#Double Top Chart Pattern

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[noisy-weasel]

Pissbabies having absolute fits on r/rhythmgames because they can't follow the notes in a fucking 4 button game. Literally talking straight fucking nonsense.

[velmiraa]

Synastry Sessions Part I: Tom Holland & Zendaya

Hey everyone! Today I'm starting a new series where I’ll be looking at the synastry of famous couples. First up are our beloved Zendaya and Tom Holland. I don't know their exact birth times, so I'll just be focusing on their planetary and asteroid compatibility. If you do know their birth times, please let me know! Alright, let's dive in!

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Zendaya is a Virgo with a Taurus Moon, which makes her very down-to-earth. She needs stability and financial security to feel safe. Her Mars and Venus are both in Cancer, so she’s emotional, passionate, and somewhat private when it comes to love and sex. Once she’s in love, she finds it hard to move on. Her Libra Mercury gives her a balanced, harmonious outlook on life.

Tom, on the other hand, is a Gemini with a Sagittarius Moon. He’s lighthearted, easygoing, adventurous, intellectual, and has a great sense of humor. His Venus is also in Gemini, meaning he’s drawn to women who can keep up a good conversation and teach him new things. There's also a Taurus influence in his chart—his Mars and Mercury are both in Taurus—so when he’s making a decision, he’ll take his time, but once he makes up his mind, nobody can change it.

When I looked at their charts, the first thing I noticed was that their Suns square each other. But Mercury rules both signs, there’s a strong intellectual component to this pairing. Both Gemini and Virgo enjoy thinking, learning, and sharing ideas. However, friction arises from Gemini’s broad curiosity vs. Virgo’s detail-oriented nature. Gemini might see Virgo as overly critical, while Virgo might view Gemini as unfocused. I had a similar placement with my ex-boyfriend—his Mercury was in Gemini and mine was in Virgo. And believe me, sometimes I really did find him scattered and unfocused, and it drove me nuts! On the flip side, he would always say that I criticize people way too much, lol. We had a way to understand each other tho, these are Mercurian signs at the end! I should add that they are both very rational people.

Another point worth mentioning is Tom’s Lilith and how it interacts with Zendaya’s Venus–Mars conjunction! Well... Tom is probably obsessed with Zendaya lol She is the one he truly desires, but at the same time terrifies him! With Lilith touching both her Mars and Venus, it amplifies the raw, instinctual flavor of the attraction, creating a deep, sometimes irresistible pull. It can create a relationship that’s emotionally potent, sexually magnetic, and sometimes intense.

We should also talk about their Chiron–North Node conjunction in Libra as a “double whammy.” Since Zendaya’s Chiron connects with Tom’s North Node, she shares her healing experiences and helps him find balance in his life, guiding him toward his true path. But because Zendaya’s North Node also lines up with Tom’s Chiron, the same pattern holds in reverse! This creates a sense of destiny, as though they’re each helping the other fulfill a key part of their soul’s development.

I can’t help but notice their Pluto–Moon conjunction. When these two come together, there’s a powerful, magnetic pull. This isn’t a lighthearted aspect; both people may feel an intense, soul-level connection. There’s a mutual fascination that can make it hard to walk away, even if problems come up. Often, the Pluto person (Zendaya) becomes a bit obsessed with the Moon person (Tom), holding a strong influence over his emotions. In short, this conjunction is incredibly intense and can be life-changing.

They also have a harmonious aspect between his Moon and her Saturn, which really supports a long-term bond. They look out for one another, with her helping to ground his emotions. He trusts her enough to open up about his vulnerabilities, and she understands and guides him.

On top of that, her Ceres is conjunct his Moon—one of the sweetest aspects around. His emotional world clicks perfectly with her nurturing style, so he likely feels, “She just gets me.” It encourages him to let down his guard and trust that she’ll care for him without judgment. Put simply, he sees her as wife material, guys!

