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Preliminary sketches for chair

The local library has a fundraiser, I’m way behind on finishing my thing for it- people could get free chairs, which would be decorated in a book theme- genre, book, author, whatnot.

Here’s some of the rough sketches I’d had lying around for one stage of it, I changed a little from my original plan of a single book, to an author.

Guess the author =)

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deltumbles:

blackenedbutterfly:

fartoomanytobesailing:


I’m fairly forgiving and understanding, so I’ll believe that you simply misunderstood what friendzoning is. Seeing as you’re most likely a woman, you haven’t seen the flip-side. Here’s a little explanation:
The friendzone is a magical place where men go out of their way to please you, and you can simply not tell them you’re not interested because of the perks. We’re not psychic. Give men a heads up, because the frivolousness and ambiguity would leave anyone bitter and resenting.
That being said, if you tell them clearly that you’re not interested early on in your relationship and they still complain, they’re in the wrong.

What if I told you women don’t exist for men’s possible sexual relationship
What if I told you men simply don’t understand that a large majority of the time

couldn’t, uh, couldn’t the men be a little more upfront? if they’re ones who are interested, anyways? why do the men get to be ambiguously “nice” and the women are the ones who have to be direct? 

Yeah, I love how women are somehow ever so STUPID AND TO BLAME OMG for not realizing the only reason a man was  kind to her was because he wanted to be her boyfriend… which pretty much translates to he wants to have sex. 
But guys are just… being guys by hiding their intentions and calculating how to be “there for her” until she gives in. (And somehow very few guys seem to find this insulting to their gender when they know another guy is doing it?)
Entertainingly too, from my observations, the guys that do this if they succeed somehow begin to have their “niceness” levels drop as they now “have” her.
And by “entertainingly” I mean I am not entertained at all and want to be very shouty and snarly.
Also “Girls are not machines you put kindness coins into until sex falls out” needs to be on a tee-shirt. Or button. Also possibly a bumper sticker. 

deltumbles:

blackenedbutterfly:

fartoomanytobesailing:

I’m fairly forgiving and understanding, so I’ll believe that you simply misunderstood what friendzoning is. Seeing as you’re most likely a woman, you haven’t seen the flip-side. Here’s a little explanation:

The friendzone is a magical place where men go out of their way to please you, and you can simply not tell them you’re not interested because of the perks. We’re not psychic. Give men a heads up, because the frivolousness and ambiguity would leave anyone bitter and resenting.

That being said, if you tell them clearly that you’re not interested early on in your relationship and they still complain, they’re in the wrong.

What if I told you women don’t exist for men’s possible sexual relationship

What if I told you men simply don’t understand that a large majority of the time

couldn’t, uh, couldn’t the men be a little more upfront? if they’re ones who are interested, anyways? why do the men get to be ambiguously “nice” and the women are the ones who have to be direct? 

Yeah, I love how women are somehow ever so STUPID AND TO BLAME OMG for not realizing the only reason a man was  kind to her was because he wanted to be her boyfriend… which pretty much translates to he wants to have sex. 

But guys are just… being guys by hiding their intentions and calculating how to be “there for her” until she gives in. (And somehow very few guys seem to find this insulting to their gender when they know another guy is doing it?)

Entertainingly too, from my observations, the guys that do this if they succeed somehow begin to have their “niceness” levels drop as they now “have” her.

And by “entertainingly” I mean I am not entertained at all and want to be very shouty and snarly.

Also “Girls are not machines you put kindness coins into until sex falls out” needs to be on a tee-shirt. Or button. Also possibly a bumper sticker. 

(Source: purpleneenee, via indigodel)

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OMG YAY Project Gutenberg!

Ok so, I have been dying to read something by  Amanda McKittrick Ros, a 19th century author from northern Ireland who basically wrote prose so purple it was incandescent. Her works were last published in anthologies in the 40’s or 50’s and back when I first learned of her Project Gutenberg did not have anything.

Here’s the LJ post I wrote when I actually used LJ and first learned of her existence.

Here’s a sampling of her work from the Smithsonian Magazine that introduced me:

“Consider this passage: ‘Speak! Irene! Wife! Woman! Do not sit in silence and allow the blood that now boils in my veins to ooze through cavities of unrestrained passion and trickle down to drench me with its crimson hue!’”

So. Yeah. 

And I researched and the books with her work in them or her books themselves were ZOMGSPENSIVE.

