#but they were busy so no photos :(

[horsemeatluvr23]

etho doodle!!!!! this one is late because i was having an identity crisis and thinking about moving to lebanon. anyways the necklace is bdubs missing tooth from secret life <3

#i tried my best to make him Not look like kakashi .. #i am an etho mullet truther but idk how to draw mullets so. i ended up giving him the exact haircut i have #this would have been more detailed but i was SO busy today #i went for a picnic in the park with a friend and we saw baby swans and moorhens and wild deer #it was nice but we were discussing business stuff about a charity we volunteer at because there are some. Ethical concerns #i wanted to make this drawing Perfect because i love etho n he's the reason i started watching hermitcraft but then i realised i was puttin #so much pressure on myself for absolutely no reason when this is supposed to be FUN #this was actually drawn on the back of a printed copy of a citation list for an essay i wrote for my art history module #i was recycling the paper by using it for art since. it has no other uses #anyways. what #hermitcraft #etho #ethoslab #ethoslab fanart #etho fanart #hermitaday #horsemeatluvr does hermitaday #horsemeat gallery #traditional art #sorry this is not scanned or edited the sun had SET by the time i finished this so i couldn't take a proper photo like i normally do

[mcflyy-rules]

Tommy photo dump 🫶🏻🫶🏻

#tom cruise #he’s so adorable #some of the risky business photo shoots were so weird but I love them #I want more photo shoots of tom in casual clothes #I know he’s a big movie star now and they’re all gonna be of him in suits but I WANT IT SO BAD PLEASE #LET HIM GET HIS PICTURE TAKEN IN A PAIR OF JEANS AND A T SHIRT #PLEASE.

[ot3]

i'm a big proponent of the idea that the best products often have the worst websites.

#when we were looking for a brunch spot in london last week we were having a bunch of trouble narrowing it down #so i just picked the one that had the worst website #didn't even have a menu listed but had some random photos of tasty food #had a 'get quote' button front and center first thing on the page #because they didn't edit whatever business template they used to make the thing #incomprehensible three column layout #and then proceeded to have some of the best french toast of my entire life.

[blujayonthewing]

the problem with adulthood is that I do actually really like catching up and socializing with other adults, but I still also want very badly to wander off by myself and sit on the ground and pluck grass blades and look at bugs and pet the cat, and there just simply isn't enough time for both

#like 'you're not really socially Allowed to act like that once you're a Grownup™' is the obvious problem #but also there JUST isn't enough time 😔 #I've often said that the one big problem with wedding was that there wasn't enough of it #and mostly that means 'I barely got to fucking talk to ANY of my family and friends whom I haven't seen in years and years' #but it does also mean that 'wandering off by myself to look for frogs' was never going to be remotely possible #the closest I got was being able to go ':D!!!!!' at a dragonfly when we were getting evening photos by the lakeside #but I never even got to go back down there at all the whole day or into the night #because I was BUSY and then also DESPERATELY GRASPING AT ANY TIME I HAD WITH OTHER PEOPLE WHO HADN'T LEFT YET #cruel and not fair. outdoor events should last longer so I can socialize at them and then also wander off and be seven #about me

[tradingjackbs]

Attempted to do a photoshoot for the one and only cosplay I'll probably ever do and. These are the only pictures I got that matter

#there were a lot of blurrier ones that were completely incomprehensible lmao #i did also get some decent serious ones but. idk if i'll post them/might save them for halloween or something. we'll see #i dont like taking pics of myself and i dont like sharing my face on the internet. it just so happens this particular character has bangs #and also sunglasses so it works out #nicholas d wolfwood #cosplay #trigun #rosie posting #cats of tumblr #i love my girl so so much. but lord she love gettin all in my business when im tryna do shit ykwim #taking pictures or drawing or whatever tf. it dont matter. she must be in the way <3 #i went to put my clothes away and like. sure it's a relatively cheap suit but it still cost a good amount #and this goddamn cat is swiping and pouncing on my clothes as im tryna put em away like 😭😭😭😭 GIRL #anyway pretend ww has uhh curly hair. and literally no jawline. and also a normal/fat waist. and a thick ass neck jesus lordt #that's what my ww looks like <3 sowwy that's just how im built lmao #oh and the wrong nose. i have the wrong nose for every anime character 😔 #bitch ass half white half pinoy got me out here lookin like a gotdamned Freak lol <3 #the absurd amount of cookies in the past week probs hasnt been helping #i live alone and shit's hard yo 😭😭 #this also means i took all my goddamn photos myself and thus. the excessive cat bombing <3

