Also I hope everyone knows that Miette was fostered before she was adopted, and her foster mom loved that little kitten so much and always hoped she’d gone to a good home. this tweet got so popular that she recognized Miette and reached out to her current mom, and was able to share previously unseen baby pictures
This is what mass consumerist art has done to the idea of selling that as a product when it's so clearly fine art. Like, with the effort she's putting in x20 for a decent wage and materials?? That's a $80,000 piece of art a member of the landed gentry would commission a year in advance for his wife on their 20th wedding anniversary. This is a priceless heirloom. How can you say "Oh yeah, I wanna buy it, you should sell them" as if you could ever turn something like this into a product??
This is fine art, period. That piece will be in a museum, or if not is should be in a museum in a hundred years.
I just said to my wife, "oh, look at this beautiful autistic person, this is autistic culture," when I sent her the link. And half a second later I said, "and I think she has the same headphones we do."
But truly, this is incredible fine art. Fuck. I love that little moth.
Holy shit YES this nails something I have been trying to put words to for ages.
One of my friends was a great lacemaker, he made a 6ft by 6ft buckspoint veil for his wife for their wedding, sprigged all over with meaningful flowers and fruits and stuff (Things like her favourite flower, but also representations of both his and her mother's wedding bouquets, the blossom trees from an orchard they went to on a memorable date, hydrangeas from her grandparents' garden, sweet peas which grew wild around their first house together... Something 180 sprigs in all, some of them just little things the size of a postage stamp but lots of them bigger than A4-size, just a truly nightmarish amount of work) - And people often asked "Can I buy one like it? How do I get one of those?" And her answer was always "Marry a lacemaker, and have a five year engagement while he makes it."
Because this is absolutely money-can't-buy it work... Unless you are someone's patron. Like, fully "I have contracted this artisan to work for me, I am paying all of their expenses for as long as it takes to make this, because it is both mentally and physically taxing work that will take them months or years of work, and I will keep paying them for months and years after it is done because they will have committed so much time to me and shaped their style so much in tandem with my needs that they now are exponentially more valuable to me than to anyone else" With an extra portion of "I may have just burnt all my money because if they die with it unfinished nobody else will complete this for me."
But that exact idea of, you CAN pay for this, but you aren't buying a product, you are commissioning a work which will both be the life's work of the creator (at least, for the period that they are making it) and that will potentially change the face of the craft forever beyond it. (SOMEONE commissioned the Lindisfarne Gospel, someone commissioned the Mona Lisa.) ...Feels important.
Commissioned work deserves its pay; mass-production by its nature cannot be commissioned and cannot achieve the same results. I.e. you pay what its worth. You can't demand Art and expect to pay cheap
My favourite thing about Éowyn and Faramir is that when Éowyn tells Faramir she’s in love with Aragorn, his response is basically “well duh, who isn’t.” He truly gets Éowyn, not only because he has similar experiences with despair and grief, but also because the two of them feel the exact same way about Aragorn.
Strictly, canonically speaking, Faramir isn’t in love with Aragorn, but his old-school Medieval fealty has the level of passion and intensity that a modern reader tends to associate with romantic love. (Though of course he isn’t an outlier in a series about passionate friendship and fealty.) The first time Faramir ever saw Aragorn, in the Houses of Healing, “a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes” and he immediately volunteered to do anything his king asked of him, even though he had just woken up from life-threatening illness and probably didn’t have the strength to get out of bed under his own power. And what he offers to Éowyn, among other things, is this: you can continue to love Aragorn as your king and captain, we can both love him that way, and love each other with a quieter peacetime love.
I've gotten a few notes on a few different posts where someone in the tags brags about intentionally "body checking" someone else when they're in their way.
For example on a post I made about leaving the way clear for people exiting elevators or public transportation instead of standing right in front of the door blocking it I got a few notes from people saying "haha yeah I always give someone a good body check if they do this and I love seeing the shocked and offended look on their face"
or on a post about leaving room for the flow of traffic I had people in the notes bragging about giving "body checks" to people in their way on a sidewalk or in a hallway.
Do. Not. Ever. Ever. EVER intentionally bump into people aka give them a "body check". Anyone who brags about this kind of behavior in my notes is getting blocked. You are literally physically assaulting someone and then bragging about it. Physically assaulting another person is actually a lot worse than accidentally being in someone's way, and I have no tolerance for it.
The times in my life where someone has intentionally "body checked" me have been when I was disassociating and/or about to pass out from low blood sugar, or quite literally was as far off to the side as possible (literally up against a wall or packed up against other people in a crowded area) and every time this has happened it has ended in me having a full blown panic attack that I need to take emergency meds to come down from due to my PTSD.
