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Discreetly checking out Shanks' ass.

Since my wonderful @no-other-username-was-free posted her Mihawk I'm motivated to share some more Buggy. :D

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Unbothered, moisturized, in my lane

(Sound of marines dying in the background)

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The Flashy Fool, the Genious Jester, coming to a port near you! (That's a threat.) Get your tickets now!!! (Also a threat.)

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Did I learn to juggle for this cosplay? Maybe so...

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“So I went into the studio. And it was very awkward, as I made sounds like 'mmm' and 'ahh'. And then I kissed my hand a whole lot. So. You think about that. You mull that over as you run around, you little horny perverts, with your little perverted roleplays. You randy bastards. You think of me.”

also:

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good morning blu!!! you know a whole lot about everything so do you have any mistakes that people make in medicine in like media and stuff??? -leafanon

G'day leafanon, and yes I do!

WARNING: DISCUSSION OF GORE AND MEDICAL GORE INBOUND. ALSO INCLUDES PICTURES OF BLOOD IN SYRINGES.

DEAR AUTHORS/ARTISTS/ANIMATORS

GUNSHOT WOUNDS (GSW) ARE NOT INSTANT KILLS. No, not even if you're shot in the chest. Unless that round completely obliterates the spinal cord (unlikely as it's very small and hard to hit) your victim is going to stay alive and conscious anywhere from half a minute (direct shot to the heart) to an hour or longer (shallow wound to the lung). KNOW YOUR ANATOMY AND DO RESEARCH ON GSWs TO THAT ANATOMY. KNOW WHAT THAT ROUND PENETRATES, WATCH VIDEOS ON HOW MUCH DAMAGE THAT ROUND DOES TO BALLISTIC DUMMIES, AND HOW PENETRATION AFFECTS THE BODY.

YOUR CHARACTER WILL NOT SHRUG OFF A GUTSHOT. Gutshots absolutely suck and are fatal when left untreated. A shot to the pelvis will buckle you--you will not take a shot to the pelvis and stay standing. A gutshot will usually kill within 12 hours, but sometimes it may take days depending on what was hit, where, and how deeply the bullet penetrated. Also on that note, A GUTSHOT FUCKING HURTS AND IS ARGUABLY THE WORST POSSIBLE WAY TO DIE BY BULLET. If it rips through your stomach you're going to die within a few hours as your stomach acid will gradually eat through your internal organs and burn them. It'll feel like a fire from the inside-out. This, coupled with heightened emotions due to adrenaline, will break even the most stoic character. If the bullet pierces the intestine the wound like leak faeces into your abdominal cavity. You will know this has happened by the smell alone.

Also on that note: WHILE A GUTSHOT WILL KILL YOU, A GUTSTAB PROBABLY WON'T. Knives move a lot slower than bullets and have much less kinetic energy on impact. When you're stabbed in the stomach with a knife it's actually pretty rare for the blade to perforate your bowels, as usually the bowels will move aside as the knife passes through. The most dangerous part of a gutstab is removing the knife, the subsequent bleeding, and the risk of infection by foreign bacteria entering the wound (either from the knife itself or just entering the open wound from the surrounding environment).

WHEN SOMEONE IS SHOT IN THE HEAD THEY DO NOT JUST DROP. They fall and extend their limbs, arch their neck back, go slack-jawed, tip their toes down, and they will start twitching. Depending on where they were shot, they may exhibit decorticate posturing indicative of brain damage (even though they're most definitely dead once the bullet pierces their skull). The bottom posture with the wrists curled is most common. If someone was running when they were shot, they will fall and their legs will continue kicking for a few seconds before their body exhibits decorticate posturing. They will release this ungodly sigh that will haunt any character who's never heard that sound before.

