#bobbin the bunny

[skelekins]

buns below cut

Bobbin Spindle's Light Grey Flemish Giant Doe

[Cascadia Rabbits - 1st image light grey doe - v fluffy - v good n big Gentle Giant Rabbitry - 2nd Image - I like the doe's large dewlap / general size in comparison to person Happy Tails Flemish Giant - 3rd image of Moxy. 20lbs of rabbit.]

and

Thimb(le) or Spool [still deciding the name] Spindle's Blue Otter Netherland Dwarf Doe

[Peach Buns Rabbitry - Blue Otter Doe Simple Loved Bunnies - "Precious" dat face dat stance; blue otter doe Show Quality Netherland Dwarf Breeders Facebook Group - Blue Otter Buck [But has a hand for size comparison] Bobbin is about 20lbs of rabbit; Thimb is about 2lbs of rabbit. Bobbin is v careful with her tiny wife. Thimb is not careful with her lorge wife. ┐(´v｀)┌

edit: i did not purposefully shorten that to Thimb but y'know what. guess thats her nickname. Also helps solidify Thimble as the name b/c Thimb won't get mixed up with Spindle for me. ;3 ;3 ;3 story? Spindle found Bobbin at some point, I'm thinking in the city or maybe just outside when he was taking a little vacation. I imagine Bobbin was abandoned around an Easter-like holiday. He took her in but then read about rabbits being social creatures so he started looking into local places that he could go to for rabbit speed-dates for finding a compatible rabbit.

This was uncomfortable for Spindle because that meant going around humans more than he was used to; but his friend (who's basement he rents out for his home) goes with him to help relax his nerves.

It takes a few tries until Bobbin meets Thimb who ignores Bobbin completely at first but at least doesn't start a fight. The encounter was relatively tame but Spindle was encouraged by the attendant that it had gone very well [eating together, mirroring, generally being okay with each other].

Bun wives hit it off once at home [though Spindle still followed the guidance he was given and took introduction n stuff slow].

buns

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[bomberqueen17]

Loftus Bralette MK2 Go!

So the thing about the bralette pattern was that it was fiddly. There are a few seams where the seam allowance is one millimeter. That's hard to do. I am capable of that but have not the habit of the necessary carefulness. And I know a lot of the fit issues of the muslin-- which I did shorten the straps of, and put on to check the fit, and again then did not want to remove, so while it is not perfect it is currently the best bra I have (I have some decent RTW ones but forgot them at the farm so my need is dire right now). Anyway a lot of the fit issues of that could stem from careless sewing, so. I immediately cut out a second one with no alterations, just being MEGA SUPER ULTRA careful to cut EXACTLY on the lines.

I used a kit I bought from Porcelynne when I bought all the other materials. I'd meant to make a couple practice ones but then, you know, the kit wasn't that expensive and I might as well just. Do it!

It's black heavy-duty powermesh, black nylon cup lining, and pretty red lace, with black picot elastic and other findings, and then the 2" wide band elastic is metallic silver. Which is so cute and I wish I'd been able to buy just lengths of that elastic, but I wasn't able to find any on the site.

Anyway, the pattern is fiddly but not that challenging, and like 90% of the battle is remembering which way each thing goes. So I figure, if I make another one immediately I've a high chance of the best possible outcome. So here's some of that progress. Well, mostly I'm going to talk about equipment and setup.

I cut out all the materials while on a Zoom call with friends-- someone I know started hosting weekly Zooms to "meet up" with friends and work on crafts sometime during the pandemic I think, and I joined in somewhere in that time. That person has since become my sister's roommate so sometimes I go over there and participate in person, LOL. Anyway I set up my computer at the kitchen counter, got out my little cutting mat and rotary cutter, and just spent two full hours very carefully cutting out pieces and this time I labeled them with the tape before I even cut them out.

The red lace won't take a mark from anything but a Sharpie, which won't wash out, so I wasn't able to mark notches. So I just carefully stacked every copy of the pieces on top of the paper pattern piece, and put them into a baggie that way. I was so so so so careful to get the fabric cut right on the cutting lines, because the sewing lines are marked but I can't transfer those marks, and I discovered sewing the muslin that I can't sew on a line like that anyway (and often it was on the wrong side of the fabric for me to see.)

