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autisticaradiamegido · 4 months

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day 26

someday if i can figure out how the hell people get these things made i would like to do some little destiny & malice acrylic charms. i think those are so fun. and while i mostly want them for Myself i figure that if i DID figure out the process, i should maybe open up the option to anyone else that might want them, soooo...

informal poll: if i figure out how all that works, would any of y'all be into that, and approximately how many of you?

#day 26 #year 5 #my ocs #destiny chainsaw #malice winterfang #i know i've said i don't really like the idea of commissions and this isnt like a PROMISE or anything #i still have a lot of research to do before i commit to a shop of any kind #BUT. i think like a redbubble or something in that vein might be a manageable project #i mention stickers specifically because that seems like a very manageable thing to produce and ship even if i didnt go through like #a service to do so #particularly because i dont think id get a TON of orders for my niche OCs lol #but if i got some practice with something small like this it MIIIIGHT help me build up to making things for a larger market like...#say... well you know what i'm about over here lmao #we've basically all but gotten the official blessings of the powers that be to make homestuck merch without fear of reprisal at this point #ANYWAY that would be a ways off and be a much MUCH bigger project both artistically and in terms of like #me learning how Online Commerce works from the seller end.#BUT I HAVE BEEN CONSIDERING IT. and it seems to me that it would at least be relatively simple to sell like. prints of old art maybe #i dunno! like i said i'll see how the poll shakes out while i do a bit more research

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rotisseries · 5 months

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inspired by elli's poll lol cause this seems fun actually but if you guys have bad answers I'll kill myself on your doorstep or smth

#“rori all of these are your faves how can there be a bad answer” well I still have an internal ranking on some of these #and if all of you pick an option that I think pales in comparison to the others. well. hm #I know what's gonna sweep though because two of these are niche as hell and 4 maybe 5 of these are things you people don't follow me for #fun fact I actually had to scrape my brain to make sure I couldn't come up with any more #I am unintentionally very picky on what is a favorite apparentlyyyy #I also just don't watch/read enough stuff these days so there's that #AND I NEED LONG TERM EXPOSURE TO KNOW THEY'RE STICKING AROUND #so like. I have some options but I don't KNOWWW if they're sticking yet #but this feels like such a small poll lmao #also no sapphics on here this is actually cause I hate women-#NO. JOKING. zelink is here. I almost put gideon and harrow but I'm in a perpetual state of not having finished tlt #and I couldn't put nebetta and darya I was drawing the line at 2 tbos ships. well. actually. changed my mind #not editing these tags actually you guys can see my thought process #WAIT AND SAYMARI. FUCK. I LITERALLY MADE A PLAYLIST FOR THEM I LOVE THEMMM #ok. is 4 tbos ships too many. hmm #I said 2 of these are niche now four of these are niche it's really the “which tbos pairing is your fave” poll #THIS POLL IS SO FUNNY IT'S SO SELF INDULGENT I HAVE TO TAKE OUT AT LEAST ONE TBOS SHIP #I should add one more general one...#cause I do actually want genuine and varied answers I gotta give y'all options so they don't all pool at the first two #I also almost put ellie and abby on here.. that would've been so funny four popular 1 rarepair 3 super niche ships #ellie and abby are soooo interesting to me though so of course the thought of them having something horrible going on together compels me #and they are one of my 3 favorited ao3 tags... they deserve a place...#ok well while I debate on that I'm putting akutagawa and atsushi on here I admittedly have only had like two months of exposure to them #but it is enough I can tell they are so crazy to me #the way my tags are just me overthinking everything on what is supposed to be a fun and silly poll... no one does it like me I'm afraid

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doyoulikethissong-poll · 3 months

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Sorry if this has been asked before, but what's your process for selecting songs to create polls for? I have an extremely wide music interest range, but I feel like even I would have massive blindspots for a lot of stuff, just because of the sheer amount of music that's available, difficulties with search engines, and the user-reinforcing nature of algorithms on most sites.

So far, I'm extremely impressed. One particularly-niche artist I love has appeared on here before, which absolutely made my day. If there's a random-selection tool you're using, perhaps selecting from a massive, community-built database of song listings, then I'd be very interested in knowing about it. If not, then once again I'm really impressed by the range you've been finding so far, just based on genres alone.

