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[backseatloversz]

so freeing to realize that i dont necessarily need to write in my journal every day. i can add drawings. i can fill it with stickers and receipts and train tickets and gum wrappers. maybe if some stranger flips through it THEY wont know the significance of everything i collected on an afternoon out in the city because i didnt write about my afternoon out in the city but i will look at the scraps and i will know. and thats all that matters!!

[w1yre]

“Hoo, boy…It’s mighty hot outside today, huh?”

hello, hello, hello everyone!!! this is adult freddie!!!! yippee!!!!

(no cw it’s just a page break so you can read about his lore!)

so. freddie follows through with his dream of becoming a postman like his dad!!! yay!!!! good job freddie!!

basically, my welcome home next generation au features freddie, who now runs eddie’s post office! he even kept the name to honor his dad :) freddie grows up to…basically be a lot like eddie, actually lol😋 but better!!!! he’s book smart AND how-to smart!(not saying eddie isn’t book smart i just think he’s more of a how-to guy)!! like both eddie and frank :3

as an adult, freddie is very soft spoken and polite, and likes to chat about bugs or nature! :) his best friend(and secret crush but don’t tell her) is julie joyful’s daughter, janette jovial (janette isn’t scrapped anymore! i made her a next gen character instead)

he’s bisexual and a cis male btw (he/him)

in his spare time, he writes books and makes pretty paper cranes :3

since the next generation of welcome home/my au takes place in the 1990’s, he was born in 1970 and in the show’s reboot is around 22. (all the characters in the next generation are slightly younger than their parents)

(janette for reference)

(age and sexuality update: she is 20 years old, and a transgender mtf pansexual. she’s also not dating sally anymore but the two are very close!!! everything else is the same)

freddie grew up in a very loving and supportive home, and had a pretty 10/10 childhood! he loves and adores both of his parents and likes to visit them often.

he’s well liked in the neighborhood, even though he can be a bit grumpy and snotty sometimes.

he’s also very clumsy just like eddie. and do NOT make him mad whatever you do because he WILL throw you across the neighborhood

he also has a pet chicken and his own little beehive in the back of his post office. he’s very cute,,,

[skriblee-ksk]

“I feel free. It’s been some time since I felt like this without any other clinging emotions. How serene… Is what I would say if I didn’t hear shouting. I should get back inside.”

Tap Home Groovy: The outfit? Oh, Ryoko helped me choose it! I chose an interesting one myself, but Ryoko talked me out of it. I thought it was okay, but I trust her judgment! I’ve been told my fashion sense is odd multiple times before anyway.

Home Transition Groovy: Surprisingly an average level of chaos! I thought it’d spike dramatically since nearly the entirety of RSA is here, but it’s pretty manageable as always!

Glimmering Soirée is an even hosted by @starry-night-rose!!

Og post here!

More silly stuff under cut!!

Yayyy!! Finally done!!!!

Thank u for witnessing the story of how Kiyuu came here to see pretty ppl. Made a few lil stuff:

Kiyuu who, next to helping the Princes, volunteered to oversee the rest of the event as well (Crowley was super happy [with himself]).

Extra knowledge stuff for funsies:

Ryokiyuu had Grim in those baby carriers for the first few minutes of the ball. He ended up escaping though (They let him go because they felt bad and because they dressed him up fancy and trusted him enough and etc.)

Kiyuu would have fangirled over every single person in the party (usually secretly unless she knew the other person was comfortable receiving a flurry of compliments) and ultimately ended up not being able to vote for the Belle of the Ball (LOL).

Very honestly, Kiyuu probably hung around Jack and/or Ryoko (if she wasn’t busy) for the latter half of the ball because she got tired (not of socializing or anything, just in general) and went to one of the few people she felt most comfortable being vulnerable with.

I didn’t mention Azul and Malleus in the lines because like. I just couldn’t fit them in. So their relationships are!!:

Azul and Kiyuu have a strict business relationship because she used to work part time at the Mostro Lounge from Book 3 to Book 5 (Ryoko always double checked Kiyuu’s expenses because she was worried Kiyuu would get scammed). They’re amiable but not really close.

Malmal and Kiyuu are friends!! Kiyuu likes stargazing so they actually meet up quite often out of school. Kiyuu fell in love (aesthetic attraction) at first sight, and they have a normal friendship!

Here’s the one without the groovy:

and scrap:

Yay yay this event was so fun to draw for!! I loveeee ballroom types of events (as an otome isekai lover). And thanks for reading this far!!

Taglist (ask to be added!!): @kathxrat-01 @distant-velleity @scint1llat3 @elenauaurs @boopshoops

[the-final-sif]

Aaaand my convict childcare au obsession is back ... yay

So, I've been meaning to ask for ages so I guess I will just bite the bullet now. I absolutely love the AU and I'm taking any scraps of lore you would be willing to share (and didn't share so far) but what I remember really wondering about (there is more but this is the first thing I could think of) is that timeline when Karl kills Quackity and Dream revives. Or at least I assume it was Dream, he is the only one who has XD's private number after all.

