#EVERYTHINGS TOO CHIBI CMON. WE CAN HAVE VARIETY. WE CAN HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF CHALLENGE

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why are 99% of crochet animal patterns just vague blobs. cmon. i know we can do better as a community. have you seen the shit the national parks service put out? yeah, the NPS. there are grandmas on the frontlines of the most formally accurate critters this side of a 3D printer. we can do better than orb with two triangles sewn on. we can make a more accurate cat. that is NOT what a turtle looks like. step AWAY from the axolotl

#EVERYTHINGS TOO CHIBI CMON. WE CAN HAVE VARIETY. WE CAN HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF CHALLENGE #i’m not saying everything has to be photorealistic. but it feels love every new pattern i see is the same basic shapes recycled #because people are so desperate to have ~content~ that they don’t have time to technically develop their skills to a point where they #actually have something to contribute to the conversation artistically #text✨ #this is extremely petty. however : come ON. so much of the crochet content i see is extremely beginner basic stuff newbies are being tricked #into mass producing for ‘markets’ where they are very unlikely to sell #and then they burn out of the hobby within a few weeks. this is NOT sustainable. and extremely wasteful of time and resources #i hate you should sell culture it’s. extremely annoying #i try to only do stuff that is either a) at least nominally useful or b) a gift for someone . bc i so desperately do not want to burn out #on this hobby and i love it sm . i feel so bad for all the people i see getting conned by the you gotta sell attitude and just. ruining the #hobby for themselves. you gotta do it for you you gotta #on topic. also like cmon. stop chibifying animals that are culturally significant to other communities just for money