#i'm not good at it

[quentinfiletmignon]

OLIVER RIEDEL • RAMMSTEIN

A4 • STABILO point 88 liners

[biogarfield]

GRAIN OF PAIN 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[cora-devil]

I finally managed to finish one of my dovesso drawings and even if it's not that good (bc I haven't draw in years and I still have to learn how to properly do and paint a digital drawing), I'm just so happy with it because this ship made me start drawing again after not doing so for 5 years!

I hope to continue drawing bc I just realized how much I missed it!

[revivify-inn]

Can't tap to center? Me neither.

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I can't tap to center. I've been a wheel thrower for 7 years and I can't tap to center. So I just, yknow. Don't.

How to:

Put it on wheel as best as you can guess it to be accurate (this is actually important)

Make a triangle with your fingers and let the pot brush against your fingers. Don't be harsh with it, you'll send the piece flying. Literally just make a triangle and do not move. The pot will move and bounce and settle to the form you made for it (which will be center)

Put clay lugs on the bottom to seal it to the wheel head

Trim away!

[kakusu-shipping]

💖 or 💘 for Mariocest please ?

Is this still in lines with the prompt? Maybe. Also a sort of prequel to So Far Away

💘 - Mutual pining

In which Luigi wants all the little things

A hot meal on a table, surrounded people you love and are loved by, in a crowded living room, in an apartment far too small to be shared by 9 people. This is the space Luigi had called home for 25 years now. It was the only place he really knew.

Standing in his empty bedroom, the wall faded save the obvious spots where posters and pictures and his cork board had hung for years and years, was far more surreal than he thought it'd be.

Then standing in a home, his home, their home, surrounded by boxes and boxes and a single musty old loveseat they'd bought from some guy down in Kings for $250, was even more surreal.

They'd spend their mornings here, and their nights and their evenings, in this space, in this world, away from a family who loved them, and who didn't know how much they'd loved each other.

He could see it now. Waking Mario gently because he knows how much he hates the morning with a hot cup of coffee and a kiss to the forehead. Making dinner as their mama taught him, but just for two. Snuggling quietly on stormy nights on that very musty loveseat, huddled as close as they want without worry of questions from their uncles as they'd come home.

He'd sit with his feet up on that couch reading, and Mario would bring him a cup of tea and push his legs out of the way to make room to sit. He'd watch his brother play that same old game, leaning on his shoulder and listening to him explain the same mechanics again.

Luigi wondered how long it'd take for them to fall asleep there, on that old beaten couch that was certainly not worth $250, tangled together as they'd always slept. Mario was always a couch napper, just like their father, and grandfather before them.

He wanted to kiss his brother awake when he came home late to him on the couch fast asleep with his game still on, controller still in hand, to apologize for taking so long, to ask if he'd eaten yet.

He wanted to be interrupted making breakfast with lazy, half awake kisses as Mario begged for him to come back to bed, a plea he would eventually give in to.

He wanted to welcome his brother home from wherever he may go with kisses and kisses and even more kisses all over his face, and he wanted to hear Mario laugh as he did so, laughter only interrupted by a confirmation "I missed you too"

He wanted to grow tomatoes in their yard and be brought a cool glass of lemonade on hot days, to be complimented on his work, to have his brother's hands on his hips, to push his brother away complaining it was too hot for the affection.

He wanted to dress up for dates, to wear nice clothes, to hear his brother call him "Smokin'" and "Gorgeous", to take his arm as they head out on a date somewhere public as a couple in a world that was allowed.

He wanted to make this house a home, slowly, moment by moment.

He wanted all the little mundane things everyone else already had.

He wanted to kiss Mario, here, in their living room, and feel no fear in doing so.

Luigi wondered quietly to himself if Mario wanted the same...

[robomythos]

Once again drawing lewd ship stuff I will never post on main

[greppelheks]

Picking up art again :)

[besiegedhunter]

You mentioned connection between Higashi and Siracusa and do you know if there was any connection between real life Italy and Japan?

I mean, besides their alliance with Germany in WW2

So I've looked into this every now and then before this but this is the first time I've properly sat down and committed myself to it and I think there's a decent amount there.

So much that I'm gonna put this under the cut and fair warning, mid way it delves into speculation about Higashi and just a general one that I'm not very knowledgeable about this and sorry if I get anything wrong.

But onto the post:

On one hand you have the spread of Christianity, with Daimyo sending delegations to Rome before Christianity was banned and Japan closed it's borders.

