"I read fiction, I write fiction, I gripe about using a wheelchair (or rather, about lack of accessibility when using said wheelchair), I play viddy games when I should be writing, the usual." [About page]
Tumblr is just as functional as I remember! (It doesn't.) So, pinned info for dashboard view. Fanciful about page linked above.
I'm an adult. Adult language and topics may occur. If it be gory or lewd (or just very naked) it usually will be single-word tagged appropriately (#gore #violence #nudity etc) for your squick-filtering needs. Common triggering topics are as well. I don't usually tag artistic styled blood or death, sorry, with my interests I'd be tagging half my blog.
Common tags:
#behold a tea mug - posts by me, I'm-in-this-photo-and.jpeg meme, and such
#tea writes fanfic - where you will find my fanfic, updates about, and just a lot of whining
#tea does art - visual art, animation, and such done by me
#Tea's critter horde - I have pets. Find them here!
#stashed for dark days - things that bring comfort/joy/generally encourages to keep going (if in roundabout ways)
Fandom tags include: #hades - (Hades video game) | #tlt - The Locked Tomb series | #BG3 - Baldur's Gate 3 | #Osora - (Osora webcomic) | #lotr - Lord of the Rings/Tolkien family works
#fanwork - any transformative or derivative work made for the joy/spite/emotions of it (drawings, writing, animations, comics, etc)
#comic - a comic hosted on tumblr itself, usually
#art - visual art #photo - photos of things #reference - I wanna come back to this later
#art reference - I wanna come back to this, for art reasons
#we do bones - real/realistic bones and other vulture culture (may include pelts, only rarely soft tissue)
#deny defend depose - mostly about the dead CEO but sometimes other protesting and IRL rage-worthy things | #direct action - mutual aid, direct action, and other community-connecting efforts to kill capitalism | #protest art - consider this archival | #protest - exactly as it says
#nothing about us without us - disability posts, mostly nation/world level
#queer - for generally queer stuff that doesn't fall under other tags
"But he wore a crown of office that you had not seen before: a wreath of ribbon and pearlescent leaves in his dark hair, rustling prismatically in the windless docking bay. Each leaf was intertwined with a match-sized infant fingerbone...
The foetal fingerbones and leaves crowning his hair kept swaying in some nonexistent breeze." - Harrow the Ninth, chapter 6
I finished my interpretation of John's very chill and unconcerning hair accessory!
The leaves are actually large sequins, and the bones are sculpted from Fimo clay after a rather disconcerting time on PubMed looking at papers on the biometry of phalangeal growth in utero... (each leaf is 24mm, and the bones vary from 10-15mm)
You can be talking to someone and she'll be like, "Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don't deserve voting rights teehee." And you'll be like, "What." And she'll be like, "Oh I'm sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it's this Tiktok meme where, if you're a girl and you do something dumb, you say 'Women don't deserve voting rights teehee.'"
And you'll be like, "That sounds bad." And she'll be like, "No no. It's totally not that bad. It's just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he'll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.'" And you'll be like, "Does that make it better?" And she'll be like, "Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn't vote' a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot."
And then you drop it there because like, you're harshing the vibe.
for no reason whatsoever here’s a reminder that if you consider yourself a leftist/punk/abolitionist/anarchist/radical in any sort of way and get called into jury duty, you are to become the most square person on earth during the jury questionnaire!!!
don’t be that guy who says fuck the police in the jury questionnaire! that just gets you sent home! if you want to generate change, interact with the case and use your jury vote for good! ESPECIALLY if it’s a high profile case!
You should write the most niche, indulgent fiction that appeals to you specifically, because it will be much more artistically authentic and valuable than corporate slop that has been focus tested to death to appeal to the widest audience possible.
Write for yourself and you will always be making authentic art that has an uncompromised vision, and you will gain an audience that appreciates that.
I’m reading that new memoir about working at Facebook,”Careless People,” and it’s just fucking insane.
At one point Facebook wanted to be an international hub for organ donation. The “Lean In” lady asked why she couldn’t go down to Mexico and buy a kidney if her four year old needs one. This is literally on p.57. What the fuck else is going to be in this book if that is on page 57
Facebook also had to have protocols for armed raids of its foreign offices because they violated so many laws or failed to pay taxes or comply with other official protocols!! How is this a company that still exists!!!
Though strangely nothing Mark Zuckerberg does is worse than Sheryl Sandburg, who comes across as an unhinged hypocrite who uses her uncontrollable anger issues to cultivate a reign of terror, I am just… baffled and appalled at how much Zuckerberg does not care about the world outside of Silicon Valley. There have already been two instances of him trying to wear a hoodie to state visits, and not in a Zelenskyy protest way. He just doesn’t like clothes that are not hoodies.
Another mind-boggling line: “I think the point at which you have to explain Nuremberg to the head of the team leading your China entry is probably a red flag.”
Facebook has sued to prevent the author of Careless People from promoting her book. They do not want you to know what absolutely deranged, selfish people they are. So it would be a real shame if you got from your library or bought it or something.
#1 New York Times Bestseller“Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytell
I’m the anon that was asking about osora- I meant to say RP not to!
Sorry!
I'm afraid I don't, RP groups (blogs included) in general are not a sphere I've interacted with in yearrrssss. Sorry! I'll tag this and maybe someone with knowledge will reply?
You can be talking to someone and she'll be like, "Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don't deserve voting rights teehee." And you'll be like, "What." And she'll be like, "Oh I'm sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it's this Tiktok meme where, if you're a girl and you do something dumb, you say 'Women don't deserve voting rights teehee.'"
And you'll be like, "That sounds bad." And she'll be like, "No no. It's totally not that bad. It's just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he'll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.'" And you'll be like, "Does that make it better?" And she'll be like, "Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn't vote' a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot."
And then you drop it there because like, you're harshing the vibe.
Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.
Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.
Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we
Fun fact! Revival of Dhaka Muslin has been ongoing for quite some time. The headline of the above article is very very misleading, we know exactly how Dhaka Muslin was made. The process was very well documented. We know how it was made, but colonialism ruined the fabric's production area and devalued the skills needed to make it such that they no longer existed. But the process itself was not lost.
That being said, efforts to bring it back are underway, and they have been making amazing progress, and succeed in creating Dhaka Muslin yet again.
It all began with a search for ‘phuti karpas’ – muslin’s unique cotton plant which is known to have become extinct. However, starting in 201
This is a pretty good updated article, it has a lot of the same info as the BCC one (which also discusses some of the revival efforts) but with more of a focus on that process, an update to the story, and it details some of the other ongoing projects working on the revival!
Here's the first weaver to manage to produce a finished piece in nearly 200 years, Al Amin.
His first piece was 300 threads, according to the article they have now been able to get into the 700s for thread counts, which is absolutely incredible.
Several projects are actually underway now each with different weavers and slightly different methods, producing fabric intended to meet or best the original!
And if you're curious, "okay but can it pass through a ring" yes! Yes they can!
All three of these photos are of pieces made in the modern century, photos by Wasiul Bahar!
It's a very time consuming process, and a very expensive fabric to purchase, but love and passion for it have been steadily bringing it back!
The play-for-coins thing itself doesn't end, but individual offers do. And they all have a time limit (the 'within 30 days' the screenshot mentions) that starts the second you download that game, after that expires you won't earn anything even if you complete the task.
Free coins also expire!!!! Go to 'my' (person icon) -> tap the page-with-a-C icon in the upper right to check the expiration.
