#i adjusted it a tiny bit

[salamispots]

gift/commission for a relative, 15"x20"

[elderwisp]

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Kai: DND? Of course you would play DND! 

Alex: Are you shaming me?

Kai: No… Maybe just a bit. 

Alex: I SHOULD THROW YOU FOR THAT! 

Kai: Are you gonna use a little spell?

Alex: Oh my god, COME HERE- 

Taryn: Erm Kai… And boy?

Kai: Hello, sister. 

Alex: Ah, the infamous Taryn. 

Taryn: What have you told this man? Why does he sound so menacing? 

Alex: Nothing bad, I swear. Well, nothing I’m sure he didn’t deserve. 

Kai: HEY! 

Alex: Listen, after that comment about DND, you’re on THIN ICE. I’m Alex by the way.

Taryn: What’s wrong with DND? I thought you’re into stuff like that. What’s it called with the little guys? Warmallet?

Both: Warhammer.

Taryn: AH yes, that. Aren’t they similar?

Kai: Not even close.

Alex: They’re both table tops-

Kai: Shh!

Taryn: Aren’t y’all supposed to be brothers in arms?

Alex: Exactly! Thank you. Kai just likes to start drama apparently.

Alex: I think you shouldn’t be so harsh on DND. Give it a shot.

Kai: Can I dress up?

Alex: You’re such a little shit.

Taryn: Well I don’t mean to interrupt the couple’s-

Kai: We aren’t dating.

Taryn: Oh! Oops. Anyways, uh, help me with the groceries? 

Alex: Need my help?

Taryn: It's okay! You sit tight.

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[ thunder rumbles ]

Kai: I know what you’re doing.

Taryn: I dunno what you’re talking about.

Kai: He’s a friend.

Taryn: A close friend. Why haven’t you told me about him?

Kai: Because!

Taryn: [ giggles ] Alright.

Kai: What?!

Taryn: You look happy. 

Kai: And now I’m stressed!

Taryn: I think the word you’re looking for is flustered.

Kai: Don’t correct my grammar!

Taryn: Sorry.

-

Alex: You’re a writer, Taryn? I swear I didn’t look through it! I just saw a title and your name.

Taryn: Oh, it’s garbage. I meant to throw it away.

Kai: Don’t put yourself down now. Self-confidence isn’t really Taryn’s forte-

Taryn: KAI!

Alex: A scoundrel that one.

Taryn: It isn’t that I hate myself-

Kai: I totally didn’t say that but ok.

Taryn: I don’t wanna make a big deal out of it. It’s been rejected by every publisher in the area so it’s trash.

Alex: Not everyone.

Taryn: It has, I swear.

Alex: Can I have a copy of your book?

Taryn: Why?

Alex: I think I can help you out with this. My dad owns a publishing company. Uhm, he started it up after his books did really well. He loves unknown writers. That’s like his thing. It’ll be fine. Trust me.

-

Kai: That was really nice of you by the way.

Alex: Of course. Your sister’s really sweet. I hope this is good for her.

Kai: Me too. Do you have any siblings?

Alex: One, a sister. Much older but we’re close.

Kai: Cool. You sure you don’t want me to drive you home?

Alex: Positive. You should rest and enjoy the weather. 

Kai: It could start raining on your way back, what if something were to happen-

Alex: I’ll text you when I get home. See you around?

Kai: Mhm.

[saphstories]

Imagine an AU where the abuse and neglect Timmy suffers from his parents and Vicky gets so bad that Cosmo and Wanda are like "you know what he's ours now" and steal him away to Fairy World to raise and love him themselves

BUT the only way they can keep Timmy is if he renounces his humanness and agrees to become a fairy but the process takes like 1000 years bc that's how long it takes for fairy kids to grow up

And now enter Timmy learning to control his fairy magic and becoming like a tiny child again because fairy children are TEENY and good parents Cosmo and Wanda

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Taking a snooze.

[bruhstation]

updated casa tidmouth designs as of june 2023!!! yahooo!!! (claws the wall and rips out the drying paint pieces)

individual characters below the cut:

[luinquesse]

why u so pretty!?!?!?

[kiruamon]

More of the critters

Me: I will probably not use those designs again. Also me one day later: *draws more of them*

They are back again. Leaving the bucket with blackberries outside unattended was a mistake. Next to it sat a little thief helping himself to the already picked berries instead of eating the ripe ones from the bramble itself.

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The darker one of the two creatures had cautiously sniffed the cap you had left outside while holding it in his tiny claw-like fingers. Inspecting it from every possible angle before slowly pulling it over his head.

_

A try to approach one of them was met with hissing. The fur of the creature with the dark fur pattern bristled up in an attempt to make itself look bigger and scarier than it really was. Still you took a few steps back to give the little guy some space.

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The yellow one, you could find sometimes taking a sunbath on stones in the garden. His long body all stretched out as he was resting in a comfortable position and soaking in the warm, gentle beams of sunshine.

[horreurscopes]

hello horreurscopesheads commissions are still closed for the foreseeable future but i have one (1) emergency slot for a sketch or simple color commission, minimum $60. send me an ask if interested!

