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[expobazzar]

Creative Futuristic Home Decor to channelise productivity

Do you find yourself bored and idle? Discover six home decor strategies to boost your productivity and make the most of your day. These suggestions can assist you in finding inspiration and achieving more, whether you're trying out new activities or organising your environment. Prepare to transform your ordinary day into a fruitful adventure!

[verysmallcyborg]

Fornax Val'ethtue

B A S I C S

Name: Fornax Val'ethtue (or Fyrstyrn [fire star] Dotharl, when thinking of the two naming conventions)

Nicknames: They don't have much nicknames, however friends that know Fornax well enough can call them "Lily" (Delmira especially calls them that, this is because of their association with the flower), otherwise only Ryss gets to call her sea puppy or treasure

Age: 37 (by Endwalker)

Nameday: 5th Sun of the 1st Umbral Moon

Race: Sea Wolf Roegadyn + Xaela Au Ra (au roe, if you will. tehe)

Gender: Non-binary Butch (she/they)

Orientation: Lesbian

Profession: Outside of WoL responsibilities... bodyguard and marksman

P H Y S I C A L     A S P E C  T S

Hair: Black with a bunch of grey hairs. If it's short, it's spiky and either has the sides and the lower back of it shaved down, or they have their sideburns. If it's longer, then it's generally messy and uneven with a "wild" look.

Eyes: Black sclera, slit pupils, and vibrant orange. Fornax's eyes only glow because their dad taught them how to apply limbal rings when she was young, but never learned how to accurately do it (or when to stop doing it, until there was a full glow) after his death.

Skin: Dark grey, has a black gradient starting at their forearms and goes all the way to their hands. Has a fair amount of scales, though some are broken and ripped off around scars.

Tattoos/scars: Decorated in scars all over their face and body, but the most notable ones are on their face, neck, and torso. Some of her face scars are from saving a coeurl kit from hunters, and briefly got mauled by its mother when returning it (they understood the protective instinct, but OUCH). The scars across their neck and chest was an incident that put them at deaths door, and then a large scar on their side is from... WELL. Ryss. :) Don't worry about it :)

Very important: their top scars!! Those tits: chopped off. Also the end of their tail (that doesn't have the top layer of thick scales) has a bite scar from the Major-General, no one believes them when they say a tiny shark with tiny legs bit them while fishing.

Fornax has a very subtle trail of faint orange stars on their back for a tattoo!

F A M I L Y

Parents: Unnamed Roegadyn mother & Xaela father. Her mom was a traveling merchant of sorts, while her dad was part of the Dotharl clan. Unfortunately, both were murdered while Fornax was young... :')

Siblings: No siblings

Grandparents: N/A (I don't think that far with family LOL)

In-laws and Other: No idea about in-laws, but for other: their lovely spouse, Ryssrael!!! :)

Pets: Befriends every stray and animal that they cross, but specifically, they have a little black coeurl and a baby amaro that follow them around.

S K I L L S

Abilities: Very skilled with a rifle and axes of any kind (WAR/MCH combo), though they are in their best element when within melee range. Weaponizes their teeth, claws, and tail as often as they can, and wields terrifying, brutal strength that amplifies when angered or under a need to win and/or survive. Best not to piss off a butch who could pull an entire ship with just them and their partner!!

Hobbies: LOVES cooking and all kinds of hands-on crafts, but specifically knitting and crocheting.

T R A I T S

Most Positive Trait: Their unwavering determination

Most Negative Trait: Has a self-destructive habit of fleeing and attempting to isolate themselves when hurt

L I K E S

Colors: Most warm colors, baby blue, black, and purple

Smells: Burning firewood, ocean breezes on the sunrise/sunset, the stinging metallic scent of blood, flowers in a field, freshly cooked food (especially stews and bread)

Textures: The subtle raised skin of old scars, the wool off of freshly sheared karakuls, tree bark, warm hands against their scales, horns, and tail

Drinks: Apple cider, hot chocolate, fruity beverages

O T H E R    D E T A I L S

Smokes: Not really, unless offered

Drinks: Only in good company/socially

Drugs: Recreationally? Maybe, otherwise nah

Mount Issuance: Still has their red chocobo (HEH...) but he spends his days sleeping and chilling in the garden of their yard. Nowadays they use a comically tiny airship.

Been Arrested: Several times by the Maelstrom and Flames, mostly when they were a teenager & young adult because of petty thefts and getting in trouble for some of the jobs they took on to scrape by. Fornax has gotten significantly better at escaping and hiding though, which is kinda funny when you wonder, how does anyone lose a 8ft/244cm tall au roe with a big ole tail?

Tagged by @hazelkjt and @cindernet-explorer!!! thank you <3

UHHHHHH i've seen most folks i follow be tagged already, so i'm pointing at the viewer. Your Turn

[wwdits-kink-meme]

WWDITS KINK MEME

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SUBMIT A KINK MEME

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[pumpkinpot]

BG3 X farmers market booths

farmers market season is upon us and I am an avid faire/con/market goer. I loved the entire side quest in BG3 involving the traveling circus, and it got me thinking.... What kind of booth or show would each of the bg3 companions have?

There is only a few ways I could see the troupe actually agreeing to participate one is they are really low on funds and the other is an investigation. either works for these ideas.

