Important hot tip for literally anyone purchasing art

If an artist you rly like doesn’t have a public commission sheet or perhaps you have an odd but reasonable request your best friend will be “I will gladly compensate you for your time.” Literally the moment an artist sees that you’re actually going to pay them for whatever weird request you’ve got, they’re like a million percent more likely to respond positively to whatever your weird request is. For example: I love birds, and I was seeking out a nice state bird cross stitch pattern that wasn’t too complicated. I found one I liked on Etsy, but it was actually selling the finished product (a gorgeous quilt for about $2000) and not the charts, which was what I wanted. No problem! I messaged the seller and said “hi! I love your beautiful quilt, but I am actually interested in the cross stitch charts. Do you still have them? I would be more than happy to compensate you for the trouble.” I have no doubt that this lovely woman has been demanded for free labor countless times. It has happened to every quilter on planet earth. She told me that she would mail me HER ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN CHARTS for about $30, since she drafted them herself and wasn’t planning on making another quilt. I gladly sent $50 her way and told her she could just scan them for me if that was easier for her. Artists are, by and large, lovely people who want to help you. Please, just promise them that you will fucking compensate them for their time and labor.

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Same here, same here…they also expect me to stand in the kitchen and watch their back when they are eating, or a horrible monster can get them. 😱

As a boomer I say - most of the above, true.

My family (and families of my school friends) would have a fit if I wouldn’t go for an university education. Lucky me that I got in, somehow apparently and mysteriously doing better than 11 other people on the entrance exams. BUT, thanks to our evil communist government and our taxes, no student debt whatsoever. 🤷🏼

I also did not get participation trophies, not happening at the time. Just as well.

These lies, with slight variations, are presently sold in more and more countries 🤬

stop saying "gen z brought back bush-era purity politics" i grew up in the bush era and even then people weren't saying that you're a sex addict for having boring marital sexual congress in the same house as your children. this is just plain unhinged

Literally almost every millennial I know has a memory of accidentally walking in on their parents or hearing their parents having sex. It's fucking normal. Human beings have sex. Your parents fuck. Get over it. Being weird about it isn't healthy.

I really loved Robert Evans’s response to this

Robert Evans is right. “Attempts to make children avoid all potentially unpleasant stimuli” are ineffective. Shit will inevitably happen. Raise a resilient kid, able to deal with weird and unpleasant experiences. Shortly after I was told in class, by a sex ed professional what an exhibitionist is and does, I’ve met one on the street. A classical one, in an open trench coat, waving the sausage at me. I was 12. It was a lot less weird and traumatizing because I had the information; I remember shrugging it off.

FFS, not every unpleasant event will scare you for life.

As for “do you really need sex that badly” - yes, sometimes you do. Or is it one more argument for not having children?

With the right taxation there would be no fucking billionaires 🤬

This is a permanent bags under eyes kinda post

Like & share if you have permanent bags under your eyes!!!

No bags, but dark circles, which appeared at some point in time, who knows why (I don’t). More pronounced under the right eye. I sleep on the left side. 🤷🏼🤔😕

[June 9, 2023] South African firefighters arrive in Edmonton to relieve Canadian crews

A lovely moment in the sobering new reality of climate change. The solidarity of international firefighting crews is something I know as a Californian, with Australians and Americans/Canadians assisting one another during the opposite hemisphere's summer, but this is the first time the South Africans have left home (even as it's the first time Canada has dealt with this much fire).

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/edmonton-welcomes-south-african-firefighters-arriving-to-help-with-wildfire-efforts

Thank you guys, thank you 🙏🏼🥹💖

Is he wrong, tho?

He’s 100% right. I worked with consultants, and almost (but not quite) became one.

They go to meetings and they say what everyone knows already, only in a more incomprehensible language, using the latest management buzzwords. They need to stay on top of the latest buzzwords, and be good at PowerPoint. They are hired to validate, justify and confirm whatever the senior management wants to do, especially when they want to lay off people. They charge a lot of money per hour, so whatever they say must be true.

My last employer hired two consultants for a Very Important Project I was involved in. The were from Another Country, and had such a strong accent in English that I understood maybe 25% of what they were saying. One day I confessed this to my boss, thinking “it’s me, English is my second language, how embarrassing”. She waved her hand and said “don’t worry, nobody understands them”.

Actually, in my entire career there was one who actually helped with a project, and one who dared to contradict what the management wanted to do.

The solution to homelessness is housing.

Housing, not policing and harassment!

Didn’t I say… Merfolk everywhere!!! 🤗

The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty // 成化十四年

One of the best and most entertaining dramas I’ve watched in while. I highly recommend it

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So happy I’ve found this amazing artist! She’s so talented 🥰🥹

OCs Bailin (white arctic merman) and Li Yun (Arctic explorer)

Read the full comic on webtoon!

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go and read everyone just go

Bailin and Li Yun (OCs for my merman comic)

Study based on Ugolino and His Sons by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.

Some serendipity is happening, mermaids, mermen and merpeople of all kinds are popping everywhere while I’m painting a mer-cat.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS

reblog for noises

I would download tiktok if it was only cat pov

Better than most tv

UNMUTE!

OMG OMG OMFG OMG 🥹🥹🥹

My cats have a bedtime and a get up time, and sometimes they generously let me sleep in.

Jesus!

From CBC: “On Friday, federal Justice Minister David Lametti said he was open to outlawing residential school denialism with similar criminal and civil measures to those used to punish people who deny, minimize or condone the Holocaust” - he shouldn’t be “open”. It should be implemented NOW. As a Canadian, I’m deeply ashamed.