#going where my fancy takes me

[goffiks]

this is literally so so funny

#yes i am listening to episodes out of order #going where my fancy takes me #i listened to cal and then ep 33 cassettes and now im listening to a story about you/them/us in order #wtnv 13 #wtnv #goffiks

[thresholdbb]

Who is Chaotica’s manicurist?

#such a fancy boy!! #style icon chaotica #midnight cackling #star trek voyager #swear to god going back to work is gonna break me when will I have time to ponder life’s big questions when I leave my timeless void #this is what I chose to post instead of the extensive shattered essay in my drafts #one liners and lukewarm takes that make me laugh you’re welcome #chaotica is deffo on my cosplay list lmao #everyone’s like ARACHNIA and yes arachnia but have you considered chaotica #honestly my proton cosplay would be this Janeway not arachnia monochrome starfleet uniform with bandolier #oh man the cosplay list is so long you have no idea #did I say I’d relegate some of the lore drop to the personal blog I sure did and now look where we are #this has been the ranting of an insane person #we are not well here in the void #melts into oblivion

[dropthecop]

actually the only good unhelmeting of a masked character is if they have a smaller identical helmet underneath the first one

#i have to go vacuum the entire apartment or something so i stop going insane thinking about the mandalorian now #i DONT want to SEE #the only exception to this is that i hear season 2 has an entire episode where he's got his face out bc he HAS TO for plot reasons #and i guess he looks really upset the entire time #which is like. #i mean i haven't seen it yet so take this with several grains of salt #but i think that could be good #but i think taking the helmet off in s1 undermines it too #like building up this belief that it's reallyyyy important to him to NOT show his face to ANYONE and then exploring what it would take to #get him to break that rule. could be really interesting and good #and having him look really uncomfortable and building it up in such a way that the audience also feels really uncomfortable the entire time #until he puts it back on #i think that could be REALLY GOOD #but showing his face in season 1 would undermine the impact of that moment a lot in my opinion #i need to stop going crazy over an episode i haven't even seen. but auagahaahahhhh the season 1 face reveal drives me up the wall WHY did #they DO THAT #you have fancy camera angles at your disposal and you did not have to show US #he was showing THAT DROID because it wasnt a quote-unquote living thing. he was not showing EVERYONE #anyway. im normal and im gonna vacuum now. #my post #this unhinged raving is why i made a star wars sideblog and y et here it is on my main for all to see. #woe. my star wars opinions be upon ye

[icewindandboringhorror]

I love all of these goofy product photos where the water bottle is extremely obviously just photoshopped onto a stock image of someone pretending to hold something or whatever.. very convincing..

#the last one where the water bottle is like nearly the size of the woman's entire leg ghbjbjhh #ALSO I know.. gross.. nasty.. amazon.. I was only looking there because I was trying to find an exact replica of an old water bottle #I bought like 6 years ago in a store and I just wanted another one of those and it seemed like the only place the old manufacturer #still sold was through amazon but.. alas.. I think they just don't make them anymore. so I have abandoned my hunt #I didn't actually buy anything. but I did get distracted clicking through product images for a few of them #it's bizarre how like............... idk.. WHY is this done??? Isn't this offputting to basically ANY potential customer?? or do people #not look at every photo/read the entire page/all product information before buying?? #all of these are from like front page ''top sellers'' or whatever like........... how does this not hurt the brand???? #If the company can't even bother to take a single photo of a real life person using their real life product then... that to me #is kind of red flaggy..?? even if you're an indie start up small business with hardly any funds.. still #A real photo of the product you are selling in a real actual non-photo shopped environment does not seem that inacessible #Maybe it's because everyone does everything on phones now?? So it's harder to see the pictures when they're smaller? #Kind of the same thing with ai art and also hair color photoshops lol.. On my full comptuer screen it is SOOO easy to spot ai art #like IMMEDIATELy from the little tells and ways certain details morph into each other etc. I dont even mean obvious dalle mini stuff but #like the Fancy High Quality Photorealistic AI art is still pretty blatant 98% of the time if you know what to look for. But I still catch #people sharing it a lot like 'omg where can I buy this pair of shoes!! :O <3' .. erm you cannot.. that is the most balatantly fake looking #pair of shoes I have seen in my life hhjbj.. the heels are both different heights. there's a different number of straps on each one. etc. #AND that phase back before colored hair was Mainstream and people would post photos like 'omg going to bring this to the salon!! dream hair #and it's like.. you can LITERALLY see the parts where it's 'colored outside of the lines' and is so clearly just a person with blond hair #that someone drew over with a tint brush or something not even very neatly. etc. etc. ANYWAY.. Maybe with phones it's harder to tell these #things?? To me so much of it is instantly recognizable and it's suprising to me that people either don't notice or don't care and will #interact with it anyway by buying the product or acting like some ai art fake furniture is real or etc. etc. ..hewwoo #Aslo sidenote - I think I've become soo cynical and tired of constantly being advertised to that I literally cannot shop without getting #exhausted. I do not see how marketing is anything but obnoxious and transparent. Every item description having stuff like ''Our company is #commited to bringing you the highest quality water products! we set out with a mission to bring high quality products to people all over #the world and we believe in spreading health and happiness and'' just like SHUT THE HELL UP!! youre a fucking company #you don't ''beleive'' in anything you are here to sell a product. stop trying to talk like you're my bff who cares deeply about my health #or something just tell me the materials and product specifications of your stupid fucking water bottle and move on. Idont need to hear your #whole bullshit spiel about what ~your company stands for~ that is SO much MORE offputting. you make me want to buy the item LESS.. #longing for the type of ads from my 1800s magazines that are just like 'this product is good. please buy it. okay thank you much. bye'

