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GUESS WHOSE GOING TO THE DC FOUNTAIN PEN SHOW THIS YEAR

this guy!

if you've been interested in one of my pokemon pens or my rings, will have Lots that I've never put on my Etsy!

its August 1st to the 3rd

(and if you're wondering what I mean by Pokemon pens, I take Pokemon cards and turn them into pens! So pokemon cards are tax deductible for me--every millennial's dream!)

some examples of pens ive made

some eeveelutions!

charizard!

and more! so far I have over 30 unique pokemon pens and counting!

and then some other non pokemon pens as well!

(btw my Etsy is also https://www.etsy.com/shop/gabbywaxcreates)

oh! I also sell handmade rings as well, like this

the inlays are made of semi precious stones like amethyst, bello opal, aventurine, and more!

oh also: some glow in the dark!

so yeah if you're in the DC area, come say hi!

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I like how there’s a category of careers (cowboy, pirate, spy, princess) that have a very specific historical and political context that they get stripped of for the entertainment of children

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Im a Hellenic traditionalist. Demeter has been pissed for the last 2000 years because we know too much about her mystery cult.

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Goodluck Pikachu

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If I could teleport or create portals, obviously i'd be using it to visit my friends etc. But an underrated function would be ordering take away from 10 different stores that do one thing really well to make the perfect meal.

This post is inspired by the Japanese restaurant near me that does the best gyoza making subpar takoyaki.

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you BAKE miette? you bake her like a croissant????

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Yippee!!!!

A short animation I made the other day to remind myself that animating is fun, actually

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hey so i used to work at tumblr but now i work at garbage day. i just re-read the piece in garbage day about the slur song and i figured since i don't work at tumblr anymore nothing is stopping me from messaging you and saying that omg i absolutely love it and thought it was hilarious. i sent it to my team on slack and was like "y'all this is the song of the year" and all of us lost our minds. i also sent it to my "queers united" group chat the universal response was "this is an absolute banger" lol.

10/10 completely unmonitizable and unmarketable and your post about "tumblr staff finding out their site has crowdsourced a viral song only for it to be unusable in corporate marketing" made me, the lead of the marketing team at the time, laugh until i cried. spot on, literally was like "guys this is the biggest thing on tumblr right now, it's fucking amazing, and we cannot touch it with a 10-foot poll." absolutely incredible. stellar work.

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!?!!!!!!?!!?!!?!!!!!!!!

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I will not spend my whole paycheck on fancy yarn. I will not spend my whole paycheck on fancy yarn. I will not spend my whole paycheck on fancy yarn—

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I don’t have time to draw it right now but while driving home from the winco I saw a happy mustached man pedaling a bike, towing a cart built to look like a chariot, inside of which stood what I can only imagine was his completely expressionless 13 year old in a makeshift corinthian helmet

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James Patterson books are an invasive species humans brought into library shelf environments because we wanted fast-reproducing, easily-digestible food. But at the time, we didn't know as much about their natural airport environment, which has very few available nutrients. This environment greatly favours the genericalist species like Patterson, so there's very little bibliodiversity compared to the more specialized library or bookstore environment. This means that each species in an airport has an enormously expanded niche compared to just about anywhere else books can thrive - in their natural habitat, Patterson books may be one of only 3 or 4 species competing for available nutrients. In these low-density, low-nutrient environments, Patterson books occupy vast swathes of territory without bothering other species. This history makes it extremely easy for them to outcompete the more specialized inhabitants of the library shelf, who have often been carefully selected to fill ultraspecific subgenre niches.

Left unweeded, Patterson books will expand their territory over multiple book bays, crowding out or even straight-up eliminating space for competitors and sending contributor-author runners out to other shelves. Contained to a single, planned set of shelves and kept strictly pruned, Patterson books can contribute to a healthy ecosystem. But many curators don't know or don't care to do the planning and maintenance, leading to the nightmare of overcrowding and loss of circulation.

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Our Japanese class found it funny that in common terminology "food" isn't very distinguished from specifically "rice" until it was pointed out to us that in English "meal" is "loose roughly ground grain"