#we also have 2 rooms full of sewing stuff :)

[uygfiug]

thank you for tagging me @chronically-enthusiastic <3

this is a lot more pastel than my usual vibe but whatever :)

@zipquips @smalltimenerd @study-inscarlett @r2y9s-notartblog @not-equippedforthis and anyone else who wants to <333

I’ve seen like 10 posts of Picrew chains today and while I only have 1 mutual on here I wanted to do it so

Make yourself with this Picrew and reblog

@moodlevoodle and also anyone else who wants to

[sca-nerd]

Make A Quick and Cheap Circle Cloak

PART 1: JUST THE CLOAK

Step 1. Invite some friends to their first ever event. Make sure it's a cold weather event so that you have to make them cloaks. Then have your Scadian friends ask if you can make them one, as well, because they can't seem to find theirs or found that it wasn't warm enough last year. You have now agreed to make four cloaks.

Step 2. Go to Walmart. Get one (or four) of the $10 fleece blankets in Full/Queen size. If you want a shorter cloak (about waist length) Twin works. But these are all tall mfer's, so I went with the bigger blanket. These blanket don't fray, so there's no need to hem. The edges WILL roll, though, so if you want them to stay flat you'll need to blanket stitch or serge the edges. Or just leave it be, because this is a quick and cheap cloak.

Please note: these ARE polyester so be careful around open flames.

Step 3. Move everything out of the way in your living room, because you don't have any other space big enough to spread this thing out to mark it for cutting. You will probably upset the dogs, but they'll get over it because they're old and still have the couch to sleep on.

Step 4. Fold your blanket in quarters. This means you fold it in half one way, then in half the other way. The material is a bit stretchy, but do your best to make sure that you have your edges matching. Do better than me.

Step 5. Find your scissors and grab either a measuring tape or a long enough piece of string, and a sharpie. Tailors chalk won't mark on this stuff so I usually just use a sharpie instead.

Step 6. Measure the shortest length of the blanket. We already know that it says it is 90x90, but that is a lie. It's actually 90x94 or something like that. Anyway. Measure the shortest length to determine the widest you can make your circle. In this case, we're at 45.

Step 7. Use your tape measure or string like a compass, and mark your cloak. You do this by anchoring one end of the tape measure at the corner of the fold, stretching it out, and marking the fabric at the appropriate length every inch or so. This will create the curve of the circle.

Ignore the fact that I marked this twice. My anchor had come loose and so I had accidentally marked it wrong for a little bit. Anyway. Do this from one edge all the way to the other. Will this be a perfect circle? No. Will anyone be able to tell? Also no.

Step 8. Connect the dots, or find your scissors and just start cutting.

Step 9. Congratulations you have a circle. Now you need a place for your head to go. You do this by measuring two inches from the corner fold, and marking it the same way you did for the body of the cloak. Yes, two inches. Don't worry - your neck WILL fit. This fabric has a lot of stretch to it, and since all of the weight will be pulling from this point it will expand to fit you comfortably. Find your scissors and cut along the dots.

Step 10. Now you have a circle with a hole in the middle of it. Well done. Find your scissors and cut it open, by following the fold from the cut in the neck to the edge of the cloak. This will give you a straight(ish) opening. Try it on and see that I was right about the neck, and you are now cozy and warm.

Step 11. Wait for your housemate to come home so that they can hand-stitch the frog (clasp) closure onto it for you, because you hate hand sewing and she does embroidery as a hobby. Congrats, you have a circle cloak.

PART 2: BUT I WANT A HOOD!

Step 1. Grab that piece you cut off when you made the circle on your blanket. We're gonna turn that into a hood. You only need two matching pieces, but the good news is that you have four. So if you mess up, you still have material to work with.

Step 2. Mark a straight line of 8 inches. This will be the bottom of the hood to connect to the neck of the cloak. Find your scissors and cut it.

Step 3. Find your scissors and cut off the other tail end, making it as deep as you would like your hood to be. Or leave the tail and have a liripipe hood, you do you.

Step 4. Sew up the back and top of the hood. Leave the bottom and face open.

Step 5. Try it on to see if you need to use your back up pieces to make a new hood or not.

That'll do, pig.

Step 6. Pin your hood to the neck of the cloak, and discover that I was right when I said that 2 inches was enough for your neckline.

Step 7. Attach them together. You can do a straight stitch, but I prefer to do a zig-zig, only because there IS a lot of pull on that particular area of the cloak and I like the idea of reinforcement.

Step 8. Try it on. Be warm. Enjoy.

PART 3: GETTING BOUGIE WITH IT

Step 1. Realize that you have made four cloaks out of the same colored blankets because Walmart didn't have any other colors available, and while this isn't necessarily a problem, all four cloaks will be in the same camp and you don't want them to get mixed up or confused for each other.

Step 2. Go find some trim that you have had for years and haven't used up because there's so much of it, or run to the thrift store and see what you can find for cheap. Attach it to the front edge of the cloaks and stitch it down.

Note: you will want to attach trim BEFORE you put your frog on.

Step 3. Silently curse yourself for using wide trim that means you will have to stitch down both sides of it, rather than narrow trim that would only require a zig-zag stitch once down the center.

Step 4. Enjoy.

[solarpunkaestheticweek]

How do you do solarpunk aesthetic week when you live in a tiny apartment with no outside access? I always want to participate but I feel like most stuff y'all post is geared towards people who live in houses...

Hey, thanks for sending in the ask!

We put our heads together and came up with a few ideas for you!

Grow plants indoors! You could grow a few houseplants to green up your space, or even try growing some vegetables and/or herbs indoors! I've heard people have lots of luck with basil indoors, and my freshman year of college I grew cherry tomatoes and peppers in my dorm room! Maybe check out information on semi or full-hydroponic setups? You can also propagate a lot with a few cuttings and a glass of water! If you have a balcony with your apartment, that could also be a good place to grow flowers or vegetables--depending on the season and temps where you are, it might be a bit cold to start things out there right now, but you could always start planning!

Crafting could be another fun idea! You could try your hand at mending clothes, or making your own clothes from scratch! I (Ani) am learning crochet, if you wanna join me in spirit and pick it up as well! Kala/Fennopunk (who lives in a small apartment 👀) also knows a lot about crocheting, its a pretty nice winter craft! You could also try embroidery, so you can add unique designs onto your clothes! Other options are things like knitting, sewing, leatherwork, jewelrymaking, soap making, and maybe even woodworking or soldering if that interests you!

Learning how to repair tech would be cool! Honestly, learning how to repair anything sounds super cool and is pretty solarpunk! This can also kinda go hand-in-hand with learning how to build your own things (one of my friends knows how to repair and build computers, for example). Try finding some information on something you're interested in and going wild!

Decorate your home in a way that feels Solarpunk to you! Even if you don't get it all done during the event week, I think its definitely a nice way to bring joy! Look into ways your apartment can change with the seasons, ways to keep yourself cozy and warm in winter but cool and bright during the summer! If you get started, feel free to send in progress images, we'd love to see!

Guerrilla gardening! Winter's a great time to scatter wildflower seeds (at least here in the states for me) as it gives the seeds time to acclimate to weather conditions! if you want flowers in spring, you plant seeds in winter! Maybe find a place you wanna target if you go out, think about what seeds you want to plant, and start planning? Or if you have seeds on hand already, you know what to do! Honestly, I also kinda view picking up litter as hand-in-hand with guerrilla gardening, if you've got the vibes for that at all.

Build community with your neighbors! Even if its just saying hi, or talking about what you're up to!

Maybe guerrilla art as well? Moss graffiti, spray painting, or even plastering a couple of stickers up counts as solarpunk! I will give a general warning that doing stuff seen as illegal probably shouldn't be posted online, but hey, you can participate in the week without telling us what you do!

Speaking of art! Maybe you could make art at home! Whether you use chalk, or pastels, or paint, or pencils, or if you've got a tablet you can use--find some inspiration and draw! I've seen lots of people draw solarpunk fashion ideas, solarpunk building concepts, or just general vibe art!

You could also take a crack at writing! You could write a short story, or get started on a longer project idea! You could even just write worldbuilding-type stuff, like examples of event listings or building histories you imagine a solarpunk society would have, or ideas for holidays and festivals!

