#magic sweater

[ithinkdogshouldvote]

Sleep deprivation is one hell of a drug

[jellyskink]

While I would headcanon Ford as autistic rather than having NPD, I've seen people labeling him as such. And since there's been so much discussion about narcissism online, there's no way a 2024 Mabel WOULDN'T ask this

(Also, Mabel gave Ford the juice with the dinosaur in it because she loves him. She is VERY SWEET. Almost as sweet as Mabel Juice itself)

[tea-and-antlers]

I love when people tell me I make clothing wrong. I love when they tell me “you have to knit sweaters from a yoke” and “you have to sew a back rip stitch for a garment zipper” because I don’t! I don’t!!! I can make clothing however I like! I knit sweaters from the bottom up in panels on straight needles! I sew my zippers on by hand with embroidery thread! And guess what?! The sweaters look like sweaters! The zippers work like zippers! The SNOZBERRIES taste like S N O Z B E R R I E S!!

[spacecasehobbit]

After seeing yet another popular tumblr post with thousands of reblogs bemoaning the state of comments on fanfics these days - more specifically, the supposed lack of commenting these days, as opposed to The Good Old Days - I have decided that this is in fact a hill I am willing to die on. I'm making a separate post about it rather than reblogging the latest iteration, though. This is hardly the first time I've seen these types of discussions, and my issue is with the mindset in general, not any of the specific people who hold it.

In the most recent version, the entire post with all its various arguments and assertions was plenty frustrating across the board, but it included one line in particular that cut beautifully to the heart of my issue with this type of discussion. The line in question:

"fanfic authors now are treated like content mills, and not like valued members of a creative community who thrive on interaction."

Once I read this bit, I had to stop, take a few deep breaths, and then go make my own post before I imploded over the sheer level of NOPE this line inspired. And okay. The thing is... I want to say this as gently and kindly as I possibly can, but I need to be real blunt for a minute, too.

That line I quoted sounds like a wannabe social media influencer.

It sounds like a person who thinks fandom is - or should be - comprised of fanfiction writers, aka Valued Content Creators, and their respective communities of readers, aka Content Consumers, a strictly distinct group from fic writers, for whom they create fanfiction content and who in turn pay them back with attention and validation in the form of comments and praise.

It does not sound like a fanfiction author who enjoys the creative hobby of writing stories based on characters and worlds from existing stories, engaging in their hobby within a community of other likeminded creators of fan content.

Frankly, fandom has always been worst when it starts obsessing over Big Name Fans who wind up treated like elite fandom social influencers, instead of hobbyists engaging in a fun hobby together based on mutual interests. A shift towards the idea that every fanfic writer should be effectively a social media influencer whose community consists of fans reading the content they oh-so-lovingly create (but only if they get enough positive attention from passive consumers, presumably readers who don't write their own fic or expect comments back from the author in return) sounds like an absolutely awful direction for fandom to take.

I don't want fanfiction and fandom spaces to turn into another social media space full of Our Valued Content Creators, all fighting to build the largest "community" of passive consumers turned devoted followers.

Again, that sounds frankly fucking awful.

The people who only read fanfiction are not your fanfiction community, because they are not engaging in the shared community hobby of writing fanfiction. Your fanfiction community is, perhaps, the other people who are also writing their own fanfiction based on someone else's original work.

So perhaps if comments really are declining on fics these days, instead of asking why passive readers aren't heaping praise on every fic they read and making sure it all happens where the Valued Creator can hear it, you should ask yourself how many other fanfics you've commented on recently, and then go comment on another one if you're still feeling down about your own work.

Or, I dunno, find a fic author you admire and send them a message on tumblr, if you've already commented on all of their fics that you read and enjoyed.

Or start your own discord for likeminded fans, or find a way to set up your own fandom forums centered on your personal fandom interests and invite other fic authors to come join.

Or, like, anything that involves reaching out to the actual community of hobbyists you can reasonably consider to be a community you are actually a part of.

Aka, other fanfiction writers.

[pricknim]

My take on a human Fluttershy in a college au type of setting

-> is studying to be a veterinarian; met the twilight twins and rarity on some of their shared classes

-> used to be best friends with Rainbow Dash until her family had to move to a different town; despite everything, she watched every competition Rainbow had. but was too shy to reach out

-> after starting university, she stumbled upon the Sweet Apple Acres, where a cow had been injured. While trying to help the cow, AJ found her as she was looking for the cow in question, they became fast friends from there on

-> is living currently in a small cottage like house provided to her by the Apple family in exchange of regular animal checkups (they just like her tbh)

-> is estranged from her family, but still tries to keep in touch with them, but is too afraid to open up to them

-> met Pinkie through Applejack, since they are cousins; absolutely adores Pinkie's pet gecko, Gummy

-> sometimes helps out on the farm when her studies let her

-> has insomnia and is mostly nocturnal; studies a lot during the night and has a tea addiction (for the caffeine mostly). doesn't like coffee

-> is demisexual and panromantic (with some genderqueer sprinkled in cause why not) (one of the reasons she's afraid to let her own family in)

-> only managed to open up to AJ about her past and feelings (she had to ply them out of her tho)

-> kinda needs therapy...

