#Whittled Duck

[crowwolf]

A few Tactician things

This man...

Sweet baby girl

iykyk

TARA

Oh baby boy, don't worry, we kicked the red head's ass

Cal and Lia are home <3

<3

Nocturne!

Fuck you Cazadick

Oh Gale...

Dead brain, goodbyes, wedding, Karlach being fucking hardcore

Minsc and Boo!

I've NEVER had this guy before! LOL! Happy!!!

I love it when Halsin gives you the duck

Withers telling the dead three to go fuck themselves

And that run is a wrap! Yes, I have a ton more shots.

[greelin]

halsin it seems I’ve grown quite fond of you tho there are no sexual urges or desires you come to me as a long lost friend whom I once picked apples with in papa’s orchard

[albatrossbbqsauce]

I like ducks. I also like Totoro. Totoro is next.

[thirddoctor]

don't know why people say Wyll is the most boring BG3 companion when 1. he rocks 2. Halsin is right there

[hiddenbysuccubi]

Got to the end of my solo Halsin speedrun. First of all "I'll watch the horizon for you :( :(" sad parting followed immediately by the narrator: You stayed in Baldur's Gate for a tenday and then went to Halsin to help him build home. Then 2.5 seconds in after talking to Chicken "Hey HONEY I adopted the OWLBEAR. I said they can come home with us is that okay!??" Also his dancing. And the different kiss animation with the forehead rest. And then he dares to make a bunch of bear puns. It was worth it.

[bonepile-shieldwall]

Halsin has such a hold on me ): I was going the Wyll romance path before I knew he didn't poly, but when Halsin asked to be with me in Act III I caved and broke up with Wyll ))):

[devilbrakers]

I finished it...

[waspgrave]

I don’t know who to romance

[vorgoth]

halsin in the epilogue is everything i love that fuckimg huge nerd so much

[supremelysalty]

Rough of Halsin whittling in a forest. Fuck I might scrap this

But also I spent way too much time on this now I feel obligated to finish it one way or another

[maremortus]

SHIP    TIER    LIST    :             a  pretty  self  explanatory  list  (  listen  valora  does  not!!!  like  how  sassy  tara  is  i'm  afraid  it's  just  on  sight  whenever  she  sees  her  )  .  valora  is  definitely  more  attracted  to  the  evil  girlies  i've  got  to  say  but  i  think  those  in  the  '  i  can  see  it  '  tier  would  be  able  to  help  valora  make  positive  changes  in  her  life  and  become  a  calmer  ,  less  violent  person  . 

[punkwhittler]

[pociondeodio]

is this a fu kigb TAZ REFERENCE????????

[cannibalcharon]

Screaming sobbing throwing up at the Magnus Burnside parallels with Halsin

[nutmegpi]

the carving of a duck [2022, colorized]

[humanransome-note]

Anyway, it is basically five am and after making a cardboard inkle loom to try tablet weaving, I enjoyed it. Both the cardboard carpentry and the tablet weaving.

Good news/bad news in regards to the weaving, the pegs finally gave out bad news, good news, I realized the tv dinner tables have two parallel bars between the legs, so flipping it over on top of ANOTHER tv table, and I can set up a weighted warp without worrying about the cats smacking the weights.

It’s still fumbly, and the sound of 4 dollars worth of pennys clacking about in plastic bags is a bit grating. But it’s something I can work on.

Between the pegs giving out, trying out a weighted warp set up, and just trying things, I ended up with a lot of scrap yarn.

Specifically, crochet cotton.

Now I don’t use crochet cotton often, and with the amount of joins I’d end up having to make, even if I crocheted something with it, I don’t think it would make me happy.

So what to do with all these bits?

I’ve already mentioned cats, multiple cats, so multiple slicker brushes exist in the house. And the Ren faire before last, I learned you could use slicker brushes to card fibers for spinning on a budget.

So I’ve been working through the scraps as best I can, having to relearn carding because cotton fibers are shorter than fleece and need to be treated differently.

The short fibers of cotton also means, that any attempts at spinning should be done with an specific awareness of weight/tension, as the draft and yarn are more susceptible to snapping. Now I have a top whorl drop spindle, I’ve used it for wool and even cat hair (no I didn’t use the cat hair yarn, it was just for something to do) and it lasted a bit, but after too much over spin and the dowel end smacking my desk, it snapped.

So I had some options,

Try the drop spindle again, carding out the end of the snap and drafting back into it

make a supported spindle, I have dowels, I have chunks of cardboard I could soak in modge podge for the whorl, and I’m willing to try whittling a point, if using a pencil sharpener wouldn’t work

More cardboard carpentry

Chat, I want you to guess which one I decided to do

…

Did you guess the most convoluted and labor intensive option?

Because I did.

It’s called a Charkha, a spinning wheel that’s design originated in India, and to my understanding, was built with cotton in mind.

It’s hand operated opposed to pedal powered (I’m assuming modifications could be made) but that along with the fact the actual wheel portion of the spinning wheel isn’t a usually a wheel, but instead two sets of spokes connected via string, I figured it would actually be possible to achieve with cardboard carpentry.

I got one of the spoke sets done already, I have to finish the other one then see how they act when tied together and spun.

Theoretically, this set up should be pretty sustainable, considering how little tension is required to hold certain things in place, and how few actually moving parts there are, theoretically, it could be a functioning replacement for a full wooden charkha. Not permanent, that’s just the nature of cardboard, but certainly more long lasting than the inkle loom.