✯⯰ everyone get more materialist right now ⯰✯

Photoshoot with Portobello the bunny

you wake up a few times halfway through the night you wander off to the bathroom before making it back and quickly falling back asleep. you hear some words and you think they're your partner but you might be imagining it. there's a loud banging noise but god knows where it's coming from. someone asks you about classes tomorrow but you don't remember if they really did or if you just imagined it. you go to the bathroom again only to realize once you're there that you never got up out of bed.

I think a lot about this kind of thing.

we need to take the time to have these conversations with very young people. we need to be willing to earnestly ask what they've observed that is leading them to ask the question, to get a better sense of where and how these valuations are being socially reproduced in their life.

when adults avoid teaching kids about systems of power (misogyny, racism, etc.) kids still absorb these social lessons, they just do so without the context they need to not internalize socially constructed hierarchies (i.e. sexgender, race) as natural facts about the world.

I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.

Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.

So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.

Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.

Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.

Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.

I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.

If it pleases the counsel to consider:

Left is MY FIC, right is the ACTUAL BOOK QUOTE IT WAS INSPIRED BY

(Mask context: masquerade ball / cinderella au)

It has been doing numbers EVERYWHERE and I only found out from this lovely person who commented on Ao3:

bodily autonomy

war

men (general)

men (specific)

feminism and contemporary politics