The Lumity Show

Me? A not ninjago post? More likely than you think.

Oh man we're going places

Wu: who is Morro and why does he want to kill Lloyd

Garmadon: fuck that who’s Lloyd

Wu: i suppose I look for four dumbasses and tell them to save the world

Ninjago but teenager Wu and Garmadon don’t have encyclopedic knowledge about the future, they’re given memes and oddly specific headcanons and the greenflame ship war and they have to figure it all out from there

Area 51 raid AU

“Let’s do this, they can’t stop all of us!”- Jay, Tox, Chamille, Samukai, Iron Baron, Ghoultar, Soul Archer, Jet Jack

“They absolutely can stop all of you.”- Nya, Misako, Wu, Kozu, Borg, Ray, Maya, Bansha, Mr. E, Clouse, Echo Zane

“If we Naruto run we can dodge the bullets.”- Dareth, Kai, Chen, Nadakhan, Ed, Edna, Ultra Violet, Muzzle

“Have fun dying lol”- Ronin, Krux, Skylor, Neuro, Scales, Pythor, Yang, Dogshank, Fenwick, Machia

Actully goes- Pixal, Zane, Cole, Morro, Acronix, Harumi, Scales Jr., Flintlocke, Faith

Gets in- Lloyd, Garmadon, Shadow

Legend of Korra, as told by someone who’s seen only LoK memes and ATLA

There’s Korra. She’s the (waterbender?) Avatar. She likes to fight things and has overwhelming hubris. She can bend every element except one and I forgot which one it is. Also she’s bisexual.

There’s a lot more kinds of bending

It’s been like 70 years since ATLA, Toph is a cop, Sokka isn’t that important, Katara is a healer, Aang is dead, Zuko is still firelord. Appa is dead. Yue is still the moon. Nobody knows what happened to Suki. Mai married Zuko and had a daughter (Izumi?). Azula is either still in the mental hospital or dead. Ty Lee? Ozai got put in jail for the rest of his life.

The cabbage merchant is important somehow. He’s got a statue

Toph quit being a cop and lives in the foggy swamp now

There are the Air Acolytes (?) idk how this works but I don’t like their outfits and there are somehow more sky bison (?) again idk

Idk who the other characters are lmao

I know there’s Asami bc she ends up with Korra in the end, uh I think there’s also Mako, Kuviera, Tarrloq (Tarrlok? I have no idea who this is), Suyin, a lot more Beifongs, Jinora, Bumi, Iroh the second, Kya, Tenzin, Amok (Amon? I think it starts with an A), Unalaq (?), more people like Sparky Boom Boom Man, a bunch of kids, one of the villains is scary and wears a mask (I want to say this is Amok/Amon/whatever his name is, but I really don’t know), Bolin

Mako is a fire bender, Bolin is an earth bender, Korra is the avatar, Asami is rich, together they are the new team avatar, I think

Korra loses her Avatar powers but Aang gives them back, then she loses the Avatar State and restarts the cycle or something.

I literally have no idea what the main plot is

Korra gets ptsd and a sick new haircut, idk if these are connected. She also no longer has overwhelming hubris.

Mako dates Asami. Then he dates Korra. Then Asami and Korra date each other.

Korra connects the spirit world to the human world at some point

LoK has a lot less chill than ATLA and we can actually see onscreen murder

Republic city is a place and that’s all I know about it. Actually isn’t the cabbage man statue there?

Each villain represents a different kind of government/political ideology/whatever. Can’t remember what they are.

The white lotus is there but they’re lame now. I think it’s the lack of Iroh.

Uh glowing women

*buff glowing women

That’s all

How To Shop For Fabric Online

RIP Joann's. Now many places in the US no longer have a local fabric store, such as it even was toward the end.

There are some good posts going around about where to shop for fabric and craft supplies online, like this one for example. But if you're a beginner-to-intermediate sewist, and the way you've always shopped for fabric is by going to the store and touching it, it can be a hard, even cruel adjustment to suddenly be looking at a photo online and trying to piece together from the inconsistent descriptions what you're actually looking at.

So I'm going to just try to bang together a little primer on What Things Are Called, and how to educate yourself, so that you don't have to do what I did and just buy a ton of inappropriate stuff you wound up not being able to use for what you'd thought. And I will link to some resources that will help with this. This will be garment-sewing-centric but will, I think, be fairly broadly applicable.

The first thing is to look carefully at your desired project. If it is a commercial pattern, it will usually tell you what kind of fabric you need, but it will describe it in not the same words it's often sold under. If it is NOT a commercial pattern and you're kind of winging it, it's even harder. So here is how to start figuring out what you need.

Number one: Knit or Woven?

Quilting fabric is woven. If you are making a quilt, you want a woven. Most craft projects are made with woven fabric-- tote bags, upholstery, you name it.