[maybeimamuppet]

i also got to meet kristen smith davis!!!! and she was so lovely!!

#she’s married to olaf yall how can you not #pls ignore my entire me #also the costumes are WILD up close the detail #i also saw pabbie #and oaken #but they were busy so no photos :(

[cxpperhead]

Off topic but when I'm writing those caring for a child prompts, this is the picture that's always at the back of my mind.

#🐍 || ooc #;; delete later #!shitposting #It's that photo of the puppies stuck with a cobra #The puppies were rescued just fine they were just scared of the camera #But this is probably how it looks to others like Copperhead is so dangerous so those kids must be in danger??? #Nah he just watching out for them as best as a contract killer can do #Got a bit busy today but feeling better overall just cooking and cleaning #Work soon but just 4 hours tonight so an easy week! #First short week since... October? Maybe? #Was only meant to be part time so might actually get some rest in before half term!

[kuppikahvia]

Ain't no way me and my friends were interviewed for a newspaper because we were crazy enough to be at Lohja's marketplace at 10am and then they took photos and chose The ugliest photo ever taken of me 💀💀

#at least i'm happy with my answers to the questions #also yes i'm posting now because yesterday i was too busy but gkskfkskg #i'll try to share some photos maybe at some point today #käärijä #bc y'all know why we were there in the first place #neo.txt #im so tired

[baeshijima]

i dont think anyone understands just how mad i am at the fact i just missed the roses and muskets event, all bc i didnt finish furinas story quest 🧍‍♀️

#just genshin <3 #NO BC I WAS SO BUSY DURING THE TIME THE EVENT WAS RUNNING THAT I COULDNT PLAY IT AND THE MOMENT I COULD I WAS BLOCKED BY HER SQ #LITERALLY IN TEARS I JUST WATCHED UD PLAY THROUGH IT AND IM SO MAD BC ITS SUCH AN AMAZING EVENT QUEST THATS SO WELL WRITTEN AND THE CGS AND #CUTSCENES ????? CHEVREUSE ???????? CHIORI ??????????? LITERALLY THE WHOLE CAST ?????????? #IN TEARS I CANT BELIEVE THIS AND THE FACT U GET A BANNER + PHOTO TO PUT IN UR TEAPOT IM NOT OKAY WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE A LIMITED EVENT AND #WHY COULDNT I JUST TEMPORARILY LOCK FURINAS SQ TO DO IT (ik its lore important but idc ;w;) #anyway now that im done crying i will sleep 🫡 see u all tmrw with chevreueses bday art #also i find it so funny that the day after she releases we get her bday #sobs i love her and chiori sm they were so so so well written and ourgh #ayato my beloved... i only saw u get off the aquabus and then we were cockblocked afterwards.... smh..... #also his otto lines at the end... beloved its okay i support u whether ur a villain or not bc everything is red to me <3 #and yoi my pookie... my snookums sugarplum honeybunch.... wails #AND AYAKA OURGH CLUTCHES HEART #her and chevreuse made my heart happy ;w; AND AYATO JUST SUPPORTING HER IN THE BG WAS SO FUNNY PLS HES SUCH A BIG BRO IM LOVE HE SM

[dykestache]

happy first sunday of advent 🙇‍♂️🎄💒

#a day late but whatevs i was busy 😪🙏 #sad the pic doesnt show my dress n kotas skirt our full fits were so cute #photo diary #elfies #God loves transsexuals btw <3

[parameddic]

my boss was nice to me again i love working here this is horrible (i probably need to quit next year)