I'm home alone for two or three days, so I've taken over the living areas of the house to work in. This involved setting up a spare sewing machine on the absolutely-not-for-sewing desk that Dude uses to wfh, temporarily. I had forgotten I owned this machine, and it is a more modern one than the ten-stitch mechanical Kenmore that's my primary axe these days. This one is a Singer 6235 from the 80s, one of the most sophisticated mechanical ones they made before computerized machines were introduced; it's not high in resale value because some of the gears are nylon, but this particular individual one has clearly not been used much. It has wildly nonstandard bobbins, but I got a baggie of like twelve of them with it.

[image description: a Singer 6235 sewing machine, made of beige plastic and beige-enameled metal with black control panels, sits on a wooden desktop. In the background is a framed photo of a pink Easter bunny and a girl in a blue shirt, this is me and Dude from 2007. He rented that costume and wore it to a roller derby bout and got his ass grabbed SO much by many many people who absolutely did not suss that he was a dude in there. But the fluffy tail, he says, protected him.]

And when I opened the top, I found every single accessory lovingly stored there, including the package of needles it came with, still all in their package. So.

[Image description: looking down into the top of the sewing machine, which is molded plastic and has a number of esoteric plastic and metal items carefully stowed within custom-shaped cradles, with a letter key on top which is useless without a manual to decode it but good news I found a PDF copy of the manual on Al Gore's Blessed Internet so all is well.]

The single accessory I'm most excited about, however, is the reason I'm telling you all about all of this, which is otherwise not particularly relevant-- you can sew this bra on any machine that can do a zig-zag, and most of it is constructed with straight stitch because it is almost entirely non-stretch, you just need the zig-zags for the elastic attachments. It is:

A SEAM GUIDE. Which i cannot BELIEVE is no longer standard with sewing machines. It's in the above photo at top right, a metal thing with a knob in the middle. It screws into a hole in the machine bed and then you position it to hold your fabric as you sew, to make sure you do not stray over too far.

[Image description: a view through the sewing machine's active area, showing the presser foot down, the needle in some sheer black fabric, and the little metal item in question screwed into place with the metal arm of it pushed all the way over, actually touching the presser foot, holding the fabric at a 1/4" seam allowance.]

Indispensible. Though, I should have switched presser feet, because when the seam guide touches the edge of this presser foot it's actually slightly over 1/4". Just a fraction, so I've let it be because at least it's consistent and it's better than i was doing in the previous version.

so. This machine is needlessly complicated but works pretty darn well so I'm going to keep using it at least until dude gets back from his work trip on friday night.

I'm a bunch of the way through assembling the second bralette, but I think I'll talk about that in its own post, this has descended into sewing machine wittering. Suffice to say, knowing what i'm doing and what to expect means I'm doing a lot better. I'm also doing all the fiddly shit like pressing seams, and let me tell you, ironing synthetics is pointless LOL, so I'm just topstitching everything. I stopped for the day because the bobbin ran out, it was 9pm, and I looked it up and the way you wind the bobbin on this machine is by keeping the whole thing threaded including the needle and just winding it inside the bobbin case, which is So wild I definitely did not want to attempt it at 9pm after a long day. So, tomorrow I will actually talk about sewing this bralette.

But, I did have one more thing to show off-- I actually have purchased an after-market, universally-compatible seam guide that can just magnet itself to the throat plate of any machine, and was fully intending to use it on this project.

[img description: my hand holding a little metal gizmo with some arcane writing on the front; it's a square with a solid longer piece coming off the top, angled down on both sides.] This one came from Madam Sew or something, and comes with a plastic ruler with holes in it, and the idea is you put the ruler down, put your needle down so it goes through the hole marked at the distance you want, put your presser foot down to hold it, and then snap this magnetic guide at the edge of the plastic, and then it's foolproof. The thing is it doesn't work great at 1/4" either because again, that's where the presser foot is. So. I can't find the plastic ruler currently either because I am a disaster. But if your machine doesn't have a seam guide you can buy one of these and then you have a seam guide. I recommend it 100%; learning to sew a straight line is one thing, learning to follow a seam allowance is another, and you can improve your sewing immensely by taking the easy approach to it. You have to remove the guide for things like topstitching or other fiddly things, but for the vast majority of seams, including curved ones, this works a treat, makes it so you basically don't have to think, and just-- well, as long as your cutting-out was precise, you're guaranteed to get an accurate fit if you just use this kind of dealie to be precise about seam allowances.

The free version is that you get a piece of masking tape, put it down on your throat plate, and mark in Sharpie exactly where your seam should go, a big thick bold line as long as you can get it. That helps a ton too. Cashmerette's knit patterns all have 3/8" SAs, which aren't a standard marking on throat plates, and their wovens are all 1/2" instead of 5/8", so that's *also* not a standard marking, so I have long ago put the masking tape on but sometimes I also just use the seam guide because then I don't have to keep paying attention.

