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Was listening to an OST from Mask ending in Look Outside on repeat, had an urge to create my own cloaked creature
And well I called them Despair, like the name of the OST itself
Plus bg art
mmm. i wanna get kandi making supplies so i can do it more without just bumming off my friends and also so i can maybe sell stuff but also i feel like it kind of falls under the category of useless plastic junk small business disease. Do i want to contribute to this. but at the same time Anything handmade i do is gonna be made out of plastic junk ingredients in one way or another and at least it isn't getting made in a sweatshop or whatever. idk. but the beads probably are so does it actually matter that i made the bracelet myself? probably not. probably still bad. No ethical consumption or whatever. idk.
i feel like a hypocrite about this stuff cause half my friends are Small Business Convention Merch Selling Artists . and i don't say anything about them selling acrylic charms and enamel pins and shit. but it has been gnawing at me of late. i don't think i should be part of this. but if i'm not condemning the people around me who do it does it matter that i don't participate? it's hollow. And like they have to know right? They probably have ethical manufacturers or whatever though i've heard it's hard to find those. at least i tell myself that. But it's still all plastic junk in the end. The handmade stuffed animal is made of fake fur even if it wasn't mass produced. i should have spent the money on something else. i don't think we should be doing this. i don't know. if i go back on this later i'll be even more of a hypocrite won't i? it's 2 am. idk.
everything is plastic and i don't do anything about it. I don't say anything. i'm holding my plastic dog that i paid a friend a lot of money to make and it makes me happy and it makes me happy to support them but i didn't need it. i don't need any of these things. its disgusting. And this is all performative it's a show. do i actually mean it? Am i saying this so people online will tell me it's okay actually? its 2 am.
Develope carpal tunnel faster and embroider your fanart
See there’s also this like threshold with not plastic goods, usually you need to pay into it to even start let alone practice. Like I would say clay, but you would also need access to a kiln, you could try the weird flesh stuff and sacrifice it to the oven but honestly I think that’s plastic and oil
Best reasonable suggestion I can think of would be some sort of second hand mixed media or paper craft
ALTgetting this outta the way cause i simply cannot will myself to draw more malevolent fanart despite how much i love this podcast, and i keep forgetting i made it, i wish more people drew john with scarlet red wings like how the king is portrayed on the book, i think it adds a lot of flavor
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i hate that concerns about urban gardening/foraging safety is often met with "What are you, a cop?" scorn. I believe it's a suspicion of anything that hinders the punk/anti-system urgency to jump in immediately and do whatever feels right.
Safety, ethics, and sustainability are all a part of urban gardening and foraging. I'm sorry that means you need to do homework before you can do anything, I know that sounds lame. But life is complicated.
I know anti-intellectualism is viewed as activist these days, but like, surely you don't want to literally eat lead, right?
Let’s check in and see how those rascally solarpunk kids are doing, surely they’ve learned by now that…..
ALTDaily reminder: Leafy greens like kales uptake all those delicious heavy metals in urban soils like lead and cadmium.
Don’t eat sidewalk-crack kale.
Here's some cool references from the EPA on safe urban gardening:
ALTREUSING POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED LANDSCAPES: Growing Gardens in Urban Soils
Steps to Creating a Community Garden or Expand Urban Agriculture at a Brownfields Site
mmm. i wanna get kandi making supplies so i can do it more without just bumming off my friends and also so i can maybe sell stuff but also i feel like it kind of falls under the category of useless plastic junk small business disease. Do i want to contribute to this. but at the same time Anything handmade i do is gonna be made out of plastic junk ingredients in one way or another and at least it isn't getting made in a sweatshop or whatever. idk. but the beads probably are so does it actually matter that i made the bracelet myself? probably not. probably still bad. No ethical consumption or whatever. idk.
i feel like a hypocrite about this stuff cause half my friends are Small Business Convention Merch Selling Artists . and i don't say anything about them selling acrylic charms and enamel pins and shit. but it has been gnawing at me of late. i don't think i should be part of this. but if i'm not condemning the people around me who do it does it matter that i don't participate? it's hollow. And like they have to know right? They probably have ethical manufacturers or whatever though i've heard it's hard to find those. at least i tell myself that. But it's still all plastic junk in the end. The handmade stuffed animal is made of fake fur even if it wasn't mass produced. i should have spent the money on something else. i don't think we should be doing this. i don't know. if i go back on this later i'll be even more of a hypocrite won't i? it's 2 am. idk.
everything is plastic and i don't do anything about it. I don't say anything. i'm holding my plastic dog that i paid a friend a lot of money to make and it makes me happy and it makes me happy to support them but i didn't need it. i don't need any of these things. its disgusting. And this is all performative it's a show. do i actually mean it? Am i saying this so people online will tell me it's okay actually? its 2 am.
Develope carpal tunnel faster and embroider your fanart
See there’s also this like threshold with not plastic goods, usually you need to pay into it to even start let alone practice. Like I would say clay, but you would also need access to a kiln, you could try the weird flesh stuff and sacrifice it to the oven but honestly I think that’s plastic and oil
Best reasonable suggestion I can think of would be some sort of second hand mixed media or paper craft
FUCKING cotton craft, fucking cotton sculpture, I don’t actually know what it’s called I’ve only seen it a few times but you take raw cotton and like soak it? And layer it? Into a little sculpture and it can be stained and painted and it’s light and you use brushes to sculpt so probably less carpel tunnel
pom pom crabs are some of the most unethical animals in the ocean
this man is a serial abuser
His pom poms are two sessile invertebrates he holds in his hands and starves so he can punch stuff with anemones who are so desperate to eat that they’ll use maximum sting on anything that gets close to him. When they starve to death he just finds more
ACTUALLY, IT IS WORSE
The crabs will force the anemones to clone themselves if one dies OR steal others’ anemones if both die
They haven’t found these anemones in their free-living form, so, as far as we know, this anemone species is these crabs’ slave species—it’s only known in association with pom pom crabs
Cool paper on this: Schnytzer, Y., Giman, Y., Karplus, I., & Achituv, Y. (2017). Boxer crabs induce asexual reproduction of their associated sea anemones by splitting and intraspecific theft. PeerJ, 5, e2954. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2954
So if I understand this right, "slave species" is a biology term only used for this ONE SPECIFIC CREATURE OF ALL THE COUNTLESS LIVING ORGANISMS ON THIS ENTIRE PLANET?!
Oh, the slave species thing is outdated information from the original study in the 90’s. To be fair, that study is still very very respected, it was just wrong about this specific thing.
Their anemones aren’t a unique species, they are only visually distinct because the crab farms them in a very specific way - making a fragment of a larger hawaiian anemone, or finding a newly spawned one. When they carry it around, they force the anemone to adapt to an entire new lifestyle. The crab’s nocturnal behavior slowly kills the anemone’s photosynthetic symbionts, from which it gets its color. After that, the crab can control how much food the anemone actually gets by using it to mop up food off the sea floor, and take excess out of its mouth. Since it doesnt have to reach for sunlight, or reach to catch food, this encourages dense, but short tentacles.
The shortcoming of this study was just that its very hard to get the anemone away from the crab without killing both, and its equally hard to get an anemone to bounce back from this state.
Due to their introduction into home aquaria, we now know any anemone they take will end up in this state, (bubble tips, aipistasia, haitian anemones, the list goes on) and we also know they are not bound to carrying anemone’s specifically. They’ve been seen collecting zoanthids, palythoa, and euphyllia (though euphyllians usually don’t survive).