Roland: He mentions that he has a big interest in making magical education more accessible to the masses so I feel that that would be a bit part of his booth. you know those booths at farmers markets that all sell secondhand books on rolling carts? I feel like that's the vibe. He has posters for magical workshops being hosted at Razmith and cozy chairs for people to sit around under and umbrella and read for a while.

Karalach/ Dammon: they decided to put their skills together and forge artisanal cloak pins and other fineries. its really helpful having someone who can heat the metals so quickly so dammon can craft quicker. Its not long that they have to eventually raise their prices because everyone at the faire wants one of their hair pins or spoon rings.

Astarion/ Scratch: He was offered a place in the kissing booth that he immediately turned down. Of course, his alternative idea was a blood drive. cheeky bastard. in the end he settled for animal handler. Believe it or not, once he no longer had to rely on animals as his food source he found he was quite good with them. He got the idea from constantly having to repair scratches ball, so he decided, with some help from Halsin, to make toys that cannot be destroyed no matter how tuff your pet. He also sells bandanas with tracking spells woven into them and treats that let your dog speak for an hour or two. Him and scratch make an adorable team, people commenting consistently on their matching hair and bandanas. He sells the most of anyone at the fair, followed closely by Halsin.

Halsin: Mans forgot that yall are here to make money. He decided make a booth for pollination education. He has a lepidopterarium for people who want to hold butterflies while he tells them the importance of local wildflowers. Everyone that visits the booth gets a seed bomb. when he was told he actually needed to sell something he settled on honey he harvested. He has to ask you what people mean when they say he's of "beekeeping age," and what "forest daddy" means.

Gale: Idk where this came from really, but I feel like he has a candle booth. but enchanted candles. hear me out. "this candle smells like the first warm day of the year, when the sun touches your skin for the first time in months," o, "this candles you can poor on your skin to heal a pulled muscle or burn," or "this candle influences your dreams and takes you where you want to go."

Blurg/Omeluum: Naturally, they have a mushroom booth. But not just mushrooms. Burg took one culinary class and decided he needed to open a food truck, but everything was mushrooms. fried mushroom poppers, mushroom tacos, balsamic mushroom skewers.. Omeluum is just happy to be able to be in public now with its partner.

My Tav (October): The plan to have a spider booth was shot down pretty quickly, so there needed to be a compromise. October decided to have a crochet booth with tons of different projects like blankets, stuffed animals, cowls etc. but they were all made by spiders. Pino was the only one present for the market and a few people wanted to hold her, though most moved along upon hearing the labour practices of Octs products.

Authors Note: I would love to write a second part to this, I just don't have the spoons at this moment. If you have anything else you'd like to see let me know!

Link to Master list (I do not have a gaming masterlist yet. Hopefully more to come!)

[mythosidhesdollhouse]

Fair warning up front this post is going to be a bit of a ramble XD

Soooo where to begin? Poor health has put me in a decided weird mood over the last few weeks, which has extended into my recent doll collecting activities. My continuing boredom/dissatisfaction with the current 1/6th-ish fashion doll landscape has pushed me into considering other types of dolls I normally wouldn't pay much attention to. The doll featured in this post, Littlelistas Baby Lily, is a perfect example. As an adult collector I have a rather fraught relationship with baby dolls, for reasons that could (and likely eventually will) be the subject of an entirely separate post, but suffice to say for the most part I tend ignore or even avoid them.

But THIS one. I came across her while I was poking around the Purpose Toys site in search of info about the new wave of Naturalistas, and when I saw her my heart just melted. I've spoken a bit in the past about being mixed and growing up without any Black dolls, and how the internalized racism that fostered has affected me into adulthood. In a way I can't quite articulate my instant connection with this doll felt like another small step towards healing all that. As a child I know I would have absolutely adored this doll...so I bought her, for my younger self.

(More introspective rambling, and some crafty stuff--)

Once baby Lisa, or as I quickly renamed her, Charlotte (Lottie for short) arrived, I was even more charmed by her than I'd been by her stock photos; and beyond that, I started to get inspired. Almost immediately upon unboxing her I began to have ideas for ways to embellish her (regrettable not removable) outfit. I remembered I have a spool of craft lace in a very similar shade of pink, and by the end of the afternoon I had stitched a row of this to the hem of her skirt. But why stop there? After I finished with the lace I sat down to have a dig through my supply stash, assembled an assortment of complimentary beads, and even turned up a small quantity of ribbon roses to add to the mix.

(I changed out the white seed beads for pink ones I found after I took this photo)

Below you can see the additional progress I've made over the past couple of days. It's slow-going, but honestly hand-stitched beading and applique is a welcome change from crochet, which I must confess I've been growing rather bored with as well. This little side project is a fun variation from my typical crafting outlet. I used to do this sort of thing all the time to embellish my embroidery projects, but since my vision has become increasingly worse with age it's been quite awhile since I made use of my needlework skills. I've missed it.

