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'Human Being' necklaces by Boucheron: Rain, Flower, Light, Tattoo, and Checkers.

From the 2026 Carte Blanche collection.

Human Being: Tattoo necklace by Boucheron.

From the 2026 Carte Blanche collection.

'Victorian tattoos, carved into stone.

To create the illusion of a real tattoo, the ancient art of glyptics was used to carve sculptural forms into the reverse side of smoky quartzes, giving a bas-relief effect.

Since this engraving technique doesn’t allow for the use of color to bring out its finer details, these can only be revealed through subtle variations in depth. To achieve perfect symmetry across the repeated motifs, the artisan invented over 200 of their own tools to craft these pieces.

3,740 hours of work for the set.

They can be buttoned together in a stack (footrest mode), buttoned together in a square (big floor cushion mode), or used individually (cushions mode).

I started off with this big 1-metre square foam floor cushion, which I liked but was hard to store when not in use.

I wanted to keep the option of a big floor cushion without it having to just lurk behind the sofa. At the same time, I wanted an extra footrest. So I decided to find a way to make the cushion convertible in some way.

For a while I toyed with having it fold up like a monopoly board. But I couldn't come up with a way to construct and secure the cover without bulky zips everywhere.

So then I considered just making four separate cushions that could be secured together in different configurations. For a while my best idea was to have something like a belt or strap, which could either go around the circumference of the 2x2 floor layout, or around the stack. But I didn't like the idea of having to deal with that band as a loose separate item.

@cassolotl had the genius idea to use loops to chain up the sides to keep the cushions together in a stack. I was doubtful at first because it didn't solve the problem of attaching them together in the floor layout. But then I figured out that adding buttons in the right place relative to the loops would make it possible to secure all three configurations. Which I'll demonstrate at the end of the post!

So the first step was cutting the big cushion down into four equal pieces. Well, the first-first step was trimming it down to clean up the section that was destroyed by my rabbit, who liked to burrow against the cushion and somehow managed to shred the foam *through* the cover.

I cut the foam with a hand saw, which was quite easy and satisfying.

Then making the cushion covers. I made strips of straight-cut binding and tucked loops into the corners while I sewed together the side pieces of the cover.

I decided to add piping to the top for aesthetics and structure. I've never done piping before but it wasn't too bad to get the hang of.

Because I dislike both zips and buttons (not specifically sewing with them, but just generally coming into contact with them in life) I decided not to bother making any closure on the underside of the cushions. Instead I just made the bottom piece of the cover in two triangles with a diagonal opening across the middle. A bit of strategic reinforcement stitching at the corners got the balance between making it possible to insert the cushions without the flaps flapping around too much.

Now for the details of the loop/button system. Each loop is positioned halfway up the height of the cover, at the corner. Each cover has two loops, at diagonally opposite corners. The loops extend 10cm, which is the exact thickness of the cushion foam.

Exactly 10cm to the right of each loop, I sewed on a big wooden button, also halfway up the height of the cushion.

For separate cushions mode, each loop is simply wrapped over its own neighbouring button to keep it from waving around or catching on things.

For big floor cushion mode, the cushions are butted together with their loop-corners touching each other around the perimeter of the square.

At each connection point, the loops from *both* cushions are wrapped around the button exposed on the perimeter. This holds all of the cushions together around the outside, and friction keeps them from slipping around in the middle.

For footrest mode, the loops are chained up through each other - the bottom cushion's loop is wrapped around the second cushion's loop, which wraps around the third cushion's loop, which wraps around the top loop.

Then, the top loop wraps around its own button to secure the chain.

Penny Rose: Babbles in Baby

All of tumblr collectively at my husband:

Husband: you don’t even have to understand taxes yet! I can explain them but you’ve got several years before that’s relevant!

Penny Rose: wide eyes, staring at her father, almost intrigued

THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND

Husband: Now Penny there is a lot of misinformation out there in the world and I hate to tell you this but the moon is in fact not made of cheese. That is a conspiracy theory pushed by Big Dairy.

