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Silas
@silasswapshop.bsky.social
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A dude running around his hometown makin stuff to swap with neighbors for stuff.

Projects are decided primarily by personal intrest/whimsical urge.
Demands will be met with the same energy the demanding puts into it.

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Silas @silasswapshop.bsky.social · Oct 10
Hi everyone!
I'm just a bit of a nobody from a little place called bumfuck nowhere in a suburban hellscape of a township. It's been near impossible to get a paying job- so I've finally fuckin snapped.
I'm building a little bike pulled cart to carry my wares and swap them with neighbors for material!
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Just got the hard parts finished! Now to figure out how and where to place the gnomes lmao
It's probably gonna be three on the worthy side and two on the valid- I only have five gnome designs lmao
A wide shot of a grey painted slab of cardboard with colorful graffiti on it. There are four different graffiti pieces: Bottom left: "WE LOVE YOU" in yellow text surrounded by pink heart outlined in sequentially lighter shades of pink. Center: "YOU ARE VALID" with each word in Red, yellow, then green respectively. They each have a black triangle behind them as a background piece- the triangles pointing right left right in that order. Top right corner: "DRINK WATER" in patterned blue bubble letters. The W and R in water have water splashes at the ends of the letters facing away from the center of the word. The text is outlined in white and engulfed in a larger bubble of orange. Bottom Right: "YOU CAN DO THIS" with "YOU CAN" on the top and each letter a different color of the rainbow, "DO" in the middle filled with gold, and "THIS" filled in with pink. All the text is outlined with black. Theres a sketchbook in the top left corner of the wall with gnome designs on it. A small rectangular wall painted with a grey brick pattern that has graffiti on it. There are four pieces. Top left: "DRINK WATER" in jagged sharp text. The letters are a gradient of blue with the darkest purplest blue on top and the lightest on bottom. Bottom left: "WE LOVE YOU" in golden text surrounded by a pink cartoon heart shape. It has a thick black outline. Center: "YOU ARE WORTHY" in every color of the rainbow. All of it is in cursive but "YOU ARE" is on top with a classic rainbow 70s smear and "WORTHY" has the all inclusive pride flag within its bounds. "WORTHY" also has a rainbow gradient cape that stretches from the left tip of W to the rightmost tip of Y.
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I made this one last year but it's still my favorite xmas tree ornament lmao
A flat circular plate of wood decorated with rainbows and Jesus with words that say "PUNISH ME DADDY" at the bottom. Jesus has purple skin and his hair and beard are rainbows, he is surrounded by a black and white halo with some black splotches- the background is a diagonal rainbow gradient. The text for "PUNISH ME" Is white outlined by black. The word "DADDY" is outlined with a thick outer layer of white and a thin inner layer of black with each letter being filled with a different color- in order they are: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Blue. The spaces inside of the letters D and A are purple. The ornament is tied to a fake pine tree with a brown piece of twine. There are some orangeish lights scattered in the tree.
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I've gotten pretty far with the cart- and this will be the most detailed of the wall pieces I'll be painting on it. Meaning the rest of the pieces should hopefully fly right by!

This wall btw is 4ft wide 2 ft tall lmao
A large rectangular wall made of cardboard with multiple light grey rectangles with dark grey plaster painted on it to look like a bland brick wall. The bottom has a black border and the top has an even darker grey border. Faintly seen over the entire wall are outlines of words sketched in varying styles, and sizes. Top left corner: DRINK WATER in a sharp and jagged font. The word DRINK is above the word WATER. It's about the width of a nintendo 3ds. Bottom left corner: WE LOVE YOU in a rounded but more standard looking lettering with a large cartoon heart shape encircling the text. The text is stacked vertically with WE on top LOVE in the middle and YOU on the bottom. The word WE is split a bit awkwardly to fit at the top of the heart shape. It is slightly bigger than DRINK WATER. Dead center: YOU ARE WORTHY outlined in a cursive font shape but the words are separated for style and legibility. YOU ARE is above the word WORTHY and significantly smaller in size (Each of the two individually about the size of DRINK WATER) while WORTHY takes up what looks like 1/3 of the total wall space. There's a long flowing line coming from the left tip of the W in worthy that trails down and under and up to the top right side of the Y. The line takes sharp cornered turns when its fundamental direction changes. It almost looks like a cape. Top right corner: YOU CAN DO IT in bouncy bubble letters with the words stacked on top of one another at a diagonal tilt to the right so as the word on the top is in the corner. There is art supplies clutter at the top of the picture. A large rectangular wall made of cardboard with multiple light grey rectangles with dark grey plaster painted on it to look like a bland brick wall. The bottom has a black border and the top has an even darker grey border. Faintly seen over the entire wall are outlines of words sketched in varying styles, and sizes. Bottom left: WE LOVE YOU in bouncy bubble text with a cartoon heart outlining it. The text is stacked in a column but WE is significantly smaller and looks like a bowtie in the middle point of the two swells at the top of the shape. LOVE is large and has sufficient room, but YOU is the same size, and pinched a bit at the bottom as if to accentuate the shape of the heart. It's about as big as a standard mouse pad. Dead center: YOU ARE VALID in what looks like a standard sans serif font stacked in a column and smashed diagonally at intervals. YOU and VALID are shaped like the greater than symbol ( > ) while ARE is shaped like the less than symbol ( < ) and it takes up almost exactly 1/3 of the whole wall. Top right: DRINK WATER in a bubbly Graffiti inspired text with DRINK stacked on top of WATER. The text for WATER has a wave coming off the top left of its W and water rushing out of the bottom right of the R. Its slightly smaller than WE LOVE YOU. Bottom right: YOU CAN DO THIS with YOU, CAN, and THIS in bubbly lettering and DO in a more standard clean looking bold serif font. YOU CAN are on the top, DO is in the middle, and THIS is on the bottom, the whole thing is tilted slightly topside to the right and looks to take up at least 1/6th of the whole wall. On the top right corner of the wall theres a sketchbook with text designs for the wall on it, a small pile of markers, and a bowl of almost finished indiscriminate looped grain cereal. There is art clutter otherwise at the top of the picture.
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Didnt have a very good pumpkin harvest this year but I still got to decorate a pumpkin I grew myself!