Not quite sure where I plan to go from here--it's been a bad fatigue day so I'm having a rest while I ponder what I want to add next. In a way it feels like I'm making this doll 'special' as a gift to my inner child, which sounds unbelievably cringe as I write it, and yet is probably the most genuine sentiment I've had in quite some time. The past few years have been a huge learning curve for me as I figure out how to have patience with myself as I get used to navigating life with chronic illness/disability, and maybe giving myself space to do this kind of slow, contemplative, relatively simple project is part of that process as well. Healing the child and the cantankerous middle-aged woman at the same time XD

[armoreddragon]

how did you first get into making this stuff? do you enjoy it?

There's a lot of possible answers here.

For a couple years after college, I worked at a laser engraving and cutting shop. Leather was a material we knew we could cut, but nobody ever asked for it, so I looked up some basic info and put together some masks as demo pieces. Then I got fired for unrelated reasons, but decided to keep going with the masks on my own. A decade later, I’m still going.

I've always enjoyed making things. The focused calm of working a craft, the challenge of finding the problems that need solving, followed by the satisfaction of holding in your hands something that hadn't exited before. It’s hard to beat that feeling. If you haven’t done it for a while, I highly recommend making a habit of it.

Sometime in college I realized that if I kept making things just for myself, I would eventually run out of both space in my closet and money in my bank account. So I took the best photos I could of what I had, and started posting it up on Etsy.

In high school ceramics class, I had an idea to try and make a flexible dragon skin out of little bits of clay, all glazed differently. I had no idea how to do this. A friend of mine was like "Yo it sounds like you want to look up how to make chainmail for that." She was right.

I work in architecture by day, and the decision to do that was unrelated but definitely related to my crafting obsession. Designing a kitchen, a café, a house, takes months or years of work, most of which is tedious details like picking tile patterns or looking up exactly what order to layer different sealant tapes to make sure the walls are watertight. Designing a crafting project gives me a creative outlet that is immediate. I can sit down for an afternoon and take an idea from a sketch on trace paper, to a final mask formed up out of leather. There's an excitement to that. A reminder that, yes, I can make cool stuff quickly, without needing to sink two years into a project.

For a while I worked to teach myself to draw. I managed to get pretty decent at sketching from life, with a moderate understanding of anatomy and perspective. I liked art, so I thought I wanted to make art. But I struggled with it. If I was drawing something from my imagination, no matter how well I managed to put the lines down on the paper, I would ultimately look at it and just be sad that it didn't exist in the real world. So eventually I gave up on the drawing part, and focused on the part I seemed to actually care about.

I can't envision a version of myself that doesn't make things. I think on some fundamental level, I measure my worth as a person based on what I put forth into the world. I don't know what else to do.

When you decide to turn a hobby into a business, it of course takes some of the delight away. It's no longer something you do when you want to relax and have some fun. It becomes an obligation, to make and ship orders on time, to pack up your stuff and bring it to craft fairs, to track your expenses and file your taxes, to stay on top of the constantly changing social media landscape. But it also lights a fire under your ass. You can't just keep making the same thing you made three years ago–you have to keep making new stuff, keep improving your techniques, keep reaching for new ideas that have never been made before. You lose some of the joy, but you gain a lot of satisfaction.

All through my childhood I filled my closet with little handicrafts kits, that I got as gifts or that caught my eye when following my dad to the art store. Calligraphy, wood carving, weaving looms, boondoggles, spirographs, knitting, crochet, fancy nautical knots, sculpey, and more that I can't remember. After all those different things, I’m so glad that I found a couple specific crafts that really grabbed me, that take enough work to develop expertise, that have expansive enough applications and possibilities, that I could devote a decade or more of my time to focusing on them.

I’d been interested in the furry fandom ever since little fantasy reading teenager me tried looking for stories where the dragons were the main characters, and I found people online who were doing just that. There’s a powerful do-it-yourself attitude that’s baked into the core of the fandom: The world isn’t giving us the art that we want, so we’re going to make it ourselves. I keep having ideas for things that I want, that don’t exist yet. If I want them to exist, I have to be the one to make them.

My dad was a photographer, and I spent many childhood afternoons with him in his darkroom in the basement, delightedly washing negatives, turning them gently over in their canisters of chemicals, sitting still in the dark as Dad unspooled the sensitive film, squinting in the red light as the projected images magically re-emerged on the clean white paper. What could be more amazing, more normal, more right, than having your own little space to work such magic for yourself.

In about 2008 or 9 I ordered my first batch of metal scales, with the idea of trying to make a dragon tail in time for Halloween. It took probably a couple weeks to figure out how to make it, and within a week I had thought of how to do it better and disassembled the entire thing. By the 3rd or 4th time I'd rebuilt it, I thought that it was probably good enough that I wouldn't feel embarrassed to post it online and see if someone might want to buy it.

Of course I love working on these things I make. But I don't think that's exactly why I make them.

[sterekposevents]

If you want a low-key Sterek event for fall, here's an open posting event to consider. @sterekposevents is hosting....

Fall in Love with Sterek

Autumn is calling… Fall in Love with Sterek!

This is an ao3 open posting event for fall themed Sterek stories but feel free to also post on Tumblr or Twitter and tag @sterekposevents so we see it and can repost it for you.

Hosted by Sterek Positivity Events (SPE), Fall In Love With Sterek 2023 will officially run from September 23, 2023 to December 21, 2023, though the collection is open for posting now if you write something early and want to include it.

So what are Stiles and Derek up to this fall? Are they just meeting, or have they known each other for a while? Are they coming back to town, or have they been in town for years? Are they pack, or do they barely know one another?

