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[thejewellerybox]

Gannet Diving necklace by Rie Taniguchi

[thckskulll]

[wombwarriors]

[batmanbeyondrocks]

Menswear modelled by Black Men

Creative Director Rock Mitchell

Credit: BLK Culture@blkculture_ via Rock Mitchell (@rockmitchell)

[achillesinhighheels]

janicemascarenhass via IG

[theplantqueer]

[ID: Janice, a brazilian artist, drifting in the street with their wheelchair, with sparks flying out behind them and a whole rig of speakers modded onto the chair. The back of the chair says "Chillwave cripple punk". They're in a brown halterneck and ripped jeans, with braids and metal pieces attached like arm braces. /end ID]

[setulose]

This is a staunchly pro-bug zone. I may have contentious relationships with the ones that enjoy eating me or my food but that's life baby. The great web...

[iingezo]

Osorin for @drunkforestnymph !

[iingezo]

+ alt palette !

[yuriartillery]

nice mechanical watches are wasted on wealthy men. a billionaire who will wear it once every four years and leave it in a case the rest of the time doesnt deserve a marvel of engineering like that. *i* deserve a watch like that because i get sexually aroused by clockwork

[embers-braincells]

jokes on you, i have a mechanical watch with transparent windows, which means i can see it ticking, and it (the watch) is just as sexy as you think

[yuriartillery]

you really are out of your league here on all counts. look up the vianney halter deep space resonance and understand my suffering

[embers-braincells]

oh dear god you are right, i need that watch carnally

[sentient-tent]

For anyone who needed to see her in motion.

[anx1ous-op0ssum]

We have to get normal porn back on this hellsite

[doorstoplord]

Hey y’all wanna see the worlds most appropriately unhinged phantom of the opera as it came up on my FYP?

[juju-fisher]

Watch carefully, it's subtle.

[ruffboi-mags]

I literally just spent 2 minutes with my head on my desk weeping with laughter holy shit

[yutaan]

Papercraft Rumi!! I busted out the holographic rainbow mirror paper for her patterns, glitter and shimmery silver stars for her hair, glitter pens for her makeup, and sequins for the background sparkles. This girl shines!

I may have pulled up a little late to the KPop Demon Hunters party but the party is INDEED as delightful as everybody said!!! The soundtrack has been playing on repeat in my head and in my headphones for the past week. :D

[clevermanka]

King Arthur Flour is getting boycotted—after conservatives discover it has a baking program for people of color

King Arthur Baking Company is coming under fire for holding a competition exclusively for people of color-owned businesses and brands.

According to the company’s website, “Baking Pitchfest 2024” offers a product edition geared toward baking brands founded and owned by people of color across the U.S., and a bakery edition, which focuses on people of color-owned bakeries in the Northeast and Washington state. “Half mentorship, half competition, Baking Pitchfest is an accelerator program designed to foster greater inclusivity and creativity in the baking world by providing equitable opportunities for People of Color entrepreneurs,” the website states, adding that winners will receive financial support, mentorship, and exposure. But the initiative has generated outrage amongst conservatives online, who have blasted the competition eligibility rules as discriminatory against white people.

One X user critical of King Arthur Baking’s contest posted an email she received from the company in response to her complaining. “Helping build joyful, equitable communities that celebrate diversity is an important part of who we are as a company,” the email states, later adding: “We love baking with anyone and everyone. Our simple expectation is that everyone show respect for one another.”

[vrumblr]

Time to buy more King Arthur Flour!

[alienbooknose]

If you need more reason to support them, they’re worker owned.

Why employee ownership matters

Since 2004, King Arthur has been 100% employee owned. As a result, our company is built on a foundation of transparency and collaboration, a

Also they actually are working on regenerative agriculture:

The flour of the future

This new whole wheat flour is an innovative blend of unique wheat varieties bred to be more tolerant of the planet's changing climate.

Also they do blog articles about adaptive baking:

Baking with chronic fatigue? We've got tips for conserving energy in the kitchen.

Baking more than usual during the holidays can aggravate symptoms of chronic fatigue. So when the baking bug bites, here are some strategies

[acrelion]

You know, way too often I find articles talking about how the maker of some product I use is actually Evil. It's really nice to get the opposite.

[thememedaddy]

[unpretty]

would it have cost extra to steal this post in color or what

[memewhore]

[librarian-raichu]

Finally, an adolescent that looks like how adolescence feels.

[connortheconceded]

same guy

[themonsterghost]

been thinkin about NiGHTS lately

[themonsterghost]

thanks for the love yall, really happy to see there's still a lot of love for our favorite jester 💜

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

Like. People are learning mandarin to join this social media site. I’m not joking. There are tutorials going around to show people who don’t speak Mandarin how to sign up for this app. They’re all talking about how they’d rather learn a new language than join instagram reels and it is not a thought in ANYONE’S mind that tumblr is also potentially an option

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

To be clear im not mad about this. I’d rather see a generation of people learn a new language and engage in cross cultural connections than have a wave of tiktokers flood this app but I still think this whole thing is very funny

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

no because that is quite literally what is happening on Red Book right now like. All of the Chinese users went “hey why are there suddenly a gazillion Americans on here?” to which the Americans went “they’re banning TikTok and we’re moving out of spite” and the Chinese were like “oh cool send us pictures of your cats and help us with English homework and we’ll send you pictures of our cats and help you learn Mandarin” and as far as I can tell everyone is having a genuinely very nice time together.

[mariacallous]

[greatpoetryfun-deactivated20260]

Friendly reminder as we head into tax season (for US Americans), that the major tax preparation companies are fully prepared to lie and mislead you into paying for their tax preparation software when you might qualify for free software through the IRS.

Don’t fall for their bullshit. Visit IRS Free File and see what services are available to you. The requirements vary depending on your household status and income, but if you make less than $79,000/year (which is nearly everyone I know), you probably qualify for something.

[rat2rrj]

HR block also did this shit to me, fuck em

[bcnnibeau-deactivated20200330]

we really devolved as a society when we stopped using fully painted pictures on romance novels and started using cheap photoshop instead 

[bcnnibeau-deactivated20200330]

case in point

this is a Hell of a downgrade 

[garbage-empress]

worst crime capitalism ever committed was eliminating Horny Oil Painter as a viable career option.

[higglety]

I went down a rabbit hole this summer researching romance novel covers and painting fanart in this style and

this is an EXTREMELY fun style to work in, and also

many of the most iconic romance novel covers you’re probably picturing when you think “classic painted romance novel cover” were produced by one prolific, masterful artist

Her name was Elaine Duillo, and she had a long and extremely productive career spanning from the mid 60’s to her retirement in 2003. She worked mainly in acrylics.

She did illustration work in other genres as well, but she really found her niche in romance novels. She pretty much redefined the aesthetic conventions of the genre, popularizing male models and male nudity and sexualizing men to cater to the female gaze in a way that simply wasn’t the norm before her work. You know Fabio? she’s the one who started using him as a model, and essentially launched his career. And honestly, just look at her work:

magnificent

[sindri42]

Wait shit, she retired in 2003? I think that’s exactly when I started seeing shitty photoshops on all the new romance novel covers.

She was literally carrying the entire industry single-handed and then they just did not replace her.

[assassinregrets]

she just died this year back in july. rip beefcake queen

[cascanora]

Is this my time to pick up the mantle? I’d never be able to live up to her skills but—

[curioscurio]

i'll do it for sam

[curioscurio]

And when there was only one pair of footprints in the sand, that's when Samwise Gamgee carried me

[tinyjordan]

[tinyjordan]