And then last night something made me think of her, and omg omg omg you folks out there:

Project Gutenberg has the wonderfully alliterative Irene Iddlesleigh

HELL YES. Finally I can completely see what some of the fuss is about and possibly break my brain. Maybe it will inspire me to continue the Frank Miller Channels Amanda McKittrick Ros version of Batman.

Filed under books project gutenberg amanda mckittrick ros purple prose infamous authors of the 19th century

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wilwheaton:

edwardspoonhands:

cassandracroft:

I love to see others succeed though!

I’m right with the Cassie Croft on this. This billboard can suck it. So can success. There is one key to happiness…be nice.

This billboard is full of shit, and it makes me angry. 

UGH. Philosophy I hate #431 on that billboard.
You can tell someone every secret to how you succeeded that you can think of, and they still might not succeed either. if they do, they still won’t be you, and it’ll usually still be a different thing, a different way.
Allowing someone else to succeed seldom if ever means you will suddenly stop succeeding. And it makes the world a better damn place in general, provided you aren’t succeeding at being a huge jerk.
Of course, how to be a huge jerk isn’t much of a thing that needs sharing since most folks know how instinctively anyway, alas.
Especially the people who say things like what’s on this billboard and don’t mean it as a joke. (And if you can’t tell they’re  joking it is a terrible joke, rule #2 of comedy.)

wilwheaton:

edwardspoonhands:

cassandracroft:

I love to see others succeed though!

I’m right with the Cassie Croft on this. This billboard can suck it. So can success. There is one key to happiness…be nice.

This billboard is full of shit, and it makes me angry. 

UGH. Philosophy I hate #431 on that billboard.

You can tell someone every secret to how you succeeded that you can think of, and they still might not succeed either. if they do, they still won’t be you, and it’ll usually still be a different thing, a different way.

Allowing someone else to succeed seldom if ever means you will suddenly stop succeeding. And it makes the world a better damn place in general, provided you aren’t succeeding at being a huge jerk.

Of course, how to be a huge jerk isn’t much of a thing that needs sharing since most folks know how instinctively anyway, alas.

Especially the people who say things like what’s on this billboard and don’t mean it as a joke. (And if you can’t tell they’re  joking it is a terrible joke, rule #2 of comedy.)

(Source: archnasawjani)

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You seem to think that in this shoot-out you’re being aimed at, and we’re just being hit coincidentally. That is not what’s happening. What is happening is that they are aiming at all of us but only calling us by your name.

whatfreshhellisthis wrote an amazing post about trans* people being excluded from the reproductive rights movement (scarlip then added amazing commentary on to it and h/t to one of my most favorite Tumblrs, prolongedeyecontact for posting both).

I am so incredibly guilty of saying, “While this may be directed at cis women (or that cis women may be the main targets of this anti-choice legislation), it affects more people than just them.” I will never say that again.

(via keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus)

—I need to remember this. I had been making the same kind of thought pattern, when I should have definitely known/realized better.

(Source: keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)

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Oops

shiyiya:

I forgot about my toast.

For six hours.

It’s a teensy bit stale. 

My mom actually has started to refer to such lapses of remembering about food as “I pulled a you today!” if she ever does it.

But I have hope! I haven’t opened the microwave to find a gelatinous glob of ramen or thai noodles that I can’t remember having put in to begin with or that I vaguely remember putting in hours and hours ago for a month now!

Filed under food yep this is my life too solidarity

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Chocolates I have IM'd and Twittered But Must Share Here

This is a chocolate shop we stopped in at while in Santa Fe. This is a chocolate shop I want to stop in again at. This is a chocolate shop I want to win the lotto just so I can ORDER A POUND OF EVERYTHING EVER from it.

It’s a damn good chocolate shop, in my opinion, in other words. Lots of gluten free stuff. Almost no refined sugar in anything. Mesoamerican recipes and inspirations so when they say ‘dark and bitter’ they totally mean it. Also when they warn that the chili chocolates are spicy.

If you ever want to buy some luxury chocolate? I suggest trying them out.

Also, they have BACON TOFFEE, people. 

Filed under chocolate foodies i highly recommend this

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Nothing is wasted and life is worth living: when people get mad at other people saying that something they did was racist/sexist/homophobic/whatever

motorizedmycologist:

I don’t get it

it’s like

If you were hanging out with your friend and your friend turns to you and says “hey I don’t know if you noticed but you just stepped on my foot, can you please stop”, I am guessing most people would say “oh man, I’m sorry” and maybe watch where they were walking a little…

Filed under racism good analogy