Also on that note: YOU CAN STOP INVOLUNTARY MUSCLE SPASMS BY HITTING THE CORRECT PART OF THE BRAIN. Make a T-shape from the outside of your left eye socket to your right, and then down the bridge of your nose to your upper lip. That's the T-zone, which is what police and military snipers aim for in hostage situations. A headshot causes involuntary muscle spasms and when your target has a firearm or knife on someone, that could mean they hurt the hostage by a simple twitch of their arm or trigger finger. A shot to the T-zone causes flaccid paralysis as a result of taking out the medulla oblongata, an organ what connects the brain to the spinal cord, and renders the body completely paralysed. The target will drop and will not experience spasms or decorticate posturing. Snipers call this an apricot, named for the shape of the medulla, and IT IS AN INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT SHOT TO MAKE. I can shoot kangaroos at 1200yd but I've never gotten an apricot.

A DEFIBRILLATOR WILL NOT RESTART A STOPPED HEART. Nothing but a fuckton of epinephrine, a fuckton more chest compressions, and a metric fuckton of luck will restart a stopped heart. Defibrillators are for correcting or preventing an arrhythmia, which is an abnormal heartbeat (too slow, too fact, skipping beats, etc). IT WILL NOT RESTART A HEART IN ASYSTOLE. In fact, defibrillators work by actually forcibly stopped the heart so that when it resumes beating, it does so on a normal rhythm.

DO NOT MOVE WITH AN ARROW WOUND. You have a razor blade on a stick in your body and the more you move, the more you're ripping yourself apart. Your character is not going to be walking around with ten arrows in them as that amount of pain is crippling, not unless they have a constant IV supply of Enough Morphine To Kill An Elephant.

DO NOT HAVE YOUR CHARACTER REMOVE A KNIFE UNLESS THEY'RE PREPARED FOR MASSIVE BLEEDING. When you're stabbed, the muscles clamp down around the knife and the blade acts as a "plug" that seals the wound shut. Stab wounds with the weapon intact will often have very little if any bleeding. THAT WILL CHANGE ONCE YOU PULL OUT THE WEAPON.

FOR ARTISTS AND ANIMATORS: RECOGNISE WHAT KIND OF BLOOD YOUR CHARACTER IS SHEDDING. Superficial blood from a flesh wound is dark. After a few minutes, blood starts coagulating and turning a dark maroon colour. YOU WILL NOT SEE BRIGHT RED BLOOD IN THE ENVIRONMENT UNLESS SOMEONE IS ACTIVELY BLEEDING. If your character has been shot in the heart, lung, or artery, THEY WILL BLEED ARTERIAL BLOOD. Arterial blood is bright red due to being freshly-oxygenated to the point that it almost appears pink. The two syringes on the right have deoxygenated venous blood that was travelling back to the heart when it was drawn. The three syringes on the right have freshly-oxygenated arterial blood.

IF YOUR CHARACTER HAS BEEN SHOT/STABBED IN THE CHEST AND THE OTHER CHARACTERS DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS HIT, CHECK THE BULLET WOUND. LUNG SHOTS WILL BUBBLE.

THINGS VOID THEIR BOWELS WHEN THEY DIE. You'll know when something's dead by the smell.

CRUSHING INJURIES TO THE EXTREMITIES CAN KILL. When someone is pinned under rubble by a limb, that limb can form blood clots. Once the person is freed, those clots can loosen and then travel through the arteries until it clogs one (arterial thrombosis). The primary concern in victims of crush injuries after they're freed is strokes. The second killer is traumatic rhabdomyolysis, or muscle breakdown. This releases toxic muscle components into the circulatory system that can poison the body. This poisoning is called crush syndrome.

A MODERN ECG DOES NOT "BEEEEEEP" WHEN A HEART GOES INTO ASYSTOLE (FLATLINE. IT WILL ANNOUNCE. ECGs made before 2000 typically had a continuous beep to announce a disconnect from the heart (either the patient is in asystole or the ECG's lead detached from the skin or the machine itself). ECGs made after 2005 will say something along the lines of "check patient/no pulse detected" on repeat. If your scene occurs somewhere between 2000 and 2005 when announcing ECGs were being implemented then what you choose is your discretion.

