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fen@crayzeigh· 13d

make yourself

A picture of hrt injection supplies on a small vanity table. The sharps container and carrying kit in the background.

fen@crayzeigh· Jul 14

Police (and ICE/DHS, just generally law enforcement) are a system by which the wealthy and powerful can oppress and extract value from the poor and “undesirable” under threat of violence and death.

A Lisa Frank style image of rainbow unicorns frolicking above clouds dotted with rainbow stars with a rainbow in the background.

It’s captioned in bubbly, rainbow pastel letters: “the system is what the system does”

fen@crayzeigh· Feb 18

every time i start playing around with mill engines i just end up back at dredge and thats why it’ll never be reprinted supposedly there are other lines of text on this card besides “Dredge 6”

Golgari Grave-Troll {4}{G}
Creature- Skeleton Troll

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.
Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, you may mill six cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

0 / 0

fen@crayzeigh· Feb 15

Ive started to use things like the depletion lands more for my aggro decks One of my all time favorite lands, dwarven ruins, lives in my mono-red dragons pile along side my 4e Melissa Benson shivan dragon

a card from Magic the gathering, a land called “Dwarven Ruins” it depicts a mountain with a door carved into it surrounded by crumbling ruins.

Comes into play tapped.
T: add R to your mana pool.
T: sacrifice dwarven ruins to add RR to your mana pool

fen@crayzeigh· Jan 23

Also this one from earlier this year as he insists on climbing halfway up the plow bank to poop. I think he has his old pink booties here but those kept falling off and weren’t as warm and dry as the new ones.

That same dog as the previous pose but halfway up a large snow plow bank, half squatting to poop there, halfway up the 10ft snow bank. He’s still in his heavy winter coat.

fen@crayzeigh· Jan 23

Please, he says, I just have to pee.

A picture of a tawny staffordshire terrier dog in a red winter coat and little black booties with reflective strips on his front feet. He is seated so you can’t see his back legs, but he’s got booties there too.

fen@crayzeigh· Jan 22

i achieved soup! really proud of myself for basically cobbling it together out of kitchen trash, leftovers and staples alton brown’s tips were pretty helpful too (tomatoes for acidity, finished with fresh grated Parmesan)

A bowl of soup, two buttered slices of ciabatta bread on a napkin, and a spoon on a wooden table.

fen@crayzeigh· Jan 21

practicing my kitchen magic, turning scraps into new food

A pot on the stove full of vegetable trimmings and water. A wooden spoon nearby. The start to a hopefully delicious soup

fen@crayzeigh· Jan 12

world's a fuck, share an island (Return to Mercadia, cowards)

An island from Mercadian Masques. It looks like a small archipelago of 3 jagged tops of volcanoes just protruding from the sea. 3 rings of sharp rocks in water.

fen@crayzeigh· Jan 12

No matter how many pretty full art basics they print, I think these are still my favorites. and the unhinged ones I used to play in Ichorid.

A green island covered in foliage in a wide cerulean sea. Another small island dots the horizon.

Unhinged island painted by John Avon.

fen@crayzeigh· Jan 11

“More training” is a fundamentally unserious position. They are doing what they’re trained and hired to do. The sign, again:

A Lisa Frank style image with rainbow unicorns and clouds with rainbow stars and r just a regular rainbow with the statement:

“The system is what the system does”

fen@crayzeigh· Dec 22

Today I am having a very bad day. I don’t want to talk about it but would love to hear what’s giving you hope these days

Fen looking sad in a black hoodie with the hood up. Makeup running at the corners of her eyes

fen@crayzeigh· Dec 20

you mean I can just make these? and they are so good! honestly astounding how we got cookies basically perfect a century ago

A plate and a tin full of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies

fen@crayzeigh· Dec 18

She’s named after my favorite trash heap

Marjorie the wise trash heap from Fraggle Rock

She’s something like a sentient compost pile with a banana peel for hair, bits of red and pink trash as blush and lipstick and holding up a pair of pink cats-eye glasses on a stick to where her eyes might be

fen@crayzeigh· Dec 18

this is Marjorie her eyes glow in the dark she is very enthusiastic about trash, real or imagined. often imagined.

One of those automatically opening trash cans with glow-in-the-dark googly eyes on the lid so it looks like some kind of plastic, trash muppet

fen@crayzeigh· Dec 3

hello, it is me a sad, trans millennial

A screen cap of Apple Music’s year in review showing my top 5 listened to artists.

1. Ezra Furman
2. Left at London
3. Arcade Fire
4. The Decemberists
5. The Mountain Goats

fen@crayzeigh· Oct 31

I do appreciate one of the interviewees, at least, mentioning both the sentiment of I'm glad we're talking about this, but protection means action. Let's see some action. And that capitalist success does not mean safety.

