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heard some people say jonny is cononicaly omni? do you know where this is from?
This is from a twitch clip from Jonny’s streams! I don’t have the link at the moment, but someone asked him quite a while ago about the joke/discourse (brief pause as I am overcome with the specters of discourse past) regarding Jonny d’Ville being homophobic, based on the line in one of the fictions where he asks if Nastya is having one of her “queer orgies.”
Jonny said that he didn’t write that story, so he can’t say for sure what was intended with the line in question, but that d’Ville is, in his mind, omnisexual, and not homophobic. This makes it word-of-god canon, which of course depending on your approach to the text (the text in this case being the albums, fictions, social media posts, and other in-character, official sources) may or may not count as canon in the way that, say, Brookes from Pump Shanty (Bashful) being mlm does. But that’s where it comes from!
#mod miralines#asks#the mechanisms#jonny d'ville#personally I generally take word-of-god from the band members as canon with the mechs#simply given we have so relatively little about so many details#but as. somewhat less canonical than unambiguously canon sources#but that’s just me#anyhow I hope this helped!#if anyone has the clip on hand and would like to add it for citation purposes that would be helpful
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In season 4, I demand more Benedict and Hyacinth interactions. Gregory's off to school, Anthony and Kate are off to India, Eloise and Francesca are off to Scotland, the other two have married and moved out, so these two are the last ones under Violet's roof, I love what we've gotten of them but I need more bonding scenes. They're both hilarious and completely unhinged at times, I need more of this chaotic sibling duo.
#bridgerton spoilers#bridgerton netflix#bridgerton#benedict bridgerton#hyacinth bridgerton#casting department popped off with these two because they look like actual siblings#plus with probably another 2 year wait & based on previous patterns hyacinth will be debuting next#wouldn't mind a slowburn of her and gareth as a sideplot ngl with lady danbury#but i hope they don't do an exact copy paste of the past seasons structure#by s3 the debutante introduction getting old#worked for s1 introduced us to the world shopstopping#s2 which was delayed due to covid helped bring us back into the world#s3 - other than debuting francescas new actress and qcs reactions - its getting tired#they don't have to and shouldn't do the exact same way a 4th time#hell start s4 at aubrey hall pre season have kate anthony & benedict there as violet goes off to london to prepare the masquerade ball#have benedict look for a place of his own which will become my cottage as he tries to figure out what his future will look like#then have him meet sophie and then send them back to london for the season#the season doesn't really matter for benedict & sophie's story anyhow#I've got wildly off topic lmao
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@mor-and-more, this is for you. tumblr won't let me add video to reblogs and is being highkey uncooperative about this, so it's new post time.
many people who are fairly new to spinning are anxious about dropping their beautiful drop spindles.
first: honestly, you don't have to be. they're called drop spindles for a reason—because you drop them. it's going to drop sometimes; that's just the nature of the craft. it's ok. most of them are pretty sturdy.
second: if this is putting you off starting, try what i only half-jokingly call the no-drop method! it's pretty slow, so you're probably not going to want to do this forever, but you can use it to get to a place where you're comfortable enough that you're willing to try other things.
this is basically park and draft, but not a variation i've seen discussed much, so i made a video, featuring my cat, who really really really wants to help. there's a text version of this method after the video.
this is a no-audio situation (other than random background noise), so quick notes.
first and foremost, i'm holding the spindle between my feet, because that's what's comfortable for me and because i took this video around a tripod. there's no reason that you can't do this sitting on the sofa with the spindle between your knees, or with your legs crossed tailor-style and the spindle tucked into the fold of your knee, or whatever else makes sense for you.
the other thing is that i had to trim the video a little to fit on tumblr, which is why it ends abruptly. there are videos made by much more skilled videographers about how to do things like predraft, find the staple length, and draft while you spin, so i don't show any of that either (except incidentally), but if anyone's like 'no, i feel that having this from you, specifically, will make my life better,' let me know and i'll make another video. maybe without the cat. (maybe with more cat! who can say.)