[sysig]

I finally set my last notebook to rest, so it’s time for a new one (Patreon)

#Doodles #It took a long time! Having three concurrent notebooks at a time will do that #I'm used to only having two at a time but I think three is going to become my new regular #One for sketches - studies and random concepts and scribbly comics to be cleaned up in SAI at a later time #One for more finished paper art - not necessarily Fancy but lineless y'know lol a bit more proper as far as I'm concerned #And then a true free for all lol anything allowed! Basically a stream-of-consciousness captured to page #For now I've got the latter two covered I'm currently vetting the slightly-more-focused lined notebook #It was from a bit ago and I was being silly at the time haha but the first one is from a new brand I'm testing out #It feels good! It's grippy but not in a scratchy way and it accepts graphite and pigment well #I haven't tested pen bleed yet tho that'll be next on my list #The second is an old standby - not my favourite but one that is very easy to acquire and I know what to expect of it #It's also the same as my free-for-all notebook but that's really neither here nor there lol - I'm not likely to mix them up #The only thing I've really noticed so far is the new brand takes a bit more cleaning because its margin line bleeds a bit more than normal #It's not bad but I can see it getting annoying - pros and cons #The second two are just normal sona thoughts #I miss my spider. I've looked out at where I buried them every day since but it feels more manageable #It feels more approachable like I'll be able to talk about it with the sellers when we're able to go to see them #I do hope they don't think less of me for it... #And then the last haha - my Vargas immunity is currently basically zero so any outside mention of them is overwhelming #I got about three lines into a fic and had to stop lol - I still really want to read it! I just don't trust my brain with it right now #As if I still don't think about them all the time lol ♪ #Plus now I have my hammock again (♥!!!!) so I've got my reading spot back! #Reading never felt so good <3 <3

[arthur-r]

when the “40 minute” online program takes me an hour and a half to complete …. genuinely feels like they are just lying

#i have a fancy certificate saying that [my full name] has completed [course title] which takes 40 minutes on canvas #i started at 11pm and have been going strong. really frustrated with the suggested times on each section of these things #like. a seven minute one took me twenty minutes and that’s because i actually read and looked at each piece of information #like we’re expected to skim. i didn’t spend a strange amount of time on any of it #anyways i’m surprised with how well thought out and executed the diversity training course was it was actually really good #it talked a lot about intersectionality and individuality and it gave a lot of examples from tons of different axes #to the point where anyone would be confronted with multiple privileges they have and maybe haven’t acknowledged before #and there was a lot of information about resources on campus and all the diversity and inclusion outreach they have #so i’m feeling good about college rn. however i was supposed to be asleep half an hour ago. here i go now shdhdf #i hope everyone is having a good night. let me know if you need anything but i’m heading to bed in a sec #me. my post. mine. #delete later

[floorpancakes]

the theme of the 2024 met gala is clamp official art noone is allowed to not serve plain suits have been banned everyone has to be sparkly and magical now

#i had a serious post to make abt clamp outfits that are giving met gala and how many of them there are but #im really really tired and i have a cold so my head is all fuzzy so i cannot be doing all of that today #the shopkeeper mother son combi art with the sun theming in my avi is peak met gala i dream of wearing it #if i ever got invited to the met gala itd b over for everyone if i simply wore the watanuki sun costume #scratch that just invite watanuki in the sun costume stick him on a billboard and wheel him arojnd #like vtubers at the streamer awards #give his cutout a fancy steak dinner #and give him a doggy bag so he can take some home to his tall hungry hamster husband idk #he wouldnt eat that shit as is but watanuki would painstakingly remake it into some sort of luxury bento #idk where im going w this im tired and i have a head cold please let me think about gay people its all i can do rn #other than log into #FUCK I FORGOT TO LOG INTO GENSHIN BAIZHU LANDED HOURS AGO #iVE BEEN UP HERE FOR A BUNCH OF HOURS AJD FORGOT TO EAT TOO #fuKc