Finally, we have her Psyche conjunct his Eros—oh my gosh! In Greek mythology, Eros and Psyche share a legendary love story that’s both physically passionate and spiritually profound. When these two come together astrologically, it often creates an immediate, almost destined sense of attraction. It can feel downright magical, reaching beyond physical desire to resonate on a deeper, more soul-level plane. He may feel especially inspired, while she feels deeply “seen” and understood. It’s like a meeting of body and spirit—a real legendary vibe!

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That’s all for today, guys! Let me know if this analysis rings true for their relationship, and which celebrity couple you’d like to see next! See ya!

[hotdigitallegend]

have you ever seen an astro circle chart and been like… wtf is that? anyways. . . and just scroll away

same.

here’s a quick guide to different types of charts based on their look - because usually the pattern tells a story.

🌪️ splash (aka my chart 😮‍💨)

lines slicing and crossing like a high-stakes spy movie scene. not a classical chart type, but when a chart is full of squares, oppositions, kites, T-squares, and other intense aspects - it looks like a web of tension.

→ what it means:

you’re built for tension and transformation. nothing’s easy but everything hits deep.

core energy: emotional complexity, creative pressure, silent power.

if the planets are distributed throughout the chart without clear clustering, it might be a splash.

🎯 bucket (aka carrying one big dream)

planets mostly on one side with one planet all alone (the “handle”)

→ what it means:

youre focused but with a twist. the handle planet is your obsession, your outlet, your secret sauce.

example: if the handle is Saturn, you’re chasing structure. if it’s Venus, love and beauty are your compass.

core energy: focused, hypnotic.

🔄 seesaw (aka the internal tug-of-war)

two groups of planets on opposite sides

→ what this means:

duality is your default. you get both sides, you hold contradictions, and you’re great at seeing multiple perspectives, but you can feel torn. if the planets are mostly spread evenly across both sides, especially with symmetry - it’s likely a seesaw shape.

it’s like “yes… but also no.”

core energy: emotional acrobatics. lawyer energy.

↖️ all on the left (houses 1–6)

this chart says: “i’ll figure it out myself.” you do the deep work in private, no audience is necessary.

→ what it means:

introspective, self-driven, moving from the inside out.

core energy: solitude, self-work, mastery.

you create in silence before the world sees. you feel like something’s missing, so you’re always seeking it. deeply motivated to balance your world.

↘️ all on the right (houses 7–12)

growth through others. usually the people person who actually learns stuff from other humans (wild, i know).

→ what it means:

you learn through connection, contrast, and relationships.

core energy: community, collaboration, reflection.

you’re the main character in a bigger story.

🥂lines on both sides

a cosmic double espresso shot. juggling your own feelings and everyone else’s without dropping a beat

→ what it means:

you’re balancing self and other, mystery and revelation. you’re the hermit and the socialite, the quiet thinker and connector.

core energy: paradox, depth, and a life mostly in gray zones.

you créate your story with inner growth + outer experience, so never settling for easy answers. you collect contradictions like trophies.

🔻 bottom-heavy (houses 1–6)

private life is your kingdom. the homebody with a PhD in emotional deep diving.

→ what it means:

rooted in habits, healing, and inner work. your power comes from routines and knowing yourself like the back of your hand.

core energy: grounding, emotional depth, personal growth.

your roots run deep..

🔺 top-heavy (houses 7–12)

eyes on the prize; public life and legacy.

→ what it means:

ambitious and driven to impact. you’re built to make waves and get noticed.

core energy: purpose, influence, expansion.

you’re born to be seen and remembered.

[omghallucinations]

Bang Chan Chart Analysis: in the weeds edition

chart patterns, degrees, fixed stars, aspects, final dispositors, basically all kind of deeper cuts.

ah, bang chan: a double libra gemini rising whose other planets are acting up so much i barely even touched on venus and mercury somehow

like he's clearly an air sign in every respect--he loooOOOves to talk, he's curious and interested in a lot of different things, he's never met a secret he doesn't want to immediately tell five hundred thousand people on live... but damn some of those other planets (saturn, mars, jupiter, uranus) are loud.

right away i noticed his chart is a bucket chart--every planet is in one half of the circle, except for one planet who becomes the "handle": his aries saturn. saturn is hammering all the other planets on the head so to speak.