[artsywitchling]

You okay?

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizon forbidden west | flight 21/?

[sunnibits]

thinking about how young dimitri was when he was traumatized and throwing up (<< I am the one who decided his age and what pain to inflict)

[sheliesshattered]

My last post about the progress on my Batuu vest left off with me contemplating exterior pockets, looking to Bix Caleen as an example of a fitted vest in the Star Wars universe. I ended up talking myself out of any visible exterior pockets, with or without flaps, after looking at all those pictures of Bix. I've got enough other bits of visual interest going on with my outfit that I felt like exterior pockets just cluttered up the look.

Once I had decided against adding additional pockets, I was able to move on to the next step: finishing all the edges and attaching the lining to the exterior in preparation for getting the zipper in place. I turned under the armscyes of the lining and the exterior separately, both using a blue lace hem tape that I originally bought to go with this fabric back in 2016. Eventually I'll top-stitch them together with the hem tape sandwiched invisibly between the exterior and the lining, but for now they're finished enough to allow me to try the vest on without fraying the armscyes.

It took me awhile to think through all the steps for attaching the zipper, with all the asymmetry and overlapping and exterior and lining, while also not wanting the zipper to show from the outside at all. Eventually I figured out that I would need the underlap (left front) to be completely sewn together with the edges finished before I could attach the zipper to that side -- but I would need the overlap (right front) to not be sewn together yet, so that I could attach the zipper just to the lining.

With that finally figured out, I put the lining and the exterior together with right/finished sides together, lined up all the seams and notches carefully, then pinned the edges together from the left (underlap side) shoulder, down the center front of the underlap, and around the lower edge of the vest all the way around to the bottom corner of the center front on the overlapping right side of the vest.

After a lot of ironing to get all of that to lay flat when right side out, I was able to trim the center front edge of the overlap to be nice and clean and straight again. When I drafted the center front panels, I modified that right side to have an additional ~2" of width past where I wanted the zipper to be, specifically so there would be a built-in flap to cover over the zipper. Remember: no visible zippers in Star Wars!

Once I had the overlap panels of both the lining and the exterior all trued up, I marked the center front line on the lining side (in the below pic, the angled line going from lower left to upper right), laid half of the separating zipper onto the fabric so that the teeth were lined up with where the center front line met the lower edge of the vest, then measured from the outside edge of the zipper ribbon to the cut edge of the overlap panel. It was just about 7cm away from that edge, so I measured that distance all the way up (past the dashed line that marked the underbust elevation) and drew a nice crisp line with my chalk pen.

That gave me an easy line to follow when sewing the zipper to the inside/lining of the overlapping flap. Since I hadn't sewn the edge of that panel together yet, I was able to move the exterior layer out of the way and sew the zipper only to the lining, for now. I sewed one line of stitching just slightly in from the outside edge of the zipper ribbon, then did a second pass about halfway between the edge and the zipper teeth. It's on there nice and secure, but has a bit of room to separate from the fabric while it's being zipped, so it doesn't get fiddly.

After that, it was just a matter of pinning the other side of the zipper to the lower front corner of the underlap (this time on the exterior side of the fabric, where it faces the lining of the overlap), then try it on with the rest of my Batuu Bounding outfit and pin the underlap side of the zipper until I had the fit I wanted.

I sewed down that side to match the overlap panel side of the zipper, then tried everything on again to double-check the fit. It was a bit weird with the exterior of the overlap flap still unattached, but it fit well enough that I decided to sew the edges of that overlap flap from the lower corner up to the shoulder seam. The back of the neckline is still open, and the armscyes have been turned under but not attached to each other yet, so I can turn the whole thing right side out by pulling it through the back of the neck. With all that ironed and the zipper zipped up, the vest looks like this currently:

Folding back the outer edge of the overlap reveals the zipper. Because of all the overlapping and underlapping, the zipper is just top-stitched in place. It was way more mind-bending to figure out where everything needed to be placed to get this look, but way easier to actually sew on than, say, an invisible zipper set into a seam.

At this point I was able to try on the vest (with my Jyn Erso sweatshirt) and get a pretty good idea of the overall look. I still want to do a bunch of top-stitching both for accent and to help everything lay flat, but even with that I think I'm going to need something to keep the flap over the zipper from coming open.

I looked at a bunch of options for Star Wars-y looking buckles, settled on one I liked the best, then cut the basic size of them out of paper and taped five of them to the outside of the overlap just to get a basic idea of how it would look. I got Jack to weigh in on it too, and we both felt that the buckles were reducing the sleekness of the vest, and weirdly pushing it more towards an Imperial/First Order sort of look. My character isn't an out-and-out rebel, but she doesn't side with the First Order either. I pulled the taped on paper off again, and both Jack and I felt that that was the significantly better look.

But since I knew I still wanted some sort of closures to keep the flap down -- including one at the top left shoulder, that will hang open most of the time, along the lines of Han Solo's and Cassian Andor's shirts (and a bunch of others, this sort of overlap detail shows up frequently all throughout the franchise) and thus be visible where it hangs open.

