Exciting announcement - to be published simultaneously in English and Japanese (19th August), an official guide for Witch Hat Atelier! "Archives of Witch Hat Atelier" will include exclusive illustrations, lore notes on elements from the manga, and even a commentary on chapter 1! Shirahama is reportedly self publishing this and there's currently a preorder discount until the 18th of August.

It can be preordered here, and you can also snag some wallpaper downloads while you're at it.

cast & crew wages: $1,200 + uber eats

fake blood (assuming generous discount on bulk purchase): $2,000,000 i am so not kidding i did the math this is nuts

Magic air fryer

This is why magic is a trade secret

is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?

why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?

core concept: what is gender essentialism?

is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?

look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?

So I started looking into the Penkala pencil and pen because I love pens and pencils.

And I found that just off the main square in Zagreb there is a little workshop of Vlasta Keranović, a master craftswoman of fountain pen repair and maker of a replica of the 1906 original Penkala mechanical pencil.

She is in her 80s and took over the shop when her husband passed. He was an engineer that made many of the tools. A nice article here

Her tiny workshop has a little museum of sorts of original Pankala advertising, boxes, different models and finishes. In her work she uses lots of antique fountain pen parts but the Penkala cases are more for show than the other cases and drawers of materials.

My Croatian is nonexistent. English is ever so slightly better than my Croatian, so we spoke to each other in German. (I did ask permission to take photos in her workshop/museum)

She was very kind and originally feared she was out of the replicas she makes but digging around in her treasure trove of fountain pens and pen parts she located one for me and the lovely replica box. Added a container of additional lead “a gift from me to you” and a little history of the pencil.