Learning an instrument feels pretty solarpunk to me! I (Ani) say this as someone who has 2 guitars around and has forgotten 80% of the stuff she learned in her lessons back in high school. Just in general, picking up an old hobby you miss, or starting a new one works great for this event honestly!

You can also check out the Apartment Solarpunk tag on the Practical Solarpunk blog, it may have more ideas for you!

We hope this helps! Either way, I hope you enjoy the event week!

[rickwardsinnerhands]

Guinea Pig Plush Pattern!!

For the benefit of sewing community on tumblr I am putting up the pattern I made when I sewed some guinea pig plush recently (as a gift for my brother a proud guinea parent)

There will be instructions and I will also add a list of supplies at the end (with some prices and where I got them)

Here's the pattern to start with, it fits on a normal sized printer paper, so it should be fine to just pint out as is. (don't mind the holes, that's where my pins went in when I was cutting out pieces)

I used felt and it took me only one sheet to cut out the pattern if i was being careful (if not it took 2 XD)

more below the cut!!

first things first cut out your pattern! whatever colour you want piggy to be! (I always cut out the side piece first since you need two, I just folded the felt and cut it as close to the edge as possible, to give room for the other pieces you see.)

as you can see this is white and not yellow, sadly I only took progress pics of one of the guinea pigs I made so i'm using those ones here, hopefully this isnt too confusing.

next step is to sew on whatever patches/markings you want your piggie to have! this piggie ultimately has two black patches on her face and a brown patch on her butt. to make these markings, I used the side pattern and cut out a whole side piece that I then trimmed to my desired size (if you have chalk it's so helpful for sketching things out.)

remember to keep in mind where the ears need to go! I got the ears in by just cutting a slit (about where is shows on the pattern) I smushed the felt (ear piece) between the slit and just sewed it flat on the other side. You may need to move the ears around a little depending on where you want your face markings. After the ears are attached flop the ears down appropriately and sew one lil stitch to keep em looking good.

next you wanna sew the eyeballs (buttons) and ears on.

Next, sew both side pieces to the bottom piece, making sure the slimmer end is at the rear of the piggy. Next I sewed the top piece to the bottom piece just along the edge there (the weird triangular part of the top pattern is the part you want to be sewing here, it comes in and goes out for the nose yanno) I used a flat stitch for this, felt don't fray baby.

the nose and mouth got embroidered on right after that. I sewed them on so that the mouth ends right above the seam between top and bottom piece.

I will now attach a very terrible guide on how I embroidered that.

If you don't know how to do embroidery, you can also just draw a little face on with a sharpie (the prototype piggie has drawn on eyes and they look very cute)

next you wanna sew the rest of the top on following your sides, remember you are sewing it inside out at this point! You wanna see all your little raw edges.

sew it all the way down to the bottom edge, I promise this little flap is enough space to pull your little piggie inside out.

(note about butt flap: the top pattern says to add a few mm, that's just an over abundance of caution on my part. Everytime I did the piggies i had plenty of fabric for the butt flap and pattern is probably fine as is.)

finally I stuffed a bunch of polyfil into the piggie, starting with filling the face and moving along the back, at about half full I put in my bean bag sock. (you can also just put beans in anarchy style. no judgement.)

bean bag sock is just a sport sock that i filled about 2/3 of the way with dried navy beans then sewed shut at the top. (let the beans fall to one side of the sock then jam the sock part in with a chopstick, or anything stick like and let the beans flow into the part of the sock that's in the plush.) Someone please tell me which parts i'm over explaining.

after sock is in you wanna stuff a little more polyfil in, just making sure we look smooth and fat, jamming a little where you are going to close piggy so we juicy. Finally, sew the butt flap closed using a ladder stitch (if you don't know what that is, youtube has lots of instructional videos)

Yay Piggies!!!!!

Stuff List!

felt, at least 1 piece (69 cents at dollar tree- and if you tend to make mistakes, or the idea you only have one shot stresses you out, 2 sheets probably won't break the bank and gives you lots of oopsie room.)

embroidery thread (79 cents at a local fabric store, but micheals has it as well)

Black rounded buttons (4 for 1.69$ at micheals)

thread! (I had most colours but if you don't i did buy one spool of thread and it was only 2.67$ at walmart

Beans!! (helps them to stay upright- I just used some from home but the dollar store should be able to hook you up, for a dollar even. Also any dried legume should be fine, I even have some lentils that almost made it in)

Poly Fil -Fibre Fil (9.99$ for 1.25 lbs at Micheals, Honestly the bag is huge I barely used any of it for these guys. I used cut up socks and extra felt pieces to stuff for the prototype and he looks fine.)

(his mouth is different because I hadn't figured my life out yet)

All together I would say I spent less than 20$ CAD and I made 3, so like. A lovable not super expensive plush. live your best life.

Message me with any questions!! I have never made a guide before, and I am self taught at sewing so I don't know what kind of gaps I am leaving that others wont understand.

Love and kisses,

Rick

[tommyssupercoolblog]

HERE ARE 55 FANFIC IDEAS/PROMPTS (some detailed, some not) that i wrote down in google docs to make septicinnit fics for but never did actually made full fics of; some are short one sentence ideas and others are full plots!!!

I posted these because there was a time period where we were super hyperfixated on writing together (almost like a d&d roleplay but you're yourselves and also it's just text) as like our main bonding hobby and wrote down way too many fucking ideas- we don't rlly write like that anymore (we do other stuff when we hangout or have dates) and so most of these have been sitting in our google docs for a long time and i felt bad abt wasting them. now though!!! they won't rot away in the secret depths of google docs!!!

soulmates switch bodies, (through TIME) on a specific birthday. So, when tmy turns (age), he switches bodies with a s3án of the SAME age. Neither of them will remember the experience after, so it's their job to leave clues or enlist friends to help them track their Soulmate down. tmy's friends gather the night before his birthday and vow to figure out who his soulmate is and help him find them. (Past!s3án is very confused about all the things that have changed (tech, gay marriage being legal) and also very awkward because he's still an anxious bean.) (can you tell we wrote this one after a Your Name rewatch)

2. THEY MAKE A LONG FURBY TOGETHER!!!!! They both help design, scrap, sew and put it together by hand, and they decide on a name together, and it ends up becoming their sort of child and now they’re gay parents of a long furby (maybe they aren’t together when they decide to make it but they end up bonding over the furby and it helps them get together in a way??)

3. Coffee Shop AU where s3án is the owner and barista at T0p 0f Th3 M0rn1ng C0ff3e, which in the fic is an actual physical coffee shop. tmy becomes his first regular customer and also flirts with him over the counter a lot.

4. The five times tmy tries to hit on s3án and fails miserably (except shhh no he doesn't), and the one time he’s actually successful.

5. Sickfic again (I wrote one already) but it’s established relationship and S3án'S one who gets sick this time. Tmy is very determined to take good care of him, help walk him around the house when/if he needs it, make him soup, etc. Maybe he tries to cook but is kind of bad at it and S3án eats it anyway. Maybe tmy brushes his hair out of his face to check his temperature,,, hhhh fluff

6. tmy and s3án going to the movies and having a good time. That's it. That's the prompt.

7. s3án teaches tmy about The Wheel Of The Year and a bunch of celtic pagan traditions and stories (and some catholic ones, of course, bc he grew up in that too) and tmy EATS THAT SHIT UP bc anything remotely s3án-related is precious to him

8. Tmy finds out that there's services where you can just. Pay to go on a date with some guy (or other person), like a rental-boyfriend type thing. He’s like, “Yeah. I can go on a date with some guy to try it (being gay) out. Why not?” and while you can make requests, he decides, “fuck it, why browse the catalouge and make myself more anxious, I’ll just have them send some random guy”. Turns out, s3án works there part-time. Also turns out, he gets selected to go be tmy’s date. Oops.

9. ICE SKATING ICE SKATING ICE SKATING ICE SKATING BARKBARKBARK

10. tmy pretending to purr every time s3án shows him affection to be annoying

11. They keep fucking flirting on stream and everyone is so annoyed because they will NOT stop hitting on each other and playing it up and it’s like. “Get a fucking room ohh my god,,,”

12. S3án goes to a party with his friends and uses an ouija board, but this accidentally lets tmy into the human realm where he follows him home and haunts him!!!! Does silly shit like moving magnets on the fridge to spell penis or drinking all the milk or going just solid enough to throw a pillow at him and then becoming un-physical again so he can’t retaliate. (the pranks and haunting are actually just bc he thinks S3án is cute tho. And S3án ends up warming up to it.)