Why lead Dream to reviving Quackity? What are everyone's, namely Dream's and Quackity's feelings about this? What would Quackity be up to being alive again? Do they ever interact after the revival?

Just as someone who enjoys Quackity as a character I am delighted to see him alive again but I struggle to wrap my head around why? After all the torture, Dream is probably the last person who would want to see Quackity alive isn't he?

I'm really sorry if this had already been addressed and I failed to notice it

Have a nice day <3

I'm not sure if I talked about it on tumblr or not, but I did have a sense of how that went that I think I talked about on discord.

Basically, after c!Karl murdered c!Quackity, c!Sapnap went into a serious depressive slump that did not go unnoticed by other people. It's a really rough time on him emotionally, and it really isn't getting better.

c!Dream by this point already revived c!Ranboo (although hilariously because nobody is really hunting Dream anymore what with Quackity being dead, it takes fucking ages for anyone to realized Ranboo is alive again), so that obligation is complete and his hands are doing a lot better. So making a book isn't as much of a big deal as it was before, and he has more time on his hands. He's also slowly getting caught up on stuff happening around the server.

Additionally, Ranboo has also been able to tell him about how awful limbo was and about how awful the time difference is. So c!Dream doesn't particularly feel good about leaving anyone dead for a long period. Still, he considers Quackity a threat to the commune so he hestiates.

It's when he starts getting reports (first through c!Punz as a mention, then through c!Ponk and c!Foolish when they visit as both of them are in regular contact with c!Bad whose really worried about Sapnap) that he starts seriously considering reviving Quackity. It's a mix of personal morality, wanting Sapnap to be happy despite everything, and on some level wanting to prove that he isn't scared of Quackity.

I think for him, the second part was the real reason he did it, and the last part was how he justified it to himself. It's a form of closure. Of proving that he moved on, that's he's not broken, and that he's not afraid of Quackity.

But mostly, it's about the fact that despite everything, he still loves Sapnap and wants him to happy, no matter the cost to his personally.

[dilutedh2so4]

Book of Ruth: Is it Gay? (part two yay)

image credit: jw.org (lol)

(continued from part one)

I can already see your objections: "But then Ruth married Boaz [her male relative]! Naomi told her to do it!"

Again, let us consider Naomi and Ruth's social standing. They were both women, both widows, both poor and starving. Ruth had to go foraging in the fields, collecting scraps of grain left behind so they could eat! (see Ruth 2:2-3, referring to Leviticus 23:22)

These women needed a male relative to survive, a "guardian redeemer." This was the practice, highlighted in Leviticus 25:25-28 and Deuteronomy 25:5-10, where a man had the duty of restoring the land and marrying the widow of a kinsman who had died without an heir.

"Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, taking her in marriage and performing the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed to the name of the deceased brother, so that his name may not be blotted out of Israel."

Deuteronomy 25:5-6

This union of Ruth and Boaz was a matter of survival. Naomi may have seemed excited and insistent in Ruth 2:20, but this was only after she realised Boaz was their kin and could 'redeem' Ruth. She was relieved they would not have to scavenge, starve, and suffer for much longer. She says this herself in Ruth 3:1, "My daughter, I must seek a home for you!"

Her use of "daughter" when referring to Ruth may irk some of you, but it is only a term of endearment. Boaz himself uses the same phrase for her, in Ruth 3:10, where it is then implied they subsequently had sex.

Soon after, they are married, and Ruth bears a son. He is named Obed, and he will be the grandfather of King David. Here is the passage in full:

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. When they came together, the Lord made her conceive, and she bore a son. 

Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel! 

He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has borne him.” 

Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom and became his nurse. The women of the neighbourhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.”

Ruth 4:13-17

That final line, "a son has been born to Naomi," is particularly interesting to me. It is probably referencing how this firstborn will carry on her son Mahlon's legacy, but I like to think this is a subtle nod to Ruth and Naomi's relationship. I like to think it solidifies their "marriage," which began with those vows in Ruth 1, and ends here with the birth of a child they will raise together. A child not said to be born to Ruth's husband Boaz, but to Naomi - her true lover.

*thank you so much for reading this! **there may be others to come... (if i can find the time lol) ***BTW this is just an interpretation from an ex christian lesbian lol

image credit: philip h. calderon // walker art gallery, liverpool

BONUS: According to Ruth Zuta (4:3), Boaz died the day after their wedding, so that left Naomi and Ruth to raise Obed alone! It's unfortunate for Boaz (to say the least), but - if we take this interpretation - it means our two little lesbians could finally live out their dreams (perhaps).

