#The Tapestry series

[imaginederror]

Max and David’s configured room from the Tapestry Series (by Henry Neff)

I’ve been kind of obsessed with this room since I read about it ~15 years ago. Here’s my take (modeled + rendered in Blender).

Additional Jargony Blender Notes Below

Bookshelves are a geonodes setup based around an accumulate field

Balcony and staircase are also geonodes instanced along a curve. I originally made them for other projects

Beds and curtains are a (kind of lazy) cloth sim.

For the curtains I used a grid with an armature pulling it shut

Pillows and comforters are blocks with pressure in the sim

The fade in effect is a transparent bsdf mixed proportional to view distance (w/ some other constants)

The chairs were sculpted in Zbrush a while back for a different project

In the gif, the constellations are curves with a staggered build modifier and follow path constraint. They’re in a 10 second loop that I rendered alone and composited into the room. Tumblr only shows the first part of the loop.

1st image has plants and some texture stuff painted in at the end for aesthetic

[mossuaries]

assorted drawings for a kids book series that nobody reads anymore

[peterpositiv]

Sooo…

I just remembered the „The Tapestry“ series by Henry H Neff

The first two books are similar to Harry Potter, with some really cool and fun ideas, whereas the last three books are epic fantasy with a bunch of Irish mythology

Really fun books and, I don’t know how to describe it, but some of the ideas and, like, visuals created in your head are just so cool, probably a big influence and inspiration for me in certain fields.

And, like, why isn’t there a bigger community surrounding these books?

From my own experience and from what I‘ve read it seems like the books never managed to create this ongoing momentum, which is kinda sad, because they certainly have potential.

Idk, just sone rambling

[ghost-writes00]

me: hehe yeah this fic is gonna be a bit longer than usual, I'm aiming for around 3k a chapter.

the chapter: we have hit 4k and we're not even halfway done!! have fun keeping this up for 19 more chapters!!!

[limbosava]

Hello miss

[lapseinrecs]

The Hound of Rowan

By Henry H. Neff

Hook: Max McDaniels lives a quiet life in the suburbs of Chicago, until the day he stumbles upon a mysterious Celtic tapestry. Many strange people are interested in Max and his tapestry. His discovery leads him to Rowan Academy, a secret school where great things await him. But dark things are waiting, too. When Max learns that priceless artworks and gifted children are disappearing, he finds himself in the crossfire of an ancient struggle between good and evil. To survive, he'll have to rely on a network of agents and mystics, the genius of his roommate, and the frightening power awakening within him.

My thoughts: Originally you think Harry Potter esque vibes, but it's truly not really like that at all. It's a bit darker than HP from what I recall, and it gets darker as the series continues. I cried reading the last book in the series. I should reread this series

[rendevok]

Act II ~ The Challenge

A tapestry for chapter 2 of Let No One Sleep by @azalawa-scroggs on ao3

[suzylind]

Day 6 - Tapestry

A bit late for the SatBK2024 hosted by @satbkpromptweek, but I guess it's better late than never! I really wanted to challenge myself a little this time, so I experimented with something a little different. Overall happy with the results!

[uk4yy]

The Baffled Twink Composing Hallelujah

[closetofcuriosities]

The Sopranos Tapestry Hoodie

[gavfleetout]

POV you want to revive a dead fandom with fanart but you also can’t draw

[galleryofart]

The Straw Manikin

Artist: Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828)

Date: 1791-1792

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

Four young women laugh and play at blanket-tossing a doll or manikin in the air. The latter's movement is the result of their caprice. Its carnival origins are visible in the use of masks and joking, but the blanket-tossing of a doll is used here by Goya as a clear allegory of women's domination of men. The subject is frequent in the artist's work, and examples can be found in his engravings from the Caprichos and Disparates series. This painting is one of the cartoons for the tapestries in Carlos IV's office at El Escorial , and it clearly reveals characteristics common in his last cartoons, such as a softer color and the use of contrasting light to mark depth, clear here in the doll's silhouette, which stands out against the background.

[sapphia]

i hope the life series continues for a long time. the fact that inter-series relationships are really starting to affect the gameplay in a meaningful way, that people are starting to get reputations. martyn is king backstabber cleo says even before he kills scott and impulse in the final in the ultimate betrayal. scott and skizz and cleo and plenty more have never betrayed people, or don't seem keen to betray especially close allies, and especially in recent series. grian and scar and jimmy are all people of wavering loyalties. whatever it is that bdubz and etho have that everyone is just so aware of and is 100% just incorporated into all roleplay now it seems. that joel and pearl are insane but are also insanely loyal to their close allies. scott's conflicting reputation as the most lethal and skilled player but who is also just very nice and trusting. just... whatever it is that scar has. not to mention the wide the variety of relationships that previous pairs and allies have that now makes things so interesting and complex. the inter-relationships between teams was so good in limited life, especially when, like in this series, those teams can be so loyal to each other but have conflicting loyalties outside of themselves.

i don't think this history is something you can get away from in player's minds as we get further into the series and i hope we get to see it play out even more

[ghost-writes00]

"hounds tooth" by ghost_boy00

warning: dubcon, adult x teen, smut.

link and summary under the cut.

Max scrambled for his knife when he felt a similar one press against his throat.

“do you surrender?” Asked an emotionless and clipped voice.

Max froze. Cooper.

they sent Cooper.

Max and Cooper fuck in the woods.

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

The thing that I think the wheel of time really does best and why the worldbuilding works so well is the way the narrative tracks the spread of people and ideas and stories over time. Vaguely hinting at spoilers here but the long term storytelling payoff about the origins of the aiel is SO good it does make me a little crazy to think about.

[choking-on-roses]

I need way less clip compilations of Dennis being secretly gay and waaaaaaaayyyyy more of him being secretly a serial killer