13. s3án is TRYING to make cookies but tmy keeps attempting to steal batter from the bowl, and it escalates into a food fight for the history books (ofc they have to clean up after)

14. MAKING 👏 PLAYLISTS👏 FOR 👏 EACH 👏 OTHER 👏👏

15. tmy’s anxiety gets out of hand and he starts overworking himself. s3án’s been there (I mean, he used to upload every day for christ’s sake) and so he does his best to help.

16. s3án is crushing on tmy and gets pretty upset about tmy flirting with…. every guy ever on twitter (and also on stream) but tries to hide it. tmy realizes he's jealous/pining and confronts him about his feelings.

17. Animal Hybrid Au where tmy's like. A Feral cat (or smthn like that. Maybe a vulture instead?) and keeps bringing s3án (human or more domestic animal) dead things and at first s3án’s very put off by it but he warms up to it over time

18. tmy wants to do a storytime vlog of his first kiss but realizes he's technically never kissed anyone on the lips, so tries to convince s3án to kiss him (on camera) for the clout. 

19. s3án gets into an argument with someone who's saying mean shit about tmy, and they turn to insulting s3án instead (maybe even making threats). It is at this point that tmy conveniently stumbles upon the conversation and immediately tries to THROW HANDS

20. tmy going to a party, having a hangover, and then s3án caring for him and helping him get better.

21. s3án helping tmy when he wants to try painting his nails for the first time <<<3

22. tmy tries to be flirty/romantic to s3án in Irish bc. He’s irish. But conveniently forgets that even IN ireland everyone speaks english because the language is basically dead. s3án is. Confused. And only gets like half of the words

23. tmy being emberassed abt how he hordes things and s3án showing tmy his own little weird quirks so he feels better

24. They’re both autistic and adhd - tmy has internalized ableism like younger s3án did and s3án helps him slowly realize it’s ok that he needs extra help and stuff for things.

25. Another autism one- tmy helping s3án through a sensory overload!!!

26. ANOTHER another autism one- s3án slowly piecing together some of why tmy does stuff he does, like learning he likes routines and sameness and figuring out he genuine;y cant tell when someone is annoyed with him (cough cough… mr b34st hates me video…) and helps him out, supports him, just accommodates him and tries to explain to other ppl when they don’t get it. Also sees himself in some of these things to a lesser extent and ends up figuring out they’re both autistic as hell

27. They start flirting and calling each other their boyfriends as a bit and then uh oh! It's not a bit anymore !!!! because they’re literally cuddling wearing each others clothes and everyone just reads it as actually being gay and because the jokes aren’t really jokes anymore the flirting is beginning to hit different

28. (Based on the Time Source!tmy had a beard for like. A bit) s3án hyping tmy up when he grows a beard bc tmy's so happy with it and s3án wants to support his weird fashion choice

29. Snowed in :0000 ??!!!!! SNOWED IN???? And eventually the heater breaks and they have to huddle for warmth????

30. Since tmy can sing and play piano, he decides to give s3án a little private concert to subtly (or well, not that subtly) reveal his feelings and. It’s very cute

31. s3án kisses tmy at a con when they think no one's looking, but the next morning it's all over the internet. s3án is definitely terrified but tmy is feeling even worse, so he comforts him and they take care of each other, staying in the hotel to wait for things to blow over and trying not to go outside

32. Fic where tmy speaks a fluent second language, and a mutual friend of him and s3án speaks the same language- unknown to tmy. This friend hears tmy confess in this language and now has to cover for him, KNOWING he has a crush on s3án. This gets worse when they are out shopping and s3án, talking in korean w a cashier who speaks it, shyly admits to the cashier that he’s buying something for a crush, ALSO NOT KNOWING that this friend speaks THAT LANGUAGE TOO, before handing it over to tmy as a gift a few minutes after they leave. So NOW they have to live with the knowledge that both of these fuckers like each other, but they also don't wanna be a fucking snitch. Comedy.

33. s3án and tmy are chilling when Uh Oh, Religious Trauma!!!! tmy cuddles him and comforts him until he feels better. Major angst and hurt/comfort

34. one of them goes on some sort of podcast and when the hosts mention the other he almost immediately accidentally leaks that they're together lol

35. tmy’s drawing, and for background noise, starts listening to music he knows s3án likes to try and feel closer to him. 

36. s3án and tmy TRY to watch a Generic Seasonal Movie ™ (Christmas or Halloween) On Netflix to try and get into the spirit, but they’re too hyperactive to pay attention and so they give up halfway through and go out to get fast food.

37. They're talking to a third party when s3án slips in conversation and calls tmy “his” tmy. tmy is ELATED

38. AQUARIUM DATE *foams at mouth*

39. tmy gets kinda nervous that no one takes him seriously bc of how extra™️ and loud and hyper he is and also because he likes pretty childish stuff and s3án helps out and it's pog

40. :00 showering together /nsx

41. Soulmate AU where the first time your soulmate kisses you (anywhere), it leaves colors on your skin for a bit

42. Obligatory beach episode; s3án is shirtless and tmy is GAY or vice versa

43. s3án helping tmy through a thunderstorm (bc those are scary as FUCK)

44. S3án trying to teach tmy how to play 3ld3n R1ng or D4rk S0uls and tmy is...bad at it

45. Delirious giggly all nighter softness. Maybe w snacks??? They’re so eepy and sleepy,,,,, they’re so uwu,,,,,

46. Meeting!! tmy’s!!! Parents!!! s3án already met them at tmy’s show but now he’s meeting them as tmy’s BOYFRIEND and he’s lowkey nervous as hell

47. s3án realizes he likes tmy, and because he’s a hopeless romantic he starts listening to embarrassingly cutesy generic love songs about it. That's it that's the prompt I just think it's funny to imagine Jck S3ptic Eye, heavy metal fan, listening to 3d Sh3eran or even kpop like Twic3 or some other cutesy kpop group LMAOOOOO. His headphones unplug on accident or some shit and it's T4yl0r Sw1ft’s “You Belong With Me” and he's cripplingly embarrassed. like. It's so funny to me.

48. tmy1nn1t starts sleeping with a jcks3pt1c3ye stuffed animal (like the t0tm coffee one) and tries to keep it a secret because he's emberassed, but he goes over to s3án's house and s3án forgets to his his own tmy1NN1T stuffed animal, which tmy sees very obviously in his bed next to his pillow when he comes over.

49. In which people's hearts/feelings can manifest physically if they ignore and repress them enough, so tmy gets stuck trying to wrangle another, tinier little nonverbal chibi tmy (like three to four inches tall) that is extremely obvious abt his feelings for s3án and VERY intent about getting his attention. One day, s3án comes over and tmy locks the smaller tmy in a drawer, but this mini tmy manages to escape, hitching a ride in s3án’s bag so he can be with him and follow him around. When tmy realizes what's happened, he's HORRIFIED and tries to figure out where s3án's going/been to try and get the his heart back before s3án figures it out, and of course at the same time s3án ends up slowly realizing he has a little hitchhiker and taking care of him. He thinks the little tmy is very cute and is endeared by him, and also figures out he has a crush because tiny tmy is the opposite of subtle and very obvious on purpose (kissing him where he can reach and stuff, begging for attention by whining like a puppy and making happy little noises when it is RECEIVED) By the time tmy catches up with him his little self is like. Hugging s3án’s hand/finger all affectionate and squeaking happily while s3án, petting the little guy, looks up to the actual tmy and is like. “i assume this is yours lol?”

