Sup, Seebscon forums. I'm Nai, a fairly regular lurker and sometimes contributor over at the seebsblog. The laundry list: AFAB (preferred "ladyshaped") gendershrug, pronouns that are not he. Early twenties, college dropout, currently living off the Love of Friends. Everything But A Diagnosis Autistic. Washingtonian in California. Single, asexual-spectrum But Definitely The Full Romo, Prefers Ladyshapes, Horrible Attachment Issues. Exact Definition Atheist, witch, socialist, writer wannabe. Battles Depression a Lot. Kind of overpoweringly friendly, preemptively sorry. The context: Started figuring out gender shit a couple years ago, significantly farther from an answer than I was then. Sexuality labels have come and gone. Basically, my answer to everything is SHRUG, except religion, which is I Don't Want One of Those, Please Go Away, This Is Awkward. Grew up in some of the most intense poverty you can experience with Straight White College-Educated parents; they are/were both heroin addicts, and so that's always made a lot of life Really Hard. We were homeless during the middle part of my elementary school years, and again as of about six months ago, due to, of all things, the legalization of pot in Washington State. (Let me tell you about supply and demand when a previously illicit substance becomes legalized. Hint: huge supply.) Currently living off the charity of a friend in California, because the state of things back home (growing-abusive-dad, mom who wouldn't leave him, no jobs and no money) was making me suicidal. Mostly, I miss my cat, not them. Dreams of being a writer and/or craftsperson for a living, but right now I'd settle for a steady income because Employment is hard. I do a little bit of art (fun fact! trying to do comics is really hard when your brain is incapable of figuring out how expressions are formed), and a lot, a LOT a lot, of varieties of crafting. Mostly jewelry work and stamp-carving right now, since that's what I have the supplies for in California and I don't really want to pick up much new stuff that requires Space and Supplies while I'm here, because I already scared the attendants on the train I took down here with the size of my bags. My dream craft is lampwork glass, though. Spergout targets: Writing, JRPGs, Basically Any Craft Oh My God You Mean You Make Soaps That's So Cool, cephalopods, biology in general, science in general, roleplaying (esp fandom RP and New World of Darkness), stenography, mermaids, editing this thread as I remember other interests, and dragons. Preferred timewasters are tumblr, Flight Rising, roleplaying, and (to my shame) GaiaOnline.
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I always accept metaphorical hugs. (Actual hugs are a mood thing but generally allowed.) Employment is SO HARD. And storenvy went and did something weird with its money system so that paypal is no longer the default, and given that my bank is a Small State Bank in... another state... I don't currently have the spoons to try and get their new payment system in order, so even my usual crafting income isn't a thing right now. [SIGH] "Preemptively sorry" is pretty much my catchphrase when it comes to a lot of social interaction honestly. Sooner or later, something will get screwed up down the line.
It is definitely cool that you make soaps! And I am also still on Gaia. 11 years after joining. I don't know why.
Preemptively sorry, I know that feeling. So, handmade soap. That sound wicked cool. I think I had one of those make your own soap kits as a tiny person, but I think it was a huge disaster. Sorry. That's probably really stupid sounding.
HAHA soaps are actually one of the things I don't do because of space, it was an off-the-top example. Well, you out-gaia-age me, I'm Dec 06.
IT'S SUCH A FEELING ISN'T IT. And naw, a lot of tiny person crafts can turn into huge disasters. I wouldn't trust a tiny with my nail acrylic stuff.
SUCH A FEEL, YES. My poor parents, they had to deal with a lot of destructive tiny person crafts. (My first baking experiments were even worse, though.)
My Little Person Crafting was entirely intentional on the part of my parents, in contrast. I was Fine Motor Problems as a tinynai, so the solution was beading and it's only grown from there.
About the only things that didn't turn destructive were the tiny sewing and tiny knitting experiments. I was the clumsiest little thing as a tiny (imagine bambi in high heels on a skateboard and you have a good approximation), so the fact that the crafts involving pointy things turned out the best is crazy. I think I still have my first scarf someplace and I know I have my first dress.
Knitting is one of the ones I never really mastered. Sewing is in a weird position of I do needlepoint really well, but any other kind of sewing is just [quiet sounds of despair] unless I have a machine. I might start a Craftsfolk thread. There seem to be a number of us.
I haven't knitted in a while, so I really need to start up again. I have shiny new needles and everything! Yes, you should totally do the thing.
I like the format you did this in and may will steal it for my own. Yo, I'm still semi-actively playing Neopets, so I feel you on the Gaia front. The only reason I'm not playing Gaia is because I could never quit figure it out, and the person I joined for never bothered to show me around. =P ALL THE CRAFTS. I mostly do fiber work (specifically counted cross-stitch, a little embroidery, and crochet atm), but I will give all crafts a try and probably drop the ones I'm not immediately good at. =D [Edit: formatting]
Soaps! Soaps are one of the few craft-things I can do, because it's something my grandmother and I used to do together - she needed something to do with all the herbs from her herb garden. I mean, I can't now for space reasons, but yes. I admire people that can do other crafty things, though! Especially jewelry. I do not have the dexterity for jewelry-making, but I wish I did. Also, mermaids! I spent so much time swimming as a kid that I decided I was secretly a mermaid, and have kept up that level of obsession ever since, although now it's more like "wow, what would the logistics of mermaids be, biologically?"
My mom dragged me into jewelry specifically BECAUSe I had manual dexterity problems, and now I'm better at it than she is, oops. I dig mostly into the cultural end of mermaids (LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MERMAID MINORITIES) than the biological, which is funny since I'm an ex-bio major and often don't care for human cultural studies. But I'm really aggressively about octopus mer that have more going on than just "lawltentacles," let me tell you.
PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT MERMAID MINORITIES. I will enthusiastically listen to/discuss anything about mermaids, but I love cultural stuff.
I plan to eventually a comic of it, actually, when I get slightly better at my preferred style of arting. And expressions, god. (First is my mermaid tarot deck project)
BASICALLY this all started because A) I love octopus mer, and B) why ARE they always portrayed as Being Evil Witches? (So What's Going On With Ursula, basically) The result was a mermaid culture that has a deep rift between standard fish-mer and nonstandard mer (derogatory-eventually-reclamatory "witches"), in part because the latter tend to manifest magical abilities instinctively. And then came the logic question of "do mammal-based mer breathe under water, there's no reason they should because they don't have gills" and THAT became a super-extended family of sealion mer who use sign language in the water, and... #mermaid problems
