I am the Doom Fairy

Artist| Perpetual Student | Forever Broke | Alien masquerading as human

[wildhannimal]

[mokopirirakaugalaxias]

WOE!!! FROGS BE UPON YE!!!!

[craftexchange]

It's Show and Tell Saturday! I'm having fun hunting for furniture. What's new in your world this week?

[thedoomfairy]

I've started making stickers!

[thedoomfairy]

Bootycheeks now in color

[thedoomfairy]

Bootycheeks

[craftexchange]

Quite a late Show and Tell Saturday, but it's still Saturday so I'm counting it as a win! What's new in your world this week?

[thedoomfairy]

Two more rugs 😂

[craftexchange]

Yippee for Show and Tell Saturday! Welcome to May my friends - what's new in your world this week?

[thedoomfairy]

I finished the rag rug! Only had to take it apart 5 times 😃

It's pupper approved!

[craftexchange]

It's our last Show and Tell Saturday of April! Would love to know what you made progress on over the past month, or something you're looking forward to from May! From trades to new crafts to a new finished object, what's new in your world this week?

[thedoomfairy]

I have been working on this rag rug all week made from vintage fabrics I inherited up on my grandma's passing. She used to make them so I wanted to try it, don't know how she made it look so easy? Definitely been harder than I thought!

[teaboot]

On one hand I understand not teaching cursive in school anymore, because it actually is slower than regular handwriting and almost everything is typed on a keyboard now anyways.

On the other hand, so much of our (even recent!) history was written in cursive, and having a whole generation of kids who can't read letters written by their grandparents, momentos saved by their great-grandparents, or even photo albums from theur immediate family seems like a dangerously quick way to detach us from previous generations.

And on the third, related but slightly malformed hand, I feel bad that yet another form of small, everyday art that brings joy in the middle of mundane tasks, which celebrates personality and individual style and self-expression, is about to fade into obscurity because it wasn't efficient enough for today's world to put up with.

Like... if we continue to whittle away the small arts out of every day life, what's going to be left except stark, ruthless pragmatism?

Maybe writing a grocery list is less mundane when you get to feel elegant for a moment. Maybe you're a little more proud of what you write when you see it flow together like a painting

[northshorewave]

Sometimes I make posts that are like “Hey guys, maybe everything being optimized for efficiency and cheapness leaves some major defects in the average person’s ability to thrive psychologically” and some of you pop off like I’ve said I want to kill everyone who uses insulin with my bare hands, when mostly what I’m talking about is this sort of thing.

[luesmainblog]

I for one have never thought "well it is slower" is a good reason to not teach cursive, because the ability to read cursive is so extremely important, and the easiest way to learn how to read it is learning how to write it.

[teawitch]

The only times I really use cursive anymore is to sign office birthday cards.

Recently I've realized I am the only one who writes in cursive. I know a couple of people are my age range but they print.

Somewhere along the line I think I was taught that signing in cursive is more polite.

[thedoomfairy]

They're bringing back cursive to schools which would have been nice when I was teaching because I only write cursive and the kids couldn't read anything I wrote...

[thedoomfairy]

Silly cats I made them into an insane pattern, and stuck them on spoonflower for shiggles.

[maureen-corpse]

One thing they don’t tell you about sewing is that it is actually ironing

[thedoomfairy]

Devin told me to go make bad art so that I can make better art so I did, please enjoy.

[thedoomfairy]

I present: 40+ hours of embroidery and sewing.

[mayakern]

Our whole store is now on sale! 50% off shirts and 20% off everything else! ⭐️Ethical labor ⭐️sizes small-6x ⭐️sustainable fashion

[mayakern]

please support our queer owned small business if you are able to!!! we make size inclusive and ethically made clothing that is super cute and comfortable!!

and if you don't trust our word, then trust our customers' 🥰

[lily-beastdaughter]

https://store.mayakern.com/ for us storefront or

https://mayakern.ca/ for canadian storefront

they make seriously excellent clothing, but are terrible at adding their own links

[mayakern]

ok this one wasnt even me. it was ash (you can tell bc she also forgot tags lol)

ig this is what happens when the whole team has adhd haha

anyway, thank you!! i appreciate all y'all's reminders 🧡

[thedoomfairy]

I SWEAR THE POSTER THINGY IS EATING THE LINKS! like I swear I put links on half of these that they're not there on.

[mayakern]

i swear to god i dont forget to link stuff on purpose i think im just cursed because i promise you i copy the link every time but it just never makes it to the post and i feel stupid every time

in unrelated news, my therapist thinks i have ADHD

[thedoomfairy]

You know I think I was actually the one who forgot to post some of those links you got blamed for missing, at least on the original posts I made 😂

[thedoomfairy]

Honk honk

[thedoomfairy]

Doodles

[thedoomfairy]