saturn: you'll have to come through me motherfuckers

saturn is screaming it's ME i'm the BIG BOSS and as the handle, a lot of things in chan's life are gonna be based on or deal with--for better or worse--saturn stuff (maturation, fear, control, authority, judgment). chan's saturn automatically rockets to the top of his Big Boss list (it will not stay here tho, we've got some other bosses coming).

saturn is in its fall in aries--it doesn't speak the language there. any planet in its fall is usually marked down in influence but i also think it makes the planet more important? chan has to struggle with it. a saturn at home in capricorn (barring other chart factors) is very natural. 8/9 members of girls generation have saturn in capricorn and wow does that make sense. saturn in capricorn prizes Work and is self-conscious/guilty of its feelings (feelings are not productive), it's alllways anxious it hasn't done enough, it is very scared of disappointing people, it's deeply conscious of societal conditioning.

aries is a weird sign for saturn to be in. saturn has a lot of fear, and aries has a lot of fearlessness. aries is a baby and saturn is all about maturation. aries is about acting without thinking, saturn is about making a list and checking it 5 times then deciding not to do it just in case.

and then. this is fun. saturn goes on the big boss list again because it is unaspected--this doesn't mean there aren't aspects, it means there are no major aspects to other planets. when a planet is unaspected, everyone around you can sure as fuck see the hell out of it, but you can't really. it's center stage but not in the play.

bang chan: i am the cutest, fuzziest lil libra guy :) i just care about my work which is normal :) and i express that care in a very reasonable and chill way :) i just want things to be good! :) everyone around him, shaking in fear from his scathing judgment and innate leadership aura: uh-huh

an unaspected planet is usually a generational thing--chan really popped up like hey girl :) i'm here to really personify our family problems of work, judgement, fear and maturation and just like. make 'em huge and unavoidable. haha. :)

chan's gonna show real extremes of behavior around his saturn, which

in aries seems like it's dealing with issues of creation, self-determination, doing it on my own, that kind of stuff (so he'll deny himself or assert himself too much in turns)

in the 11th house backs that up--the 11th is the aquarius house, so saturn is in aries (a "me" sign) in a "we" (in a sort of detached intellectual sense) house

11th/aquarius usually wants to set u free :) but in a kind of back-handed passy aggy harry styles way, like "i love you so i'll set you free, because i am such an open-minded person, unlike other people (who are tethered to humanity which is both embarrassing and scary to me yuck), also setting you free is less terrifying to me than being perceived :) go with god :) bye :)"

it's in the sun decan, so there's a flavor of "look at me look at me" and identity formation (am i what i produce?)

saturn's most exact aspect is sesquisquare mars which acts a lot like a square, my favorite aspect! squares get such a bad rap but i think they're so much better for your life in the long run bc they force you to deal with things. his mars is in sagittarius, so we have a double fire sign situation: explosive, passionate, loves attention and creation. mars, who also gets a bad rap, is our survival planet. it's like, how are you gonna survive this. how are you gonna get what you want and defend yourself and win (if you care about winning) (chan cares about winning).

sagittarius mars is gonna go forward kind of joyfully but also in a "fuck you lmao" way. it's courageous bc it doesn't really think anything could go actually wrong. it's gonna Leave if it's bored (and it's already bored). it's gonna wide-angle zoom on the situation and be like "lol embarrassing... for you" and feel 100% sure it's right All The Time. sesquisquare saturn tries to control this force, adds a bunch of fear and repression and Issues (and often in later life, wisdom), so -> chan's gonna really be afraid of his own anger, of losing control of his temper -> ironically he will be unable to stop bouncing between these two extremes to various degrees. u can't control what u can't accept my dude. -> he's also afraid of not being in power, of not winning -> the me/we extreme will also come into play--especially with his sun and moon in libra (that's their whole Thing) sagittarius says "i'm right for objective, philosophical reasons" and aries says "i'm right because i just am bro i don't have to explain myself to you" mars in the 6th house--that drive to assert himself is gonna really go hard at work and in his daily life. this is a #gymbro placement for sure. his daily routine is Let's Fuckin Go At 150% -> his 11th house (where saturn is), loves the idea of people, community, his ideals, is detached from humanity and it comes into conflict with -> his 6th house, which is very much of the world, very critical, very let's get actual shit done and be of service to people sidebar, mars is exactly conjunct the asteroid quaoar-- creation, making new rules and structures, diverging from how things Have Always Been Done, please hold this thought for his uranus, coming up soon