[watery-melon-baller]

teehee guess who now has a STAFF

#spent an hour and a half duct taping a 6ft wooden pole I bought for ten bucks #well not just duct taping I was marking points and also adding padding to the edges #but now I can SPIN #I have too much power oh I'm so excited #was messing around with it and like wow im out of shape but ehehehe #i can still do all my fancy tricks! ive just lost my endurance #debating taking it with me to class tomorrow bc I have a big time gap where I have nothing #I could spin then but like. do i want to carry around a 6ft pole? #also do I really want to spin in public #difference between fucking around at 5am and in broad daylight with people watching you #hnnng #well I'll see how I'm feeling in the morning #lilac post #hehehehe staff go spinny

[failfemme]

i am currently banging out little crochet projects like clockwork with no idea whom is getting gifted what 🤷🏻 that’s a problem for future smith

#i am just going where my fancy takes me

[catboy-kakashi]

Noticing a pattern in your behavior that may be a sign of something much larger but instead of trying to analyze that you just quickly put the lid back on the oil fire and walk away

#i have some. problems. when it comes to food #i wouldnt call it like a disorder by any means #i feel like that would be trivializing what people with EDs go through #but uh. well i have been at someone else’s house petsitting and i’ve barely eaten anything besides the bag of veggie chips i brought #and im starting to think. maybe. i need to assess my issues with feeling like im allowed to eat or take food thats offered to me #without being explicitly handed the food and being told its for me #haha uhhhh. haha. anyway. i think i’ll cope with this by projecting onto fictional characters and then never self reflecting #​ camtankerous is whining #like they straight up SAID ‘theres leftover in the fridge! feel free to eat those!’ #but because they said that and not ‘thats for you!’ my brain says ‘theyll eat that if i dont. i should leave it for them. its not for me’ #like idk. like i dont DESERVE to eat someone elses leftovers??? thats so fucking SAD. that makes me sound like a stray dog or something #i havent had coffee for several days either bc asking how their coffee machine worked felt like admitting i was planning on taking #their coffee and like. maybe im not allowed to have coffee! thats THEIR fancy coffee #i newrly slept on the fucking couch instead of one of the TWO guest beds they told me i could use. whats wrong with me #negative #vent #sorry i just. ive been really stressed out the last few days and i needed to get this out #i straight up dont know where this behavior comes from. its not like my parents were abusive or didnt let me have food?? #its like im afraid to let myself enjoy things. who the fuck do i think is going to come and take it away or yell at me. #HAHA wow thats a wall of text huh. i should probably go to therapy! #if youre still reading this do not look upon my wretched form. i dont want you to think less of me for this

[welcometogrouchland]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHA I HAVE A PROJECTOR NOW

#ramblings of a lunatic #don't quite know how to work it yet BUT my dad's gonna do his best to help me out and see what we need when he gets home! #i am so fucking excited man #hope everything goes well and we're able to get it working #my friend izzy left the room for 15 minutes today during our free period and came back with the projector #and when i asked them where they got it they just said ''dont worry about it'' #I'm gonna use it for a project in art But i am also going to conspire to take it home at the end of the year #the teachers aren't going to miss it (my schools trying to upgrade to fancy smart boards) and i wanna have outdoor movie nights! #so yeah. adventures in projection technology here i come ig! #(also the projector is named jenny <3)

[cryptid-kratt-kid]

Last night I had a dream that some weird sentient ooze (?) Monster had transformed into Martin and then proceeded to try and take his place.

I remember finding out and confronting it, and it responded by suddenly becoming near indistinguishable from Martin, getting uncomfortably close to me, and then joyously laughing about how he was gonna do something BIG in a week.

It's wonderful, the things you dream up when you're sleep deprived. Should I make this an AU?

