Seka_Kip

Trans ♂ Pansexual & Polygamous Open Furry🐺🐐 PRNs: They/He/Zie/Xe

[the-chibster]

"Now it's time for peace" what a fucking bastard. Where's the grim reaper when you need it?

[theonewhowanks]

[buttercupcd]

don't ask

:•~

[tobiosty]

General useful stuff!

Guides

How to make Crumbl Cookies!

How to bookbind!

How to pirate movies/shows

How to make frog plushies

How to make a Go-bag for emergencies

How to repair clothing

How to make different a03 kudos!

How to download videos/pictures/gifs from a website

How to make various chocolate desserts!

Tips and Tricks!

A03 formatting

Back stretches!

Depression tips

Adult cheat sheet

How to regulate and understand your emotions better

Disabling Windows 11 web search in search bar

Resources

Horror game recs!

Dca fic recs!

Hand references

Free Adobe photoshop

Artist resources

Free spotify

Pirating sites

Artist resources pt 2

Helpful random sites

Homemaking, gardening, sustainability

Free libraries!

Making stuff and doing things (free book pdf)

Healthcare (medicine discount websites, guide on how to pay hospital bills)

Alternative stuff to mega corporations

[cuubism]

you guys know about the hobby lobby smuggling scandal right

[kishona]

hobby lobby’s hammurabi robbing hobby

[whetstonefires]

i demonstrated great social competence at the bar recently when the bartended mentioned shopping at hobby lobby and i said i never did this because of the trafficking in looted antiquities.

[musictherapy611]

[tura23]

They are extremely homophobic and transphobic - each year they give millions of dollars to the National Christian Foundation. The NCA then uses that money to fund 23 different non-proffits which have been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups, they also make huge campaign donations to conservative Christian political candidates, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.

They have funded successful campaigns in other countries to make homosexuality illegal and punishable by death. They strongly support conversion therapy.

They went to court and won the right to only offer employee insurance that does not pay for birth control or abortion, and because of this lawsuit any business can also deny women the right to control their own bodies because "religious beliefs".

[cumaeansibyl]

so I saw someone just today, re: the Joann Fabrics closings, saying "you're not a bad person if you shop at hobby lobby because you don't have anywhere else nearby to buy craft goods in person"

and like. I don't think shopping at shitty stores makes you a bad person. but consider that in order to live according to our principles sometimes it may be necessary to accept inconveniences. whether that means shopping online or driving a further distance than we'd like, or saving up to buy more expensive supplies, or whatever.

I'm the first to say hobbies are important to our well-being but also we will not shrivel up and die if we have to wait an extra couple weeks for more yarn. I'm also the first to say there's no ethical consumption in late capitalism but there is also definitely a difference between standard shitty corporations and these weird imperialist fucks.

[freya-ulfsdottir]

Some alternatives:

Shop Michaels arts and crafts store for art supplies, crafts, framing, floral, home décor & seasonal products. Michaels is your go-to for cr

For yarn:

https://hobbii.com/yarn

https://www.yarn.com/pages/yarn

Art supplies:

Blick offers the best selection of art supplies online. Shop paint, drawing supplies, crafts, framing, and more. Find all your art supply ne

[darcylightninglewis]

Also, you can find supplies on places like Facebook Marketplace & craigslist! Also search Mercari! Plenty of gently used or brand new stuff out there if you know what you're looking for!!

And at I've noticed a few local shops outside main citys. Check your suburbs!

[faineantgrl]

@i-add-sources ? I think these are true but I don't think I've actually seen a source

[i-add-sources]

Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal - Wikipedia

Hobby Lobby - Wikipedia

^"controversies" section has sourced info about the contraceptives and more about the smuggling, and endangerment of employees as well as the "he gets us" superbowl ad campaign.

Hobby lobby 2023 tax returns. The biggest donations ($6+ million , twice) are to Vanguard charitable endownment program, possibly to hide controversial donations. There are also donations to many different universities and fraternities/sororities, and a few churches, as well as a single, comparatively small, donation to a planned parenthood location in Houston, TX.

In 2012, Hobby Lobby donated the Northfield campus to the National Christian foundation. The building was estimated to be worth $20.000.000 at the time.

This is true.

[anasabdin]

n o t h i n g c h a n g e s

[gorjee-art]

my honest to god reaction with you people.

[nudibro]

CW: blood on last panel, implied/partial nudity ??? !!!

Walk in.

torturing my nari again bc i can.

