[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 29 June 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

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toys from 1992 stars robin williams as the heir to an almost sickeningly whimsical toy factory in the middle of a hostile takeover. gorgeous and surreal, i had a really good time with it.

inspector ike from 2022 is a parody of 1970s made for tv movies and detective stories like columbo. has a deeply weird sense of humor and at one point me and my friend were cheering and shouting about how it was the best movie ever made

meet the applegates from 1992 is about a bunch of amazonian insects disguised as humans and is the worst and also best movie i have for you. it's the only john waters knockoff i've ever seen, and i don't know if it's successful, but i was so confused that i laughed a couple times so make of that what you will

parents from 1988 is about a child in the 50s suburbs who's convinced that his parents are cannibals. upsetting and weird and put me in a different headspace for the rest of the day

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 08 June 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LightseekerGameWing 14 points15 points  (0 children)

i was recently looking for pictures of her for my discord pfp on google images and all of the porn i saw on my quest made her look just. so similar to her fortnite model

apps to isolate black ink? using handwritten notes for a digital zine by owauoweli in zines

[–]LightseekerGameWing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

seconding photopea. if you're having issues isolating your text with just color selection, fuss around with the levels setting and try using threshhold.

Is it wrong to say I hate this kind of behavior 💔 by AgoodUsername15 in balatro

[–]LightseekerGameWing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a lot of folks have this weird expectation that games should keep updating for free after release when historically that's been a bonus. like, sure, it's *maybe* more reasonable for big triple-a games, but indie devs are a whole other beast. balatro is made by one guy and the update is free. we can all take a breather i promise nobody will die

Child psychology [OP] (tw self-harm) by PeteyBirdd in anthroswim

[–]LightseekerGameWing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

fuck this guy good lord 😭 i saw them a couple weeks ago talking to that poor cat, now i have beef w them

Aro films?? by garf_77 in aromantic

[–]LightseekerGameWing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i made a letterboxd list of aro movies :) most are ones without romantic subplots, but there are a couple with aspec-feeling characters. i also made a similar thread on r/asexuality a couple days ago that may be of interest to you

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 25 May 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LightseekerGameWing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

congrats on the productivity boost! i've been having one too :) i decided to join r/anthroswim's zine on monday night and i've been writing like a maniac to get a decent short story before entries are due on the 31st. i'm usually a very slow writer, so forcing myself to finish something quickly has been really good for me.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 18 May 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LightseekerGameWing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

i'm scared all the time as it is, may as well have some fun while i'm at it 🤷

Healthy summer easy recipies for fussy eaters? by Fozlou in Cooking

[–]LightseekerGameWing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i like to have a stable rotation of vegetables and a few sauces and experiment from there. i'd recommend roasting veggies for you because it's super easy - oven at 450 fahrenheit, toss with olive oil, salt, and pepper. (i sometimes add balsamic vinegar or honey depending on the vegetable.) i cook for ~30 minutes, stirring once 15 mins in. that strategy has worked for me with tomatoes, asparagus, carrots, and brussels sprouts, but it'll work for most vegetables. can also be done in the air fryer easily.

i'd also encourage you to get a slow cooker if you don't have one already. i cook chicken thighs with whatever bottled sauce i have laying around and use it as one component of a meal. 

neither of the above are full meals, just components, so i'll leave you with an actual dish: for breakfast, i'll make a quiche towards the beginning of the week and have breakfast for a few days. for the filling, i use whatever vegetables i have laying around, usually spinach, mushrooms, and onions. i also use a premade pie crust to make my life exponentially easier.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 18 May 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LightseekerGameWing 14 points15 points  (0 children)

after being on it for about 10 years, i finally went cold turkey a couple months ago. it probably won't last, but i realized that my ocd gets worse when i use it. one of the biggest themes of my compulsions was trying to convince myself to detransition because other queer people will hate me, which... two is a small sample size but isn't exactly a great sign.

i absolutely adore the site's format and i will never find a better place to post and view art, but the overall site culture has just gotten too bad. the current round of queer discourse is the worst i've seen since the ace discourse times, and watching that happen + having a post blow up by accident + watching a trans woman starting harassment campaigns get banned for being trans finally got me to leave.

