#fabric review

[dxppercxdxver]

a kick to the teeth is good for some a kiss with a fist is better than none!

[wyd when your ex-major situationship shows up outside your door drunk and half dead. you beat him up about it of course. you're both women btw]

[pinkblanc]

Loie Fuller shot by Samuel Joshua Beckett, c. 1900

[byanyan]

byan's dyslexic ass screaming crying throwing up any time someone comes in wanting a tattoo that involves words

[hanzajesthanza]

beauclair is THEEEE winter wonderland and though i think cdpr did a beautiful job at creating it during its summer months in blood and wine, i feel a certain kind of loneliness that the summery toussaint is its most popularly imagined version, because the winter motif is the dream motif is the illusion motif is the beauty and love and fairytale…

[autism-corner]

nitro+ duo is here o7

[dragontamer05]

Hnng so like I'm in need of a new purse- current one is like splitting in place and while I could stich it up idk how well it would hold you know- also zipper broke and currently using a keychain for a make shift zipper lol

Currently i have found 2 cute Ita style bags that would make good replacements (I have a lot of pins so would be very good for me)

Problem is not cheap - I understand why they are priced how they are , this isn't me saying I think the people should lower the price of their product. Even if it would be nice if it was a tad more affordable but I get it.

One is on Etsy at a pretty affordable cost tbh (mostly cause they have a sale going which will end in a few hours) with the main issue more being how expensive shipping is, not their fault I know.

Also apparently they also send along random bonus pins with their orders- cause why not- super nice of them to do that

The other comes from equally small business person that does cost more but is just super cute in design. It's an adorable cow design just super cute

I like em both and like a part of me really does want the cute cow one but like cost wise I know the other one is the more affordable option.

Etsy- is about 80$ (CAD) with shipping, where as Cute cow would be over `100$ CAD

Bags in question

( Cow Bag - Pwuffy EtsyPurple Ita Bag- Nancypursesgifts)

Both have good reviews although the etsy bag some people have mentioned it having a bit of an odd smell and lacks inner pockets

In it's favour the purple bag does have more pin space I will say (also random bonus pins is kinda nice n fun. Even if not needed

[newpathwrites]

We interviewed a training program candidate at work today, and it didn’t go very well, unfortunately. But the feedback from my trainee when I asked what she thought of them was the most damning:

‘Applicant okay, not absurd.’

[deflare]

I expect I won't finish another book before the end of 2024, so here's my 2024 Reading Wrapped! I finished 26 books out of 31 I started this year.

Two of the books I started, I still intend to finish, but I got distracted by other things. "On War" was a dense bastard of a book, and I read the parts that I care about (and more). "In These Times" (a book on Britain during the wars of the French Revolution/Napoleon) was good, and hopefully I'll finish it at some point when I have a moment free; I was on a time limit when reading it, so I stopped after I got to the date I cared about.

My favorite fiction book was "Mammoths at the Gates". Nghi Vo's Singing Hills Cycle is generally really good, and Mammoths is one of the strongest in the series. I also liked "Uprooted", "Carrie", and "The Shining" (don't worry about why I had a sudden surge of Stephen King books in August).

My favorite nonfiction book was "Fabric", a history of textiles. The history of the materials it addresses is inherently interesting, but the book is also surprisingly emotional; the author started it just after the death of her parents, and the historical 'narrative' is interwoven (heh) with the story of how she processed those deaths over the subsequent years. Other shoutouts to "The Dawn of Everything" and "Entangled Life", which are both fascinating reads, and "The Reagan Years", which helps lay out just how infuriatingly shitty the Reagan administration was.

My favorite game book was "Fabula Ultima", an RPG dedicated to emulating the feel of a JRPG in tabletop format. The art is charming and I really want to play it at some point.

The next book in my queue is Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Buried Giant", which seems to be a... magical-realist historical fiction Arthuriana set in Britain's dark age? I dunno, I'm interested.

[adamwatchesmovies]

Blood Beat (1983)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

I have the nagging suspicion that Blood Beat writer/director Fabrice-Ange Zaphiratos either has a thing for samurai or just had samurai armor lying around when they started making this film. This is a hodge-podge of a horror movie. Random things happen consistently enough to keep you thinking this might become “so bad it’s good” but not consistently enough to actually make it worth seeing.

During the Christmas season, Cathy (Helen Benton) and her longtime partner Gary (Terry Brown) welcome Cathy’s son Ted (James Fitzgibbons) and daughter Dolly (Dana Day) to their home. Along to visit is Ted’s girlfriend, Sarah (Claudia Peyton). Immediately, Cathy’s psychic senses detect something strange within Sarah. After a hunting trip gone bad, she has a dream about a samurai armor (and matching sword) and soon after, the armor appears, with a mind of its own and a craving for blood.

