#but anyway my hat is fucking cool

[little-light-bulb]

everyone shut the fuck up i made a cool hat 100% from scratch

spun the yarn and everything!

made using a vintage Singer HK-100 knitting machine from 1985 with a yarn whose fiber contents i don't know how to accurately describe because it's 100% merino (and some angelina blended in) plied with sewing thread

[astronnova]

doodles (as i avoid work) of the super awesome you wouldn't like me alive fic by @ectoplasmranch which i binge read in a 7 hour sitting yesterday

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

god I am NOT ready to deal with colliding "I miss my dad" and "I fucking hate every rich fuck who has direct power over my living conditions and makes them worse for money reasons" hitting on this, the day of my performance review

[dreamsy990]

i drew silly gijinkas of my dogs

the dogs in question

[breadandblankets]

While the Thomas's are still in their at home recovery phase, Elaine takes to keeping the news on so she can keep an eye on Duke while he is on Signal duty.

She doesn't like it of course, she winces at bad hits, remembering her own training as a young woman. But she fears not knowing what happens to her son more than she fears a little worry. He's strong, she knows that, and she trusts him.

She's glad for this one day.

For Duke it had been a long week, a long life if he was being honest. The "what ifs" had kept him up most nights and made whatever sleep he had gotten functionally useless. Not to mention how he helped out Tim with something around 11 and that nearly every fucking meta in Gotham had it out for him today.

A dozen fights in and someone finally knocks him in a way that Duke is wondering how he's going to get up from this one.

His powers are screaming, his body is screaming, hell, he might be screaming. Around the ringing in his ears it doesn't really make much of a difference.

Someone (or something) is coming at him and Fast, Izzy in his ear is telling him Hood's position, she already called for aid ten minutes ago (he loves her so much, has he mentioned that recently?).

A shadowy figure steps in front of him.

At first he thinks it might be Bruce, but then Izzy would have warned him, and Bruce had never looked so oily and smoky before. Duke concludes that maybe this is someone else coming to finish him off.

Great, wonderful, he thinks as his muscles tense to shadow step.

Duke is soon proven delightfully wrong.

The big guy who was, not a second ago, rushing him to squish his tender flesh, is struggling, making nearly animalistic sounds as the oil slick clouds from the shadow guy in front of him shoot out to grab the big guy.

There's a poof, not unlike his own shadow stepping, and then the big guy is fucking gone.

Shadow guy turns to look at him, big glowing purple eyes shine at him through the darkness. Duke is struck dumb for a moment.

"Mom?" he whispers.

The Red Hood steps onto the scene just in time. He wasn't far, less than half a mile away, putting the finishing touches on his taxes for the year. (He may be running a criminal enterprise but let it be know that he does pay his fucking taxes, Tim.)

He rushes over, training a .44 on the remaining non-bat on the field. The smog creature turns to look at him, and pointedly at the gun. Somehow he feels more chastised in a way that nothing B could do or say could ever achieve.

And then it's gone.

Jason jogs over, offering a hand to his (co-worker? co-sufferer of B's shit? 'lil bat bro' [Jason rolls his eyes at internal Dick]) Duke.

Duke grabs it, weakly (ohhhh someone's gonna get Bennchhedddd).

"What the fuck man," Jason can't help but say. "Does the hat-man owe you money?"

Duke laughs, and he looks more alive than he did a second before. (Jason is going to get a good grade in mentor, something both normal to want and possible to achieve.)

They both hear Izzy's audible relief on the line.

"Yeah he fucking does," Duke jokes back.

[churro-on-a-unicycle]

they dont even give him the satisfaction of a full hissatsu animation im about to kill someone

[mashmouths]

my friend gave me both fishing lure earrings and bandaids for my birthday and you'll never guess what i needed after cutting my finger on the back of the sharp as fuck fish hook section of the earring

[wonderinc-sonic]

I have 525,600 projects on right now. But just started a playthrough of p5r (never seen the royal exclusive content) with the boy and now I am desperate to pick back up with a Sonic characters Persona AU. With the shadow selves -> persona gaining methods of 4 and the costume elements of 5. Obviously, because I am predictable.