libra moon at 29 degrees: heard u were desperately trying to maintain equilibrium for emotional security reasons lol

another planet i'm eyeing is his libra moon which is in the anaretic degree, 29. he's very good at this energy but it's gonna test him. with his libra moon he needs contact and dialogue with people to feel secure but it can't get too deep because that's gonna freak him out. he is super comfortable being vulnerable and emotional on the internet because the internet is not real. i mean it's real, but it doesn't feel real. it's the equivalent of over-intellecualising your feelings so you don't actually feel anything (which an air moon always enjoys, as a hobby). just like it's way easier and less scary to be in love with an idea of a person, rather than the actual person! the actual person can really fuck up ur moodboard!

chan needs things to be pretty, equal, even-keeled. libra is such a funny sign because often it gets flattened to this like "cutey pie flirt" stereotype which i would say is almost exclusively libra venus. libra is a cardinal sign--an acting, initiating sign--and can be a lot more controlling than it likes to pretend imo. it's also in his sixth house--he's gonna feel safe when he can be of service to others, when he can get things done, when he can edit shit, basically.

he's also a new moon baby, which gives a moon a fun, aries-y, baby-tries-(food)-for-the-first-time vibe. removes a lot of those libra inhibitions and adds a lot of need to feel special.

chan is so good at making sure he feels safe by trying to keep everything cute and not too deep and staying on the surface or removed from the situation through constant activity and like, pruning everything, trying to perfect everything (therefore not having to actually deal with anything). howmstever, this system is gonna repeatedly implode throughout his life. soz bud. his emotional foundation's gonna get pummeled on and off which sucks because he has an almost manic need

for emotional safety through strategic diplomacy and avoiding confrontation

for emotional safety through constant work and "perfecting" everything

for people to like him everyone needs to like him or he will die

(not the real him, that makes him nervous, the projection of him that he painstakingly curates, that is safer)

it's not especially fun to deal with.

bright side, wisdom in later life!

mercury, ruler of chan's ascendant: pretty much exactly what you'd expect?

as a gemini rising, chan's ruler is his mercury in libra in the 5th but ironically i don't feel like she's as major of a player as some of these other planets. you can see the communication and curiosity focus of his life, and in the 5th house of self-expression, creation. mercury is sextile mars and pluto, a talent for making his voice heard and powerful, trine uranus in the 9th he's confident about and believes in his unique voice/perspective.

like mercury is there and she's important, but she's not like. causing big waves? it's like his life direction, again, important, but i'm more intrigued by...

mars conjunct pluto opposite his ascendant: oh boy!

this is his one big opposition and it's on the gemini-sagittarius axis (my fave, she's just fun and curious, she's not super dramatic or that difficult although she doesn't exactly make it easy to make... decisions... or get anything done?). however if we were worried about getting shit done, mars and pluto are here to scream. mars conjunct pluto is exactly as dramatic as sagittarius-gemini is not.

this is an exact conjunction and it's wild. anything pluto touches blows up in a way. it makes it intense and secretive and adds the planet to its portfolio of unconscious past life soul security demands.

lmao i just realized that red lights is fully this conjunction lmao oh no. i don't know if i can talk about this conjunction normally. it's very... ... nsfw.

sometimes pluto conjunct mars forces mars into the background and makes the person afraid to assert themselves, but i don't think that's exactly the vibe here, although it's similar. it looks to me like chan has a lot of rage and anger in him that, with his libra placements, he probably has a very difficult time acknowledging or facing. he'll easily internalize it and turn it inward and be a real asshole to himself, and also his temper will flare up randomly and he'll go for the kill shot when he meant to communicate like a normal person. he has a lot of strong desires, he also wants power, but he's gonna hide it and run from the reality there. he does have almost inhuman will, courage and drive tho, he can truly endure anything.

