humbling

people saying "write what you want to see in the world!" and that's always a good sentiment but this post isn't really about "oh no there's no content for my ship", more the feeling of "i looked up something that i thought was so obvious that surely plenty of more seasoned ao3 perverts would have thought of it already, but apparently i'm the weird one"

do you guys ever like forget you’re interested in something until you start engaging with it again and you go “oh wait i’m like crazy crazy about this yeah”

*bravely* i think more things should be about women

i think this also

Big Sur, California by Nick Hambleton

Hope for the democratic party?

Pupys donot clebrate holidays for peopls pupies have own holiiday like Puppy day on January 14th

comptop is a transmisogynistic dynamic that exists and is good to be aware of, but I don't think the correct response is to assume any given trans woman you encounter is in need of being Saved From Topping

what if you didn't assume what she wants, and instead listened to her as her own woman with her own particular needs and interests

please. can we please not assume out of the gate that she needs to hear the Good News about bottoming, or pathologize her if she does enjoy topping, or make assumptions about her relationships/partners

again, it's good to be aware of comptop, but I don't think this is the right course-correction to make

it's missing the "don't assume, listen to her" forest for the comptop trees

It’s really crazy to see how hard people flounder if you are even remotely confrontational like we have a generation of people who think they can communicate through passive aggressive games of telephone and insta stories and get scared if you tell them no. This sounds like something someone’s boomer grandpa would say but it’s true though

end of january affirmations

im not doing anything wrong and no one is mad at me

there must be a place for me in this world because here i am

my art doesnt suck

instagram is nothing to me

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.

Do you guys remember this, literally what was it for? it feels like a fever dream because there’s no explanation

I vividly remember this because I got an alert on my phone that a clown was spotted close to university campus

someone reported you on your way to class?? 😧

My girlfriend @aorryn47 and I are on the couch cuddling and they’re sniffing all up in my neck. Then they laughingly said, “It’s because I’m a werewolf.”

And I very seriously looked at them and said “if you were a werewolf and hadn’t bitten me by now this deep into our relationship I’d be so pissed.”

“Okay, calm down, I’m not actually a werewolf.”

“If you WERE a werewolf you’d be in deep shit. We could be running around howling at the moon every month? Are you kidding me??”

“I am NOT a werewolf.”

“Better not be.”

Please don't let transphobes win, please get your hrt and be your honest self!

It's ethical to call every "cis boy" a girl actually. When she likes it, you just helped a girl discover she's a girl! Otherwise, well, theres always next time...