[catluniscia]

Bobbin The Rabbit

The character is created by fae_jinni It's a cute bunny with a knife...they just really got into a jar of jam that's all nothing evil

[blogofmach]

*ASKS FOR SOMETHING TO LISTEM TO THEN IGNORES THE BUNNY ABDJDNDK*

I'm Bobbins..

*SHES SO WEIRD MY BELOVED PRINCESS MGACH*

She pats the bunny’s shoulder, nodding once more for what seems like the hundredth time. Mach’s face was morphed into an awkward smile, leaning back onto her hammer.

“ Yeah, nice to meet you, Bobbins. You can call me Mach, anyway do you have any money? I need more people to buy my things. . Sorry, haven’t seen anyone in a while. ”

[pinkplasticprincess]

OC Masterlist

Which of my OCs are open for asks? Well, all of them, but I have dozens, so here's a list to help you get started

OCs for my original projects/particular fandoms

Roblox: Pressure:

-Mina Milne

Dead by Daylight:

-Lanie Jensen

Dungeon Meshi:

-Tallulah

Black Clover:

-Chantilly Ringuette/Naomi Silva

Black Desert:

-Rima Kimura

-Himemiko Kimura

-Ririko Kimura

Inuyasha:

-Yuki

-Emiko

-Ayano

-Inuala

-Aoi

-Nahime

Outcode/Misc OCs:

-Madevery Arlington Poe

-Yevenvy

-Dr. T/Laurel Lavigne

-Raizel Blacklust

-Udella Scarberry

As The Bobbin Dwindles:

-Lucille Bobbin

-Agatha Bobbin

-Babs Bobbin

-Douglas Bobbin

-Samara Thimble

-Rori Bobbin

-Lorraine Bobbin

-Eleanor Bobbin

-Howard Stagger

-Rochelle Bobbin

-Tonya Bobbin

-Edmund Bobbin

-Ivy Bobbin

-Cordelia Bobbin

-Resi Thibodeaux-Landry

Black Butler:

-Aurora Newcomb

-Reagan Mulligan

-Ophelia Adderstone

-Célestine

Undertale:

-Reverie

-Chevalier

-Chiffon

-Averell

-Lysander

-Lucida

-Sarina

-Kaiju

-Jura

-Ramona

-Sirius

Mario:

-Francesca

-Fae

-Forest

-Francis

Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss:

-Dinah

Invader Zim:

-Lily (Lillian Lane)

-Xue

-Yano

-Zoe

-Lou

-Ranmao

-Poni Lane

-Zora Lane

-Jun

Toontown:

-Joisy

Wizard101:

-Jasmine Soulblood

-Llewella Anvilblood

-Tatiana Seahammer

-Morgan Moonvault

-Suri Titanshield

-Tarlac Bluecrafter

-Catherine Silverglade

-Devin Crowheart

Sonic:

-Buttermilk

-Areal

Pokemon:

-Lady Staryu

-Andrea

-Aucilla Lunsford

Rosario+Vampire:

-Kiyoko

-Naoki

-Latte

-Katsumi

-Yuriko

-Megumi

Monster High:

-Kiki Paws

-Jessie DeVille

My Hero Academia:

-Prospect

-Hailey Baudelaire

Avatar The Last Airbender:

-Tomiko

My Little Pony:

-Hopeful Heart

-Dawnstorm

-Bigshot

-Lemon Blitz

-Ghostie

-Haiku

-Tsunami Wave

-Mercury Retrograde

Fairy Tail:

-Fern Deerknight

-Peridot Calderon

Happy Tree Friends:

-Fiona

-Fuchsia

-Fido

-Tuesdae

Witchblade:

Fuyumi

Soul Eater:

-Olive

ANIKA:

-Anika

The Truth in The Witches:

-Rosabella Crivello

-Gwendolyn Crivello

-Phoebe Crivello

-Esmee Crivello

Five Nights at Freddy's:

-Stella

-Kitty

-Sango Hitachiin

-Tinker

-Chie Hitachiin

-Primary Bunny

-Usagi Hitachiin

-Len Hitachiin

-M.O.M.

