Twitter Loved This One So Anyway Here's One Of My Fave Ship Dynamics

Drunk and sad :(

Harrow the Ninth in a nutshell

triumphant sewing dinosaur.

I knew what this recipe was going in. You don’t see a recipe bragging about how few ingredients it uses and think “surely this will be delicious.” You think “It’s 1 AM and this looks like a vehicle to carry sugar into my body.” So none of what I’m about to say is on Ms. Davison, or her recipe.

There is a place in Terry Pratchet’s Discworld called the Great Nef desert. This is a desert so dry that even water isn’t wet in the Great Nef. Within this desert is the Dehydrated Ocean, a body of water in an uncommon fourth state of matter. This dry water forms silvery grains and resembles a powder more than a liquid.

There is a kind of wizard in Discworld called a hydrophobe. These wizards are raised from birth without ever coming into contact with liquid water. They are sustained only by the dry water from the Dehydrated Ocean. The result is a fear and hatred of water so ingrained that it allows these individuals to literally repel water, which is then used to power hover craft for crossing lakes and oceans.

When I first read this description in The Color of Magic, years ago, I wondered what kind of food the hydrophobes ate. When a hydrophobe sits down to their breakfast of corn flakes and a mummified orange, with what do they butter their stale, overdone toast?

Finally, in the pile of yellow dust I pulled from my oven after 7 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius, I have my answer.

Swordswoman Showdown Round 1 Part 1

Camilla Hect (The Locked Tomb) vs Peko Pekoyama (Super Dangan Ronpa 2)

(Better here in a "preferred character" sense, not "who would win in a fight")

Camilla art by @friendamedes, used with permisson

Propaganda below cut

Cam

trained w a rapier & knives. practical. handsome. extremely efficient and capable.; she’s my boyfriend and I love her. Please vote for cam she is my life

Gideon Nav uses one very large sword in defiance of the expectation that a cavalier should use a rapier, but Camilla Hect instead uses two. Just as much defiance of social expectation, twice as many blades. The reveal of her specific brand of swordiness is the heart of one of the book's most iconic lines: "Cam? Go loud."; In the spirit of the laconic charm of the Warden's Hand I will simply say "Camilla's competent."

She prefers two short swords but has been know to wield a rapier and other such bladder instruments; She also loves to organize spreadsheets

Go loud.

Peko

she is the ultimate swordsman. her only purpose is to cut people with sword (for her yakuza master); PEKO

I mean. Her title in-game is literally "Ultimate Swordswoman" so she's quite literally the best at swordfighting in-universe! She wields a bamboo sword most of the time but has also fought with a more "regular" sword several times.; Umm idk she's just really cool <3 I'm not great at writing propaganda lmao

She is literally called the Ultimate Swordswoman in game.

Her title is 'Ultimate Swordswoman'; Please consider: I love her

She's literally called the Ultimate Swordswoman; Member of the yakuza (Japanese mafia), wears glasses without being the token "smart/nerdy one" stereotype, likes animals

Sadly you don't see her fighting a lot, but she has the title of Ultimate Swordswoman. She also destroyed several robot bears during her execution (although she seemed to be controlled during it) and only died because she accidently hurt her crush. She also battled the Ultimate soldier and while she ultimately lost, it wasn't an easy fight. Also bodyguard for the yakuza; First seems like the stereotypical "stoic" girl, but talking to here reveals she loves Flugfeld animals and dislikes scaring them. Also sweet and very loyal. She doesn't even see herself as a person, but only a tool. Wants to relearn how to smile. Has a crush on the person she is supposed to protect, the Ultimate Yakuza, but sadly in the main story that doesn't have good ending

Has the in-universe title of Ultimate Swordswoman due to her skills. Was taken in by a yazuka family as a young child and trained with swords in order to be a bodyguard for the group’s heir, which she does extremely well.