(idk i think he should be a little worried about his physical body, so many of his coping mechanisms depend on exercise/endurance and with pluto--transformation, security--in the sixth house i worry his health might force transformation? ur body can't carry all of ur unspoken shit my bud?)

gemini rising wants to seem very fun, very friendly, very cute, but with mars and pluto on his descendant chan is almost hiding or ignoring a huge part of himself--all those darker impulses which aren't going anywhere. my guy loves a taboo and (redacted redacted redacted redacted REDACTEDDDD). whatever, it's good for creativity and in sagittarius he has a good sense of humor about it.

jupiter: uno reverso???

damn chan really got #blessed here, a lot of that chart was really screaming Issues, Internalized Rage, Fear, Depression, etc, but jupiter really bounced up to be like "never mind haha. i mean yeah, true, but also whatever"

first of all jupiter is in its home house, the 9th--chan's on a Journey, he's eat pray loving, he's Listening and Learning--and it's in aquarius, so that belief system and personal philosophy is gonna be very open-minded, very science fiction, very predicting trends, very ahead of society.

jupiter conjunct his MC: this is what pulls jupiter up to the big boss list. anything conjunct your MC is at the top of your chart--people see it. people notice it about you. and goddamn are people just gonna give him stuff. and they always have. no wonder jyp was like This Is My Special Boy, like that is jupiter conjunct MC to a t.

(the public perception of chan is also gonna be a lot... cuter and more exuberant and fun than the actual man. not that he's not those things. just that the jupiter of his personality is really what people are noticing about him from the outside: his personal vision, his expansive side, all that. they are not looking at that prominent saturn as much, even if saturn is a bigger player)

jupiter trine the sun: another one where people are just gonna like you. for one thing they'll notice chan's good intentions and generosity--altho they will also notice his tendency to moralise and be a liiiiittle condescending--but his tendency towards bouncy optimism (at least outwardly) makes people want to follow him aquarius jupiter trine libra sun: two "we" signs in a big way, except aquarius is "we" like "humanity" and libra is "we" like "you and me", but they unite in a tendency to conflate the personal identity with the group identity--with jupiter and the sun at play it's like chan is able to bring people on board with his identity and personal vision (but he often presents an idealised version of himself who does not have needs, somehow) 9th house trine 5th house: basically a repeat of jupiter-sun, since the 5th house is the leo house--chan has a talent for using his personal philosophy/vision in creative works

our final big boss of the night, perhaps the ultimate big boss: aquarius uranus

chan's aquarius uranus is really talking to everybody. it has by far the most aspects of any planet. uranus has its hand in his ascendant and every planet except jupiter and neptune. with modern rulers aquarius is at home in uranus, and i'm coming around a little bit on modern rulership even if i think it tends to be less prominent than traditional. still:

aquarius uranus: original thought, technological progress, your box is dumb i'm not going in there uranus in the 9th house: he's gonna have an offbeat belief system--no chance he buys into korea's societal norms, or anyone's societal norms for that matter. he's not a conformist. trine his gemini ascendant: whooooo boy he is really not a conformist. when he's not in a Mood he's not judgmental at all, even when he's in a mood he has a real benevolent Ah, Humanity Should All Be Free to Pursue Happiness vibe. gemini couldn't give a shit about morals, and uranus and aquarius think morals are bourgeois. he has a talent for his own difference--some uranus people (like most of ateez, my weirdo darlings) have chips on their shoulders about being different, but chan with his easy trine is just happy to be himself. i mean a trine uranus isn't gonna change the world (unlike harder aspects like squares, who would be more driven to do so) but he is gonna set a good example just through his identity.

this is a fun side of chan! i like this!

