Ramblings from the Bean

Hi I'm Katie! 🫠talented 🦇book📚keeper💋I will bite 🫦your mom Pansexual/white/American/thirty something/depressed/anxious (she/they pronouns) I have a degree in cultural anthropology with minors in history and art, emphasis in indigenous peoples and textiles. I am devoted to making sure trans, bi, and ace/aro people are included in the LGBT/MOGAI community, fixing racial inequality, stopping antisemitism, ableism, and fascism. I am always willing to listen to others to become a better ally Check out TundraKatieBean.com for all my art info! My Face, pictures of me

[tundrakatiebean]

Hey everyone! I try to be pretty consistent with my tagging so you can avoid things you don’t want to see. Here are some to look out for:

“Katie is rambling 2k23” is my random text post tag and will update each new year. If you don’t want to see my thoughts or personal stuff block that.

“Riddle me this” is what I use for asks I’m answering. Any asks that are rude, invasive, or asking for donation reblogs will be deleted.

“Family adventures” is what I use when I’m whining about my family especially when I’m around them on holidays.

“I made this!” And “I made this” are art, crafts, cooking etc that I’ve created

“Mah Face” is my tag for photos of me, which are pretty rare anymore

“Music spam time” is when I’m listening to stuff on spotify/pandora and posting it here

There are a series of tags that I’ll call the “katie X-es” series lol that are things like “Katie knits” “Katie reads” “Katie shiny hunts” Katie plays Pokemon” so if there’s something specific I do often that you aren’t interested in seeing or are avoiding spoilers for you can block those

If you like the lists I make sometimes those are under their respective game tags and “Katie makes lists”

I generally try to tag common triggers like racism, body image, disordered eating, addiction talk, gender talk etc

If there’s anything I’m not tagging that you need tagged for trigger or spoilers please let me know!

Current art projects: 

Color in Focus, October 2023 - ??, where my patrons vote on which color I’ll focus my art on for the month!

Advent Book February 2021-?? a soft book version of an advent calendar! Here’s the announcement of the project on my Patreon

Previous art projects:

Visual Dream Journal September 2021- October 2023, also tagged on this blog as “visual dream journal” where I’m doing an art representation of dreams I’ve had. For a full explanation of the project check out my patreon announcement post here

August 2020-September 2021 Year of Lyrics A project where I chose one song lyric that I related to and made a 6″x4″ typography piece of it.

Pride Roses 2021 with free downloads available here and the originals available for purchase here 

If you’re here because of my baby quilt story you can see more of it here and here! I just didn’t want to explode the OP’s notes more than I already had 😅

You can find just my art on my art blog, Website, or Patreon

Like what I’m doing? Buy me a Kofi! Check out my shop or consider a commission!

Helpful links that maybe tumblr won’t break: https://www.tundrakatiebean.com/links

I block blogs I think are bots, people who post a lot of photos/art/content without credit, and people I just don’t want to interact with for whatever reason. Asks that are rude or invasive will be deleted. If you’re asking something in good faith and would like the message to remain private just say so at the beginning of the ask. Please don’t message me condolences about my mom unless we’ve talked before.

[tundrakatiebeanart]

I’m live on Twitch now to hang with my friends @rainb0wsheep and Sinful__potato to work on some more art fight! Come hang out, chat, chill, do some art with us or whatever makes your day a little more colorful!

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

was your pet expensive to get?

yes

no

not the most expensive but not the cheapest either

for free

it was a gift

found it outside

traded for something

results

Remaining time: 4 days 9 hours

[wagitfag]

picklesbaseball

[magikonch]

[geopsych]

Another public service announcement. This time it’s air quality. Some of you are probably in it already if you’re in eastern Canada, New England or New York, but it’s sliding south, a huge mass of wildfire smoke. Please be careful. When it starts getting bad, especially, like when the sky gets orange or brownish, it’s best to run air purifiers in the house and wear N95 or KN95 masks when you have to go outside.

It harms your lungs and it’s especially bad for children (and pets!) or anyone with health problems. There are all kinds of chemicals in that smoke. It’s not only trees that are burning. The heat already makes it harder to breath. This makes it worse.