I can appreciate a supernatural horror film wanting to keep its cards close to its chest but Blood Beat - whose title is as arbitrary as the rest of the film - takes it too far. Cathy’s can read minds and fend off psychic attacks, which makes her a great painter? Are the two supposed to be related? Her family is aware of her visions but if there’s a link between them and Sarah, we’re never told where it came from or what it means. There’s got to be a link. Otherwise, why would the girl who previously showed no supernatural abilities dream about a samurai armor and later find this magic wooden trunk that contains it? Speaking of which, when the samurai finally confronts Cathy, we're shown shots of old black-and-white WWII footage. Does this imply that Cathy is way older than she seems, that she somehow met the samurai during the global conflict? Your guess is as good as mine and keep in mind, I’ve actually sat down and watched the film.

There are many weird decisions throughout Blood Beat (sometimes titled Bloodbeat). Whenever the samurai attacks, Sarah gyrates like she’s having a wild orgasm. At first, I thought it was just some weird quirk but it's established later that there’s some sort of erotic link between it killing and her feeling pleasure. Why? Who knows. Equally perplexing is the film’s tendency to slap special effects onto the screen willy-nilly. A few times throughout, we see things from the samurai’s point of view. Sometimes, it’s normal. Other times, it’s the worst monster vision you’ve ever seen. It’s a wonder the thing can navigate through the woods without bumping into trees, much less sneak up on people and eviscerate them. Whenever we see it from other people’s perspectives, the armor is surrounded by a blue glow - a cheap special effect whose edges you can sometimes see and that consistently makes it near impossible to tell what’s going on. Combined with the bizarre musical choices (many classical pieces play throughout), you’re likely to develop a headache while watching.

The most frustrating thing about Blood Beat is that it should be hilariously bad. The movie is so random it consistently keeps you guessing. The special effects are dreadful and distracting. The jokes practically make themselves. As mesmerizing as this mess becomes, it's never the movie you want it to be. There are simply too many boring scenes, the action takes too long to kick in and when it’s bad, it isn’t bad enough to be memorable. (January 2, 2023)

[jacquiarno]

My plan for 2024 was to read at least one book for each month, which I have completed! 🥳 15 books might not be much for most readers, it is though for someone like me with disabilities and being ill a lot. I’m quite proud of myself. 😊

Top row: Books read in Jan, Feb, March, April, May, and June. Middle row: Extra books read in Feb, March, and April. Bottom row: Books read July, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, and Dec.

I tried my hand at themed backgrounds with each book, some I put more effort into than others. ✨

[tariah23]

Still unfortunate that Fabricant 100 was axed. I’d just found it not too long ago (like two weeks ago or so) and ended up binging it because I found it decent enough to do so. It was never really all that boring to me either like, it kept me interested despite its problems and I still wanted to see more of it. But it’s over now. Well… I can say that there is no shame in having your manga axed after only 30+ chapters (shit happens) and it doesn’t mean that you’ve failed or have never had the chops to keep your manga running in a popular ass weekly magazine like JUMP, either.

I can point out quite a few positives from the manga at least. For one, the art for F100 remained very fairly consistent throughout it’s short run and it was aesthetically pleasing enough for me to linger on many pages that left me saying stuff like “Ohhhhh, sexyyyyy-“ and “so cool, I need more of this!!!” Like, the mangaka’s art style was very appealing to me right off the bat and I really loved the way that they drew faces and eyes especially. I’ve mentioned this before but I can definitely tell that they’re a fan of JJK because of their style. It’s always nice to see other mangaka be influenced by their fellow peers and friends. This is just my personal observation though but you can really see it in their style (just more polished vs JJK’s more rough look.) not to compare the two but yeah.

The story was pleasant enough for me to keep on pushing without feeling like it was a drag. It’s unfortunately axed to the shadow realms, never to see the light of day again, but I’d still recommend it if you’re just looking for something that is extremely easy to digest in a short period of time. There’s a decent amount of violence (typical for what you’d find in most shounen), some heart stings being pulled ever so slightly, again, great art, and a new fav character who you’ll say deserved so much better than what she’d gotten *cough* 100 *cough* 🚬.

On to my grievances with the story itself. Well… after finishing it (I just read the final chapter a couple of hours ago), I can… sadly understand why it had gotten axed.

For one, I feel as though the plot had been a little too fast paced for the kind of story that it was for it to work? The plot could be easily followed but the story didn’t linger on the world or the characters and their lives enough to fill in the blanks, causing readers to probably not care too much for what was even going on outside of admiring the art and looking at how cool 100 was. Tbh…… Would’ve helped with developing the characters a whole lot better if the mangaka had given themselves more time (it’s JUMP so who knows how much stress they had been most likely under while working on this series.) Fast paced stories CAN work! But I feel like you’d have to be an extremely disciplined, and probably seasoned writer, to pull off such a feat: i.e Fujimoto. Not comparing him to others (it’s unfair, sorry) but he’s pretty much on an entirely separate level when it comes to how he progresses his stories and how he chooses to transition them vs his peers. CSM is handled extremely well in that regard. Sometimes, you just need to slow done your plot, the world, and characters that exist within it in order to better understand where you’d like to take it next. ☠️ Because of this, majority of the characters did fall a bit flat because we got to meet them but we never had the chance to know them as characters outside the one or two chapters they might’ve appeared in just to add a bit of action and raise the stakes of the story. The thing is, the few characters that we did meet were actually pretty alright? They weren’t boring at all to me, they just lacked a lot of importance to the story and felt like place holder for the plot’s transition from point A to point B, to point C, onto D, etc like… they all felt like they were just there to advance a scene pretty much. It would’ve been great to learn more about some of them (the siblings and Luka especially. Felt completely wasted tbh.)