Take us on a journey with Sterek this season with all the fun things to do in fall…and let us fall in love right alongside Stiles and Derek.

Want to write a drabble? A ficlet? A one-shot? Novella? How about a novel-length story? All are welcome!

Ao3 Collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/SPE_FallinLovewithSterek_2023/profile

Here’s a few ideas of things Stiles and Derek could do or experience this fall…

Baking contests Pie eating contests Bobbing for apples Apple picking Candy/Caramel Apples Bake sales Cider tasting Wine tastings/tours Hayrides Corn mazes Halloween/Samhain, All Hallows Eve Thanksgiving Bonfires Sports: Football, Lacrosse, etc Dances Movie nights Fairs or festivals Craft shows Pumpkin Carving Crochet/Knitting Farmer’s Market Harvest Festival Haunted Houses Horror Movies Drive In Movies Jewish Holidays Polish Independence Day (November 11, 2023) Unconventional Handwarmers Hiking Horseback riding Octoberfest Leaf Peeping/Scenic Drives Fireplace Potluck dinners Candles Food bank Chili Cookoff Petting Zoo Murder Mystery Party Tag/Touch football Soups/Cooking/Recipe Sharing Pumpkin Patch Decorating Contest Camping Trip Reading/Library/Book Store Sunflower Field Pumpkin Art Cabin in the Woods Arts & Crafts Projects Acorn Painting/Collecting Leaf Jumping Scavenger Hunt Backyard Games Smores Fall Bucket List Cooking Baking Ghost Tour Escape Room Nature Walk Street Fair Scarecrow Contest Puzzle/Board Game Night Truth or Dare (Fall-Themed)

Questions? send an email to posisterekevents@gmail.com

If you're on the SPE discord server, you've likely already seen us talking about this. Same with the Sterek Writers server. If you aren't on those servers but would like to join, let me know and I'll get you an invite to both!

[samaraxmorgan]

YAP ANON HERE (〜^∇^)〜'

you gave me my own tag 🥹, I'm so honored thank you (⚈∇⚈ )

Ok so this is a kinda short yap but basically I was thinking about us and Sukuna going to a craft fair and stuff cause I imagine us walking around and looking at each stand and what they have and then we notice a stand with crocheted stuff and we see a crocheted guitar plush (I'm projecting I'm working on a guitar plush right now) and we point it out to Sukuna because it kinda looks like his guitar and Sukuna brushes it off and tells us he's going to the bathroom and while he's in there we go over to the stand and buy the guitar plush and a tiger plush because we can and when we meet back up with Sukuna we gift him the plushes and Sukuna's face flushes for a moment before he accepts the gift and tries to act nonchalant (He fails) and then we do some more shopping before leaving or something and on the train ride home Sukuna whispers to you 'Thanks for the gift, sweets' OR some other pet name and we're just a blushing mess kDJHFKJSHFDERIWKHFNIUER

HAVE AN AWESOME DAY/NIGHT AND REMEMBER YOU ARE GREAT \(⚈∇⚈ )/

HI BABE hehe yesss u have ur own special tag now <3

This is SO CUTE STOP ITTTT!!!! Omg and you know for a fact that he’s gonna prop those up in his room and make it look like the tiger is playing guitar!!!!!

When he leaves to go to the bathroom we’re staring down the little plushies debating if we should buy them or if he would think it’s stupid, and we’re like let’s do it!! Worst case he just laughs at me!! So we buy them and are scrambling hiding them behind our back when we see him walking back, telling him “close your eyes” and he’s like “it’s not another fish right” ASKAAKAK

And when we give him the plushies he is SO smitten. He’s trying SO HARD to keep up this uninterested facade, but we can see a smile cracking on his lips and he covers his mouth up with the palm of his hand, pulling his cheeks down so we can’t see the smile in his eyes but he’s CAUGHT!!! There is NO hiding it!!! He makes some little joke about how “now I’ve gotta walk around carrying these things” but he fucking loves it. We offer to carry one for him and he’s almost offended like NO!! These are MINE back off SKAKAKKA

On the train ride home he props the tiger one up to sit on our head and takes a picture (because it’s SOOO funny, that’s DEFINITELY why. Not because it’s cute and he wants a picture of us that’d be SOOOO RIDICULOUS!!)

Omg and I can’t decide what kind of petname he would call us likeee!! I LOVE the idea of him dropping one sooo casually but I’m so torn between sweets, or doll, like AAAA!!!! I need to write a part of us having some kind of inside joke that leads to a petname!! Like us spilling honey on the counter so he calls us honey or something askakkaksm

Imagining him calling us sweets had me sqEALINGG IM KICKING MY FEET GIGGLING RN!!!! He leans over and whispers into our ear in his deep raspy voice and we’re IMMEDIATELY so flustered and a total blushing MESS and he sees it and is soooo smug so proud of himself!!! He’s absolutely gonna give us a hard time about it later hehehehe

Have a wonderful day!!!!! If u have petname suggestions let me knowwww!!!!!!! <3

[stonesparrow]

This dumb idea brought to you by my headcanon that Senku, Taiju, and Yuzuriha had an established reputation at their high school for being a crazy talented (and physically attractive) power trio, which I nicknamed “The Three Stars” in one of my fanfics. And also because I recently saw this Miraculous Ladybug animatic with The Plastics intro song from the Mean Girls musical.