ID text above and below as always. :)

[ID: A four page sketched out comic with black beige and white colors. Image 1: Narinder walks into the Lamb's tent, pulling back the cloth and stepping in. He looks around for them. "Lamb? Are you ready to crusade yet? We're losing daylight." Lamb answers from off screen, "Yeah yeah, I'm coming!" Narinder looks over to where he hears the Lamb and sees them with only a towel around their hips. They look down at their shirt as they go to grab it. Lamb: "Just let me get dressed, I'll be out in a few." Image 2: Narinder jolts back tenses up shocked, his face flushed. "Woah!" He quickly turns his head away and raises his hand up to conceal his view of the Lamb. "Lamb, I-" He clears his throat. "I apologize, I did not mean to intrude. Lamb: Nari, you're fine. Don't worry about it. Narinder: "You're different than I thought." Image 3: Lamb: "What do you mean?" Narinder softens his expression while still looking away, but his fingers slightly part as his third eye glances at the Lamb. "You were so small back then. In the gateway I barely saw you. It didn't matter then. Seeing you now, I never thought you were so... Compelling." The Lamb stares at him shocked while pointing at themselves, their face flushed as well. "Compelling?" Narinder stutters and completely covers his eyes with his hands. "Wh- Lamb! For heavens sake- get dressed!" The Lamb turns and quickly walks away. Lamb: "Right! Right! Yeah!" Image 4: Narinder is seen stabbing the head of a heretic as they grip onto his sleeve. His face looks troubled and incredibly red. The words, "Kill the thought," repeat endlessly behind him as he thinks about the Lamb's body. on the top right corner is a thought bubble, The back and front of the Lamb's torso can be seen, The back shows their soft muscles and their tail while the front has one arm raised while leaning to the side. The red crown right below the thought bubble squints at Narinder knowingly, while in it's snake form. End ID.]

[vrabia]

truly from the bottom of my heart i hate the level of enshittification etsy has reached because it's still the best place to buy patterns for my hobby and every time i go scrolling through endless ai-generated bullshit to finally dig up a human-designed pattern i like, i'm hit with a deluge of 'popular!! 563 people are looking at this right now!! it's in 134632 baskets!! you must buy immediately!!!' it's a pdf file. it's a fucking pdf file. do you get off on trying to give people fomo over a fucking pdf file. fuck off. get diarrhea forever.

[vrabia]

and that's not even touching the ai-generated patterns with hundreds of 5-star bot reviews that are stupidly easy to spot if you know what to look for. but most beginners don't know what to look for, so they're straight-up scammed into buying based on a nice picture. then their 'hey, i made this and it looks nothing like advertised' comments get buried under hundreds of 5-star bot reviews, and this is how someone who might have otherwise discovered an interesting and fulfilling hobby drops it, thinking the pattern's fine, everyone else likes it, so it's on them for not being good enough. it pisses me off so much, you have no idea.

[vrabia]

anyway, here's some shops selling amigurumi (crochet soft toys) patterns fully created by crafters. i've either bought and made patterns from them or saved them for later, meaning i already checked that they aren't ai-generated. i might make a post later on how to spot ai-generated amigurumi patterns, but i wanted to give these a shout-out. go buy from them if you can, it's cool stuff and an interesting skill to learn.

straw animals design (etsy store) plushies and accessories, including some knitted patterns. beginner friendly!

green frog crochet (website store). mostly doll patterns, very pretty and totally worth the time and effort. they also sell full kits for some of the patterns, that include all supplies except for crochet hooks and fiberfill. also, youtube channel with tutorials.

moonlight crochet (etsy store). mostly doll patterns, lots of clothes you can adapt to dolls of similar sizes

yan schenkel (website store for individual patterns) has several books out that i really love. it took a bit of digging to figure out if this online store selling the pdf versions is legit and i found that the publisher sells directly through them. there are three pattern books (1, 2, 3) with animal plushies.

natura crochet (website store) has colorful animal and holiday themed patterns, plus two books of aquatic themed patterns. same publisher/seller as above.

hanichan (website store) has a distinct and minimalist style that i think is very beginner friendly. there are also useful general tutorials for amigurumi.

aquariwool crochet (etsy store). a lot of colorful and fun animal patterns. i haven't bought anything from them yet but i have a few saved and honestly just looking through the patterns makes me happy.

make me roar (website store). one of the more unique styles i've seen out there, especially these.

jo handmade design (etsy store). both plushies and more realistic toys, the patterns are very well written and illustrated.

whenever possible i linked to a store outside etsy, but not all pattern creators have one, so it's 100% worth checking them out and supporting them despite the absolute tar pit they operate in. also whatever creative hobby you're curious about, don't let an ai-generated picture discourage you from trying it. you are a god capable of summoning something out of nothing and generative ai is a pathetic little string of mathematical operations with ideas above its station.

