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I also do crafts sometimes:)

repost because it kept getting flagged for some reason😭 there were more pictures

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I have a new creation that i must share with you all... Introducing SNAIL TAPE

This is originally based on a 90s magazine pattern I found, which I just had to try.

However, the pattern wasn't quite right; it turns out that scotch tape dispensers used to be quite a bit slimmer! So i tested a few changes, and below is an up to date pattern. With added antenna of course!

(This fits standard scotch tape dispensers fairly snuggly, so if you want a bit more room add some width to C.)

If you make one please attach a picture, so we can see the snail army grow...

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made a picture i will use a lot

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sexy monster of the day: calculester hewlett-packard from monster prom

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Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Not a typical pride month illustration, just me wanted to represent my community in my own way 🥰❤️

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i hope tumblr users never stop talking about punk music i think we deserve this

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do you have any advice for someone wanting to get into the spore modding scene for the first time? i loge the character editor in spore and im so fascinated by the stuff i see people make with it when its modded. thanks for your time, happy pride and have a lovely day :]

check out my pinned! there's info for beginners there, though some of it is outdated due to the October2024 certificate update for spore.

lots of things have been happening in the spore modding community lately - davoonline being overrun with spam bots and undergoing maintenance, the spore certificate update, etc. lots of the "status quo" of spore modding has been turned on its head, so if you're not in the know of all of it i recommend either waiting it out for an updated info page, or [as much as i hate saying this] checking out the SMC discord's #info-and-faq channel. i've compiled a few resources below for things you might want to check out when you first start modding spore.

spore modAPI launcher kit [required for all modern mods]

if the launcher fails to update, follow these steps:

linked download in the message above

paranoid has a list of mod recommendations here. lots of these are not listed on my pinned.

here is the SMC spore mod browser [be patient, it's a large website and takes a while to load]

i have a sort of end goal of making as much information from the SMC discord public as i possibly can. if i can gather enough permissions from the people within the server who put together this information, i will work on an informational series of posts that are publicly available for everyone that wants to mod spore.

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If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

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me, moral ocd haver: wheee! the joys of life! *licks swirly lollipop*

The Guilt: we're gonna fucking Get you bro 😂😭😭🤣🤣🤣

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a lot of people are hating on the lilo & stitch live action for surface level reasons, mostly because people are rightfully not watching it and just repeating what they've read online while missing the bigger picture.

it's easy to bitch about this objectively bad tasteless remake from hell for things like not having gantu and making jumba the villain, but it takes a real stitch head to juxtapose that knowledge with the far more nefarious context, which is that disney opened a hawaiian resort called Aulani 14 years ago, and stitch is featured on the merch and at the resort.

this simple fact is the entire reason why the live action project was doomed from the start and why the obvious overly-fuzzy capitalist slop overtones are ACTUALLY so much grosser than arguably anything in any previous disney live action. it's one thing to argue about narrative changes, but you have to understand why those narrative changes happened to actually get to the root of what's so evil about it. it's why even the opportunities where criticisms could be levied against tourism clearly aren't taken (lilo sneaks into a resort to take advantage of the hot tub and the employees remind her she's not supposed to be there - this is a comedic moment that seriously makes me question if the people involved in the story are that ignorant or if things were cut because of disney's overhead - something the original film notably didn't undergo)

furthermore, a lot of people are regurgitating internet opinions on nani ditching lilo which is obviously a terrible decision/change, but a lot of the arguments people are making about it seem to boil down to "nani doesn't care about lilo", which is a read that shows you kind of are just parroting others without context. the movie, to its credit, does not portray nani as a selfish person. she says to lilo "it's my kuleana (responsibility) to take care of you" while expressing reluctance about going. in my opinion, the problem is that a Native Hawaiian character's aspirations are adjusted to fit the idea of Western ideals, dreams, and success - go to university (neocolonial institution) far away from your home and get a great job! a fine thing to want to do, sure, but one that exists in the world where Native Hawaiians have had their land and livelihoods stolen, bastardized, and destroyed for the benefit of capitalists and Americans.

additionally, Nani's decision to give Lilo up was also in part because the social worker tells Nani that the state will pay Lilo's hospital bills (after the near-drowning scene) in full only if Nani surrenders the rights to guardianship to them (paraphrase). To me this is far more disgusting than nani choosing to go to university because the film does not treat this as a really fucked up threat emerging from a violent system of privatized healthcare but as some kind of benevolent offer that Nani should take.

the grandma who takes lilo in says "you can't leave yourself behind either" as a response to nani saying "'ohana means family". the film wants to make the caveat that you have to take care of yourself too (while ignoring that "taking care of yourself" can put the onus on you to choose to live better, rather than the system that is oppressing you and exhausting you).

Ayesha Khan writes:

"I kept asking “how can I care for myself when I cannot survive or thrive in a world by myself?” How can I care for myself when survival is a collective responsibility & we are fundamentally dependent on the care of so many beings? (...) Mainstream self-care has created NEW forms of oppression, extraction & exploitation. (...) Today, many people partake in self-care as a means to enable their personal success & wealth accumulation under capitalism" (source)

tl;dr it helps to know exactly why this movie sucks so much with some context. there are things happening here that are actually disgusting and evil and yet the actual conversation in the Discourse Machine Of The Week has not yet gone into these things. eventually, you might forget how mad you were that Jumba doesn't have a russian accent, but hopefully you can sustain some anger towards how disgusting it is that disney's slop adaption is full of capitalist signalling and unquestioned "real world Logic" that turns the story's world into an inescapable unimaginative nightmare, and one which will be undoubtedly used to drive tourism to disney's own Hawaiian resort - the original film was co-opted despite its critical eye, the remake is effortlessly abetting, guaranteed.

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DOUG APPRECIATION POST 💚

Gifs and screenshots 💚💚💚

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life can't be that bad when there's still cat and other assorted creatures

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gun to my head i would rather die than read this fic. what the fuck are you even doing at this point. whats the fucking point?

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