Hope you're having a great one!

asfkjfdhr i just really love music? :'D it's my autistic trait, I think.

I have siblings who are up to 20 years older than me so I grew up with their music as well as my parents' music while the other kids my age had never listened to that stuff but i made them, i got to listen to music from "the other side of the world" through foreign family members, I was pretty much glued to MTV, and Eurovision can be quite a good source as well. And then there's the movie soundtracks....!!!! and there were a few anime years as well with all that music, too. It all have been a great way to expand the interest range without even being aware of it, i think? There have been some fantastic new discoveries to me amongst the submitted songs but i've also been lazy and chosen submissions that's already been in my mp3 collection. I am slow with working my way through the submitted songs but there's gonna be more of them, I promise!

idk i just thought this whole music hoarding thing was normal when growing up and then I realized it wasn't and I guess I've finally found a use for it now lmao 😂

The process of picking songs pretty much goes like "I love this one! And this! I don't love this but it's cool and different so in it goes! But I love this! And this! And thi- no wait that is too similar, I'll hold it for a while. And this! Oh and a submitted one! And this!"

That said there's only one song i've actively searched out and it was by googling "2024 number one" for something brand new from this year.

Which artist of yours was it that was posted? :D

Thank you so much, and I hope you have a great day too!! 💖💖💖

#other

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matchamabs · 5 months

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Okay, it's been a while since the last interest check, which I thought would be the last one, but life stopped doing what it was supposed to, and then I kept bumping into people who hadn't seen the check for this comic! So, here's a better, more official interest check now that I stopped getting the shit kicked out of me by colour print hurdles lmao. This comic is hell to edit

I gotta state, please only vote on this poll if you're absolutely, completely, totally, 100% very sure you will buy a physical copy! This shit is kinda niche, if I make too many, I doubt I'll be able to shift them lmao

Shipping prices are dependent on where you are in the world! I try and always used tracked shipping to make sure it doesn't get lost!

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Misthallery's yearly kids disco, like any other, is a pit where it's every man for himself. Between sweets and dancing, finding that first love and maintaining social reputation, the Black Ravens get some much needed downtime, which proves to be humbling for a bunch of kids secretly above the rest.

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stormandsparks · 12 days

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most of the queer people i know are either super into heavy rock music or like mitski or that other one i forgot the name of-

tbh i feeel like my music taste is kinda basic lmao

So poll:

#lee falls down a flight of stairs #music taste #music #queer #queer music #girl in red #mitski #rock music?#polls #music polls #lee asks stupid questions

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tmos-time · 1 month

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Swear to god dude every time i see you reblog do you know this band it'll say shit like "do you guys know The Gooblyflus Forks" and all the votes go "no what the fuck are you saying" but then you reblog going OH MY GODDD GUYS GO LISTEN RIGHT NOW THEIR SONG SLEEPING IN THE FLORESCENTS IS AMAZING and it never fails to confuse and amuse me. not insulting i am just genuinely amazed by how you know so many of the artists mentioned and it always being the ones with 99.98 percent of people going "what the fuck is this it sounds made up". Never change

LMAO, i am simply unhinged and use discover weekly as my main source for finding nicher and nicher songs like an echo chamber <3 and then proceed to have a penchant for only reblogging the polls for bands that are niche as fuck with VERY good songs lmao, i have an image to maintain as a weird short king with a 98% on obscurify o7

anyways. for the occasion of answering this ask on homestuck day and picking something thematic (you have to pretend i added an image of that godawful screaming baseball with a megaphone in front of it)

go listen to snaggletooth pumpkin by zaki!!!!!

#tmos opens mail #anonymous #you would THINK. a one album band with jack stauber in it would have more than 2k listening monthly lmao #was also gonna recc other songs following a loose homestuck theme but goddd just snaggletooth pumpkin is so funny #pumpkin tide by michael guy bowman would have been so easy but thags just. thats canonical homestuck music MGB did homestuck stuff LOL #edit: YKNOW WHAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE FOR APRIL FOOLS DAY. FUUUUCK I SHOULD HAVE TREATED WELL KNOWN BANDS LIKE THEYRE NICHE. LMAO

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twinkpoll · 1 year

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I think there were spam accounts involved in the ncgb poll tbh. Not the admins fault obviously like what are you gonna do lmao but I straight up don’t think that result is legit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It would make sense. Like that's very much a niche ship. I literally didn't know it even existed, let alone had propaganda that strong. Not that I'm posting this to make drama, I am benignly curious and surprised.

