“Yeah but like you probably at least use chatgpt for—” let me stop you right there. I don’t even know what chatgpt is, software wise. Is it a desktop program, a website, an app? No fucking idea.

Don’t have any desire to find out, either.

I live by the motto, “if you can’t buy what you want, make it.” And this motto came to life recently in the form of a floral mosaic dining table for my back deck.

Our deck table had been showing its age already when the wind caught the umbrella and cracked it. I wanted to replace it with a mosaic table because I’d been enjoying that art form recently. But I couldn’t get one the size I wanted so I got creative.

I spent a few weeks looking for tile and figuring out a very loose design concept. I started by picking a limited set of tile shapes and a color palette.

Once the tiles arrived I had a piece of particle board cut to size for the base and I experimented with different motifs until I settled on a selection of floral shapes that gave me plenty of variety to fill space without locking me into one repeating pattern.

And then I was off! I basically doodled my way around the table, attaching tiles with Weld Bond (I went through 4 full bottles!) and rocking out to the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack.

Once the florals were done it was time for the background…

Over 3,800 1cm glass tiles make up the not-design part of the design. It went pretty quickly though because I just had to fill the space, leaving room for grout.

Once I had the tile done, my husband assisted with disassembly and reassembly. We used the legs off the original table for this one (waste not).

One huge bucket of black grout later…

She is finished.

I enjoyed making it and just looking at it makes me so happy - I can’t wait for all the dinners we’ll have around this table 🌼❤️

we're fucked

Edit: also applies to contacts btw

Link

What a thirst trap!!!

making a collection

hmmm. bnugny

People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.

The Scene. You know the one

I wonder if “we have to torture this special character. in the lab facility. with secret science.” is an interest all 12-year-old children share or were we just the generation exposed to Maximum Ride

it’s my firm believe that fem!Percy Jackson’s name wouldn’t be Persephone, Percy/Persy for short. Yes I know it’s an easy name to come to, because there’s a built-in “Percy”, and it’s a mythological name that can work in the modern era.

But like. In universe. In-universe, the reason Perseus Jackson is named that, is because Sally Jackson wanted to name her son after a hero with a happy ending. And arguably Persephone didn’t have a happy ending, depending on how modern of an interpretation you take of her story etc etc.

Also, something I never see considered is that like… Persephone is an Actual God who presumably would find out at some point that Poseidon’s kid is named after her. Why on earth world Sally draw Persephone’s, and more specifically Hades’ attention to her daughter like that? Bad move. Nobody would like that.

Anyways. This is my argument for fem!Percy’s name to be Penelope, for the woman who held Ithaca by outwitting her suitors for twenty years and whose entire family survived her story. That’s pretty impressive for a Greek myth. And she can have the nickname Penny as a treat.