50. S3án realizing he likes tmmy and then being really shy around him after and kind of caught off guard/embarrassed by it. That being said he cannot get it together and stop acting like a nervous little kid w a crush, he’s so shy and flustered and it's so painfully obvious how he feels that he’s kicking himself. Thankfully Tmy is immune to social cues so it’s only obvious to literally everyone else. Tmy is harem protagonist levels of dense to the point s3án would think it was on purpose if he didn’t know him well enough to know he is just Like That- and he only puts it together when he is told DIRECTLY and CLEARLY that s3án likes him, where upon he is super starstruck and confused (really??? For real??? U like me??? ME???? omg???) like it hasn’t been on a billboard in bold letters for months. (this is a very autistic prompt. Autism wins)

51. Classic “truth or dare kiss and whoopsies i liked it too much” but the twist?? It’s drunk and on a livestream so they have to have the internal panic afterwords live and mask it despite being too drunk to do it well at all

52. Secret admirer trope,,,,, woah,,,,,,

53. You get a specific task you have to complete to reveal who your soulmate is. Tmy's task is to fold a thousand paper cranes. He enlists s3án for help, they hang out and bond and have a fun time, and S3án is his soulmate yippee!!! (S3án couldn't complete his own task when he got it for whatever reason, so he is also surprised)

54. DOUBLE LIFE AU. DOUBLE LIFE AU. LOOK ME DEAD IN THE FUCKING EYES. DOUBLE LIFE AU

55. S3án is a shapeshifter/changeling and Tmmy is a bard type magic user who finds out about this mysterious shapeshifter a few towns over and is VERY intrigued and then he meets him and he's not only a shapeshifter but also this silly loud guy who's honestly very weird and pretty and tmy is like. "I am going to seduce this funky little magic creature if it litterally fucking kills me".

[deckerroosevelt]

Chapter 9, part 2

   “Will Neda come back?” Ambeth asked.

   “Hopefully”, Yumekui looked at Ambeth and I just knew she didn’t have high hopes. “I’ve started a new project. Would you like to help me, Ambeth?”

   Ambeth nodded excitedly and showed pudding to her mouth.

   “What’s the project?” I finally asked. I had been curious about Yumekui’s ‘projects’ for a while now. I didn’t know what she did in her free time but I never really thought about it. She seemed so mysterious and a bit distant. I don’t know if I even have ever seen her as a human. I know she can create illusionary creatures from nightmares and has problems sleeping, which I’ve got to admit is very edgy.

   “I started knitting a new jumper a while ago. I got it done and now I want to sew a stuffed animal for Ambeth”, Yumekui smiled. Maybe the first time I saw her smile to someone else other than Ambeth. “I like crafts!”

   This I did not expect but it also seemed obvious. Of Course Yumekui would like crafts. It created a kind of balance to her. She practises fighting with a naginata and relaxes with crafts.

   “Can I come? I wouldn’t care to be alone just yet.”

   “That would be great! I feel like we haven’t spent so much time since you are either alone or with Treacher all the time”, Yumekui pointed out. It was right but for my defence, Yumekui was older than me and quite scary at first. And Ambeth was… well, a child.

   We headed to Yumekui’s room. It was messy, but as a messy person myself I knew it was an organised mess. She knew right away where everything was and moved very smoothly there.

   I waited while Yumekui drew the draft of the plushie according to Ambeth’s wishes. I looked around me to make a full picture of Yumekui. She liked horror, but also read romantic books. The colour theme of the room was red and black. Some stuff she had were like rainbows in darkness. Her eyes were sensitive to light, so the room was quite dim. I usually don’t see her eyes, but now she has taken off her blindfold. She gestured that they were done and I sat down on a chair in her room.

   “My first question is; what is your thing you’re here for?” Yumekui started directly with no hesitation. “Sorry. That was quite blunt. I have just been wondering what it is. You give no hints.”

   “Don’t worry, I don’t mind. It’s not really special, but quite pathetic. If we’d go outside, you wouldn’t remember me. Everyone just forgets me as soon as they turn to look away. Of course there are some exceptions, but I have met only one so far”, I explained. I felt like they all had something cool and they had practised to use them well and then there was me. I couldn’t do anything with my ability.

   “Interesting. How about your family? Were you isolated your whole childhood?” Ambeth put a word in.

   “I can’t remember much from before I woke up here, but I remember some bits”, I circled the question. 

   “I don’t think you were completely isolated. Not that I’d know of course, but you speak too well for that and you can still read, talk and write. Who taught you that?” Yumekui pondered. She clearly was interested in psychology. I had never looked at that or actually anything but I still could tell.

   “I think I taught myself. That’s why I’m quite bad at everything”, I started to feel self conscious. 

  “No, you’re not. You’ll improve quickly.”

[thecaptainsgingersnap]

Oc Ask Game - The Basics: Hannah Kentworthy

1. What is your ocs full name? Does this name have any special meaning/history?

Hannah Louise Kentworthy, I just liked the way it flewed

2. Does your oc have any nicknames? How did they get these nicknames?

Han, Hannah Lou, and Hannah Banana are all obvious. Floor 19 calls her Ice Queen and her Boyfriend TJ casserole her Snowflake because her mother is the goddess of snow and ice.

3. How old is your oc?

Eternally 17

4. Does your oc have a defining physical trait? What makes this feature unique?

Her eyes, they're big and wide and ice blue

5. Does your oc have a defining personality trait? Why does this trait define them?

She's protective. She spent her last few years alive protecting her brother. She died protecting her gang of street orphans. Now in her afterlife, she's Floor 19's resident mom friend making sure her friends are mildly safe and their emotional and mental states are well taken care of.

6. What’s your oc’s current job and what’s their dream job? Do these jobs differ?

Well as a dead eternal teenager, she doesn't have a real job, but Blitzen let's her help at his shop sometimes. She wishes she could have owned a bakery.

7. How would you describe your oc’s style? How would they describe their style?

I'd call it cute, but functional. Hannah would call it I can wear this to combat training or on a date or dating to the death (a real thing at the Hotel Valhalla believe it or not.

8. What is your oc’s relationship status? Are they content with this?

She's in a long term relationship with her hallmate Thomas Jefferson Jnr. asks she is very happy with that.

9. How would you describe your oc’s personality? How would they describe their personality?

We would both say she's the mom friend with a sarcastic side

10. What’s your oc’s greatest weakness?

If she leaves the Hotel, she can die, but permanently this time

11. What’s your oc’s greatest strength?

She can control ice and snow

12. What is your oc’s biggest fear? Why?

Giant squirrels, you get chased through Yggdrasil by one and tell me you're not terrified afterward!

13. What is your oc’s most prized possession? What’s the importance/meaning behind this item?

Hermagic arrow, Willow, was the only gift her mother had ever given her. Her aim is always accurate and she always returns to Hannah's quiver. Plus like any good magical weapon, Willow can talk.

14. Does your oc have any hobbies? How did they get involved in these?

She sews and bakes. She uses them as excuses to make stuff for her friends.

15. What’s your oc’s favorite color? Does this color have any special meaning/symbolism?

Blue, it gives her wintery vibes and reminds her off her mother.

16. What’s your oc’s favorite food? Why is this their favorite food?

Yorkshire pudding was the first thing Hannah learned to bake and it reminds her of growing up in London.

17. What’s your oc’s biggest aspiration in life? Why?

She wants to delay Ragnarok as long as possible. She didn't get long to live her life and she's happy as an einherjar. She's in no hurry to give that up.

18. What’s your oc’s relationship like with their family?

Well her mother doesn't really talk to her but Hannah knows she cares from a distance. Her father and her brother are both dead and apparently in some other afterlife so she doesn't really have a relationship with them anymore.

19. Does your oc have any defining skills? How did they acquire/learn these skills?

Outside the typical einherjar abilities, Hannah is kheimo and frigokinetic. She inherited these skills from her mother Skadi. She's also an amazing archer. Part of that is also inherited talent but most of it comes from a lot of practice.

20. What does your oc’s bedroom/house look like? How does this reflect their personality?

Her room at the Hotel Valhalla looks like the inside of a cozy cottage. Her main atrium is divided between a large living area with comfy couches and chairs around a huge roaring fireplace with shelves full of books on the walls all around it and an enormous kitchen fully stocked for baking. To one side, there's a nook for maintaining her archery equipment. On the other is a nook with sewing supplies.

Basic Asks

[everalii]

Btw, I need to update a few thingsssssss....

Business

My business is thriving little by little. I had to buy so many products for the treatments, and it is paying off so good. Many clients are happy, and they feel safe here. Women come for facials and they pour their souls, I had so many of them crying, hugging me seeking validation.

This is how its supposed to be: healing for the body, healing for the heart and healing for the soul.

I had a high school friend (nor stranded, we kept in touch) working with me as a nail tech bc she lost her job and wanted to pursue this career. But she has a son, which is not a problem for me (I'll elaborate later). The problem was the fact that: 1 she changed my entire color pallette without asking but I went along; 2 she came for like a week and then her products were rotting untouched for about a month, she wasn't coming to the clinic bc she didn't had money or clients, which comes to the following item; 3 she wasn't posting anything on social media, wasn't selling any of her procedures and not bringing anyone to the clinic, which was the main reason of why I agreed to lended the place: to get me more visibility and more clients.