@noncanongayestbitchestournament what say you?

#other brackets

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codecicle · 1 year

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Seeing all of my qsmp friends on here talk about the horrors of shipping on englishtwt is so funny to me. I haven't downloaded twitter and only have an account to vote on mcc polls. I don't have the app, I use the website alone and even then it's only to check what place insert creator here is on trending. My consumption of qsmp fanart and fan media is exclusively through tumblr and very niche corners of tik tok. Everyone I've talked to or interacted with are absolutely down for shipping the characters in a gay sex way because they're currently living on gay sex island and have gay sex on stream. The concept that any of what these creators are doing live could even possibly be "against their boundaries" is fuckin absurd to me. Vegeta and Foolish proudly introduce each other to the Brazilian creators as boyfriends. Quackity has canonically never met a woman before Jaiden. Speaking of which, there is one woman on the entire server and shes aro/ace both in game and in real life. Most of the eggs actively ship the creators together and ask for new polycules to form to give them new parents. All of the brazilian creators are in one polycule taking care of one egg. Slime asked "tiktok edit this" while he was having minecraft sex with Mariana. After they broke character and talked about their personal lives yesterday during the egg finale Mariana asked Charlie to break up with his girlfriend and marry him instead so he could get a green card. Then they fucked in Mariana's bed to another song as a fairwell before ending stream. They both admitted to loving the fanart they saw on twitter of them passionately making out and said it was their favorite part of the server. The only person who even mildly dislikes any of the shipping is Grace LMAO

#qsmp #i love watching the qsmp englishtwt side of the fandom go down in flames safely from the sidelines #its like that one john mulaney skit.#someone comes up to me and tells me that english twitter did something new. and its not always bad #just sometimes suprising and confusing #like englishtwt used the elevator?..... i didnt know they knew how to do that.#anyway get off of twitter its bad for you 👍#also ive used twitter a little bit #but only to view the spanishtwt side of the qsmp so i could #1: practice spanish #and 2: read a fanfic twitter au that was written in spanish #but seriously fanart of the gay sex that canonically happened is totally fine. what the fuck is englishtwt on #i make yet anothet post just for me 👍

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sailorstarr-chan4 · 1 year

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This is going for a VERY niche audience on here lol (*cough* @artistefish *cough cough* 👀👀), and I ALMOST added Ranma 1/2 on this list..... until I remembered the Inuyasha vs Ranma reboot poll and realized there's a very passionate fandom for Ranma out there lmao.

#Starling polls #anime and manga #Rumiko Takahashi #Urusei Yatsura #Maison Ikkoku #Mermaid Saga #One Pound Gospel #Rumic World #Rumic Theater #Kyoukai no Rinne #Mao #otaku issues #original post #200+ votes #50 notes

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the-90s-music-colosseum · 9 months

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britpop anons, grunge anons, everyone else, tho we may fight about albums and hot people this is just such a cool thing overall and were all taking part, i think in the future we will look fondly and happily to having been part of these eventually historically and culturally significant polls in the eyes of internet lore/history, sorry this post reads so weird lmao, i guess i just want to say thanks for all the hard work and devotion to our host, you are awesome thanks for making this such a good time even tho pearl jam did not win thats ok youre a legend

And the most wholesome ask award goes to... 🎖

Is my blog historically and culturally significant?? Gosh I hope! I think we can all agree that our niche little corner of the internet deserves to be lore for future generations. In the end of all the anon fights and weird shenanigans, we all love 90s music and think the people who make it are hot. We're united in that.

