#Meat Wool Alchemy Lab

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Some WIP inks that are awaiting to be painted! First two are mini badges for my plush dolls to wear, one of which also doubles as a bookmark X3 The bottom is basically the Foxlings being outfitted for the Welcome Home Fan Fiction I'm doing on the side for fun. I honestly adore how the outfit designs came out for them, this has a pretty high possibility of becoming the new default outfits. There's a nice simplicity that just sticks pretty well to them and looks pretty adorable to boot.

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Chapter Twenty Three: Time After Time Pt.2

 “Okay, you were right, sheep have some pretty gross teeth and a weird odor.” Dolly admitted as she tried to make herself comfortable again on the long train ride back to Northern Amestris. 

 “Told ya so, but at least their meat is good.” Envy said, scratching a scale patch on their back before looking out the window at the changing landscape. “Fine, I get it, sheep are hideous bastards that taste good, but I’m getting transferred to Briggs! That Armstrong woman is gonna skin me alive over there!” Freddy could only hide his eyebrowless face into his hands as he dreaded being transferred to Briggs after the reorganization had settled.

 Lust and Gluttony ignored the whines of Freddy as they both went back to looking over the pamphlet for Northern Amestris. Freddy was left to despair over the temporary transfer until the new Central Command was built in Dublith. It would take over a course of four years until the new Central Command had been built and restored with the recovered archives as well as new Alchemy Labs. That was the only silver lining to Freddy’s tornado of woe, because he was involved with ‘stopping’ the homicidal fuhrer, Freddy was given the chance to open his own Alchemy Lab in wherever Freddy had wanted and that Face Fur knew just where to have one opened up. Back in both Dolly and Freddy’s hometown, there was an old massive abandoned farm from a failed sheep rearing project that went terribly wrong. The size was perfect for having it be refurbished as an Alchemy Lab and it would be close to home so once the terms were done in Briggs, Freddy could be transferred back home to run the lab instead. Sure, Dolly was against using that abandoned farm as a lab having been around when it shut down, then again, Dolly was there for a lot of things. Surely, it should be alright to start up the lab and Freddy had the best possible name for it. “I can’t believe you’re naming it Meat Wool Alchemy Labs.” Ernest snorted from Dolly’s lap, thinking the name was gross. “Oh, what do you suppose I call it then? Donut Farm Alchemy Labs?” Freddy fired back, having to poke fun at the fact Ernest firmly believed that Donuts was a plant in the wild. “See? Doesn’t that make you smile from saying ‘donut’? Donut would make a very good lab name.” Ernest completely missed the point, hoping the Face Fur would name it after something sacred as donuts.

 “Ernie, just let the Face Fur name it ‘Meat Wool’, we could get some pretty awesome mutant sheep figurines from it.” Dorian argued, the idea of toy mutant sheep tickled the little booger’s fancy.

  “Good to know Dorian is on my side with the name..” Freddy wistfully said, the idea of mutant sheep would be a pretty fun idea to implement. 

 “FIne, but we get to name the mutant sheep figurines.” Ernest relented as Dorian grinned at the idea of making mutant sheep figurines.

 “Just be sure to name one of the mutant sheep ‘Meatlord’, that’s a perfect name for a hideous creature.” Envy chimed in, the discussion catching their interest.

 “I’m going to change this topic before it gets weird, weirder than it is already, but once we arrive, you said there was a morgue you purchased there?” Lust took in a breath, pinching the bridge of her nose to relieve herself of an oncoming migraine. 

 “I did, it’s in town. Just need to remember the form I used when hunting for the new location.” Envy said, shrugging a bit as they casually looked over at Dolly.

 “I take it that means you want to go there with Dolly on your own?” Lust sighed as she had a feeling that was where the conversation would have concluded. “Bingo!” Envy shouted with a sharp grin, their teeth stuck as horrible fangs, but not as pronounced as before after the botch job.

 “You could’ve just said that. Gluttony and I will leave you two be, I’ll just have Freddy over there escort us back to this family household of theirs to unpack our little belongings at.” Lust looked over to Freddy since neither she or Gluttony would get to tour the morgue.

 “You’re all lucky that the folks have that huge thing of hand me downs in the ready. That should help with rebuilding whatever wardrobe everyone had before then.” Freddy was glad that the attic full of clothing would be emptied out soon for other usage, especially for alchemy needs.