#kdfjlsdkfj #we were talking about taking photos of the business for the google business profile and i found the google maps street view and he said #'oh can we steal their photo?' and i said 'well we can definitely just print screen it and take it' and i #print screened and opened it in paint and cropped out google's overlay and he #LAUGHED so loudly oh my god #''aster ... It's very refreshing working with you. I like the way your mind works #I have the impression you're extremely bright.'' #george 🙈 you can't just SAY things like that my ego won't survive. it will inflate so much it pops #he recruited me to talk to his website-development company with him and then asked my opinion directly and i told him #that i thought they were a waste of $400/month when we don't need the service they're offering and we can do things without them #and he was so right in so many ways about. he was right i DID want to talk to them it was good fun #also right that i had an opinion i wanted to share but hadn't found a spot in the conversation for #and! he agreed with me! #i don't know man. i love working for this guy. he's good fun and he pays me all the way through lunch (even an hour's lunch) he's so #good #he is 76 and working for him forever is not practical and also i have life plans and goals but #.............................................................................................. #i do love working here yknow #aster talks #tbd #(tell me 'he sounds so cool!' in the replies if u have spoons. i want to agree with you loudly if you want to agree with me loudly)

[jpivot]

self portrait. physical form

#pivstuff #went to social event (college alumni weekend) & there were photos taken. so now i get to look at the photos & point saying ''there i am!'' #ive also been too busy lately to look at my haircut & form an opinion about it. but now ive found the time & i think its cool #and i like it a lot! #also wow this is my 600th post. congrats 2 me on 600 posts on main

[oatbugs]

. anyway after writing the tags 4 this post i told my research partner i will no longer follow his dreams lmao. still helping w it but i need to engage in research that i find satisfying

#i think ive been waiting for something for a while and i will spend the next year waiting for it too #i thought i felt panic but i have decided to read it as anticipation. the thrill of rejection or of moving forward or the latter as #a result of the former. i left you with your backpack unattended in the cafe because on fridays i am done #putting my life on hold for another whim-without-a-warning #this cross country service is delayed by 26 minutes so i will grab a bucket and start shovelling the water away from the tracks #everyone is moving on in some different way and im sorry if you think im mean for telling you getting so drunk will disable you from #recording your brainwaves effectively but it seems like you think i owe you an awful lot. one year ago in four days my friend got me hegel's #science of logic for my birthday and i thanked him for proving to me the existence of things this is what i do he said #and then he will spend the rest of his life breathing philosophy and i dont want to spend the rest of my life #breathing someone elses dreams i wait for the moment of realisation. this is now a 30 minute delay. i was supposed to worship beautiful #things and that is what i will do. i think i have a best friend and i know i have a lover and i know to #restrict my love the way you have. im sorry. i hope you understand when i tell you. i am now sitting on the floor in the luggage section of #this incredibly busy train and i saw a photo of her with her boyfriend and her hair in braids smiling like a fool this is the #except a week ago you told me you almost took too much this time to live. you are a beautiful girl with a beautiful soul and you know you #have already changed the world and it somehow was not enough. now you are smiling without any makeup on next to him #and yesterday you cried in an airport in the states when you were too full of love. this is the most extraordinary human being i have met. #tomorrow he heads off to princeton while his best friend heads to harvard. he goes there to make the world a better place. he is the most #extraordinary person i have ever met. the issue with human beings is that we are incredibly good at almost dying and keeping going. #you try to kill yourself and publish a paper and give a talk. you negotiate the seperation between your own parents and submit another #phd application. i am surrounded by extraordinary people with extraordinary minds and incredibly broken happy hearts. #i only see you smile when you talk about robotics. i still dont know how manifolds work and i love the concept anyway. i dont know. #i do know that i refuse to live unsatisfied. #you can keep drinking. im going to drink this reality up #i think i was a horrible person and i refuse to engage with that mentality again no matter what it takes.

