Scrolling Instagram is always a mistake, but I’ve been seeing a lot of focus on tropes lately. Writers selling their stories using a bulleted list instead of, like, snippets or summaries, people who only consume media with certain themes while never bothering to branch out, stuff like that. I don’t have particularly strong feelings on tropes, but I do feel that reducing a piece of media to neat little boxes is kind of limiting.
It’s like looking at the foundation of a house. You can build something on that? Cool. But you haven’t. It’s not a house. It’s a slab of stone. One with potential, yes, but a slab nonetheless. I don’t care if it’s “friends to enemies, morally gray” if you CANNOT give me any characterization or depth outside of that.
You need to build on these things. A trope is a foundation. It is the base. YOU build from there. YOU put in the legwork to create. Use other tropes as the supports and cornerstones, but flesh out the walls yourself. Give me something that is hand crafted and made with earnest, even if it’s a shack.
“Ahh this work is shallow and falling apart!” In your attempt to remodel the house (you forcibly put things in boxes), you removed a load-bearing wall (erased important nuance), and now the structure is sagging (it’s narratively weak and cannot hold its own).
Maybe I’m being dramatic. If that’s the case, feel free to call me a goober and a loser and a fun-void. I don’t think I’m (entirely) wrong tho. Who knows.
This replaces the default green plastic sippy cup with a terracotta vessel, for your ancient toddlers to drink from. The form is based off of the animal-shaped pottery found in the graves of late bronze and iron aged babies and children throughout Europe.
Find my infant bottle replacement here.
**Note that this is a default replacement, meaning that it should NOT be used with any other sippy cup overrides in game at once
You, person making fun of the Stanley cup craze! Do you have normal views about disabled individuals who need straws and/or cups with handles on them to live their lives?
Edit: Reblogs are off bcs this post wasn't about people making fun of the consumerism brainrot it was about people making snide ass "adult sippy cups" jokes and acting like it's ridiculous for an adult human to use a cup with a straw lid + handles but nobody seemed to get that.
Little Cuphead theory I thought of- what if the object-headed characters in the Cuphead universe only grow INTO floating heads, like the one King Dice has?
(Also lowkey just an excuse to draw my interpretations of the sippy cups and teen delinquent KD lol)
Hey I have a very simple request. Could you sell a mug with two handles? I have hand tremors and could honestly use a mug that I could either wrap my hand around entirely or use both hands to cradle easily and im sure other people could too
I'll try making a few! I'm still terrible at attaching handles, so it'll be good practice for me
I know Nicole Swann (@made.with.mud on instagram) makes double-handled mugs for just that reason, and a few other clever modifications on a typical mug for other disabilities