#and the wolf origami is the cutest thing ever

[diana-bluewolf]

On one surprisingly sunny November day, a young Merlin lands graciously on a tree not too far from where Chris and Misha are walking. It tilts its head while it observes the wizard and gives a few chattering calls before taking off again, something bright red tied to one of its legs. The presence of the wolf agitates the falcon a little, so it chooses not to land on the ground but instead on a branch of another nearby tree, high enough for the boy to reach but with plenty of distance to take off if the lupus decides to strike.

The object tied to Merlin's leg is an origami piece of an animal that easily comes off when touched, allowing the bird to leave. Upon closer inspection, it is a paper wolf that stirs on Chris' palms, stands on its wobbly paper feet and raises its head high up. Even without the sound it is clear that it is howling. Then, suddenly, the paper unfolds itself, revealing a letter.

Dear Chris, I can't believe we've known each other for so long already. We took a winding path towards becoming friends. It is still a little wild to me that you felt like I ever needed anything in return other than your genuine company. I know, we've talked about it, and I really should've seen it sooner. Will often says that I don't see things right under my nose. But I still want you to know that I'll never require anything from you in return for a chocolate frog or homework or a friendly chat. You are my friend. Anything you need — I'll never say no. I am unsure where to find you as we live in different dorms, but wherever you are right now, I wish you a Happy Birthday, from my whole heart. You deserve to be happy. You deserve to enjoy every day of your life. You deserve companionship (and I mean human, too, not just Misha's!) Perhaps I'll catch you at dinner? I think William got you some yummy goodies earlier today (I probably should not have said that), so don't fill your tummy up all the way! Happy Birthday, dear friend! Your shiny unicorn, Elland 🌙

Aww, it’s such a cute ask! Therefore, ahem…

TW↓: obscene language 🤨😁

"Merlin, why does he have to be so embarrassing?" muttered Chris after running his eyes over the letter. He was sitting on a large mossy rock with his leg tucked under him.  

"Have you ever felt that it's just…ugh… almost painful to read something?" he addressed Misha, who was stretching lazily beside him.

Misha didn't answer. Well, he tended to do that - not bothering to reply. Chris didn't blame him since he often was the same.

"Well, I guess the inability to read can solve this, can't it?" Chris smiled and petted Misha's ear.

"What I mean is all this… "deserving" stuff. Why wouldn't he just insult me? That would be much easier and fun to read. Like, I don't know, happy birthday, you prick? Bring your ass here, or I'll eat all the goodies, and then William? Not that I would care about the latter, but at least it would be fun. And this," Chris waved the letter in the air, "this is pure torture."

Chris sighed and made himself reread the letter, this time trying not to skip everything that started with “you deserve”. He was positively unbearable sometimes. Elland, that is. 

Maybe that’s why Chris was so glad to see his falcon today?

“Look, look,” Chris nudged Misha, pointing at the your shiny unicorn line. “He’s trying to joke here.” 

Misha looked at the parchment. The parchment wasn’t edible and hence wasn’t a feature of interest.

“Oh, don’t worry, mate, I didn’t get it, either,” Chris assured Misha. He then glanced at the letter again. 

“He’s a weirdo. Elland.” Chris smiled warmly. “But…have you ever met wolves that were not as bad as other wolves? Because I have. Quite a few, actually. Well, not wolves, people, and that makes it even stranger. I have only one explanation for this - it’s Hogwarts. And if so,” Chris grabbed his bag and fished out ink and a quill, “I freaking love magic.”

See you at dinner. Bring the goodies. You can leave the prefect where he is.

Chris smirked, aware that Will would probably read it anyway. Well, no one asked him peeking at Elland's correspondence.

Your grumpy dugbog, Chris. P.S. Those guys look peculiar as friends, don't they?

P.P.S. Thank you.

Chris shoved the letter into the bag and jumped to his feet. 

“My shiny unicorn is waiting,” he explained to Misha, who enthusiastically followed him on his way out of the forest. 

“I need to send an owl first and grab those pasties I bought for Will in Honeydukes. You see, Monsieur Tangerine, in addition to all his flaws, is a gourmet, and we often have differences of opinion on the matter of taste. But this time, I’m sure even he will like it!”