The MC, Ashibi Yao, wasn’t the worst shounen MC at all, either. I felt like he’d been limited as a character though. Like, his family were known to have unnaturally long lifespans for them to just be literal humans, and could all heal themselves from most injuries despite being a completely normal family. The reason for his family’s abilities were later explained in the last couple of chapters of the manga but I felt like there could’ve been more to this? Idk, I guess it wasn’t too bad when I really think about it. But I didn’t find him using his “spark,” (enhanced abilities that the body already holds deep inside or whatever. Since his body is not normal, his healing abilities had been greatly enhanced due to him receiving a spark,) all that interesting if I’m being completely honest. Like, him just jumping around and spilling his blood in any old flashy way like that…? Eh. Would I still like to see him doing this once it hits chapter 100? No way, man. His personality wasn’t too bad though. He had some kind of bite to him and didn’t fall to much into the “uwu, soft boy MC,” category like Tanjirou for example (very boring character archetype, especially if that is all that there is to them personally wise like give me something. Deku had fit this category as well for a short while but I remember enjoying his character regardless because of how quirky he was. I just wanted to root for him ^^. I still care about a couple of BNHA characters even tho I don’t care about the series anymore. Making a character too honest can be a turnoff. You have to give them some kind of personality to go along with their pure heart as well because then otherwise, they’d just end up as your run of the mill, shounen MC who doesn’t stick out at all.) Ashibi was honest and had a good heart but he was out for revenge. And never faltered and instead, put his trust into his will to keep going and 100’s power by his side. Idk, his journey had been short but I was happy for him in the end. He got to live and start his life over at the age of 18. He was a decent MC. The mangaka just needed to give him MORE of the things that he’d already possessed is all. And cooler powers!!!

Tbh, the Fabricants weren’t all that interesting at all… except for 100 (and that one Fabricant who had started to regret what he’d done at the end of his life… would’ve been nice to run into all sorts of different Fabricants who’d probably felt differently about their origin? Maybe they didn’t want to become the “ideal human,” (forgot to mention that this was the main conflict of the manga. All of the Fabricants (false human shaped individuals who’d all been created from the corpses of dead people who’d been bombed 🗿…) had been created by a Doctor who built those very bombs (he felt bad afterwards, blah blah blah, and wanted to make amends for his actions by bringing people with the purest hearts back or whatever. But none of his creations had ever proven successful. Upon bringing a Fabricant to life, he’d immediately reject them, causing each and every Fabricant to immediately feel insecure about their right to be alive if they’re weren’t perfect or what the doctor had wanted. They were all born with the mindset of wanting to become the ideal human being. Each Fabricants strength is based off of the order in which they’d been born. The largest number meaning the strongest. The MC just so happens to travel the world with the Strongest of them all. 100. Who had been the final Fabricant created by the Doctor. She’s kind of everything actually. I think her character was just too big for the story and that she would’ve thrived if the circumstances would have been different. She was pretty much the most interesting character out of the whole story and if the manga wouldn’t have gotten axed, if the story would’ve improved enough for it to continue, I could’ve easily seen her becoming a really popular character across social media. It’s too bad. 😔❤️.

I’m done talking tbh. Would like to say more but it’s over, man. I’d still be interested in reading more of what this mangaka has to offer whenever they do decided to work on something new and hopefully, their next work will become pretty successful. Their art is so nice, it would be a shame to see such a promising mangaka disappear after F100’s axing. I believe in them!

[kyukitsune]

Hi everyone so I decided to upload this to inform anyone interested in reading my crossover which I’m very proud of myself because I really thought how if people can do the whole Harry Potter has a different dad why not do a ash Ketchum where his or I. Her case hers is a dragonslayer but not just any but is our very own bass ass king of Dragon Acnologia, it’s a little crazy but I really want to share my story with the whole lot and hope people will enjoy it as much as those who already read it thus far so please come check it out

[persolaise]

Hermes Paddock, Crivelli Tubereuse Astrale, Ffern Spring 2024 and Eau D'Italie reviews - 2024

An Hermes that's taken us by surprise: Paddock, composed by Christine Nagel. Also reviewed: new releases from Crivelli and Ffern.

Despite the (extremely off-putting) technical glitches, I broadcast a few more reviews over on YouTube the other day, including one of an entirely unexpected Hermes exclusive called Paddock, composed by Christine Nagel. Other videos focused on Crivelli Tubereuse Astrale (Quentin Bisch), Ffern Spring 2024 (Elodie Durande) and the entire range from Eau D’Italie. Here are links to all the episodes,…

[robotpussy]

bye why was the man at the fabric shop being extremely racist to me and the 3 other black ppl in there

[ibyul]

This review for muslin lol

[lesless]

I really feel absolutely normal until like the day after socializing a lot & then I begin to reflect & start to think that my friend’s autistic girlfriend might have been right about me being a little autistic lmaoooo