But I find the Meiji Era to be more interesting for this topic because Japan and Italy signed a friendship treaty and begun fierce trade across several ports and in time some Italians gained positions of government in Japan, artisans were hired for various things and their art begun influencing each other's.

And they were allies in a few other conflicts before WW2 and though it halted when Italy signed the armistice, it was picked back up after the war. With them both embracing each other's culture and aiding each other through earthquakes recently. The relationship described as old and important and particularly I think Italian culture is popular in Japan. Or at least that's what one thing's said.

But maybe AK could possibly to taking inspiration from this?

There's also a bit that I've not mentioned which is the Risorgimento, an event in Italy's history wherein different states in the Italian Peninsula were united into the Kingdom of Italy. A similar period that was reaching it's end around the time the Meiji Restoration began.

The Risorgimento is the likely inspiration behind Siracusa's independence from Leithania with Leithania inspired by Austro-Hungary who played a similar role as Leithania to Siracusa in the Risorgimento.

The similar positions of Italy and Japan at the time may have helped with their relations possibly or at least push them to work together. I can't confirm but maybe something of note.

Now, Higashi seems moreso based on the Nanboku-chō period of Japan that happened from 1336 to 1392 vs the Meiji Restoration happening in 1868. But it's possible various parts of Japan's history will be used for Higashi's story... whenever that's happening.

And Siracusa could be, either through it's culture, it's experiences or something it can provide, could have a foothold in Higashi, maybe backing one of the two courts.

If I had to chose I'd probably lean towards the Mitsumoto or Southern Court of Higashi which as opposed to the Kougon of the North that are more conservative and militaristic, the Southern Court have focused on their economy and trade with perhaps the North and South having their own inspirations, with the South being inspired by the Meiji Restoration and working on trade with other countries, Siracusa being one of them perhaps with an influence on the art and culture (and underworld)?

Maybe the North is inspired by the Tokugawa Shogunate or the forces of the Samurai class who revolted against the Meiji Restoration.

Thought I'd throw some speculation out there but anyway. I like the idea of Siracusa in some way influencing or working with a Higashi court in their own efforts to consolidate power after it's Independence from Leithania.

Lappland could, as either part of her family or for Signora Sicily, gone to Higashi to conduct some business. Same as Suzuran's family who perhaps have a particularly strong focus on it. And because it's not limited to the mafia, Angelina's parents could've met from the relationship the two countries share.

And if we get an event in Higashi it could possibly feature Siracusans and a lore dump that's similar to Columbia or Laterano's impact on Siracusa but for Siracusa and Higashi.

I'd love to see that and the npc or playable character involved in it but yeah, heavy speculation about a couple Siracusans having connections to Higashi lol we'll see if it's anything.

[indashadows]

What We Do in the Shading

[anime-scarves]

If i’m gonna grind mahjong I might as well stream it. Come hang out and watch me find new and creative ways to lose!

https://www.twitch.tv/scarves_ch

[topshelf2112-blog]

Me when my stupid novel I'll never finish calls to me again:

"Naked I was sent back - for a brief time, until my task is done. And naked I lay upon the mountain-top. [...] I was alone, forgotten, without escape upon the hard horn of the world. There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over, and each day was as long as a life-age of the earth. Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened snow."

-- The Two Towers, chapter 5: The White Rider

[safety-net-did]

Look, I know basically everyone thinks they have the best partner. But consider:

Over the last three days my partner has let me measure zer close to two dozen times, use zer as a mannequin another dozen, didn't question when I made a model of zer torso out of plasticine, nor that I've been in obsessive hyperfixation to the exclusion of basically all other activities the whole time.

[lambergeier]

the real danger of spending too much time with friends is you stumble out of ten days of happiness and good food like oh my god THAT was real life. my job means NOTHING

[desperatepleasures]

one time I used the ben affleck smoking reaction image in the family group chat and my mom replied with the funniest possible response which was: "mommy doesn't know who the guy is???" and that phrase has not left my brain since. I'll see blorbos on my dash that I don't recognize and I'll be like well it seems mommy doesn't know who the guy is.

[modmad]

hey! there's zero esims left for the connecting gaza campaign as of today. i remember you promoting them earlier. could you give them a much needed boost?

oh dang! unfamiliar with that particular campaign, as I always donate via crips for e-sims because it's super easy to do, but regardless let's go people!

[captainjonnitkessler]

>Join a union

>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it's all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what's going on

>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members

>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that's going on