#a square's DAUGHTER

[2d-dreams]

[arinrowan]

My maternal grandmother could crochet.

Nothing complicated. Basic granny squares and double crochet, but she was the one in the family who made blankets for her kids and grandchildren. Dementia hit in her nineties but she still remembered how to make granny squares and made dozens. I asked her for one last blanket but by that point the dementia had taken how to join the squares. They were stacked in piles around the dining room table and when she went into care, into a plastic box for storage.

When she died, I asked for them. By that point I could crochet but didn't know how to join, and figured, someday, I'd learn.

It's at least a decade later. I'm the one who makes blankets for my nephews, for my cousin's children, for pregnant coworkers. Last year I made seven blankets, three for Project Linus, the rest for family and a friend. I can follow crochet charts, filet crochet, do clusters, fans, basic lace, amigurumi.

The world, as is its wont, is on fire. Tonight, I have opened the plastic container for the first time in a decade. I'm sorting them into piles by color. I know now how to look at them and see where her memory slipped or areas I'll need to repair. There's no printed pattern but if I need more I have the skills to copy the pattern.

Each square is 5 inches. Blanket size for Project Linus is 40x60. I'll see how many people I can give her last crochet legacy to.

[zorangezest]

today i come with TWO arts. first is Soundwave that i accidentally saved in grayscale and had to repaint entirely

and second is an unshaded Deepfreeze cuz they're cool (get it?)

alr now im gonna go back to the pits where i came from byeee

WHAT THE HECKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

[polymoth]

How it started:

How it's going:

I finished my temperature blanket! Because the number of days in a year is not neatly divisible by the dimensions of a twin-size blanket, or at least not in a way that makes whole numbers of crochet rows, my temperature blanket actually covers 1/1/24-1/8/25 (374 days). I'm going to add a charcoal grey border around the edge to even out some of the wiggliness and bind up some of the ends, but! The important part is done!

I'm really proud of myself for sticking with a project for a whole year (and change). Watching my blanket grow square by square and row by row was both a delight and an exercise in patience. I'm glad I made something I really like and that I'm excited to have in my life for a long time to come. I hope to carry forward the delight in incremental change and the patience required to achieve that change into the rest of 2025.

Special thanks to my friends putting up with and cheering on my frequent blanket pics and updates in the arts and crafts channel of our discord server, as well as to Minion, who has taken every opportunity to snuggle with me while working in this blanket (and frequently hindering my ability to work by demanding my attention).

[leclercskiesahead]

❤️❤️ una familia

[shoot-i-messed-up]

Superlantern kid called Emerald Sun send tweet

[mistress-light]

Forspoken • Alfre & Cinta

[kylejsugarman]

au squared walt seething because his wife won't speak to him and his son hates him and his infant daughter never sees him, meanwhile jesse is turning up to work each day with his daughter who loves him like

[bumblebeehug]

I feel like this is the only thing I talk about on this website, but listen: Lucy and Aquarius. Their relationship. The pain they feel looking at each other, because all they see and hear is Layla. Lucy craves it, seeks it out in Aquarius, while Aquarius wishes Lucy could dye her hair, wear sunglasses, anything really, so she doesn’t have to see the remains of the woman she failed to protect once upon a time. All Aquarius can see when she sees Lucy, is how she wasn’t there to protect her mother. How her absence caused Layla to die from magic deficiency, and how she robbed a little girl from her most loving parent. And then she had to get summoned over and over again, which made her see how Layla’s death ruined Jude and turned him into a monster. And Aquarius can’t stop blaming herself.

Meanwhile Lucy just wishes she could get Aquarius to talk to her - she craves all the information she can get about Layla, because no one ever talks about her. Jude freezes her out, the maids and cooks hurry back to work in case Jude hears about the fact that they've mentioned Layla, and Aquarius only ever gets angry. Yet Lucy can't stop craving her presence. She uses her to get the faint feeling of her mother being near, because if Layla loved Aquarius, then Lucy would give it her all to love her too. She searches for her mother in Aquarius, and sometimes she feels like she finds it. Because sometimes, Aquarius can see Lucy for the innocent child that she is.

Yet, it’s not until they have to lose each other that they truly see each other for who they are. Yes, when Lucy has to sacrifice Aquarius key she loses the last living connection to her mother, but she also loses the woman who practically raised her - the mother who stepped up. And Aquarius realises that Lucy was more than a brat who looked like she was cosplaying her deceased friend - she was losing the lonely child who sought safety in Aquarius sharp demeanour, who found warmth in her heart, despite how hard she had tried to close it for good.