Full song under cut (sans the part where in the original the Plastics invite Cady to sit with them):

NEW STUDENT (Spoken)

Woah, who's at that table over there?

STUDENT A (Spoken)

Shh, keep your voice down, quiet! 

We call those three ‘The Stars’

They're brilliant, bright, and hot

They’re on a level of crazy 

That you’d never have thought!

STUDENT B (Sung)

They might build a castle

Or sound the fire alarm

Like their model volcano

That exploded like a bomb!

STUDENT A (Spoken)

And that volcano was three meters tall

STUDENT B (Spoken)

Ishigami Senku is the ringleader

He’s always dressed up

He always wins the science fair 

We’re just extras in his life that stand in the background

And gasp

SENKU 

Ishigami is the name

I’m not that big of a deal

Love me, hate me

I don’t care a bit 

And the hair? Yeah, it’s real

Popularity’s a sham

Better focus on your grades 

So what if

I sound smart

It’s just the hard work 

You’ll never see me give up and say it’s fine 

My GPA is never lower than

Three point nine 

Ishigami is the name

I’m not that big of a deal

I don't care who you are

Unless you’re useful to me*

STUDENT B (Spoken)

That’s Ogawa Yuzuriha

She can craft anything and everything

STUDENT A (Spoken)

That’s why her headband is so big, it’s full of glue sticks

YUZURIHA

Sewing painting

Stitching knitting

Every waking hour

I spend making arts and craft things

Here’s a crochet flower! 

If Senku-kun is the sun

Then I’m a model globe

Cause I’m just as complicated

If you put on the zoom mode 

I sew at lightning speed so fast 

You cannot hope to see

I’ll give you a commission but I don’t do it all for free

CHORUS

Not for free! 

YUZURIHA

Senku may be a star

But I won’t be behind too far 

As I am chasing my seat on the

Cover of Vivi magazine**

STUDENT B (Spoken)

That is Oki Taiju

The sweetest guy you will ever meet

STUDENT A (Spoken)

I once saw him apologize to a plant he knocked over 

TAIJU

My name is Taiju

My hair is spiky

My muscles are big 

My chest is mighty

Of Senku I think

Supremely highly 

My name is Taiju

I am pretty strong

That's it :)

*He does care. A lot.

**A Japanese women’s fashion magazine.

[hachama]

Husbff and I are working on building inventory for a winter renn faire. For the most part, this means bouncing ideas off each other and then making things individually, and that's fine. He does leather, I do various fiber crafts. But the thing I've been working on today. Oh ho ho, this one is a collaboration. It's a leather-bottomed crochet bag with kumihimo woven drawstring and leather findings. It's too big to be a coin purse, too small to be a tote, and I'm kind of in love with it.

[mappsiemakesthings]

So Maker Faire is coming up, right? And the spinning group is gonna be there. And we need decorations.

And a suggestion was to craft triangles and make a cute bunting/garland thingy. So i took to the grab bag of fiber i had bought for the kids to play with and got this really felted combed top out of it and seperated colours and carded it and then spun some thicc singles on my Nano2:

... and then plied these:

All in one evening! Go me! xD

I'm not a big pink fan, but i love this 💕💕💕

Not sure if that's enough to oslo stitch a triangle, but I can always make some more.

(I can make yarn! and then make something from it! It's so amazing, that whole process! Damn! *happy swearing in awe of humanity's long history of fiber doings and makings*)

Anyway, maybe (maybe!) I can eventually make enough yarn to needlebind, crochet and knit a small triangle (base with 12-13 cm).

Maybe not. I AM having ideas. Spring is putting ideas in my head (and itches in my eyes and nose)..

Not sure if my energy will be able to keep up, so I'll be happy with any idea actually coming to life ^_^

Going by the old Jim Morrisson Motto of "Take it easy, baby, take it as it comes."

[doniaqueta]

Hello, knitters and crocheters of Tumblr

I come to you with an app idea, not to start any sort of crowdfunding, I don't want to start the next Tumblr scam. This is just something I want to do (actually, already started to do because I have bad impulse control) and I want to see if anyone else would be interested in using it. Again, I am asking for $0.00 MXN (that's $0.00 USD), and it would be a free app, no ads, maybe I'll slap a link to my Ko-Fi in it but that's it.

I am not doing this for profit, I'm doing it because it'll be useful for me, because the idea goblin in my head in insatiable, and my hubris is immeasurable.

Details under the cut, and I'll be adding updates as I go at the end of the post

The idea is:

An app to help you keep track of current knitting and crocheting projects, projects (aka patterns) you want to get to, and materials you need for all that stuff.

The WIP section would have tabs for each project you started, because if you're like me, it won't be just one. Each tab would include:

A row counter

Information on the pattern, like its name, some notes, the section you're currently working on (for patterns with different sections where the row count is reset)

A timer for the time you've been working on that project, because you deserve fair pay if you sell your craft so you have to know how long you've worked on it

The patterns section would have, well, patterns. For at least version 1.0, I'm thinking a list of PDFs that are stored in your phone and open in your phone's PDF viewer.