When I had enough and kicked her out, she called me a bitch and said I wasn't helping her, I had no empathy for our years of friendship nor for her child. Did I mention that I didn't charge her any rent for the room in MY CLINIC? No? Well... I stated it was 100% professional and not personal matter, but she wanted to turn personal. She can fight with herself in the mirror.

She got her stuff out my clinic and sold her things. Blocked me on every social media and I couldn't care less. I'm good working on my own.

Family

Husband never wanted kids and didn't wanted to be with someone who wanted. Having children wasn't a big thing on my to do list, but I thought it would be nice. However, since it wasn't a great goal of mine, I decided to let it go for the sake of my relationship and I'm very okay with it.

No, he didn't force me. No, he didn't threaten me. He even asked me if I truly wanted bc he would have a child with me to fulfill this "dream." But with global warming, the economy breaking and everything, bringing a child to this world was not a good move, in my opinion, so I truly let it go.

HOWEVER, the gods truly had another plan, as they shoved a 12y girl into my arms. My cousin got the custody of his daughter, but he's recovering from drug addiction, working full-time, and financially broken. Her mother is a junkie and sells her body for drugs.

I decided to step in and help my cousin, and usually, she spent her days here. I take her to and pick her up from school, help with homework, teach her how to cook, sew, play videogames, draw, clean. Take her to the theaters, movies, and concerts.

My husband adores her and spoils the little shit rotten. He's teaching her about mechanics, how to ride a bicycle, and even how to fight in case she needs to defend herself.

She'd blossomed here, and I love her so much. We truly feel like she's our daughter, and she always says how much she loves us.

Even tho I'm not going back in my decision of not producing children, I feel like a childless mother, but the gods found a motherless child for me.

Family is now complete. Oh, and my mother is really a grandma for her!

Spiritual

I've been playing around with my Tarot Deck and we're on good terms, finally.

For context: I have the opinion that oracules are not just tools, but have spirits associated with, every deck has a spirit that talks to you through the cards, much like an Ouija Board; that being said, the spirit that resides in my deck is a hot-headed prick. And usually he's very cruel with me. I don't know if I'm schizophrenic or if I can really hear said spirit shouting at me when I ask something really stupid to the deck.

Also, I'm working with Orixás¹ now, specially Oxóssi² and Iansã³. The Orixás are gods from the Umbanda, a religion born in Brazil with african ancestry, it's based on love, freewill and spread good.

Pronunciation: ¹Orish-As, ²Oshoh-SI, ³Yan-SAN.

Health

Lol what health? Fibromyalgia has been deadly lately due to the heat waves on Brazil. And given my new environmentalist nature worrying about the global warming, my mental health is nit very good. But I'm trying really hard!

I've managed to raise a few people to plant as many trees we could. So far, 200 new trees have been planted and I'm so proud, tomorrow we'll be plating another 30, and mobilizing more people!

We might die due to the overheating in this planet, but we'll die fighting.

I guess that's it, the most important things.

[bitchkay]

When I get an art studio (IF I even end up getting an art studio‼) my family will literally never see me again

Cus listen WHEN I GET A JOB-- listen

Not even just about the money to yk pay for the studio but having something that's taking up most of my time‼‼

Yall will not see me

cus look I need a place a work, no doubt about that

Not even cus I need the space (even the I DO need space which is VERY scarce at the moment) however but I'm currently working out of my bedroom. My 11 feet by 12 feet bedroom. The paintings(PLURAL) I'm currently working on are 3ft square. I have maybe 4 feet of workable space, not including walking space cus I don't have walking space right the now. I'm using 2 easels to work on my paintings cus the easel is too I dont wanna say flimsy but the size of the painting it doesn't sit sturdy on one so I'm using two. Also finished paintings leaned up against my bed, my desk, the wall and tv I dont use but my mom gave it to me and its functional even tho it's one of them older TVs that's big as hell but I hooked up my Xbox to it and put crunchyroll on it so I can watch anime on the tv but the thing is I have use it for that in quite a while but hears the thing my paintings literally block the tv screen

Anyway were going off topic, point even though my 4 feet of workable space is more like 2 feet without space to walk it's not even about not having space

It's more about having an actual space to work not just work I do in a space

Cus it's hard to focus and really get in the zone when I'm here cus-- well first of this is my bedroom!!

And second this is my house, not you know my art room or something

You know I sleep here, I eat here, I relax in here, I masturbate in here like--

And I hate being distracted I'll be working on something and my mom will call me to find something for her, trust when I get back to my room I am not working anymore in hate I was probably seething with rage while finding the thing for my mom and now I dont even wanna look at a paintbrush and will proceed to do nothing for the rest of the day and dont even try to talk to me after that either not cus I was called or that I was asked to do something, but because I was taken out of the moment, distract me from what I was doing and believe me I have murder on my mind

As a result of this usually I dont get alot of work done and look if my parents ask me to do something I'm gonna do it like my parents are getting older, they work all day I know theyre stressed I know they're tired and if I can make their life slightly easier I can do that, if they ask me to do it but I'd also like to be able to work without be angry at the fact that other people live in this house

Plus I'd like to not enable my dads weight gain without being accused of being a "bad child" and "being mean" just cus I said I wouldn't get him a bowl of ice cream or two cookies

Maybe getting an art studio would be my way of getting space without the full weight of moving out

Cus yes I do need a space to workout but really I just need a space

During school I would be there for morning till night whether there was people there or not sometimes even on weekends cus I knew I could take advantage of the space and as a results I got an absolute shit ton of work done cus that studio was my work space and I liked actually have a place where I can work, even if I dont get alot of work done it's an area and environment where I know I can and will work on something

I just graduated almost 2 weeks ago and this week was the last week what we could really take advantage of the studio and supplies, I actually picked up the last of my stuff this past Tuesday and I'm kinda like what do I do now??????????

I also need a table

Like I have a desk and a sewing table but I need a table that's at least as wide as the painting I'm working on rn or the one currently on the easel(s) cus the way I'm doing it I need to lay it down I need to put it flat to do what I want to do with it but I don't even have space to put this mf on the floor, I barely have space to roll my desk chair in front of my easel💀💀 neither my desk or sewing table are big enough for my painting

Honestly this is probably cus I like to work big

Well I can even say cus i have alot of small paintings

More like more recently I like to work bigger or rather the goals of the paintings I'm doing just require a larger canvas

Either way I'm kinda in a place where I'm realizing a lot about myself and the way I work and what I'm doing where I would benefit from an art studio,it would also be easier to clean if I simply just didn't have all these obstacles that at the m are immovable die to there being no where more practical to put them

Moral of the story an art studio sounds like a such a good idea

And look I'm in no particular rush

At this moment, at that particular unemployed moment this is NOWHERE near a short term goal ok I need a flow of income before i can seriously look at what i want, what i need, what I can do, what I cant do, what can accomplish, ect. ok were still in the "if"s even if I want it to be a "when"

But IFFFF I get an art studio, probably bot by myself, split it with a few friends, imma be all up in that bih😈

[littlewalken]

ap 25

I think I checked before but I have a butt load of paper doll scans, some are from Fashion In Paper, some are just water marked index prints from the shops that do reprints (because paper doll artists know sometimes that's all you need), and some are scans of ones I physically did or still do own.

Because like back when Happy Meals were $2 each, we'll say $5 each for reference today, a book of paper dolls was $1 and if you were poor that might be the only toy you get.

Today the bulk of our Happy Meal toy collection rightfully rests in the Route 66 McDonalds museum where little nose prints and finger smudges are cleaned daily from the glass. The paper doll collection was scanned, those in any decent shape were sold to collectors, those I didn't keep for personal or collage reasons went off to someone else. None of them were rare or OOAK examples, most were discolored pieces of crispy paper held together by tape.

But yeah, if no one is around to help you move things you have to make some hard decisions. Should have kept a few of the analog books I parted with but shit happens and here we are. One did make it to the train museum where it was being read before we even left.

That's the thing to get across to hoarders some time. Our barrels full of McDonalds toys in the garage weren't doing us any favors. We weren't sitting on any treasures that were going to make us financially rich.

