradient there but either way its too subtle for me. If they were gonna shade it, it should be shinier than this. The outline looks rly weird also.

Microsoft. 8/10. simple, efficient. manages to be round and sharp on the ends. classic black outline. a bit too orange for me.

Samsung. 6/10. I like that they have a different shape. shaded pretty nice. didnt do the google thing where the outline goes weird with the gradient. this ones alright.

Whatsapp. 8/10. pretty good. the shading goes a bit orange at the ends which i dont like too much but i love how shiny it is anyways. the star also looks a tad bloated. overall p good.

twitter. 3/10. too orange. if you’re gonna make a very simplistic symbol, use a better shade of yellow please.

facebook. 4/10. hmm. lemme start with the weird soft shading i am not really a fan of it. its not very shiny :( also i dont really like the way the star looks kinda bloated.

joypixels. 6/10 this feels like an improvement on the twitter design. the yellow is a good shade for something this simplistic. the ends are a bit pointy

openmoji. 5/10 its a lot like the microsoft one, but a better shade of yellow, and a bit more bloated. i think the outline should be thicker and rounder at the ends. i dont like the shape honestly.

emojidex. 2/10. what. bad shape, bad coloring. nope. only saving grace is that the idea of just an outline is kinda cool.

Messenger. 0/10. okay first of all. what the fuck is up with that shading. the shadows and the highlights are badly shaped and they clearly dont agree on where the light source is supposed to be. i hate this color, and i hate the shape of this star.

lg. 3/10. i dont know if you can see on the png but the highlight goes off the star?? wtf. this would be a fine star otherwise if the ends werent so pointy. also not a fan of the background shading. not a great star.

htc. 1/10. i looked up htc hoping that it was just a stylistic choice and none of their emojis were colored. they somehow made the emojidex design worse. i hate it

mozilla. 9/10. cute, simple, classy, balanced. its a very good color and the shape is alright.

softbank. 5/10. the coloring on this one is kinda weird. if they wanted to color match the outline they should’ve matched it a bit closer. if they wanted to add a highlight on one end the other end of the star shouldnt be a lighter gradient.

docomo. 4/10. better than htc, still kinda bad. i know the style of the emojis are partially responsible but this couldve really been colored.

au by kddi. -1/10. i dont think i can describe my visceral hatred for this star emoji. the highlights clearly dont agree and theyre stylised to the emoji set style in such an ugly way with such an ugly color. this star activates my fight or flight response.

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im so tired of having a gender identity. can i just be a glow in the dark ceiling star.

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NO ONE is saying that you absolutely must sleep with trans people. No one deserves to have their consent violated over opinions, even if they are extremely harmful. But it says something about the way TERFs see trans people when they are constantly looking for clues that a person is transgender, even if they have fully medically transitioned. If you absolutely need to know that this person with essentially the exact same anatomy as any cis person is in fact cisgender, you are transphobic. No one is saying you have to sleep with trans people, just that if you refuse to on the basis that they are trans, you are transphobic. Whether that’s fine by you or not is entirely up to you. If you choose to dismantle these beliefs, good on you! That shows a level of responsibility on your part.

This is not specific to trans people, either. If a white person won’t sleep with black people, they are racist. If an agnostic person won’t sleep with jewish people, they are antisemitic. If a gay person won’t sleep with bi people, they are biphobic. These people fit into your sexuality, but absolutely no one is forcing you to have sex with them.

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I don’t know what emotion this is but I sure am feeling it.

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I really wish that as an afab enby I didn’t feel so obligated to be masculine. I hate hate hate the truscum idea that trans people have to want to pass in order to be validated as transgender. This idea not only invalidates nonbinary people who label themselves as trans but when it’s combined with the idea that all nonbinary people are afab, it paints a really specific portrait of nonbinary folk as being a skinny, white, and vaguely masculine kid. 

I have tried fitting that portrait before, because as a relatively skinny afab white kid, I am not categorically different from that view of nonbinary people. The truth is that this will not help you pass. Most people, especially older people, would read me as female, and if I was lucky, a few people would stop and ask me if I’m a boy or a girl. 

There is no way to pass as nonbinary. The societal view of gender has to change to accommodate us because there is just not a common enough understanding of the experiences of nonbinary people. 

In theory, I am comfortable with all pronouns. I have always felt the same amount of apathy towards any set of pronouns. However, I’m often very hesitant to allow others to refer to me with she/her, and in thinking about it, I think I’ve figured out why.

I used to think this was because my gender was simply masculine. I was trying to be that confused trans guy stereotype. What I understand about myself now, is that I am not more comfortable with masculinity, it’s just that when I’m identified as male, it feels less like I’m being misgendered. It’s still a misidentification of me and my experiences.

I am going to be misgendered for the rest of my life.