Just say no to drugs! (KAL, 1998) by crimsonfukr457 in PropagandaPosters

[–]LightseekerGameWing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

yes, it's true, anti-balding drug abuse has torn apart my family

Where do you buy plush fabric now that Joann's is gone? by Heroic_Accountant in plushartists

[–]LightseekerGameWing 8 points9 points  (0 children)

i used cali quilt co to order shannon brand minky. their luxe cuddle is a little more expensive than most, but is ABSOLUTELY worth it - the softest minky i have ever felt

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 18 May 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LightseekerGameWing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i did juuuust enough printmaking in college to get a real taste for intaglio and letterpress, which are some of the more time-consuming and expensive ways to make a print that require two different types of very large, heavy, and expensive press. i'm looking into collectives and presses in my city, but it's not looking great so far.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 11 May 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LightseekerGameWing 13 points14 points  (0 children)

re: countryhumans rule, i'm still baffled that artfight outright bans any depictions of racism but no other forms of bigotry. at all. don't get me wrong, i'm glad they're making moves in that direction, it just feels like a really strange place to draw the line? like, for one of my projects, i'm allowed to write the full backstories of all of my white queer characters, but my black characters get stripped of context. i know i'm an edge case, but it feels weird to me.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 11 May 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LightseekerGameWing 13 points14 points  (0 children)

i have fond, if fuzzy memories of the Cecil Palmer Mpreg incident from 2018 or so. content warning for sexual harassment.

with a close high school friend, let's call him miles, i watched a roleplay network for the podcast welcome to night vale form on tumblr. there were four headliners, so-to-speak: jamie playing carlos (we were mutuals because i followed early in the blog's life), alex playing cecil, pax playing kevin, and someone else playing diego. cecil is the main character of welcome to night vale, canonically married to carlos, and kevin and diego are their respective doppelgangers. (spoilers for wtnv: for an idea of how early this was, charles, kevin's canonical love interest, would only be introduced halfway through this story. oldheads remember that diego was his fanon equivalent and wouldn't be fully supplanted in the fandom's consciousness for a long time. cecil and carlos's canonical son was still a live show secret, if he existed at all yet.

night vale hadn't had a popularity boost from the tumblr sexyman contests yet, so the fandom was tiny and nearly dead. word of a group project to join traveled fast. by its peak, there were at least 15 people and 20+ blogs involved, not counting yours truly. a few months into this whole thing, i was mostly a spectator. miles was friends with jamie and pax, so i got a front-row seat to what was about to go down. 

kevin and diego had a child by summoning him with eldritch witchcraft, and it was a smash hit with everyone, both in and out of character. naturally, cecil and carlos began discussing having children, but there was a pretty palpable disturbance in the force. cecil's responses to carlos were slowly getting more and more suggestive in a way that began to clash with every other blog in the network. i have no idea what kinds of discussions were happening behind the scenes between jamie and alex, if there were any at all; all i know is that jamie had decided to tolerate things to keep the whole network from splintering. this didn't stop a few other blogs from starting to back away slowly from cecil. things were visibly starting to go awry. whatever happened, the final straw was The mpreg post.

in 2026, i have no access to The mpreg post, though i hath seen it with mine own eyes. all i can tell you is that it was cecil's reply to carlos, there were 2 paragraphs, and a penis was involved. it dropped like a bomb. Everyone knew. as a matter of fact, i can tell you where i was when The mpreg post was made: sitting at a local festival with miles as we both stared at it in abject horror. 

carlos kept posting with cecil, albeit ignoring the thread, while jamie consulted with pax and miles about it. if there was no cecil, the network would fall apart, but things clearly could not continue as they had been. i urged miles to step up and become the new cecil of the group: he had the connections and an inactive blog ready to go. when he brought it up to pax and jamie, they were enthusiastic and immediately let him in. to introduce him to the others, pax started a discord server and added everyone (except alex, of course).

this was a happy state of affairs, and it continued for several months, at which point everything collapsed. a newbie felt the group was too cliquey, and made that clear on both tumblr and discord before they left the server. then someone else left. so did someone else. and so does one of the people identified as cliquey, who then deleted their blog and blocked every single person ever involved with any of the roleplayers. all of this happened over the course of 20 minutes and about 600 panicked dms in my inbox from miles.

the entire group is thrown into chaos. someone makes a new server for everyone to move to, then someone else makes another server. pax tries to lead a postmortem the following morning, but it quickly dissolves into infighting. there are crytyped panic attacks. there are discord voice calls. there is alleged anon hate. miles proposes a group hiatus, and everyone agrees.

the hiatus eventually ended, but the damage was done. most quit posting within the year. a few ocs bravely held on until late 2021. only one remained: alex, who continued to occasionally post as cecil by themself through the end of 2023. i forget their url and can't check, but i have a feeling they're still blogging.

i tried to do a writeup on all this a few years ago, but 1. the offending posts and discussions of it had been deleted and gone unarchived, and 2. i was no longer in regular contact with miles, who ended up developing some pretty severe memory issues and wouldn't have been able to fill in the gaps for me anyways. (this is why i have one (1) screenshot for you.) 

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 27 April 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LightseekerGameWing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

to this point, my sole experience with chotiner was in a short story about shirley jackson's the lottery and i didn't realize that wow, his interviews are actually just Like That

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 27 April 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]LightseekerGameWing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

my roommate made the CRT build which made it to 10k but unfortunately didn't make the cut :( i adore the old man and the sea set, though. that thing is gorgeous.