The Frankenphant's Monster pumpkin

Elestein?

Elrankenphant????

A Frankenstein's Monster pumpkin
A green pumpkin with little green cardboard pumpkin ears drilled into the sides of it. The stem of the pumpkin is facing the viewer and looks as if it's an elephant's trunk in combination with the cardboard ears and cartoony black and white eyes. It has a few green cartoony looking scars with black stitches drawn on. It also has a small black patch of paint mimicking hair. It is facing to the viewer's left. It is sitting on a bright colored wooden table. A small green pumpkin with multiple black screws keeping cardboard pieces attached to it. The cardboard pieces are fashioned to look like green pumpkin shaped ears and a curly tail with an orange pumpkin flower at the end. There are some green cartoony looking scars covered in stitches. It is sitting on a brightly colored table. A green pumpkin with little green cardboard pumpkin ears drilled into the sides of it. The stem of the pumpkin is facing the viewer and looks as if it's an elephant's trunk in combination with the cardboard ears and cartoony black and white eyes. It has a few green cartoony looking scars with black stitches drawn on. It also has a small black patch of paint mimicking hair. It is facing to the viewers right. It is sitting on a bright colored wooden table.
October 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Every time I hear something in the news that pisses me off I go to the garage and work on another piece of my cart.

Definitely need more tp rolls to actually make enough shingles for the roof tho

I wonder if this cycle will have me finishing the cart before spring?
Three wall-like structures built with scrap wood and cardboard. They are assembled but unfinished, so the cardboard and wood are openly visible on the build. There is dramatic lighting bleeding in from the righthand side of the picture and blacking out anything on the left side of the small stack of walls. A wall piece made of scrap wood and cardboard that is not yet glued together. Thin flaps of cardboard peek beyond the edges of the wood frame and the cardboard in the middle of the frame seems lumpy and disheveled. It is all laying on a mattress. There is light coming from an area behind the scene described but it makes the general background beyond the wall piece and mattress a blinding white. A finished wall piece is in the background to the left- away from the light source. A box sitting on miscellaneous objects with three small stacks of toilet paper rolls cut in half sitting inside of it. The stacks barely even fill up 1/4th of the box. One stack has only white rolls, another longer thinner rolls, and the third short and stout rolls.
October 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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If you're joining a no Kings protest tomorrow and have signs made of cardboard dont forget to waterproof them to keep them legible as long as possible! Especially when it might rain-

some masking or duct tape along the edges then a liquid or aerosol sealant of some kind does the trick!
Three handmade cardboard signs sitting on a couch. Left to right: Sign 1: "FUCK NAZIS" in large white text with a crossed out circle that has a white figure doing the nazi salute while wearing a nazi arm band and MAGA hat. It has a black background. Sign 2: a black line heart messily filled in and outside of the line with a rainbow. It has a white background. Sign 3: Diagonally oriented Trans flag pattern fills the background with the text "TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS" in white outlined with black on top of it. Each of the signs has a faint blue border of masking tape lining their edges.
October 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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This lil dude just needs a tiny kerchief and hes ready to sit on one of my little brother's figure shelves.
A painted wooden figurine of a mudkip standing on a closed glass jar. Its turned to the left of the viewer for a 2/3rds facing view A painted wooden figurine of a mudkip standing on a glass jar. It is facing the viewer.
October 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Just last night finished this lil guy.

He'll be delivered to the kiddo that requested him this Monday!
October 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
silasswapshop.bsky.social
Hi everyone!
I'm just a bit of a nobody from a little place called bumfuck nowhere in a suburban hellscape of a township. It's been near impossible to get a paying job- so I've finally fuckin snapped.
I'm building a little bike pulled cart to carry my wares and swap them with neighbors for material!
October 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM