#materialism tag

[ciaran2020]

look I don't wanna pretend I know what I'm talking about or anything like that, lest someone get the wrong idea but half the reason I hate materialists (the other half being that a horrible number of them are terfs) are that even non-terf materialists tend to consider “material reality” to be limited to their personal plane of reality without ever considering that other people might operate in different spheres, or different planes of reality, even though the real world is actually full of people with not-necessarily-incorrect but opposing perceptions of systems/events/ideas.

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some pretties from the magpie’s lenormand by rozenn grosjean (sorry, i know the lighting is terrible and edges all helter skelter, i have too much headache to do the cards justice rn)

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i think my shoes may have given up the ghost, pour one out for a real one 🥲

but i caved and got a new pair so now just to decide WHAT TO PAINT. indecision hs struck, help me fronds!!! i do not have enough feet for all the birds and plants and animals in this world

sapsucker hummingbird commensalism w jewelweed flowers

hunting associations between herons ibis mergansers cormorants all the awk birds

heath bog: carnivores mosses and orchids oh my

other (chime in in the notes!!)

Voting ended onNov 13, 2023

[obligatory rb to bias results towards people whose opinions i care less about]

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WANT WANT WNAT WANT WAMTTTTTTTTT

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student grade watercolor pan, 2000s?-2021

reorganizing my art supplies and just wanted to take a moment of appreciation for this ancient pan. i dug it out of the void when i decided to try painting casually again, maybe 10? years ago? but almost definitely had it since middle or -at the latest- high school. im glad i eventually swapped to the artist grade watercolor pan full of convenience colors, but i have a lot of love for simple, sturdy tools that don’t do much else but they let you do the thing. so i have just a deep fondness for the set that let me learn and love watercolor for freeee

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Why don’t u want gifts? Not judging just curious

thanks for asking! (i also want to note that i don’t mean to disparage anyone who does like giving and/or receiving gifts but i couldn’t think of a less-emotionally charged word than obligatory so i do apologize)

i strongly dislike obligatory gift-giving: holidays, birthdays, milestones, etc. i find shopping for other people on a deadline pretty overwhelming, and the idea of people spending their time and money and mental energy to get me a gift that i don’t need or won’t use really stressful.

i actually *do* like spontaneous gifts of the form ‘oh i saw this and immediately thought of you’ or ‘i happened across that thing you needed’ or ‘i’m going to sneak the worst fortune cookie i have ever seen into your pocket,’ but it’s not super important to me. if i had to put a title on my love language it would be something like Wanting to See Someone for Who They Are and a lot of the norms or obligations around gift-giving kind of conflict with the individualized approach?

the gift-people and the bad-boundaries-people in my life just happen to overlap, but in my experience it’s been much* easier to go with a no gift policy (*ie years of awkwardly declining presents)

this is all rather unfortunate because i really enjoy wrapping presents and making big loopy bows :/

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ok i have to recommend this sketchbook!!! these are two sides of the same page. i’ve been laying ink and bleach on this moth for an hour, and *nothing* has bled through to the other side

edited to add link (thanks, @sleepanon!):

Crescent Creative Products 8-inch RENDR Wire-Bound Sketchbook, 8" x 8", Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LZZ78Q8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_TTB29FHZX0VYD9YGGGFG?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

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i still have not seen a cicada!! >:[

i did however order a cicada shirt. i was trying to see when/if the museum of natl history would reopen and i got lured into their shop. partner nixed the cicada pillow but i can wear the shirt when i’m out and about without offending his aesthetics

in lieu of Best Museum, i got a ticket for the zoo!! so in less than two weeks i will be fully vaccinated and watching otters play!! life is unfairly good sometimes

a kind of serendipitous instagram interaction not only got me drawing again (currently on hold, due to the making of mistakes) but convinced me to try playing around with sculpey. ig suggestion algorithm due for a win, i guess

i googled bat wings and all but the last result on the first page were about brachioplasty :(:( excuse me, but i just found out they perform gas exchange and are metabolicly important structures and i need to know more, preferably without being reminded that i have a body