 “Wait…we’re getting to choose our own clothing?” Envy asked, surprised that everyone including them would get to build a wardrobe finally.

 “That’s right, this is your first time getting to build your own wardrobe..” Freddy said, realizing the homunculi were now free to wear whatever colors they wanted now that Dante was gone.

 “Can you tell me what chartreuse is like?” Envy asked now that they were free to try all the different shades and tints of green as they’d like.

 “The most hideous color known to exist, one step away from being either barf green or liver failure yellow.” Dolly answered, a look of disdain for the worst conceived shade of green danced in her eyes.

 “Sweet, I’m test running that color!” Envy declared much to the abject horror on both Dolly and Freddy’s faces, both of them seemingly hating the color of chartreuse. 

 “Envy, stop teasing Dolly about wearing chartreuse, besides, the next cabin has her feral humans. They’ll likely fly off the handle given the destruction they caused together down in Central if they find out you were teasing.” Lust poked at Envy a bit, snickering a bit at the expression they made upon hearing the mention of Dolly’s feral humans.

 “Lust, that's not funny! Those humans are absolutely horrifying!” Envy gasped out, remembering the dread lobster man in rage mode from not too long ago.

 “I’m only teasing, besides, Hughes, Ruby, and Roy are there. They’d likely restrain them if the pair decided to put the fear of god into you.” Lust chuckled a bit as the train came to a stop at a station on their long way towards Northern Amestris.

 The sounds of passengers exiting and boarding the train could be heard, knowing full well that the snack trolley will be coming up soon. Lust and Envy had prepared very well for Gluttony, having stored human body parts in the packaging to feed him with to avoid a colorful incident from occurring. Dolly, hearing the wheels of the trolley coming, ushered Ernest and Dorian into the cat carrier. It was the better option than the backpack having loaded the carrier with games amongst other things, particularly donuts to satisfy the awful lions as they parked their clay asses inside. Sure enough, the snacks trolley arrived with one more surprise much to Freddy’s abject horror, Major Armstrong had arrived!

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I'm sorry for the large art dump right now, the huge weekend is upon us and figured to get a lot of things done before hand. This here is the uniform designs for Ernest and Dorian X3 I'll be making their outfits out of duct tape, it's been ages since I last made a duct tape outfit for a doll and figured it'll be a perfect project to use such a material. They will have functional little backpacks on the back to hold items in as well as having functioning fanny packs. I'll do a colored version later once the weekend has calmed down and less of a nightmare to deal with.

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Decided now was a good time to unleash some sketches that I've been doing, especially in regards to future crafting projects :3 So for the first ongoing project, I'm making a pair of house shaped work cases for sewing and non sewing projects X3 I'm entering a rather massive crafting season and will be needing cases like these to carrying some much needed tools. Above the houses are the Meat Wool Alchemy Lab Mutant Sheep that'll be painted onto the tool box for non sewing projects. Bonemeal by far is my favorite little abomination of the mutant sheep designs. Going over to the next page, there are more designs for Moppet Stitch along with a little hidden lore that some of my friends should be able to recognize right away >:3 I am, however, waffling on the clear panel design for Moppet as I do want to do fun fillings that can be viewed. Which panel design do you guys like?

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I finally finished this piece last night for the upcoming holiday crafting season as I really needed some tool boxes to carry my equipments in. The Felt house here is made specifically for sewing and felting tools like Miss Stabitha Turtle. I'm also hoping if I'm able to find this, perhaps have it also carry some jointing needles if the house is big enough (Those are the nightmare needles thanks to how long they are.) This is what the Sewing house looks like on the inside <3 There are four heart patches for needle/long pins holding on the four sides of the house. On the roof insides are pockets to hold bigger items like buttons or embellishments with the nice Silhouettes of the Foxlings sewn on there X3 Once I have the comic up tonight, my weekend will be focused on making the Meat Wool Alchemy Lab toolbox for the non sewing equipments like clay or dyes.

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The Wayfarer: Halloween Special Pt. 4

“Ernest, that’s not going to happen, not with Carmilla being somewhere in the lab.” Dolly gently reminded her angry red lion about the original task.