[albatris]

happy sts!

i've been listening to your a rental car takes a left down rake street and disappears playlists and i'm loving it! would you like to talk about wip it is for?

writblr: @vsnotresponding

hiii happy storyteller saturday!! thanks for the ask :D

yay I'm glad you're enjoying the tunes! the story is the first in a trilogy about a freshly-turned body horror mode vampire and an equally monstrous human bastard on their quest to kill the giant vampire hivemind known only as 'the Garble'!

the blurb for the first book is as follows:

Schizotypal loner Nat Finch leaves work one afternoon, and the next thing he knows, he's waking up on the side of the road covered in dirt with no memory of the past ten days. All attempts to return to regular life are quickly thwarted - whatever happened to him during his blackout has left him morphing into something strange and monstrous.

When his new condition reaches a bloody, ravenous breaking point, a human stranger steps in: Quinn Cooper, powerful and dazzling manipulator with a cruel streak, here to mitigate the damage and offer Nat safety under their wing... as long as Nat does exactly as he's asked and doesn't ask questions.

:3

other important characters include Alex Anders, rigidly moral vampire lawyer having ten existential crises at once, Yvonne Tozier, cheery video game fanatic full of barely-contained simmering fury (she works customer service, you get it), and Zeke Cunningham-Warwick-Lâm, romance novelist by day, vampire hunter by night, and full-time weird psychic, who desperately needs to stop burning herself out every other week and practice some self-care

I'm most excited abt my vampire worldbuilding! vampirism as a condition is sentient, it's one being spread throughout many different bodies..... the life force gathered by the many vampires flows to the centre of the hivemind to give it eternal life while the vampires themselves are left with mere scraps

the story itself is full of queerness and body horror and my barely contained rage abt existing as a disabled person under capitalism

n yeah! that's about all!

[ctrldoll]

*[Name], Death's offspring arranging something on a desk.*

Eternity, wanting to spy on its "sibling," Death through [Name] *totally does not have slight compassion for it*: What are you doing?

[Name]: Just arranging something, "Uncle". *continues*

*Eternity looks over its shoulder.*: You too? What is genuinely you and your parent's obsession with masked men???

*on the table lays a scrap book, with colourful confetti, bows, hearts & sparkles all used to decorate and frame photos of Slade Wilson/Deathstroke.*

[Name]: Please don't compare the two. That's literally comparing the original to a mere ripoff.

Deadpool, *because he's so random, appears out of nowhere*: I can beat him in a fight, sweet cheeks! You can count on fucking that!

[Name]: Yes! But, when though?

Deadpool: Anyday, anytime!

[Name]: Yay! I'm not referring to your battle anymore, though. When are Slade and I gonna...you know? *Rolls its eyes while smiling cheekily. Eternity's a bit uptight.*

Deadpool: Oh, you sly minx! He's so old, though. Are you sure he can keep up?

[Name]: I'd love to see it for myself! Despite his age, that man has surprising capabilities! I bet that he can!

Eternity:

I love Deadpool & Deathstroke so much! <3 I just had to spit this out before doing some work! (⌒‐⌒) *I don't feel like itttttt! It's Saturday! ((T_T))*

Idrc about canon in this. I know Death (Marvel) can't typically have children because of the whole thing between it and Thanos.

[paradox-time]

@basil-does-arttt

Heeeeyyyy, thanks for giving me an excuse to ranttt <3<3

Ok so, I saw a post of yours that was something like "what about gortash do fans find appealing?”

I'm going to try my best to answer why some of us are fans of this Absolute Shitbag (pun intended)

Some of my credentials, I've played the game for over 700 hours over about 4 months, seen, made, and interacted with tons of fan content and talked about it at length with other fans and unwilling friends. I make it my job to know every single scrap of Lore the game has to offer, going to stupid lengths to read all the books and letters hidden throughout the game, I also savescum the hell out of dialog options so I don't miss any exposition. I've played a tav twice and a dark urge 8 times, plus started but never finished other origin playthroughs.

Safe to say. I am deranged. (Yay hyperfixation)

Anyway, Enver Gortash is one of my favorite villains in fiction. This does not, in any way, mean that I admire or excuse any of his actions. I don't find him handsome or charming. He isn't redeemable or even likable in any capacity as a person.

The entire main theme of the game is whether or not the characters perpetuate the cycle of abuse or break it. You see that with Astarion, he either kills Cazador and forges his own future as a freed spawn, or ascends, and becomes someone who is just as bad and abusive as Cazador. You see it with Shadowheart in whether she chooses to live a life under Shar's cruel influence, or leave her past behind her and embrace Selúne. You see it in Gale and whether he ascends to Godhhood and is nothing like the kind and inquisitive person he once was, or leaves Mystra and his life as an archmage behind to live a life of quiet comfort where he can follow his passions and teach people like he should have been taught instead of isolating students like how mystra and elminster isolated him.

Many more examples blah blah blah

Ok, a lot of people (wrongly) try to justify and apologize for everything gortash has done by pointing at his backstory like a gotcha thing.

