Fan Art, Fan Fiction and More

They have funded successful campaigns in other countries to make homosexuality illegal and punishable by death. They strongly support conversion therapy.

and like. I don't think shopping at shitty stores makes you a bad person. but consider that in order to live according to our principles sometimes it may be necessary to accept inconveniences. whether that means shopping online or driving a further distance than we'd like, or saving up to buy more expensive supplies, or whatever.

Some alternatives:

For yarn:

https://hobbii.com/yarn

https://www.yarn.com/pages/yarn

Art supplies:

^"controversies" section has sourced info about the contraceptives and more about the smuggling, and endangerment of employees as well as the "he gets us" superbowl ad campaign.

Hobby lobby 2023 tax returns. The biggest donations ($6+ million , twice) are to Vanguard charitable endownment program, possibly to hide controversial donations. There are also donations to many different universities and fraternities/sororities, and a few churches, as well as a single, comparatively small, donation to a planned parenthood location in Houston, TX.

In 2012, Hobby Lobby donated the Northfield campus to the National Christian foundation. The building was estimated to be worth $20.000.000 at the time.

straw animals design (etsy store) plushies and accessories, including some knitted patterns. beginner friendly!

green frog crochet (website store). mostly doll patterns, very pretty and totally worth the time and effort. they also sell full kits for some of the patterns, that include all supplies except for crochet hooks and fiberfill. also, youtube channel with tutorials.

moonlight crochet (etsy store). mostly doll patterns, lots of clothes you can adapt to dolls of similar sizes

yan schenkel (website store for individual patterns) has several books out that i really love. it took a bit of digging to figure out if this online store selling the pdf versions is legit and i found that the publisher sells directly through them. there are three pattern books (1, 2, 3) with animal plushies.

natura crochet (website store) has colorful animal and holiday themed patterns, plus two books of aquatic themed patterns. same publisher/seller as above.

hanichan (website store) has a distinct and minimalist style that i think is very beginner friendly. there are also useful general tutorials for amigurumi.

aquariwool crochet (etsy store). a lot of colorful and fun animal patterns. i haven't bought anything from them yet but i have a few saved and honestly just looking through the patterns makes me happy.

make me roar (website store). one of the more unique styles i've seen out there, especially these.

jo handmade design (etsy store). both plushies and more realistic toys, the patterns are very well written and illustrated.

The founder of GoImagine refuses to go public or sell the platform: NO SHARE HOLDERS TO APPEASE!!

They have a STRICT vetting process for sellers: NO BOTS, NO AI, NO DROP SHIPPING, HAND MADE CRAFTS ONLY!!

You can narrow down stores you're shopping from by STATE! EASILY SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES!!

2% of every sale transaction is donated to charity!!!

This is baked into the platform. Right now they're partnered with four different charities to fight childhood hunger, provide relief childcare for families dealing with domestic violence, end childhood homelessness, and fund art accessablity. HELPING KIDS!!!!

I have a shop there that I will be stocking soon! If you're a creator, their basic ship front is FREE and you get 12 listing slots! The next size up is only $5 a month and you get 200 listings, and the topn you're at $15 gives you 1,000 product listings and a whole ass customizable store front website. That's cheaper than anything else on the market rn.

Current downsides that will not remain downsides: they're only available in the USA but they're planning on expanding into Canada soon. And they've been mostly focused on growing their seller side, so not a lot of buyers know about them yet. But!!! That why I tell everyone I can! Shop with them! List your products with them! Use a platform that has a dedicated mission for community good and is there to support sustainable creator markets, not create endless bloated corporate growth!!!!

Some Ways to Keep a Short Story Short: a very long blog post

there's nothing wrong with writing a short story! there are lots of good short stories that revolve around Interesting Ideas. What if I was my own mother. What if fish people were real and also (evil) living in massachusetts. What if you were your own worst enemy, literally. lots of good short stories there, all at just the right length for a cool idea. no one is going to go see the feature-length adaptation of William Wilson though, because that's it. unless you add in a tragic backstory and a love interest and so on and unfortunately there are a lot of novels and movies running around out there that clearly were meant to be a short story before someone took them and stretched them to a silly length.

your short story doesn't even have to be short! herman melville wrote over 100 pages of a guy who hated his job so much he died of being a hater the end. good show, herman. thank you

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and also, the way fanfic does smut is so interesting to me

it's pretty much the only medium where you will get deep, nuanced examinations of themes like life and death, religion and societal structures, where people drawn complex psychological profiles, lay bare all of their characters' neuroses, insecurities, and unspoken needs through the medium of pornography

and there's something so serious about it. I think humans have always loved smut and sex, and there's something unique about fanfiction's unashamed approach to it, about fanfic authors taking smut completely seriously as a tool in the storytelling toolbox just like anything else, sex as not something that is superfluous or forbidden or shameful, but something that is part of the vast array of human experience and deserves to be treated with the same seriousness and care as any other aspect of it

& idk how this will develop in the future with the rise of puritan sentiments in the wider culture, as more and more places on the internet ban or restrict explicit materials, if we stand at the precipice of a massive backslide

but I think that in 200 years, some literary scholar would be delighted to read today's smutty fanfic precisely because it is amateur and unpolished, a pure, raw expression of the writer's humanity unconcerned with marketability or mass appeal

so i live in boorloo (perth) which is on noongar country and 1. i fucking love the noongar seasons it’s so much more accurate to here 2. should be noted that other season stereotypes are completely different! there’s ONE native deciduous tree here (common coral tree) and it blooms in the middle of july, which to a greater point! different native plants are always blooming all year round! the traditional “spring” period doesn’t really that many more (native) flowers than any other time of the year!

It has 6 "seasons", mostly determined by wildfire risk. One of those seasons: Wildfire Time is 5 months, from November to March.