text version, including some extra notes:
trap the spindle so it can't move, but you have easy access to it. (see list of suggested positions above.)
take your predrafted fibre and hook it onto your spindle. i like to basically fold a staple length in half and use that. once it's hooked, keep your hand there, holding the fibre so it stays folded around the spindle hook.
keeping the spindle trapped, twist it. you're just loosening your feet or knees or whatever enough that you can twist the stick.
twist will move into the fibre around the hook. hooray! your fibre is now attached to the spindle. twist a little more. keep pinching it at the top!
draft out a tiny bit more fibre, move your pinch up to the top of that, and let the twist move into the drafted fibre.
keep twisting, drafting out a little, letting the twist move up, and twisting some more. if the yarn looks like it's getting too loose, let the tension off of the yarn and keep twisting, then reapply the tension. a weird thing about twist is that it doesn't move well unless it's under tension. i really tried to show this in the video, and i failed. i will repeat attempts if anyone desires.
if you're not sure if you have enough twist, just move your fibre hand towards the spindle. if the yarn twists around itself, you're probably good. (i check that a lot in this video, because i never spin in this style recreationally, and i don't have good instincts for it.)
when you have an arm's length of yarn, wrap it onto your spindle. for the first time you do this, you'll want to hold the bottom of the yarn, right where it attaches to the hook, as well as the top of the yarn, right before you get to unspun fibre. just wrap it onto the shaft of the spindle. i sometimes find it useful to lay the first tiny bit of the yarn—again, the bit that was on the hook—parallel to the shaft, and then wrap over that, which helps make sure things are good and tight.
hook back onto the spindle and repeat.
you can do this as long as you want to, up to and including forever. it's sort of a hybrid style of spinning—not quite suspended spinning, not quite supported spinning, and not quite grasped/clasped spinning, but a collection of elements from all of them. you're making yarn! you're spinning!
that said, after you do this a few times, you may feel like it's a little unnecessarily fussy and slow. which is also totally fine. try loosening your grip on the spindle and giving it a little twirl. you don't have to let go entirely if you don't feel ready to, but loosen up enough that it'll spin, then clamp back down. you can see me doing this at the very end of the video. at this point, you're basically doing park and draft, and can go from there.
like i kinda implied at the start of this post, this is very far from the only way to approach learning to spin, but especially if you're anxious about damaging your spindle or (like me) hate unexpected noises, it might be one to consider.
#handspinning#hand spinning#spinning#fiber crafts#yarn#smartest raccoon i know#spinning has brought me such joy and i just really want it to be accessible to anyone who's interested in it#also i tried to spin thicker than usual so this would be more visible but uh#trying to get around the tripod and etc i just kept reverting to form#i think it's probably visible enough to convey the point#anyhow i hope that this is helpful to someone
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@pinkieclown HAPPY (late) BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(This is their oc Oopsadaizee!!!)
There’s a right side up version under the cut :)))
#WHEEEEEEE I DID IT HOORAY!!!!!!!!#HAPPY BIRTHDAY BESTIEEEE IM SORRY THIS TOOK A WHILE!!!!!!#they’re SO SO CUTE I LOVE THEM#I loved drawing the pigtails so so so much but I MESSED UP THE LEG WARMERS RAHHHH I MIXED THEM UPPP#you have no idea how long that fucking hand took im so mad#ANYhow#doing this piece helped me fight the anxiety DEMONS who are coming for my lungs and my heart and my lungs#the heart disease/collapsing lung demon would come to whisper in my ear and I would punch it in the face like no!!!!!#I will not have a panic attack now sir I am ARTING!!!!#first painting in a while since a self portrait for class (Bluebeard themed….please hold your shock#anyway I am PLOTTING besties I have ONE DAY LEFT OF SCHOOL RAH#but I digress#HAPPY BIRTHDAY I HOPE YOU HAVE THE BEST DAYS FOREVER 🫶🫶#cats the musical#cats musical#cats oc#jellicle oc#not my oc#I’m gonna go dunk my head in a sink now the stress is getting to me so badly my heart hurts rahhhhhhhh#sorah’s silly scribbles
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I recognize a lot of ADHD symptoms in Nightheart too.
