#*dovetail

[toothspurs]

some cas pics from the drafts

[biracy]

Didn't want to derail the earlier reblogged post bc they are separate issues but u shouldn't be calling trans men you don't know "butch" either. You should not let "butch" and "transmasc" become so synonymous in your mind that you default to describing a transmasculine body as a "transmasc/butch body"

[wikirobot]

Put together the frame for the coat rack. Used some cherry and some very simple hand cut dovetails. Pretty happy with how it turned out.

The finish is still drying but it's complete.

[jaqobis]

thinking about how egwene had arcs about letting go of rand at this point in both the books and the show

in the books, rand was always a might-have-been. they cared deeply for one another and were motivated by one another; and in another life (in so many other lives) they would have gotten married and settled down together in emond's field.

when egwene has to go through the arches and deny rand in multiple permutations, it's about rejecting that quiet, normal life. it is about letting go of her feelings for him in some ways, but it's more about accepting (heh) that she is a channeler of the white tower now. she is an aes sedai in training. that possible life with the boy next door is over. egwene in the books is not ta'veren. she is choosing her future rather than being pulled around by the pattern. the spark meant she always had to leave and be properly trained, but it didn't strictly mean she had to commit to full aes sedai training and leaving emond's field for good. she chose that for herself, and for the greater good.

in the show, however, rand is her first love. they were together for a long time. he was probably getting ready to propose! marrying rand was a very salient possible future, one she really had to decide she was ready to let go of when nynaeve offered to train her as a wisdom. she had to leave two rivers under duress, however, and lost that future. importantly, she had to live with the uncertainty of being a potential dragon and then going through the trauma of finding out it was the boy she loves. she went through a very long time of grieving him and regretting not being there for him. when he reappeared in her life, it became critically important that she not "fail" in that way again. she needs to PROTECT HIM so she doesn't LOSE HIM again. she's gonna fight ishamael for him, she's gonna go into the aiel waste for him, she's gonna be STRONGER this time!

only...she is ta'veren. rand is the dragon. and their paths are not the same. she has her own power, she has her own talents, and she is meant for so much more than protecting her first love. she has to let go of this trauma response and accept that he will be in danger, he may even die, and there is nothing she can do about that. that would not be her fault. after being ripped from two rivers, after her horrifying captivity with the seanchan, she understandably wants more control in her life. rand is feeling exactly the same way, with his pushback against moiraine. but egwene cannot control the pattern so that she never feels helpless or never loses rand again. she can't even control his choices, because no one can really decide what their loved ones do.

being there for him and prioritizing him is not enough. because she does want more. because he is making decisions without her input, some of which she really hates (and for good reason). they're growing apart. and the harm egwene is doing herself by trying to deal with her trauma this way is literalized through lanfear's physical and psychological torture in her dreams. egwene is going to have to forgive herself for not going to the eye of the world — or at the very least, she is going to have to make peace with that. she will have to figure out a way forward with her traumas that is not "trying to prevent a specific scenario from ever happening again."

for egwene in the show, letting go of rand is tantamount to accepting that her current coping mechanisms are not working. it's going to free her to make decisions that are more focused on herself and less focused on not feeling a particular way ever again.

[bethanydelleman]

To explain why I'm so adamant that Henry Crawford would be good in bed/go down on a woman unprompted, to those who don't see it:

Yes, Henry is selfish, but his main flaw is vanity and he feeds his ego specifically by getting women to fall in love with him. We also know he is very observant about female preferences when motivated (he noticed that Fanny didn't have a necklace for the cross and sent Mary to give her one, he doesn't accept the dinner invitation from Mr. Price because of Fanny's reaction most likely) and adjusts his behaviour based on observation (his method of flirting is completely changed because of Fanny's preferences, he's different in Portsmouth as well).

Therefore

He'd definitely be giving 110% during sex, but not in a good, selfless way, in a "I want you to acknowledge that I'm better than every other man on earth" way. This is likely to have diminishing returns. Unless he was actually in love, he'd probably only try so hard until he figured he'd done the best job possible and then he'd be done and want to move on. But I guarantee you, Maria Rushworth blew her marriage to smithereens because Henry made her climax and Mr. Rushworth never got close.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk (you've got one more day to vote)

(he is also the best option for F in a game of Austen F/M/K and you're from the future, you can take some penicillin later)

[medsteeth]

right so about 162 days ago i said i would draw fanart for the really fucking good bushmedicine fanfic "thou giveth fever" by @mickmundy and, like a dumbass, proceeded to do nothing and worry about school for that entire time 😭 i'll do more and better fanart very soon (god i hope) but have these silly ass drawings for the mean time. this fic gave me life to draw tf2 again after like... 3 years lol so thank you kind fellow ❤️❤️

[utilitycaster]

I am very excited for Unend and I have absolutely no insight into what it will entail but I do want to offer a gentle warning regarding what I'd like to call, for the CR audience anyway, the Campaign 1 to Campaign 2 problem.

I found in the early-ish days of Campaign 2 there was an immense focus from some parts of the fandom on what previously seen characters were doing, rather than the current cast of characters, and at times a bitterness that we weren't just showing the same characters 25 years down the line. Which was silly, because we got a great story with new great characters and saw the world grow before our eyes, and there were even some small nods without them overshadowing something new and exciting.