I ended up finding these slightly unusual looking hooks-and-eyes that I think will provide a nice, nearly invisible look through the torso of the vest, but not look totally out of place on the flap edge that's hanging open. Bix's fitted coat has a similar closure of just barely visible, just slightly odd hooks and eyes, so I feel like I'm in good company there. They should arrive tomorrow, giving me enough time to hopefully get some of the top-stitching done before then.

That top-stitching is the next step, and one of the last things I need to do for this vest project. I want to top-stitch just inside all the finished edges, including the armscyes, and on each side of each of the seams, probably 2-3mm away from the edge and the seamline. That's going to involve getting everything lined up correctly and all the seam allowances lying flat inside the space between the exterior and the lining, but I think the effect will be totally worth it, both for the smoother fit and the subtle visual interest.

After that, I'll have some handsewing to do to invisibly anchor the zipper to the exterior of the overlap panel and to attach the hooks and eyes, once they arrive. The very last thing I'll do on this project is decide if I want a little stand-up half collar that ends somewhere on top of the shoulder, a bit like the one on Jyn Erso's vest.

I'm pretty sure I want a collar like that, the question is just if I need to lower the neckline in the back first, and then how far forward on the shoulder I should bring the collar. Once I've decided on that, I'll cut it out in two layers, lining and exterior, and sew the outside edges together. Then I'll be able to sew the lower edge of the exterior to the back of the neckline, and hand-sew the lining lower edge to fully encase all the raw edges. I did something similar with the Moment vest, and it comes together pretty quickly. I think I should be able to have the vest completely done by this time next week without much trouble. Hopefully.

Alongside working on my vest, I've been continuing to hand-sew the pleated panels onto Jack's jacket. In the tags on my last sewing update, I mentioned that I had about 5" still to go on the first panel. I was in the really annoying section in the middle of the sleeve where I really had to put my whole arm into the sleeve just to pass the needle through, and it was slow-going. I had to make myself push through that annoying section, rather than continue to put it off.

Eventually I worked my way all the way down to the cuff, cut off the excess from the pleated panel, turn under the edges of the lowest pleat, and hand-sew that into place. I am so pleased with how it turned out, but to keep Jack from making jokes about only having one sleeve done (and so that I wouldn't find myself with time to hand-sew and nothing ready to sew), I quickly pushed on to getting the second pleated strip started. I took a bunch of measurements from the finished sleeve and transferred them to the second sleeve, pinned the pleated panel into place, and had Jack try it on just to double-check the placement.

I was able to tear through the upper section of that second panel, between my increased speed and confidence in my method of hand-sewing this, the easy access through the neck side of the jacket, and a couple of long-ass work meetings where I was basically just there to listen in and take notes every now and then. As of posting this, I'm about halfway through with the second panel, and starting to get into that annoying section of the sleeve again.

The effect of the pleated panels on both sleeves is just so cool that I will definitely be getting photos of the jacket on Jack at some point, either on our Disneyland day or during a try-on before that. He's somewhat allergic to photos, but damn it I'm proud of how this looks, and I want to show it off. I've been calling it a 'sewist flex' from the very beginning -- look at what I can do, look at how cool and Star Wars-y it is -- and I'm really looking forward to sending this beauty out into the world in all its epicness.

And I think Jack feels similarly, based on how he's been talking about wearing this jacket all the time once it's done. His whole outfit together (this jacket, cream colored henley shirt with the buttons and bottonholes removed, mustard-y tan moto jeans, hiking boots) looks wonderfully casual Batuu Bound. The effect of the whole thing is Star Wars, but none of the individual pieces feel weird or costume-y. He might not wear those pieces together for anything other than going to Batuu, but each piece paired with something else looks pretty normal. So if Jack is able to get a lot of wear out of this modified jacket, all the better. I know I'll get that burst of sewist pride every time I see him wear it, lol.

[bmpmp3]

IA 2.0 voisona test with a short version of drag on dragoon's ending B song tsukiru/exhausted :) now i can hear Lia's beautiful dulcet tones sing scary scary songs

[princess-ibri]

So how do you think Aurora adjusted to life as a royal after living like a peasant, roaming the woods, and playing with animals for so many years?

I feel like there was definitely an adjustment period, likely very similar to the one Rapunzel had to go through in Tangled the Series (definitely had some overprotective parent issues there too)

Of course the difference is that Aurora had actually loving and supportive gaurdians, who for all their lack of baking skills I'm sure gave her lessons and training to help her ease into court as she grew up, even if she didn't know what they were really for.

Her parents were also aware that their daughter was in kind hands even if they didn't get to see her, so they won't be as traumatized as Rapunzel’s were and thus less prone to be as overprotective, though im sure they're definitely clinging at first and who could blame them.

Overall I think she'll end up adjusting well. I do think that she has her family and friends call her Rose for a daily name though hough, and they just use Aurora for like, royal functions and such.

[aroace-poly-show]

FINALLY HAVE MY BLOGS REORGANIZED HOLY SHIT

[antirepurp]

did a test bake of the shoe textures because they had the most obvious things going on and wough. yay. no seams :) very crusty fabric but no seams yippie