Also yes I won't deny that I am personally not very sane about Pearl Jam lol (and several other bands tbh), but I'm not letting it interfere with the functioning of this tournament. I'm even shocked that y'all voted all of the guys in. Perhaps the universe smiles upon me :)

#most attractive 90s musician #asks #wholesome <3

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karamell-sweetz · 2 months

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welcome to my blog!

time to remake my info post :D

BASICS

my name is karamell! its a pleasure to meet ya :D

i go by she/her and am cis female :3 not too fussed abt pronouns tho!

at present i am 16, my birthday is the 16th of june. i’m australian + filipino, so sorry if i post something at an ungodly hour for your timezone lmao

this blog will be for my fandom reblogs, art and countless ramblings! i have a separate account dedicated to undertale multiverse content -> @karamellz-multiverse-l0g (i don’t post there a lot because undertale is on the backburner for now!) i’m currently aiming to get into an animation course for university, so all my art is working towards that :3

i am also self-appointed chairwoman of the rui kamishiro fanclub! not that that’s too important… but i like saying it lol

BYF

i don’t tag my reblogs/queue usually so uhh good luck poring through that >< all of my original posts are tagged for convenience though, you can find my tags in the search bar :3

in relation to that i’m VERY multifandom so srry if you get bombarded with stuff that doesn’t relate to you haha! but hopefully you’ll like the stuff i rb too, i’m a firm believer in the power of brainrot spreading and most of my fandoms are from the same niche anyway!

i dont have a dni because realistically i cant rlly control who sees my stuff, but if you or the stuff you post make me uncomfortable i’ll just block you. no hard feelings <3

FANDOMS + FAV LIST

project sekai - rui kamishiro, tsukasa tenma, wxs, n25, okay actually its everyone i love proseka soo much

vocaloid - miku, una + deco*27, n-buna, kikuo, pinocchio-p, inabakumori, picco, harumakigohan, maiki-p

d4dj - unichørd, hapiara, lyrilily

bandori - pasupa, morfonica, hhw, ras

enstars - trickstar, alkakurei

love live - rina tennoji, shioriko mifune, hanamaru kunikida, ruby kurosawa, you watanabe, ayumu uehara

fragaria memories - romarriche

milgram - amane, yuno, mahiru

undertale (utmv) - xtale, ink, murder time trio

danganronpa - shuichi saihara, kaede akamatsu, k1-b0

twisted wonderland - heartslabyul (deleted the game because UGH the grind)

denonbu - harajuku district

revue starlight - lalafin, karen, aruru (i love all of them tho)

cookie run kingdom - had a very minor fling with this one so you won’t see it a lot

genshin impact - also minor fling, have not played past liyue. solely here for the banger character designs

other things you may see: lalaloopsy + other doll lines from that era, mlp, warrior cats, cute art i think is nice, lunime gacha games (i was very much a ‘gacha kid’ back in its prime), puyo puyo, writing stuff, THE COLOUR PINK, webcore, memes, cool crafts, yorushika, other teenage girl things idk

TAGS

karamell yells - ramblings and random stuff, may include headcanons and analysis

karamell doodles - my art! mostly fanart at the moment

karamell’s wips - works in progress (stuff i’ll never finish probably)

karamell’s pocket - posts i want to come back to

karamell gaming - random game screenshots

karamell rolls the gacha - my gacha pulls of varying luck

karamell’s mailbox - asks, submissions, tag games, all that fun stuff

karamell’s rq pile - drawing requests (which are always open btw, feel free to send some in if you’d like!)

karamell stop missing the blonde clown - thirsty? brainrot posts about tsukasa tenma because boy do i love him

karamell’s confections - various big projects (videos, edits, etc). all the cool stuff i make that isn’t normal art basically

karamell’s burning pile of ocs - see image below:

(utmv submissions for this will be posted on my sideblog)

when in doubt. rui scribble - various random scribbles of rui kamishiro because i like drawing him

karamell asks a question - mostly polls and stuff i need help with

TAGS FOR MINI-SERIES

karamell’s project precure au - project sekai x precure (updates never)

wxs revue au - project sekai x revue starlight (updates randomly)

karamell’s birthday treat cafe - food-themed fandom birthday drawings (on break for a bit)

kamikou seniors trio - tsukasa ena rui posts because i want them to hang out

the mizuruiena agenda continues - mizuki rui ena hanging out

rui dress agenda - rui in dresses what did you expect

rui fanclub sekai - read my blog description. just silly things about a hypothetical rui fanclub

