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[ash-creates]

I'm taking an elective course on the development of infants and young children. One of our assignments was to use trash to make an age appropriate toy. I decided to cut up some tshirts for yarn and crochet a stuffed toy.

This is Nasty Lump. He is very heavy and solid and unpleasant to touch. He wants to give me carpal tunnel. I am probably going to give him to a friend when the assignment is done for an adoption fee of $3: I want him out of my sight and I hope the low price affects his self worth. He is stuffed with more fabric scraps, hopefully making him washing machine safe.

I cannot possibly recommend against making and using tshirt yarn vehemently enough. Most unpleasant experience I've ever had with a textile and I will not be touching a crochet hook for a bit.

[silverhallow]

[benophieweek]

Prompts, themes and Arty Ideas for Moodboards and Instagram posts to follow 🥰

[aestheticballpit]

Please consider: Cling and Clang

[unearthedheart]

hugh dancy going for the role of hannibal in hannibal rising was actually just crazy long game to show the way his later character, will graham, would mirror hannibal heart, mind, and soul. in this essay i will

[ash-creates]

Thank you!! I finally managed to take a picture of all (? Missing at least one, I think I've lost it) my pieces together :}

( @ash-creates is my sideblog, I'm off anon to send pictures) this is my most recent piece! I like to make small woven pieces and wear them as bracelets by making a large knot at the end and pulling it through the slipknot. Unfortunately, I can't make them too long if I want to wear them like this.

Ooh, I love a consistent tension! Your weave looks nice and even all the way down. I also love the colors you chose.

I started out making belts. I never really thought to make anything smaller.

This looks lovely, thanks so much for showing me! :)

[zlideart]

Ash

[utilitycaster]

sort of related to the above but Liam saying that the increasing number of perspectives is making Orym even more convinced the best option is not unleashing Predathos is a great point, like, if no one can provide a definitive answer and you know that the current situation is flawed but fixable without unleashing Predathos, then...do that, particularly since the people trying to unleash Predathos are doing the bulk of the murders.

[manderleyfire]

'How many times you been caught with your hand where it doesn't belong?'

PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953), written and directed by Samuel Fuller

[gingermintpepper]

So, one of the most interesting things that's come from my recent exercises in writing the Olympians as young deities is all of the very fun and somewhat painful conversations that come from the young deities acquiring and consequently settling into their domains.

Apollo and Artemis especially have been really fascinating under the microscope. They start off identically, with extremely similar interests and similar domains over the hunt and wilderness. They spend their days under the stars and foraging for fruit and dancing and singing in the fields, two rustic god-children exploring and learning together. Then Apollo goes off on his own to slay Python.

Now, a lot of things change when Apollo kills Python. That is the act which transforms the bow from a tool of survival and sport to an instrument of murder, bloodshed and ultimately war. It is Apollo's first act of wrath which separates him from Artemis - both spiritually because she has not yet shed blood herself as a goddess and physically because it leads to his exile. Most importantly however, the slaying of Python is the act that grants Apollo his knowledge.

If violence is what first separates Apollo from Artemis then it is knowledge which keeps them apart.

This can refer to a lot of things; that Artemis continued to be at home with the wild beasts of the forests and mountains while Apollo grew to prefer the domesticated sheep and cattle, that Artemis continued to avoid mortals while Apollo grew to know their ways and endeavoured to teach them more. The point that has been the most interesting to me however has been Artemis, who remains free of slaughter, and thus remains pure and Apollo, who becomes acutely and entirely too aware of it, and thus must be constantly purified.

Apollo's infatuation with medicine specifically is the place where this becomes most apparent. When he leaves for his exile to travel as a mortal, without nectar or ambrosia, without power, Apollo is without the privileges of the divine for the very first time. He sweats, he smells, he grows weary when he travels, he grows hungry and thirsty. He experiences fatigue and nausea, the fever of sickness, the chill of infection, the delirium of poison. The blood Apollo shed does not only make him impure spiritually, it strips him of the purity of his birth and station. Likewise, medicine is not a divine practice. What use do the unkillable immortals have for something as finicky as medicine when they have nectar and ambrosia? Apollo however, knows of the pains of the flesh and the suffering of the mortal coil. He pursues medicine in all its horrors and difficulties because of the knowledge he gained with blood.

Artemis then, cannot understand the medical Apollo. When her brother returns possessed by this spectre of ill-gained knowledge, she does not recognise him. Who is this boy who scores the deer and studies the shape of their intestines before he cooks them? What good is there in rescuing a chick with a broken wing? The Apollo-of-the-Wild in her memories would have done the correct thing and left the thing for dead - let the forest take what is its due. Who is this Apollo whose hands are always stained to the wrist in the blood and gore of the living? What is his fascination with the mechanics of mortal bodies? Artemis does not know and Apollo does not tell her.

That has, by far, been my favourite effect of the whole Python watershed moment to explore recently.

[nespolkei]

they hate each other so much it's so funny i'm sorry i need you to look at them again

[ash-creates]

Finally finished my first ever embroidery project! Design, supplies, etc are all.. from a dollar store kit.

My only complaints are about the type of fabric and the instructions included. The fabric wasn't bad, per se, but I'm not sure it's suited to a beginner project- the transparency meant I had to keep the back super neat, and the mesh build meant it stretched and warped very easily.

The instructions were worse than useless when making the french knots, although maybe I shouldn't have started with that 😅. I got the hang of it after looking up a separate tutorial that explained how to do the knots correctly.

[silverhallow]

I had to 😂

[gmanweatherreport]

SHE IS JUST 34 send her to th e club

Bonus pic i didnt like how the images stacked on top of eachother looked and got self conscious rhat the formatting was ugly so now its under the cut sorry

[wimbledon2008]

the detective doth protest too much, methinks

[alter-soup]

any alter, literally any alter, you can do whatever. all up to the creator

Name(s): Allie, Jasper, all winter related names

Pronouns: he/him, they/them

Suggested neopronouns: ae/aer, zii/ziir, all animal related neopronouns, all city related neopronouns, all winter related neopronouns

Gender(s): transneutral ftm

Suggested xenogenders: genderfrio, aubrionean, etheangi, darkcitycoric, phoscitial (definition in comments), wiemasc, Winterfrost, aeternix, axenlector

Orientation: “i don’t give a fuck” (unlabeled)

Age: 16

Species: human

Source(s): brainmade

Role(s): chronokinesian

Personality traits/details: bossy, straightforward, gentle. calm at first, but gets extremely energetic when you get to know them. they like to make art (all forms), especially in headspace, and uses it as an a coping mechanism for the system to ‘escape’, he’s mostly pretty chill, and a real cool guy to hangout with

Likes: winter, all forms of art (especially music and drawing), reading, Hollyberry

Dislikes: strong heats, bugs (even butterflies. Lol), being alone in the dark, loud and sudden noises

Sign-off: -🎸❄️

Extra!: has a typing quirk (spaces out punctuation (ex: “hi !”, “you ‘ re weird .”, “are you sure about that , sir ?”)), lead guitarist for a band in headspace

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