I've been to 5 (IL, WI, MN, IN, and MI), and it's a tossup between IL and WI. I was born here, I live here, I like IL, especially right now. But I also grew up in WI and I have a soft spot for it. And trauma. But, you know, soft, cheesy spot. We'll say my favorite is IL.

I didn't want my bias for ancient, grey tree dudes to color my choice, but Treebeard is definitely boyfriend material.

Do I ask what the sexiest tree is, or just go with something unique? Big chunky baobab during a wet season, mangroves just...being mangroves. Ficus? That ancient bristlecone pine?

So many options.

por que no los dos?

I like how we have this contrast of "this has been in the hopper for months/a year" and "this whole new thing was done overnight"

"Fruit-related accident, pear" from The Cave of Trophonius

omg The Cave of Trophonius

I'm gonna die by pear.

Also because I was looking too closely, I've now made the assessment that the lunula on my left thumb is the best one I've got. Fun!

It's two feet long when unfurled and has many languages on it. There's nothing indicating what on earth it's for since it covers most of the bases. Maybe it came out of the package of that bullet vibe I picked up a while back to help sift bugs out of frass.

Photo of a hand holding a small paper with impossibly small text. It reads, in part, "Dear customer, Congratulations on the purchase of your adult pleasure product! This customer information guide provides useful advice and tips on how to use and care for your product. Please keep this information for your reference," and then goes on a way. Much of the text is obscured by a thumb, because the text is tiny.

This just popped out of nowhere, like I turned around and it had materialized on my desk. 1) what did I buy that came with this and b) why do I need a microscope to read it

Positively in LOVE with this pour omg

Despite everyone in Joliet and adjacent to it (hello it's me) rallying against the city letting this utterly fucking massive data center get built there, the city officials decided to sign their term-death and approve it. It's utterly disgusting and wasteful.

photo of a hand loosely gripping Marbles from Noodle Crafters. Marbles has massive balls. The right sized balls. Infinite. Balls.

Marbles arrived on Tue and I've just been like this for the last 48 hours, quietly saying "balls" every once in a while

Hella balls on their way! YAY

Not anymore 😀

🏀🏀

large and frustrating-to-look-at comparison of masturbators

Missing a couple, some duplicate models with different colors, some colors I know I've seen before that I didn't see this time.

I don't want to look through these anymore.

None of the dildos have original colors either. I think it's a pretty good indication that there's some foolishness.

...I might run through and grab all the pictures because it's a goofy hour in the morning and I'm too sleepy to do other things. Occluding them from the list is a good choice, I want to say that. Tonally I know I'm... me. I'm just vehemently opposed to people getting taken for a ride.
And ripped off

When I see the same products with the exact same run of colors, it's very easy to assume the last ~16 years history of attempted deception is merely repeating, again.

I'm not going to run through and grab all the pictures where what you find on defendus is identical to alibaba; it's most of it.

FAAK has been the longest running, recognizable brand from this company, but they regularly throw new letters on their products and try to pretend to be a new small maker. I have personally observed an increase effort in the fakery since I've returned, including pretending to be indie studios.

Qianai on the left, defendus on the right. Not the exact same product picture but clearly from the same run of colors.

The way I'm looking at it, it's not difficult to go into a different room and pretend to be someone else.

I also don't see any reason someone would get 'whitelabel' molds and then just use the same color. This is, to me, obviously manufactured in the same place,

Aside from some unique colors shown on their Youtube, the colors and firmness in preview, and lack of options to change these, also suggest to me that if they're not just qianai pretending not to be, it's ordered from qianai or dropshipped. It's almost all identical to what we find on alibaba.

Photo of a hand holding a piece of hail that is shaped similarly to cauliflower - the hail is about two inches (about 5cm) long.

Photo of an IKEA "Micke" set of drawers, assembled, with instruction book and adjustable screwdriver with different bits sitting on top.

Cauliflower-shaped hail from the storms yesterday, new Micke...thing. Matches the one I've had to the left of my desk for a while, just put another on the right. Have to organize art stuff into it :)
And do more cable management I guess.

🎂

I could write a lot about whatever "big" 35 is, the breaking down how I felt about the change over time yesterday, how I feel about it today, but you don't wanna read it and I just bought myself a project so that's what I'm gonna do. A set of drawers for next to the desk, ~fancy~

screenshot of youraislopbores.me website interface wherein I asked that the human larping as an AI "draw a happiness." The response is a doodle of a happy penis

exceptional

(I still exist, I'm just hidin' from life and doing work and playing games)

Very much the same as dong #2 from the first post. This version is slightly larger and has added balls on it, the site selling it for nearly $150 includes a photo that barely shows off the maker mark in the actual toy.

first dong in first post, but angle matched from me instead of the non-matching angles from the site and amazon. It's got dust and hair on it, a battle I cannot win.

Here's the second one with more balls, including maker's mark
And a better photo showing the first dong in the first post from a comparable angle. It's got dust and hairs on it and I'm just not gonna fix it, sorry.

There's a version of the second one with more balls added and it's not online anymore, but that's listed as $147 and I bought the damn thing for $31. Might dig it out, but you gotta promise to just accept that I buy questionable dongs sometimes.

Definitely don't ask about the tpe bonfires either.

dildo on left at $99, identical to dildo on right at $30.99. Not debating safety - they're the same.

dildo on left at A WHOPPING $147 when the same thing on the right is being sold for $36.99. Again not debating safety - it's the same thing.

Trust me on this one? but it's the same dildo again, on left for $99 and on right for $34.99

Revolutionary new toys from artisans with deep investments into modeling and it's just stuff you find on Amazon.
Not linking anything, I don't want the heat, just don't be taken by nonsense. Most of it has the maker mark too. I follow the am shop and recognize these immediately.

I sculpted a Grendel but I really need to sculpt a Norn. I think I'm inclined to make one like Pimento here, she's one of my favorite types.

I remember the silicone just not wanting to cooperate with me on that Jackal. It was very rude! but all iterations ended up being very beautiful regardless. Definitely one of my favorites, with the other being my personal like...50s? colors.

cc

Set on fire?