STOP HAVING YOUR CHARACTER CAUTERISE WOUNDS THAT DON'T NEED IT. Cauterisation is a last-ditch, life-or-death treatment. It burns the wound (obviously) and leaves you incredibly prone to infection in that wound. IT IS NOT A TREATMENT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. I know that having some badass Rambo type dump gunpowder into a wound and light it up with a match is really cool but it's a terrible idea and does far more damage than what it's supposed to fix.

Most of you are probably already aware of this but IT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SUCK VENOM OUT OF A BITE. It's injected and immediately disperses into the tissue around it. You can't suck venom out of a bite wound. If you want to help a snakebite victim, keep the bite wound below the heart so that gravity helps with keeping the venom localised to the wound. Apply a cool compress. Get a marker and make a ring around the bite mark so you can track inflammation and redness. Every hour after the bite, apply another ring along the edge of the redness. Get the victim to the hospital ASAP. Also, it's antivenin, not antivenom. Professionals say antivenin.

If I think of anything else I'll add it later.

As always, if you have questions or something feel free to send me an ask!

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Do you have tutorials for men's clothing? Something that doesn't flatter body shape?

Also do you have any tips on how to make vests from existing vests?

Or any simple masculine clothing for beginners to make? (I have a sewing machine but suck at trying to figure out what I can do as a beginner)

Masculine sewing patterns

As mentioned before, I'm not very experienced with masculine styles. That said, it has always struck me as weird how few tutorials or patterns you'll find for them. Sewing and fashion are not gendered activities. Everyone wears clothes, after all!

Some resources for menswear:

Freesewing.org: free customisable sewing patterns, great for basics (shirts, t-shirts, underwear, pants,...)

Mood Fabrics: masculine and unisex patterns

AllFreeSewing: collection of menswear patterns and tutorials

Premeditated Leftovers: 12 free masculine sewing patterns

Lekala: free patterns for a hoodie, a shirt, and pants

Men's underwear: collection of free masculine underwear patterns

Unisex pyjama pants: beginner-friendly project

Free t-shirt pattern: basic pattern in 9 sizes

10 simple shirts: free shirt patterns

Waistcoat: free waistcoat pattern

Vest pattern: guide to drafting a custom vest pattern

Archive.com: great for finding vintage sewing patterns, e.g. this 1920s menswear book, these 1970s guides on jackets and knitwear, this 1990's guide on designing vests, or this 1890s guide on male underwear.

Random resources:

Ravelry: knitting patterns, has a filter for menswear

Stylish D: tailoring for guys

The Sewcialist: guide to sewing plus-size menswear

Copy existing garment: how to draft a pattern for a garment you already own without having to take it apart - great option if you can't find any patterns that suit you!

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Kishibe Rohan, aka the dude that fist fights teenagers in his spare time.

picture snapped by @geon-sama  assisted by cos_weetie  quick Edit by me

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𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧?¿𝐏𝐨𝐫 𝐪𝐮é 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐬?

                  inspired by the MET-Gala 2018 

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INDEX: Sewing, mending, and crafts

General information:

Fabric types

Basic hand sewing stitches

Hand sewing needles

Knitting 101

Embroidery 101

Visible mending

Crafting on the cheap

How to fix sewing machine issues

Yarn types

Clothing fasteners

Circular knitting

Tutorials:

How to sew buttons

Disability aid tutorials

How to DIY custom patches

Make some pocket extenders for your pants (by Quixiify)

How to darn holes in woven fabrics (by Delicatefury)

How to mend holes in the thigh area of jeans

How to make buttonholes (machine+hand)

How to make pockets

How to use a seam ripper

Projects and patterns:

DIY cotton rounds

Easy knitted gloves

Free customisable sewing patterns

Easy rectangle skirt

DIY tote bag

DIY delicates laundry bag

DIY hot pads

Easy fleece hat

Fingerless fleece gloves

Apron pattern

Knitted weighted blanket (by Knitboyknit)

How to make a custom dress form

(If a link has a Tumblr username in brackets behind it, the link leads to a post I reblogged from someone else instead of a post I wrote myself.)

