"The Stars Are In Your Paws, Little One"

If your cat is curious abt what you're eating always let em have a lil whiff. 9/10 times they don't even wanna eat it they just wanted to know what it was. it's cute

*WWHEEZEE*

the writer’s urge to ask your friends “do you wanna see a little somethin’ i’ve been working on?” when the little somethin’ you’ve been working on is 800 words and ends in the middle of a sentence

It's PRIDE MONTH baby which means I am obligated to say:

happy pride to the transsexuals the leather community the aspecs the straight queers the mspec lesbians the intersex queers the queer people who have a cultural gender the fat queers the queers of colour the disabled queers and all the other queers who will be thrown under the bus by rainbow capitalism and white cis gays

Dear AO3 readers please know that if I do not reply to your comment it is because I am laying it on the ground and rolling in it like a cat in a flower bed

Comments are writer catnip

Mouch!

Tiktok SEEMS like it fills the same ecological niche as Tumblr circa 2014, but everything that happens on tiktok is the result of some multitrillion dollar conglomerate setting a Rube Goldberg machine I'm motion that makes people act insane , and this leads to an increase in profits for someone somehow. Tumblr was just good old fashioned mass hysteria.

“When someone on here stole human bones for a magic ritual it was because there was genuinely something wrong with them. If someone on tiktok did it it would be because they were trying to sell you shovels”

@clarascuro you can’t leave this in the replies

I’ve officially forgiven Dublin Bus for all the times they were late or never showed up cos the pride Bus they done with proud dads was the most wholesome thing i’ve ever seen in my life & i still can’t watch it without tearing up omfg

i thought i could keep it together but i lost it at “let’s go to pride, son” 

I too lost it at that part

I’m not crying.

You’re crying.

Okay, fine, everyone is crying.

Anyway here’s a poem I wrote about my cat

After “Do not stand at my grave and weep”, author disputed:

Do not stand at your bowl and meow. I gave you food. It’s in there now. I feed you at the dawning light, I feed you at the fall of night. I feed you kibbles mixed with meat And wet food for a special treat. I feed you even though you scoff At all the food within your trough. I feed you and still yet you yell Like as a beast from deepest hell. Do not stand at your bowl and cry. I gave you food. You will not die.

the ao3 lyric video strikes again

THIS HAD NO BUSINESS BEING AS FUCKING HILARIOUS AS IT WAS

"Vegan Leather"

Plastic. just say plastic.

How dare you leave this in the notes

yea

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

This year’s issue of Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is mythology themed, so I wanted the cover critter to be a weird take on an extremely recognizable legendary beast.

The marsupial griffin is my shot at that, a large flying carnivore with a rear-facing pouch like a thylacine. Its unusual front incisors are continuously growing like rodent teeth, but exposed like a beak— nursing young have a gap in between them, but as they wean into sub-adults the gap closes and the teeth grow to a sharp hook for tearing into meat and carrion. Their thumbed hind feet somewhat resemble a primate’s, but with a set of sharp talons for capturing and gripping prey.

Our cover for this volume was illustrated by @ibenkrutt, who really knocked this design out of the park. If you’d like to support our contributing artists and acquire the zine, you can check out the campaign over here!

https://zoop.gg/c/almostrealvol5

Griffin Migration, 2022

Wrap-around cover for the Almost Real Zine (Vol. 5 - Mythology). As a long-time fan of the zine, it was a true honour to work on this!

Campaign is available through Zoop here. Editors of Almost Real are Hye Mardikian and Jay Eaton (@jayrockin) of Fortuna Media. 

(a poem I made from comments about The Baby)

Video games are simultaneously the best medium for morally complex narratives because it’s harder for the player to distance themselves from the situation and come to a smug outsider’s conclusion than it would be with other mediums but also the worst option because most gamers are fucking idiots.

I was gonna just post screencaps of the twitter thread I made the other night but because of how it's formatted, I think it would be best to just make a text post feat. some additional 3AM anxiety-induced rambling from me. This is sort of an addendum to this post on shader mixing. I'd read that post first before reading this one as the concepts in this post rely heavily on the concepts from that post.

Anyway, let's talk about the most overlooked - and imo one of the most important - aspect of Destiny fashion: cohesion.

Many outfits I see often made by players (myself included) focus solely on a particular aesthetic on their armor, even if that aesthetic doesn't actually work with the armor or shaders they're using. The result ends up being an outfit that, while it does it's job making your Guardian presentable when you're trying to grind or just do things, ends up being rather unappealing when you're focusing purely on aesthetics. These outfits lack cohesion.

So, what's cohesion? Cohesion is how well each armor piece flows between one another. This usually involves making details like lines line up with one another or finding armor pieces with similar patterns, details or motifs.

See how the lines in the thigh parts of the leg lines up with the lines on the stomach? Or how there's many simple gold metal parts in the mark, chest, arms and helmet? That's cohesion at work!

Or look at this outfit. Notice the repetition in the shapes - lots of simplistic curves and color blocks for the blue and purple parts, with the grey parts in the pants and stomach serving more as accents.

In its simplest form, its approaching Destiny fashion with the belief of making a whole greater than the sum of its parts - and making the outfit you create stand on its own.

Now, how can cohesion be achieved? It's achieved through the deliberate choices in armor pieces and shaders - and by extension, through shader mixing. This is very much an appearance-based goal, so the best thing you can do is experiment with what you have and take notice of the materials armor pieces have.

Let's look at this outfit. It has a focus on lots of leather and cloth materials as well as simple geometrical lines to give a casual Guardian look of sorts. We can incorporate the presence of the leather on the top part of the chestpiece by using the fully leather Intrepid Discovery Grips in a matching leather tone. To further the cohesion of the uncolorables, I took the color of the seafoam pouches and used it in the chest and legs, and the orange in the Hunter logo in the cloak and mask.

As much as we all loathe uncolorable parts, these parts provide a great opportunity for creating cohesion. However, this relies on leaning on the aesthetic of the uncolorable parts - though this limits what you can do with the outfit, using a cohesion-based approach as opposed to explicitly an aesthetic-based will prevent your outfits from having that mish-mashed appearance when using armor with uncolorable pieces.

Here's an outfit I made that really exemplifies this point. There's a lot of uncolorables with this Winter's Guile ornament. While we can't have that icy appearance on the one arm directly, we can emulate it using shiny light blue metals like the ones in Xenosilver and Laguna Cruiser on super spiky armor like the Corrupting Echo Robes. The green bands are also uncolorable, so to maintain cohesion, I chose to go with one of the leveling string bonds to further incorporate it into the outfit.

This is admittedly kinda vague and just me breaking down armor sets to show the methodology in making them, but I hope this helps in better understanding cohesion :)