#How long are you going to keep using me? #wild kratts #wild kratts au #I was also in the middle of some wierd war with the actual Martin because I'd insulted his swimsuit #He insulted my swimsuit back and I threatened to deck him #Then the rest of my friends split up into team Flame and team Martin and we had a war with legit physical violence right inside my house #Chris didn't do much. He just kinda watched. #Chris might've been on team Martin but I don't really remember #I also got sidetracked and followed Sonic the hedgehog (or at least someone who sounded like him) on his epic quest to learn more about #absoloutly massive slugs so he could better take care of his own. #There was also this wierd remote control chick that I found who the fuck knows where #It ate everything you drove it towrds and then shat out rewards. but everytime it did it got bigger #and eventually it got so big that it started growing without my input and devouring the giant fancy hotel(?) that I was suddenly in #even the little smiley bendy (yes BATIM bendy) face on the controler became a terrified screaming one when the chick got out of control #I think it might've even eaten me? but I wouldn't know because I had suddenly started watching the whole thing go down behind a screen #like I was watching some kind of lets play youtuber play a videogame. #And then I spent some time running from the cops with dipper and mabel pines (?) and then I eventually woke up #Actually I think the chick thing might've happened twice because I felt this wierd sense of deja'vu when it happened #Is it worth mentioning that I had started watching Amphibia before all this? #Also the chick once left me a wierd piece of paper asking #The rewards were Genshin impact character fragments that gave you the character if you collected enough of them and primogems #Did I mention that some wierd Genshin event was going on in the middle of the war and I litterally had surrounded Lumine and Xiao with the #wierd fucking RC chick #And they were mad that it was shitting out Venti fragments and Lumine started yelling about how she wanted him #I beat Martin in the knees witha metal pipe :) #And Im pretty sure he or one of his soldiers beat me with one to #but I was strong and didn't collapsed and it scared them as I kept bonking at them with the pipe #Someone also told me to get on a ride from disneyland I think? and after I got off of that that's when Ooze imposter Martin threatened me #with the post above. #Wow this is the most I've written in the tags in literally my entire Tumblr life

[cypric-rat-hyperfixation]

hi! can I ask where u buy ur rat plushies from? I especially love Fidget~ what brand made xem?

Xey and all the similar-looking ones are from @citrinemouse​! Their shop is here and it has other rodents, too. Fidget specifically is the agouti brown half-hooded variety! 

Highly recommend. Every package comes with a little fabric snack for your little fabric friend, who is life-sized and so fucking soft 

All my other ones were: 

a cat toy at the pet store 

bought from an artist on Etsy 

made for me as a gift by friends 

#^^ #dammit i keep forgetting to make and use an ask tag #rats #fancy rat #merch #art #plushies #man i don't know where my little guys are right now. they're with my stuff from school somewhere #i never unpacked things because i was just going to go back in the fall and have to repack everything again. then UNPACK AGAIN at school #but i've actually decided to take a medical leave of absence so i'll be here awhile #might as well unpack for the long haul i guess. unpack and stay awhile #this ask made me want to Pet Them

[soy-sauce-and-mothra]

Hey! Are there blacksmiths in your story? I'm a hobbyist blacksmith and I'm here to help!

Blacksmithing is one of those things that a lot of people get wrong because they don't realize it stuck around past the advent of the assembly line. Here's a list of some common misconceptions I see and what to do instead!

Not all blacksmiths are gigantic terrifying muscly guys with beards and deep voices. I am 5'8, skinny as a twig, have the muscle mass of wet bread, and exist on Tumblr. Anybody who is strong enough to pick up a hammer and understands fire safety can be a blacksmith.

You can make more than just swords with blacksmithing. Though swords are undeniably practical, they're not the only things that can be made. I've made candle holders, wall hooks, kebab skewers, fire pokers, and more. Look up things other people have made, it's really amazing what can be done.

"Red-hot" is actually not that hot by blacksmith terms. when heated up, the metal goes from black, to red, to orange, to yellow, to white. (for temperature reference, I got a second degree burn from picking up a piece of metal on black heat) The ideal color to work with the metal is yellow. White is not ideal at all, because the metal starts sparking and gets all weird and lumpy when it cools. (At no point in this process does the metal get even close to melting. It gets soft enough to work with, but I have never once seen metal become a liquid.)

Blacksmithing takes fucking forever. Not even taking into account starting the forge, selecting and preparing metal, etc. etc. it takes me around an hour to make one (1) fancy skewer. The metals blacksmiths work with heat up and cool down incredibly fast. When the forge is going good, it only takes like 20 seconds to get your metal hot enough to work with, but it takes about the same time for it to cool down, sometimes even less.

