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❤️💙 Artist Spotlight 💙❤️

Omg it’s @myvividreams! Vivi will be making a gorgeous piece for our SFW volume. We can’t wait for you to see it!

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QZGS Rare Pair Week Day 3: Peak 🌄

Sometimes, Wang Jiexi thinks exasperatedly about how magical his life has become, and then he realizes that there isn't anything more magical than what has always been there. As always, Ye Xiu, his familiar, is there to witness it with him.

A continuation to my old Modern with Magic - Witches and Familiars AU which, uh, I still have to post here sometime too…

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How 'bout an underwater rendezvous with our favorite inventor?

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Nighttime wandering 🌕⛩🍁

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Hrm, hello? It’s been a while. Haven’t gotten to draw anything for myself since I started my new job, so I sketched this out in the car yesterday.

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✨PRE-ORDERS OPEN for a BATFAM POKER DECK✨

Printed on linen card stock with matte finishing, this Batfamily-inspired poker deck features superheroes from DC's Batman-related comics. Play poker with suites of Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin, and Robin! Meet their Queens and their Robin-selves. Make a play with our Batdad and Agent A wildcards. One thing's for certain - no Jokers are allowed in this deck!

Pre-orders close SEP 11, 2022 Target Ship-Out Date is OCT 2, 2022

Due to budget constraints, this will be a LIMITED SUPPLY RUN!

PRE-ORDER YOUR DECK HERE

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any advice on making capes?

Ooh, I love capes!

Making capes

Types of capes:

There are different types of capes. Let's take a look at a few options.

Rectangle cape: the type of cape American superheroes wear. They consist out of a simple rectangle that can be tied or clasped at the neck. Use gathered fabric for extra fullness. This type of cape won't give you a lot of warmth as it will only cover your back.

Quarter circle cape: slightly more flared than a rectangle cape, but will still only cover your back.

Half circle cape: will cover both your back and shoulders and some of your body, which will give you extra warmth. Great for drama!

Fitted half circle cape: similar to a half circle cape, but made out of three separate pieces to fit around your body better. It won't cover you completely, but it will cover your back, shoulders, and more of your body than a normal half circle cape would.

Full circle cape: this cloak will cover your full body and keep you nice and warm.

Savvy sewists will notice these cape types are similar to circle skirts. The idea's basically the same. Instead of making a skirt, you leave your circle open in the front, and cut a hole that fits your neck rather than your waist.

(Image source) [ID: drawing showing five types of coats: rectangle, quarter circle, half circle, half fitted circle, full circle. Text: "Capes and cloaks. www.facebook.com/aliceincosplayland".]

Aside of volume, you can also play around with length. A floor-length cape has a very different effect and function than a cape that reaches your hips, or even a capelet.

(Image source) [ID: a pattern diagram showing four different cape lengths: floor length, hip length, waist length, and a capelet. Text: "6535 Front and back views. Newlook."]

Details like a hood or armholes can make your cape extra comfortable, and you've got a wide range of options when it comes to fasteners, too.

(Image source) [ID: back view of a long gray half circle cape that's been pleated at the shoulders.]

(Image source) [ID: a purple capelet with a hood, frills, cat ears, and lace, tied with a bow at the front. Text: "Gray. Alice and the Pirates."]

(Image source) [ID: a person wearing a brown monogrammed hip-length cape with front pockets and arm slits at the sides.]

(Image source) [ID: a person wearing a long gray hooded cape, standing in a forest and holding a sword.]

Materials:

Before deciding what fabrics to make your cloak or cape out of, ask yourself what you're trying to achieve first.

Warmth, drape, fabric price, comfort, aesthetic, wearing context,... are some examples of things that can influence your decision.

Some examples:

A cosplay cloak has to look good but doesn't necessarily have to be warm. Choose a fabric that's suitable for your character's outfit, but also keep the circumstances in which you plan to wear your outfit in mind. For example, a warm cloak might pose issues if you do a lot of indoor photo shoots, but convention halls can be pretty chilly.

A fashion cloak intended for winter really does need to be warm! Wool, tweed, and velvet are good options.

A cloak intended for historical re-enactment preferably uses period-accurate materials and therefore won't be lined with fabrics like polyester and such. Which fabric to use depends on the period and region you're working in.