And anyways I’m not okay about them and I need Lucy to find her key. Idc if she gives it to Brandish (bc in all honesty the story will be a lot better if Lucy doesn’t end up with Aquarius key) I just need her to be able to look Aquarius in her eyes and tell her that she kept her promise - she found her.

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

This is just a random post but I read Kevin Hart's book a long time ago and the parts that really stuck out to me where when his mom would beat him and his brother. Kevin plays it off as some big joke, as if it was discipline, but I think there's definitely a reason why he remembers it so clearly as a grown man. One time she beat him so badly in front of his class that his teacher or principle deadass tried to get her to stop. He plays it off like he deserves it for tampering with the house clocks (he set all the clocks in the house forward so he'd be able to go to an event that his mother said she would not wake up early for) but it's honestly just so cruel. She's so mad at him that she beats him for the bus doors not opening fast enough (no, I'm not kidding).

There's a moment in the book when Kevin describes her beating his brother. The brother, in the midst of the beating, lashes out and hits his mother in the stomach. This sends the mom so hard into a rage that she threatens to kill him and chases him out of the house with a knife. He does not come back. He actually goes to join the military, and she deadass only calls him years later when she has reason to believe he might be dead.

Kevin is one of those people who claims to have turned out fine. His one saving grace is that he does not beat his children, but he doesn't care if others beat theirs.

Kevin did not turn out fine. He proceeds to grow into a man who cheats on his partners. He proceeds to grow into a man that develops such a drinking problem that he once got in trouble with his partner for peeing inside of her bag. He proceeds to grow into a man with a spending problem.

I can't think of a way to really end this post but I do think I'll leave it here.

[2d-dreams]

you know i see the funny flatland blogs with references to flatland characters and im like "i want that" but who? i was thinking, well i simp for A Sphere why not A Sphere but there is already a CEO of Messiah Inc blog and you know im not a thief in this fandom so then I was thinking hmm Hex? but like Pollux is already my cool hexagon guy and idk might make him an ask blog or something and then I remembered.

A Square in the book has a daughter. Nobody ever talks about her.

Before that i was considering Vikki Line but i felt its unfair since i havent read Flatterland [yay poverty] sadly

SO YEAH only problem is what to name the blog/what is her name?? anyone ever thought about her and got name ideas or something

[vasito-de-leche]

(pulls up to your asks like a mcdonalds drivethrough) yo can i get uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh matilda. reltaitonshiop headcnaon

thanmk

;R1999 MATILDA - Relationship Headcanons

Compilation of headcanons about Matilda in a romantic relationship.

(through the most robotic, crunchy voiceover ever) got it, please come right up to the window for your order

sorry this post was shorter than usual! i have so many thoughts about matilda but they're mostly for just character analysis rather than HCs

Matilda is very young, so relationships are a brand new experience for her, lacking all the seriousness and weight of a proper relationship, while being full of wonder and excitement.

One only needs to look at the way she interacts with Sonetto to figure out how she'd act with any other crush of hers. Matilda, whose medium is "competitiveness", sees crushes and love as a game - whoever admits their feelings first, loses. And she's the great Matilda, she can't possibly lose to something so trivial!

I'd argue that there's some depth about this aspect of her, outside of her arcanum and her medium. Her 01 Story gives insight into her competitive nature: from young age, she understood that she had to earn her parents' affection through academic achievements or any other worthwhile merits. And in the main story, we see how she willingly joins the Foundation, how most of her voicelines are about becoming the best at whatever role she sets her sights to, etc.

So with this in mind, whenever Matilda speaks about making Sonetto her assistant, she's truly talking about earning a position of authority and power through her hard work, all to justify receiving affection and adoration from those she cares for. Because this is the only way she knows how to be loved.

I think this would continue to happen, regardless of who she's crushing on, and the game already gives so much info as to how she'd act while crushing on someone, so I'll focus on other headcanons instead!

It takes her a long time to stop acting so flustered.

Because of how confident and one-track minded Matilda is, I genuinely don't know if she's aware of how she tends to come across whenever she trails after the object of her affections like a lost puppy, unconsciously glaring at you from afar because she's trying so hard to prove herself in front of you and what not.

So she would need a lot of time to get over that initial wave of emotions and nervousness, until she can confront you without stuttering, fumbling over her words or just running away.

Once she does, Matilda will become bolder and directly challenge you - her one and only rival! - to all these little things. I imagine it's a very healthy and wholesome rivalry, one that allows the two of you to be kids and stop worrying about the "Storm" for a few hours at least.

I like to think that this rivalry would also help in making Matilda grow used to the idea of losing, since there's no horrible repercussions for doing so.

