Small(er) Gods

We sit to praise our pantheon,        Hands clasped in thread and steel. For powers deftly laid upon,        The needle, hook or wheel.

Benevolent though some may be,        More love to steer astray. They’ll gift your pins to gravity,        Or keep fused threads at bay.

Some take their tithe in first cloth cut,       The smoothest, cleanest snip. Yet others drink the pin-prick blood,       From scars on fingertips.

The brave may seek their council still,       For pins lost or purls dropped. They’ll not shy from uneven quilts,       Or loops that come unlocked.

Though guidance they will offer plain,       With payment clear as glass, Be wary of the terms explained,       Lest tangled knots stay fast.

But still their songs are heard and felt,        In heartbeats punched and sewn. Machine beat drowning prayers that tell,        You’ll not create, alone.

someone on my discord made a joke about a guy named fab rick which sounds like a house god for fabrics and then this happened  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Java Sparrow ✨

I can’t remember if I shared the wheelbarrow photoshoots but here’s Peppercorn 🥺💙

This is literally a goddamn relic at this point

BETTER FIND ANOTHER SUPERSTITION!

playing around with some new designs!

i'm gonna be making stickers of this for june's ouija board mail on my patreon — patrons can vote here on which version is their favorite for the sticker! i'll also be making buttons of this design at some point.

Ice delivery man in Houston, TX circa 1920 Check this blog!

why did he eat this 

#the hip pop… the cigarettes in the hat…#how many kids from pre-electric refrigeration look suspiciously like this guy I wonder…#POV: You are a bored housewife whose husband is constantly away on business trips and barely looks at you when he gets home#and this guy is rolling up to your house on like a weekly basis with a block of ice and his WWI thousand yard stare

Historian finishing a dissertation on the ice industry here. For once, I am not here to take away your joy!  “Oh no, the ice man is too sexy and he’s going to fuck my wife while I’m not home” was a legit moral panic for DECADES. So much so that if you were fancy, you could get an icebox built into your wall so the dirty, sexy ice man didn’t have to come inside your house with your delicate, impressionable wife.  This pic is going in the diss if I can chase down the correct citation for it.

I am absolutly obsessed with the way these three are arranged in the latest update. Like:

Tarvek has Agatha, who in turn has Gil, who flaks Agatha's other side. It really is the Heterodyne and her two men off to face a god queen.

soft taco

Late birthday gift for a friend of mine! She happens to do modeling on the side and I asked previously if I could use her photos as reference to draw a few sonic characters in some of her outfits in the future. Been having a lot of fun doing these grayscale character sketches. Below is the reference image for this dress:

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

Transphobes often say gender is like a coin, either heads or tails. They're more right than they realize.

Gender is a coin. Everybody is given one at birth, and they're given it either heads or tails. You can flip it over. You can flip it back. You can keep flipping it all you want. You can balance it on its side. You can throw it away. You can get a new one. You can take it to the zoo or museum to one of thise penny press machines. You can melt it and reform it. You can keep it melted. You could even take someone else's. You can glue fun things to it. You can paint it. You can take the paint off. You can trade them for cool shit.

Transphobes often say gender is a coin. They say this not realizing how easily coins can be changed.

Attack on @painted-bees 💥

I love Theo 🥰

Sweatbox 2: Electric Boogaloo?

I disagree that periods *aren't* gross, but they're also no more gross than other bodily fluids and waste like urine, feces and vomit. Sometimes life is gross and that's nothing to be ashamed of. If you treat periods any differently from the above then that's a problem and a double standard.

some people have responded to this saying "period blood is as sanitary as venous blood" which, yes is true, but you still wouldn't want to sit in it on the bus or something, ESPECIALLY since blood-borne illnesses could still be transferred this way. Also, same with urine, while it is "sterile" inside of your body, the openings of your body are not! Once it leaves your body it has already been contaminated by the germs and bacteria around your genitals. The whole point is that, bodies are kinda gross, and that's ok. Having an accident or a bleed-through happens and it's nothing to be ashamed of, but it also isn't a pleasant experience for anyone involved and thats! okay!

The moment period blood becomes this "sacred, holy substance", that's when you get into misogynist, new-age trad bullshit that's usually also ableist and transphobic.

Period blood is just blood. If someone next to you on the subway started bleeding, sure, you might get squeamish, but you'd want to help them right? Same with a bleed-through.

It's okay to be concerned about the hygiene of period blood, because after all, it's bodily fluids. It's just not okay to treat people who menstruate like they're dirty or shameful. You wouldn't treat someone with a nosebleed like that, right?

Just....stop treating period blood like it's different, whether it's treating it like it's shameful or sacred. Both stigmatize menstruation and lead to harm.

Also as someone with experience in reusable pads, period blood decays like any blood and it can smell SO BAD when you rinse it out. This is completely normal and fine but like any bodily fluid it doesn't smell great and that needs to be said. It doesn't make it gross it just makes it blood and like anything it decays and all decay pretty much snells bad in some way. That's just how it is!

I was gonna draw something more serious but sometimes u just gotta draw memes

Yesterday the 12th of May was Fibromyalgia awareness day. I'm a little late uploading it, but spreading awareness is being done nonetheless. Lots of love for my chronic pain people!! <3

I get missing the Honeymoon Phase of the relationship once you're out of it but like what is a relationship if not Hanging Out. There is no higher form of love, of human connection, than Hanging Out. Why would you ever give up on that. All of mankind's endeavors, the very instinct wired into us as biological creatures, all of it points towards the holiness inherent to Just Chilling With Someone

i think that ghosts can and should decay. i think they should blur and fade, like a tape rewound too many times, or a photograph taken out and unfolded and then refolded again until it's nothing more than a vaguely recognizable smear of what was once a snapshot of time and memory. i think that clinging too tightly to a ghost should only destroy it faster, eroding it away until there's nothing left to hold on to.

one of those time travel AUs where Vader goes back into his body as Anakin before he fell to the dark side and fixes everything. Palpatine is dead, the Jedi are alive, and everyone's happy. He never found out who Luke's twin sister was, but that's fine because this time around he'll get to know both of them from birth. The twins are born and Padmé says she wants to name their daughter Leia! :) And Anakin thinks, Hmm. Looking back I can see that Princess Leia was a good person, and we were only enemies because I went and became a Sith. Okay we can name our daughter Leia :)

Years pass and Leia starts growing older. The Organas adopt a completely different girl. Anakin's looking at his daughter like no, it can't be. No way. Do NOT tell me that Princess Leia was Luke's twin all along, but time keeps passing and it becomes increasingly apparent that this is indeed the case, and now he's having a Crisis

apparently I'm physically incapable of posting an au and then not drawing something for it