hey everyone! I’m going to be closing my shop from april 11th to april 18th in solidarity with other etsy sellers to protest etsy’s latest seller fee price hike and certain new policies you can read about below! you know I’m always complaining about their fees and how I prefer to be paid outside of etsy whenever possible. I hope you’ll join me and not cross the picket line from april 11th to april 18th! you know where to find me if there’s anything I have listed that you want to buy or you have an idea for a commission! 🖖🏻
Moss butterfly???
Caria chrysame psittacus, a type of metalmark butterfly known for its shimmery green markings. Photo credit: Kim Garwood
by Natalie Krim
Had me in the first half ngl
In the town where I grew up, there was a large statue in one of the parks, of a famous historical white colonizer. I'm not going to say who specifically, suffice it to say that it was someone who wasn't worth memorializing for their deeds. And as you can imagine, this statue was a frequent target of vandalism, with paint or toilet paper or eggs on multiple occasions. Now, the local council was generally pretty lax when it came to repairing potholes or other public damage in the town, but every time, 24 hours after this particular statue was hit, the same person would always appear in a Hi-Vis vest, hat, mask and sunglasses, carrying a bucket of water, and wash it clean. They would do it as quickly as possible, but always made sure the face and the name carved at the bottom were generously scrubbed. This only encouraged people to do it again, and so it became a vicious cycle.
Within a year, the statue had sustained so much damage that it was unrecognizable and the lettering unreadable, so eventually the council came and took it down. Also apparently, the person in the Hi-Vis vest didn't even work for the council. They were supposedly just some 'good samaritan' who cleaned it, often before the council even discovered it needed cleaning, so they just let them do it and ignored the problem. They didn't bother putting the statue up again.
Much later, we found out that the anonymous 'samaritan' had been deliberately washing the statue with a bucket of saltwater, which had dramatically corroded it, causing irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint ever would have done. It's even theorized that they were also often the one spray-painting it, just so that they had an excuse to come back after a day to wash it.
How it's made! Ok yes it skips about a hundred steps, eventually I will make a loong video of how I made this ceramic mushroom treestump :)
I want our lives to be like this
If you're happy and gay clap your hands. 👏 If you're happy and gay clap your hands. 👏 If you're happy and gay -but its based on emotional dependency... If you're happy and gay clap your hands👏
You can tell I go to a predominantly white school because my teacher said " how do you even be less white?!" And I said "eat less cheese" and nobody thought it was funny or understood it
Caught a whiff of autumn chill and woodsmoke in the air this morning, and I swear, something in me woke up and smiled with way too many teeth.
Any pronouns. Capricorn. Not a minor. Chaotic Good// Sapphic with a love of tea, gardens, plants, books, embroidery, and bugs
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