It is! tigerweave sent me a package and she said it was supposed to take 1-3 months but it got here today! And it's Turkish Delight, which I've never tried in my life.



It's good too! It's lemon and rose, and lemon is one of my favourite candy flavours and the rose really does taste like flowers. I like it! I didn't even know there was such a thing as rose candy.

Thank you! :D

 

Got to go back to figure drawing class last week. It was awesome, too, because the model did a half hour pose, and they usually don't go longer than fifteen minutes. All except for one thing. The hands weren't looking right, so I wiped them out completely - and of course thirty seconds later, the buzzer sounded for time. So here, have a drawing and just pretend the hands are finished?



( Also, a few of the shorter sketches from the same class )

 

Still tired and short on words, so have another glaringly autistic de-stressing project. Actually I finished these about a year ago, but I don't think I ever took pics and posted them. Unlimited Adventures cicns in perler beads. These were some of my favourite characters.

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This is what I do to relax sometimes when I get home from work.


Design © Rose Art

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Make this viral. From ksol1460.

The Judge Rotenberg Center is a place for autistic kids in Massachusetts, where parents put kids that they don't know how to deal with. The kids have to wear shock devices 24-7 and anytime the staff doesn't like their behavior, they get shocked. There's restraint and seclusion and food deprivation, there's stuff that is illegal when it's done to prisoners of war but cause these kids are mentally disabled people think it's ok.

This is the Stanford Prison Experiment happening in real life, every day, and nobody's yet been able to shut it down, because the lawyers and manipulators are too good at doing what they do.

The video in the first link just got released last Tuesday, April 10. It's been sealed by the courts for eight years because bureaucrats know how to work the system to suppress truth. It's of Andre McCollins, when he was 18, being strapped down and repeatedly shocked.

I haven't watched it.

But it needs to spread.

Anonymous is targeting the JRC. There is a National Day of Action on June 2 where people are going to the JRC to peacefully protest. There are links to petitions and contact information for government representatives here. Anyone who doesn't live close enough to go protest, the next thing to do is spread the word online.

 

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( The uncanny valley: good for more than just faces! (videos under cut) )

 

( Thoughts about how to be there and mean it. Thanks to Wolf. )
 

Today's hilarity, discovered thanks to the guys at work!



 

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Temperance is Qi's card. Qi of The Water Song, that is. This one has only the most tenuous link to Karn, but it's still a part of the story. The card is about the reconciliation of impossible opposites. A paradox at first glance, but with enough complexity of understanding it's possible to tease out the subtle distinctions and nuances that allow it to exist. It's about working with the forces that hold polar opposites apart, about balancing them and through that balance, like positive and negative numbers that can keep increasing as long as they are equal, tapping into quantities that would otherwise be too great to manage.

Aeclectic Tarot on the Temperance card