Text quoted from the article, with a highlight for "...a lot of the visibility and progress that we have made, has been within the capitalist frame of reference. I'm not saying that we shouldn't have that, because everybody else does, but I think we also need to be thinking about how we can build resilience outside of it."

fen@crayzeigh· Oct 31

What a wild thing to speak for the entire trans community this way. If I did "crave work" (I do not.) how would I get that without protection? Women need protection from a patriarchal society. Wild to suggest (even conventionally beautiful, passing) trans women don't.

What it seems we really crave is to work, love and exist with dignity and, more broadly, the opportunities to thrive. If you gave the dolls that, you'd find most of us could easily protect ourselves.

fen@crayzeigh· Sep 26

how beautiful gaea is, how marvelous our little blue speck

A close up of maple leaves on a tree. Green, but starting to turn bright reds and yellows at their edges. Water drops still clinging to the leaf surface from recent rain and morning dew

A wide landscape shot from a hill over an overgrown meadow with a small forest in the background. A cloud-streaked blue sky hangs above the trees. Mist rises from the meadow and light filtered in from trees on the left show rays streaking down to the misty grasses below.

fen@crayzeigh· Aug 29

walgreens started sending promo emails out of the blue to an account they show isn't signed up to receive any promotional messages at all. I can't unsubscribe, because I'm not subscribed. Also they won't let me delete the account without calling them. When corps are also scams wtf is even left?

an excerpt from the walgreens help pages:

"How do I deactivate my Walgreens account?

Account suspensions and deactivations, like changes to your name, cannot be done online. Please call Walgreens.com Customer Service, toll-free, at 1-877-250-5823"

fen@crayzeigh· Aug 25

it happened again. the email to open a website to login and get a message to download 2 different .docx documents. the inevitable follow-up also occurred, they had to send a second notification to link to a message linking to PDFs because people couldn't open the word docs.

a message from parent square saying "Several people have indicated that they are having difficulty opening the word document files sent earlier today. I am resending the files in PDF format"

fen@crayzeigh· Jun 3

pride month is here, time to dust off the round bombs

An old print of a dapper skeleton carrying a large scroll that reads “BE GAY DO CRIME!”

The skeleton is wearing a suit and top hat, carrying a torch, and has a saber at its side. The fire of the torch says “Anarchy”, his sash says “Communes” and the hat has a ribbon saying “round bombs”. The tip of the scroll has the words “mob law” written small.

Below the image is a caption, “Many blame queers for the decline of this society—we take pride in this. Some believe that we intend to shred-to-bits this civilization and its moral fabric—they couldn’t be more accurate. We’re often described as depraved, decadent and revolting—but oh, they ain’t seen nothing yet.”

fen@crayzeigh· May 8

feminism at it again!

An framed, old poster print featuring a devil character looming behind a blond woman with arms raised

The bold print reads:
FEMINISM ENCOURAGES WOMEN TO:
Leave their husbands, kill their children, destroy capitalism, practice witchcraft and…
[large and In bright red, all caps] BECOME LESBIANS

fen@crayzeigh· May 3

well, i can't think of a better time to bring this one out again, "your neighborhood isn't better just because it has brick oven pizzas and craft breweries"

fen@crayzeigh· May 3

"place your heroes' tender necks on the altar of tomorrow" I always thought was a very metal way to say "all your heroes will fail you" and the sooner we can learn how to deal with the fact that shitty people will make things we like, the better (art and phrase from @sickofwolves.bsky.social )

what looks like an official seal

There's a central image of what looks like ancient columns and ruins with skeletal remains in the center. The only color a pop of red in the flowers sprouting between the bones. Surrounding the circular image are words above and below in caps that read:

"PLACE YOUR HEROES' TENDER NECKS

ON THE ALTAR OF TOMORROW"

fen@crayzeigh· Apr 18

what an extremely surreal ad to receive in my reddit feed

An ad on Reddit posted by the account u/TravelStateGov:

“LPT: If you're thinking about traveling to a country with a Level 4 travel advisory-don't.
Curious about what a Level 4 travel advisory could mean for your trip? We'll break it down.