[doesntseeyourbeauty]

✨ never be so polite, you forget your power ✨

happy birthday to my biggest inspirations, the ones i miss the most , my great-grandparents. i’m so glad that i got the chance to take them with me to my eras tour show and to sing marjorie with @taylorswift with them there

i still feel you all around 💖

#personal post #their birthday was actually Thursday but it’s been a busy fucking week #taylor swift #taylornation #the eras tour #marjorie #evermore #but yeah I sobbed all through marjorie while holding their picture #also pls ignore my chipped nail (it was acrylic paint and I managed to chip it) #also this was the first photo of them after they were married #I keep it in my wallet so they’re always with me

[cjgladback]

For the first time in a long while, I got to go to a white elephant gift exchange this December! We had a low price ceiling and my practically wins out over any practical joke sensibilities every time, so on the designated shopping day I left my local overstock store with a nice chopstick set, some fancy (not at all mess-free) popcorn, and a dream.

When I was growing up, my mom was an intrepid homeschooling parent who loved event planning, valued cultural exploration, and had married into a Japanese family. Multiple times - sometimes in the setting of a multicultural fair, at least once as a kind of class party (with celebratory takeout at the end) - she faced teaching large groups of children how to use chopsticks quickly and with as little cost and cleanup as possible.

Her answer was popcorn! It's edible, so you get the full motion down, and lightweight but large enough for less coordinated sticks to pinch. It has tons of nubbins to grab and widely varied shapes to experiment with. Specifically, we used air-popped kernels, without oil or toppings, so when it gets overzealously crushed or bounces away and gets missed by a broom, it's basically biodegradable styrofoam.

What I'm saying is, this is my mom's fault. Other than the choice to draw so many hands in one afternoon on the same day as the party, while also baking a snack. That's all me. This primer was delivered in the format of a tiny booklet (if you look up an "eight page zine" that's also a method I learned from my mom, to turn single-sided misprints into notepads), with fewer jokes and tips than I'd have liked because I simply did not have time to transcribe a hashi rest fold or hairstyle. But reformatted (for Mastodon) it looks fairly respectable.

Lengthy image descriptions and full poster format under the cut.

[ID: A title page reads "How to Use Chopsticks" in all caps. The words "without too much mess" are between two straight, orange lines, which start with round points at the left, evoking chopsticks, and end in flared shapes of a silhouetted splash on the right. Below the lower line are the words "by CJ Gladback." All the text is in black, the background is white but appears light orange due to a repeating geometric watermark pattern of CJ's logo in orange overlaid on the whole image; her handle on most sites is included once on each of the following spreads: @cjgladback​

Next is the first spread of four illustrations with their instructions. On the left half of page are two line drawings of a right hand holding one and then two chopsticks, with the text, "The first stick rests on the side of your ring finger's nail and the flesh between your thumb and index finger. Your middle finger's pad holds it securely while it can slide against your thumb as your hand changes posture in use. The second stick is held between the knuckle of your thumb and the middle section of your index finger. This is the one you move to change angles; it may touch but doesn't really rest on the middle finger's tip." In orange, two arrows indicate the rest points for the first stick while small hashes emanate from the points pressed on the middle and ring fingertips and under the thumb's joint holding the top stick. On the right upper quadrant of the page is the text "Hold them close to parallel to scoop." A hand holds two sticks poked into a bowl of rice between the viewer and the palm; a series of parallel orange lines emphasize the space between the sticks. The remaining quadrant's text reads, "Press with your index finger to pinch firmly." This hand is holding an indistinct rounded shape in its chopsticks, with an orange arrow indicating the rotation of the index finger's tip to press the top stick's point toward the bottom's.

Next is the final spread of the pamphlet. The upper right text reads, "Practice with something medium sized and low mess like (air-popped) popcorn." A single piece of popcorn is held in disembodied chopsticks above a full popcorn bowl, with several kernels fallen to the surface below it. Text below reads, "Pick up your dishes to bring close to your mouth to scoop the harder to grab foods." An implied tilted bowl of food (fried rice or porridge with diced pieces) protrudes off the page, covering only the lower left corner. Close-up chopsticks have their points buried in the food and their lines fade out toward the right. The final black text, underlined by two orange chopstick shapes, reads, "but most of all, do what feels comfortable and eat well!" In orange in the lower right corner, the parenthetical "(and maybe knit a scarf)" is followed by a small orange drawing of a steaming bowl of noodles and sliced egg with a noodle line trailing toward two upward angled sticks with loopy hashes indicating knit fabric hanging from them.

