mooreaux:

Y'all I wish it was “no thoughts head empty”- instead I’m “many thoughts head full” bitch I am at capacity

comickergirl:

I’ve had Sailor Moon on in the background all week while I work, so when I saw Clark’s magical girl transformation on My Adventures With Superman I was like, ‘yep, time for a quick style mashup.’ XD

freetunamayo:

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due to factors such as “time pressure” and “tulle is of the devil” my expectations for this shirt are not high. but i spent a lot of time imagining these button bands and they turned out pretty nice

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progress on this includes:

• attached the back and the yoke; did the yoke with wonky little panels for reinforcement(?), as it’s not double-layered, and for a fun symmetrical piecing moment
• attached fronts to back at shoulders (not pictured)
• constructed a collar and collar stand and arranged Leafs upon it
• started hand stitching down leafs. it would be more elegant to do this before assembling the collar, but i can’t visualize how both the seam allowances and the crease in the collar work + the tulle is itchy if misplaced

have yet to do sleeves, side seams, finishing hand stitching on collar, attaching collar, sleeve plackets (on tulle??), cuffs, Buttonholes (evil to me)

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Shirt’s done except for finishing the collar handstitching & touching up some of the buttonholes (used a friend’s fancy machine with varying success). Lots of things wrong with it that are hard to see from more than three feet away

No pictures of it on me because I have yet to obtain a suitable layering piece which is a really funny problem to have!

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buttons!!!!!!

Finished the collar! If you want to make embroidery you cut out of some tulle look like it is On There For Real this is what I did

• roughly cut out and place embroidery. baste with glue stick (glue sticks to the back of the embroidery and not the tulle)
• tack it down with a color matched running stitch (or whatever) along the stems and centers
• cut off more tulle from the edges with tinier scissors
• tack down the edges. with, in this case, a different thread color, do a faux chain stitch where you grab the very end of a stitch from the extant embroidery
• like so

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this has the benefit of kind of squashing down any tulle that didn’t get trimmed

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and now it moves with the fabric and doesn’t stick up at the edges!

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hey great news. i look charming in it

magicratfingers:

I am both surprised and DELIGHTED??? by the reaction to werewolf regency house party. So here’s a sketch of the bachelors!

Their names are so deliciously stupid that I want to keep them in my pocket. From the left: Bront, Dingley, and Guy Johnson (no reference, I just think Guy is a funny name for a werewolf.) They are the same age as the comic which is 3 days

magicratfingers:

how can you tell

depsidase:

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original sin such a fun concept

sadclowncentral:

the stress of everyday life is overriding my sense of humanity again so i am once again playing “everyone’s first day” to readjust my empathy levels. the rules are simple: for every stranger i interact with, i pretend it’s their first day at their job. it makes me appreciate how much tacit knowledge everyone around me has learned and applies, and imagining how they fared in the beginning - how i would have fared - makes me see everyone as a singular person full of life experience again instead of an environment i fight my way through. the coffee shop employee making my order makes it quickly despite a huge menu, its impressive they memorised that on their first day. the bus driver gets us there safely and memorised all the routes and still nods at me in approval, and that’s all on his first day! and the person who ran into me without apologizing is just in a hurry, wouldn’t wanna be late on their first day. and after a while, you realize that all that is still true on a second day or the hundredth, and even if you give up the pretense the forgiveness stays. try it some time!

cptsdwillgraham:

beep beep sometimes when you have been in survival mode for a long time the parts of you dedicated to Wanting Things atrophy and you forget how to envision a future that feels rewarding because you are busy with the business of staying alive, and it can seem like your life must be pointless because you can’t imagine any long term goals. sometimes even when you leave survival mode you can’t remember how to Want Things. that doesn’t mean you need to give up on having a good and fulfilling life, it just means that Wanting Things is a muscle you need to gradually strengthen. the part of you that has dreams and aspirations is still there, it just fell asleep, but if you wiggle it enough it can and will regain feeling. it’s okay to start small

renthony:

I think my favorite thing in Marie Kondo’s work is the section in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up where she talks about branding and labels contributing to visual clutter.

She explains that if you go through the whole tidying process and still feel cluttered and anxious in your own home, one thing that might help is looking around to see how much visible text and logos there are in your home. It can make you feel like you’re constantly being advertised to, which makes you less comfortable in your living space, because you’re basically in a showroom.

She suggests taking labels off of packages, storing items in different containers if you can, and making sure you take every purchase out of its packaging when you bring it home.

I think about that advice a lot when capitalism starts to get to me and I feel like I’m never gonna escape. Taking all the branding and advertising off of things has genuinely helped make my home feel more like my home. Peeling labels off candles, storing envelopes neatly on a shelf in a plain box, putting flour and sugar in canisters instead of leaving them in the bags, creatively covering logos on my tech…it all helps so much. Like, goddamn, it really made me realize just how much we are constantly being advertised to even when we think we’re not.

terezis:

the thing they don’t tell u about adulthood is that it is so hard to be able to swim in a pool. i don’t know anyone with a pool. there are public pools but how can i play mermaids by myself with one million strangers nearby. at my grown age. i am easily embarrassed and i can not stand when people look at me. hotels with day passes are so expensive. i need to become or marry rich so i can have my own personal private pool

oriko-mikuni:

I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.