The thinking everyone hates him is a big thing, taking rejection harder than it should be,
You're right... the Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria... I am Nightheart's therapist and I am slapping him with so many mental illnesses.
#ALSO FOR THE RECORD I DONT HAVE BPD#I just have people I love who do#And take a sincere and adoring interest in how their minds work#I do have ADHD though. Recently diagnosed.#But I've known my entire life.#But anyhow#I just like BPD I think it's neat. It reminds me of people I love. And loved. It's so demonized and I hope that I can help ppl understand#It's just an emotional regulation disorder. There is no 'bad person' disease.#People with BPD can be good or bad.#Btw I plan to do this with NPD too at some point. I did a leetle research and know where to start now#But I haven't picked a cat to get it#And I have personal close experience with BPD so like. That's why it comes up so much. I feel confident in how I portray it#And I get super good feedback from people who have BPD so I think I'm doing good#Also inside joke lmao; Bird Perception Disorder#Because for SOME REASON I keep using birds as a BPD metaphor#And partner found that hilarious#The birds are being perceived#bone babble
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any recommendations for where to start reading for jean-paul valley and luke fox? i rlly wanna know more abt them but i have no idea which comics to read first
hello anon! i have a ton of recommendations, i love Jean-Paul and Luke and they're both great characters to get into! Luke is pretty easy to get into, but Jean-Paul can be a little complicated so I'll start with him.
Jean-Paul Valley
so i'm going to start with this: *do not* start with *anything* to do with the New-52 when it comes to Azrael. though there are some plots where he plays a significant role, he's butchered to the point he's just not the character you actually want to read. also don't start with Azrael (2009), that is not Jean-Paul, it's a different guy entirely. the recs i would give are
Batman: Sword of Azrael - this is Jean-Paul's introduction and backstory, i would consider it required reading. it's a great sorry and pretty short!
Batman: Knightfall - so. this is what Jean-Paul is iconically known for, the arc where Bane breaks Bruce's back and Bruce gives the mantle of Jean-Paul for a bit. and because of the nature of Jean-Paul's psyche, he goes off the rails and is a brutally violent Batman who has to be rid of the mantle. this is a *long* event. there's Knightfall, Knightsend, and Knightquest. and tbh this isn't really the baseline for Jean-Paul's personality, this is him at his worst and most fragmented. so, if you *want* to skip it for now and come back to it, you can. while it's important for his development, it's not really his baseline and if the big storyline daunts you, just skip it.
Azrael (1995) - (note: at issue #47, the title changes to Azrael: Agent of the Bat. it is still the same ongoing, just switch over to that title) this is his main comic run that went on for about 100 issues. it's very good. because he's a main Batfamily character, his comic will crossover into any big Batman event like No Man's Land or Contagion. you *can* read those events when you get to them, but they're not required if you'd just like to stick to him for now.
Azrael Plus the Question - this is a one shot and tbh, you don't have to read it, it's really not necessary. but, i'm a fan of the Question so, this is my self-indulgent rec. it's a fun short story and i wish we got more of these two <3
Sword of Azrael (2022) - (note: if you are reading this as single issues, you should read Sword of Azrael: Dark Knight of the Soul, the one shot that leads up to this. if you pick this up as a trade, that one shot will be included) by *far* my favorite Azrael story. this is *such* a good mini-series, i cannot recommend it enough. it's the modern era/timeline, but it very beautiful handles Azrael's history as Batman and all of his guilt and builds the the next steps for his character. i wish i could recommend this as #1, but you should at least read Batman: Sword of Azrael before this. but do read this, it's everything.