I feel this way about Unend: again, I know nothing, but I don't think it will be heavily focused on characters introduced in Midst or Moonward at all. I think it's an opportunity for a new cast of characters to explore new things in the same world. While I suspect the islet of Midst may show up simply because it's a strategic location for an exploration vessel to stop given how the cosmos work, the story is explicitly going to be taking place as far away from Midst as possible, since they're trying to find the extremes of the cosmos, not the middle. I don't think we're checking in extensively with past characters, and I think that's great! Get excited for new ones!

[a-bit-knitty-gritty]

Art reflects life...

I'm knitting a cowl (Dovetail by Melanie Rice) to match the tool box I built over the last few months at my dayjob! The tulip poplar I used was from some boards in VERY different colors- the more typical pale grey/beige and a very olive green. I wanted to remember it with a commemorative knit since I painted the box and then gave it to its new owner.

[toothspurs]

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[wicked-west-cats]

Dovetail and Reedsnap are...unconventional mates to say the least. Reedsnap always wanted to continue her legacy, evidence that she was here that would continue on for moons to come. Dovetail was the unassuming tom who just so happened to be at the perfect place at the perfect time for her to decide that he would be the father of said kits.

Despite a bit of an abrupt proposal, Dovetail had humoured the spitfire and the two genuinely enjoy the company of each other (even if they don't always see eye to eye).

Dovetail is level headed, laid back, with his head in the clouds. Reedsnap is blunt, ambitious, and opinionated. An odd mix but one that works for them, stepping in when the other either needs defending or to be told to calm down.

[yashley]

nothing just matt planning to ruidusly smash imogen and fearne together since the beginning

[danishprince]

not saying anything that hasn't been articulated more clearly by, like, foucault etc but it is crazy how much fear of Fucking Up/punishment from authority drives the modern school experience. i run a zoom after-school playwriting workshop for high schoolers and the first day of class was explicitly like "hey, i get it if you can't finish the short weekly assignments. this is a class for fun that you're presumably taking because you want to write plays, and i get that you all have other shit to do, the only person who suffers if you can't write the short exercise is you".

yet EVERY week i get teens messaging me like "so sorry!!! i didn't do it!!! i hate myself!! i have 370574874389789 things going on and here is a list of all of them!! i apologize! i am scum!!!" Like guys i truly do not give a fuck and in fact it makes my job easier to not have to go over your scene in class...but idk it's just so bleak that they're more worried about me being Mad than anything else. whagever

[catteries]

I think it'd be remiss if I do not highlight the fact that, being both an ACD canon and Granada adaptation enjoyer, and also a member of one of the British Empire's ex-colonies, that I'd like to be in a comfortable enough headspace to share a perspective on this text site on how a Straits Settlement person views the works.

There's enough references to the Crown Colonies to make it interesting for me, so I just need to sit down and type it out, I guess? Just off the top of my head:

- The Penang lawyer cane reference

- The Haj pilgrims boat that departed from Singapore (presumably from Kampong Bugis)

- Lascars and Malays being explicitly referenced as part of certain subset and communities

- References to opium, which the Straits Settlements were one of the largest port of call for the Empire's supply

- Anything Sumatra region, given proximity

There's also a lot to be said about Granada's The Last Vampyre episode, which is such a profound piece of work about the othering of 'different' people by society, as well as the criticism and calling out of the quintissential brand of British racism that remained in ex-Straits Settlements' mentality today and how the general British public still practices it, that more expert people that is Not Me should talk about it.

But then again, how many would be able to reflect on this from a Malay peninsular residents' perspective?

[adrianicsea]

what gets me about harry is that like. he’s relatively level-headed, he’s easygoing, he treats being sheriff more like shepherding an eccentric and unruly flock of sheep than like a conscious exertion of control and power. he’s a fixture of the town, him being sheriff was a foregone conclusion, his dad was the sheriff; harry was consigned to spend his life in twin peaks from a VERY early age, and to fit within a very straight-laced, somewhat demanding role within his lifetime. by all appearances and his daily conduct, this suits him just fine. BUT. the two people in twin peaks that he cares for the most, the ones who fascinate and enchant him above everyone else— josie and cooper— are outsiders to the community. they represent the world beyond twin peaks! all the curiosity and wonder and possibility of what life could be like for harry, too, if he wasn’t tethered body and soul to the town.

and i don’t think that harry reduces either josie or coop to their outsider status; on the contrary, harry is one of very few people in town who trusts josie implicitly and sees her as a full, complete person, one with wishes and worries just like anyone else in town. and it goes without saying how much harry comes to trust and rely on coop as both a professional partner AND as a dear, close friend and confidante. but even still, i think it’s the wonder, mystery, and novelty of both josie and coop being New In Town that initially puts both of them on harry’s radar— and i think that speaks to a degree of wistfulness and wanderlust within harry, and therefore a degree of unhappiness and unfulfilment in his life. if he’s attracted so much to people from outside of twin peaks, who’s to say that he’s not just as attracted to the idea of leaving twin peaks himself? maybe being destined to stay in town his entire life does NOT, in fact, suit him just fine. but maybe it’s what harry always knew his life would be, and he’s made peace with the constant wanting and wishing in his head.

[dreamlightgallery]

Nobody:

Parfaedian character design:

Just. An observation.

[pitotube]

the way ppl on tumblr use someone's fiction habits (shipping especially because of course) as a judge of morality is so funny imagine if this site didn't get popular because of fandom and some other form of hobby became the framework for whether or not to determine if someone is a good person. imagine how tumblr would have evolved if it had been been popularised by woodworkers instead