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āWhen I was growing up, I was trying to make a connection between the life I saw, and the life I lived. There are days when you wonder what your role is in this country, and what your future is in it. This is one of them.ā ā James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), a novel by James Baldwin, adapted by Barry Jenkins (teaser)
Sticking it under a readmore but this is how i make my shirts etc for like a fiver's worth of materials. I am far from being an expert btw im just playing with chemicals. also probably do this in a ventilated area or something
You will need:
Bleach (I use thick toilet bleach it's like 80p)
The thing you want to bleach onto (In this case, a tote bag for a friend. usually i thrift old black shirts.) You should do a patch test before any real bleaching -- dab a tiny bit on the inside of a hem somewhere before you commit. I don't show that below because i forgot to do it but you should. You should ALSO iron the thing before you bleach it. So it's flat. Do as I say not as I do etc.
Something to put inside / between your garment and the table (Asda brand weetabix box babyyy)
Paintbrush (Mine is from a multipack from Poundland. I also accidentally left it in bleach last time and it kind of dissolved so I had to cut off the most egregious of the stray bristles.)
Chalk (For snacking) (I'm joking please don't eat the chalk) (I only have big pavement chalk, again, from Poundland, but you can get a good point with a craft knife)
Step one: move the cat
Step two: insert cereal box into / behind the thing you are bleaching.
Step three: chalk on your design. this is the logo of a wine brand i have never tried but i like the snail. It can be super rough or very precise, whichever helps you know where to put your lines.
As you can tell it's easy to move stuff and redo it by just smudging the chalk away, or, worst case scenario, giving it a wash. Though that sucks if you're impatient like me bc you do NOT want to bleach this while it's wet. Once you're happy with your design, smack it around a bunch to take off most of the chalk, so you wind up with a vague outline. I didn't get a pic of this stage but here's what the iasip one looked like:
Step four: Acquire your bleach and put it in the special bleach jar your hosuemates labelled so you would stop drinking normal water out of it. Accept that Nyx hates you for not letting her drink it.
Step five: Go for it man. The bleach is kinda goopy so don't expect it to come out like paint, but it does mean that you can control the line crispness and width quite easily depending on how hard you press the brush down. I find it really helps for stuff like serif fonts.
You can dilute your bleach with water, which can help it get into all the little crevices esp if your fabric is a little bumpy, but do another small patch test before committing to anything on the main piece, because some fabrics absolutely suck up water and your lovely crispy lines will blow out like an old tattoo. don't do it. Unless you want that look, in which case get silly with it
The other weird thing abt it is obviously that you can't see what you painted right away, it takes a couple seconds to show up, so it's a pretty slow process. The fabric will first go darker where you painted, then lighten from orange to a pale yellow over about 30 seconds. DON'T go "this bleach aint shit" and paint over it to make it lighten faster -- overbleaching it can weaken the fabric and make it tear.
Tragic.
Here are some progress shots of the snail! When you're finished, you should wait for it to develop properly, but it depends how light you want it to be. I let the lines sit for a while before doing the details, and then washed it a bit prematurely so they'll stay a little darker. For nice pale yellow you want to wait around an hour.
Step six: drown her
Nice cold water, wash out all the remaining bleach and chalk. I chucked it in the wash for ten minutes because it's a weird shape and size to wash in the sink and I'm a lazy bastard. but handwashing works just as well.
Step seven: revel in your new bootleg merch. You made that. You did that. thrive. go forth and make weird shit.
a good last step is to neutralize the bleach once youāre done
If you skip this step, bleach can continue damaging the fabric over time and cause weak spots or holes. - Instructables Tutorial
and from a more detailed tutorial:
ToĀ neutralize bleach on clothes after bleach art, rinse the fabric with cold water first, apply a diluted 3% hydrogen peroxide solution, rinse again, then wash the garment separately. This helpsĀ stop the bleach reaction, deactivate bleach residue, and protect the fabric before the first wash.
and
Typical ratio: 1 part hydrogen peroxide to 10 parts water
this is a good shout! the tutorial was just how i do it on a budget, and I've only ever had one thing disintegrate, BUT if you wanna do it properly then neutralising your bleach is best practice
I think Shane was a character who, soon as I read him, made all the sense to me. I felt immediately a kinship and an ownership over Shane. I was like, āI need to be the only person to tell this story. I get it. I want to be the person to be Shane and I want to spend time with him.ā [x]
(sources below)
PANEL 1
Out
PANEL 2 (fear/desire)
The Permanent Rain Press
PANEL 3 (vegas bathroom)
Numero Netherlands
PANEL 4 (tears)
Harper's Bazaar
PANEL 5 (ilya inverse)
Teen Vogue
Image: [x]
PANEL 6 (additions) (4 gifs)
Numero Netherlands
Entertainment Weekly
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what they DONT tell you about clarinets is that you have to fucking build the damn thing every single time. "what instrument do you play" fucking legos man idk
about build clarinets damn do DONT every fucking fucking have idk instrument is legos man play" single tell that the they thing time. to what "what you you you
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I like the idea in fantasy that humans are better at maintaining things long term because they set up societies or professions to do it whereas dwarves and elves and stuff are like ājust get bob to do it heās got a good few hundred years leftā and then bob doesnāt teach anyone else how to do it
Human: Wait thatās why thereās ruins of elven cities even though you live for so long? You just keep not asking people how to do things? How do you learn anything?
Elf: Thereās a lot of āyouāve got time to figure it out on your ownā attitudes floating around in our society that Iām starting to question somewhat.
Elf: Impossible! Those metalworking techniques were lost a hundred years ago!
Human: What do you mean lost? My great-grandmother learned to make these swords from an elven smith, then taught it to her kids.
Elf: That's ridiculous. No elf would give such secrets to a human.
Human: They didn't. Meemaw delivered the metal to the forge, and no one kicked her out when she stayed and watched. She always said they barely acknowledged her even when doing business with her, like she wasn't worth noticing.
Elf: Come to think of it, my great-uncle always was rather single-minded when he started working.
Human: So he wasn't ignoring her, he just forgot she was there?
Elf: Oh, he was definitely ignoring her, too. He was super racist.
one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kidā¢ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.
DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOUāRE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.
One of my college professors used to sayĀ āanything worth doing is worth doing poorly.āĀ I didnāt understand that for years because I didnāt do anything poorly, I couldnāt do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.
But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.Ā Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.Ā Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.Ā Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I donāt have the energy to go anywhere.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorlyā¦ because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.
You must understand that perfectionism isnāt striving for excellence, itās a crippling fear of being flawed and therefore worth abandonment or punishment. Itās a kind of psychological avoidance. Youāre avoiding fear and failure , not embracing the thing you want to do bc if it was about the thing you want to do youād be fine with partial victory.
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[OP ID: panel of a stick figure sitting on a bench outside, looking around alertly or nervously, labeled (took action) and thinking "I think this was worth it."
RB ID: full comic of the first image. a tired stick figure gets up from a computer desk, labeled "pushing the chair in." they cross their arms and look doubtful. they walk out a door and think "will this help?" the last panel is original post, sitting outside having took action and thinking "i think this was worth it."]
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