Finally, the materials section would just be a good old fashioned shopping list. You input items manually, you check 'em as you get 'em.

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Update 29/01

I've finished the mockups and the design of the icons I'll be using in the app. I'm going to start moving into coding territory.

Update 06/02

I've started the development and it's going pretty well. I opted for React Native, and while I have experience with React, I was a bit daunted by the idea of going into React Native. But! It's been smooth sailing so far. I've got a sturdy project structure, a functional menu, and an almost functional shopping list.

Update 19/02

I missed last week's update because I was very sick. For most of the first week, after finishing the shopping list, I worked on code organization and documentation. Now that I was sure that I was going to use React Native, I wanted to make sure the project is organized and sturdy. After that, I've been working on the pattern list, which has been a bit of a pain because I want to respect the user's privacy and security and not access the entire filesystem if I don't need to.

Update 27/02

I got frustrated with my troubles with the filesystem, so like any good procrastinator, I put that part aside and started working on other stuff. Apart from tinkering with the style and some background work to improve performance, I've also added support for different languages (currently just English and Spanish because those are the ones I feel confident I won't fuck up the translations, but I'm thinking of later asking for help with more languages), and I've started working on the WIP section.

Update 08/03

I haven't been able to work on it a lot this week because I had a lot of work to do for my actual job (I had to do my job at my job, shocking, I know), but last week I finished building the first functional version of the WIP section. As it is, it's only for one project, but it should be relatively easy to add tabs for multiple projects. I also had the chance to do something like a demo with a potential user, which is just a fancy way of saying I showed what I've done so far to my cousin (a great knitter & crocheter) and she really liked it :D

Update 12/04

Gap in updates because I was a bit overwhelmed by my job so I gave myself a lil vacation on this project. This week I got back to work and now the WIP screen officially supports multiple projects in different tabs. This means the WIP screen is done! Which means I will soon have no choice but to stop procrastinating the pattern list and face my filesystem problems oh no.

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The poll has ended but I'm leaving the results up:

[radioiaci]

@truearchangel ⧐

UNPROMPTED ASKS.

Michael is not the only one who frets over the details of what they cemented as a mutual exchange. For his half, he'd said that he'd write something. Write what, he is not sure, torn between a small story of some sort or an actual poem. One is certainly harder than the other - and more impressive because of it. For days, Alastor wiles away the hours, plinking quietly at his piano for a stroke of inspiration. It is hard to summon it up so easily. It does not always strike at opportune times.

But eventually, he has an idea. Michael seems to enjoy things that are rather on the nose; blatant in their messaging. Going up and around in too much metaphor or allegory may miss the mark. So with that in mind, Alastor settles to scribble out some ideas.

Words are first. Which does he want to use? It is obvious that the angel finds some attachment to his shadow (annoying thing that it is) - ironic for a being that seems to exude light with his very presence. A heavenly creature that has no real rhyme nor reason to spend time with someone as cloaked in darkness as he himself. An interesting dichotomy. It makes for decent writing. But idea after idea is written, re-written, tossed, started from scratch and so-on. He does not notice the time passing between his time spent with the other when he is so fixated on making the thing appealing. Ideal.

Eventually, though it is not anything he knows will hold a place among the greats like Poe or Rossetti, perhaps it is enough to find equivalence in their exchange. And while he knows that his own handwriting it a bit lacking, he takes extra care to re-write the stanzas on a rather nice piece of parchment. He will not be berated for his craftsmanship if he can help it, ensuring that the words are neat, even, pretty actually. And he adds, just as a small touch here or there, little drawings of feathers.

He does not know why.

When Michael finally arrives with gifts in hand, the parchment in Alastor's possession is neatly rolled up and tied with a small ribbon. Though he almost drops it when the angel deposits his gifts into Alastor's arms, drawing his attention downward and to the little crocheted alligator that is bright but holds some small heft. As though it is weighted.

The blanket is a bit... childish... But he cannot deny that it is soft, taking a moment to set the parchment down to properly observe both items in equal measure. To feel them between his claws and rather enjoy how they give gentle squishes in his hands. Reminiscent of the bird which he had stolen from Michael in the weeks prior.

It may be a muted reaction - but Alastor is pleased with them, lightly draping the blanket over the back of the chair which sits at his writing desk and keeping the gator in his possession as he witnesses Michael's gift to the shadow (which prompts a small roll of his eyes). The shadow, however, is much more enthusiastic, its grin wide and ecstatic as it manifests limbs to take the little monochromatic gator plush and begin to carry it around as though it is the best thing since sliced bread. It cannot carry it in its physical form, however, so it pulls it right into the wall with it until the plush gator is nothing more than a shadow as well.

Alastor watches with a small huff of amusement.

"I've not seen that before," he says, watching the shadow spin up and around with relative glee with its new prize in hand. He can sense that it is a feeling shared, but... He simply is not as good at expressing it. A reality which makes him feel inadequate. Just a bit.

But he brushes the feeling aside, keeping his own gator in hand before reaching to take the parchment and offer it over to Michael.

"Fair is fair. I wrote you something."

Why he feels at all anxious about giving anything is anyone's guess. But it is given nonetheless, the words on the paper having been crafted by his own hand. And perhaps it is enough to portray at least some modicum of what he feels about this strange symbiosis that they have established. But he will not explain its meaning. Michael will have to glean that for himself.