Gortash's parents sold him into slavery when he was very young to pay off their debts. The person who then raised and owned Gortash was none other than the ultimate slimeball, Raphael the Cambion. In this environment, Gortash grew incredibly bitter and started to worship Bane, the god of Tyranny, Dictatorship, Strife, and Subjugation. This was because he believed he was owed power over others for everything he was put through. He then becomes a slave trader, selling Karlach to Zariel is one notable example, a war profiteer and arms dealer, he keeps the families of his prisoners held hostage in an underwater prison that was rigged to explode and then subsequently flood if any of his factory staff tried to escape. His workers were also made to wear fucking bomb collars. He sews bigotry in the general public by not letting refugees in the city and controlling the media (newspapers and posters). His entire goal and religious doctrine is founded on the belief that it is his divine right to control and oppress people.

It has been so freaking long since I've found a piece of media that had an actual villain, but still kept said villain's story and motives interesting! Lots of modern media really tries to go the formulaic propaganda villain route. “Character A wants to do the right thing. Character B wants to do the right thing but does it in a BAD and DiSrUpTiVe way!! Gasp!! Villain!” I think it's supposed to endorse and enforce moral superiority of centrists, yuck. but that's a Different Tangent™.

I feel like there are a lot of fans that think that in order to like a character, they have to be morally palatable and pg or whatever. I see lots of fans that can't fathom liking a character that is genuinely evil and a bad person. So they just. Ignore the entire central point of the character.

Gortash sucks ass. If I met him in real life I would beat his ass into the dirt. But he isn't real. And fiction, especially interactive fiction, is an amazing way to explore darker themes in a safe and controlled environment. This is amazing for dozens of reasons, including exploration of catharsis.

I like Gortash because he amazing as a Villain. His story is super connected to the themes of the game. His acting is done with so much care and talent from the production team at Larian.

Fans who fawn over and woobify him. Umm. Do better. Get media literate please. No hate, love all the gortash content, especially in relation to the Dark Urge's story line. But please stop pretending he isn't as bad as he is. That's one of the main things I find compelling about him as a story device in the first place. You can like evil characters because they're fake.

Ummm conclusion…. Yeah. I like Gortash because he makes a fun story.

[luckybyrdrobyn]

Okay aita me this

Recently I was part of a musical and one of the principals reached out to me specifically and advertised the play they were directing later in the year.

I hunt down the details and attempt to book my rehearsal 5 times by calling the instructed number. I later discover that I had to text bc the owner had busy days.

But okay, auditioned scheduled and I spend the next 3 weeks learning a piece only to get hit by a cold and have to scrap it for something else.

But it’s okay, I survived the audition and get asked to come in for callbacks.

I don’t get the email with all the callbacks information and am instead informed by a text message less that 10 hours beforehand.

That’s okay, I speed learn a monologue during my work break and memorise it instead of sleeping, only to get there and learn that not only am I allowed to have my lines, i only need 4 of them. The original specifications were “max 3 minutes”

But it’s fine, it’s okay. We ignore the fact that I (and a handful of others) get overlooked because we weren’t aiming for a specific part and get thrown in with a random group after asking.

So we all say our bit and then pair up except 2/4 pairs don’t get to do the exercise because we didn’t have the time.

So we finished all of that up and they finish the callbacks saying they’re hoping to keep as many people as possible.

So I head home wondering when we’ll hear back and worried that I gave them the wrong email.

A week goes by with nothing so I reach out to the original contact who informs me they have been dropped from the group/production and cannot help. So I reach out the the person who requested me and still no response.

A couple members of my choir were at callbacks so we’re all checking with each other on what’s going on and no one’s heard anything. Then boom, we learn that one of them has the principle role.

I’m still waiting to hear back

The mother sends us a screenshot of a Facebook post about the director apparently getting back on the horse because things have been “tough”

So I check my email and yay there’s an email:

Am I allowed to be mad?

I’m not sad or disappointed, I know I did my best and I know I did well.

But to go out of your way, to request me, compliment everything I bring, and then turn me down with that kind of email?

At least tell me why!

I put so much time into this, not just learning and attending but the constant anxiety ticking over about missing something important.

And I’m not going to go digging, I’m not that kind of person, but I am going to hold a grudge.

And the thing is, this kind of dismissal will probably throw me into a depression spiral for a week once it kicks in. So yay.

Anyway, sorry for rant

[trishmishtree]

So I made another c0rset, and it comes stuffed with fancy pillows

Apparently I am now on a quest to recreate an early Edwardian summer dress/historybound...in the middle of winter. The last time I made a c0rset, it was an under bust design meant to go under my modern clothes, and I drafted it myself--so this time I decided to be lazy and used Aranea Black’s Tulip c0rset pattern with a few minor alterations for fit.

The great thing about these straight front c0rsets is that they aren't actually supposed to fit to the contours of your body. As long as the waist size is right for you, you can pad out the bust and hips to fill out the areas of the c0rset that you're too small to fill. A foundational undergarment with wider hips and a lower, fuller bust instantly creates the illusion of a smaller waist, even if (like me) you aren’t able to lace down more than an inch before getting too close to tight lacing territory.