As long as you are careful, it is actually stupidly easy to not get hurt while blacksmithing. When I picked up this hobby I was like "okay, cool! I'm gonna make stuff, and I'm gonna end up in the hospital at some point!" Thus far, the latter has yet to occur. I've been doing this for nearly a year. I have earned myself a new scar from the aforementioned second degree burn, and one singe mark on my jeans. I don't even wear gloves half the time. Literally just eye protection, common sense, and fast reflexes and you'll probably be fine. (Accidents still happen of course, but I have found adequate safety weirdly easy to achieve with this hobby)

A forge is not a fire. The forge is the thing blacksmiths put their metal in to heat it up. It starts as a small fire, usually with newspaper or something else that's relatively small and burns easily, which we then put in the forge itself, which is sort of a fireplace-esque thing (there's a lot of different types of forge, look into it and try to figure out what sort of forge would make the most sense for the context you're writing about) and we cover it with coal, which then catches fire and heats up. The forge gets really hot, and sometimes really bright. Sometimes when I stare at the forge for too long it's like staring into the sun. The forge is also not a waterfall of lava, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Welding and blacksmithing are not the same thing. They often go hand-in-hand, but you cannot connected two pieces of metal with traditional blacksmithing alone. There is something called forge welding, where you heat your metal, sprinkle borax (or the in-universe equivalent) on it to prevent the metal from oxidizing/being non-weldable, and hammer the pieces together very quickly. Forge welding also sends sparks flying everywhere, and if you're working in a small space with other blacksmiths, you usually want to announce that you're welding before you do, so that everyone in a five-foot radius can get out of that five-foot radius. You also cannot just stuck some random pebbles into the forge and get a decent piece of metal that you can actually make something with, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Anvils are really fucking heavy. Nothing else to add here.

Making jewelry is not a blacksmithing thing unless you want jewelry made of steel. And it will be very ugly if you try. Blacksmithing wasn't invented to make small things.

If there's anything here I didn't mention, just ask and I'll do my best to answer.

#yes some of this was directed at steven universe #the only thing su got right was bismuth crying when her anvil broke #cus those things are goddamn expensive and hard to transport #blacksmith #blacksmithing #writing #writing prompts #writing advice #writeblr #writer #writer problems #writerblr #writerscommunity #writers on tumblr #writers and poets #writers

[anyoldfandom]

The worst part of character design is going "Okay I'm going to give a character a simple design" and then you draw one aspect really detailed and go fuck. I have to do this with the rest too.

#I LOVE drawing braids they're both so fun and make characters feel so fancy #Especially when they braid things into their hair #Bc even though I know jack shit about hair I know a full head of braids can take an insanely long time to do and that's so much care #being put into your hair and appearance. And as an ADHD haver who doesn't really care about my own appearance that much that's cool as hell #And fancy as hell. The problem with me though is I want to be detailed with every braid and texture bc that's part of all the care that goe #into braids. And. Then I put so much detail there. That it doesn't match the rest of the appearance. #And then I don't want to undo all of my pretty braids so I have to do the rest of the body with the same detail #And then this 2 hour design session has turned into a 10 hour drawing that I grow frustrated with halfway through and don't finish #Which is why I also don't post a lot of art bc especially not anything I put a shitton of time into #Also why I don't really paint anymore painting gives me the same issues #Especially digitally where I can mess with it forever #Going over and over again to make each color perfect each effect perfect #Anyways this post was brought to you by me drawing one of my new favorite OCs and realizing how much I love drawing textured hair #And now going Oh No bc I know I'm going to have so much fun I'm going to burn out when I have to do the less fun parts

[xmo-rmon]

“Inseminary”

or “Lockpick to the Priesthood” or “Come Unto Me” or “Pearl Necklace of Great Price” or “Faith is Like a Little Seed”

Authentic stolen holy text, Near Clear silicone, gold pigment.

I went to the mormon church’s website, looked up their views on homosexuality, noted the scriptures they referenced, ripped them by hand out of the bible and book of mormon I stole from their chapel, and then mixed them into a silicone dildo of my own design like confetti. A dildo which will of course be used for homosexual purposes (with non-lubricated condoms and water based lube, for safety).

I’ve wanted to try dildo making for literally over a decade. I don’t have any fancy equipment like a 3D printer or a vacuum chamber, I made the sculpt by hand, and I fucked up a lot along the way, but all that being said I’m proud of what I was able to accomplish and I learned a lot. I put in more gold than I meant to, but honestly, it was meant to represent scripture’s gilded edges, and as it turned out, it looks really beautiful or quite filthy depending on the lighting, which feels entirely appropriate for scripture.

It was hard to read all of those verses. But as I tore them up I bathed them in the intention to take words that were meant to inflict queer pain wherever they go, and say “Actually, I pull those words out when I want some queer pleasure.” Build joy where they want you to have it the least.

Read about/donate to the Timpanogos tribe, for whom brigham young sent out an “extermination order”

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#exmo #exmormon #apostake #apostate #blasphemy #sacrilege #my art #2024 #this was honestly so much fun #fucking expensive #but so fun