-Mephisto Matoi

Amateur Surgeon:

-Catamina Throbbing

Chateaux Lumineux:

-Castle

-Martini Belkin

-Unity Pallavicino

Left 4 Dead:

-Savannah Townsend

-Emerson Butler

-Juan Hernandez

-Hiro Nakajima

Blood Bride:

-Effie Pangilinan

A Blue Shine:

-Abi Blue

Carnival Crusher:

-Ringo Gauntlith

-Bubbles Burleson

-Clyve

Vampire Knight:

-Kaori Amano

Trauma Center:

-Hera Preston/Anastasia Adrastos

-Castalia Preston/Tali Adrastos/Lia Preston-Zane

-Abioud Adrastos

-Antigone Adrastos

-Yvonne Zane

-EVE--X*

-Aphrodite Preston

-Eros Preston

-Amphitrite Preston

-Poseidon Preston

-Hades Preston

-Isaac Zane

-Yasmine Yelps

-Antigone Adrastos

-Aimee Dubois

-Luther Swanson

-Angelica Babineaux

-Shortstop

-Reggie Swanson

-Sue Ellen Vanderblite

-Apollo Campelle

-Eris Preston

-Athena Preston

-Persephone Preston

-Erida Preston

-Ares Swanson

-Thaleia Preston (Tessa)

-Leucothea Preston (Lucy)

-Natalie Jontel

-Paxton Sears

-Kelly Sears

-Eve Evalyn

-Benedict T. Evalyn

-Kameko Kyriaki

-Donnie and Debbie Deftera

-Teresa Triti

-Toxica Tetarti

-Powell Pempti

-Simon Savato

-Little Monster

-Sting McCreary

-Kimmy Circuit

-Tracy Stiles

-Betty Niguel

-Akinyi Tulba

-Lilac Fyals

-Amanda Cherrystone

-Eia Greensfield

-Sage Enomoto

-Coco Enomoto

-Violetta Enomoto

-Julietta Enomoto

-Katrina Enomoto

-Sierra Enomoto

-Destiny Enomoto

-Daisy Enomoto

-Charise Enomoto

-Dustin Enomoto

-Augustine Enomoto

-Kendall Freebird

-Marina Crest

-Opal Crest

-Alison

-Margaret

-Chelsea Enomoto

[fabbyf1]

omfg your list of sad songs is a MOOD! thank you for putting so much detail into that for us. i cant wait to cry to these.

what about HAPPY songs???????

bless me, mother

LMFAOOOOO it's the "bless me, mother" for me.

Bestie!!! You know I have a playlist for this too!!!! This one is appropriately titled: "Don't [unalive] yourself" because sometimes you just need to pick yourself up off the floor and VIBE.

Spotify links and reasons under the cut!

Let's start this one off strong with a BANGER:

Year 3000 by Jonas Brothers. LMFAOOOOO. I really don't need to explain this one at all, do I, besties? WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE, RIGHT? I could literally go to war with this song as my soundtrack.

Hotel Room Service by Pitbull. MR 305!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pitbull is 90% of my personality, and I won't be taking any further questions. You can't possibly be in a bad mood while listening to this BANGER.

Levitating by Dua Lipa. I've mentioned this fun fact a few times, so it's pretty well-known. But in my fic Vapor, when Max was bobbin' his head and vibing out to a song in the club, it was this one. We love Dua Lipa in this house.

Layla by DJ Robin, Schürze. GOD. This is a fucking BANGER. If you don't speak German, please be advised that the lyrics are very much NSWF 😂😂😂 do yourself a favor and look them up before you go around blasting it. (But don't let that stop you from blasting it. It deserves to be played at an 11.) I first heard this song on a crowded train from Munich to Vienna and was losing my fucking shit. I desperately tried translating it for my best friend, but I was laughing and vibing too hard.

The Next Episode by Dr. Dre feat Snoop Dogg. Look. It's a classic. It will always get me out of my head.

I'm Not Okay (I Promise) by My Chemical Romance. It was never a phase, mom!!!!!!!!!!!!! This song is just? So fucking good? It's one of my go-to songs when I pick up my dusty guitar. I do a pretty sick cover of it if I do say so myself. When I was home for Christmas, I got my 8yo niece listening to it. You're welcome, bro!

C'mon, C'mon by One Direction. In my last post, I said I could make the entire thing about 5SOS... well, this post could literally just be 1D's discography for me. 1D is filled with so many happy memories for me. Particularly this song.

Tití Me Preguntó by Bad Bunny. FUUUUUCKK MEEEEE ALLL THE WAYYYY UPPPPP DADDYYYYYY BENITOOOOOO.

The Pheonix by Fall Out Boy. Another song I could just.... go to war to. It's so fucking good. It makes me feel like I can take on the world.

Someone needs to stop me, I could send you songs that get me hyped all day long.