The poem reads:

In the stillness of the moon’s gaze, one figure shrouded in shadows, the other a flicker of pale light, their laughter echoing like distant thunder, a haunting melody in the chill of night.

Beneath gnarled branches, they stand apart, the dark one whispering secrets of despair, the light offering warmth, a fragile glow, their bond a tether between hope and fear.

They walk through graves where memories linger, the earth damp with stories of what once was, eyes reflecting the contrast of their worlds, one embracing the void, the other the dawn.

In the heart of darkness, they find balance, the light illuminating the edges of sorrow, where shadows dance, and time loses meaning, their friendship, an eternal embrace of opposing fates.

[suguruslut]

First date

𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘩𝘶𝘴𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘴

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Gwen’s Note: i have way too much fun picking out matching date outfits for these pathetic men

🐉𝒯𝒶𝓉𝓈𝓊🍳

-Tatsu asked you to go on a date with him so politely there was no way you could say anything but yes. he wanted your input on what you guys should do, and it was mutually decided that you would walk through the craft show the neighborhood was putting on

-Tatsu wanted to look cool, but not “yakuza inducing fear” cool, settling on a black jacket and some boots he got during a great sale. to some people walking by as he waited for you, he still looked a little intimidating, but you seemed to match perfectly with him, outfit not too sexy, not too modest, enough to make Tatsu swallow nervously when you approached

-all the nerves and butterflies faded away when you two began stopping by all the craft stands together, Tatsu geeking out over handcrafted bowls, crocheted bird coats and oven mitts of varying sizes and patterns. it was nice, being comfortable enough with you to be himself, his new self that appeared the more time he spent with you

-you had your eyes on a gold and red beaded bracelet, which Tatsu bargained for with the seller for several minutes. in return, you bought him an apron with a cute animated dragon printed on the front; maybe it wasn’t as scary as his other dragon apron, but Tatsu thought maybe that was a good thing

- “Toothless? Who’s that? Some cartoon dragon?”

- silent plans were made to watch How To Train Your Dragon with Tatsu. surely he would love it. second date idea???

-you two stayed close all afternoon, not rushing, not worrying. when people crowded in on you guys, or if some dude got too close, Tatsu would do his “scary face” which was very effective in creating some breathing space; a few times you thought he would at least put an arm around you to lead you away, but he was a true gentleman, and found ways to help you without touch

-when you got hungry Tatsu was quick to suggest his favorite cafe, owned by an “old friend.” even though there was a concerning amount of yakuza members inside, the food was delicious, and you caught Tatsu smiling behind his mug several times

-all in all, your first date with Tatsu went very well: you got a cute bracelet out of it, got to see Tatsu wearing a dragon apron in public, and thanks to the cafe owner, you even got to hear a few embarrassing stories about your date in his past life

- you were sad when the evening came to an end, suggesting that you two do this again soon, which Tatsu seemed pleasantly surprised at. there was definitely more he wanted to experience with you, and told you he looked forward to the next time craft fair

- “I hear there’s gonna be a huge sale on oven mitts! Are you in, Y/N?!”

🐅𝒯𝑜𝓇𝒶𝒿𝒾𝓇𝑜🍰

-oh Tora...he was so nervous asking you, his favorite customer out that he almost passed out from relief when you said yes, anxiety quickly returning when he realized you still had to actually go on the date. how would he ever survive??

-Tora no longer lived a lavish yakuza lifestyle, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t take you someplace nice. he remembered everything you had ever told him while stopping by his crepe truck, like how you loved to dance: luckily, he knew a guy who owed him a favor 

-wanting to be mysterious and cool, Tora didn’t tell you exactly what you were doing, just told you to wear a “saucy” dress. he would later regret this suggestion, because DAMN if you didn’t look hot af compared to his greasy ass

- (he looked very sexy too, with his low cut shirt and shiny shoes, in your humble opinion)

-salsa dancing!!! you were so excited as you two walked up to the dance studio, at which point Tora began to panic again, because he remembered a tiny, probably important detail:

- “Shit...I’ve never danced in my life.”

-once Tora got over how close you two had to be, he tried really hard to keep up with your steps, loosening up a little when he saw how much fun you were having. you thought his blush was cute, though, so sometimes you would dip a little too close, trace over his arms a little too teasingly

-when the teacher commented on your dancing skills as a couple, Tora smirked with pride and pretended like he knew exactly what he was doing. then he almost fell on his ass and got humbled pretty quickly

-after a few hours of dancing, Tora expected you to be exhausted and want to go home right away, but accepted eagerly when you suggested drinks. you laughed and talked about your first salsa class as a couple, making the comment that you wanted to do it again sometime

-the prospect of ‘next time’ kept Tora grinning for the rest of the evening. next time for sure, he wouldn’t be so nervous. probably. at the very least, he wouldn’t fall on his ass again (but maybe he would if it made you laugh)

🐕ℳ𝒶𝓈𝒶🥡

-Masa was surprised that you would even say ‘yes’ to a first date, so he’s already considered this a win. now as for what he’s going to wear...well, he manages to find a white button up that isn’t totally wrinkled, and he asks Tatsu to iron some pants for him

