#Personal touch patterns

[maxterclass]

I'm not even sorry but if you're unironically trying to argue that Max is against this driver swap because he feels "threatened by Yuki" I'm going to simply conclude you lack critical thinking skills.

This is the guy whose passion project is developing young talent and mentoring them as they make their way into the motorsports and you can't comprehend why he feels frustrated and angry by his team mismanaging and then discarding a young driver, who's been with them throughout his junior career btw, after only two races, in a poorly executed, humiliating public affair?

[sun-e-chips]

Waterpark au Sun and Moon now in color!!!

I still need to finish their ref sheets for art-fight but I’m so so happy to finally have them colored!

Moon’s platings are colored and textured to mimic wood grains, over that he is “painted” with varying tones of blues and teals.

Sun’s platings resemble painted Aztec stone with vibrant cool and warm colors, some of the “stone” remains bare.

Up close, guests can see that both animatronics designs have intentional weathering to really sell their imagined materials.

[sntoot]

shulk please never stop cuddling your sword to sleep

[punkinvsblogging]

Hi. I’m learning how to cross stitch. This is the first thing I’ve ever done.

I’ve been wanting to learn how to do this for years, and I’m finally getting to it. I’m having a good time. Hand’s a lil hurt-y, though. I hope I get faster.

I got this pattern from RileyDoesCrossStitch on Etsy. :)

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

arthur baby i love you and i say this with nothing but affection but your definition of the word "fine" is not one that has ever been shared by a single other person in this or any reality

[sith-shenanigans]

so like I know it’s a given that the bottomless pit of aggrieved cruelty has to stay inside, forever, because that’s my bottomless pit of aggrieved cruelty, but also nobody appreciates the self-destructive breakdown I am not having and the contextless-only-by-force-of-will profanity-laden rant I am not posting

[circlesroundthemoon]

traditional art dump

[sonknuxadow]

sorry mild hater moment incoming but . idk what it is with s/onadow fans (not all of them. just a very loud subsection) specifically and making every little thing shadow does about s/onadow even if its the biggest reach imaginable and immediately going "omg s/onadow" every time hes confirmed to be in some upcoming thing . or being so obsessed with the ship and letting it warp their perceptions of things so much to the point where they act like every little thing is a hint from sega that theyre in love for real. and they cant admit that its not canon or that just because they choose to interpret certain things romantically doesnt mean that thats actually what sega/the writers intended even if theres an obvious non so/nadow explanation for it

before people take this the wrong way i dont hate the ship i dont think that its completely baseless or that everyone who likes it is wrong and annoying or anything . but some of you look like this if im being honest

[encre]

I'm learning!

[ant-diary]

I think I have maybe decided to tell someone I no longer want to be friends with them, but I'm wondering if I should give it a few more days before I commit to it

[offbeat-manga-ships]

NARITA-KUN WO SEMETAI! ( 成田���んを攻めたい！)

I Want to be Agressive Toward Narita! / Izumi Mio

Complete, with 8 chapters / 2 volumes

F/M; Shoujo, Comedy, Romance + dom f, sub m, role rev

SUMMARY: Amane Fukatsu, a 2nd year high school girl, is an otaku whose hobby is posting her BL manga creations on social media. One day, she stumbles upon Narita-kun, a popular guy from another class, being attacked by a cat (?). Witnessing this scene of gap-moe, Amane is struck by inspiration…?! A cool otaku girl takes the initiative to relentlessly pursue a popular guy! A new-age romantic comedy filled with laughter and heart-warming moments.

MAL score: 7.24 AL mean score: 73% MU average: 7.5

PERSONAL SCORE: 6 out of 10

[rhysintherain]

For a show about diagnostic medicine, House does shockingly little actual diagnosis.

"Start him on antibiotics." Have you seen a bacteria? No? That's because apparently nobody on your team knows how to grow a culture or run a gram stain.

"It's probably cancer, start him on radiation." Without finding the cancer?? Without knowing what it is so you can decide on a treatment plan??

Very funny that actual diagnosis is too boring for House, so he just throws treatments at people until it almost kills them and demonstrates what the problem isn't.

[greaseonmymouth]

my copy of A Power Unbound (Illumicrate edition) arrived today and so I am going to ramble about 💫book production💫 and ✨special finishes✨!

(in case this breaks containment, I work in publishing though not for Freya Marske's publisher nor Illumicrate, and I have been terminally online in fandom and writing spaces for 20+ years)

when I heard about Marske's book deal it was both through tumblr and professional channels, and since I already liked her fanfiction I decided to Watch Out For Interesting Things, because I wanted to see how tradpub was going to treat a fandom-originated author - not the first one in tradpub by any means, but one I knew writes unabashedly queer stories and I wanted to see how that would play out in a world that had only just started making mainstream queer media

so, book 1, A Marvellous Light. I preordered the Waterstones special edition because there was a Waterstones special edition and I hadn't expected there to be

the finishes on this book are:

wibalin case (or arlin, or any other imitation bookcloth paper, brand is irrelevant) with matt varnish

title printed on spine

dustjacket with matt lamination, spot uv and embossing

sprayed edges in one colour (pantone or imitation pantone - this is different from 4 colour)

this is very neat and a bit splashy, but not so splashy as to break the budget - this is a reasonable amount of splashy for a debut author that the publisher is planning to push hard/has expectations to sell well. I personally expected this to sell really well also, for multiple reasons I won't get into here, and that as a result we'd get more fun finishes on the next book in the series

so, book 2, A Restless Truth, the Waterstones special edition which i again pre-ordered

everything about this book screams 'book 1 did really well so let's RAMP UP THE FANCY we can afford it now!

