[Submission] Day 836: 🐢 & 🍓
I love it when my creativity spurs other creativity. literally no better feeling as an artist than when someone looks at something you’ve made and goes “I saw this and liked it so much I could do nothing more with myself than turn it into drive for my own creativity” like that’s really what creativity is huh!! an instrument to further human expression and community and connection
It sucks that people are treating the Reddit blackout as a joke or assuming it's impotent rage over a minor decision bc it's Reddit when like. No, a tech company shutting down access to their API by forcing third-party devs to pay completely unreasonable fees ($12,000 per 50 million API requests, which to the largest third party clients would be tens of millions of dollars) and in the process destroying both accessibility apps and moderation tools is Bad Actually
Also, this is the death of forums part 2. Forums died in web 1 because it was more convenient to gather on larger social media platforms, like reddit. Reddit is used by a lot of people to find answers to obscure questions that are written by humans and not advertizers or bot. Now reddit is imploding, and a lot of the useful communities (like the 3d printing one) are moving to discord, which makes it impossible for non members to find the answers they need.
We need to bring forums back in a better way, where they are convenient to use and affordable to host, or we will lose the ability to find humans on the internet with answers
Shamelessly poaching someone elses idea, social media poll but the options arent solely geared 2wards 15 year olds
Reblog 4 a bigger sample size dadada you know how it is w polls
Before you post, think:
- Is it groovy
- Is it smashing, baby
- Is it shagedelic
- Does it give you mojo
- Does it make others randy
man this is like the worst year for tech and websites
discord is forcing a username change that no one wants, twitch nearly banned sponsored streams, imgur is banning NSFW and removing old pics, reddit is restricting their API usage and killing off all mobile apps, apple introducing some shitty overpriced AR headset, the amount of fuckups twitter is doing i cant even count on my own two hands its all becoming too much i hate technology i hate you silicon valley
tumblr has been desperately pushing its merch and digital cosmetics with flashing gifs and popup ads. some of these products feature user-made jokes & content, repackaged without compensation or credit. tumblr live cannot be turned off for longer than a week, and might’ve inadvertently revealed underage users’ locations to strangers. flashy promotions (like the y2k thing) are getting more invasive and obnoxious, and might even trigger epilepsy in some cases. the mobile app remains barely functional, and plays loud ads unprompted half the time when i open it. pornbots remain rampant, and cleanup on your end now often involves scrolling past actual porn gifs in order to block them. one of the tumblr staff members is a die-hard potterhead. social media platforms are all corporate products. they’re all run by inept businessfolk who will go to bizarre and troubling lengths to try and squeeze a profit out of your favorite website. they’re not your friends. tumblr is no exception.
I know I'm biased when I say prints are boring. I was raised in a home full of prints, that all the quilters in my family use prints, and my ADHD and autistic brain needs thr visual stimulation prints provide. It just saddens me when I see so many quilters flat-out refuse to use prints.
There was a discussion I had with several quilters, many of whom wouldn't use prints. The answers in the poll are the reasons they gave me for not using prints. Here are a few tips I offered them, and more than one of the quilters has started including prints in their work:
- Choose a print appropriate for the size of the pieces. Big prints get lost in small pieces, especially those with big spaces between sections of the print. I have a fabric with big fish on it and lots of white space between the fish. Cutting it up would result in lots of white space if I used it for small pieces.
- Choose one print and work around it. Make that fabric the star of the show, and all solids are supporting roles. Or use the print as a background for the solids. Choose your solids based on the colors of the print.
- Use blenders instead of prints. Grunge, monotone prints (one color with various shades), hint-of-a-prints, anything other than prints.
- Get collections of fabric with prints. A stack of fat quarters made to go together? They have the same dyes and everything will match. These collections tend to have blenders and hint-of-a-print included if the main prints are especially bold.
- Get a quilt kit with prints. Many kits include fabric with the pattern, and you'll be using said fabric. Most I've seen are mostly prints, and following the instructions included will teach you how to work with prints.
- Look up the Litany Against Fear. See about setting it up in your work area so you will see it. Carry it with you on a card or something small when you shop for fabric. Recite it daily. Face and conquer your fear of prints.
anyway in case you don’t know it yet
the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in a body that is so so so so tired
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y'all are worried about a surveillance state all while filming strangers in public for clicks and clout... baby you ARE the surveillance state!
I'm SO glad we decided to wait until the Sunny and Luna two-pack releases to get Sunny and Luna dolls. They're perfect.
Audre Lorde to her students during a poetry workshop, as shown in A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson
do you ever think about how a series of tiny choices like "I guess I'll watch that show" can like totally and entirely change huge aspects of your life
rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3
opens box that reads "i wanna draw again". inside lies a note. the note says, "mental illness and difficult circumstances have taken years of interest, accessibility, and skill away from me. i want to forgive myself for that. i want to heal my relationship to my hobbies. i want to feel connected to something that once made me feel good, but the cyclic discouragement is difficult to overcome." i turn over the note. on the back it reads "wannta drawe sexy bodies awooga"
seems like this one really resonated with the artists who dont do art fandom
i saw a girl on tiktok who put her salt lamp in the dishwasher and didn’t realize it would dissolve, and it’s been on my mind for like 3 days
thank god i screen shot it
damn parents really be taking it personally when you say you don’t want kids