If she loses to you whenever you two race to see who can reach the library first, to see who can finish a book faster, who can recite the most complex incantation and so on and so forth, well... She can just try again! There's always a next time! There are no downsides to losing, because even though she's lost time and time again, you're still there smiling and laughing along with her. Competitiveness will still remain a big part of who she is, but it loses that edge from before - she's not fighting to be worthy of people's attention.

Eventually, as she grows more comfortable around you, she'll promote you from assistant and/or rival to her closest friend and partner in crime. Matilda starts to include you in her plans for world domination, treating you as her equal.

Matilda is extremely supportive. She loves to be helpful when she's not being competitive.

I'm 100% certain that Matilda's first and foremost love language is acts of service - just take a look at her voicelines. Even though her words are coated with this air of superiority and that slightly condescending and gloating filter, Matilda has many, many quotes that are all about her offering help. Both of her "Morning" quotes, the "Hat and Hair" one, her "Praise" and "Intimacy" quotes... Take a moment to listen to them, really.

Matilda is at her best when she's able to help others, and the fact that her skills in divination and foresight are her biggest pride also hint towards that. It's a skill that's usually associated with easing people's anxieties about the future or the unknown.

The one moment in the main story that sold me on this portrayal of Matilda is her divination scene with Sonetto - once Matilda sees that her friend is in serious need of help and guidance, she pushes her feelings aside just to help on the spot. This is the most serious she's been, and she's gentle and calm, nothing like the Matilda we've seen whenever Sonetto was involved.

When it comes to you, it's no different. While she might've gotten over her initial flustered feelings and whatnot, Matilda would continue to consult her divination orb - if only to know that you'll be okay. And you can always, always come to her if you need a little peek into your future. You might be the only person in the world with that luxury, actually.

This aspect of Matilda also extends to smaller things, of course! If you ever struggle with anything, especially when it comes to academics, she'll step in right away - more than often, she'll do it without even knowing what she signed up for, so forgive her if she suddenly realizes she has no idea what subject you're even talking about. Still, the great Matilda is no quitter, and will research in her free time just so she can help you during study sessions.

People tend to assume Matilda is a horrible listener just because of that pompous and confident attitude she carries herself with - but this is far from the truth! Again, her skill relies in divination, a type of arcanum that relies entirely on seeing what's already there, on being perceptive to one's surroundings and the person seeking her help.

Whenever you need to vent or ramble to her about whatever might've been bothering you, Matilda always sits there, holding your hands, listening intently to every word. It's the same look she has during exams, only softer.

And once you're done, she always gives the most sound and solid advice - should you want it! She always makes sure to ask first! If there's one thing she hates is unsolicited advice! And even if she cannot help you in finding a solution for your troubles, she can still offer her support by loudly complaining with you!

On the subject of Matilda and romance.

To loop back to the very beginning of this post, romance as a whole is still very new to Matilda. Whether you've been her partner in crime for a handful of months or many years, I think any displays of affection will render her speechless, red as a tomato and flustered to the moon and back.

It doesn't matter if all you did was hold her hand, pat her head or give her a surprise hug - Matilda always, always reacts the same way. She squeaks and complains, but never pulls away.

As clingy as she is, following you around and insisting on being seated together all the time, etc etc, Matilda struggles with being on the receiving end of physical affection - at least whenever they're done in a romantic context. She has no problem dragging you around, arms linked together and all, but the second she notices the romantic context of the situation, she'll go back to being a flustered mess. It's yet another thing that will take her some time to get used to.

Make sure not to tease her or make it obvious that you've noticed whenever she tries to hold your hand while walking! That's the one thign that will absolutely get her to retreat right away! She's doing her very best and gather the courage to show you she cares for you!

That aside, I do think Matilda loves being complimented just as much - appealing to her ego is extremely easy, after all. And considering you're the one complimenting her, whatever you say will inevitably get to her head.

[vic-does-battlecats]

Mothwing and Hawkfrost

[themyscirah]

Feeling petty and just blocked someone for steve trevor hate the sun is shining and the hills are alive w the sound of music etc.

[coquelicoq]

i do always have new year's eve plans every year like i always leave my apartment. but. before you recalibrate your internal conception of me. let me just say. the plans are to play board games with a middle-aged couple and their daughter. and sometimes we bake or sew. it's really fun and they feed me well and that's exactly what i'm looking for.

[toastybugguy]

the high quality graphics are so fundamentally opposed to the Life Is Strange feel to me… I need the character models to look like clay and for the mouths to barely sync up with the words being spoken. I need Max Caulfield to look like a loser who just rolled out of bed.