Want to be remembered? Be the people who give a museum so much stuff it has to change how it displays things.

***

Going to try and get some machine sewing in today. Still grappling with the concept I could not only put the machine on the work table in the living room but I could leave it there for a couple of days while I work on and off and it won't be disturbed.

Already I'm steadily getting used to not having all my personal things in one room, or well fortified in the garage, and everyone living under this roof will respect that.

Pets wouldn't count but also pets wouldn't be able to do things I still take Repressitall for.

~Tries to explain to puppy Dublin not to chew on books while giving him several options that are for puppers to chew on~

[glittergutts]

Remodel update

Yesterday, Chris and I spent about 4 hours sorting through my husband's nightstand and making everything fit into the smaller, new one. It was kinda trippy to go down memory lane and see things that have been tucked away for the past 10 years. We also moved our clothes to the new dresser and I have an extra small drawer so it's nice to have a little more space. I kon Marie'd my clothes so my shirt drawer looks very nice with everything lined up instead of stacked. We only have a little left to do before painting. I need to clean out under my bed, which is going to take forever because it's been years since I've done that, and it is like full of stuff. I have some books to box up and take out of my room. And I have a big heavy dresser to move out to the garage. Then we'll be ready to paint the walls! Chris drew a really nice picture of what our room is going to look it when we're done. It's been so nice deep cleaning all my things. I'm so excited that under the bed is my last cleaning project in my room. I've been putting it off for the past 2 years, and when I decided to start focusing on it, everything started coming together pretty quickly. There a few more things we need to buy for our room, curtains/blinds, 2 small lamps, a mirror, a TV, some book shelves, and some little things to pull it all together like pretty sheets and throw pillows. I'm going to sew the throw pillows. I just need to go to the fabric store and pick out some nice fabric.

So yea, today I'll be chugging coffee and sorting the scary stuff under the bed. I wonder how much of it I can get rid of? I'm not excited about the old pictures, and some stuff I know makes me feel weird I just stuck under the bed forever ago, but it'll be okay. Maybe I'll find something cool under the bed.

I'm so ready to start nesting. Maybe cleaning is part of nesting. I think painting and remodeling will be done before fall time like I was really hoping.

Things are working out pretty well.

[sleepingbutawake]

Grand Admiral of Hell's Navy babysitting duty

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Part 2

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It was casual morning in the HoL until Asmo decided to show MC and the exange students squad some parts of Devildom not many had seen.

"Hey MC, have you ever seen Devildom's butterflies?" Asmo asked.

"No, i dont think i have" they respond continueing to sew belphies pillow.

"They hasnt seen them maybe bc theyre on that island. Maybe Levi knows what kind of ocean beast is there." Beel said munching on his after-breakfast snack.

"i havent seen that either. Maybe Levi knows how to get there." Belph spoke from couch with his head on MC's lap.

"You're right. LEEEVIIIIIII" Asmo screamed as if his life depended on it.

Instead of angry Levi comes angry lucifer and then after angry Lucifer comes angry Levi.

"Keep it down!!" Lucifer scream and Mc is wondering how the hell does the house still stand.

"What do you want Asmo" Levi looks at his youger brother.

"You know about that island where do bloodsucking crystalline butterflies live, do you?"

"Ofc i do. As a Grand Admiral i have to know where am i leading my ships." Levi scoffs.

"Well thats good to know. On that island you can get just by water and i dont know how do anything with boats and since on that part of an ocean is a sea monster... Who else that my sweet big bro can get us safe on that island. You can do that since youre Grand Admiral of Hell's Navy." Asmo says slyly to get to his point.

"And you think i can do that? Sure get to that island wont be problem for me, but as a Grand Admiral i also have limits! I cant do everything as i pleases, can I?" He tried to put him down from his idea.

"Fine plan B. MC you want to go there? Asmo turns to face MC.

"I mean, if i could see that butterflies, i could have some inspiration in making the butterfly hair clips as had the butterfly sisters in Demon slayer." MC says looking straight at Levi. "Would you please take me and the others there, Levi?"

"I-I mean,sure thing. Ofc yeah, anything for you. Why re you still sitting? Go dress up bc on ocean its sometimes cold. Try to hurry up if we want to come back before the night." Levi says and leaves living room to grab his stuff.

Asmo just smirks. "I know how to get something of I want to." and winks at MC.

They all met in the living room, luke, simeon and solomon joining too bc solomon said: 'Ive gotta see this' so here they are.

Levi came downstairs in his admiral uniform.

"So you decided to go full mode huh? Wanna impress MC that much?" Belph teases slightly red Levi.

"S-shut up. Lets go." And he pushes them out of house.

"Its about time you took us here Levi. Funny how you never let your dear big brother wander here alone." Mammon teases.

"Yeah no. I dont need nuclear explosion." He mutters.

"Alright my soldiers. All you have to do is preprare Bailoar and make sure All of them are safe on it." He says in a voice MC never heard him speak in.

"Yes Admiral" they say automaticaly and get to work.

Levi knows theyre talking about the situation and he just lets them bc 'I came here to enjoy a cruise with my human' mode is on.

"Its weird to see admiral Leviathan so chill today. He usually have stare that could kill if if he had that power." The soldiers whisper between them.

"You know what im not gonna fuck up today bc im not really in the mood to be feeding Lothan." one of them says. They all agree and go to do as their admiral wants.

"What is Bailoar?" Beel asked.

"I think its the name of the ship?" MC says.

"Yes correct. Bailoar is the ship i was using the most when i was still new. Shes not especialy big bc I dont want to take the other ones out." Levi explains when he leads them to a huge ship where on the right side is in caligraphy written Bailoar.

"How did you called her again?" Solomon stood there, mouth wide opened looking at the ship.

"Bailoar is bigger than seven football stadions..." MC says.

"Yeah shes tiny sorry. "He responds to MC. Then he turn to face his brothers, Angels and Solomon who were just observing the base.

"What are you waiting for? On board!" He ordered.

The cruise started nicely, wind was fine, the sea was calm...what can go wrong?

Lemme tell you. EVERYTHING.

"Levi how would you call Bailoar for humans?" Solomon asked.

"I think Bailoar is the ship that would never sink. I mean NOTHING can take her down." Levi says proudly.

"Like the Titanic?" MC said.

"What is Titanic?" Luke, Mammon, Asmo and Belphie asks at the same time.

"For the humans it was the unsinkable ship in human history." Solomon explained.

"yeah. Well it wasnt that unsikable bc in its first cruise ended up at the bottom in the middle of Atlantic ocean with at least 500 or more dead passagers." MC said as if by the way. The way their smiles dissapeard was really funny to watch.

"Yeah it did sank but the capitain of the ship was kind of stupid." Solomon says trying to calm a little panicked luke.

"Dont forget that Titanic sank bc it hit iceberg." Solomon reminded MC.

"Yeah and since levi is the capitain now lets hope he dont do anything stupid or at the bottom of the ocean will be us." MC says jokingly. All of the soldiers that were with them at the boat trying not to cross their way if they dont have to froze looking at Levi with tears in their eyes, some of them that pale that Satan could swear he saw their veins.

Levi responded very calmly.

"Yeah. Well im demon capitain, and on this ocean are not any icebergs."

"I know but is a sea monster."

Some soldiers had to leave to breathe it throught, or sit somewhere and calm down.

"Why does everyone look like were about to get eaten?" MC asks totally confused.

"Levi’s lowkey known only to come visit the base when there’s either an imperial order to wage war or suppress something or he’s going to 'whip everyone into shape' and those who fail his standards are gonna be eaten by Lotan" Satan explains not looking up from his book.

Mammon just laughs.

"yeah Levi has rage issues too lmao he traumatized his subordinates 😂👌”

(original idea goes to person i could not find so if you see this pls say its your idea and im more than willing to give you credit for this beatiful thing i'll Also tag @dicetheroll and @obeythebutler bc i can. Hope you'll like it <3)

[phyllitta]

Story time: Background info

When I was little, maybe 1 or 2, my mom's friend gave her a plain brown teddy bear to give to me.

I slept with it, ate with it, took it everywhere, especially if we went out of town. I also had a blanky too.

I kept that bear well into my twenties and thirties, and it never left my bed.

I loved this little guy, but like all things..

Flash Forward:

Married Life: I moved in with my boyfriend, soon to be husband, who knew how much I loved that bear, and why it still would have a place in our bed.