[bevanne46]

Cleaning your bobbin case!

[stregafiore]

The gang’s all here

[phoenixkaptain]

Yes I’ve been reading the 1960s Teen Titans yes I love all of them but especially Aqualad (poor Aqualad) yes I actually do like how Wonder Girl sees anyone she thinks is attractive and immediately starts flirting but is also the powerhouse and heavy hitter of the group yes I love Robin being called “Robin Bobbin” yes I love him saying “quick like a bunny” multiple times (Aqualad: “Quick like a bunnyfish! …I don’t think bunnyfish are real.”) yes Kid Flash is adorable but I just

Their little sweaters!!! So cute!!! I died reading this one, good God, the way they all wear these sweaters for as long as they possibly can!! Robin either a.) pulled it on over his cape and had to untuck his cape and fix his collar and everything or b.) put his cape on over the sweater. I honestly can’t imagine either one being less cute than the other, why are they so cute???

[inexplicifics]

WIP game! gosh, there are so many interesting ones! okay, let's go with "strong enough to be silent"

This one is fighting me badly, but it's again the AW AU server's fault, and if I can ever get the bunny to cooperate, it will be the story of Ursula, who ends up the favorite prostitute of the School of the Bear.

*

Ursula wanted to be a lacemaker when she was young. She used to sit on a tree branch, peering in the window of the merchant’s house, and watch Mistress Francine with her dozens of bobbins and pins, making beauty out of plain white thread, for hours upon hours. Eventually, Mistress Francine spotted her, of course - Ursula has never been small, even as a child, and was not good at sneaking - but to her surprise, instead of tanning her hide and sending her back to her parents with a sore back and a good scolding, Mistress Francine called her in, dirty feet and all, and made her wash her hands with harsh lye soap, and sat her down and taught her.

Mistress Francine wouldn’t have done that if she had a daughter of her own, of course. But her only living child was a son, and so she poured all her skill and knowledge onto an undeserving peasant’s daughter, and Ursula soaked it up like water after a drought.

If she had had even another year, she thinks Mistress Francine would have bought her from her parents and taken her as an apprentice.

But the flux came through, and Ursula’s father died, and so did Mistress Francine, and that was the end of dreaming about being a lacemaker.

[pitsipupu]

Bunny lace

[thetextilealchemist]

It has been a productive-ish week, friends! I sewed a dress on Monday (and a mockup for a pair of breeches, which did not go nearly as well, because sometimes we make poor decisions and things Fail Dramatically), then hung out with Actual Alchemist friend and dyed said dress and a bunch of fleece on Tuesday. Wednesday was antiquing to search for a sorry-your-wedding-got-pandemic-delayed present, and the acquisition of delightful silverplate wine goblets with satyrs as well as the cutest little locket pin that needed Something Special inside. Thursday I taught my trouble kitten to not hate the leash and charm the neighbours (I would say I made friends, but really it was all Hermia), and turned a scrap of Running River bobbin lace into an over-engineered tiara, which I think needs some sort of beads. Friday I got thought the invite for my nephew’s baby shower was a month early, so I made a bunny toy while watching more Umbrella Academy. Then today I embroidered tiny (6mm wide) peach and eggplant emojis in silk to go inside my classy vintage pin, because I am a classy person.

Also, I listened to Tallahassee again, and I think it might be my second-favourite Mountain Goats album. Someday I ought to do something Mountain Goats-themed, though I have no idea what that would even look like.

[onthevirgeofdestruction]

@noodle---doodle This is so soft I want more of this family please💙❤️

@squigglle This is amazing!  All we need is overprotective big brother virgil

@radioactivehelena (for the original prompt)

Words: 1,363 Triggers: Bullying, Food, Needles Characters: Patton, Virgil, Logan Universe: Kid!Patton & Teen!Virgil Adopted by Logince Genre: SOFT AF with a hint of hurt/comfort

AO3 Link

took my brain a few days to stew, but I finally got it. Thanks for the nice notes!

   “Virgil!” Patton cried and ran into his older brother’s legs as soon as he got home, clenching his fits into Virgil’s jeans and wailing. Virgil held up his hands for a moment, not knowing what to do. He looked around desperately but saw Patton’s pitiful little shakes as he cried and knew hew had to fix it. He carefully pried Patton off his pants and leaned down to hold his shoulders. Patton was hunched in on himself and rubbed his nose on his sleeve while he kept bawling.

  “Pat, what’s wrong?” Virgil asked, thrown between panic and concerned with the inexplicable desire to punch whoever made Patton cry.