I made it in size D (which gives the c0rset a 23 5/8" waist, which means a ~2.5" lacing gap on me), but the cotton twill I used must’ve stretched a bit because it ended up closing all the way in the back again (but I did put in a waist tape so maybe I used a twill tape that stretches?). Come to think of it, I really should have started with size C instead. I ended up having to shave off an inch and a half off the two back pieces to get back some semblance of a lacing gap, and then let out 3/8" from one of the front seams where I have a weird rib that sticks out more on the right compared to the left (thanks, scoliosis) and only makes its presence known when I wear tight clothing that contains plastic whalebone.

^Closeup of some the flossing detail because this is the first time I've actually been happy with the result.

The fashion layer is an iridescent silk shantung that my phone camera keeps trying to make appear purple. It's made from black warp threads and cornflower blue weft threads and actually looks a lot more blue in real life. (Also, my skin is not this pink irl either. I think my phone camera just tints everything slightly pink.)

Also, here's the bust improver:

I self drafted the pattern pretty much directly from the extant in the LACMA collection. It’s stuffed with fabric scraps that I save specifically for stuffing, but it could still use a little more volume since the stuffing must have flattened down a bit from being worn. It’s probably going to need an entire extra inch of thickness, if the discrepancy in the lacing gap in the c0rset is anything to go by.

Speaking of padding, at the moment, the hip spring in the c0rset isn't quite up to Edwardian standards because it's just my natural hip spring since I haven't gotten around to making the hip pad yet. But I did take a page out of Snappydragon's book and made the sides of the hips adjustable to accommodate a hip pad in the future. Also, not entirely sure when I’m going to make the hip pad because everything I’ve read has advised against using fabric scraps for those because they’re too heavy, so I guess I’m going to have to invest in some cotton fiber fill.

As always, yes I can breathe. I think I got lucky and this c0rset pattern just works really well with my personal skeletal structure with minimal adjustments. Nothing is digging in in uncomfortable places. That said, this is not going to be something I'll wear in my daily life because the silhouette is just too exaggerated for me to get away with, and it doesn’t really provide that much back support since it is so loose around the entire circumference of my bust. 

Update: I did end up adding a lot more stuffing to the bust improver and now the c0rset actually laces up evenly, so yay

[dedenneblogs]

Grover X Beckendorf Headcanons:

- Grover hangs around Beckendorf. a lot. the satyr takes exuse he can get to tag along with percy when he’s hanging out with Charles and only does so to eat all the scrap metal they leave behind, which comes in mass when it comes to Beckendorf; he was a perfectionist in his younger years, so there we always failed prototypes for Grover to chew on. It annoyed Charles at first, but after a while and getting to know the goat boy better he actually liked Grover’s company (he even thought it was kind of cute whenever his new friend would snatch and scrap metals that came flying over his way - wait that’s kind of gay- (POSSIBLE FANFIC IDEA???)

- Charles always tries his best to send iris messages to percy when his friend is on quests. percy unfortunately doesn’t note them because they’re usually just hour long conversations between a percy at 3:00 am who’s unable to sleep and a Beckendorf awake in the afternoon (cause of time zones) talking about girls, video games, etc. one time he was caught by Chiron late at night but the iris message quickly dissolved into Chiron stealing Charle’s call to talk with Percy.

- Silena was one of the first people to really recognize Charle’s discarded work (other than Percy and sometimes Grover whenever he wouldn’t eat his scrap, Silena was just more persistent and interested in his projects). the funny thing is that most of the time she confused his inventions for other things. example: Beckendorf makes a homemade lunchbox that folds for extra storage on the inside (actually one of Grover’s favorites that Charles finalized later in his years and gifted it to Beckendor)? Silena: “Ooooo! Is that a makeup kit?” Really, they were more friends than lovers. Silena had feelings for Clarrise, and Beckendorf was starting to realize a lot about himself when it came to Grover. But wouldn’t it be fun? It’d be easier. It’s what was expected of them anyways. (WOW! i’m on a role with this doomed yaoi!)

- Charles looks like he benchpresses, but in reality? he’s…(shudders) a GA(Y)MER…

- Charles loves to play the drums. as a full homemade set he can fold and carry from his home and camp. also has steel drums ONLY for camp (Ms. B doesn’t like the sounds it makes, it gets annoying after awhile). Him and Grover have duets.

- Before Grover went out on his quest after book 1, Charles gifted him a cup that had “The Best Satyr Ever” written on it (gay???1!1?1!)

- Tyson could see how gay Charles was for Grover. he has a voice radar AND gaydar which is unfortunate for Beckendorf. one time almost outed him to the entire camp when he said something along the lines of “you homo for goat boy?” In his heart he’d rather Charles be homo for anyone BUT goat boy, but he’s accepting (can’t spell cyclops without W).