FIND ME!

youtube - karamell-sweetz!

tiktok - karamell.sweetz

ao3 - mirai_spxrk

pinterest - karamellxsweetz

art fight - karamellxsweetz

FRIEND ID (GLOBAL SERVERS ONLY)

bandori - 4636316 (karamellxshowtime!) (i might be out of friend space tho)

d4dj - ffzoJpPf (mirai.chørd)

project sekai - 168505012555628545 (karamellxshowtime)

enstars - 7709727947 (karamelloid)

starira - 1324761851 (revue.sweetz)

that should be all. enjoy your stay on my silly little corner of the internet!! 🫶

#PINNED POST #karamell yells

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fpsprotag-poll · 1 year

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The end!

Well, that was the end of this little event. Now, here are few words from me:

Thank you to everyone who followed, liked, and reblog. I never thought this would get this much attention, since it seemed like a very niche poll idea at the time. Nice to see other display their love for the shooting genre as much as i do.

Even thought the event didin't run as smoothly as i wanted, and i fucked up a couple of times running it - i still had tons of fun seeing all this unfold with all of you. I would never suspect the results from all this, especially not tf2 winning the whole thing, lmao.

special shoutsout to everyone who submitted characters, to the chell sweep anon, everyone who sent in asks, to all who said funny things in the notes.

Anti-shoutsout to all those who compalined about TPS characters being included.

Glad you guys all had fun.

Play more shooters - my final messege. Good bye.

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ghostypetrainer · 2 years

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i can't believe shiro read an ingo fangirl's account of her "dark, brooding prince" in the daily magazine for fanclub members, got wind of how strong ingo and his brother were (and how polite and genial he was, totally the opposite of ppl's expectations of a frowning man dressed in all black), then decided to make the "brooding" part true and make him the commander of Shiro's evil team (sorta like the prince of an empire right?). Lmao

love the implication here that Ingo has a fanclub. that is so funny to me. Do you think both Ingo and Emmet have fan clubs? Elesa is a card carrying member of them both just because she thinks it's funny.

Anyways, lmao Shiro... fulfilling a very niche dream of a niche group of Ingo fans. The few who mutter to themselves quietly that they don't mind so much this new direction Ingo's personality has gone in. No wonder Kuro takes the Unova popularity poll by storm.

#asks #team chaos au #but he still comes in second after ingo lmao #unova popularity poll now just three guys with the same face

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solsticexolos · 3 years

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My Farm

I spend most of my time thinking about my farm. Right now I run a very small scale poultry breeding operation- I have two breeding groups of Orloffs and one group of turkeys- but I have much greater plans than that. I think about it constantly, because it is everything to me. So many plans I’ve had have become impossible due to finances, mental health, and disability. This, though, this is my goal and dream, the result of learning what I can and cannot do, what I do and do not enjoy doing. It will provide me the opportunity to learn hands-on, something I wanted to do via university but my health and finances won’t allow me to do.

I have many loose plans right now, but I haven’t written much of it down. I’m feeling blue at the moment, so I figured typing it out might help me.

My farm, currently named Equinox Giants farm (but my mom is arguing about registering our cattle under that name so it may change lmao,) will be a heritage livestock and poultry operation. We will specialize in dual purpose animals, predominantly in breeding in order to provide other people with stock.

Grain for the livestock will mostly come from spent brewery grains. These grains come from brewing various types of alcohol (especially beer!) Brewing companies cannot use these grains and must often pay for them to be hauled to a landfill. However they are nutrient-dense for ruminants. While not nutritionally complete on their own, when paired with good pasture (and/or hay), they make up a large portion of the diet and cut out the (very high) cost of livestock grain. Not all livestock can use them, but cattle, sheep, and poultry can. There are many breweries in New York, so finding one close will be easy enough. This also cuts down on waste in landfills!

All land in the USA is stolen land, and I cannot help that I was born and live here, but I can acknowledge that when I own my farm, that will be on land that once belonged to Indigenous peoples. So, where ever we end up, I plan to reach out to the tribe whose land we’re farming on and basically finding out what I can do about it. I don’t know what the options are, but I am sure there’s something.