If any of you are experiencing it, feel free to tell about it in the comments. 💚

Also, throw out the mask every day and shower before you get in bed if you’ve been out or you’ll be breathing the particles all night. Stuff like that. It gets all over you, your skin, your hair, your clothes.

[so-i-did-this-thing]

It's a large (and shifting) smoke plume, so stay safe, folks. Look up how to make a "Corsi-Rosenthal Box" if you need an air purifier inside.

[nen-the-pigeon]

TL;DR landlord screw us over, we're moving out next month and cats need medical attention.

-15% ON ALL COMMS ABOVE €10

I'm setting up month-long sale on my VGen to hopefully afford moving expenses on top of rent and vet bills before I'm able to find a part-time job to sustain myself.

Please share, I appreciate all the help

[restinpiss]

The feeling of picking your skin is infinitely more euphoric than any fidget toy

[neonshroudedgraves]

Bluesky asks Texas users to verify their ages, citing new app store law

"Why do you need age verification on a site where everyone is 38?"

[psudopod]

Accursed Dirt Beast 🔞 (@aftermoles.bsky.social)

If anyone is getting smacked with this - just use deer.social or another alternate client. Bsky is just an AT Protocol Client, and your Bsk

I've been told that you can switch clients to avoid this, there are a few options other than deer.

Bluesky's age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it.

Bluesky's age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it. - bluesky-osa.md

There's also filters you can add to uBlock.

[poll-position]

You are given a short-lived curse in which you have a song stuck in your head for a week. On the bright side, you get to pick the song. Which do you choose?

American Pie (Don Mclean)

Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)

Cotton Eye Joe (Rednex)

Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)

Dancing Queen (ABBA)

Happy (Pharrell Williams)

Hot n Cold (Katy Perry)

Single Ladies (Beyonce)

Take Me Home Country Roads (John Denver)

Wannabe (Spice Girls)

We Didn’t Start The Fire (Billy Joel)

9 to 5 (Dolly Parton)

Voting ended onJul 16

[butterflypeaflowertea]

feeling this old mitski tweet so hard lately

[roscolux]

need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now

[tundrakatiebeanart]

Arf Farf Manday!! (Art fight Monday with my boyfriend l Captain_A_Haf) I’ve got: a mass attack to finish, a boyfriend to chat with, a jank stream set up, and a sleepy kitty with his butt pressed into my knee. Let’s rock 😎

[tundrakatiebeanart]

Art fight attack for my boyfriend! He did one for me after I drew his kobold so I gotta keep the revenge going!

This is a character he made specifically for this art fight, Elm, and another one of his characters as the card design, Pelora. This was the first text of my new acrylic markers and I really like them! I’ll probably use them a few more times this month if I can.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You have became this medieval role, how do you feel about it

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!

How do you feel?

great!! I love this

good!

It's okay

So bad. I hate this

This is similar to my real job!

Results/other

Remaining time: 11 hours 8 minutes

[goblinparty]

what percentage of the world's total chocolate consumption is amaury guichon personally responsible for

[tundrakatiebean]

I don’t know if he’s thought about it before but he looks concerned.

[brightmouth-deactivated20230417]

My spouse and I just had one of those “wait your brain works HOW?” exchanges, and now I am BURNING TO KNOW HOW IT WORKS FOR OTHER PEOPLE:

Fellow speakers of this feral bastard language (English), rb and tell me in the tags: what is the delineation for you, if any, between evening and night?

[hollanovhateai]

ohhh man. apparently when you copy+paste stuff directly from claude into ao3 it includes code. which anyone can find. people have found it in big, popular fics in multiple fandoms 😬. also heated rivalry; some of which the authors fervently denied using AI. link to thread.

link to their complete findings for those without twitter

[shinelikethunder]

welp. guess who's got two thumbs and just added

.font-claude-response-body { color: #B6FF00; }

to her custom site skin to turn all such text poison green

(mine is dark mode; if yours isn't, change the hex code to something darker like #5A7F00 or use background-color instead)