we should bring back titles so i have a polite way to address people without having to call a complete stranger by their personal name like some sort of creep
while i love bitcoin very much, it has been an economist's dream for proving to everyone the downsides of a deflationary currency
when i was a kid and couldn't afford a mac i would check out os x user guides from the library and read them straight through like books
gf is using text-to-speech bc sick and she has to type out the emoticons phonetically so it reads them correctly
being woke is about having a typing quirk. the more of a typing quirk you have the woker you are
one definite influence disco elysium has had on my political beliefs, it's made me start thinking of capital as a lot more fuckable
we should all aspire to the power and majesty of teenage emos who do their own piercings with a sewing needle
i am imagining that jean and harry are like horse and horse girl to each other (harry is the horse). you know how horses in the novels will bite and kick anyone but the horse girl because of the special bond they share? i like to imagine jean and harry are just like that, except harry is not nice to jean either :)
might get cancelled for this but i think the solution for being bad at art is to start drawing anime
i open mozilla firefox for the first time on a new computer and the first thing i see is a sponsored ad the headline of which contains a blatant falsity. and people wonder why it's not a popular browser!
Okay so what do you think is the best way to acquire a YAOI paddle. Obv can buy a wooden paddle but how do you print on wood like that. Sticker paper and an exacto knife? But I'd want glossy. Oh wait, I bet a craft store has letter stickers. It's all coming together
@discoursedrome said:
can't you just buy these online
that said if you want to make one yourself the ethical way is stencilled woodburning
you cant! also, the original yaoi paddle very clearly used some sort of sticker or printing, not stenciled woodburning
ANYWAY amazon does not seem to list paddles of this approximate shape. theres small square ones which are apparently a frat thing, but not thesr round ones with big fans...did the creator make custom paddles? like with woodworking? surely not. i really like this ratio of like half paddle half handle but it doesnt seem to exist, ittheyre iether mostly paddle or mostly handle. or way too short, these hae to be like at least two feet. someones gotta sell a paddle of these dimensions right
yeah, the main problem is the length, the original yaoi paddle was 2.5 feet long and much shorter than that becomes too..."silly", i guess? this one is the closest ive found so far, its the right length, altho the paddle part is a bit short
probably-blank vintage paddles, roughly the right shape and precisely the correct length: https://www.ebay.com/itm/325446688400 (and at least one website says you should varnish below as well as above custom designs, so you might not even need to strip the finish); there are also, for some reason, a wide variety of vintage paddles of this length, reasonably priced, though most of them have logos you'd need to remove
nicely-shaped unfinished wooden blanks available in 26" and 36": https://www.etsy.com/listing/842313446/natural-wood-paddles-oars-various-sizes (you'll probably want pine for the closest color match)
lovely wooden blanks available in 24" and 36": https://www.etsy.com/listing/713937389/free-shipping-aspen-wooden-canoe-paddle
adequate blanks available in 33", though you'll probably want to sand the edges rounder: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1136072220/unpainted-wooden-canoe-paddle
blanks from an actual paddle maker, the nicest of the lot by far except for only being available in 24": https://redtailpaddle.com/collections/redtail_paddle/products/24-unfinished
also of interest, i happened across a few sellers of laser-cut shapes in general (rather than paddles in specific) who take custom orders, so if none of the options on offer quite fit you could go that route to save yourself some woodcarving
complete spinning wheel kit with 3d-printed parts for $200 on etsy. progress really is democratizing access to technology.....


