#also fuck lobsters

[all-lobsters-go-to-hell]

Do you have any opinions on crawfish

They need to stay in their fucking lane. Trying to be lobsters is going to get them killed in The Great Lobster War.

[chiangyorange]

the chain but on a scale of who says hooray yippee and wahoo

is this anything.

[mistylakeee]

did I make this up or are Jude and Taryn canonically from Maine?

[roman-roy-apologist]

i love you animal symbolism

[edierone]

dialogue-only: Idle Chatter

“So no, nothin really goin on there at the moment. How about you?”

“Oh — single. Recently, in fact.” 

“Yeah? What happened? … I mean — you don’t have to tell me, I’m just —”

“No, it’s ok — it’s just, it kind of involves you. Tangentially.” 

“What, like how?”

“Well — remember how long our flight was delayed from Oregon? I didn’t get back to my place till eleven. The light on my answering machine was on — he’d left a dozen messages, sounded upset, so I called him even though all I wanted was a bath and to get to bed, you know? Apparently he’d made this elaborate dinner, celebrating my first case …”

“Eesh, I’m really sorry —”

“No, it wasn’t your fault! Mine either, for that matter. He didn’t even tell me he was planning it, he’s a — he likes a grand gesture. I mean — I used to kind of think it was sweet, but.” 

“Hm.” 

“Yeah. So he forgave me, and wanted me to come over anyway, but I begged off — I was exhausted, I had work the next day, but he just wouldn’t let it go. Anyway, yada yada yada, we got into a fight, he accused me of fucking you, I broke up with him.” 

“Oh … uh. Wow. That’s — um — I’m sorry?”

“Ha! Don’t be — I don’t think it was gonna work anyway. He said he supported me being in the field, but, I mean — it only took one case for that to fall apart. So … anyway. Where do you want to get lunch? I think there’s a Chili’s off the next exit.”

[mooshofish]

Guys I’m cooking up something fierce…

Bastard München Ocean Universe

PXG is absolutely next

Edit: PXG, Barcha, and Manshine are all complete!

[mrsjadecurtiss]

[meeowerzz]

gayass homestuck page.png

[im-smart-i-swear]

webby would have LOVED mystery flesh pit national park

[fishsticxz-art]

aphronima, sea goddess

[atthebell]

bell I do have a crochet question for you. how do you get better at freehanding things? is it just experience? bc I've been crocheting for a few years now but I still sweat if I can't find a pattern for what I want to make 😭

so my initial answer is just fuck around and find out-- as in just start making stuff, sometimes don't even try for a specific shape, just do stuff and see what shapes you make and get a feel for how increasing and decreasing impact a work, how to incorporate larger stitches (i.e. switch from sc to dc to make one side of the round taller), all that kind of stuff. and maybe try and make something purely based off an image-- as in, no pattern, no fucking clue how to go about it, just go at it and see what you get. it won't always be pretty, but it'll teach you! and practice helps immensely, so you can even just work on things you do have patterns for/know how to make and that will teach you how shapes come together and how to sculpt something (bc that's what amigurumi is, really, just figuring out how to sculpt something with loop & hook-- imo, it's what makes crochet pretty different to other fiber arts, although you can do 3-D stuff with them as well) into what you want.

my other answer is i've been crocheting for thirteen years and i consider myself pretty damn good at it and i still whine and cry when i can't find a pattern for what i want 😭 i think getting really good at tracking stuff down and also sometimes just resigning yourself to having to buy a pattern is really the answer. also, tbh, you can look at how someone else made it and try and replicate that without a pattern-- if you sell stuff, i recommend you still credit the original designer, since you are basing it off their work, but looking at how someone else made something and trying to do the same thing is how a lot of artists build technique. again, don't rip them off entirely, but going "how tf did they make this?" and trying to do something similar can help you learn more about how pieces are put together.

also ravelry, pinterest (if you know how to use it properly and are willing to deal with the spam/clickbait fake pins... bane of my existence), various pattern databases, and, tbh, just rando people's blogs are your best friend. i have a few amigurumi artists where when i'm just absolutely lost, i go on their sites and search up what i'm trying to make to see if they've done it before, and sometimes they have! elisa's crochet has really cute stuff, as does ami amour, and you can find way more people through instagram (the one and only time i will recommend going on that site)

[all-lobsters-go-to-hell]

genuine question people

how do lip piercing havers put on like lipstick and stuff? like, do they just take the ring out?

is it super inconvenient?

what about lipgloss? that's gotta be sticky as hell

also chapstick, are y'alls lips just chapped all the time?

how annoyed do y'all get?

has anyone ever ripped out their piercing out of frustration?

very important questions. Please get back to me within at least 1-15 business days.

[jincheeto]

Betty doodle because I forgot my iPad for class and was bored :)

[toytulini]

god I know this is like The Wrong Stance on AI. I know its not about whether the art is Real and Human or If It Has A Soul and how a lot of the arguments against it are the same bullshit arguments people made against digital art like I Know. I Knowwww. but god, I'm really sorry, not to post like one of those annoying poetry bloggers I cant stand (yall are valid, live your truth, theres nothing wrong with what you post I'm just a petty bitch who hates poetry. unless I dont hate it.)

But theres just something about the way AI art will almost certainly never be able to mimic the exact way my pencil leaves an indentation in the paper, the way some of the lines I can never fully erase cause I pressed too hard, theyll have to at least train them to draw with a physical pencil first, and sure, they could train it to draw with a pencil and even erase the exact same piece I drew, line for line, on a piece of paper with a robot arm powered by AI, but they can't replicate. idk. the lineage of lefty bitches in my family, and the way I grew up going through school with my entire left arm silver with graphite, from doodling on my schoolwork. not yet anyway. but I guess I do live for the day we make the ai sentient enough that we can traumatize it by giving it homework after kneecapping its executive functions so it copes by drawing a big tiddy lobster monster. sure

[outlying-hyppocrate]

rewatching the smss live performance makes me feel so many things honestly

[blinkbones]

white whale update

first mate here. so um, we lost the captain. yeah, they jumped on the whale and we lost them. they wanted to play with the harpoons maybe. we were losing them due to the storm but they yelled "this metaphor is getting unwieldy! i get my results in a few weeks!" so we all gon have to wait.

anyway y'all i haven't rested in years or interacted with civil society so im gonna, like, go be a corpse for a few days and reconnect with sunlight & lifeblood