#i love to tesselate

[martha-anne]

Bonkers patchwork playmat I made for a friend's new baby. As with all my patchwork so far, this is entirely handmade and constructed from scrap fabric (old clothes, leftover from other projects, etc). It's a variation on this pattern from talesofcloth.

EPP patchworking is one of the most rewarding hobbies I know of. The barrier to entry in terms of cost is very low. Give it a go if you're in need of a relaxing activity!

[elderwisp]

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Atlas: I told you, it was important-

Dan: Important enough to ignore my phone call THREE times. That’s fucking embarrassing! Do I look like a joke to you?? 

Atlas: PFFT imagine being desperate. That IS embarrassing!

Dan: Shut up! Where were you?!

Atlas: Ok come on now, you just told me to not talk. What do you want??

Dan: Answer the question!

Atlas: [ stifled laugh ] I dunno. Where was I?

Dan: Motherfucker!

Atlas: It was a dude this time.

Dan: You’re such a-

Ares: Dan?

Atlas: AH-

Dan: DUDE! Dude. Duuude.

Ares: Dude?

Dan: You guys were amazing! How have I not seen you sooner?

Atlas: World’s worst groupie.

Dan: I’ll push you into the lake. 

Ares: And if he can’t swim?

Atlas: Yeah, what then??

Dan: Then you’re an accomplice to murder.

Ares: Okayy-uh. Let’s not do that. So. You guys wanna join us? We’re gonna get a couple of drinks.

Atlas: Oh my god, you guys are gonna buy me a drink? You shouldn’t have.

Dan: Pretend like he isn’t here.

Ares: I’m sorry, pretend who isn’t here?

Dan: Exactly.

Atlas: HAH!

-

Dan: Icarus, this is Atlas, Frances’s brother.

Icarus: Holy shit, she’s only ever mentioned you once. I was starting to think you weren’t real.

Atlas: Sounds accurate.

Dan: [ mouths ] Don’t.

Icarus: I only meant- Uhm, they were pretty private about their personal life but I see the resemblance. 

Atlas: Cool. So how do you know ‘em?

Icarus: I was their boss and… Uh.

Dan: They kissed. 

Icarus: Holy shit that sounds problematic.

Atlas: Incredibly but who am I to judge? Congrats to you both.

Icarus: We aren’t together. Uh, life got in the way.

Atlas: [ huffs ] You sure it just wasn’t you?

Icarus: What do you mean by that?

Dan: [ whispers ] Come on.

Atlas: There’s always long distance, no? 

Icarus: It’s not that simple.

Atlas: Oh please. You’re overcomplicating it.

Icarus: Am not.

-

Ares: Where are we going?

Dan: Away from all the noise.

-

Atlas: Hm.

Icarus: What are we- What are we doing here?

Atlas: I’m just curious.

Icarus: You mean nosy.

-

Ares: You know it’s closed, right?

Dan: Mhm, and I know you have the keys.

Ares: Smart girl.

-

Atlas: A few simple questions really. Besides, you answered.

Icarus: You asked. 

Atlas: [ snorts ]

Icarus: What?

Atlas: Look. All I’m trying to say Icarus is sometimes we’re the obstacle.

[sparkle-fiend]

“In a certain kingdom, in a certain land, there was a village, surrounded by a forest, and a wide river nearby…”

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From the Steddie Big Bang project 020, Tessellation (by the incredible @maryofdoom).

Six stories about Steve and Eddie, in six very different universes - check it out here!

[cabeswaterdrowned]

the Gansey family + sarchengsey lunch scene is interesting from a Gansey’s-relationship-with-his-family-sucks-so-much-on-god perspective but like. It could be a much better chapter than it is I wish there was jumping around in povs because there are these moments of Gansey noticing in periphery that Blue is Not having a good time there or at least is having some uncomfortable interactions with his parents (including them being like oh what a lovely exotic cadence about her accent which :/. if your reading Blue as a WoC that’s deeply uncomfortable if your just reading her as white it’s still annoying and condescending and classist and you know she hated it) but the focus isn’t really on her it’s on the Gansey-Helen convo which yk I enjoy for some of my last AG crumbs but I don’t like that there’s more emphasis placed on how the family’s responses to Blue effect Gansey rather than how she feels about them. I would have liked the scene in split pov or just a follow up about it in the next Blue pov.