square moon: mmmm ok about that chip on his shoulder. although it's not really about being different--it's more about he both wants to be stable and emotionally secure and also free and independent and he's soooooooo fucking stubborn (but he doesn't see it that way because he's Right, not stubborn). he's prone to feeling really itchy and stuck and then making big changes out of nowhere. also he's very intuitive but overly sensitive and when he's hurt he's gonna shut down completely and not tell the person what they did wrong. didn't he give someone the silent treatment? jisung? yeah that's uranus square moon energy. he has a lot of fear around his emotions and only lets himself feel in short sharp bursts. he feels hurt and he cuts out the person immediately without warning to protect himself--even if it's completely illogical he will dupe himself into believing it is very logical and correct, actually libra moon square aquarius uranus: yeah this looks like a "keep the peace even if it is unhealthy" v. "radical change out of nowhere the tower ass" argument, he'll bounce between the two extremes again. heyyy gemini rising i didn't even see u there!!

man. really haven't gotten into everything including his sun in libra (in its fall), his nodes (classic idol 5th-11th axis, soooo many of them have this), etc, but i've been working on this for so long!! aughhH!!

ok drumroll please, let's gather up his chart big players!! normally i would rank these, but i keep changing my mind.

aquarius uranus

aquarius jupiter

sagittarius mars-pluto conjunction

aries saturn

libra mercury (2nd to lastish)

libra moon (definitely last on this list)

tentatively i'm gonna put uranus-jupiter tied at 1, then mars-pluto then saturn then mercury. ugh i don't know though. they're all big players! chan in general has one of those spread-out charts--when you look at the ruler of each planet, he has what's called a "committee" tree

where there isn't one or two final bosses, and the planets are all connected in one tree rather than being separate. you can see how chan's 3 top planets are sag mars, aquarius jupiter and aries saturn--they all work together and are super interconnected. he's not as single-minded as someone with a singular dispositor (ateez hongjoong has a singular final dispositor tree with his pisces jupiter) but also not as split or conflicted as someone who has split trees (ateez seonghwa has a planet in rulership tree with separate parts).

anyway this has been really interesting! for someone with what seems at first glance to be a very unified chart (air moon, air sun, air rising) he has some interesting conflicting energies--altho i'm sure he sees himself as just an air person. i'm sure he is lowkey aware of that mars and pluto conjunction but i'd bet he really pretends he does not see it (except for in REDACTED REDACTED EXTREMELY REDACTED situations), and he truly cannot see his saturn at all (altho everyone else can!).

[aihoshiino]

The thing about me is that I am a bit of a freak when it comes to the way characters refer to each other, especially when it’s my blorbos. So I have basically a mental chart of how ai calls others and how others call her.

I find it fascinating that in akane’s ai performance, she changes how she addresses others. Going from ‘aqua-kun’ to just ‘aqua’ and ‘yuki-chan’ to ‘yuki’. (Side note: when I was double checking the og jp text, I was surprised by how much aikane borrowed from yuki.)

Professor of ai, do you think this aspect of aikane is accurate to the real ai? What do you make of aikane in general?

If I remember correctly, ai is yobisute with a couple of people, aqua and ruby(obviously), watanabe and takamine in 45510, we never see ai call hikaru by name (a fact I am very normal about) but in 15YL they are yobisute with each other.

I think Aikane is pretty interesting as like... an in-universe reflection of what Ai's 'public' self was understood to be. On the one hand, the fact that Akane was able to get such a good read on Ai just through examining publicly available information is an early reflection/indication of the fact that 'Ai of B-Komachi' really isn't that different from the supposed "real" Ai and that she contains enough of Ai's authentic self for Akane to replicate it, at least in part.

On the other hand, she is ultimately only a recreation of Ai's public self, and whatever the manga might try and tell us... Akane doesn't really know who Ai is. She knows things about Ai, but that doesn't mean she understands her as a person. I think Akane, for better or worse, kind of just sees Ai like any other role she plays - a fictional character for her to come up with fun headcanons about so she can playact as her better as opposed to a real human being.

This is something season 2 of the anime supports with some interesting imagery, however accidentally;

Not only is Akane's image of Ai incomplete, but it's an image of Ai of B-Komachi, Ai's overly polished public self - and she's pictured alongside Sayahime, an entirely unreal fictional character. In Akane's mind, these two 'roles' are the same in form and weight.

