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Author Jack Stein / artist / gardening nerd between March and August 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Savvy observers may suspect I’m some kind of mathematician. While correct, this is a part of my tragic backstory I’m doing my best to move on from.
Art & writing NSFW / be 18+ please
Savvy observers may suspect I’m some kind of mathematician. While correct, this is a part of my tragic backstory I’m doing my best to move on from.
Art & writing NSFW / be 18+ please
I do HAVE photos of my cats looking beautiful and graceful and perfect. But I get to control the narrative here on the internet.
December 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I do HAVE photos of my cats looking beautiful and graceful and perfect. But I get to control the narrative here on the internet.
whatcha looking at you little dummy?
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
whatcha looking at you little dummy?
It’s possible mistakes have been made this morning.
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It’s possible mistakes have been made this morning.
Still committed to selecting only the goofiest picture of this animal I can capture
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Still committed to selecting only the goofiest picture of this animal I can capture
As a rule I don’t sell my embroidery, because I am greedy and jealous and I love the things I make more deeply than anyone else possibly could. But I did assemble some DIY kits of these designs for sale, & put the patterns out on Tumblr for free.
#embroidery
www.tumblr.com/gradientdesc...
#embroidery
www.tumblr.com/gradientdesc...
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
As a rule I don’t sell my embroidery, because I am greedy and jealous and I love the things I make more deeply than anyone else possibly could. But I did assemble some DIY kits of these designs for sale, & put the patterns out on Tumblr for free.
#embroidery
www.tumblr.com/gradientdesc...
#embroidery
www.tumblr.com/gradientdesc...
ignore the blood on the vest, I don’t like how that turned out, but for example: splat, slide, bleed on the ground for a while. Bloodstains show how we got to the single moment in the image.
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
ignore the blood on the vest, I don’t like how that turned out, but for example: splat, slide, bleed on the ground for a while. Bloodstains show how we got to the single moment in the image.
So you made a pact with a devil, what’s the big deal
#embroidery
#embroidery
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
So you made a pact with a devil, what’s the big deal
#embroidery
#embroidery
It’s cold and wet outside and we’re both kinda mad about it
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It’s cold and wet outside and we’re both kinda mad about it
Because I can never just have ONE project in the hopper at a time, and also because it’s cold… hand-warmers are now in progress
December 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Because I can never just have ONE project in the hopper at a time, and also because it’s cold… hand-warmers are now in progress
Sometimes you’ll see a strand of pearls in the bead store and say to yourself “but what will I ever do with a dozen pearls”. Don’t worry about it. The answer will come.
#embroidery
#embroidery
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Sometimes you’ll see a strand of pearls in the bead store and say to yourself “but what will I ever do with a dozen pearls”. Don’t worry about it. The answer will come.
#embroidery
#embroidery
I didn’t have a design ahead of time for this one, just decided to wing it with the leftover scraps from other projects
#embroidery
#embroidery
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I didn’t have a design ahead of time for this one, just decided to wing it with the leftover scraps from other projects
#embroidery
#embroidery
Another design I loved so much I made three of ‘em
#embroidery
#embroidery
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Another design I loved so much I made three of ‘em
#embroidery
#embroidery
Sometimes I make a thing and it pleases me so much that I must immediately make two more.
#embroidery
#embroidery
December 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Sometimes I make a thing and it pleases me so much that I must immediately make two more.
#embroidery
#embroidery
It’s been a minute since I had a big embroidery project going, but here’s the latest - a study of Egon Schiele’s 1914 “Standing Male Nude With Red Loincloth”.
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
It’s been a minute since I had a big embroidery project going, but here’s the latest - a study of Egon Schiele’s 1914 “Standing Male Nude With Red Loincloth”.
THIS cat, on the other hand? Not gonna settle for the grapefruit. Carb Cat knows what’s truly good in life.
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
THIS cat, on the other hand? Not gonna settle for the grapefruit. Carb Cat knows what’s truly good in life.
Indulging in the traditional Thanksgiving morning grapefruit-and-birdwatching breakfast together, as you do
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Indulging in the traditional Thanksgiving morning grapefruit-and-birdwatching breakfast together, as you do
One unit of stash: BUSTED
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
One unit of stash: BUSTED
Without fail, of all the places she COULD sit, the place that she chooses is “right on top of my sewing”
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Without fail, of all the places she COULD sit, the place that she chooses is “right on top of my sewing”
god’s most perfect creature ate shit trying to jump up on this countertop, walked away for 5 minutes, and then came back and tried again like I didn’t just see her belly-flop right into the cabinet doors
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
god’s most perfect creature ate shit trying to jump up on this countertop, walked away for 5 minutes, and then came back and tried again like I didn’t just see her belly-flop right into the cabinet doors
running out of bobbin thread and not noticing it till the end of a long seam is bad enough at any time, but when it’s leather… arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
running out of bobbin thread and not noticing it till the end of a long seam is bad enough at any time, but when it’s leather… arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh
This may be the last of my garden posting for the season, as the bleak winter closes in and, fat and happy from gorging on the fruits of the harvest, I retreat to my cave for the next four months. I’m quite pleased that these grocery-store mums came back for year 3 though.
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This may be the last of my garden posting for the season, as the bleak winter closes in and, fat and happy from gorging on the fruits of the harvest, I retreat to my cave for the next four months. I’m quite pleased that these grocery-store mums came back for year 3 though.
new hobby: photograph this beast specifically making faces. For too long her beauty’s gone on unchallenged and it’s starting to go to her head.
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
new hobby: photograph this beast specifically making faces. For too long her beauty’s gone on unchallenged and it’s starting to go to her head.
captured the little menace mid-hork
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
captured the little menace mid-hork