- in an alternative (better) universe, Charles is along for the ride in the Sea of Monsters! but it sad lemme explain to myself: basically like Clarrise is given her own quest but Chiron and Dionysus don’t trust her, but more importantly her father, so have Charles, Silena, and maybe a few other campers go out to keep and eye on her. Clarrise catches on and tries to kill them probably distracting her from another event and shit goes down the drain. but like in the end everyone makes up and these characters actually get screentime! yay! victory! (also probably carry’s Grover like a princess. it awakened something in the both of them

- Grover is crazy good at just dance. Charles made another wii and everyone suggested him to download new games. “Can you install Super Mario Bros Wii?” Percy pleaded. “Does this stupid console have Halo?” Clarrise interrogated. “Oh, I just love Just Dance, it’s just great, BLAHAHAHA!” Grover humored. Just Dance was on Charle’s second homemade wii in a matter of minutes, and in stayed in his cabin so that when they could, him and Grover could just be together as two (either way Charlie isn’t the best at Just Dancd, Grover is too good but Beckendorf doesn’t mind watching him).

- When Grover called Beckendorf Charles for the first time, he didn’t correct him. A few minutes later another camper called him Charlie and he corrected them.

[icaruskey]

As I’m coming into the crunch time, I’m having to figure out exactly how I’m going to figure out this whole final critique thing. 

I have five projects to have some level of “finished” by final critique. Two of them won’t actually be done anytime soon, and then unrelated I have a five page paper to write. But the projects, and details, and things I need to figure out, are under the cut because it’s a lot of talking to myself.

untitled lithography print: a 3 color print (because I always have to be extra, even with a smaller print). Edition of 5, starting printing in class Monday, so we’ll see how long it takes. 

depending on how this goes and how much time I’ve got free, I may use the scraps of photo litho plates to make a couple of little books. No idea what the subject matter would be. If I enjoy the lithography process, maybe I’ll test some pigeons? That’ll make sense in a minute 

dermatillomania book: my “sculptural” book. I need to purchase some brown ink to mix into the red and make it more like dried blood. I need to get through a small but decent chunk of it, maybe an entire section (there’s four)? But they’re pretty fat. 

this also needs a cover. I know the style of cover I’ll be making, but not the cover. Very possibly bare board since my bookbinding professor is extoling the virtues of bare board so much. I think that + white thread would be rather striking if I decorate the cover at all. no ideas yet. 

tentacle book: yeah this still needs a proper name. My main goals are to finish the base etchings (3 layers of tentacles on each side of my papers). I need to cut down another page of stonehenge because I fucked up a page. :’) But I think I can do nine layers a day. Just depends cause it takes me about an hour, hour and a half including clean up. 

Cover (yeah, there’s more). I need to make a mockup of my cover with the proper stuff I’m using (though I might use a thinner board just for my own sanity. I already broke a needle. 

Oh yes, there’s a lot to this one. I need orange, fluorescent orange thread for this. Dunno if I’m going to dye something from school or purchase it. Also, small beads to sew into the tentacles. 

oh I also need to work on the poem that’s going in. I can do that now cause I have the mockup text block. I can get that started at home at least.

Basically, I need to have a completed mockup yay.

kudzu prince: this is a two part project. The broadsides only need the text and car (”only” lol), and I’ve got...240 pages to print for my books. Yes, I’ve already gotten several layers done on half of that, but even a conservative six layers per page results in  over 1400 layers. Luckily for me, I am doing this on the vandercook, and I got through a nice amount of layers in six-ish hours. So I’ll do some math Saturday night to try and plot it out. 

untitled pulp painting: this is an edition of ten, and I’m trying to figure out if I want to do massive variations or not. Basically I’m creating an image and squishing it between two sheets of paper. It’s all paper and a piece of string. Trying to decide if I want to change the image or just where I’m placing the color. But this is the easiest cause I’m doing one image a day, and that’s it. 

Trying to think of what projects I’ve done and am willing to show off for final critique...

woodcut print

etching print 

(lithography print)

(dermatillomania book)*

first tentacle mockup (that I’m now using as a sketchbook)

(second tentacle mockup)

(kudzu prince broadside)

(kudzu prince book)

paper editions

(untitled pulp paintings)

(tentacle pages)*

*will be WIPs

That’s actually quite a bit of work considering this is all in four months. 15 weeks technically. Fuck, okay, no wonder I’m so tired. 

[vinceaddams]

Alright! Here's what we've got!! (Excluding the garbagiest garbage)

So many plastic buttons, so so grimy. Washed my hands several times and will wash all the buttons later.

I'm going to donate most of them (my button stash is big enough already and I don't often use plastic ones) but I will go through and choose some to keep. I'm really loving all the different green shades.

They're of wildly varying ages and qualities, and of course some of the older ones were disintegrating in various disgustingly textured ways and had to be thrown out.

A few metal buttons. There were more that were also gross and corroding, some in a green way and some in a rusty way, and these were the only not completely awful ones.