The U.S. State Department issues Level 4 Do Not Travel advisories when there's a high chance of you experiencing:

• Kidnapping
• Wrongful detention
• Terrorism
• Political instability
• Outbreaks of infectious disease

and in places where the U.S. Government may not be able to provide assistance.
In short, just don't. It's not worth the risk.
Before booking any trip abroad, we strongly encourage you to visit travel.state.gov for Department of State guidance on the safety of your destination.

tl;dr
Do. Not. Visit. Level. 4. Countries.”

fen@crayzeigh· Apr 12

I had been worried from the start of touting LLMs as real thinking things. Capital using it to wash cruelty as reason and logic dictated by a machine. This came out of IBM this 46 years ago and yet…

A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

fen@crayzeigh· Apr 9

I think about this meme a lot when thinking about the nuances of gender identity and presentation, etc. Especially how I communicate with new folks (or like, my parents) and trying to understand where they’re at

A picture of philosophers having a discussion labeled “Talking about gender with trans people” against a picture of an adult gently guiding a baby in play labeled “talking about gender with cis people”

fen@crayzeigh· Apr 4

Reposting with alt text:

Nate Petersen
19h • ©
•••
Alright, here's the wall of text that I said I wouldn't drop.
For some rough math.
Ludington's store does in the neighborhood of $270k~ a year in revenue/sales.
We have a, roughly, 55% cost-of-goods. This is an average. Some things are a much higher, some things are much lower, but this about splits the difference and will work well for this exercise.
That works out to around $150k of that $270k being spent just to buy the things and does not include operating expenses and overhead. This is how much it costs us just to get the stuff and put it on the shelf.
Probably about 2/3 of that has an origin in China, between newly published games, video game accessories, and the like. So, again using the nice round numbers, that's about $100k wholesale that we spend on stuff with origins in China.
Now, China's tariffs are cumulative; we went from a 10% to a 20% jump already. As of yesterday, we're adding ANOTHER 34% on top of that. So a grand total of 54% total tarifs. But, we'll talk the EXTRA amount, so 44% NEW tarrifs.
What WAS $100k then (or $90k + $10k existing tariffs), roughly, becomes $140k in expenditure ($90k + ~$50k in tariffs). Almost eclipsing our total total spend.

Now, here's our options:
- Eat the tariff. We can't do that; punting $40k down the drain is more than our entire mortgage on the store buildings. Would YOU flush a whole year's house payment down the toilet? No? Neither can we, and neither will any small business owner.
- Increase the price by the tariff. A $10 thing costs us around $5.50 on a 55% COGs, which will now cost us $7.92. So we'd charge $12.42, adding the $2.42 on. This offsets the tariffs, but we're keeping less.
- Increase prices commensurately. That $10 thing becomes $14. This keeps a rough equilibrium in what we keep, but it puts things further out of reach of the customer.
Here's some of the reality:
- Incomes are not keeping pace. In point of note, were seeing tens of thousands of people fired. Ludington and Marquette Michigan lost 14 forestry techs and seasonal hiring is frozen, for instance.
- Costs are going up for EVERYONE. Not just us. All of our customers are spending more, and spending more on necessities.
Consequently, we are competing for fewer dollars with higher costs across the board.

Consequently, we are competing for fewer dollars with higher costs across the board.
We're also a discretionary income field; no one NEEDS what we sell, despite arguments to the otherwise about the value of our product and services to the community, mental health and well being, etc. You will survive without the board game on our shelf or without the new set of dice; you won't make it without food in the cupboard. When faced with a choice between "this makes me happy" and "this keeps me alive," ! expect to be on the losing end of that equation, and I am actually OK with that, I hope you make that choice and take care of yourself and your loved ones.
This is, believe it or not, not directly a political post. This is math. Last spring, I could buy given products for $X. After the 5th, I'll be paying upwards of an additional 44% on $X. My customer base will be paying an additional 10-44% on $X for everything in their life, thereby having 10-44% less to spend with me. My income will not grow to match $X+44%, it will in fact shrink. That is unavoidable.

We will be forced to make decisions about what we do, what we stock, and who we can support. These decisions will be multiplied by tens of thousands of small retailers like myself, and ripple up the chain, impacting distribution houses, publishing houses, and creators.
Will the field survive? Yes, I'm sure "we" collectively will. People like to be entertained. Will WE survive, for any one instance of "we"? Hard to say. I hope so. In our case, we celebrate 18 years of business, two successful locations, two families with two mortgages and stakes in our community, and a network of people we support. Pluck this string and a number of other threads start to unravel, and that's true of any one of us. Stan Lee remarked before that he never considered what he did to be consequential; he just wrote for the funny papers. Until he realized how much his work meant to people, and the whole interconnected web that work supported. And those of us in the game field? We're alike. We might sell silly games and talk about dragons and electric mice with little kids, but we're woven in to people's lives in innumerable ways. I hope we can continue to be.
"Well, just buy/print American!" Part Two, addressing this, is in the comments~ Because it, too, is a wall of text.

fen@crayzeigh· Mar 31

For TDOV, a status update, a rallying cry, a taunt to the opposition despite it all, still gay, still trans, still here,