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this is going to sound absurd, but hear me out.
if you want little totems, go drop like $10 on some sculpy at your craft store and make some. if you really like something you make, put it in the oven and fire it. you could even paint it and do like faux aging effects like “washes” or dry brush “antique” metallics. you could literally make something incredible that looks like it was made out of some precious metal or prehistoric carved bone for like $8 in reusable tools and materials. and it will be primarily made out of a very abundant, readily available resource: clay from the earth.
the manipulation and creation process of small crafts for your own amusement is a major stress reducer and you won’t be limited by IP licensing agreements. you can start something without even knowing what you’re creating, letting it reveal itself to you over time. we also live in a moment where there are thousands of videos by incredible artists with hundreds of hours of experience demonstrating and sharing techniques literally for free.
there’s a very real and ancient drive for some of us to adorn and ornament our spaces with little objects and companies+petroleum have hijacked it. but you can reclaim your imagination and transmute your stress into things that resonate with you and please you. and they wont be made out of fucking plastic, choking some animal in 1000 years. fuck toy walls.
go drop like $10 on some sculpy at your craft store and make some.
Super Sculpey, specifically. Original Sculpey is a nightmare to try to make into anything because every detail you add deforms the ones around it and the lightest idle touch in the wrong place can massively deform the whole piece, and Sculpey 3 varies wildly by color because the dyes affect how it works in more or less random ways. Super Sculpey, on the other hand, is pliable when worked but likes to hold its shape so detailing work doesn’t deform the nearby details unless it’s particularly extreme, and it won’t just squish when you’re turning it in your hands to work on it (though one still needs to be careful not to crush fine details, a light touch on bigger details usually won’t squish them).
I’ve heard similar good things about some other brands too, but I don’t have any first hand experience with them.
this is going to sound absurd, but hear me out.
Only to the people who suffer from being treat-brained. People have the capacity to create, whether it’s wood carving, writing a novel, creating a mod, setting up a home garden, or any other DIY project. Treat-brainers have been fully consumed by commercialism to the point where people shitting on their precious treats “hate fun.”
