Tales from a Phoenix

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[dduane]

Heads up if you're a sewing hobbyist...

Buy those patterns you've been thinking about while you still can.

Parent Company of the Big 4 Sewing Pattern Brands Sold to a Liquidator - Craft Industry Alliance

The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidato

Craft Industry Alliance

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[organicclownfarm]

mark my words

redbubble / trans flag version

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[andry-di]

ALT

ALT

I never had the courage to ask if you wanted to be.

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[raphaerolo]

Codytine propaganda codytine propaganda

I love this drawing. I also imagine a Poor Mr Obi-Wan standing off the side trying to be supportive for Cody (who should get to live a normal life) and his ex (who should feel okay to move on) but he is feeling Very Left Out heeheehee

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[phoenixyfriend]

Hey all! It's been a while since I made one of these posts, buuuuut I have a reason. If you haven't see me talk about this before, here's a summary. If you have... well.

The only reason I'm still subscribed, really, is so I can do this: ask you guys to bother them.

See, I've been trying to get them to make a public statement about their New Moon collection, which uses the Quileute characters for merchandising without any compensation to the tribe, who have been very negatively impacted by this franchise overall; companies have been buying up their houses to establish as AirBNBs since it's a tourist area. They've also bought up all the properties in Forks, WA, for the same reason, which means fewer people actually hiring Quileute workers.

Colourpop hasn't said anything. In fact, they blocked me a month or two ago, though that might have had more to do with me doing something similar about their Lilo and Stitch collaboration. They also had this fun little habit of deleting or hiding comments from people who brought it up.

So! If you have social media, that's a place to drum up some commentary. If you don't, then the customer support form only needs your email address.

• instagram
• tiktok
• customer support form

For social media, you can say: Instead of 25% off for a sale, can you pledge 25% of profits from this collaboration to the Quileute Move to Higher Ground fundraiser?

For the customer support form, I've got a few options in my colourpop tag, but here's an old one:

Keep reading

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[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#are the cishets ok

Yes, this kid is clearly killin it

[kjell-e]

i’d like to clarify that tag: this is not directed at the child (trying to contextualize or repeat something they saw on tv, as children do), but at the parent who interprets this as (heterosexual) flirting, which I know is often parent behaviour, but I find it always irritating. The kid is fine tho, I hope they have some colorful kids clothes with huge prints (and maybe an anklet )

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

We also have no idea whether the parent is cishet or not, but in either case the concern is pretty reasonable. A boy who's too young to likely be interested in girls on his own adopting behaviours to "attract females" does sound like he might have been listening to alpha male shit. But nope, he's imitating flirting birds. It's a pretty direct description of what's going on.

It is very annoying when parents go out of their way to assign nonexistent romantic actions to a kid's behaviour (one of my clients used to say her toddler son was "into cougars" becuase he'd charm old ladies at the library, and when he had two best friends -- on a boy and one a girl -- he'd often call the girl his "girlfriend" (the boy was not called his boyfriend) and refer to it as "flirting" when he gave her flowers and stuff, which he also did with his other friend and attracted no such comment) but this parent is just describing what's happening. The birds are flirting. The kid is learning that behaviour. To 'attract females', like the boy birds in the documentaries.

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[interdimentionalsnapdragon]

READ THIS IF YOU PLAN TO BOYCOTT YOUTUBE LONG-TERM

get an invidious account. it is an alternative front-end to youtube, allowing you to make an account, subscribe to channels, make playlists, and all the other things you use youtube for; all without giving the company a single cent. swearing off youtube long-term is a tall ask, so you can use this to still follow the creators you want to keep up with while continuing the youtube boycott. it has a built-in adblock and anti-tracker, meaning that you can really keep fucking them over.

it doesnt interact with the API at all, it scrapes the metadata to make sure they get as little as possible.

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[theinkwaygame]

Warmup doodle turned into unnecessary overcooked doodle because perfectionism took over

“Can you believe this guy?”

Local Mandalorian bitching about his secret warrior cult hunting Ba’buir to his two (only) friends who are apart of said secret warrior cult

[phoenixyfriend]

#He can’t even make proper Mandalorian friends #Their spacers ones #Loser
#I have thoughtssss about these AUs #Rex knows what a Jedi is #He knows what Jedi can do #Anakin and Ahsoka aren’t even subtle #But he can’t stop BITCHING about his GRANDPA #And he will willingly ignore this fact till he’s done (via @theinkwaygame)

Oh good, I went into the tags to figure out if Rex knows his buddies are Jedi. What I’m getting from this is that Anakin and Ahsoka are as subtle about being Jedi as Anidala are about being married in TCW.

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[bastam]

Little bit funny how people's dislike of Harry Potter has now lapsed into like complete and total dismissal. The other day I was at a flower show and the theme for the displays at this particular flower show were book themed. And of course an admiring crowd went round and did the circuit of displays, ooh-ing and aah-ing at various renditions of The Railway Children and Little Red Riding Hood and taking photos. All extremely cool. And then they got to the Harry Potter section and there was just a complete blank look on a lot of people's faces. They didn't even comment like with the other displays, they simply walked by giving each other what-the-fuck-is-this shrugs. My sister is getting offered the opportunity to go to Harry Potter World by her college for art purposes this year and she said people were so distinctly unpsyched by even the offer of a very cheap coach trip and abysmally low priced tickets that they were already counting themselves out of the trip months in advance. There are stores with discount Gryffindor lunchboxes and scarves piling up desperately by the masses. Little stickers on them denoting price drops. Some stickers on top of others. Nobody gives a fuck about Harry Potter. It's all terribly exciting. I hope the HBO show is the nail in the coffin and we can finally put this shambolic corpse to a stake through the chest rest

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[pyrus-salicifolia]

“Normal” test results are not the relief people think they are. When you wake up in pain and continue to be in pain for hours every day and your tests come back normal you don’t stop being in pain.

[yardsards]

when *routine* tests come back normal: a good sign! your body continues to function as it should!

when *diagnostic* tests come back normal: bad! this means you're gonna have to do even more tests in hopes of finding out whatever the fuck is clearly going wrong in your body