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obliviousally) wrote2023-07-05 04:17 pm
obliviousally) wrote2023-07-05 04:17 pm
a sweet unsweetened, an eve uneven
i am.............so eepy
house/petsitting this week for friends chris and sam while they're out in south dakota visiting sam's family. i stayed over over the weekend due to their new puppy, sadie, still having a bit of kennel cough. but since i went back to work today, i tossed sadie off to chris' sister and now i just have to pop over and feed the cats before/after work. sadie is FUCKING ADORABLE, but god, are puppies a handful x_x their cats are also on a feeding schedule, so i had to plan my days out carefully lol
sadie: puppy, george: orange, ferret: brown
(the last kitty isn't theirs, but their neighbor's - so sweet, but outdoors ://////)
but i did hit up the local bakery once or twice over the weekend (their macarons are SO good), and got ribs at the ribfest downtown, as well. got to zip back and forth on the bike trails quite a bit and, after last week with the wildfire haze, the weather was pretty beautiful. also seen on the bike trails: a family of raccoons, three cats (b&w, cream, gray), groundhogs, and a turkey
also watched A LOT of buzzfeed unsolved lol, but didn't do much art like i'd hoped. it is what it is
twitter finally fucked up tweetdeck, so i'm pretty pissed about that. it was what i primarily used on desktop to access the site b/c it kept things in order and nice. the new tweetdeck sucks AND it's gonna be confined to blue subscribers and that sure af ain't me
you can also only access one account at a time, instead of how it was before where you could have a bunch of columns from different accounts for whatever you needed
so idk people are gonna get scattered to the four winds and i'll have to juggle half a dozen sites if i want to see what anyone's doing. there's also gonna be half a dozen new [subject] social media sites popping up and i don't WANT a 'furry twitter' or an 'artist twitter' style site. the whole appeal of twitter was being able to follow a bunch of different types of accounts - tumblr does this, but a lot of the other sites that've popped up don't have that appeal (or that kind of userbase). i want to follow furries, i want to follow artists, i want to follow horror stuff, i want to follow destiny stuff, i want to follow a big variety of things, not just 'specific subject'
but there was bound to be a breaking point, and i think we're about there. unless musk dumps the site onto someone else, but it's doubtful b/c it makes him the center of attention
i fiiiiiiiiiiiiinally made it down to the main library to play around with the garment printer. since most of our backend stuff is still down due to the ransomware outage, since i was downtown by the library anyhow, i popped in to see when i could get an appointment and was able to snag one over the weekend!
it's......................finicky. at least, for what i wanted to do specifically, which was make some patches. the fabric i had ended up being two-way stretch, which wasn't ideal. it didn't dry as nicely as a cotton would've after being pre-treated. i also fucked up and did AT LEAST one of these on the non-treated side x_x but the ones that came out nice DID come out nice and this was primarily experimental to see what i was working with. refining some things, i think i should be able to do some nice patches with it
it def needs, like, clear, solid black linework, otherwise it looks blurry in some spots. but then the two i did that were sketches actually came out looking really cool! the printer has an option to basically ignore black in the design which i had hoped would just print white. which, uh, it DID, but it was VERY strict about the black and those designs just came out sort of faded and greyscale. i'll probably go through my designs and re-ink them really clearly, or at least darken the linework on them. i may also try doing these on a different color fabric, as well
i put up a bunch of the better designs in my ko-fi shop!
my favorite design actually ended up being the one with the most color! so maybe i'll try some more grungy stuff like this, as well
house/petsitting this week for friends chris and sam while they're out in south dakota visiting sam's family. i stayed over over the weekend due to their new puppy, sadie, still having a bit of kennel cough. but since i went back to work today, i tossed sadie off to chris' sister and now i just have to pop over and feed the cats before/after work. sadie is FUCKING ADORABLE, but god, are puppies a handful x_x their cats are also on a feeding schedule, so i had to plan my days out carefully lol
sadie: puppy, george: orange, ferret: brown
(the last kitty isn't theirs, but their neighbor's - so sweet, but outdoors ://////)
but i did hit up the local bakery once or twice over the weekend (their macarons are SO good), and got ribs at the ribfest downtown, as well. got to zip back and forth on the bike trails quite a bit and, after last week with the wildfire haze, the weather was pretty beautiful. also seen on the bike trails: a family of raccoons, three cats (b&w, cream, gray), groundhogs, and a turkey
also watched A LOT of buzzfeed unsolved lol, but didn't do much art like i'd hoped. it is what it is
twitter finally fucked up tweetdeck, so i'm pretty pissed about that. it was what i primarily used on desktop to access the site b/c it kept things in order and nice. the new tweetdeck sucks AND it's gonna be confined to blue subscribers and that sure af ain't me
you can also only access one account at a time, instead of how it was before where you could have a bunch of columns from different accounts for whatever you needed
so idk people are gonna get scattered to the four winds and i'll have to juggle half a dozen sites if i want to see what anyone's doing. there's also gonna be half a dozen new [subject] social media sites popping up and i don't WANT a 'furry twitter' or an 'artist twitter' style site. the whole appeal of twitter was being able to follow a bunch of different types of accounts - tumblr does this, but a lot of the other sites that've popped up don't have that appeal (or that kind of userbase). i want to follow furries, i want to follow artists, i want to follow horror stuff, i want to follow destiny stuff, i want to follow a big variety of things, not just 'specific subject'
but there was bound to be a breaking point, and i think we're about there. unless musk dumps the site onto someone else, but it's doubtful b/c it makes him the center of attention
i fiiiiiiiiiiiiinally made it down to the main library to play around with the garment printer. since most of our backend stuff is still down due to the ransomware outage, since i was downtown by the library anyhow, i popped in to see when i could get an appointment and was able to snag one over the weekend!
it's......................finicky. at least, for what i wanted to do specifically, which was make some patches. the fabric i had ended up being two-way stretch, which wasn't ideal. it didn't dry as nicely as a cotton would've after being pre-treated. i also fucked up and did AT LEAST one of these on the non-treated side x_x but the ones that came out nice DID come out nice and this was primarily experimental to see what i was working with. refining some things, i think i should be able to do some nice patches with it
it def needs, like, clear, solid black linework, otherwise it looks blurry in some spots. but then the two i did that were sketches actually came out looking really cool! the printer has an option to basically ignore black in the design which i had hoped would just print white. which, uh, it DID, but it was VERY strict about the black and those designs just came out sort of faded and greyscale. i'll probably go through my designs and re-ink them really clearly, or at least darken the linework on them. i may also try doing these on a different color fabric, as well
i put up a bunch of the better designs in my ko-fi shop!
my favorite design actually ended up being the one with the most color! so maybe i'll try some more grungy stuff like this, as well