He was my Cuppy.

My brother in law lived with us, and my mother inlaw, and father in law lived in the front house. They had two dogs, now I love dogs, but the American bulldog loved to chew on everything (you can probably see where this is headed), but we kept him out of our house, unless our doors were closed.

Now this is where it gets awful, and still makes me cry and so angry...but one day I came home from work, and I couldn't find Cuppy. I looked everywhere, called my husband freaking out, called my mom, thinking maybe I left it there, or took him to her house, but nothing.

My husband gets home, and we begin looking through the trash, thinking maybe he got tossed out on accident.

It was my last hope.

Lo and behold, all we found was the stuffing, pieces of his fur, because the dog had been let into the house without us there.

Now..I wasn't mad at the dog. It's a dog.

What made me angry is the fact everyone knew how important that stuffed animal was to me. I discussed it, and made sure to let everyone know that if the dog comes inside to at least make sure our door was closed (it usually was. My husband and I both closed the door behind us).

So far you may be thinking well its my fault, but here's the kicker.

Everyone saw the dog with my bear in his mouth, tearing it up. They saw him push our door open and go into our room, and instead of grabbing it, they let him tear apart over 30 years of memories.

What made it worse was the fact all three of them, my in laws said and I quote "it's just a bear" or "you can get another one".

No I can't bitch cause your fucken untrained animal went into a closed room and destroyed the one thing I've had since I was a child.

They weren't even going to tell me he had it, and threw the stuffing away thinking it wasn't a big deal.

My heart literally broke right there with my hands in the trash trying to salvage my Cuppy.

But this is the part of the story that made me realize I had found someone special, my best friend, and lover, even if most of his family are pieces of shit.

My husband not only put those people in their place, but he also dug through the trash bin and found every piece he could, thinking he could sew it together. He couldn't because not all the pieces were there. The fucken dog ate some of it, but instead...

Instead he took the stuffing and some of th3 fur we had left, took me to Build a Bear, and told them what happened. He asked if he could pay full price, but build another brown bear with the stuff I had left.

I was extremely lucky the people there were understanding, and a few of them were in tears since I was crying.

I watched as a young woman carefully put everything I had left if the brown bear, add a little more stuffing, and let me help sew him back up.

I still get angry and so upset, but when I do, I grab my bear, and can feel him inside it. It may not be the same bear, but inside it is.

And I'll never forget the lengths my husband went through in order to give my Cuppy back to me.

I don't know why I'm thinking about that now, but thought I'd share.

[theweeklybusy]

The week in review

Monday the 27th my aunt and uncle were still here, so it was kind of a work day and kind of a host day. Luckily I was working from home and a handful of higher-ups were out at conferences or on vacation, so few people noticed that I was slow in answering my emails.

I realized that night that the pattern I had been fiddling with started with the wrong measurements. So I painfully unraveled it all back to the foundation row, re-balled the yarn barf, and sadly started over. At this point, if I run into another mistake, I may just have to roll with it because I do not want to un-do this project a second time!

Tuesday 28th was Tiabeanie's final class of level 3 obedience training. We've had her for about 9 months now, and she has really blossomed from the dog that the shelter knew, that the fosters knew, and that we knew when we first got her. She is sweet and smart and sassy, loving and cuddly, and also unfortunately still pretty anxious about being away from me. Having training together has really helped our bond and trust for me to be able to move into things like cutting her nails and giving her baths with less fear and fuss (she still doesn't like them though) and I just know that the next big hurdle will be addressing her separation anxiety.

For now though, I love the training place and am excited to move onto the more fun stuff!

Wednesday the 29 was a full and flexible day! Started with a 2 mile walk around the lake with a friend who is babysitting a greyhound! I wish we had a properly fenced place for her to run because I would love to see her dash about and play with Tiabeanie, but most dog parks don't have the 10 foot high fences recommended for speedsters and leapers like sighthounds. Then home for laundry and chores and after the fur babies had lunch Andrew and I set out to check out the county fair...only to learn at the entrance that no pets were allowed. So with Tiabeanie in the back seat we pivoted to Main Street and just people watched while eating pizza.

When we got home from lunch the power was out (father-in-law is working on the wiring as he preps for re-insulating our attic) so I busied myself with a project that didn't need power - a carding board. Not to be confused with cardboard, this style of fiber prep was the predecessor to todays blending board. I nailed a patch of carding cloth to the underside of my fiber picker to have a more all-in-one multi-use tool, then wrapped some carding cloth around a pair of handles I had connected at the ends for a (very ugly) type of comb to pull over the board. Then I finished carding some of the llama fluff I had washed and picked and now it's ready for spinning. I'm really glad to be done with this project as it is a tool that can help me move forward with so many other projects!

Thursday the 30th was apparently uneventful enough that I took no pictures or really noted what I did during the day. Mostly just remoted in to work and caught up on emails while folks were away.

Friday July 1st however was a big deal. For starters, I forgot it was Friday and missed my therapy call! I had stuff to talk about too so I'll have to make some notes to remember it through to the next appointment. I also was able to log off early from work and pack up some clothes, crafts, and my rig to head over to a friends house for a holiday weekend LAN party!

My rig is much older than everyone else's and programmed for much different tasks. While folks set up their PCs and gaming laptops, I took a select corner of the folding tables in the living room to set up a restored Singer featherweight. Through the whole weekend I listened to people game while sewing a yukata, spinning yarn, and making progress on two crochet projects. I spent two nights at the LAN before burning out hard on all the noise, shuffling around, and children, so I packed up Sunday afternoon, collapsed on the spare bed at home for a nap, then stress ate 2/3 of a pack of Oreos for dinner. Not the best way to end the weekend, but all in all it was pretty fun and it was nice to see so many people and also make a lot of progress on my projects.

[vinceaddams]

obvs feel free to keep this private, but I got recommended the UFH channel by a friend of mine, haven't gotten around to watching anything from it. I trust your judgement on the content, but my friend considers it her main resource 🙃 of course, since you only watched a few videos you might not be able to answer this, but was there any specific really bad/unacademic approaches I should keep my eye out for that my friend might have adopted? we work on a historical festival together so im concern

(I was going to answer this privately but then it got really long and turned into a post I want to post.)

Oh dear! Well, It appears that the lady behind that channel only cares about the 20th century, so maaybe she’s got good stuff on the 20th century at least? I don’t know, but the 2 videos that I saw were so incredibly awful that I’m highly suspicious of all her stuff. 

The first bad thing about her channel is that her videos all have a one or two sentence caption and nothing else. (I clicked on a few more just to check) No sources listed, no links of any kind except to her merch store. I don’t recall her mentioning any particular sources for any of the things she said in the videos either, she just declared them very matter of factly. 

Good historians cite sources! Bernadette Banners’ video on the history of PPE has so many source links she ran out of room in the description box and had to put the rest of them on a page on her website.  (Oh poo, now I feel a bit bad because I love Karolina Zebrowska but she really needs to do better with leaving source links. But she does talk about doing research, talk in a more nuanced way, and doesn’t present herself as an expert or academic, unlike the UFH lady.)

Good historians also embrace nuance, and aren’t afraid to say “I don’t know” or “I was wrong”. Presenting things in a “this person did this one big thing, and then this happened, and that caused this” kind of way isn’t good because history is more like “all these things happened and as far as we can tell it appears to have influenced this, which was also connected to this other stuff that we don’t know all that much about”. History is foggy and complicated, no matter how much the general public wants it to be simple.

Her description of herself also seems a bit... misleading? In her about page on youtube it says “Amanda Hallay, a college professor specializing in fashion, costume, and cultural history.” but if you look at the CV linked on her website the only degrees she has are in creative writing and art history. I’m not saying a person can’t be really knowledgable about something without a degree, but her whole online presence is about being a “professor” who teaches this stuff so I find it weird.

And if the 1850′s-60s video is anything to go by, she presents things in a shockingly unprofessional way. She starts off by saying she thinks these fashions are ugly and ridiculous and that she has some “theories of her own” on them. @marzipanandminutiae has a post with a lot more about what was wrong with that video, and a few others I haven’t seen. She claims that hoop skirts were oppressive cages when in reality they were a liberating garment that allowed women to achieve full skirts without the heavy layered petticoats they wore previously. 