It was a surprisingly sunny November day.

[edgeworth-s]

edgeworthy, sirious and lupin

oh no i love them all

mr prosecutor:general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff (he’s honest, intelligent af and considered weird so yeah 100% ravenclaw)best quality: his determination to serve justice and his ability to overcome years of von karma’s indoctrination to be The Good Man His Father Always Wanted For Him To Beworst quality: his (lack of) origami skillsship them with: an attorney whose name is a fucking birdbrotp them with: franziska von karma (their relationship is complicated but they love each other a lot although they dont want to admit it sometimes)needs to stay away from: elevators and manfred von karmamisc. thoughts: i was indifferent to him when i played the games for the first time to be honest lmaoand the way he changed throughout the series? this is some fucking a+ character development and i couldnt love him morealso i will never grow tired of soft, domestic miles

dog man:general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang (he isn’t ~gorgeous~; he’s just hot af)hogwarts house: gryffindor!!!!!!! | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuffbest quality: have you ever met a more loyal man than him? i dont fucking think soworst quality: he did nothing wrong. ever.ship them with: wolf wolfbrotp them with: james??? like james/sirius is friendship in its most beautiful, perfect and pure form needs to stay away from: severus snape, dementorsmisc. thoughts: he loved harry so much it hurts, like he sacrificed his own comfort and safety to be close to harry (he fucking lived in a cave for months, risking getting caught as he not so long ago fled from azkaban)he literally died because he wanted to protect this boy i am in tears, we didnt deserve sirius black

sad wolf:general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuffbest quality: his whole life he just wanted to be accepted, have some friends and help others THATS LITERALLY IT how can anyone not love himworst quality: jk rowling went a bit ooc with him once but we dont talk about this part of deathly hallows in my houseship them with: serious brotp them with: lily evans (their friendship is the cutest thing EVER)needs to stay away from: severus fucking snape, fenrir greybackmisc. thoughts: he was the kind of teacher every teacher should strive to bealso he just spent his whole life trying to protect other people from himself because he believed he was a monster and thats heartbreaking because he was the best human to ever live on this stupid planet

thank you for this one friend

[origamidotme]

25 Pawsome Origami Dogs that You Mutt See

We've posted about origami dogs previously. Since then we've come across a ton of other fantastic paper dogs that also deserve to be highlighted. We'll start out this post with this beautiful looking dog folded from a sheet of mulberry paper.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nyankoorigami/13670687625/ Dog, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by nyanko sensei Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine 144   This doberman pinscher design is still one of our all time favourite paper dog designs. Each of these is folded from different kinds of paper with different kinds of paint.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/62652453@N08/19416850598/ Doberman Pinscher, Designed by Ares Alanya and Folded by Mariano Diagrams available in the 17th Tanteidan Convention book   This is an origami version of Yoko, Hande Orhun's dog.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/handeorhun/16239495090/ Greyhound, Designed by Ronald Koh and Folded by Hande Orhun Diagrams available in the Origami USA Convention 2000 book   This paper dog has a ton of character and looks really full of energy.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/126871950@N04/20246659223/ Dog, Designed by Hideo Komatsu and Folded by Ivan Svatko Diagrams available in Works of Hideo Komatsu   This dog in a dog house model is still one of our favourites. The entire thing, both the dog and the house, is folded from a single sheet of paper.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lovesong_ni0912/4221912452/ Dog in a Dog House, Designed by Stephen Weiss and Folded by Minh Tue (Photo by thong nguyen nguyen) Diagrams available in Origami Zoo   Here's another one of those fantastic doberman pinchers.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blunek/6078685309/ Doberman Pinscher, Designed by Ares Alanya and Folded by Blanka P (blunek) Diagrams available in the 17th Tanteidan Convention book   This entire scene is pretty adorable.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/origamiru/13383020815/ Collie, Designed and Folded by Andrey Ermakov Instructions not available   Here's another one of the cuter origami dog designs.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79001419@N06/14933797960/ Scottish Terrier, Designed by Hoang Tien Quyet and Folded by Gonzalo Diagrams available in the 20th Tanteidan Convention book   We really like how this dog design is a lot more 3-dimensional and seeing it from multiple angles is really great.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephwuorigami/9160534574/ Miniature Schnauzer, Designed and Folded by Joseph Wu Instructions not available   This is a much simpler design but it's still very expressive.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/92285150@N02/16097575253/ Terrier, Designed by Francisco Javier Caboblanco and Folded by Rainer Berg Diagrams available in Origami from Around the World   Here's another adorable design. The pose is absolutely fantastic.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/papygami/11196458435/ Mi Perra Zaida, Designed by Juan Gimeno Viguera and Folded by Luc MARNAT Diagrams available in Pajarita Magazine #123   This is another excellent dog design. The colour change here is really great and it looks awesome with this black and white unryu paper.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/satsukawa/14075929136/ Husky, Designed by Fumiaki Kawahata and Folded by Alex Satsukawa Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #108   This tiny little dog might be the cutest one we've ever seen!