 “I’m starting to appreciate how Hughes was able to care for kids now, I didn’t realize they’d be that difficult to manage..” Envy started to keep their eyes peeled for any signs for the runaway four year old. “I miss Hughes too Envy, I miss him too..” Dolly was surprised after all these years, Envy had actually mentioned Hughes for the first time since his passing. 

 “Son ... .is that you….?” Said a dusty voice in the dark parts of the lab, something perking up after hearing Envy’s voice.

 “Don’t ever call me that, Hohenheim of Light.” Envy’s nerves had tensen up as a figure started to emerge from the dark.

 The smell of rot and ages filled the area as Hohenheim emerged from the dark, suffering a fate far worse than death. His bones discolored in greens and browns, only one eye remaining in the socket of his skull that had clouded a bit from the continued decay. Scraps of the only golden hair now turned a rather moldy shade of green clung onto the bony skull of Hohenheim as he came into full view of the group. Envy had a look of not being very impressed as well as not being thrilled of having to visit their terribly, fully rotted father before them. Hohenheim attempted a smile if one could call it that as he pulled up a roller seat to sit on in vain hopes of reestablishing a father child relationship once more. It had always been like that ever since Envy and their fellow homunculi had moved up to the Mancer household, Hohenheim always arriving at the Meat Wool Alchemy Lab during the holiday seasons in an attempt to have that conversation. No one was sure how Hohenheim was able to break in each and every time, but it was such a recurring thing that Freddy had to stay at the Mancer household during those times. 

 “Look Hohenheim, I’m not here to have this conversation with you at all, I’m here to look for a four year old girl.” Envy decided to keep things short and sweet with the talking skeleton before them.

“Nope, no little children have shown up in a while. You can stay here, with me and have a chat, catch up on everything I’ve missed out?” Hohenheim asked out of desperation as his jaw unhinged a bit with a crack.

 “I’m going to decline that offer, come on Dolly, we don’t have to stay around here with this living corpse.” Envy wanted to leave the area at once now that they know Carmilla wasn’t in the lab at all.

 “No stay! Stay..oh do my bones miss the warmth of soft skin on them..oh how cold everything has been..so cold…” Hohenheim shot up from the chair, rubbing their skeletal fingers against the bare bones of the arms.

 “...Well that’s a new one..” Envy’s little alarm bells were going off after seeing their bastard of a father talk about his need for skin. “You’ll find me some skin…right? That’s what children do for their parents…right?” Hohenheim started to inch closer and closer to the group, desperate for flesh to adorn his rotting bones. “Sir you have no right to call yourself a parent after all you’ve done in the past to them.” Dolly spoke, not thrilled with the direction things were going at the moment. 

 “I wasn’t talking to you, I was talking to my..” Hohenheim snapped before getting cut off by Envy who was done with this conversation. “No, we’re not doing this. We came to look for Carmilla and that was ALL we were going to do, Hohenheim. Not talk about your new creepy thing for skin.” Envy hissed between their rock munching teeth after having to deal with their other curse, a father that’ll never leave them alone.

 “Oh you’re right..I need fats and muscles too…I’ll be able to stay warmer that way as well…” Hohenheim mumbled a bit, realizing the need a bit more than just skin.

 “...I think the decay has gone to his brain..” Dorian was just staring at how deranged this conversation had gotten, realizing like Dante, the rot was eating the Alchemist of Light’s brain.

 “Please tell me I can obliterate this miserable trainwreck!” Ernest pleaded to at least cause some devastation upon the one called Hohenheim of Light, the master of rotting away.

 “Seriously, why do you have to target me instead of my younger half brothers you fucking freak of nature!” Envy was done with this and ready to just put Hohenheim of light of his misery given now he’s craving flesh for his bones.

 “Your brothers got dogs, really big dogs..” Hohenheim responded, somehow shuddering his bones at the thoughts of how big the dogs his younger sons have gotten after the first attempted visit. 

 “And now I’m getting some fucking dogs for the lab..” Envy decided getting dogs was now a very good idea at this point to keep the unwanted visitor from coming ever again.

 “We are going to leave now, do not come near us, do not even follow us. This entire conversation is over.” Dolly put her foot down as Hohenheim got uncomfortably close to Envy and herself.

