HOW DO YOU MAKE PATCHES I WANT TO MAKE SOME SO BAD BUT I HAVE NO IDEA HOW❗️❗️❗️

QUICK GUIDE ON DIFFERENT WAYS IVE MADE PATCHES

For paint id reccomend acrylic paint or screenprinting ink if you're commited.

You can freehand your patches by painting with a tiny, *slightly* damp brush - for that its nice to sketch out your design first, either on a piece of paper or with chalk. This is the most accessible method and the easiest to start out with.

You can make sticky paper stencils (Rattus Rattus has a great youtube video on this, i think its called "all about my stencils" or something like that). This is good for very clean lines, and you can use the stencils a few times before they break. (Ive tried this with sticker paper and it didn't rly work, the glue stuck too well, the paper ripped and i couldn't get it out)

You can make masking tape stencils where you print/draw your design on a piece of paper, cover it in two layers of masking tape, one on each side, cut it out with an exacto knife (if you have an access to a scalpel you can put in your exacto knife handle i would reccomend it, it makes cutting tape take less if a toll on your wrist), tape it to your fabric and layer your paint/ink with a makeup sponge until you like the coverage and peel it off whenever you want to. This is my favourite method bc it's the cheapest, quickest way to make stencils and the edges are 85% clean and you can reuse the stencils many many many times.

You can tape your fabric to a computer screen and trace (this works best with dark on light fabric). This is best for exact logos, faces and very quick patches and is good for when you only have access to freehanding but have limited artistic abilities. Be careful to not get paint on your screen tho.

You can make or buy stamps, you can embroider them or you can make them out of beading, you can use stencils and bleach, the sky is the limit.

For fabric, if you want to buy, i recommend the cheapest non-stretch polyester because its flat and acrylic paint behaves the best on it, but if you want to be thrifty you can repurpose old jeans or shirts - if you don't like the colour of your fabric just paint it a solid layer of black first.

For sewing i would recommend googling a whip stitch tutorial, it's really simple. Some people use thread, some use dental floss - there isn't a correct way to do it (tho some people think it is, but these people are missing the point of why punks used dental floss in the first place which is bc it was cheap - using thread you already own is cheaper than buying dental floss just for the sake of being "correct"). Make sure you don't sew two sides of your garment together, to prevent that i always stick one hand inside but thats for when you trust your motor abilities and that you won't poke yourself, ive seen people hard objects like bottles or jars inside sleeves and pants. Just find whatever works for you. Also if you are sewing through tough fabric like thick jeans, work clothes or leather please get a fimble, it'll make your life easier. If you're sewing through something even harder like a hat or shoes i recommend using pliers to push your needle through.

When you wash your patched up garments in the washing machine just turn them inside out to minimise chipping, like you would with a graphic T-Shirt.

That's all i could think of! Have fun and if you have any followup questions feel free to ask :))

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1 year ago

Johnathan Crane would probably be a fantastic partner if you ignore all the crimes and the whole being the king of fear thing

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1 year ago

Happy birthday :}

Halloween!!!!

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2 months ago

I think that Bruce is the type of guy to drive a person home after hanging out with them or going on a date with them.

And if they choose to leave alone, he’d probably offer to walk them to their car/bike/other equivalent.

I also think that Alfred would have taught him to do this.

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I fucking hate that the general response to RFK Jr's eugenist take on autistic people is "autistic people do pay taxes, autistic people do work, autistic people do date!"

Some autistic people don't and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life. Some autistic people do need constant help and support and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life.

Once again we're falling in the right wing trap of :

They make a hateful, fascist statement

Instead of focusing on the fact that it is hateful and fascist we try to show them that they are factually wrong

We throw our own allies and the most vulnerable of us under the bus in the process

We legitimise an only slightly less hateful, fascist view as we go

They have completed their goal of making us accept the still hateful, fascist second version, hurrah. What a victory.

Right now what we're getting to with that is that autistic people who can work and pay taxes are okay, and the others aren't. Fuck this shit.

Same thing happens with the people who are being deported ("they have a visa!", "they didn't even have a criminal record!" -> even if they didn't have a visa, even if they did have a criminal record, deporting them and detaining them in what's essentially a concentration camp wouldn't be okay, you absolute tools of fascism.)

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1 year ago

band recommendations from a black punk !!

tl has been discussing poc in alternative scenes specifically punk scenes recently. punk has been a big spintrest for me for a while so id thought id share some bands with poc members that deserve love!!

im more into hxc punk so most of these bands will be hxc subgenres. i will be adding genre’s and country of orgin!! not adding any links for now, look out for any edits.

hong kong fuck you , grindviolence from tijuana, mexico. a project of christian hell, has latino and black members

zulu , powerviolence from los angeles, california, usa. originally a solo project of anaiah lei, all members are black

zyanose , noisy hardcore punk from osaka prefecture, japan. all members are japanese

g.i.s.m. , hardcore punk / heavy metal band from tokyo, japan. all members are japanese

limp wrist , queer hardcore punk from albany, new york, usa. martin sorrondeguy is latino (also apart of los crudos)

los crudos , hardcore punk band from chicago, illinois, usa. all members are latino

despise you , powerviolence band from californa, usa. some if not all members are latino

bad brains , hardcore punk band from washington, d.c, usa. all members are black (probably the most well known band on this list)

gorepot , stoner brutal / slam death metal / grindcore band from taiwan. solo project. their genre is complicated and they aren’t exactly punk but they deserve some love

sebum excess production , deathgrind band from from brazil. solo project (?)

c.a.r.ne , pornogrind band from mexico city, mexico. all members are latino

bodily stew , goregrind band from california, usa. ive heard that eddie and david are latino but i may be wrong

mxmxm , mincegore band from coachella, california, usa. might be a solo project but but ive heard they are latino

chulo , grindviolence band from bogatá, colombia. all members are latino

soul glo , hardcore punk band from philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa. 2 of the current members are black

taqbir , post-punk band. moroccan but based somewhere in europe. all members of the band are anonymous (?)

ill be adding onto this list as i go (im a little tired now) but please recommend bands for this list!!

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