some new things! ✨🕯 in my handmade shop // here // @everlinet

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

@LamechLamarch25 on Twitter

“Good Bones” by Maggie Smith

“The Last Song on Earth,” Adam Melchor & Emily Warren

Kathleen Dean Moore, If Your House is on Fire

13•01•24// a coffee for here and one to go (with a bouquet of flowers for the table, naturally)

Indie bookstore T-shirt of the day: The Ripped Bodice in Culver City (and now Brooklyn!) A wonderful romance bookstore that includes a beautiful diversity of love stories.

Please support indie bookstores this holiday season!!! Gift certificates make great gifts, and so do actual books...

brick & mortar books haul 🖤

despite a night of snow, we are back at the Black Friday Craft Fair Extravaganza hosted by Bubble Hearts Soap Co. & The Garcia Family Christmas Tree Stand! a wide variety of local artists, jewelers, bakers, candlemakers, weavers, textile artists & more, as well as live music courtesy of local band The Weather!

you can also shop our inventory here if you can't make it in person:

"there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" "you can criticize capitalism while participating in it" are both true and valid statements. but if you care about anti capitalism, your hands aren't wiped clean. acknowledging the problem is only the first step

yes, you can make money to survive & buy things to have fun. you can get things that aren't necessary to treat yourself. you can work your way up the corporate ladder.

some people resign themselves to their fate, as though capitalism is the way that things must be forever. but there's still questions you should ask yourself before deciding to drop all attempts at working against the system:

do you support/promote the culture of excessive buying?

how do you treat poor or otherwise disadvantaged people?

do you support local libraries, local businesses (if you can afford to), or other local organizations?

do you vote in favor of social services and education?

do you vote at all?

do you buy things in quantity over quality(lifespan) when you have the money to do either?

not everyone is an activist, but everyone has the power to vote with their money and with their ballot. telling yourself that there's no ethical consumption isn't a get out of jail free card. you don't have to be perfect or have to shop outside of your means or really go out of your way at all to take actions against capitalism. the main thing is that you care about people, your community, the environment, etc enough to care about your behaviors. that's all we can ask of anyone. to care

(this post is written about the US, I'm unclear on the situations in other countries)

It's that time of the year again where I look back on everything I crocheted over the past year. Looks like this was the year of the hanging plants! There were a handful of crochet things that I didn't have time to photograph bc they had sold immediately during the many markets I participated in this year, including some donut coasters, strawberry charms (final photo taken by @its.greychen !), and a variety of other plants. Thank you to everyone who bought one of these from me!! You've truly helped me embrace my love for botany, despite me having a black thumb lol. My high school self (half of my lifetime ago!?) would be so proud to hear that I'm still crocheting into adulthood. Here's to more projects in the new year!

Are you looking for an awesome, queer art book?

Mine is on pre-sale now! I've written the Coffee Table Book of Pride Flags which discusses a multitude of queer identities and several subcultures/adjacent cultures (think leather and rubber communities) while showing off my collages!

If you've been following me for a while, you know that I've been creating pride flag collages since 2017 (or at least for several years). This is a culmination of that and will be out on October 1st, just in time for LGBT+ History month!

So many of you are part of the reason behind this book. Tumblr has been where I have learned about queer identities far and wide, including my own when I was a teenager (hello out there, ace Tumblr), and you have continued to educate me (most recently with people who use it/its pronouns). You're gems, and I'm really excited to share this with you.

SO. Where can you buy it?

Amazon or Barnes & Noble

The moment I know it's on sale at a small bookshop, I will tell you because you should support small bookshops far more than the big ones

Also, if you like it or want to read it and don't have the money (because art books can be more expensive), suggest it to your local library!!!! That way you and others can enjoy it even if you can't afford it.

Now, I’m not a master and this is a holiday gift, but this bit here of a scarf, not even the length of my hand, took me two hours. So, look at this picture anytime you argue with an independent artist about the worth of their creation that came from their soul.

a new handmade update inspired by victoriana & folklore  ♥ both on my Etsy and my website! :) Please have a look on my new website too, I am trying to sell a few things independent on Etsy´s extremely high fees, so support on my website is so important to me now. but new things can be found on both sites. links: website / etsy  // @everlinet​

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Bought a locally-made sweater and it came with a breakdown of the pricing. More brands should do this!