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warning for discord users

If you're on the app, immediately go to your dms and then "add friends". After the latest update they allow your contacts to find you and have that option turned on by default, so make sure it's unchecked!

This is very obviously not great for a multitude of reasons, but especially for people in vulnerable positions who do not want people in their contacts to see who they are on discord and/or know they have discord in the first place. I've also tried finding out if this is a thing on desktop but haven't been able to find any mention of it, so either it's not a "feature" (yet) or they've hidden it. Either way, stay safe, and turn off finding friends via contacts!

[ID: three screenshots from the discord app with circles around the buttons to press to get to this "feature". 1: the messages/DM button, 2: the "add friends button", 3: in the add friends page, the "allow contacts to add me" checkbox. /END ID]

btw with art when people say 'youve got to do it scared' 'youve got to draw bad' 'youre not gonna know how to do it until you do it' it sounds like bullshit but its true. 90% of art is just getting over the fear that it's not going to be good enough to deserve to be made in the first place. but you're here. you're alive and, with no need to justify that, you're going to make art. it's just part of being alive. you'll spend so long worrying you aren't doing it good enough that you'll look back and realized you didn't live a single day of it.

Poll is still going, friends! Help me pick a project for the new year!

Y'all should read Castoff

Spooky season is all year here 💜🎃

Reblog if you're not homophobic

Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad. 

Omgosh look at the cute, chubby birbs, I love them so much 😍

I was putting all my eggs in a basket. But, I must have taken too long because they all turned into birds!

Crochet cockatiel, budgie, caique, African grey, Indian ringneck, and plum-headed parakeet are patterns made by me (link in bio).

Gods above, I love me some Empire kids 💜

listen, i enjoy campaign 3 but i know who my favorite daddies are :) (click on the pictures to enlarge them for more details! 💜 they're supposed to be viewed side by side but they look really small on mobile)

i'd wanted to draw Beau and Caleb portraits ever since i'd watched the c3 episode they appeared in (which i did like two days after it aired) and i'd been hoping to finish them before the mighty nein one shot but hadn't been able to in time. however, i have now! i'm only halfway through the live show but i do know that these designs do not contradict the official stuff too much, so i thought i could post them. i was very happy to see the empire siblings appear in c3 when they did, and it was a lot of fun trying to convey the solstice spookiness that i liked so much about those two eps 👀🔴

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November Castoff Mail Club - Autumnal Funtimes!

New month means new mail club, and November's set features a warm and cozy autumn aesthetic!

You can get this merch by joining Castoff's Patreon during the month of November! This merch will be gone after the end of the month, so make sure you don't miss out!

Sneak peek into the workshop! Instead of making these earrings, we've decided they're better as keychains or necklace pendants. Working on a Halloween set currently but looking to get others!

made a little pink guy the other night while waiting for my laundry! hadnt needle felted in years but picked up the supplies from my parents house and took a stab at it lol. hes not perfect but i love him (his names gumball)

2022 Faves ♥ It’s fun to look back and see all the seasons represented. Which one is your favorite?

New Hat!

Did someone cast Find Familiar? 'Cause Frumpkin popped in to show me his fancy new hat! What do you think?

(Pattern design by pattern_leka_toys on Instagram, handmade by me)

The Road Goes Ever On embroidered by seejor.

“After 100ish hours of work, I’m so happy to say this beast is done!!

For the most part, I had an idea that I thought would be cool, drew it up, and transferred it to fabric (here’s the hoop pre-stitching). Prior to this piece, I’d only done florals – some from patterns I bought online (Namaste Embroidery) and some of my own design – so really I just wanted to see if I could embroider a dragon. I hadn’t been embroidering long but was feeling ballsy.

So that’s the pattern… as for color choices: the mountain, clouds, fog, and trees were entirely a product of I’d bought a bunch of floss I thought was pretty and kind of went together and figured why not give it a try. I love how the mountain came out. The gold for the text was my favorite gold I’d worked with in a sunflower piece (I have an entire floss organizer of just shades of yellow because of that piece, so the gold pieces pretty much just followed). Smaug’s colors and pose in general were inspired by an illustration of Smaug Tolkien did that I’ve always loved.

Process in general: I kind of made most of it up as I went along. I knew what effect I wanted in various sections and if I couldn’t figure out a way to make it look the way I wanted with stitches I knew, I’d go googling. The pile of gold Smaug is on is all seed stitch (I don’t know if it’s technically seed stitch, but that’s what I’m calling it) and literally caused me to set this piece down for two years.

- the implement I used to transfer the design was a Sakura Gelly Roll white pen. In a pinch, the gel ink can be removed (like when I edited out the two other mountains)

- I wore a reasonably high powered, rechargeable headlamp for a lot of this project in an attempt to have my stitches be as precise as possible. It ain’t pretty, but it worked pretty well!”

Tumblr keeps burying this

But anyway, if you're going to NYCC there will be a Critter meetup at 6:15 pm after autographs and pics are done for the day.

Another meet up is planned for Saturday at 3

What can I say? I love princesses <3

Sneak peek of some new babies coming soon! Will add more pics later, if I remember. Silly brains.

Fanart for @thestarfishface of her Pikmin 4 playthrough! Also fun goofy @castoff-comic reference. Go watch her videos here!