  “I took Mrs. Bunnyface to school because there was a mean person who kept making fun of my glasses. So I wann’ed something to hug. But when I opened my backpack on the bus, somebody saw her. And they made fun of her an' me, and they tried to take her! But I woul’n’t leggo and they tore off her ear!” Patton sobbed again. Virgil briefly considered how much trouble he’d get in for punching a seven-year-old before pulling Patton in for a hug. Patton wrapped his arms around Virgil’s neck and whined, continuing to sob heavily. Virgil rubbed Patton’s back while he worked through the tears.

  “Is Mrs. Bunnyface and her ear still in your backpack?” Virgil asked gently after Patton cried himself out a little more.

  “Y-yeah,” Patton sniffled miserably and backed up to rub his nose on his sleeve again. Virgil picked up Patton and carried him into his bedroom, setting Patton down on his bed. Virgil grabbed the tissue box off of his desk and passed it over to Patton, who took a small wad and blew his nose. Virgil helped Patton out of his backpack and unzipped as he set in on the bed. When Virgil pulled the bunny with the missing ear out Patton made the most miserable noise Virgil had ever heard in his life.

  “It’s okay, Patty, we can fix her,” Virgil offered sweetly, digging around in Patton’s bag for the loose ear.

  “We can?” Patton sniffled, balling up his fists tightly on the end of his shirt and looking hopefully to Virgil.

  “We can. She just needs some TLC. It won’t hurt her a bit,” Virgil nodded, finally finding the strip of fabric and grasping it to pull it out. Virgil inspected the end, and the fabric wasn’t too frayed. The ear would just be a little shorter on one side. “Why don’t you give her a hug and tell her she’ll be okay while I go get my supplies,” Virgil handed the doll over to Patton, who took the doll and squeezed her desperately.

  “It’s gonna be okay Mrs. Bunnyface,” Patton muttered and Virgil rubbed Patton’s shoulder for a second to get up and dig in his closet for his sewing kit. He hadn’t needed it in a while. Virgil eventually found it in a shoebox of loose stuff and returned to sit on the bed next to Patton. Virgil picked up the detached ear and carefully tucked in the frayed part of the fabric and slid a pin out of the kit to pin it flat.

  “Can I have Mrs. Bunnyface back?” Virgil asked softly as he pulled a small tan threaded bobbin to match her ear color as close as possible. Patton kissed the doll’s nose before nodding and handing it back. Virgil held the doll between his legs and threaded the needle quickly before pulling his legs up on the bed to hold her closer to him. He carefully slid the needle right at the fold of the fabric on the ear and ladder stitched the ear back on to the doll’s head, at the seam of the low-pile fur, as closely matching the other side as he could. Patton flinched and swallowed the first time he saw the needle go into her head, but Virgil gave him as reassuring a smile as he could possibly muster and he seemed to accept it.

  “Is she okay?” Patton asked meekly. Virgil shifted his knees against each other to make the doll nod its head, and Patton looked enamored, making a tiny happy squeak. He still had the tear streaks down his face, but he finally didn’t look so miserable.

  “Do you want to see something cool?” Virgil asked temptingly.

  “Mm-hm,” Patton nodded, looking a little concerned. Virgil pulled the needle through the last part on the head and tugged at the thread gently, and it pulled the rabbit’s ear on to its head stitch by stitch. Patton’s eye’s widened, and his mouth dropped. “Are you a wizard?” He asked in awe.

  “Shh, don’t tell anyone,” Virgil put his finger up to his lips and whispered quietly. Patton nodded brightly and grabbed the edge of the bed and kicked his legs, miming zipping up his lips. Virgil tied off the knot and put a small dab of superglue on the spot before cutting off the thread and passing her back to Patton. Patton’s eyes glittered and reached out for her tentatively. “You’ll have to be careful with her ear from now on, okay?” Virgil said and put his hand on Patton’s back while he happily squeezed his doll again.

  “’Kay!” Patton chirped, looking at the base of the ear with wonder.

  “How about we go to the kitchen and we split an apple? I bet you’re hungry after all those emotions,” Virgil offered softly as he put the supplied back in his kit and closed it up. Patton nodded and hopped off Virgil’s bed, not taking his eyes off the doll as he headed back out the bedroom door.

  “Can we have it with peanut butter?” Patton asked, looking up to Virgil who was now following behind him down the hall to the kitchen.

  “Yeah. I’ll even put raisins and cinnamon in the peanut butter,” Virgil smiled down to Patton, and he grinned and ran to the kitchen. Virgil chuckled and followed after Patton.

