#again this doesn't have to be a thread

[lunarbrambles]

[ original referenced post can be found here ]

@aberrantthornes

The Carian Knight sheepishly grinned at the startled state of Alberich, and lowered both their head and shoulders. "Oh! Heh, Uhh, forgive me," he apologized in his breathy, deep voice, its intonation as sorry as it was upbeat as if to ease his companion, "I did not mean to startle you and should have known you were deep in your thoughts." It was not uncommon, after all, for even himself to lose all concept of both time and place during study. And from his time around more academic-focused sorcerers, it seemed a defining trait to become so absorbed in the study of magic it swallowed them whole and became them.

"To answer your question, indeed, it is 'late.' The stars are out, the full moon is large and bright silver, and the sun is just peaking over the horizon. But from another perspective, it's shockingly early. A perfectly clear, calm night, perfect for the observation of the night sky."

He punctuated the statement with a broad, friendly smile as he folded his arms, overly conscious of his often intimidating stature and build as he tried to not have them too tight against himself as to not look confrontational or angry. Then, he ambled to Alberich's side, again thinking far too much about body language and position, but also so he didn't have to twist around to look at the tall Carian.

"Can't be any worse than listening to arguments and negotiations over trading routes or dowries," Adrian replied with the barest hint of a lopsided and sly smile, "Or, for that manner, having to ask Master Seluvis for help on anything. Sometimes a little silence is nicer to listen to than chatter, and I say this as someone who generally cannot keep their mouth shut."

[antisocialxconstruct]

I don't think I'll be able to do much more with this until the eyes and paw pads arrive BUT we love a progress comparison in this house

[bogkeep]

unpacking update: everything is out of boxes and there's just a little bit left to put away, but due to my inability to locate two (2) decorative figurines i have entered a catatonic state of autistic distress

[improbable-implosions]

Time for another traditional embroidery mend! This time, we're trying out the Puncetto Valsesiano stitch, which, after I finished this up, I've found, is an entire style of needlelace! For this patch, though, we just did stitch after stitch after stitch, no fancy patterning. (I might do fancy patterning later, to be fair! been reading up on things, and I've got a few smaller repairs to make that would suit it quite nicely!)

One row of stitches in, and I was thinking, oh this can't be so bad! this is actually quite soothing, all these repetitive actions, and with such a delightful, knitting-like texture!

This many stitches in, and sure, I'm still having a good time, but mostly, I'm finding out how much thread this takes! Poor razz, @razzmatazic, I thought this was going to be a simple, small patch, so I borrowed her thread to work on this one! You can't quite tell in this shot, but I'm actually about to run out of thread!

After likely much, much more fuss than was strictly necessary, including accidentally picking a slightly different color of floss because of some mislabeled strands, noticing I'd dropped enough stitches to need to throw some extra ceylon stitching in a gap, and a probably pretty noticable shift in texture because of single vs. double threading, we've got ourselves a patch that, even despite its shortcomings, I really dig the look of!

Unfortunately, I didn't make this patch wide enough generally, so I've got a few more holes that'll be getting filled by a big 'ol sashiko patch that's going to layer overtop the puncetto, eventually! Stay tuned, I'm just as curious as you are as to how that'll look.

[stillresolved]

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[hopeinthebox]

tagged by the gorgeous and fabulous @cordiallyfuturedwight and @aprylynn for february's roundup:

tagging the usual music favs: @jiminsproof @thvinyl @jimin-gaon @visionsofgideontheninth @spicyclematis @kimchokejin @jihopesjoint @monismochi plus @kimtaegis for the amy macdonald of it all 💜 and also you, dear reader. MWAH

[laugtherhyena]

@i-cant-stop-fandoming-help

Ngl she wouldn't react well at all, like, that's the baby she saw go through a miraculous recovery after being brough to the hospital at the brink of death. She would be absolutely distaught (even worse if she lears how she died), however, Beni is around and with her being a baby/toddler she'd put her focus on taking care of her, a mixture of a coping mechanism and trying to put her mind on something less soul crushing.

