light bends around you

more flowers as a monday warm up because one of the shots i got the light was doing interesting things to the roses

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I have been experimenting with my art recently and I really liked how this turned out hehe

I have one of these!

This is precious and exactly what we all need.

These colours have a chockehold on me :’)

ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE + the onion headlines (2/?)

the group! :-)

me: *writes fic*

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Ooh, this is actually kinda a neat thing, because you can think of it as a checklist:

For example:

Thus, in less than 100 words:

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The Anatomy of Story by John Truby is a really good book by the by, if anyone’s interested in this sort of thing.

This is super helpful!’

I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.

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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?

Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.

Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.

What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.

Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.

You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.

When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.

Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.

It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!

I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.

Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.

Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

Absolutely stunning paper mosaic octopus by chronoperates (Alix Branwyn). Copyright Lantern Press.

Dragon Prints now available at my shop! $15 each, 3 for $40

some old-ish sketches doodled up when talking to @scoundrels-in-love about their fic hehe! Excited for when this happens >:3

I forgot sometimes I can literally just make my own shirts

Teeth shirt teeth shirt! 🦷 👕

IM WORKING ON GETTING AN INVENTORY OF THESE SHIRTS SO I CAN START A SHOP 🧡🧡🧡

Hers two more used organs designs

I’ll be doing custom orders as well

haven't posted this here yet

Testing out some new brushes and coloring styles on Procreate~

anyone else know in their heart that they would absolutely adore smoking cigarettes so they have to avoid them like the plague or just me

unfortunately smoking cigarettes does, in fact, looks sick as fuck. i'm not willing to risk lung cancer to look cool but the fact must be stated that smoking a cigarette looks dope as hell

the sky is the limit | by fairmaidnelly

Chris Pine as Edgin Darvis and Michelle Rodriguez as Holga Kilgore in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

And, now a word from the Washington State DNR.