She posts a photo of a naked lady and says “Now lets start with a beautiful naked lady and cover her up with ugly and unflattering clothes. Now this sexy naked lady isn’t so sexy” I wish I was making this up but that’s almost word for word what she said. Along with a whole lot of untrue or exaggerated stuff about Victorian modesty. She says dresses with layered flounces were called “pagoda dresses”, which isn’t a term that anyone has ever used for those dresses. She says this is cut down from a longer video she uses for teaching class, and I find the thought of this being presented in a classroom quite appalling.

After spending about 95% of the video talking about womens fashion in an extremely condescending and disdainful tone of voice, she posts what appear to be the 5 biggest and most extreme examples of 19th century moustaches she could find, presenting them as if they were what every man looked like.

This part really grinds my gears, because she says “I haven’t said anything about menswear because there’s really not much to say.” She posts photos of suits from 5 different decades and says they’re basically all the same, and also basically the same as a modern suit. Excuse you, there is A LOT of difference between menswear of the 1850′s and the 1890′s. Yes the changes over the decades are more subtle, and the colours are often more subdued than in centuries past, but it is absolutely not (as she claims) “the century when men stopped doing fashion”.   I personally am not hugely interested in 19th century mens fashion, and can tentatively date things in the first few decades but after the middle of the century I can’t. But people who are interested and who study that era can tell the decades apart. Because they’re different. And there is SO MUCH to talk about! Suits for different levels of formality, accessories, waistcoats, sportswear, sleepwear, knitwear, swimsuits, loungewear, underwear, etc. are all extremely different from their modern equivalents. 

It’s perfectly fine to only study womens fashion if that’s what you’re interested in, but it is not okay to then declare that the history of mens fashion is worthless and nonexistent. Simply not being interested in a thing is no excuse for publicly shitting all over it. (I’ve seen people do this more than once. We already have so few men who do historical fashion stuff! Stop putting off newcomers who might be interested!!)

The fact that her online presence is so closed off is also highly unusual. Comments are turned off for her videos, and the only social media link she has is to a private facebook group. (There is also a link to a fb page, but it appears to have been deleted.) Turning off comments is of course the personal choice of the one posting the videos, but the fashion history side of youtube usually tends towards pretty decent comment threads, and people often have nice little discussions and learn stuff in them. Here it looks like she doesn’t want discussion, doesn’t want to be contradicted or asked for sources, doesn’t want to learn new things.

I had never even heard of this channel until I saw @marzipanandminutiae mention it, nor have I ever heard any of the many historical costumers/youtubers I follow mention it, yet somehow it has 55k followers? I don’t know the demographics that watch it (especially not with the comments turned off!) but I’d wager that videos like the 1850′s-60′s one I suffered through are mainly watched by people who like hearing things trash talked, rather than people who actually want to learn about fashion history. The same sort of people who loved that Beau Brummell twitter thread, which was also full of lies and unsourced garbage. People like to believe the past was way worse and grosser than it was because it makes them feel like we’re smarter and better now.

Lastly, the whole premise of the channel is just bad. Calling any one thing “The Ultimate Fashion History” is a bad idea. Her channel trailer says “Youtube’s number one channel for original fashion history content” “we’ve got it all, fifty thousand years of fashion history”. You can’t have one channel that’s the ultimate resource for ALL of fashion history! It’s a huge, HUGE subject, and even if she did do actual good research she’d barely be able to scratch the surface of fifty thousand years. That’s like saying one channel is the ultimate source for all of science, or all of music, or all of cooking. No one thing can come close to covering all of it. I will deign to admit that she’s at least right to call it “original”, because she has some very original lies I haven’t found anywhere else. 

Most people who study fashion history/historical sewing have one or several eras they like best and find most interesting, perhaps with occasional jaunts into other eras. This way we can focus and get a much better understanding of the eras that we find most interesting, rather than just a vague notion of everything. 

For example: I’m most interested in 18th century menswear, and so far have mainly researched and sewn 1785-95 stuff, and more recently some 1730′s. I usually focus on fashionable civilian clothing, so I don’t know as much about working class clothes, and next to nothing about military and other occupational dress. Even with this narrow area of interest, which I’ve been obsessed with for many years, I still have so much to learn! I could never make anything claiming to be the ultimate source for 18th century menswear, because I’m just one person focusing on some aspects, and there are other people out there who research other aspects of it and their work is just as important. It’s all so big and so much, even if you narrow it down to one era.

Amanda Hallay is basically holding up a bucket of saltwater and calling it the ocean.

I haven’t watched any of her 20th century videos, so maybe they’re better than the older ones I watched. I don’t know. (But even if they’re actually good they still don’t have source links.) Edit: okay, nope, turns out they’re just as bad! They appear to make up the vast majority of her videos, so if she’s most interested in the 20th century then maybe she should just... make her channel more clearly 20th century focused instead of trying to paint it as a channel for all eras?

TL;DR, the main bad things about that channel are:

Lying and making ridiculous claims, not citing ANY sources. Spouting easily debunked myths.

Stating things matter of factly without any nuance, even though history is foggy and complicated.

Being extremely judgemental about historical fashions and talking about how much she hates them and thinks they’re ugly, which really isn’t appropriate for a fashion history teacher. You can hear the disgust in her voice and it’s awful and I hate it.

Comments turned off on all her videos, leaving no way to communicate or have public discussions. Unknowing viewers are left to accept her statements as fact without any outside opinions.

Claiming one channel is the ultimate channel for an incalculably enormous subject. Says it covers 50,000 years of fashion history when it’s mostly just the 20th century.

I would like to add that I am not what I would consider an expert either, and have no formal education in fashion history beyond the one college class that was part of my 2 year sewing course. I have learned mainly from books and the internet, and as I said earlier I still have a huge amount to learn. I’m sure a more knowledgable historian could put things better than I have. 

But I’m confident in stating that primary sources are needed to back up a claim! Sometimes even widely accepted beliefs turn out to be entirely unfounded myths, like that one about doctors using vibrators to treat “hysteria”. Total nonsense someone made up in 1999.

Wow this post got way longer than intended. Anyways, yes, I do not like condescending slideshow lady.

[goodduckingomens]

How to make your OWN tiny bendable snake plush - easy breezy

I made these as snabies, but honestly - tiny Crowley.

Cut out a roughly snake shaped, well shape, out of a red and black stretchy fabric (Jersey is good. The red here is an old T-Shirt.) and pin them together. Dont forget to leave a generous seam allowance. Outlining your sewing line can help. Test how see through your fabric is when stretched, I had to double my black.

Sew the two pieces together using backstitch (thread doubled up). An easy tutorial can be found here. He sure to leave out about half of the hear, because you need to fill it and attach the tongue.

This is how it looks like - one side nice, one side not so much.

Flip it inside out!

Get some wire out, do 3-4 times the length of your snake (not FULL you need a bit of room!), wrap it around. Cut some more fabric, wrap it around and sew it in! No pokey bits!

Get some stuffing. Get a small piece, fluff it up and stuff it in. repeat, alternating in over and under the wire so you cant feel it. Be careful not to overstuff! Shouldn’t feel hard to touch.

I forgot to take pictures of this next part, but what you do is stuff the head, fold the fabric in and sew it closed with a ladder stitch (see here). If you want a tongue I recommend cutting one out of felt, glueing it in for positioning (glue stick) and then stitching it closed. It should look smth like this.

Now we only have the eyes left!! For the eyes, you simply take some yellow embroidery thread (on needle, not doubled up!) and make some knots into it, all on top of each other. I recommend at least 4, until your “eye” is big enough. Then you take that thread (in a needle) and go right through the head, coming out at the position of the second eye.

Like this.

Now you simply repeat the same thing. Make sure not to pull too tight, but just tight enoug, so your eyes dont smash the head but also don’t fall out. Cut off the excess!

Only the pupils left now, stay strong!

For the pupils youll need thin black thread, doubled. And then you simply go in andsew a few loops right over that embroidery thread eye until it looks good!

And done!

Some general tips and tricks: always take your thread double and go through the loop with your first stitch for a safe ending. Same goes for the end.

To end the Ladder stitch and the pupil embroidery, simply tie it off (preferably also in another loop) and then go through the plushie, cutting the thread off where you go out again. That way the thread ends are hidden inside.

These plushies took me about 2 h each, and i am not a practiced sewer. If you want a lil companion, just try it!