[bakingmoomins]

ok so since apparently everyone sees a different shape in the middle I wanna know

[meezer]

sooooo good

[smile-files]

two quick edits: sierpinski's star of david!

i love doodling sierpinski's triangle, and it just occurred to me that the jewish star, being made of triangles itself, could be created using sierpinski's triangle :)

[minnarr]

a few of my favorite things - I wanted a header update, so I made one with gifs just for fun

[fortunegambled]

my only two ships for luxord are luxvex and xiglux and i'm like... okay, yeah, you like the older men. we get it.

[mothercain]

Circus

What if I broke my spine forever? My sister would come into the room to draw her portraits in charcoal, of two bulging eyes in a sea of haze grey. Each portrait is no bigger than an index card, arranged on a piece of rigid stock paper, tessellated and horribly consistent. All those dead eyes staring out at her as she renders them incapable of telling her anything. “I hate you” she would say to me, every time she would finish another. “You’ve ruined it. You’ve completely ruined it.” She would storm out the room, echoing for complete lack of furniture, and I would be left alone with them to watch over me.

I would ask you to pick me up and you would do so carefully, my limp body soft and complete. Can you carry me, lay me on the mattress in the back of the house? Or on the ground, it doesn’t make a difference to me. Sometimes I think you don’t believe I can’t feel anything and most of the time I don’t believe you can imagine what that’s like.

“Crush me” I tell you. I can only blink my eyes and move my mouth. I could probably wiggle my ears if I tried but I never feel up to it. You would gently press down on my breasts and my rib cage.

“Can you feel that?”

I slowly move my head left to right and back again.

I think about outside and what it feels like to be there. The treetops and the june-bugs and the hatred I feel for summertime. Everyone has gone on without me.

“Hit me.”

You look at me like you don’t want to but I know where your wonder hides, in the small places like a boy afraid of his own shadow.

You punch me in my side, my arm, my stomach.

“Can you feel that?”

I smile so big like I’m at the circus.

“Cut me.”

“What?”

“Cut me.”

You look down at me on the mattress. Here I am, unmoving and so horny.

“Please, baby, if I never ask anything of you ever again, just cut me.”

Wonder-boy takes his buck knife and carves a small canyon on my upper thigh. I wouldn’t know if I hadn’t watched him do it.

“Again.”

He looks me in my eyes as he separates another layer of subcutaneous. It is pink and red and yellow and blue and disgusting. I am butter and cottage cheese inside.

He stands there over me, belt unbuckled, denim undone, sweating, afraid, wonder creeping out for a closer look. His eyes are wild, so far from the fog of mine. Yet, we both want the very same thing. He removes his penis from his clothes and his clothes from his body and he slides it, hard as stone, back and forth through the gushing flesh of my upper thigh. I can’t feel a thing but I could cum just from watching. I have my own wonder too. The air in the room is hung from the ceiling unmoving like a puppet sleeping on his gallows. I am so lucky that he loves me, I am I am I am. He fucks my butchered leg like a stray dog and I cum over and over and over again watching him.

We embrace like kin in the hospital waiting room. “I am so lucky that he loves me” I think as he holds me. Despite the bright red picture I’ve painted in the white lobby tonight, they ask of me just five minutes. I don’t mind. If I don’t look, it makes no difference to me.

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Fic Titles: Song Edition

Part V

Baby you gave me bad ideas - This is the last time, The National

All of your demons will wither away - Demons, Fatboy Slim feat. Macy Gray

His love is my favourite - Kill this love, Blackpink

Three points where two lines meet - Tessellate, alt-J

Kings of imagining things - The long haul, NO

Swallow all our pride - Fairytale gone bad, Sunrise Avenue

Keep your hand in mine - So cold, Breaking Benjamin

Take this veil from off my eyes - Doin' time, Lana del Rey

Unforgiven, I'm a villain - Unforgiven, Le Sserafim

Let me sleep in your arms - In your arms, Stanfour

All of my thoughts of you - Graceless, The National

Stay cool (it's just a kiss) - Talk too much, COIN

There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt - Pyramid Song, Radiohead

