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omg! The first time I took that quiz I got an armadillo and the second time (i took the second part twice) I got that pink one too! I don't know if I agree with the description either.

high five for fluffy burrowing pink things

i honestly got so distracted by looking up the animal that I don’t remember the description, I should do it again to see.

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verdantwinter replied to your post: i made roast garlic for the first time...

Garlic is one of those foods that doesn’t count.

It’s a spice, right?

Therefore neutral.

I appreciate and stand by this logic.

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verdantwinter replied to your post: i don’t like the youtube “curated” playlists are...

Have you tried Spotify? I just have the free one, which has commercials but I sort of tune them out. Their discover weekly playlist is not 100% but once it has enough Data on you it can be a goldmine for new music.

Back when Spotify came out it didn’t work in Canada so I just categorized it as “not an option” and went on

but they’ve probably fixed that by now

apparently it does

i’ll try it

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Oh oh oh! What do you think of Umbrella Academy? I just finished it the other day and I don't know anyone else who's watched it.

I’m enjoying it.

It’s got predictable story beats but told in nifty ways. I like the aesthetic and how fully it owns it. It doesn’t bother to try and make stuff believable. It just goes full tilt, full speed ahead which is great. I like the characters and the soundtrack choices and the way the reveals about their childhood have stacked up so far.

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verdantwinter replied to your post “i missed my calling in graphic design laying shit out neatly and...”

you can definitely learn graphic design if you want to. The issues with it aren't really technical, they're getting the client happy with what you've made. There are of course good clients, but it is a ton of back and forth and vague directions and god knows what else they'll dig up. I've only done it for myself and as a free intern in college, and even then it's just a lot of stress hunting for typos before they print 5000 copies of the annual appeal pamphlet.

You make a good point about graphic design being a client oriented field.

I might not like the actual day to day work of it.

I had the same sort of deal at my summer job in university. I wasn’t there to do design - i was there to do programming for the children’s program at the library - but I ended up doing a lot of the “publishing” stuff for our outreach materials.

I did the brochures for the children’s programming. We only went to 100 printed but I definitely didn’t change the year from the previous years. I made business cards templates for the head librarians. I fixed all the letter templates for donor mailings. I think I made the logo that went on the cake when the new branch opened. It was a lot of tweaking what already existed. “We need this logo on this template, plz help” and I’d put them together.

I loved it all.

At the time I didn’t think of it as “graphic design” I just thought of it as “It’s ok, Boss, I know how to use this computer, I can make the template work properly and I’ll fix your fonts and alignment while I’m at it.”

It’s something I’m going to keep squirreled away in the back of my head.

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verdantwinter replied to your post: My new crafting obsession is temari balls. I'm...

oh man it took me a second to realize why that might be a tricky search. godspeed.

I’m usually ok once I’ve got the ball in there. Tumblr is more Naruto heavy but there are a few temari ball crafting tags on instagram for me to scroll through looking for ideas that won’t be too far outside my skill set.

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