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Bucky's coat

Okay so. I've been working on recreating an accurate-as-possible version of the coat Bucky wears in his Howling Commandos days and can I just say. What the fuck happened here it's an interesting coat. I've been trying to piece together how this coat works and I figured, what with the 'What If?' trailer that includes our dear boy, maybe more people are interested in this. So, let's take a closer look.

Let's start with this picture of the full costume. I couldn't find a better version, unfortunately, but we can glean a lot from this pic already. But - to make the seams more obvious and to make sense of what is going on here, I sketched over it and ended up with this:

Things of note: Jesus christ that's a lot of pattern pieces. The little triangle things are particularly interesting. I originally thought they were just sort of on there, but it turns out the lower corners are actually tucked into the coat (although in the costume pic, the second one from below appears to have come loose - as far as I can tell from screenshots from the movie, it's supposed to be tucked in). I don't have a single clue what they're for but they look nice I guess. It also looks like the entire coat is quilted, including the double breast part. Also! The sleeve appears to be a little longer on the outside than on the inside. There's also a lot of topstitched seams - most are single top stitch seams, but down the front there are double top stitched seams as well. It looks like these seams were stitched through both layers of the front piece, because you can see them in the bit that's folded back at the top as well.

You can also see that the elbows are reinforced... Ish? it looks like it's just one patch of extra fabric. Still handy for a sniper I guess. Speaking of:

There also appears to be extra padding in the shoulders, and in this pic we can also see some of the sleeve lining poking out. Looks lavender coloured? He's also folded back the sleeve ends here. (Did Howard make the sleeves too long?) Anyway - also worth noting is that the seams for the sleeves are at the back of the arm, not under the armpit. This was probably done because there is some extra fabric set into the sleeve at the wrist, and having the seam at the back of the arm places this extra bulk at the outside of the arm instead of underneath, which is less comfortable:

(Having the seam at the back requires an s-curve sort of sleeve cap. This is fun because these sleeves are notoriously difficult to get right. Hear that sound? that's me pulling my hair out at the prospect of trying)

On the right sleeve here you can see the extra bit of fabric. It is held together with the little strap around the wrist. In this pic you can also better see how the little triangles are tucked into the coat. Funny enough, despite all the many different pieces he doesn't appear to have pockets in the coat (the pants make up for that though) Anyway - on to the back.

I drew this on top of a really crappy screenshot but mercifully, the back doesn't appear too complicated. Do note the belt loops though. On the coat. Not on the pants. Nope. On the coat. I guess the belt went to the coat and the pockets went to the pants.

The shoulder seam appears to be straightforward enough - single top stitch along the seam but no funny business. In conclusion: To recreate this, I think it's easiest to take the pattern for a peacoat that sort of remembles this coat and then modify it as needed. As for the materials - this is a very good post about that by @end-o-the-line! It also takes a closer look at the rest of Bucky's outfit. When the time comes, I'm going to keep track of my progress on my instagram, @horsebackseamstress, so if this is your your thing, idk, give me a follow or something.

Finally, one last thing:

Bucky tucks his hands in his sleeves. That's all!

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write bad fanfic. write mediocre fanfic. write fanfic that a thousand people before you have already written. write niche fanfic. write fanfic that only a few people will read or understand. write fanfic just for you. write fanfic just for a friend. write ocs. write self-inserts. the fact that you’re taking the time and energy to put your ideas into the world is amazing and people who shame you for it need to find better ways to spend their time.

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*sound of lock rattling*

*insufficient skill*

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winter is here and life is a mystery so come find out which of my favourite female Discword characters you are because there is literally no wrong answer here; every single result is an absolute queen.

(put your answers in the tags!)