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People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider's webs. It's not.

Source: @CrowsFault on X

Been wanting to make a set for this quote since November. May the 4th (a day celebrating hope and resistance) seemed like a good day to finally finish it and post it. I think we could all use a little bit of Supergirl's hope in the world we're living in.

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I know everyone is pretty much in survival mode and not really spending money on non-essentials, but I have to keep trying. This goal helps pay for my groceries, bills, and pet stuff (including my senior dogs meds).

Any help would be super appreciated.

I've got a shop with ttrpg and other accessories if you'd like something in return for your support.

I also take custom cosplay prop commissions. My comms are open on both Etsy and Kofi

Prices are lower via Kofi because the selling fees are lower on that platform. I only keep the Etsy shop open because more people are there than Kofi.

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New shop drop!! I think these trays are the perfect size if you want one to roll in but have limited space on your tabletop. I've got two available for now.

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Being an independent crafter/small business owner is rough these days. I've set up a monthly goal on my kofi to help supplement sales. This will help with bills and groceries.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated! And if you could share this, that'd help a lot too!!

I've also got a bunch of cool ttrpg accessories in my shop

and my commissions are open for both cosplay props and chainmail dice bags if that's you're thing

https://nerdsbiancreations.etsy.com

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Yes it’s very important for solidarity with workers but, and maybe this is an unpopular opinion, workers should have solidarity with poor customers. Like ignore shoplifting, be sensitive when ppl are using EBT cards, that kinda thing.

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‘There’s no platonic explanation for this’ and it’s just two people caring about each other’s wellbeing

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

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imagine becoming friends with this girl--not like, super close friends, just on friendly terms--who seems destined to become an influencer. she's not one yet but she already has a following at the school you both attend and everybody likes her because she's nice to everyone and pretty funny. one day she starts hanging out with this absolute loser buzzkill sjw and at first you're like, fine, it's a good look to shout out smaller content creators, but then they just never STOP hanging out

one day both of them leave campus to go on a day trip and clearly SOMETHING happens, because right before dinner you get an emergency alert on your phone that her loser friend is on the FBI's most wanted list for animal torture? the popular girl's not answering any of her texts, even from her hot metrosexual boyfriend that she has, and no one hears anything until the next day when she goes Live and announces that she got a really big sponsorship from THE PRESIDENT, no followup on that thing where her bff apparently was a terrorist this whole time

the next few years are really scary because the terrorist keeps evading capture and like, commiting so many atrocities and the details always end up getting leaked. you're terrified in particular because duh, you went to school with that psychopath and apparently she was doing all these terrible things and turning into some freaky three eyed snake when you weren't paying attention. the one spot of joy for everybody's doomscrolling is the popular girl. she does an adread for the government at the start of all her stuff, but the content itself is just like. hauls and GRWMs and makeup tutorials with the occasional day in the life sprinkled in, which is always nice to consume after another horrific news cycle.

she gets engaged to the hot metrosexual boyfriend from school eventually and does an Engagement Reveal bc of course she does, and it's...really weird?? hot metrosexual fiance leaves abruptly halfway through and then the whole thing turns into like. this bizarre apology video, with crying and everything, only she doesn't give specifics or context AT ALL before it's over and she goes back to doing a mukbang with some of her fans and your old principal, who probably got her that government sponsorship. apparently some crazy shit happens to the country after that but you weren't really following it bc you were too busy talking with your friends about what the FUCK was up with that engagement annoucement. you all go back through her history to figure out what problematic thing she might have done but you can't find anything, other than being friendly with the terrorist chick when you were all in school. obviously she couldn't have known about the terrorism back then, so it might just be drama farming. she's a pretty bad actor

except she doesn't post again for a few days, which is worrying since she's ALWAYS followed a super strict upload schedule, but the country is pretty much on fire at that point, so. when she next posts you're pretty excited, because maybe you'll get an explanation for some/any of this, or preferably a sequel drama video

instead she tells you that the terrorist chick is dead, the president is. resigning? leaving? also dead? and he never sponsored any other influencers, which means she's president now, and after she throws your old principal in jail she's gonna teach everybody how to be nice

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So many of the issues with current discourse AND the questions that got asked on 4SD and at the Fireside Chats are "what if the world was made of pudding?" questions too and it's gotten annoying. I wish they would stop answering "what if this thing that's completely different from canon had happened?" because the answer is always a polite version of "I have no idea, it didn't happen, but we would have explored that if it did I guess!" Which people then get very excited about.

Literally, when Laura got asked if Jester might have ended up with Beau if she knew about Beau's feelings, I OUT LOUD said, "What if the world was made of pudding????" Like, wow! If things had been different in canon, things might have been different! What a fascinating concept we have to circle the drain about every goddamn time we ask the cast questions! I wish people would stop specifically asking the cast about a version of the world that was made out of pudding, like they need their pudding world validated in order to live in it. When talking to people who actually played the characters and told these stories, you'd think people would want more information and nuance about what actually happened in the real world that ISN'T made of pudding. but alas

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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holy shit y’all should watch this one, what an admirable person

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Questioning how any one has time for a revoloution when Vi is just running around looking like this

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In sync face palm