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pierre-andre/16914067596/ Joe Cocker, Designed by Patricio Kunz and Folded by Pierre-andré Diagrams available in Drawing Origami Tome 1   This is one of the best looking paper dogs that we've ever seen. It really has the look of a real dog.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/origami-shop/23244545891/ Labrador, Designed and Folded by Gen Hagiwara Diagrams available in Spirits of Origami   Here's another one of the best dog designs we've seen. It's easily the best paper shiba inu out there. The design is based on Gen Hagiwara's labrador base.

Image source: http://cahoonas.deviantart.com/art/Shiba-Inu-Gen-Hagiwara-s-Labrador-Retriever-Base-439555944 Shiba Inu, Designed and Folded by Cahoonas Base crease pattern available from Gen Hagiwara's Flickr   Seth Friedman's Finnish Lapphund is another one of the best dog designs out there. This one too looks extra fluffy.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/126871950@N04/29448134695/ Finnish Lapphund, Designed by Seth Friedman and Folded by Ivan Svatko Video instructions available from Seth Friedman's YouTube channel   Here's another excellent dog design with a tongue.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/plieurfou/22558259689/ Loyal and His Tongue, Designed and Folded by Eric Vigier Instructions not available   The colour change in this beagle design is fantastic.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/56723190@N02/26823833051/ Beagle, Designed by Fumiaki Kawahata and Folded by Andrés Diagrams available in COS 2015   Here's quite a fancy looking paper poodle.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/128874294@N04/28667124904/ Poodle, Designed by Yoo Tae Yong and Folded by J.W. Park Diagrams available in Origami Works of Yoo Tae Yong   Seth Friedman also has this excellent basset hound design.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/62572859@N08/30219150180/ Basset Hound, Designed by Seth Friedman and Folded by Rui Roda Video instructions available from Seth Friedman's YouTube channel   Wolves are kind of in the same category as dogs and here's a great looking one that's kind of cute too.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/56723190@N02/23438245899/ Wolf, Designed and Folded by Andrés Instructions not available   Here's a different and also fantastic Scottish terrier design by Eric Joisel.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkrup/23982559650/ Aberdeen, Designed by Eric Joisel and Folded by Alexander Krupnikov Diagrams available in the 10th Tanteidan Convention book   Here's a really great labrador retriever design. The pose here and how it almost looks like it's running along is awesome.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79606072@N00/9932038285/ Labrador Retriever, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Terry Nicolas Diagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2, 2002 – 2009   Román Díaz's fox terrier is another really awesome dog design.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79001419@N06/7672625216/ Fox Terrier, Designed by Román Díaz and Folded by Gonzalo Diagrams available in Origami for Interpreters   This Dalmatian design is really impressive with how the colour change makes little dots. You definitely need to use black and white paper to fold this one.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeadia/30503538866/ Dalmatian, Designed by Fumiaki Kawahata and Folded by Joe Adia Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #158   Our final model for this post is this very expressive looking Pug. It's another excellent example of colour change used in design.

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jack_dreyil/31081517395/ Pug, Designed by Yoo Tae Yong and Folded by Jack Dreyil Crease pattern available from Yoo Tae Yong's Flickr   That's it for this post. If you enjoyed these origami dogs please take a second to share the post on your favourite social media site and let us know which one of these dogs was your favourite in the comments! Click to Post