There would definitelly be moments where it gets too hard and she starts crying, but at least she has Hamato and Hikaru there to help her through it.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Walking In Two Worlds & The Everlasting Road

YA sff set in the near future where an opensource augmented reality is commonly used like social media, and there’s also a completely virtual fantasy game version

follows an Anishinaabe girl who who’s the top player in the VR game, and is constantly fighting to keep her place against the misogynist neo-nazi group in second place

as well as her real life, dealing with being a shy and self-conscious teen growing up on the Rez, and her brother having cancer

and a Uyghur boy who’s moved to her community from China after finding acceptance in an online community (even when he doesn’t agree with their more extreme views) - but when he gets to know Bugz, he has to decide who truly deserves his loyalty

great mix of sff and culture, the future while also very real community traumas of the past (and present)

[seaweedstarshine]

—on the topic of psychotic Summers brothers, I only just caught up with six months of X-Men after stopping for six months the topic of Gabriel referring to the tags of my last X-Men post a month ago — but I was happy to see Scott's torture-induced psychosis didn't (definitively) turn out just to be that he'd calculated what others hadn't. Yes, the woman he'd accurately calculated would save him was Dr. Gregor, not Jean, but that doesn't change that he remained unsure if Jean was real (and thought she was alive) while the all-seeing Enigma knew on the contrary that Scott was delusional because Phoenix thus equally (an equivocation which casts further doubt of Scott's fiery visions ever being genuine, as Jean's dying mind had departed Scott well before Mother Righteous sacrificed Jean's dead fragmented self for Dominion, before Scott was tortured) Jean — were so utterly dead that Rachel and Hope had to cancel out death to reverse it. Yet Scott, hyper-vigilant traumatized autistic brain-damaged neurodivergent soldier that he is, seemingly accomplished all these strategic calculations while having a psychotic “break,” which is extremely in character for him—

[shimmerluna]

i do think there's probably something suspicious about the way everyone loves Ca$h and Quinni and their depth while essentially reducing Darren to their shared supporting character and/or the sassy black woman(/person in this case) stereotype, but I feel somewhat hypocritical bringing it up

[marronje]

thoughts on Ochako's hero costume design

her character was clearly intended to be heavily astronaut-inspired. she loves astronomy, her quirk resembles open space, but the only thing that gives me vibes from her hero suit is the HELMET which wasn't even shown very often before they got rid of it entirely

and just imagine if her suit was really after an astronaut's, it'd give so much to her shape language, even more bubbly and round and more Uraraka, we deserve it guys!

but Hori decided that giving her a sexy look (gross, can we talk about sexualizing minors again?) was more important than making the design work better

[bowithoutadaemon]

It's done!

And in this particular light the 3 yellows actually do look kinda different from each other. It's less noticeable in person than in the picture though.

Also the fabric did get a bit wobbly/stretched out/bunched up. But not too bad.

[afniel]

Maaaaaaaaaaaan, come on.

(the post has ended up in the tags btw. I am not changing this and I need you to understand that it is just me talking to myself semi-publicly)

[mythvoiced]

-. starter call for a woman who deserved better lmao

for the low, low cost of one heart and potentially one comment where you tell me who you want the starter for if you're a multimuse, you get access to one starter from test muse yu qianru, previously mentioned on this blog as wenzhe's deceased childhood friend (fun stuff ♥)

Some info under the cut ♥

25 year old engineering student, born to be a boyfriend but dedicates herself just as happily to... just about anything, really, will go out of her way to learn more things, start new courses, get new skills, as if she knew how much time she had left and wanted to explore and experience as many things as possible before her untimely death. The kind of person you want to have in your corner when you want someone vibrantly competent at starting things and then never finishing them because something equally interesting caught her eye as well. Her goal in life would be to get into nuclear engineering and revolutionize something there, and that's exactly how she puts it, it's as vague as I'm writing it.

Alternatively (option 2), post-death Qianru stuck on the mortal plane because her love for life and developing and learning, on top of knowing she can't care for Wenzhe anymore and how much her death is affecting him (that's him in the back of the gif btw uwu) makes it nearly impossible for her to ever truly move on. In reality, she has the maturity and willingness to accept death required to move on... Wenzhe is keeping her here.

[adamsvanrhijn]

another day another thought about how literally all they needed to do to make the maud plotline make sense. before even making it Better. is to simply have her not go to anybody's house other than aurora's

[nxttheendxfthestxry]

Closed Starter: Waking Up (Waltz fam/Associates)

Cal had dozed off at one point or another, but he'd woken up somehow looking more tired than he 'd started, sat at his sister's bedside. He pulls a hand through his hair.

Keefe was standing back against the wall, close to Hemlock, but not forcing himself on her space, silently watching Ash, still not entirely sure he knows what's happening.

And there's Ash. Cold and still, laying on her own bed. The injuries healed up, though there's still dried blood in some places on her.

Completely still.

@storystartsanew