Some mother of pearl buttons, and a lot of these seem to be... also degrading in a gross textured way?? I have never seen mother of pearl do that. Maybe they were stored in an acidic environment, or maybe some gunk from something else got on them? I'll try washing them.

Some leather and wooden buttons, and a few non-disgusting fabric covered ones. (There were many more fabric covered ones that were rusty)

The little slanty ended ones are cute, but their shanks are very thin wire that's also very rusty, so I think they'll have to go. But I wanted them to be in the photo anyways.

The two biggest wooden buttons have the statue of liberty embossed on them.

I wonder what they were originally attached to.

8 glass beads, a glass stud with a yucky corroded green back, and a mother of pearl stud with a yucky rusted back. A tiny spiky buckle, 2 broken jewellery bits, a dangly wooden doodad, and 4 buttons that I think came off button boots. I'm quite sure the black one did, at least.

Glass buttons! Yay!! Much better luck here that with the MOP ones, which is the reverse of how it usually is. Those 3 little blue ones are doing one of my least favourite button things though, which is when one has a perfectly pristine metal back and another has a very oxidized one. Perhaps I can polish it.

Also look!

look at the little bird!

Instructions on setting invisible zippers from 1969, a crochet, knitting, tatting, and embroidery book from 1952, and a packet of mostly ugly Artex embroidery transfers.

Here, I reversed this one so you can read it.

I don't know what decade these are from, but I feel like maybe 60's or 70's? What the heck is ratfink??

2.8 metres of tatted lace, 2 small plain white cotton scraps, a crudely made hat shaped needle book, and Ethel why would you do that? Why would you print your name in a random spot on two handkerchiefs? If you're not going to embroider a monogram you could have at least centred it nicely on a corner, or put it along an edge.

Most of the thread was really awful quality, but there were a few nice ones, and some wooden spools! The two bottom spools were also fuzzy garbage, but I just wanted to include them in the photo because the ends look like radiation symbols.

It's a bit hard to read, but I think this spool says "mom hates her little children" :(

Several of the other spools had scribbling on them.

Seam binding, hand sewing needles, a bodkin, machine needles, and a plastic fork thingy. When I saw the handle I thought it was an awl, but it has two points so I'm stumped. Is it for eating fancy little snacks?

Safety pins and danger pins (and rusty extra danger pins which I put in my sharps disposal) as well as a few tacks and small nails. A broken floral brooch made of tiny seashells glued together, 4 links of a chain, 8 tiny metal balls and one big one, and a marble.

And of course a square glass container with a lid! I don't know what things I will put in it yet, but I will certainly put some things.

Belt tool connector thingy, 4 plastic buckles and one metal one. (slightly rusty but also slightly sparkly. Cheaply made fake cut steel.) An embroidered patch, a seashell, and more pins and needles in prescription bottles for two different people, neither of whom is Ethel.

Three very dull pairs of scissors, a cork, 3 bobbins which I think will fit my Singer but I haven't tried yet, a tracing wheel, two machine parts, a screwdriver, a board game piece, chalk, and a couple of mystery metal bits.

A wristwatch box with a single skein of embroidery floss.

Parent pencils named "EAGLE Verithin Dark Green" and "Says "Think Fire Prevention"", with their darling baby pencil, "Mini Frie".

4 snaps, more than 4 hook and eye closures, and a zipper so old the packaging calls it a Slide Fastener. And it was made in Canada!

An intriguing torn corner with a lot of "omit" and "deduct" on it, 4 puzzle pieces, a luggage tag, a sports ticket from 1989, a doctor's appointment, and a child with a bad haircut.

Make your own covered belt, buckle, and buttons! I'll save these until I find a good home for them.

I had thought this bag was old tissue paper, but no! It's little square scarves!

The fleshy mesh one in the upper right looks newer & coarser quality and is cut in half diagonally, but I'm pretty sure the three on the left are silk, and the red one appears to be one of those 50's nylon ones I've heard The Closet Historian talk about a few times.

I will also set these aside and someday find them a good home. They're too small for me to wear as cravats, but there must be some vintage ladies out there who want them.

Ok that's everything! Thank you for coming on this adventure with me!

Just grabbed this box of stuff from the free junk pile at an estate sale and I'm about to have the BEST afternoon! I will update you on the treasures later!

[nabillasp-viscom]

WEEK 3: Swirls and Twirls

I liked the letter that challenged me the most, hence why I picked this one. These are all the process that had me gone thru the developments of letterform.

Note: the scribbled 'TOO FAT' is an example given from Mark for thoughts that I can add for process book, hahah

Below was my development for MUSTIKA (finally found a name for the letterform, yay!). Initially I was about to use the word adhesion, but the more I try to develop it, the more I realize if it's barely readable. A good design has the ability to deliver a context, and a typeface is good if it's 'invisible'. Since the first shape did not fulfill any of those, I scrapped the entire thing by trying to make it more clear but still keeping the ribbon-like characteristic.