Literally the MOST TALENTED SWORDWOMAN IN THE WORLD of her age., She is so so fucked up and traumatized <3 she sees herself as just being a tool for the yakuza heir she's a bodyguard for. Also she became a terrorist and then had her memories wiped and was still pretty morally grey after that. Then she died because she killed someone and got caught. Queen shit

Propaganda

Carmen Sevilla (La fierecilla domada/La mégère apprivoisée, La Venganza, King of Kings)— One of the few spanish actresses to really make it in Hollywood. She worked opposite Charlton Heston in the 1970s and reportedly slapped him but that is past the cut-off so you can look it up for yourselves. There's also rumors that Frank Sinatra had a bit of a crush on her and asked her out a couple of times but she rejected him. The woman was just messy as hell in general and an absolute icon. Bless.

Simone Simon (Cat People, La Bête Humaine, The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Curse of the Cat People)— If she turned in to a panther and ate me I would be fine with that

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut]

Simone Simon:

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nothing lasts, really.

CLASSIC HORROR HEROINES SIMONE SIMON as Irena Dubrovna CAT PEOPLE (1942) dir. Jacques Tourneur I like the dark. It's friendly.

so so so so cute

one of simone simon's best remembered movies is cat people, one of jacques tourneur's great b-horror movies that's secretly a sensitive and tender examination of otherness, seriously i cry every time i watch it a short excerpt from cat people

She’s maybe not super well known to a lot of people but holy hell is she a stunner. I literally have her Cat People poster on my wall - she is amazing in that film, playing this tragic character (please go watch Cat People it’s this amazing tragic story of a foreign woman being caught up in a toxic relationship with a man who doesn’t believe her, plus cats). She’s so beautiful!! Look at her!!

Christopher Eccleston would be so good as Sam Vimes it’s not even funny.

poll pt 2 (repost)

First I love being on my ADHD meds

Second, fuck the FDA and the state I live in fir making all ADHD drugs so hard to get. I do relize that they can be abused by nuritypicals ....but there has got to be a better solution then this.

Anyways on to better news.

My medicated ass.had an idea this moring....for the 7th,

I was always going to do a big drape lacy flowery daisy chain neckas for the 7th, but I just realized that instead of a simple.drape pattern I could use chain to make lungs

Here is my breif concept drawing....

The large rings in the drawing are the large hammered silver(plated) rings. The black lines forming the lungs will be out of the silver and green modified daisy chain.

The dotted lines will be out of fine silver chain. I'll have to purchase that

Here is the rough draft for the back and sides all out of silver chain. I don't think I will be able to get the efect of inflated lungs unless I create a secondary anchor chain around the back like a harness.

So now I need to plot out the mesuments for the lungs.....

These lovely pictures give me an approximate location and a size ratio I can measure on myself.

I may have to lie down on the floor and have my sister use a heavy cord to map put the shape....or better yet I could do that on her.

The other option is to use all those years of math to map out the archs I want on the images I found, to get actual measurements

Jeasus christ.....I just realized I'm trying to reinvent hanahaki

Oh well....I like it, it's going g to be so much work.

And not at all I my colors....

I'm so excited

2nd house preview/ materials/instructions

Two for discipline, headless of trial.

Time: 6-8 hours

Difficultly: medium

Material cost: <$12

Real world inspiration. Sundance catolog.

Materials

8 gm TOHO Beads Round 11/0 Matte Opaque Pepper Red

8 gm TOHO beads Round 11/0 semi Glazed Dark Red*

10 lb smoke colored fireline

2 gold finding rings**

1 gold bar from a funding clasp that will fit in the finding rings

Tulip or other brand size 11 beading needle

*I have lost the lable so this is my best guess

**I have also lost the recipe and never really new the size to begin with but please refer to the picture below.

Pictures of material for reference.

Instructions (sort of)

This necklass is made of two ply herringbone stitch. If you do not know how to do herringbone stich for beading. Then GTS because apparently I can't post outside links to tumblr. But it is very easy and thier are some very good tutorials out there

When you need to attach the rings add 7 more rows of beads. Then bend the work around finding ring and use herringbone stich to sew the work back onto itself in a loop.

For sizing

Figure out your desired length and double that for the total length.

Add the first ring then add the second ring a quarter of the length. Bead till the finished length then add the bar.

Here is a picture of the proportion of mine

If you have any questions please let me know I'm happy to clarify. I've never tied to make instructions before.