The final image is the full booklet in its web format, with the three previous images from this post stacked vertically. Some orange lines have been added between what were pages in the print booklet, to aid reading flow. /end ID]

#straight up ripping my entire caption from instagram cause (as you can see) i wrote it in a blogging mood #cj gladback #zine #how to #gift ideas #chopsticks #hashi #food #artists on tumblr #illustration #hold up -- once I uploaded multiple photos #not all at once but by clicking the ''add another'' button #THEN i can mouse over to add alt text? #or did the feature just finally reach me? #in the middle of starting this post #why would this be more captionable than the single image version of this #or the accidentally misordered sequence of these same files if i add them all at once #i want to understand but i do not #i guess since the little alt boxes started showing up on mobile relatively recently i could try scrolling back through the official pages #see if there's a full explanation of all processes #would expect the crowd i follow to have already reblogged and celebrated/critiqued if there were one but maybe they were busy #...and then i tried using my previous alt text copy pasta'd in there and it took about half of the first and shortest description so #i know i'm wordy but in this case it really only does its job for people who can't see it with a ton of description #could make it shorter but it would be a lot of editing time for probably still not getting it clear under the character limit #so hey have a clunky read more anyway #yep i started just typing the text on the pages and made it halfway through the second sentence #i'll try to remember to not complain about the lack of desktop alt text only very specific factors of it now #also having the read more gives me the excuse to share the full poster version of this without worrying about it being less legible #depending on the screen you're viewing from #gallery

[real-life-cloud]

:) 🧡

#the sky speaks #hiii i felt like rambling #im so busy lately!! retail job is exhausting and im working with my mom twice a week again #went to a yoga class with her on Sunday that was fun!! hard tho #and AUGGH. Christmas presents......... #i need to draw print and frame 2 pieces #make a blanket #and then when my mom isnt looking i need to organize her recipes. type them all up and print them out and find a like #pretty photo album type thing to put them in i think #i just bough stuff for my dad bc im making too much 😞 #and i hav other atuff i need to do too #i need to take lucy to the vet. i need to help my mom finish painting the kitchen. #i need to clean out my garden bc i never got to it in the fall. i need to text my friend and plan a gift exchange probably after new years #and FUCK. i need to get stuff for her cousin. i told them id get them a Christmas gift... but idk what theyd like ...... #its their first Christmas too!!!!!!!! (theyre an adult but we were all raised in a cult and they only just got out. long story) #so i defo wanna get them smthn #im a little bummed tho bc my friend never texted me for my bday #shes super busy + has memory issues + is not used to celebrating bdays (aforementioned cult stuff) so like i get it but now i feel awkward #cause like im fonna remind her when i do text her and its gonna make her feel bad but like. there is no hiding it #hmm i also need to make Christmas cookies for family n neighbors #and ive always wanted to look into mailing cookies!! i wanna send my internet friends cookies.... but again im so busy idk if i can thisyear #maybe i could do belated Christmas cookies.. new years cookies #on a sadder note ive been feeling very gender (bad edition) lately. especially todya #so weird that my family still calls me by my full name most of the time. and introduces me that way #and at work everyone calls me layn :) which is nice. some of my coworkers r trans too !! #i think i wanna get a pronoun pin for my uniform #but idk part of me wants to always introduce myself as layn and another feels off or insincere in that want. bc ive been helayna for so long #its just second nature to introduce myself with my full name. its less want and more muscle memory #speaking of names. ive thought of adding a new name. tryin one out. its been stewing for a while but i like the name owen #im running out of tags now whoopsie.. but yea theres a little life update ty for reading 💞