 “No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no…no one is leaving, not until I get some flesh on my cold, freezing bones….” Hohenheim officially checked out of reality and into an unstable mental state thanks to the rot along with having apparently very cold bones.

 Envy prepared to have a bit of a fight with a mobile corpse monster even in a rather lavish looking vampire costume. They hadn’t needed to fight in a long time, but in this case, Envy was willing to make an exception as they glanced over to Dolly, making sure she was on the same page about fighting off flesh-crazed Hohenheim. Dolly gave a similar nod to Envy, she was ready to fight off Hohenheim as the skeleton alchemist let out a high pitched screech as he came charging towards them, wobbling in the process. Envy took to the acrobatic leap to take out Hohenheim’s arms while Dolly took to knocking out Hohenheim’s femur bones to stop the asshole from moving about. It had been easy…too easy as Envy and Dolly watched Hohenheim pull himself back together. Evidently, Hohenheim doubled as a living lego figure, being able to fall apart and popped back together. It was clear that the determination of wanting to be covered in the warm comforts of living flesh had driven Hohenheim to a new extreme. Both Envy and Dolly were about ready to let Ernest have his shining moment of getting to obliterate the horrible skeleton when came a crash, a scattering of bones, and the high pitch scream of a child high on sugar. Carmilla had arrived, her hand clutching a massive bag of candy and her hair adorned with the ripped out hairs of her fellow trick or treaters as a trophy of conquest.

 “You know what, that works too…We’re going back home, Carmilla.” Envy picked up the war happy child and carried her like a football.

 “We are absolutely going to be getting angry phone calls tonight and throughout tomorrow..” Dolly winced a bit as the rabid child started screeching about being given more candy to appease her hunger. 

 “Yeah, not to mention another round of lawsuits from rightfully angry parents.” Ernest added as he looked at the viciously screeching Carmilla, Envy wisely shifted their arm into a rubber like substance to avoid the feeling of getting bitten into.

 “Upside, Carmilla’s viciousness did save us from having a prolonged fight with Hohenheim.” Dorian added as the team left the Alchemy lab, Dolly locking up after themselves once everyone was outside.

 “I wanna beat up the living dead man more! I WANNA BEAT UP THE LIVING DEAD MAN MORE!” Cried Carmilla the destroyer as she threw a temper tantrum after her night of fright was ruined by intervention.

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Here are the Five mini badges that I made to go with the functioning outfits I made for five of my own Dolls when I work on Projects. With Babylon, Avalon, and Curly's badges, they were made based on really fancy cookies and figured that would look awesome with their patchwork sewing outfits. With Ernest and Dorian's badges, they were made based on really horrific mutant sheep mascots for the material crafting/clay projects 'Meat Wool Alchemy Lab' and I love how deranged these awful monster sheep are. Behind each badges is their name X3 I'll be getting them laminated when I get the chance, but for now, I'm gonna be super giddy about how these came out X3

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The kool aid dye method absolutely worked for the fiber dying of the wool for Ernest's mane. Funny thing about the wool while it was soaking in the pigment, it looks very much like meat and had to keep a close guard on it because it looks very much like raw meat. The fibers for Ernest's mane is currently drying at the moment and I've gotten Dorian's mane in the dye right now, looking very much like swamp thing meat. I have accepted that their duct tape outfits will have the ever so cheerful 'Meat Wool Alchemy Lab' written upon it, it rolls off the tongue. I will definitely start using kool aid from now on for natural fiber dying, it has done such an amazing job.

TIME TO CRAFT SOME ALCHEMICAL LIONS!

After waiting for the best weather to get to work on Ernest and Dorian, I finally get the first real warm spring weather to finally begin the process. I am using this cold porcelain clay for them as the texture from it works perfectly, though I would need to get a second package of it to make Dorian's parts with. Once Ernest is all done curing, I'll be able to paint him up before getting the UV resin coating to protect the pieces with. The only regret is that I don't have any leather like fabrics to make Ernest's outfit with, so I'll be using this dark jean fabric instead and accent it with plaid flannel to give him a punk look. With their manes, it'll be needle felted after I get my hands on some kool aid packets to dye the fibers with (Its a pretty safe method that won't set off my sensory issues, vinegar be horrible.)