[writingrailroad]

heyo i’m back for a limited time only so expect some more late night nonsense, a functioning queue (why is it spelled like that i Dislike it), and me catching up on all the updates i’ve missed

catch y’all on the flipside & happy holidays!!!

[nightlilly0110]

Jayvik Headcanons

Jayce definitely made Viktor a new cane after the events of Episode 3 because he felt bad that the Enforcers broke it. (Viktor laments the loss of the knife that was in the tip. Jayce still doesn’t know if he was joking. He wasn’t.)

Jayce only knows the Russian Zaunite words for “whatchamacallit”, “doohickey”, and “thingamajig” because Viktor uses them constantly when asking for tools. When they get together he also learns the phrases for “my love” and “my heart” (This obviously doesn’t apply to Mother Tongue Jayce)

Before Viktor got sick he used to spend his days off getting a new book and grabbing a coffee before going home to start said book. Jayce would then listen intently the next day as Viktor told him the plot and all the issues he had with the book (if he hated it) or things he enjoyed about it (if he liked it). Other times, he’d head down to Zaun to take a look at the markets or things.

When Jayce said that Viktor “disappears sometimes”, he’s usually gone out for a walk to clear his head on days where his leg didn’t hurt as much. He usually ends up in Zaun because the noises of crowds feel a little comforting and make sure he’s not stuck thinking about work all the time. Other times he ends up browsing shops in Piltover, with the same effect.

Jayce was actually a very small, chubby kid and it’s actually ridiculous if you look at pictures of him from when he was little in comparison to now because you wouldn’t have guessed they were the same person. Jayce was a very baby-faced kid. Viktor on the other hand is like the Get Some Rest Tall Child meme. (If you put baby Jayce and baby Viktor beside each other, Viktor would be taller)

The lab is covered in things that look important but upon closer inspection are just mechanical puzzles and elaborate fidget toys both of them have made to use when stressed. It’s a huge affair when one needs to be scrapped for parts. There is a whole ass “trial” on debating which one has to go and it takes hours for deliberation.

Coffee and sweetmilk are the only things their lab never runs out of because if it does it would not be pretty. But there is also a constant issue of not having the right parts when you need them but coffee takes priority.

Viktor sometimes comes to the forge when Jayce is working to bounce ideas off of him. Jayce has yet to realize he’s being ogled at every single time, even after they get together.

Viktor took Jayce to a lot of his favourite places in Zaun. Jayce knows how to get to them without Viktor’s help because he didn’t want to get lost down there and can get to them even when he and Viktor are not on speaking terms. He never went without Viktor, however.

No matter what Jayce is wearing, he looks “too Piltie” and sticks out like a sore thumb in the undercity regardless of if people recognize him either as the Man of Progress or the Defender of Tomorrow.

Viktor never told Jayce about his feelings for him when he thought he was dying because he didn’t want to pursue a relationship and put that sort of grief onto Jayce. Likewise, he didn’t say anything about his illness until he had to because he didn’t want Jayce to be fretting over him/prematurely grieving. He wanted Jayce to remember the good things about him. (I’m also surprised they didn’t fight about that, Jayce getting made at Viktor for not telling him he was sick)

I like to imagine that they don’t get together until much later in their relationship. Like they go from friends to enemies to friends to lovers. It makes so many things complicated and it makes it hard for them to care for each other when one of them is a wanted criminal and the other is supposed to catch said wanted criminal, but they make it work.

Blitzcrank is the number one Jayvik shipper solely for the purpose of “yay two dads” and “yay more friends”.

One of the hextech gemstones is what powers Viktor’s augments, and when he’s feeling especially sappy (a rare occasion) he makes reference to the fact that Jayce gave him “his new heart.”

Jayce definitely uses more nicknames than Viktor (specifically Russian diminutives of his name) but Viktor does call Jayce “darling” or “dearest” when he wants to tease him. He still does so when they’re full on fighting because it makes Jayce’s brain falter long enough for Viktor to get in a good punch to the face.

Viktor once asked Jayce for a painting lesson in an attempt to get him to take a break. This is where the painted mug from that one art piece came from. (Jayce isnt as artistic as Mel but he is really good at doing their diagrams for their blueprints)

If students ask Viktor why his body’s Like That he gives very contradictory statements about how he got his augments to fuck with them. Jayce tells him to stop but he never does.

Even when they were fighting, Caitlyn would jokingly refer to Viktor as Jayce’s boyfriend. It pissed him off not because he was insulted, but because he missed Viktor, although he never would have admitted that to her. Caitlyn’s too shocked when they actually get together to say “I told you so.”

Viktor is actually really eccentric, but he knows how to act diplomatic when he needs to. Jayce is the only one really privy to how dangerous Viktor can be, if only for the fact he has no regard for lab safety and laughs when things literally blow up in his face.

Jayce likes to give Viktor massages for him pain. Even after he augments himself, Jayce still likes to do it even though there’s less to work with.