Waste products will be collected and composted, the resulting fertilizer then will hopefully be sold to local greenhouses/gardeners (and used for my own tiny garden, I like to grow tomatoes!)

Now the animals themselves! Pasture land is the biggest factor currently on deciding where we move and establish the farm. We need enough to be able to rotate pasture, as that will seriously limit how much grain we have to feed and hay we have to buy (if we have the extra pasture for it then we’ll probably rent out the field to someone who hays in exchange for a portion of the hay.) All of the livestock breeds I’ll be breeding are heritage animals that are capable of thriving on very little. Dexter cattle and shetland sheep are excellent at using whatever forage is available. Rotating the Dexter herd and the Shetland (and Alpaca) flock on different pastures will allow the grass to continue growing through the growing season, providing the animals with food. Livestock guardian dogs will be kept with the herd and flock to help limit conflict with native predators (and keep stray/roaming dogs away, which can seriously destroy a herd.)

We will start small, and build slowly. One of the main reasons that new farms fail shortly after startup is starting too big and growing too fast, before the owner learns how to actually manage it.

The Dexter herd will ideally start as 2-3 bred heifers. Their offspring will be raised by the cows, and then once weaned the steers will be sold to feeders (where they go to mature more until butcher), and cow calves will likely be sold (unless any art particularly nice, which we’ll keep then to add to the herd.) We will acquire a polled dexter bull from a different source, so he can be used for breeding in the future. Temperament, health, and quality are of the upmost importance in all of my breeding programs. We’ll work with all three Dexter colors- red, black, and dun. This small herd will be grown slowly, over time as we adjust to rearing cattle and figure out what we can handle. I would like to milk the cows on a very small scale so that I can make my own cheeses and butter. The bull will be named Papa Moofasa.

The Shetland sheep herd will also start off small. Shetlands themselves are teeny tiny, so you can keep a large number in small pastures. I’d like to start with 3-5 ewes and one ram. Specifically selecting for a medium crimp and length in fiber. I’ll be part of the Shave ‘Em to Save ‘Em program, which works to connect fiber produces directly to fiber artists. I would like to get decent equipment to card and spin the wool and fiber myself so that I can sell yarn. I may also keep some Friesian sheep as dairy animals to make my own sheep cheeses.

Due to the different texture and quality of Alpaca fiber to sheep fiber, I’d also like to keep a small herd of Huacaya Alpacas. Mostly because when I’ve worked with Alpacas in the past I really enjoyed their company and noises. Pleasant little fellows. I need to do a lot more research into them, though.

Chickens are one of my biggest joys, and will likely be my largest flock as far as quantity of individuals goes. I specialize in Russian Orloffs, but will also keep and breed Wyandottes, Chanteclers, Modern Game, and Sanjak Longcrowers. I will sell eggs for hatching, chicks, grow-outs, and mature breeding birds to people interested in showing, breeding, or simply having pets. I will also process to sell whole carcasses, and will sell eggs for eating as well.

Turkey varieties will be black and chocolate, and I will sell poults, grow-outs, and meat. I’m greedy and turkeys are seasonal layers so eggs I’ll keep for myself for hatching. (May sell some for eating on rare occasion.)

As far as selling goods, it’ll be done mostly via direct to buyers. During warm months I’ll sell at local farmer’s markets. Eggs, chicks, and grow-outs will be sold to anyone in the lower 48 USA via shipping. Mature birds (and grow outs) will be sold at poultry shows. The big goal for the goods is to find the right markets. Specializing in humanely raised, heritage livestock and poultry already gets me into a nice niche with that. Advertising small-farm, pasture-raised, heritage livestock and poultry looks good (as it should! It’s more sustainable!) and helps with marketing, haha.

As with most start-up businesses, especially farms, it’ll be a while before we’re breaking even, and longer still until we’re turning a profit. This is something I recognize going into it. I ain’t in it to make money, if I wanted to make money I would not get into livestock, haha, but to preserve these breeds, provide people with a source of ethically raised products and well-bred animals, and hopefully give back to the community in meaningful ways.

Anyways, just felt like rambling for a little bit to help my frazzled brain relax. Happy New Year, y’all.

