#Idle Hands at Work

[affreca]

I finished the singles on my work spin, so brought them home to make plying balls (not pictured is the 8th one, that accidently got left at work) and then ply. This was a CVM/alpaca blend roving that I bought from Cabled Fiber and Yarn in Port Angeles, WA while I was on an awesome road trip through the Pacific Northwest.

I took the chance to swap out my work spindle and travel spindle, so the work spin will be on my purple nebula spindle. The fiber is 100 grams of CVM/alpaca roving I bought from Natural Twist at PlyAway. Purple and green, I am predictable.

I've got another 100 grams in the stash of this colorway, and 100 grams of a grey green wool/alpaca from Natural twist that I spun up on my spindle a while ago (also, mostly on work calls), so time to start thinking of a pattern that would use all three yarns.

[skitskatdacat63]

More matador!Fernando! Ferrari this time :D (I can't help myself.....)

- facial hair

+ closeups

I really wanted the vibe of this Nando pic, I think I did pretty well??

[weisshapt]

𝖆 𝖓 𝖘 𝖔 𝖓

when you close your eyes, what do you see? do you hold the light or is darkness underneath? in your hands, there's a touch that can heal but in those same hands is the power to kill are you a man or a monster?

for one of my favorites from one of my favorites @alistairs

[novel-redacted]

Looking at my blocky layout doodles vs a somewhat clean piece makes me hollar. how does this happen. what the hell. I say, knowing full well It was me. I did the magic of zoning out and being gay for a few hours.

[heavnofhell]

[halfdeadwallfly]

the stickers are coming along! running out of space but now i have my flowers, wtnv, and good omens! this is so much fun :))))

(i crossed out the school related ones lol)

[graviconscientia]

I need a new hobby. I am taking suggestions.

[weaponizedmoth]

Abigail just standing there (waiting for the bus).

[olives-grove]

I got myself a new dress, earrings and a new hairdo to celebrate quitting my awful job and frankly I feel a ton better. Sometimes retail therapy and bangs IS what you need to heal.

[priestbitmoved]

angsty tidbit for you: donnie laughs or at the very least smiles whenever he's been punched or shoved or when he's in the middle of fighting with someone. even if he's actually in a lot of pain. it's a defence mechanism, an attempt to intimidate his attacker. this stems from his mother constantly berating him whenever he cried or expressed his pain whenever she'd hit him for 'disobeying' her. he's about 10 or 11 when he learns to stop crying in front of her and keep it to himself, unfortunately, that also means he learns to bottle up his feelings of sadness or fear until he's alone.

donnie will always always always try to deflect his emotions, especially ones that aren't considered 'tough' or 'manly.' he has a lot of trouble reconciling his masculinity as a younger man. because of this repression, and a pain tolerance that had built up over years and years, he's a little unhinged when he gets into physical confrontations. he thrives whenever he's fighting because it's a way to unleash all these horrible feelings he keeps tamped down in the pit of his stomach. he's also ruthless and unrelenting whenever he's arguing with someone. he's always going to try to get the last word in, he's not above mocking or being cruel for cruelty's sake, and he's unrelenting when he's trying to unravel someone he's caught in the middle of a lie. sometimes he scares himself, and sometimes he sounds a little too much like his mother.

[thatrandombystander]

My outfit gotta be serving the most in this free-to-play Old School Runescape world 💅

[idledreams4]

I'm so scared to put "THE ROAD SO FAR" on here because WHAT IF I MESS UP?????

[sysig]

My printer hates me :) (with many thanks and credit to @niennanir as before)

Gosh aren’t they gorgeous tho ♥ Especially the latest and largest, though I have to give all the credit to the paper on that one haha, it’s stunning IRL, I could almost stare at the gold lattice forever rather than read, but I’m so happy with how it turned out between the pages as well!

Quick showcase of the new additions! :D

My Drinking Game as another test run, I got the spacing how I wanted it! Yay! It’s so much handsomer and less cramped! Also I gotta say, if it wasn’t such a large usage of paper, this would be my ideal way of checking for typos - I found a couple after setting it down to ink lol, they’ve been fixed now at least ♪ Paired here with the emerge, transformed three-parter, one of my all-time-favourites <3 I reread it the night I finished it and cried again, a little bit of tender mercy always wrecks me hhhh ♥ There are so many beautiful evocative lines! I’m so happy to hold it ♪ And as you can see above, that was the one that got the cute little ghost dust jacket :D

Another test run of what I’m calling volume 1 of my Vargas Drabbles lol, so not including Have you lost your mind? since that one’s currently unfinished. I do fully intend to print it once it’s done tho :3c Hopefully that one will cause me fewer problems! I hate measuring, so I may have flubbed two covers before finally getting this one into good enough shape XP And my red yarn is still in storage so >.> Did I go purchase another ball of red yarn? I’ll never tell. You can’t tell me it doesn’t look great as a bookmark tho <3

And my current happiest! Ah!! It turned out fantastic on all counts! The cover paper obviously, as I couldn’t Not lead with that, but also the size of the spine and the way the pages settled against each other while glueing - I used a different type of paper for this one and I think I’m completely converted over, it feels amazing to work with. Whatever I was using before had to have been like 15lbs lol, I’m literally just using normal 20lb printer paper but it feels and looks and behaves so much nicer <3 The size of Helix also allowed for a slightly larger bookmark, which was perfect because we had this soft gold ribbon that was all of a couple millimeters wider than the other ribbons/yarn I’d been using, and it looks so so so pretty with the gold detailing!! I’ve put it between Ch. 1 and 2 and getting to see the actual physical size differences of the chapters is so fun ♥

[irisfixation]

Today, on system interactions:

iris: [freezes up due to sudden bodily pain or other awareness of body, resulting in being frozen almost entirely in place.]

Her Grace the Observer, immediately sensing a viable puppeteering vessel: "Oh, how convenient."

[lil-vibes]

i need more late game but pre-final battle narilamb fics im not kidding im gonna die fucking immediately theres only so many times i can read death beckons without reciting it word for word

[lackingsympathy]

Be fearless. Most people run from what they’re afraid of. I run toward it. That doesn’t mean I think I’m bulletproof (I’ve learned the hard way that I’m not) or that I’m unaware of danger. I experience fear as much as the next man. But one of the greatest mistakes people can make is becoming comfortable with their fears. Whatever is worrying me, I meet it head-on and engage it until the situation is resolved. My refusal to become comfortable with fear gives me an advantage in almost every situation.