Not as far as I know, I found this in a comment. Also I found the artist and it seems to be standalone.

I just want to be considerate, and it gets hard when the tags are black and white, instead of allowing for depth.

I'm sorry. I agreed from the perspective of being disturbed by watching spaces becoming increasingly closed off (Such as clasic Pixar films no longer permitting comments on YouTube), not from an angle of wanting to genuinely return to the kinds of communities that the internet used to be composed of. I do agree with you on tagging, I only wished to express a desire for a larger amount of tags for disambiguity, but clearly I clearly hadn't considered that in doing so, I was making the space unsafe for you. I originally left the post untagged because I hadn't thought too much of it, but I have now adjusted in accordance with your commentary. I am sincerely sorry for not working to accomodate your concerns. I'll exercise more caution in future and hope that this hasn't too harshly soured your perspective on what is, from what I can see as a visitor, a generally pleasant community.

This specifically isn't, but pretty much everything on the site is. Couldn't find the artist on any other site, I'm afraid.

Finally, the witch-gnome war has come to it's inevitable conclusion.

So about 336 and 420 a week, respectively

I've heard bamboo can be good. How is your experience with them in extreme temperatures?

thank you for the site suggestion :) I always struggle to track down the ethics of companies, which leaves me in a kind of choice paralysis.

Seems sunbeam is pretty popular around these parts haha, happy cake day by the by

I myself yearn to still be able to buy analog and mechanical things (varying, obvs; i.e im in good health so i dont need an electric salt shaker, etc) but they're weirdly uncommon now, you just cant repair electrics the same :( (through random prodding, lol)

thank you for the appraising method reccomendation! I did also wanna quickly say that when I say local I don't mean 'artisinal' but more 'i would rather avoid shipping costs, unneeded transport (for sustainanility reasons), and if you source things overseas, it's likely a bigger name i.e, prone to enshittification. Is that odd? should I bite the bullet and even buy second hand from overseas?

also, I've tried looking at surplus, but it's really hard to sort through (feels like its your mentioned cheap chinese copies), or is being sold for 'collecting' (i.e vintage and very expensive)

I've never been good at finding these things, would you know any methods or resources for finding these 'small, niche bramds'?

thank you for the recommendation :) I've looked at military disposal sites local to my area before, though they've seemed a little off, but I will redouble my efforts. Do you know of any good ways to find sites that sell proper used mil/pol gear, rather than just being named so?

apologies for the doomer title, I'm just truly out of my depth and hoped it would bring more eyes over :)