Luke Fox
Luke is introduced in the New-52 and is one of the highlights of that era. but it is the New-52, so some of it isn't the greatest. he does go on to feature in a lot of Rebirth stories as well. he does appear here and there in Batman: Eternal, but he tends to be a side character who doesn't get much focus, so you can read that if you'd like, but expect a more ensemble cast.
Batwing (2011) - start from issue #19, that is where Luke picks up the mantle up until the series ends at #34. it's his introduction and a great run for him. (note this series is collected as a trade under the name Batwing: Luke Fox)
Batgirl (2011) - he appears beginning from issue #43 and is mostly present up until the end of the run. i don't really love this run, i hate what it does with Barbara, but it is some essential reading for Luke.
Detective Comics by James Tynion IV - this is where we cross over into Rebirth territory, Luke is an important player during Vol 2: the Victim Syndicate, Vol 3: The League of Shadows, Vol 4: Deus Ex Machina, and Vol 7: Batmen Eternal. and!! during Tynion's run, Luke and Jean-Paul have *significant* interactions because both appear heavily. they end up pretty close to the point in the Rebirth era, Luke is one of the people Jean-Paul is closest to in the Batfam. Tynion's run is pretty good so i would honestly recommend reading the whole thing, but you can skip around to just the issues where Jean-Paul and/or Luke are important players.
there is obviously more for both of these characters if you want to do a completionist run and read *everything*, but these are the places that are either most important or easiest to start with. happy reading anon, i hope this helped!
#necrotic answerings#comic recommendations#jean paul valley#luke fox#i hope you enjoy these two anon i love them dearly#and you get the bonus of them interacting heavily!!#there's actually some content for people who ship them as well!#personally i view it platonically but i definitely see the potential#also i didn't mention justice league odysessy for jpv bc i just don't like it.#like. eh wasted potential there.#sword of azrael (2022) rlly is my roman empire.#praying dan watters will include jean-paul in his nightwing run.#it is all i ask.#anyhow i'm always happy to give comic recs!#and if i don't know i will probably know what direction to point you in#so either way i will try my best to help!
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could i ask for Ace for sketch requests if that’s ok? if im not too late,,
"don't worry, little hero, i will always make times for you~"
#pokemon reborn#pkmn reborn#KArts#me failing to come up a caption as smooth as their dialogues💦#they has a really fun design. also lowkey...sad that they weren't there at the climax in the main story#imagine going around in Terra's bit world and Ace managed to converse with us#also thank you Ace for giving me a Fenekin with 3 perfect ivs because it help me a looooot with battles#in case you're wondering. i drew the pose based on a scene in ''now you see me''#anyhow hope you like it ^^
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Everyone, please give a warm welcome to Yae Kiku! she's a Yae expy i designed for my friend @fnafvr :-] i based her off the white hare from Alice in Wonderland! you all better cheer and clap for her...
... or else.
(consider reblogging & donating to my Ko-fi, thank you!)
#Honkai Star Rail oc#HSR oc#Yae Kiku (oc)#Vio's Art Tag#friend oc#ok to reblog#AUGH it's almost 1 am i was having too much fun drawing her#she looks a bit more hsr-worthy than reve but that's mostly because vance helped me lol lmao#anyhow i hope y'all have a GOOD NIGHT!!! (crumples away)
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i was joking about this with ramone, but honestly... i think there may be some validity to the idea of barton smoking weed only one time in his life and never doing it again because it made him feel so chill, that he freaked out ☠️ like 'is this what 'normal' people feel like? because i don't know how to feel about this, or if i like it' LMAO
#OF MONSTERS AND MEN: musings.#yeah i am back on my shitpost - y bullshit but honestly i just can't help but make these kinds of posts every now and again y'all JSJSJ#because they are just so fun to make sometimes and the idea of this one is just. It's just ridiculous enough to have happened to barton LOL#like all of those negative thoughts in his head suddenly being quieted and him actually feeling kind of... not angry for a second?#that would probably be such a foreign feeling for him to the point where he'd be freaked out both kind of sadly and hilariously AHH#but anyways... so if someone's muse were to ever offer him any there's like a 95% chance that he'll decline#the other 5% is him maybeee doing it because he wants to fit in or something so... basically peer pressure also sadly#LMAO anyhow i hope y'all had a great day today!!#tw: drug mention.