Tutorials and patterns:

Here's a few tutorials/patterns to get you started:

Fitted cloak: winterberry cape (Mood)

How to draft your own hooded cape (The Spruce Crafts)

Pleated half circle cape (Gilian Conahan)

Half circle capelet (Buzzfeed)

Long hooded cloak (Fleece Fun)

Full circle capelet (Project Run and Play)

Four ways to make a cape (WikiHow)

Eight types of capes (Sew Guide)

Half circle fashion cape (Indoor Shannon)

21 free cape sewing patterns (Love Sewing)

Hooded cloak with lining (Online Fabric Store)

Conclusion:

Capes and cloaks make for fun sewing projects. They're pretty easy to make: if you know how to draw circles, you know how to draft a cape pattern.

Capes are a versatile garment, and can range from a great last-minute Halloween costume to an every-day winter cloak. Play around with materials, lengths, shapes, design elements, decoration,... to achieve different effects.

And most of all: have fun with it!

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Kaeya: "hic... Want some?"

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Beach photoshoot? Nah. Not for Ye Xiu.

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"To our hero!" - Adaman

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for the genshin impact halcyon calendar 2022

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UPDATES AND STUFF

Helo, all! It's been a while, huh? I've been more active on Twitter and Instagram for the past couple of months, and I just realized that I haven't updated y'all here on Tumblr in a long time.

First things first - my commission prices have changed! My last (and only) price list was from early last year, and I actually have changed my prices twice since I created a Ko-Fi last winter.

You can check out my Ko-Fi here.

I'm mostly using it as an easy-access commission price list, so as always, you can still commission me over DM or email (myvividreams@gmail.com) like before.

For more information about how to commission me, you can refer to this FAQ.

I apologize for any confusion I caused re: commissions!

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!!!! I got a shout out 😭👀🥰 in all honesty tho you just reminded me that I still haven’t posted my JD summer exchange art from last year here. Thank you for reminding me 😂

Check out @myvividreams​!

Vivi’s passion for art is palpable in every single one of her works; the attention to detail and the amount of thought she puts into it, the composition, the colours, the backgrounds… everything just comes together to create the most beautiful atmospheric JD pieces that make me want to crawl into them and live there.

Submitted by spacecapes

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it's 2022 and i finally made myself a kazuha icon 💖

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kaeya… knight by day, magical girl by knight 🌙✨

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hey uh

this is probably somewhat awkward for a fiction written years ago, but today i read both of the mirror mirror-verse fictions and found them quite enjoyable. thank you for writing them.

Okay, so, I think the reason that explanations about this aren’t gaining traction is that we as ficauthors instinctively respond by focusing on our experience to reassure you–“No, it’s great! I love getting comments on older fic! No fanfic author is going to object to that!”–and the reason that doesn’t have much of an effect is that it’s inherently subjective. Just because one person has a positive reaction doesn’t mean everyone does, and besides, we might just be polite, right?

Here’s the actual explanation: Your anxieties are misplaced because you are mistaking a fanfiction site for social media.

Ao3 isn’t Facebook! It’s an archive. Works there are intended to be easily found and enjoyed years after their creation, exactly the same as books in a library!

It’s not “awkward” to say you just read Fahrenheit 451 for the first time even though it was written years ago, and in the same way, new readers are SUPPOSED to be constantly finding fic and enjoying it regardless of publishing date. That’s the entire point of publishing it.

Fanfiction sites are not social media. There’s no such thing as “creeping” in someone’s old posts. In a very real way, there’s no such thing as “old posts” at all. Again–by that logic, you’re being creepy whenever you pick up a book at the library that’s more than a few months old! That’s insane.

If this is your first time reading Macbeth, then it’s a totally new experience to you and you can and SHOULD talk about your impressions and reactions to that story in the context that you’re reading it. There’s entire courses and academic careers dedicated to doing exactly that. If today was the first time you went looking in the right section of the site to find our mirrorverse fic, then that fic is a new story to you and you should join the conversation.

These fics are there to be preserved so that people can always find and read and interact with them for the first time. That’s actually the entire point.

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jumping on the anemo boyband train 🍁