[coridallasmultipass]

Halloween costume hint:

(The stitch marker and the word that describes this colour-pattern of yarn [or fabric] are 2 more hints.)

[thenamessparkplug]

heyyy any therians out there, I was wondering if I could ask why a lot of yall wear fingerless gloves? I'm genuinely curious if there's a particular reason or if you guys just are cool as shit and have incredible taste in style< 33

[fangomango]

Went to a jazz festival

I got cool stuff but like texas..

Man it has to stop being hot that is not fun

[franeridan]

kidd and killer are such interesting creechers to me... isn't kidd the only captain we know that refers to his first mate with a term that puts him on his same level? they both call each other partner that's such a specific dynamic they have. and then there's that sbs where oda was like they've been partners since they were kids and have always done everything together so of course when they liked the same girl they both went on a date with her at the same time, like. hell yeah but also does oda understand what kind of relationship he's given them

[agenderarkham]

Killing myself me and my buddy went and got tattoos today and their mom came with us which would have been fine if it wasn’t an hour and 45 minutes after I’m supposed to be in bed and the fact that we’re still like a half hour away from my house and she’s making us sit in the long ass in and out drive through line bc it’s 845 and next to an airport on the Friday night before a holiday weekend

[akascow]

damn apperantly i lucid dream almost every night because i had some frequent nightmares as a lil kid and learned how to get out of them and so now it just comes naturally to me (thats all just a common theory tho bc almost nothing about dreams are solid ofc)

anyway fun fact when i had nightmares as a kid i would lucid pray "pls god let me open my eyes" n then wake up AHAHA (i was raised christian)

i dont believe in him but isnt that A Thing to visualize HAHAHA just me running from goofy the disney mascot, closing my eyes and praying to god?? HA ! like dorothy at the end of Wizard of Oz LMAO like theres no place like home or wtvr

[sixsixships]

Mattpatt is playing studio investigrave games its so fucking over

[angelacostumery]

i'm so glad you guys like this costume! it is one of my favorites. but I put my absurd pumpkin pants on one leg at a time just like everyone else.

...literally

anyway, here are some construction/project notes/wip photos in case you don't have 50 minutes to spare for the full video about making it!

inspo wise, The First Book of Fashion: The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg [this is an affiliate link] served as the major influence for this. the book is basically documentation of what this man and his son wore to major events in his life over a period of decades. he was getting ootd painted before it was cool.

the base pattern for the pantlegs came from another pair of ridiculous pants I made a few months earlier.

the paned portion is made from homemade piping sewn to strips of jacquard that are backed with twill tape to prevent fraying.

I made so much fucking piping for this oh my god. each of these strips was 20"+ long, both sides have piping, and these are the panes for ONE LEG. there were also sleeves. we're talking like 60+ yards of piping.

perhaps unsurprisingly, these strips were too thick to gather. so instead I had to overlap them to create the shaping over the leg. it looks OK but isn't ideal.

after this was done, velvet ribbon was sewn over the marked point to hold them in place.

oh! I also sewed a layer of mesh over the orange base fabric to dull it somewhat and provide contrast before sewing on the bands.

the upper portion of the pants was made from even strips of velvet and jacquard seamed together and fitted over a cotton base. the appliques were added to cover the fact the stripes meet at an angle at the side seam, and I sewed on orange sequins because I like sequins.

the happiness I felt when this fit was immense, I must say.

the bodice is two pieces, one for the front, one for the back. it laces up the sides with hand sewn eyelets. it wasn't very flattering as just an expanse of orange of the chest, so I added appliques to the front and back, too.

the black detailing around the top edge is made from varying widths of velvet ribbon.

the sleeves have similar elements of everything shown above--a paned upper portion, velvet ribbon trim, and a bit of lace at the cuffs.

unlike most of my projects the sleeves have no lining forcing the shaping, what you see beneath/between the panes is the chemise worn beneath this. it's made from the mesh used as an overlay on the pants with a jacquard/velvet ribbon collar which you can see peaking out above the neckline of the bodice.

oh! and then there is the pumpkin hat! there is a video on patreon about making this somewhere, I think.

and it's just that easy to live out your renaissance pumpkin prince/ess dreams!