I know it's pain (but I really want it so bad) - Want so bad, Lee Know + HAN

We could leave in the morning (and go all night) - They own this town, Flora Cash

You'll be the saddest part of me - The Loneliest, Måneskin

Don't need to say goodbye - The Call, Regina Spektor

When I'm alone, I'd rather be with you - 3005, Childish Gambino

It's just me and your ghost - me & ur ghost, blackbear

Tell ′em all I said hi - I said hi, Amy Shark

We don't gotta be in love - One of your girls, The Weeknd feat. Jennie, Lily-Rose Depp

The distance between you and me (it never seems to disappear) - Maybe if, BIBI

Say what you want (I'll keep it a secret) - One of your girls, Troye Sivan

I'm surrendering tonight - Collide, Rachel Platten

That's what you get when you let your heart win - That's what you get, Paramore

Give me a sign, I want to believe - The Ballad of Mona Lisa, Panic! at the Disco

Just a game that can't be won - Always on the run, Isaak Guderian

Your lips should be saying the same thing - Really, Blackpink

Still, I'm under your control now - Number 1, Nico Santos

Embracing all my scars and imperfections - Comflex, Stray Kids

More titles!

[two-bees-poetry]

welcome!

I'm Alex, my main blog is @alex-bumble-bee. Like it says in my bio, I'm 20, I'm a butch lesbian, and I write poetry- lots of it is in reference to classic literature or mythology. I feel like I'm slowly growing a little community on here, and I couldn't be happier, so please reach out! I love getting asks and I love meeting new people <3

My linktree to find me on other platforms is here!

My Ko-Fi is here, if you'd like to support.

You can find all of my poetry under #mine, all of my asks under #asks, and all of my thoughts and bloggings under #musings.

Under the cut is a sporadically-updated masterlist of my work, sorted in various ways, to help you find what you're looking for :)

forms

contrapuntal poems -> twenty years across the sea, this has to be enough, can i come home?, sister i, sister ii, the guardian and the searcher, my voice is in my sword, so soft it hurts, my brother, my brother

blackout poems (?) -> are you hungry (medea, alone), i have no words for this (macduff, a girl)

villanelles -> village girl's villanelle, elkha's villanelle

sonnets -> i am become

sestinas -> SESTINA FOR A HEALED WOUND

shakespeare

macbeth -> my voice is in my sword, so soft it hurts, i have no words for this (macduff, a girl), i am become, lady macbeth grants you an interview, there are three witches and they are teenage girls

king lear -> can i come home?, stages of a king waging war on his daughters, my brother, my brother

hamlet -> horatio's epilogue

mythology

the odyssey -> twenty years across the sea

antigone -> antigone was right

house of atreus -> a house tour from electra

medea -> this has to be enough, are you hungry? (medea, alone)

poems about

being a lesbian -> boyish girl, once a month, my main character is a teenage lesbian, i have no words for this (macduff, a girl), a sailor and a siren, in moonlight, breathing (hold, hold), SESTINA FOR A HEALED WOUND

other stuff -> middle, what i was looking for, village girl's villanelle, tesselation, war of attrition, motherhood ismene, elkha's villanelle,

[elderwisp]

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One: Congrats! I’m sure it must’ve been beautiful.

?: Absolutely! He planned the whole thing. I was in shock.

Two: Oh my, the ring is gorgeous! 

?: Isn’t it? It fits perfectly!

Jayson: I’ll be right back.

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Kai: I didn’t realize you had a fiance.

Jayson: I’m surprised you don’t have one.

Kai: Why would I?

Jayson: Because it’s what we do. I mean, how did you think things were gonna go?

Kai: I wasn’t expecting much if we’re being honest here. The problem is that it makes me a homewrecker. You think I want that? 

Jayson: No one knows so I don’t see the issue.

Kai: Fuck. You don’t see how wild all of this is? I mean when does the lying stop?!

Jayson: Look, we can move on from this, really. Pretend like none of it happened, do what we have to do to forget. 

Kai: No, no. I’m good. 

Taryn: Kai? Everything alright?

Jayson: [ clears throat ] I should get going.

Kai: You do that.

Kai: Can we get out of here? 

Taryn: Of course.

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Kai: He’s the man I’ve been seeing. The soon to be married man.

Taryn: Shit.

Kai: Yep. There’s no way I’m going back there. Not after today.