—

  Patton was passed out in his jammies on the couch after dinner, holding Mrs. Bunnyface tightly under a soft knitted throw while a cartoon played on the TV. Logan put down his tablet and was about to get up to carry Patton off to bed, but Virgil put his arm on Logan’s shoulder to stop him from getting up.

  “What’s wrong, Virgil?” Logan asked quietly. Virgil got up to pick up Patton instead, carefully draping him against his chest and heading off to Patton’s bedroom to tuck him in. Virgil laid him down in bed, making sure not to lay the doll’s floppy ears under Patton as he held on tight, even in his sleep. He turned on the white noise machine and the nightlight before closing up and heading back out into the living room.

  “You wanted to tuck him in?” Logan asked curiously.

  “He had a tough day,” Virgil nodded and sat back down next to Logan, taking the remote and ending the kid’s cartoon and switching it to a show he wanted to watch. Logan hummed and nodded, turning his attention back to his tablet. Virgil settled on Avatar and looked to Logan for a moment. “Hey, dad?”

  “Yes, Virgil?” Logan looked up from his tablet to Virgil.

  “Can I get a ride into school tomorrow from you or papa?” Virgil asked carefully, shifting slightly back from Logan. 

  “Do you need to go early?” Logan asked curiously.

  “I need to go a little late, actually,” Virgil said sheepishly, raising his shoulders to brace himself.

  “Why on earth would you need to go to school late?” Logan furrowed his eyebrows. Virgil flinched slightly back from Logan's upset expression. 

  “Not after the bell!” Virgil added quickly and held up his hands. “I just need to have a word with someone at Patton’s bus stop tomorrow morning,” Virgil explained airily.

  “Should I be concerned?” Logan said, raising his eyebrow, his expression changing quickly from bothered to inquisitive. 

  “Nah,” Virgil waved his hand dismissively. “I’ve got this,” Virgil smirked and leaned back against the couch. Logan stared at Virgil impassively for a moment longer before returning to his tablet. 

[ericacrochets]

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[simpsonsnight]

Episode #558

WHAT THIS?

Simpsorama Season 26 - Episode 6 | November 9, 2014 I remember watching this but it’s wild how little I remembered from the actual episode. Okay, so Springfield buries a time capsule that, thanks to the radioactive waste in the ground, mutates into a lotta mutant bunny creatures that apparently hatch 1000 years later. Turns out Bart’s genetic material got in there from him cumming into the capsule (they show it and everything) and so the Futurama boys travel back in time to kill him. There’s a lotta flawed time travel logic which they kinda revel in for jokes, and they call back to the dead dog episode which is rude. There’s some decent jokes in this, and I remember thinking it was fun to watch, and it was an alright time watching it again, didn’t blow my socks off or nothing. The thing you gotta explain to canon-obsessed, mostly-autistic children nowadays is that TV shows used to get away with just doing wildly incongruous episodes where the unspoken thing is that they aren’t canon. You’re supposed to just say “oh this is an experimental one” and not think about it too hard in terms of the series’ overall continuity. In a way every episode of The Simpsons is basically like this, but this one rubs it in your face. That’s what Principal and the Pauper was also supposed to be, which still to this day kinda baffles me; did people actually get mad about that episode in the late 90s, when this practice was still pretty common? Or, did it become more of a in-retrospect thing? Why isn’t Sharry Bobbins considered as big of a betrayal as Principal and the Pauper? Why, oh why can’t we just be happy that these millionaire television writers are having fun?

THE B-SODE:

Night of the Hurricane Multi-series Crossover Event | October 2, 2011 This was a crossover event that aired on Fox in 2011 between all the Seth MacFarlane series. They include: 1. The Cleveland Show: “The Hurricane!” 2. Family Guy: “Seahorse Seashell Party” 3. American Dad: “Hurricane!” I remember watching it at the time. It was meant to harken back to 90s stunts where all the episodes of different TV shows airing as part of a line-up would either cross-over into each other for the sake of an ongoing story-thread or they’d all have a similar story theme. I think there was a night on NBC where New York experienced a blackout and all their NYC-set shows experienced presumably the same black out. I remember Fresh Prince and Blossom both did episodes where characters got to go to the Playboy Mansion for some reason. I think CBS did a thing where a catburglar had a stolen bag of jewels and was on the lamb and the story developed over multiple episodes. Salem the Cat ran around in every episode of TGIF one night. Uh, other stuff. Cleveland’s episode was all about Rollo bragging about being an atheist. Family Guys was about Meg snapping and screaming at her family for being terrible to her. American Dad’s was American Dad. American Dad was where the actual characters crossed-over, with Peter and Cleveland showing up on American Dad’s lawn for some reason, in an easily-cut-outable scene for syndication purposes. That’s the thing about these events, the cross-over aspect is usually toned down in the syndication edit, or sometimes completely non-existent, edited out as to not confuse viewers watching the episode out of context of it’s original airing. Anyway, this was okay, and aside from the last scene in American Dad all these episodes work fine on their own, if you can call Cleveland Show “fine”.