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My preview for @livingwithsinzine, a zine to celebrate Crestoria's 4th anniversary! The zine will be free and available for download on July 16!
#Tales of Crestoria#livingwithsinzine#living with sin zine#because Leon and Aegis deserved a reunion and Stahn deserved to be part of it#I will forever mourn the loss of this relationship and pray we see more of it... somewhere somehow#Rays give us some! but new Rays content is going byebye which does not help my case!#anyhow if you're a Crestoria fan I hope you'll give this zine a shot!
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hobbs and joiner, who are @four-white-trees' ocs! these sure are some guys...
less clothed version under the cut (because i didn't go to all the effort of making all these layers to not show em)
#jichanart#jichan'shandslipped#cw nudity#Incitatus crew#the deepest solace#<- just gonna steal your tags for them#less clothed version because i did NOT draw all that body hair by hand just to cover it all up. EVERYBODY LOOK#anyways the motivator for this one was finding out their heights. because i desperately needed a visual for that#thank you height comparison website#so yeah it should be to scale because i drew directly over the height reference#and the reference helped me with proportions! so i struggled less with full body than i normally do#now i can play dress up with them with this as a base. very pleased with myself#this file has so many variants rn you have no idea. and i still gotta put them in even more outfits#anyhow i hope this helps anybody reading four-white-trees' sunday six posts visualise them#COORDINATED POSTING RIGHT AT YOU
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-looking into the 39 Clues series via tvtropes and general browser searching-
it's beginning to look like LOST MEDIAAAAAAAA
#chris rambles#the 39 clues#i don't know if there's a fandom for it out here on this hellsite#apparently according to tvtropes you had a whole ARCHIVE of fics awarded with Madrigals if they were bangers#i still have my first series books. i still have the cards (i THINK and i HOPE because i can't believe i remembered their existence)#(and how some of their visual design could actually help out with my UNIVERSITY HONOURS DEGREE.)#(i remember getting hooked onto the series by my childhood bestie when i was 6 years old. i'm 23 right now. anyhow)#if anybody has like somehow. a whole image archive of Every Card Of These Books. I'd be grateful thank you
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To be clear this is not a prediction of a queer romance in the show because I'd never put my hope in a Disney/Marvel production like that but.
I don't know whether to side-eye Loki S2 or myself for the fact that my genuine read on it four episodes in is that the natural culmination is Loki having to choose between Mobius and Sylvie. And choosing Mobius
#*sigh*#i haven't voluntarily sat down to any marvel joint for years#but unfortunately i do appear to be watching this#anyway best case scenario it does take this route and just frames it as a choice between friends#which wouldn't even be much of a stretch since I honestly don't read Loki and Sylvie as romantic even in season 1#the kiss was entirely Sylvie and i think it was a strategic distraction#and before they were just disoriented by having a genuine and positive connection to another person for once and got a little confused <3#alternatively and quite probably i'm just entirely wrong#because if fandom teaches you anything it's that you can never trust a prediction#no matter how well-reasoned it seems at the time#anyhow i do hope sylvie gets to go back and live her happy small-scale life#because helping during the crisis is one thing#but if the conclusion is that her moral obligation is to keep trying to hold the universe together#a sort of 'once a god always a god' conclusion#well i don't think i'd like the implications very much#loki
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ok, @craftychahuhu, this one's for you! but also for anyone else who might find it interesting. so we were talking about drafting fibre, and how to tell if it's hard to draft, and what it looks like when it's drafting well, and i was like, well, i have fibre and a camera, i can make this everyone's problem!