-> hopeless romantic

[shamelesssheepfan]

Smash or pass 🥵

[spoozly]

The h

[penisbrigade]

i think cas would get super into crafting, especially as something to do when he doesn’t sleep, so he learns to knit or crochet until he has a full closet and then he’s making things for dean and sam so you get dean winchester on a wendigo case stoically wearing a lumpy grandma sweater with a few holes and what are probably bees but cas hasn’t gotten very good at designs yet. once he gets good at tapestry yarn work, maybe he starts working protection sigils and symbols into things he makes as well. i just like to imagine it.

(bonus: cas learning how to make stuffed animals and amigurumi so he very seriously presents people with little strangely shaped creatures that could be bears and cats, but just as likely be monsters or demons of some sort )

[maltcrescent]

Missing Magical Unmentionables

"...what happened after I fell asleep last night?"

(This is me showing my appreciation for how much people liked my previous art of Dewey (in the link). It took off on this site as my most popular OC art and my second-most popular art overall.)

[averagemaker]

Recreation of the Paul McCartney magical mystery tour sweater vest that I knitted a while back for my partners birthday

This was the first knit project I’ve ever completed so to say I’m proud is an understatement lmao

(edit: forgot to mention I used reclaimed yarn that I found from the thrift store!! finding all the right colors was just a sign that this project had to get made)

[charmstrangebeauty]

So apparently Joe Locke gave this quote

“The costumes hold all the secrets of the show. If you look closely at all the costumes, you’ll find every twist and turn of the show in them, which is so clever.”

While I was attempting to identify the symbols on his sweater I realized the symbols literally change from episode to episode. The costume designers made a bunch of different non-identical sweaters for him:

The pentacle is the most obvious - it disappears!

There appear to be other variations in the promotional materials as well with an entirely different set of symbols:

So… anyone have any clever guesses what Billy’s magic sweater is all about??? I’m stumped beyond thinking the runes are somehow important like they were in Wandavision. Any ideas?

[anotherdescentintomadness]

Fuzzy Cryptid TaeMin

[girlredirected]

[thespongemagic]

The sheep with the Animal Factory (TM) smart phone.

Commission for @/jintally!

[spotaus]

Hi guys, this is usually what a doodle page ends up looking like <3 (oh, and @ancha-aus thought you might like this! Not writing but certainly fuel to my fire lol-)

This one is New Age filled!!! (Close-ups abd Lore beneath the cut!)

1) Night and Cross!

Night is actually very clingy once he's a teen. He doesn't usually realize it, but around the castle he'll snake to be closer to his Knights so long as there's no one he needs to keep his composure infront of is nearby. Cross is the one who's not used to physical touch (when it's not Ink ofc) so Night in his personal bubble makes his heart melt but also scares tf out of him <3

2) Error and Night's Meeting!

Error was carrying his whole life on his back and trying not to get arrested for unintentional property damage at this point, so when he saw the chance to get back at his brother and prove he was strong enough? Yeah, he got that on chance instantly. And was VERY smug when Nightmare chose him. (Also, Error is wearing gloves, so less Haphephobia)

3) Dream and Blue designs!

I think these are good tentative designs! Dream probably has a more regal fit, but he likes to play up that rugged exile look- He's inspired by Archers, while Blue takes on that classic Knightly-vibe. Their equipment is mostly stolen from Night's troops or brought with them from Blue's home kingdom.

Also, Dream is approx Killer's height at this point, shorter than Cross and *much* shorter than Apple!Nightmare. (Hc that Skeletons tend to be tinier in stature thanks to weird monster beauty standards. Horror and Geno's fam are outliers.)

4) Horror and Dust designs!

Horror is naturally a very *large* monster. He's very malnourished when Nightmare meets him, but by the time he's a Knight Nightmare has made sure that's no longer the case. He actually loves comfy, simple clothes, but to play up the whole 'strong mysterious' bit he wears a more barbaric Knight's garb. He doesn't mind acting scary, it's more fun that way :]. Dust is very very small, and envies horror sometimes for his size, but his tiny stature let's him control his body and move a lot quicker. He's very much based on a rogue, and usually covers the lower part of his face w/ a black cloth, and the upper part w/ his hood or mask. Dust only removes both to bathe, eat, or relax in a safe location. (Ignore that I can't draw the stupid gaster blaster lmao-)

These last two were space-fillers, but Cross and his Borzoi (Windmill, otherwise known as Milly (Killer named her-)) and really bad first wips of Ccino! I think Ccino was a chubby, happy toddler, but lost a lot of 'weight' (bone mass? Magic?) due to stress and pressure and bad eating habits. So it isn't until a while after the Coronation that he starts to relax abd feel safe enough to eat normal meals (Nightmare used to guilt him into eating snacks together, but as his boss (and younger brother) he can encourage it more often). By the time Killer shows he's still not quite healthy, but he's better. As more weight is lifted off his shoulders, the better he is. (That 'beauty' most people saw was a more stereotypical slimness, but Killer never stopped seeing Ccino as beautiful-) I think he never looked traditionally underweight, so no one noticed, and it was only much later that Night processed it. (And maybe it's why Dream hardly recognized him later on-)

[toyastales]

Stunning!