Jenn: There is no peace at Dangerous Ladies, only warfare.

He's.... so cursed without his fur.

Needed themed fits for our FEA tattoo photoshoot

Religious things happening with my Home Depot bucket.

Me: Something's wrong with Aigis [the 3D printer]. I'm going to check. Cole: OK. Me, coming back: I found out what's wrong with Aigis. Cole: What's wrong with it? Me: All of the belts exploded. Cole: All of the belts exploded? Me: All of the belts exploded!

More sculptin' today.

Not leaving for Katsu today because we aren’t going this year but seeing everyone else’s posts :(

2003: I cosplay like 20 Naruto characters 2026: First Naruto prop hits DL's store

Me: We just need to live as if we're in Fallout or something. And there's hope for science in the future. Gray: Fallout? Fallout? We're going to live like Fallout? Where they have hope for science? Christine: Fallout? Where science is the enemy? Me: OKAY––

One of my employees is currently trying to reinvent greek fire. So far he's got "candle wax and vegetable oil with some kind of grain alcohol"

This is what I look like all fucking winter bc the shop is cold. And yet I must sew.

Shop talk today: Is Love Shack by the B52s because a reference to "that movie with Anne Hathaway" and also is it "a conspiracy to inflate the value of boat houses"

Despite not going to Katsu this year a bunch of my friends and I have been “crunching” anyway. I’ve made great headway on stuff I don’t need until May! But it’s v. funny to go “fuck, we leave for Katsu in five days, I’m not going to make it” and a friend go “you have 120 hours, you can do it.”

A lot of the 3D printed slop at cons is actually just an extension of how so much of 3D printing has become a kind of MLM business model. The 3D artists who create the bulk of the flexi-whatever models out there sell print rights as a monthly fee, so print farm businesses pay them continuously.

I feel like conventions should simply ban tables in Artist Alleys from selling 3D printed goods made from other people’s files, even with permission. If people aren’t supposed to sell enamel pins or jewelry off AliExpress, then why should anyone be allowed to sell prints from someone else’s files?

Textured this Monoco staff while Kat and I yapped about our immaculate taste in video games. Proud of it.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Honestly even if it’s a bummer for 3D artists like me who actually make their own 3D print files, I appreciate that Anime North bans all 3D printed goods because it means not having to see all the stolen files and slop. I can’t remember the last time I saw a 3Dp booth that was selling original work.

[sales up 0.1% compared to the day before]

Tbh I think fondly of Trudeau's morning pressers on the front steps of his house during early COVID where he'd explain what was going on, what they were doing to fix it, request certain behaviors, etc. Like please. Just give me a short daily broadcast with updates on what's being done. It's useful.

We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!

There’s flickers of this shit in Dreamwidth/journal/text based RP too. It feels especially irritating because we don’t actually need flavour images, let alone AI generated ones, in a text based hobby. Just describe the fucking setting.

Snuck into a neighbourhood club’s “experience”/party that was advertised exclusively with AI imagery to see what it looked like IRL and it was very Wonkacore. This can’t fuckin last, man. People can’t possibly be okay with being advertised to that way for long, especially not at cost.

Leda Fire Emblem we are gonna get married after you put me thru this

Me after Jenn resposts this here…

“Some other country has displeased me, so I’m going to need Americans to pay for this.” Utterly deranged.

You are allowed to have a hot take about cosplay and post it online ONLY on days where you’ve done at least 4 hrs of work on your own personal cosplay and thus acutely remember the time, effort and expense involved. Resets at midnight every day. This is now LAW, article 6, subsection C, yadda yadda.

Fortune's Weave rumored to be coming out Anime North weekend... girl if I spend the release weekend trapped behind an artist alley booth LMAO...

Sciel’s patterns are finally 90% there… I’m very excited to finally sew the finals. All downhill from here! (Also is this not just a Rey Star Wars costume in muslin… that’s so funny.)

Celebrating the holidays that matter.

At that stage in my sewing journey where I’m making mock-ups nicer and more meticulously than the finished garments I made in my first few years of sewing lmao.

Jenn, upon me handing her Nymeia's Spinning Wheel refs, was *ecstatic* to tackle such a logistical monster and truly there is no other friend I would trust with a back mounted prop larger than I am @quicksparrows.bsky.social is an extremely dangerous lady (affectionate)

I am so good at breaking down props for CAD design and 3D printing that I daydream it when looking at concept art.

I have to keep like 1000lbs of fabric around for exactly these moments.

Subjecting everyone to Fall Out Boy discography these past 24 hrs.

The government is so fucking funny. I had to file DL's annual corporate return and it was like "hey is this still your info. print out this pdf and sign it. keep it, you don't have to send it to us or upload it or anything. now give us $12. thanks."

Keep hearing devs say that they only use ai for "pre-concept art" There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept. You're using ai for concept art.

some say that to love and to be loved is to build a better world, and she took that literally

Convention hotel booking despair hours.

I cannot stress this enough: this is not possible in a literal technological sense: you cannot train an AI and expect even comprehensible results with under ~1 million pieces of data, nobody can supply all that with the variance needed. You can only achieve it through wanton scraping

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

⭐️ 2026 3D MODELLING THREAD ⭐️ In which Jenn posts all the 3D models she does this year. All files are available on my company's website (dangerousladies.ca) and questions gladly answered. 🙌

Bulk superglue up to $60 compared to last year's $52, what do I have to do to save the economy, I can't take this anymore.

didn't matter how quickly or easily one can make a bunch of slop it all falls apart if you need to print it onto paper and buy a spot in a physical space and convince people to actually buy it

I gotta make four Expedition capelets so today I printed out DL’s pattern for it 🙂‍↕️ Mockup time!

I still haven’t replaced my home iron, the hated and despicable Rowenta, but I’m about to chuck it off the balcony because it just fucking dumped an entire tank worth of water out and directly on its own power cord, creating a fucking electrocution hazard.

The stripes are striping on the shoulder seam!!

Crying laughing, Dangerous Ladies got a rare phone call from someone looking for Grinch gloves. “ChatGPT told me you guys sell Grinch Christmas gloves.” Laughed and told him we don’t, don’t trust ChatGPT because it makes up answers, he laughed and thanked me anyway and hung up.

I am so happy with these!!

I remember the sharpie variant of this in 2005 or so.