A raging feminist, in love with the show, Hamilton, and the costuming in general. She/her/hers pronouns please! Cosplayer, actress, and aspiring costume designer.
this HAS to mean something. it's just a coincidence that right after Ragatha talks about her mom being abusive, the VERY NEXT shot is Jax looking away ????
its fascinating how very very surface level 1920s-ish jazz age inspired aesthetics are very popular (see: hazbin hotel and electroswing and the endless wave of bowtie pinstripe character designs from the 2010s) but the vast vast majority of people who are into that seem fundamentally disinterested in actually engaging with actual jazz age art and culture because that would require engaging with black art
hello hazbin hotel fan. before you is an image of cab calloway. if you cannot correctly name at least one song of his then you will be dropped into a pool of live hammerhead sharks
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.
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.
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.
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!!!!
Kelsi Rutledge on her main role as a scientific consultant on Nope (2022) and Jean Jacket's inspiration from nature as featured in the We Call Him Jean Jacket special featurette. Kelsi Rutledge as of 2023 has her PH.D with her focus of study being in taxonomy and systematics which the naming of new species as well as the functional morphology and biomechanics of animals.
Had a dream last night about a gravity falls game where you play as young Stanley having to sneak around and lie to stay out of trouble with Filbrick. It wasn't really a horror game but it had a lot of horror game-like mechanics and there was a general sense of discomfort the entire time.
The only quest I can remember is one where Stanley gets a bad report card while Stanford gets a good one. Filbrick is out doing business until tomorrow so you have until the morning to try and make it look like you got good grades. There's an option to use white out on Stanford's card while he sleeps and write your name instead.
You could also get future readings from mom, who would give hints on what will happen to you next so you can start setting up lies and stealing in advance instead of scrambling to cover yourself last minute. (If you could figure out what the readings were hinting at. They got progressively more vague as the game went on, going from "I hear" and "I see", to "I feel")
You didn't get to see what happened when Filbrick caught him, it just cut to a game over screen. You could be caught and sent to your room three times before this happens (which ends the quest you're on. Because you failed to lie well enough). There is no way to win. The game would just keep going with scenarios until you lost or gave up
There was a vending machine on the board walk that had warped reflections in the glass that corrected itself when you looked at it head-on
allow me to add stanford as a playable character and some other mechanics because this concept had me up at four fucking thirty in the morning thinking of ideas
first i'll start with those stats i added, fears paranoia allat shit (under the cut its a long post
fears are basically just consequences without actions, ford needs to be near stan or have a light to sneak in the dark. otherwise he has a time limit of how long he can remain in the dark area before the player is forced back to his and stan's room and has to start it all over. not to mention, ford's fear of the dark causes his eyes to play tricks on him and he may occasionally see a shadow in the shape of filbrick in the dark. the big problem? ford is a baby insomniac! he has to have certain conditions to sleep and will not if they aren't met. simple things like "i need a glass of water." if he doesnt do them he'll stay up for most of the night or the entire night and spent the next day with the "tired" stat, which gives him eyebags and worsens his ability to lie, cover up for stan and may even cause him to get worse grades in school if its a school day which causes filbrick to become suspicious
so to combat the fear of the dark you can obtain a flashlight, but the problem is its a fucking flashlight and you're trying to sneak under the cover of darkness so if filbrick is nearby there's like an absurdly high chance he'll see you
stan's fear of heights prevents him from hiding in certain high places or reaching certain areas. ford can climb into his bed (i always imagine he takes the top bunk because stan is afraid of heights) when filbrick or caryn walk in but if prompted to hide there stan will just freeze for a moment and potentially get caught that way
paranoia is basically fear but at random moments of the day, sometimes ford will get bullshit missions to avoid something or do something for someone and it'll be completely unnecessary. the "tired" stat exacerbates his paranoia
as mentioned on the character select screen, ford can keep snowball from meowing when stan walks past, making him an asset when sneaking. he'll pet snowball and keep him distracted while stan does his thing and feed him something if he has treats in his inventory (an item i made up just now that stan or ford can obtain to shut snowball the fuck up) if given treats snowball will remain quiet for a certain amount of time but it isnt necessary if you have ford with you
i wish snowball had some depth to him other than just being an alert, maybe he's another thing that keeps ford from freaking out in the dark. like maybe at the cost of making some noise (meowing, purring) you get a few more seconds
lets see uhh what else
ford has to deal with bullying at school, so his future readings are related to that. he can piece together the meanings a lot quicker than stan and as such will occasionally receive missions according to the meanings
like here, he'd be shoved into his locker and teased about his hands, so he may receive a mission to avoid the lockers
i wanna think lying is based on the skill of the player via qte, stan's are fairly easy while ford's are intermediate and hard if he has the "tired" stat
failing the qte will place a filler word into the sentence (uh, um, well, etc.) and raise filbrick's suspicion. failing too many will end the sequence and create the shittiest, most goddamn preposterous lie possible if you're playing as ford. like he'll be asking why they were late for dinner and he'll blurt out "we were at the waterpark!"
i dont think getting stan into trouble would be a game over for ford it'd just end the day, idk what the loss condition *would* be though
which is a good segway into my next mechanic, anger!!! if ford fucks up stan can get mad at him, which will make him more reckless when sneaking and slightly less willing to cover for him. not unreasonably so though it depends on the fuckup im so sorry for how much i swear wow
anyway this works the same way for stan as the player, if stan *did* white out ford's name on his report card and got him into trouble, ford might find out and confront stan which risks filbrick overhearing and finding out himself
also stan breaks the fourth wall occasionally. just because. he can react to some menus like the word "special" in his character select screen, and will comment about some missions like "hey, that's a good idea! ..that was my idea. that text up there stole my idea!"
also also cosmetics!!!!
they can give buffs, debuffs and cause little events during your day like going to the nurse for a headache from wearing the wrong glasses or the hat blowing away and being home from school late because you and stan had to go out and find it or you find a mysterious journal hidden deep within the woods
idk ive been working on this since i saw the post i had a lot of fun with it thank you for your time im just way too excited to post this to keep adding more
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