#farm #argiculture #text #personal #farming #sustainable agriculture

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24jobs · 4 years

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Here’s How People Use Close Friends On Instagram

No matter how comfortable you're sharing your life with your followers, you almost certainly don't need your boss to ascertain the beach trip you took on your "sick day." That's why it's good to understand when to vary your Instagram Close Friends list — the core of individuals who you would like to offer access to your shower thoughts on top of your more curated brunch posts. But who makes the move see your hungover Sunday selfies? What's appropriate for Close Friends vs. your main story vs. your group text? and the way does one even set it up?

For Emily, 26, the Close Friends feature maybe thanks to staying connected without making a public statement — a very useful gizmo during a climate during which it can feel inappropriate to post casually. "I'm not getting to post a random selfie while numerous people are using their platforms to arrange around far more important issues," Emily tells Bustle, about the pandemic, the upcoming election, and therefore the Black Lives Matter Movement. "I wish to use my public posts for information sharing and impersonal things."

It's never a nasty time to more closely curate who sees what you're putting out online. If you do not want your family or co-workers to ascertain your dance moves on Instagram Reels, you'll keep that content only for your clique — or if you would like to form sure your Corona Bae sees your best selfies, you'll be wanting to form sure they're on the list. Here's what to understand to urge the foremost out of your Close Friends.

When to feature People To Your Close Friends List

You can access your list via the most settings menu — Close Friends has its tab — or via sharing settings when you're able to share a Story. Though an Instagram spokesperson tells Bustle that the app doesn't curate this list, I've noticed that the people that you regularly see at the front of your Stories tray can also appear early within the list of suggested friends to settle on from. you'll scroll or search through your entire following list to handpick your official clique.

If you have ever found yourself on the Close Friends list of somebody who you are not that close with, there is a chance they accidentally added you because your name was listed among their actual close friends. Or, they need you to ascertain their content! they are not automatically added to your private list, so you do not need to worry about your ex seeing your Zoom wedding announcement. But in some cases, being added to an in-depth Friends list can spark a better friendship. Willa Bennett, head of social media for GQ, says she loves being added to the Close Friends lists of individuals she doesn't know well. "I feel honored! and typically add them to mine," she tells Bustle. (Bennett has previously been employed by Bustle Digital Group.)

According to an Instagram spokesperson, the typical number of close friends that folks add is 20, but you're liberal to add as many, or as few people as you would like. Emily has 930 followers total and has selected 60 for her Close Friends list. Bennett has 48 people on her Close Friends, out of her over 10,000 followers.

Choose What To Post to shut Friends

According to Bennett, an in-depth Friends audience is completely different from those that watch your public Story. "It’s not about likes or engagements but [it's] focused around cultivating a smaller niche, loyal online community," she tells Bustle. Emily adds that she finds people are more likely to reply to shut Friends stories precisely because it feels more intentional. It almost makes the vastness of Instagram feel intimate.

But simply because you've created an in-depth Friends list doesn't suggest you ought to ignore the remainder of your followers. When you're able to share a post, you will have the choice to share it with your Close Friends or your general Story, which may be seen by your entire following. you'll toggle between the 2 as you please. If you've selected Close Friends, your Story will appear in your friends' Story tray with a green ring around it. If you've selected Your Story, the ring is going to be sunset-colored. This also indicates whose Close Friend lists you're on.

Emily says she posts on Close Friends more frequently than to her main story. "My close friends content is typically pretty inane: reposts of art I prefer, selfies, sharing the music I'm taking note of, making dumb comments on my day, and asking questions or starting polls where I'm specifically only curious about my friends' responses," she tells Bustle.

How To Edit Your Close Friends List

Things change. The people that you've got on your Close Friends list won't always be the people you would like to share all of your content with. Fortunately, you'll edit your list at any time. Adding or removing people doesn't send any notifications, so no feelings are going to be hurt if you opt that really, you are not that close together with your cubicle-mate anymore. And like any digital hygiene practice, it's worth browsing your list every so often, to form sure everyone you would like seeing your classified content is on there.

"I've got a couple of former hook-ups and crushes on my Close Friends that I would like to ascertain my selfies, LMAO. I do not stress an excessive amount of about the 'implications' of adding someone to my list," Emily tells Bustle.

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