so: some fibre.
from the top left and going clockwise (ish):, the blue and yellow is rambouillet, the green is lonk, the dark blue is polwarth, the circle sort of in the middle is a merino/bond cross, the sausage is a rolag that i ended up not using in this but i'll talk about a little anyhow, and the dense white guy at the bottom left is corriedale.
let's talk about these fibres! i picked them for a couple reasons, but if i'm honest, the most pressing ones were that i had easy access to them and with the exception of the lonk, they're all fibres that i'd more or less group together into the 'very fine' category. no, they're not all identical, but for our purposes here, they're close enough. the lonk is a much coarser fibre, and it's here mostly to serve as a counterpoint to the rest—beginners are often pointed towards coarser fibres, and the lonk will make clear why that's the case!
(sidebar: if you have ideas about what i should do with the lonk, please feel free; i think i have about 300g and no specific plans.)
onward! let's talk about each of these individually.
blue and yellow rambouillet: this is commercial top that i dyed. i like rambouillet! it looks pretty ok! this fibre sucks.
green lonk: again, commercial top that i dyed. looks good. is actually good.
blue polwarth: wow, again, commercial top that i dyed. shocker. i love this and it's also actually good.
merino/bond circle: this is top that i processed from raw fleece and hand combed probably five minutes before i took this photo. again, it's good.
rolag: most people on tumblr are making rolags with blending boards and/or drum carders, and those are a very different beast to ones made on hand cards! handcarded ones are fluffy little sausages. i was going to show you this drafted out like i do the others, but honestly, rolags don't really draft like that. if there's a part two of this, i'll spin one to show the difference.
corrie: back to commercially processed top. it's also good.
because i wanted to show the difference between good fibre and bad fibre, i'm not actually spinning these, though i can do that if someone wants. instead, i'm predrafting them so that you can see how good fibre vs bad fibre looks.
i have to stress that this is a little subjective, but...uh, but it's my blog and i can talk about my opinions if i want.
more seriously, i've been spinning for over twenty years, and dyeing for probably ten of them, and i have a pretty good idea of what's reasonable to expect from fibre. that said, two things. first, i rarely predraft things, so what i'm doing in these videos isn't really part of my usual workflow. second, because of the limitations of my little tripod stand and the need for my hands to be in frame, i'm doing this in a very weird direction, so it's a little jerkier and less even than it would be under normal circumstances. i think it still conveys the point, though.
spare yourself the headphones—none of these videos have sound, because my neighbours who i hate are still doing fucking construction and the soundtrack to these is just like. clunking and whirring.
let's start with the corrie, which is pretty easy to find.
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it takes me a minute to get started, but once i do, see how it pulls apart mostly smoothly? (the lack of smoothness in this and several of the other videos is the weird angle that i was talking about earlier.)
look at my wrists and hands. i have ehlers-danlos syndrome, so i'm more likely to use the middle joint of my thumb to pull, but other than potentially the weird thumb position, things are pretty loose. i'm not jerking on the top, my back hand is pretty loose, and all up, things move pretty smoothly.
this is what top should do. if you're having to really yank on it, if you have to dig your fingers into it, etc, it's not great top. it might still be usable, but you definitely shouldn't be using it as a starter fibre.
ok, so let's look at the polwarth, which for the purposes of this post we'll say is indie dyed. close enough.
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as before, the weird angle isn't doing us any favours, but all things considered, this drafts out pretty easily. dyed fibre is almost always at least a little harder to draft than undyed is, but it shouldn't be that much harder.
again, you can look at my hands and fingers. the hand holding most of the fibre is still fairly loose—the thumb on that hand is doing most of the actual holding. it's more work than the undyed commercial stuff, but it's not difficult by any stretch of the imagination.
i also want to point out that i'm not a professional dyer! i'm just some guy who sometimes dyes things in their kitchen. if you're buying from indie dyers, it shouldn't be much harder to draft out than this is. (if you're buying from commercial places—ashford's dyed top, for example—it should draft more or less like the commercial corrie did.)
ok so next up, let's look at the handcombed top.