Many garments are knits. T-shirts, yoga pants, cardigans. It is easy to know, because knits stretch. They can either stretch both ways (along the length and along the width) or just one way (usually along the width); this is confusingly either called 2-way stretch or 4-way stretch. Yes, stores are inconsistent. Look carefully at the description, and they will usually specify-- "along the grain" or "in all directions". Some garments require stretch only around the body-- maxi skirts, knit dresses etc-- while some absolutely need stretch both ways, like bathing suits.

No, you absolutely cannot clone your favorite knit t-shirt in quilting cotton. It will not fit. Most knit garments have "negative ease", meaning they are smaller than your body and stretch to fit. All woven garments have "positive ease", meaning they are larger than your body, unless very firm shaping undergarments are used.

SMALL EXCEPTION: There exist "stretch wovens", which are woven fabrics made with elastic fibers. These will be labeled as such. They are actually harder to sew with than regular wovens because they almost never have their stretch percentage labeled; they are NOT suitable for knit patterns. Avoid them, until you are more advanced and know how to accomodate them, is my advice!

Number two: WEIGHT.

How heavy is the fabric? How thick? How thin? This is measured in two main ways-- ounces per yard (denim is often 8oz, 10 oz, 12 oz) or grams per square meter. But many fabric retailers do not tell you a weight, they use words like "bottomweight" or "dress-weight", and you have to learn to figure out what they mean by that.

My lifehack for learning these has been go to go to ready-to-wear clothing retailers and see if they give the weights of the fabric their garments are made from. (Yes, I learned how to shop for clothes online instead of in-store years ago, because I am fat; some of us have had to do this a long time.)

If you are making a pair of trousers, you need heavier fabric than if you are making a blouse. Do not buy a floaty translucent chiffon to make your work trousers, it will not work no matter how cute the color is. Learn how the different weights of fabric are described, and you will improve your odds of finding what you need.

Number three: DRAPE.

Is it stiff? Is it fluid? Is it soft? is it firm? There are a lot of very artsy words used for this, and you may find yourself puzzling over things with a fluid hand, or a dry, crisp hand, or "a lot of drape", or maybe the listing doesn't describe it at all. This segues neatly into another technical thing, which is the WEAVE of the fabric. There is a dizzying array of words that tell you what kind of fabric it is-- twill, tabby, challis, chiffon, crepe, organza, georgette. And these will give you insight into the drape, and thus into the texture/usability of this fabric, and how suitable it may or may not be for your project.

I know it's a lot to think about but I am now going to give you resources for where to see all this stuff.

Number one is Mood Fabrics, which I can't believe hasn't been in any of the posts I've seen so far. They are a huge store in NYC's Fashion District and yes you can go there, but when I went there it overwhelmed me so much I left empty-handed. But what they have is AN INCREDIBLE WEBSITE. They have everything on there, and what's most important for you, their listings are INCREDIBLY consistent. They have VIDEOS of many of the fabrics, where a sales associate will hold it, wave it, stretch it, and tell you verbally what it is and what it's for, in about thirty seconds. HUNDREDS of these videos.

Whether you want to buy from them or not, go to Mood Fabrics, click around, find their listings, and read them. They will tell you fabric content, weight (usually gsm), often weave, they have little graphics that show you if it's for pants, dresses, shirts. And they have those videos. Look at the listings, watch the videos, and you will leave knowing a lot more about how to look at an online listing of fabric and know what you're getting.

Another really excellent website for this is Stonemountain & Daughter. I've actually not bought anything from them yet (they came highly recommended, but they're not cheap), but their online listings are, again, very thorough and very detailed. They always have a picture of the fabric with a fold in it held in place by a pin, which does more to help you understand the weight and drape of a fabric than any other static image ever could-- that visual, combined with how informative the listings are, has helped me learn to estimate fabric weights on other sites very effectively.

And here is a page that's ostensibly about how to wash silk, but I found it so useful because it gives such a clear image of what each weave/type of silk fabric looks and drapes like. I've never bought anything from these guys either, but this is a good resource.

Learn a little bit about fabric so you know what you're looking for, and you can begin to replace some of that "i just have to go and feel it in person" problem. There will still be trial and error, but you'll have a better starting place at least.

Zane: I saw Kai making coffee this morning

Zane: but he made it with Red Bull instead of water

Zane: the only thing he said before drinking it was “I am going to die”

Wake me up-

INSIDE- Kai, Cole, Harumi, UltraViolet, Chamille, Tox, Dogshank, Bansha, Garmadon, Iron Baron, Faith, Acronix, Ray

(Can’t wake up)- Mr. E, Clouse, Shadow, Neuro, Flintlocke, Ronin, Machia, Pythor

When September ends- Zane, Nya, Skylor, Morro, Soul Archer, Wu, Nadakhan, Yang, Krux, Pixal, Maya

before you go go- Jay, Misako, Chen, Dareth, Ghoultar, Karlof, Cyrus Borg, Scales, Scales Jr., Lloyd, Echo Zane, Ed, Edna

Jay: will you guys just try to see things from my perspective?

The other ninja: *kneel down to his height*

Jay: I hate all of you