[lizardlicks]

I AM GOING TO SCREAM AND SCREAM AND SCREAM to the heavens until everyone knows about the Etsy competitor goimagine!!!

Shop Handmade | Shop Local | Shop with Purpose

The founder of GoImagine refuses to go public or sell the platform: NO SHARE HOLDERS TO APPEASE!!

They have a STRICT vetting process for sellers: NO BOTS, NO AI, NO DROP SHIPPING, HAND MADE CRAFTS ONLY!!

You can narrow down stores you're shopping from by STATE! EASILY SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES!!

2% of every sale transaction is donated to charity!!!

This is baked into the platform. Right now they're partnered with four different charities to fight childhood hunger, provide relief childcare for families dealing with domestic violence, end childhood homelessness, and fund art accessablity. HELPING KIDS!!!!

I have a shop there that I will be stocking soon! If you're a creator, their basic ship front is FREE and you get 12 listing slots! The next size up is only $5 a month and you get 200 listings, and the topn you're at $15 gives you 1,000 product listings and a whole ass customizable store front website. That's cheaper than anything else on the market rn.

Current downsides that will not remain downsides: they're only available in the USA but they're planning on expanding into Canada soon. And they've been mostly focused on growing their seller side, so not a lot of buyers know about them yet. But!!! That why I tell everyone I can! Shop with them! List your products with them! Use a platform that has a dedicated mission for community good and is there to support sustainable creator markets, not create endless bloated corporate growth!!!!

And dump Etsy yesterday.

[theonewhowanks]

Sooooooooooo... How are these glowy womb tattoos going? Askin' for a friend

If they would choose to keep em, I don't think it would ultimately be enough to override their low fertility. But hey, free night-light

[laserbobcat]

HAHAHA the Lamb is SO into it

It's a shame that wouldn't be enough either. Yngya tried her best U_U

[brightgoat]

So you are the minecraft lore person. That skulck portal huh

I'm not the Minecraft lore person, I'm the 'Minecraft fanfic that doesn't aim to outright answer mysteries but to explore the mystery itself, and make a few headcanons that will be revealed in due time by the art itself so be patient pls' person.

If you want Minecraft lore people, check out youtube channels Xatrix, TheWitherKing and RetroGamingNow. Big inspos and big contributors to my Minecraft brainrot.

[brightgoat]

the latest update in a nutshell (i made this super fast, i really hope nobody else has done this yet lol)

This is 100% correct

[brightgoat]

You were in Minecraft Live, was cool to see you 😎

AW DAMN I can't find the moment it got featured for now.... but yayyy ahahahaaa

[brightgoat]

Mehehehehehe MW STEVE REEEAAAL

(got screenshot from here)

[void-of-existence]

HE KNOWS OH MY GODS

I SCREAMED ALOUD

[kyri45]

I don't usually reblogs but

GUYS HE KNOWS EVERYONE SCATTERS

[anasabdin]

Rain check

[zoidrealm]

And this is how they got together!!!!

Yep.

[laserbobcat]

I felt like drawing this cause I was asked about Morgan's age, timeline and slowburn. Morgan is among the oldest followers of the Lamb, roughly around 500 years. He was a heretic, hates gods now and won't pray, but pretend when he has to. He feels extremely guilty about it. He's legit 100% devoted to the Lamb who saved him, and does everything he can to be useful in other ways. Lambie knows of course, because mind reading, and keeps resurrecting him FAST because they're too afraid he will insult Narinder to his face when meeting him and get thrown to hell (would 100% happen btw)

The lie (and the age) makes him feel pretty isolated from most people. Despite being very kind and smiling, he ends up being a poster child for emotional unavailability. Pretty cat constantly having to friendzone people. No dating. Who has the time. And even friends are rare.

Enter Leshy. A god- his former god. Morgan loses his shit for the first time in hundreds of years and tries to kill him. 500 years of a calm persona out the window, and no more lie to keep up because after this mess, the Lamb apologizes and admit they knew about his lack of faith and should have told him they're okay with it.

Morgan is trying and failing to go back to his old calm and reasonable persona, even tho there's nothing to hide anymore, but Leshy won't let him. He fell in love with the cat when he tried to murder him, and he won't let him pretend to be an angel now that he's seen who he really is. He's way too hot when he's angry. Or fighting, or laughing, or anything really, he's down bad anyway. All of this to say, it might feel like a slowburn cause I love drawing them being stupid, and Morgan clueless. But this is really a few centuries of him being repressed™, and Leshy coming in like a wrecking ball and destroying all that, fast. On a timeline I give them a year max before they start banging. When Kallamar gets out of purgatory Leshy's like "Oh hey long time no see, this is my boyfriend, he's hot, he's mine, no touchies"