#that i can bake and paint!! paint !! paint !!

[charlunday]

I see a lot of people talk about Finnick surviving the mutt attack but I don't see a lot of people talking about Finnick SURVIVING the MUTT ATTACK

[mostanimalshavearmsandlegs]

"what is bro DOING.png" I have not abandoned the model progress is just very slow

[kyouka-supremacy]

Leap day was made so I have 24 more hours to work on Akutagawa's birthday

[ittyybittybaker]

A Rose By Any Other Name:

a Romeo and Juliet inspired mascarpone and pistachio praline filled cream puff topped with raspberry-rose panna cotta, rose shaped raspberry-rose pate de fruit, candied Sicilian pistachios, and a chocolate dagger.

Sometimes, when it's slow, we get to practice our skills at work, and this is one of those times! today i was paired with a coworker to make a buffet portion dessert for a randomly assigned theme- ours was Shakespeare and we were inspired by Romeo and Juliet! We had 24 hours to plan and 4 hours to make everything start to finish, and this is what we came up with!

Thank you @darcyshire for inspiring me to post more of my work!

[unidentifiedmammal]

Watercolors made from ammonia fermented lichen that bears dye precursor acids, and boiled onion skins of differing pH. Pigma micron pen.

I imagine painting ammonia water directly onto the paper isnt ideal for archival quality, or the vinegar water either. But sometimes things are ephemeral and that's okay.

ammonia dyebath for the darkest purple, vinegar neutralized dyebath for a lighter purple, and then two shades of yellow/orange/tannish for the two onion pH results.

(obligatory chemical disclaimer, don't go mixing chemicals even if theyre common household chemicals, you never know what they might turn into)

[antirepurp]

i hate to admit it but im starting to understand why everyone gives their textures wild and stupidly detailed material textures: it's kind of fun when you have the tools for it actually

[cat-brrr]

Lil guy

[rox-reads]

oh hey let me take a shot at this

could it have to do with the fact these are abilities developed as a result of trauma? you find yourself in a stressful situation and it all comes down to fight or flight, although to be fair fight or flight aren't the only two responses one can have to such a situation, with freeze being another prevalent example.

it's probably not all people who go through trauma that end up developing powers as a result, so maybe the people who do are specifically those who, even if maybe not in the moment itself (i doubt everyone with powers necessarily had a violent awakening), do have in their nature a predisposition to dealing with such stress through confrontation?

[the-cactus-taco]

CRAB BELL CRAB BELL CRAB BELL I LOVE YOU SO-

[twilightarcade]

sharing recipes

[yohankang]

i really need to pack but i'm in the 'tee hee i'm going on a trip :D' mode and i can't focus at all ahjdfjsjs

[b-blushes]

1 month of heart medication: ACQUIRED gay little haircut: ALSO ACQUIRED yippee wahoo peace and love on planet earth!!!

[cowboy-robooty]

ROBOOTY IS ALIVE FOR TODAYS SPECIAL DAY BECAUSE ITS GERMANY CHANS BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!

[samaspic31]

im so fucking mad about capitalism's devaluation of manual labor (especially financial, hi raise the fucking wages) and expectation to outsource labor, leading to dire exploitation (everyone is exploited, but manual workers especially AND don't get compensated for the toll on their body AND get looked down on unlike white collar workers, all that because making intellectual products is worth 10 times more money i fucking guess). The average person used to have so many more practicak skills and we used to know how make so much more stuff, having people cook, clean, take care of your children and sew for you was the height of luxury for a wealthy woman, depending so much on buying to substain your lifestyle was reserved to the extremely wealthy. People were expected to hold more basic skills outside of a hyperspecific field of their career like today and were allowed to spend time on broad and practical knowledge, and today schools do not even out the playing field because it's still mostly theoric regurgitation (which great, but give all the youngsters a cooking, crafting and sewing class and teach them accounting im begging) making people into highly specific tools relying on buying most of what they don't even think they can make, because disempowered. (this is linked to capitalist shaming of perceived failure and beginners and imperfection but that's a whole other can of worms)

Like for example it was just a given painters made their own paint (or started by making it for their mentor, any way they were taught how), it was considered a necessary first step, a way to understand your medium, and a way no to depend on anyone else or a corporation, and i think a lot of artists are missing that step of having to spend effort on the medium itself. I don't know how my graphic tablet works and i can't make acrylic paint and that's a shame

Like it was always normal for the already rich to leave all physical work to exploited workers but today it's everyone else's case too (at least in the economic north), making your own stuff is a counterculture thing, and even poverty or being an exploited worker eats so much of time that it makes it so buying is necessary and stuff made with exploited labor the only affordable option, fucking vicious cycle

there were deep inequalities with how the teaching of those skills were segregated, which was for which gender and social class, im not saying it was universally good, and women were expected to accumulate way more skills just to do all the managing of a household AND get that labor devalued, just, urgh, it was considered important to know at least i guess

also the birth of packaging and the rise of single use plastic+ worldwide transport of goods is heavily linked to this and a consequence of a global economic boom but it's still a fucking disaster-

anyways buy a s little new shit in as little packaging as you can and fuck corporations

[mythology-void]

reaffirming the idea that yes, I can do anything. and everything. perhaps even all at the same time

[antirepurp]

yippee :)