You never know why someone could be in your way. They could be visually impaired. They could be disassociating. They could be about to pass out from low blood sugar. They maybe just experienced a disturbing or traumatic event that's shut down their pre-frontal cortext. All sorts of things. So congrats I guess on physically assaulting someone who might be disabled or disassociating or about to faint from low blood sugar. You sure are showing them.
Not only that, but it's unsafe for you too. There are violent and unstable people in this world, and you might "body check" the wrong person one day. I had a friend in secondary school who would brag about this kind of behavior, and when I was talking to my aunt about it one day she said to me "one day your friend is going to do that to the wrong person and find herself cleaning herself up off the floor."
And if you're only "body checking" people you think it's "safe" to, people who you're pretty sure won't be able to fight back? People smaller and weaker looking than you? Congrats, not only are you definitely a bully then, but you're also perpetuating systems of social injustices in this world like ageism and ableism by only going after "the weak".
can also see how this could be dangerous to rollator users . and yes , easy enough to think oh , would never do this to someone with mobility aids - but truth is will not necessarily always see mobility aids before snap decisions like this .
weight of rollator will depend on several factors , but 7 to 9 kg seem like fairly average guess . rollator users , naturally , can weigh 10 or ( many ) more times that . if balance of rollator user is thrown off , that rollator can easily glide ahead . given purpose as mobility aid , very likely for user to have at least one hand on rollator - which means that person will follow , and fall , and possibly get very hurt . this is true even with brakes on - brakes mean very little against full weight of person .
even one small snap decision can seriously hurt someone .
Really important point. When the doors for an elevator or public transportation open, and you see someone standing what you deem too close to the door, you really do only have a second or two to decide between a) saying excuse me or asking them to move b) just squeezing around them if you're really in a hurry and have no time to ask them to move or c) giving them a "body check" to punish them for being in your way.
And yes, you are 100% correct, in the second or two you have to decide between those options, you might not notice a mobility aid, and if you go for option c for a mobility aid user you can seriously hurt them.
Also, not everyone who is physically disabled and at serious risk of being hurt from a "body check" uses a mobility aid. My mom really should be using a mobility aid, she has vertigo so badly she sometimes has to old onto my arm if we go anywhere together in public, and she has really bad arthritis in her feet that make it harder for her to walk at quicker than a shuffling pace. And yet because of her not wanting to look "too old" she refuses to use mobility aids, and insists on running errands by herself on days her vertigo isn't "too bad". But if someone were to get annoyed with my mother, who moves extremely slowly and often wobbles from side to side, and they decide to give her a "body check" due to their impatience, they could seriously hurt her.
Also, my mom often uses accessories like wigs to try to hide her age, so even though she's pushing 70, when she's wearing a wig it's not always obvious. So if you think "Well, I would never do that to an old person" it's not always obvious, some people don't look their age and/or are good at hiding their age.
Johnny... doesn'thate joytoys. People caught that, right? He literally tells you at JigJig Street that he doesn't. The whole deal with Clouds isn't (totally) his being mysoginistic or hating sex workers Just Because - he's pitching a fit from the moment you go to rescue Ev precisely because
A. he's a tired anti-corpo ex-military anarchist who's just seen how little effect his act of literal terrorism had on making a difference. And Judy's plan is gonk and doomed to fail. He knows it. He even tells you at one point that he still probably would have been right there with the two of you physically fighting for the dolls' rights back before when he was alive. But now he recognizes that this plan isn't going to work, isn't going to make a difference, and IS going to get a lot of people killed.
B. He's a disabled vet who had his arm amputated and replaced without so much as a by your leave and struggled so badly to accept and adapt to his prosthesis that he went cyberpsycho from it and believed his hand was evil and controlled him to commit acts of violence. He's a deserter. His dad sold him for a pack of cigs when he was four. He's firmly anti corpo. He's an artist who despises soulless carictures of real emotion. He made the choice to effectively commit suicide in 2023 and had that death ripped away from him by one of his best friends.
Look at me. It's the body autonomy trauma.
Johnny dislikes the entire concept of dolls BECAUSE they voluntarily give up control of their body/awareness during their sessions and that freaks him the fuck out. And also because he views the concept as wish fulfillment via AI rather than an act with real emotion/mutual enjoyment and consent behind it.
Did anyone else fucking get that or am i just arbitrarily connecting dots
“This is Bull. He’s a chimera, which is a single animal that genetically is two animals. In his case, a black lab and a yellow lab. The result is extremely adorable.”
but look even his little footsies are different and he is so darn cute
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