[sinmenon]

Okay, a quick review for Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles. It has some interesting concepts and potentially cool lore hidden underneath and very underused.

There is this town called Bobbintoff that is already very interesting: it is a city of tailors and the such, with huge threads and bobbins in general, and during fall it looks like that the citizens become cursed to turn into monsters, which is pretty cool but never explored

the NPCs never have a lot of depth. There is this one quest with branching options and you can only pick one of three possibilities, but there is any ramifications

 Actually pretty much any and all human NPC can be recruited to work in your farms when their main quest is resolved and you never see them again unless you dismiss them. They don’t have multiple quests or any interesting thread going on, which undermines pretty much any interesting story the developers had for them

spoilers for the ending: it turns out the player character is the lost princess/prince of the Old Kingdom. The kingdom supposed to be lost to time, where the Murk (this game’s version of miasma) started and corrupted the entire island. It appears that the powers of the tower thingie (the Cloud Catcher) was used inappropriately to heal the newborn so they would live, and this misuse caused the Murk. So, overnight the entire kingdom was covered in miasma and abandoned but we never got any explanation of why things are like that to begin with, like that weird spirit that talks to the protagonist, what really is the Cloud Catcher, why the hell so much knowledge was lost when the Old Kingdom disappeared if it was not that long ago? Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but it was a little underwhelming. 

Now, onto the farming part: You have multiple farms, in which you have to do a small quest to unlock them. Sometimes you need to clean up the musk or bring the materials, simple as that. Using the crafting system you either build planters for crops or trees, or you sheds and other items necessary to raise the animals.

After getting the seeds (either by buying them or having a machine to turn the berries or the other products into seeds) you only need to plant once and it will give you stuff every few days.  The only thing of notice is that a certain type of animal (the “bunny” kind) likes the herbs, everything else you grow for money. There is no currency in this game, only trading, so you’ll always be carrying a bunch of potatoes or one of the two berries to trade for goods.I personally ended up with far more berries than I knew what to do with them

The trees on your farm also produce wood. Otherwise, you’ll have to go into the wild and chop trees down. However, unlike Portia the trees don’t respawn. Once you cut a tree down, you need to replant it. Or don’t. Or have another type of tree instead. Each tree planted contributes to a counter that improves the ‘health’ of the area you are in. Fodder (tall grass) and rocks regenerate, tho.

If you want animals on your farm (because of course you do) you need to build a shelter (which is appropriate to each animal’s side) and one fodder and one water trough. After that, you just wander into the world and find the animal you want, then you find out what they like eating (example: a grass fox enjoys eating fodder) and offer it to the creature, who is going to follow you for a while until you reach your farm, in which you are going to “adopt” it. Each animal produces something, for example, the aforementioned grass fox produces clay, which is useful for crafting. The groffle (basically a cow, it is the one in the screenshot) enjoys Celium Seed (the only one that won’t grow crops) and produces Groffle Milk that can be used for craft or for money.  Some of my favorite-looking animals are the Fluff Cub, which is basically a dog-bear like Naga from LoK, and the Sprig-pig, which is a pig that is also a flower brush (and produces all kinds of flowers).

And the crafting…It has some complications that I dislike. There are some things that make absolutely no sense you can’t produce. In the game, you most likely need to master every job, so why a Master Carpenter can’t produce a plank? No, you need to cross wherever you are and go to a certain localization and exchange 10 woods for planks, or buy at random traders. You are always needing clay pots for the Brewer crafts, which is complementary to the Tailor crafts and the such, but you also need to trade clay in another spot of the map or find random traders with clay in stock. It can be a chore do the crafting – and you’ll be needing a lot of planks to be able to have the animals as you can buy the animal pens, but you have to build the troughs. At least it is a little mitigated once you get the Constructor’s craft and you can build it out of stones.

This game is pretty much a huge fetch quest, with interesting concepts that could be more developed. The idea of having multiple farms is interesting, and a lot of care was put in the crafting system. But, tbh, Portia is the better game.