1) Did you participate in baby talk to make up for your husband's deficit, or did you also opt to speak to the Deals Warlock like a very tiny adult from babyhood?

Something funny that has happened is that while she formally calls me Mama when she's answering me in passing she does call me "My Darling Love" and I don't know for sure but I think it's because I call her and her father "my loves" and her father calls me and her "darlings" and she's created a mash up 😂

Penny Rose is now 5 years old and she

1. Starts talking the moment she opens her eyes to the moment she passes out at night

2. Asks, and I am not exaggerating I counted, an average of 892 questions a day

3. Does not accept "I don't know" as an answer to said questions, will usually have a follow up question as to why you don't know OR a suggestion on how we can find out together

Ok, it's taken me SIX YEARS to make this. But I did it! It's done! Please watch it!

(No AI used fuck AI)

It's my first animation project, which is why it took so long. I had to learn to animate to make it. It's only a bit over 2 minutes, but I made it the best I possibly could. Please please please watch it. I am so proud of it.

It's a trailer for my first novel- a late YA scifi/superhero book.

Is it absurd to make a fully animated book "trailer" for a book that's been out for 6 years, with voice acting and commissioned music (by the fantastic @plottwiststudios) ? I mean yes. Of course. I'm not even doing this for real marketing purposes because this is a ridiculous thing to do. I don't even really think it'll sell books but the process of making it made me really really happy.

I love my fictional disaster queers, and I love my book, and when I was a kid I thought I'd grow up to be an animator. I've always loved animation, and I really, really enjoyed making something animated myself. I'm really proud of how it turned out.

Please watch it. Please share it.

If it does make you actually want to read the story, you can get it as an ebook, paperback, or audiobook. (the ebook is currently free)

I start my next animation project- a fake anime opening credits for book 3 in this series, starting next month.

Thought Catalog:

Taylor Momsen was 16 and onstage at Vans Warped Tour in the summer of 2010 when a photographer knelt in front of her and shot up her dress. Her tampon string was visible in the frame. "Taylor Momsen's tampon string" became a breakout search term tied to her name, the image surfacing on Google whenever fans looked her up for years after.

She'd landed Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl at 14, signed with Interscope, and was touring with her band The Pretty Reckless by 16, the same age she was upskirted onstage. Perez Hilton put the image on his homepage under a slut-shaming headline she says she doesn't remember word for word, only that it ran along the lines of "What a slut. Look how trashy Taylor is."

On his own site on June 28, 2010, Hilton acknowledged the photos were out there, writing that "more grotesque pictures from this event" showed "a tampon string tangling from down there" and claiming in that post he'd spare readers by not running them. Momsen's memory is that the image did land on his homepage with a shaming headline.

She broke it down on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy in November 2025. "A) I'm underage. The violation. And the headline was very negative," she said. "That kind of concept is so invasive and I laugh about it now and I laughed about it probably a week later because there's nothing you can do about it, but that's the kind of press that we're talking about."

She'd revisited the ordeal earlier on the podcast Podcrushed, calling it "embarrassing." The photo is no longer on Hilton's site, and he's since called the incident "gross" and "unfortunate."

Polish folks LARPing as Americans, some photographs of (by Maciej Margielski)

More phots here.

I just finished playing what is supposed to be the final run of this game, a few days ago. And I’m actually from this kind of Ohio, though I got out over a decade ago.

(When the in-game candid pictures from my run come out, I’ll absolutely share them with you all!!!)

There are a few features or events and/or characters that, if it were up to me, I would add to flesh out the world a little bit. But there’s not a single thing I would take away. Nothing felt inaccurate or overly stereotypical, even the way the players embodied their characters. Which is amazing, given how many of them aren’t even Americans, let alone white trash (or white trash-adjacent) Ohioans like I’ve been.