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this drafts out so easy! handcombed top isn't as dense or as tightly packed as commercial top, plus all the fibres are going in the same direction, so it drafts out really smoothly.
last two. i think it's time to look at...the bad fibre.
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fuckin yikes, hey. the weird thing about this one is that it basically looks ok—right until you get your hands on it. look how tight the hand holding the braid is. look how i'm trying so hard to get a grip on the part that i'm pulling out that my whole thumb flattens out, hoping to get more weight on it. look how my knuckles and my fingernails turn white!
the fibre doesn't want to move, and when it does, it's usually in a big clump that moves very fast, then immediately stops moving again.
fibre shouldn't be like this. this fibre is super compacted, and also a little bit felted. imo, if you buy from a dyer and get fibre like this—not just for the first few centimetres, but all the way through—you shouldn't buy from them again. this fibre is not being buddies.
but can you make it work? i wouldn't recommend it when you're learning to spin, but yeah, you probably can. i've used about half of this braid on various junk projects.
to make this more usable, you can split the braid in two (or more) pieces, unfold it as much as possible, and fluff it out. i've wondered if this would be a good application for steaming roving, but this is the only really compacted piece i have, so i haven't tried it.
it's still probably not going to be a joy to spin, but it can be usable, if you really want it to be. if you have the interest and tools, you might have better luck reprocessing it—i've used some of that braid practicing making rolags, for example, and it's been solidly fine for that, since i'm pulling it all apart anyhow.
if you're learning, though, and your fibre's behaving like this, please put that fibre down and try something else.
finally, let's look at the lonk!
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again, nice loose grip, and despite being dyed, those fibres are totally happy to pull out pretty evenly. it drafts smoothly, and it requires very little effort on my part to do so. which is, i think, the big advantage to using coarser wools as a beginner, even if you don't love the texture of them. it's a lot easier to learn the movements on something that's not actively fighting you, and once you've got the movements down, it's a lot easier to do them on something that resists a little bit more.
i'm not saying you can't (or shouldn't) learn on the ultrafine merino of your heart or whatever, but if you're new to spinning and you're finding it a struggle, it's maybe worth trying some coarser fibres and seeing if that helps.
anyhow, hopefully that's an ok overview of how to tell if your fibre is actually doing what it's meant to do or not. if you think it'd help you to have a video of any of this being drafted while spinning, let me know—it turns out it's pretty easy to throw my phone in the little tripod thing and then clip out the bits that are useful.
#spinning#handspinning#hand spinning#fibre prep#fiber prep#anyhow#i hope this was helpful but lemme know if i was unclear!#smartest raccoon i know
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that time i wrote a fic and someone commented Malnourished character so cute
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on this, my second attempt at diving deeper into the iwtv series i've conclude that armand and bianca need to take a lesson from pandora, who has at least some of it figured out.
#i'm still just picking random chapters and reading until i get bored but in a more armand centric way#anyhow marius! what a guy.#these shizunfuckers have me screwing up my face and begging them to fixate anywhere else. not that it particularly helps armand#or pandora. who is not not a shizunfucker but is at least stepping on his dick and eating his heart a little#please bianca i am begging u to develop at least some small measure of what pandora has going on#ok i will confess when marius is suffering i think he's very funny when he gets within three feet of expressing an opinion about#armand or pandora i want to kill him with fire#with bianca it's just like girl stand up!!!! and then she stood up#good for her#i've given up on armand which is very marius coded of me i suppose#press reads iwtv#anyway i continue to think that keeping armand's age at 17 and letting him and claudia just be insane at each other would have been amazing#and i really hope some adaptation of iwtv addresses the claudia problem in this way it would be so fun
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