-he had a bunch of ideas for your first date, like laser tag, Pokemon Go!, gaming, watching other people game, etc., which all sounded fun to you, but Tatsu suggested Masa take you to a movie showing at the nearby park

-he was late walking to your house, and you ran into him just as you were leaving. poor boy was already flustered at having overslept his evening nap, and seeing you all cute in your white dress almost made his brain combust. he was so flustered he could barely make conversation all the way to the park

-hoping it would give him something to do (talking usually got him in trouble), Masa bought you guys popcorn, slushies and two bags of candy, all of which was gone by the time you two made it to the front row

-Masa fought an old lady for a spot, but forgot to bring a blanket to sit on, so you ended up having to share a blanket with that same old lady. the og Godzilla was playing, full of action and drama, something you both geeked out to without shame

- “He’s like, so cool and stuff! Did you see when he went pshhhhh, and the water went pwahhhh?! That was awesome!”

-you guys (Masa) got shushed a lot

-Masa wondered if you were having as good a time as him, peeking over at you every few minutes to gauge your reaction. whenever you smiled or laughed, he would sneak a little closer on the blanket until your arms were touching; he wanted to coolly slide an arm around your shoulder, which the grouchy old lady incidentally caused by adjusting her position and nudging you right into Masa

-he was surprised at his success and did not move a muscle for the rest of the movie, even when his arm fell asleep. what was a numb arm compared to you leaning against him? (plus, he was used to having numb arms from all the weird positions he slept in)

-once the movie ended, you wanted to play Pokemon Go! on the walk home, a request Masa was more than happy to oblige--could dates get any better than this? he hoped you would say ‘yes’ next time he asked you out on a date (ofc you would)

- your first date ended with “Pikachu!!! How could you treat me like this?! Why?!” and “Hey Y/N? Could you spot me 100 yen so I can buy more pokeballs? I used all mine on that stupid Ninetails...”

                                                      🐉 🐅 🐕

[genderhexed]

happy to see you around here more these days 🫶what hobbies are keeping you sane these days?

hiii it's nice to see you around too! fun fact i had no idea who you were until the other day when i saw you reblog something from green-and-grey which was a url I DID recognize and then i realized it was you lol. the perils of all our changing icons/urls....

During the light half of the year, I do a lot of rollerblading with a local skate group, and that def really keeps me sane:

I also do a lot of random arts and crafts! I'm currently learning to crochet, I love doing paint by numbers, I love painting rocks, I'm getting back into embroidery and starting to embroider my clothes, one of me has gotten back into writing a lot of poetry, plus as always I also love taking pics of things and people. I've found a joy in just creating for the sake of it without purpose and have been making more art out of random things, like i made a little shadowbox scene by gluing in stones from the beach I collected over a painted backdrop. I also love puzzles and should do them more tbh. I don't do as much music anymore, but I do like to jam with a friend sometimes.

Here's a paint by numbers i did that took a while lol:

Here's the most recent volume of V's journal where we made the front and inside cover into a collage:

and here's some suncatchers I made the other day from beads we got from necklaces at the antique fair!

[bishiglomper]

I am so. Uncomfortable

Mentally I'm okay but physically I do not want to exist. It's too fucking hot. It's supressive

I was outside all day from 9-2 helping man the craft fair table. Didn't sell a single pair of earrings or cozy. My partner sold a little bit but at extremely dropped prices.

Her first sale, a kid wanted a crocheted turtle. With the fluffy yarn. Normal people wouldn't sell it for under $20. Kid asked for it for 5. There was a slightly smaller duplicate but she wanted the bigger one. So she got it for 5.

We only made like 7 bucks after breaking even.

I helped set up. The wind was a nuisance. Stuff kept blowing over. We eventually dd away with the canopy after 3 others got lost and people were literally just holding onto it

I was in the shade most of the time and even when the shade moved away bro brought me a parasol. I still ended up very burnt. I wore a tank top and shorts; I had sun in places I almost never do lol

With 2 hours left I had bro bring me a homemade iced coffee and tylenol. It seriously got me through. I had debilitating stomach cramps and a striking headache the last 20 minutes while we tried to pack up, which I couldn't participate in half the time ugh.

The 5 minute ride home in Bros air conditioned car seriously saved me you have no idea.

My headache finally released. And it gave me a good burst of constitution before I came home to no AC. At least it was windy outside. The windows are open but it's still an oven.

Sissy shoved food in my mouth and i went to bed.

It was so fucking hot.

I almost rejected dinner because it wasn't worth leaving my direct personal fan. Like one of the reasons I slept was to check out from the heat.

I put lotion on and ive been spraying myself with a water bottle every few minutes. But I still feel very close to just crying.

I warned people, crying was entirely going to happen.

It hasn't yet. But. 👀 it's so very close.

But yeah the retaliation of the day is hitting me too. It's so hard to move. I have really bad aura but headache is only a 3.

The heat is gonna do me in I can't stand it. There's no reprieve. I can't move. The house is SO BAD right now there's barely paths.

I think I will cry if someone tries to hand me a warm baby. I absolutely cannot. Literally on the cusp of a meltdown.

The temps will drop to low 70s tomorrow which should keep me from crying but that's still not good enough to function in. Because the house will still be high 70s.