Taryn: Then don’t. In fact, you don’t need to go to any if you’d like.

Kai: You think our parents will be mad?

Taryn: Does it matter?

Kai: I dunno.

Taryn: It’s weird, isn’t it? We have a list of rules to follow, break it and you pray it away. An easy solution. 

Kai: And you start to wonder, is it ever really fixed?

Taryn: Never but then again faith is supposed to be all about trust. Hoping that your last confession cleared your name. The devotion is admirable. 

Kai: But really lonesome when there are things you can’t change.

Taryn: I don’t know the depth of what it’s been like all these years for you. To hear a rhetoric that denies your existence every. Single. Day. But I see you Kai and I believe this doesn’t have to be your reality anymore. You’ve got me. Whatever happens, you’ve got me. 

Kai: I, uh- [ pauses ] Thank you. We should both change our realities. I’m tired of being stuck, aren’t you?

Taryn: Y-yeah. I can do that.

Kai: Cool. Let’s go inside, I’m burning up in this sweater.

[gothsuguru]

i will never forget the day i read ihtctaot and was listening to hunger of the pine… knight!reader & mickey will forever be tied to that song for me now anytime i listen to it <3

kairo saying i remind her of hunger of the pine what if i die

[cabeswaterdrowned]

first chapter of my Blue and Adam in a time loop trying to save Gansey in TRK fic is up. It’s part one of two of the first loop am planning for 5 loops 10 chapters alternating povs, this one is Blue pov.

[bakingmoomins]

im curious about tessellations! what makes you like them so much?

hello! i've had this ask sitting here for more than half a year but since i am currently taking a seminar on tessellations i finally feel semi qualified enough to talk about them :D

tessellations are also known as tilings and they're the covering of a plane or surface with the repeating pattern of a specific shape (or multiple shapes) without any gaps or overlaps. like a grid of squares or like in honeycomb which is composed by a bunch of hexagons

there are many types of tessellations and they are usually classified through their types of symmetry. the most basic group of tessellations are called the wallpaper group and they can be simply broken down into regular hexagons (like the ones in the honeycomb), squares, rectangles, equillateral triangles and parallelograms with different types of symmetries depending on things like colors.

for example the four images below (all taken from wikipedia):

regular hexagons, any type of parallelogram (which include squares, rhombi, rectangles, etc), and triangles can always form tilings, which is actually used intuitively in design, like the patterns of fabrics like the dotted pattern below, which can be classified into a symmetry of triangles arranged hexagonally

there are infinite types of tessellations that don't belong to the wallpaper group. a specific type that caused a lot of uproar in the math community recently are called aperiodic tilings (you might have seen me talk about this recently bc I was very excited lol)

aperiodic tilings are types of tilings that can't be classified into any type of grid (above you can see triangle grids, square grids etc) in any part of the tessellation. some really popular ones are penrose tilings

the one below is a penrose tiling of two rhombi (again picture taken from wikipedia)

so the interesting thing of the new aperiodic tiling that was discovered (the hat) is that it is a single tile that is aperiodic and no combination of positions of that shape can create a grid, so it is an obligate aperiodic tiling !!! like, the individual pieces of the penrose tiling above could be rearranged into a grid but the hat can't! and it's the first of its kind (the paper hasn't been peer reviewed yet or anything but still very exciting news)

there are a lot of cool examples of tessellations in art like very well known in Islamic art (that is in the tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah, Agra taken from wikipedia) there's a set of tiles used specifically in islamic geometry called the girih tiles but I don't really know much about them to talk abt them rn

some other well known tessellations are by mc escher (pic taken from this article) and you can see the symmetry behind the patterns

there's so sosos much more about tilings that I could talk about and probably will because I have been absolutely obsessed lately :~D

Here are some links if you're interested in further reading:

Tilings and Patterns, Grünbaum & Shephard (this one is more technical but has a lot of cool examples)

Visions of Symmetry, Schattschneider

The whole wikipedia page of the wallpaper group, has a very technical part but also a lot of visual examples that have helped me understand

The Symmetries of Things, Conway (i dont have a link for this but u can dm me for the pdf)

I also like this video on aperiodic tilings

This is a repository with a bunch of different tilings and it's very fun to look at