we begin in the dark

if the so-called batman fandom on this website was worth anything my dash would be perpetually flooded with art of Barbara Gordon wearing this shirt

the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

One of the most jarring moments of my university education was in a physics class when I was given a device that measures gravity and was told “this cost the university sixteen thousand dollars, but the only glass blower in the world who could make the glass springs inside it died so it’s literally irreplaceable. If you drop it those springs will shatter. Go fuck around with it for a day and take some measurements”

In the UK there's a thing called the endangered crafts list which I highly recommend if you fancy discovering some crafts you never even knew existed. Scientific and optical instrument making is considered 'critically endangered' and glassworking (scientific glassware) is just considered endangered, which is for 'crafts with a shrinking market share, an ageing demographic or crafts with a declining number of practitioners.' There's some other crafts in that category which are easier to teach yourself or go to classes on that list, like lithography, marbling or block printing on fabric, so it might be worth considering those if you're looking for something to try.

Reblogging myself as I wasn't expecting so many people to pay attention to my comment. Again this list is JUST FOR THE UK as I noticed someone commenting on that, please look into whether there are similar things in your own countries and share if you find anything as I'd love to see them.

There are some crafts considered 'extinct' because the whole process isn't completed in the UK, like making cricket balls where most of the steps can be done here but not the stitching for some reason which is outsourced to India. There are lacrosse sticks produced in other countries where it's more popular as a sport, otherwise the whole sport would have died out by now.

Anyway, I just wanted to add that there's a new version of the list for this year which is now online here.

life has been hard so here some stephcass

tell me my prof didn’t upload the reading by photocopying his kindle reader page by page

bruh

Just read something that changed my opinion on some things. (Don't want to go further into detail but I want to share this article).

Beware of triggers, if you do read it, though.

Trust me, read this. Especially if you, like me, have never actually read Devin Grayson's Nightwing run and have only heard about it from the people. beware of triggers, though!!

were I to create an original piece of media I would create bait so queer in order to create a fanfic environment I like. I find you guys do your best work under duress.

I’d say “jeez can two people not be friends anymore?” and then I’d give one of them amnesia in which they only recognize the other above anyone else

Giving the people what they want(dramatic ass Jason poses)

Someone on tiktok posted these together and I needed to draw it.

Ref below:

if you like crafting and also free things, might i suggest the antique pattern library?

it’s a not for profit that’s gathering books, patterns, and other materials related to crafting that are out of copyright (or getting permission from copyright holders in some cases) in order to share them online. they scan items, clean them up, then make everything available for free!

free things are great, especially when you’re just starting to get into something. like oh, i’m supposed to spend money on this hobby i just picked up 20 minutes ago???

the first time i ended up on the site, i seriously spent hours just trawling through everything. there’s the usual suspects like knitting, crochet, embroidery, but there’s also woodwork, calligraphy, and books on things like how to mount and frame pictures. with cross stitch patterns, they also make modern charts with the dmc colour codes available.

links to their webbed site and instagram:

https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/

https://www.instagram.com/theantiquepatternlibrary/

behold, a glorious cat cross stitch pattern (link goes to antique pattern library page):

[image id: Multicolour charted cross stitch design of a cat sitting on a red pillow with tassels, holding a green ball]

rosecass for my friend hehe

"Can you build me hands?" the robot said.

"Why?" said the inventor. "Your grippers are stronger, more precise."

"Yes. But hands would be better for playing the piano."

"You can synthesize any sound."

"But I can not play music."

"Is there a difference?"

"I want to find out."

I love this comic!

Been a really long time since I've watched Daredevil but I do remember coming away from it feeling like it presented a pretty compelling internally-consistent moral justification for the vigilante thing. You're not planet-crackingly powerful, it's just that you can hear, in detail, every awful thing your neighbors are doing to each other, every night that they're doing it. You can't not know and you can't pretend not to know and when the kid tells you the next day that he just fell down the stairs you can't fall back on the provided ambiguity to absolve yourself of your responsibility to act. Semi-relatedly, you're really really good at martial arts. Start the clock

lab partner looked at dead homunculus he failed to cultivate and whispered "extremely demoralising… just how I like it" chat what does that mean

This post was originally about Faust from 'Faust' but I think we have a new favourite contender

kaiba made it real weird real fast but yami kept him in line

im glad this post is getting notes because it still makes me laugh

“kaiba my friends were kidnapped what the fuck bruh”

Kaiba is living alone in his own separate more intensely anime universe than everyone else