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Justagirl™️ and her cameras

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That's about where I'm at with it. Nowhere conveniently close that'll do it for cheaper than Walgreens. The only real thing stopping me is the understanding that I've already got too many projects going that I need to finish. Such is the ADHD life of chasing dopamine

That said, I did dabble in cyanotype and if I do pick up film developing, I'm totally going to combine the two

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It's a printing technique that uses photosensitive chemicals and the sun to create images. The final result is a ghostly blue image that people have done really cool things with. Generally you'll see flowers or collages using semi transparent items. Fairly cheap to get into and mess with

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Muh Privacy!

It's not that they're sex perverts and dnd nerds that everything is called that way. The two things just happen to be true at the same time.

Like: furries don't control the Internet by design. The system admins and network engineers just happen to be furries. The mentality that makes one happen makes the other as well but they're not intrinsically linked.

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Missing the old times

The good/bad news is that the old "I swear to God you bootlickers need a good ass kicking" and "Jesus is ashamed at what you do in his name" styles of country are making a comeback

And for inclusivity, there's a sub genre devoted to the "you tried to end my people but I will not die" style which includes focuses on lgbtqia+, women in general, pagans/wiccans, indigenous groups, other, and various combinations therein

The bog witches, fae creatures, and {unknown description of Appalachian denizens} have been putting out some good stuff

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A sudden epiphany.

For me, it was realizing that while I was smart, the shit level of schooling was more an impediment to me gaining the skills needed to continue excelling and I continue to be surrounded by absolute dipshits wherever I go.

In school, I didn't have to study to pass and there was no real incentive to learn how to. This bit me when it came to university because the lectures didn't cover everything that was to be tested on. Turns out, trying is a skill I never needed until then.

Then, in the workforce, I'm constantly exhausted dealing with people who are at best functionally literate and I have to cater to their understanding of literally everything. No desire to either understand the problem or fix the root cause, just make the thing do what they want right then.

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My wife worked in ICU then COVID ICU. She still gets PTSD flashbacks from everything she dealt with when someone comes in with similar symptoms. I got front row tickets to seeing a person who's entire job is to keep people alive go from "oh someone I had today coded and we couldn't bring them back" every so often to "we had multiple people die today. A few more aren't much longer. If we put them on their back, they'll die. If we give them water, they'll choke and die. They still refuse to believe that COVID is real as they are actively suffering and dying of it".

Yeah, we get a touch testy when people say it was fake or overblown