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I've been baking my own sourdough for a few months, and I'm finally getting consistently OK looking results.

Incidentally, the main thing I've learned is that it's way easier to get consistently tasty bread than bread that consistently looks the same.

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for a moment brnine thought they’d finally done something right, but then they realize they’re still alive

an extremely delayed secret samol gift for grace<3

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45 seconds of animation(+10 seconds of credits)

brnine and dahlia stand in a sunny but lifeless approximation of a livingroom. one of the windows is a map of all divinity that blinks. dahlia gestures at flashes of space battles, brnine slowly reaches into a pocket of their cargo pants.

brnine and dahlia, close up, stand in front of the map, but brnine’s reflection has been replaced with an image of valence glowing and angry. the glass begins to break and the camera pans to dahlia, whose reflection is crysanth, bloodied and snarling.

an excerpt of brnine’s interview with continental countunghouse begins to play when the camera cuts to brnine alone in the stellar combuster room. lights flash and they crouch down to pick up a tangle of wires on the floor.

a closup of the wires in their hands flashes between integrity, bloody, and valences arm opened for maintenance. their hands tighten around the objects in unison as the blood from integrity drips down their wrists.

a drop of blood meets water pouring into a glass, mixing into a the bright lavender that has been used to represent valence throughout.

brnine’s hand lifts the glass and behind it are gur sevraq and valence having a discussion. they rotate and valence fades away, leaving only gur sevraq who turns and looks at brnine while The Figure sits up in front of them, revealing that it was a recording or a ghost the whole time.

tears drip down the figure’s concrete face. the tears become sweat dripping down brnine’s face as they finish their interview, awkwardly finishing a glass of water before grimacing and waving, “hi mom, i guess”

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Listening to that Chip&Ironicus Farscape podcast has reawakened my love for that show, so I made Ayren's prowler in lego

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trains are extremely sexual actually, have you seen couplers????

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November 7th marks the anniversary of the october revolution which resulted in the hardest painting ever made

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Homemaking, gardening, and self-sufficiency resources that won't radicalize you into a hate group

It seems like self-sufficiency and homemaking skills are blowing up right now. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the current economic crisis, a lot of folks, especially young people, are looking to develop skills that will help them be a little bit less dependent on our consumerist economy. And I think that's generally a good thing. I think more of us should know how to cook a meal from scratch, grow our own vegetables, and mend our own clothes. Those are good skills to have.

Unfortunately, these "self-sufficiency" skills are often used as a recruiting tactic by white supremacists, TERFs, and other hate groups. They become a way to reconnect to or relive the "good old days," a romanticized (false) past before modern society and civil rights. And for a lot of people, these skills are inseparably connected to their politics and may even be used as a tool to indoctrinate new people.

In the spirit of building safe communities, here's a complete list of the safe resources I've found for learning homemaking, gardening, and related skills. Safe for me means queer- and trans-friendly, inclusive of different races and cultures, does not contain Christian preaching, and does not contain white supremacist or TERF dog whistles.

Homemaking/Housekeeping/Caring for your home:

Making It by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen [book] (The big crunchy household DIY book; includes every level of self-sufficiency from making your own toothpaste and laundry soap to setting up raised beds to butchering a chicken. Authors are explicitly left-leaning.)

Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust [book] (A guide to simple home repair tasks, written with rentals in mind; very compassionate and accessible language.)

How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis [book] (The book about cleaning and housework for people who get overwhelmed by cleaning and housework, based on the premise that messiness is not a moral failing; disability and neurodivergence friendly; genuinely changed how I approach cleaning tasks.)

Gardening

Rebel Gardening by Alessandro Vitale [book] (Really great introduction to urban gardening; explicitly discusses renter-friendly garden designs in small spaces; lots of DIY solutions using recycled materials; note that the author lives in England, so check if plants are invasive in your area before putting them in the ground.)

Country/Rural Living:

Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler [book] (Memoir of a lesbian who lives and works on a rural farm in Maine with her wife; does a good job of showing what it's like to be queer in a rural space; CW for mentions of domestic violence, infidelity/cheating, and internalized homophobia)

"Debunking the Off-Grid Fantasy" by Maggie Mae Fish [video essay] (Deconstructs the off-grid lifestyle and the myth of self-reliance)

Sewing/Mending:

Annika Victoria [YouTube channel] (No longer active, but their videos are still a great resource for anyone learning to sew; check out the beginner project playlist to start. This is where I learned a lot of what I know about sewing.)

Make, Sew, and Mend by Bernadette Banner [book] (A very thorough written introduction to hand-sewing, written by a clothing historian; lots of fun garment history facts; explicitly inclusive of BIPOC, queer, and trans sewists.)

Sustainability/Land Stewardship

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer [book] (Most of you have probably already read this one or had it recommended to you, but it really is that good; excellent example of how traditional animist beliefs -- in this case, indigenous American beliefs -- can exist in healthy symbiosis with science; more philosophy than how-to, but a great foundational resource.)

Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer [book] (This one is for my fellow witches; one of my favorite witchcraft books, and an excellent example of a place-based practice deeply rooted in the land.)

Avoiding the "Crunchy to Alt Right Pipeline"

Note: the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" is a term used to describe how white supremacists and other far right groups use "crunchy" spaces (i.e., spaces dedicated to farming, homemaking, alternative medicine, simple living/slow living, etc.) to recruit and indoctrinate people into their movements. Knowing how this recruitment works can help you recognize it when you do encounter it and avoid being influenced by it.

"The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline" by Kathleen Belew [magazine article] (Good, short introduction to this issue and its history.)

Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby (I feel like I need to give a content warning: this book contains explicit descriptions of racism, white supremacy, and Neo Nazis, and it's a very difficult read, but it really is a great, in-depth breakdown of the role women play in the alt-right; also explicitly addresses the crunchy to alt-right pipeline.)

These are just the resources I've personally found helpful, so if anyone else has any they want to add, please, please do!

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Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

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i did manage another one of a bunch of high people

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movie night !

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"And Cori is crying these big studio ghibli tears"

A redraw of the haku/chihiro scene with cori and Perennial. The wings are referenced from howl's moving castle, and in general I plucked a lot of colours from the ghibli references as well, because colour is my biggest weak point.

Don't zoom in too close or you'll see how messy this really is, even with all the corners I cut it took so long sob sob sob. This is why visual media don't usually have one of the characters be a disembodied nervous system made of Russian sage (shoutouts to Austin for specifically emphasising that on the pod. Ha. Haha.)

I hope the head wings are somewhat visually distinct from the back wings, but they might not be.

I kind of want to upload the time lapse video for this one, but it's like 5 mins long and over 50mb so I'd have to put it on youtube or something I think. Which is a whole kettle of fish.

(the quote at the top might not be exact, the transcript isn't out yet and I didn't go back to listen and check)

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More Lumbos, cause apparently that's all I draw at the moment.

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15 days of friends at the table - 02 Coworkers

Coworkers (platonical)