the finishes on this book are:

wibalin case

title printed on spine

dustjacket with matt lamination, spot uv, embossing, and foil

sprayed edges in one colour and a digitally printed fore edge in 4 colour

two more expensive finishes added! the retail price on this was £2 more than for AML, which let me tell you, those extra finishes do not cost that much lmao, at least not at the printers my company works with, but 2022 saw prices go up everywhere. so ehh fair's fair.

and this brings us to book 3, A Power Unbound, which didn't get a Waterstones special edition which I was upset about for SO LONG because a) I wanted one to match my existing set even if the two editions didn't match to begin with as the finishes were different and b) I was worried this was a sign that book 2 hadn't performed as well (or just not performed to the publisher's expectations, which is not the same) and the publisher wouldn't justify the cost of doing another special edition - considering book 2 was sapphic that was a real worry as historically they don't sell as well as gay books. but book 3 got an Illumicrate edition instead

without writing an essay, in simple terms there's no difference between a Waterstones special edition, an independent bookshop special edition (not covered by this post) or an Illumicrate (or other boxes) special edition as they all have extra finishes and they all TCM, meaning sales are registered and counted towards bestseller lists. however there is a perceived difference for many consumers that Illumicrate editions are specialer than Waterstones or indie because they are exclusive (so are Waterstones and indie), and often are only available through mystery subscription boxes (you don't know which book or items are in the box, only the theme) or semi-transparent boxes (title is known, possibly some of the finishes, none of the items) or through single purchases of a limited nature (finishes often not revealed), which this one is.

so to sum up, the Illumicrate edition is functionally the same, but it has a different status, and perceived higher value, attached to it. considering the RRP was £23 for the Illumicrate edition but only £18.99 for ART and £16.99 for AML, this adds to the perceived higher value/status. With me so far?

the finishes on this book are:

matt lamination case (cheaper than wibalin), however printed in 4 colour

dustjacket made of some kind of plastic (I can't tell from touch which kind), which, at the printers my company works with, costs about 10-15%, of what a dustjacket of say 125gsm coated paper with matt lamination finish would cost

title digitally printed on the dustjacket

no spot uv, no embossing, no foil

sprayed edges in one colour with a digitally printed fore edge in 4 colour

does this look cool as fuck though? yes. does it look expensive? not if you know how books are made and what they cost to make. I expect this was cheaper to print than ART because dropping foil, spot UV and embossing alone is a huge saving. and ngl I was expecting the same kind of finishes on APU as for ART, perhaps with all 3 edges digitally sprayed instead of just the fore edge, perhaps with the title foiled on the spine instead of printed on. maybe it would even have endbands. so to open the parcel to see this instead was a delight, because it's different. you can see the case underneath the dust jacket! you get a fun 3D effect with the plastic overlay!

I'm not saying that the Illumicrate edition is cheap garbage, the point I'm making is manifold:

moving away from Waterstones special edition to Illumicrate special edition will make a lot of consumers thing this book is The Shit

the Illumicrate edition indeeds Looks like The Shit

you don't always need expensive finishes to wind up with a Cool end result

in conclusion: Illumicrate call me I want to talk business

man I do wish my copy of AML had a cooler fore edge though so they could all match

[boombox-fuckboy]

Hey im the one who sent in the ivy ask to the nightfolk network just wanted to say im glad you liked it im kinda proud of it lol i fell in love with the idea of how a plant girl raised by an ai would turn out and really tried to capture the speech patterns from the show im glad it worked 😊

Anon I remain delighted by how perfect it fit with how I imagined them. And, I am admittedly quite flattered you wrote it

[cosmicredcadet]

The reason why I disagree with people who say I am touch starved is because I literally grew up being touched all the time without my permission. I was constantly being hugged and kissed and made to hold hands and touched. do i sometimes think that cuddling and casual touch sounds nice in theory? yeah. Sometimes I wish i could understand what people meant by it feeling comforting. But in practice? I think of myself being cuddled or touched or someone actually touches me irl? i recoil. it feels suffocating. it's overstimulating. I don't want hands on me. I don't want to be hugged or hold hands. Even the tiniest touches such as someone brushing against me or tapping my shoulder are awful.

idk i guess i just get frustrated because I talk about my experience and people tell me I'm obviously touch starved but I don't crave touch. it's not like It was absent in my childhood, in fact it was very often forced upon me without consent. Even though i talk about sometimes wanted to experience it because of how everyone says they feel comforted and safe - i think it's less about me actually wanted to be touched and more me wanting to feel that same comforting and safe feeling that people normally get from it. I'm fine with not being touched. my feelings are just complex and confusing and it feels like im the only one who will ever understand me.

[rabbitindisguise]

My dominant eye is swollen so my vision is all fucked up since I'm putting on a cool compress :| how am I supposed to weave in this condition?? Nevermind cross stitch