I do definitely agree that Aikane borrows a LOT from Yuki, though! That was something that always seemed quite implicit to me, so I was always surprised that other people never really talk about it. Aikane is particularly forward and flirtatious and pushy in a way that even Ai of B-Komachi is not, but very much does reflect the version of herself that Yuki was playing on the show. And given that Aikane is born out of (among other things, obvs) Akane's sense of rivalry with Yuki and admiration of her, I think that makes a lot of sense.

(Yuki is also one of those Secretly Ai characters we see pop up in the first half of the manga, imo, which drives this home even further.)

Because of this, I think the terms of address thing is something Akane cribbed from Yuki rather than Ai - past a certain point (or perhaps when she's in Work Mode), Yuki calls Akane by her first name with no honorifics. I... don't remember if she does it for anybody else, off the top of my head? But at the very least, that's how she speaks to Akane.

ACTUALLY: Quick addendum to this while it's in my queue, but I suddenly remembered these two clearly paralleled lines:

The TL obscures this a teeny bit, but these lines are even more obviously and deliberately mirrored in Japanese:

「茜わ私のこと、嫌い？」 Akane wa watashi no koto kirai? 「ゆきわこう言う私、嫌い?」 Yuki wa kouiu watashi kirai?

The anime takes this a step further and has Aikane use the exact same inflection and even deliberate pacing of her speaking when she delivers this line. So definitely an indication to me that Aikane borrows just as much from Yuki as she does from the real Ai.

Back to the real Ai herself tho, this isn't really reflective of her own speech patterns. It can be easy to miss because the setup of the series is such that the Venn diagram of "characters Ai addresses by name" and "characters Ai addresses without honorifics" is almost a single circle lol but she's pretty polite with her honorifics usage and doesn't really jump to yobisute very fast, at least not with people's real names - we can infer that all the gen 1 B-Komachi girls only ever addressed each other by their stage names, for example, so Ai leaving off their honorifics can be understood as her addressing them by title instead, in the same way she calls Ichigo "President" and Gorou "Sensei".

Another thing that differentiates Ai from Aikane is that Aikane almost seems to go out of her way to use people's names, probably as a way of coming off as more forward and confident. By contrast, Ai herself does the opposite - Kyun mentions in POV B (i gotta start getting used to not calling it viewpoint b) that Ai tends to avoid using people's names because she often gets them wrong when she does (some combo of autism faceblindness & her low literacy meaning she struggles to correctly read name kanji probably) and doesn't want to get in trouble.

All this combined makes me feel pretty sure that Aikane is just a portrayal of the ideal of Ai in all senses of the word. Akane assembles her from all the prettiest, shiniest parts of Ai and Yuki and plays her as an effortlessly perfect, flirtatious and confident girl... which we all know the real Ai very much was not.

[panda-wearing-pants]

Bingo Card

B-L: Jimmy is the only Lifer to never do worse than their previous season

B-I: The only person to eliminate the previous season's last place is Grian, and the both times he did it, the person got last for the first time in the season before.

B-F: The team size of people who were alone in the previous season has been steadily increasing, with Joel, Pearl, and Martyn all being on teams of 2 after being alone, and Scar and Lizzie teaming with each other and Jimmy after being alone, making a team of 3. If this comes true, the pattern will either be 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, or 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4

B-E: This post explains it, but basically Ren is somewhat likely to team with Bdubs, Etho, Gem, Scott, Impulse, Jimmy, or Lizzie, and Gem and Jimmy are the only ones who are also likely to team with Ren

B-7: Before Wild Life, Pearl always teamed with people who just had there worst season and placed in the double-digits, which is Mumbo, Skizz, Martyn, BigB, and Scar, and Skizz is the only non-winner Pearl has not teamed with

I-L: I made a prediction for the placements next season, putting Mumbo last and Impulse eliminated third. BigB was between them, but Impulse and Mumbo's data is less varied than BigB's, so they are more likely to place low

I-I: Mumbo's teams sizes have decreased by one each season

I-F: In every season since Double Life, BigB has had a face on his or his team's base, including using his own head as a base

I-E: I really only put this because it was technically correct last season, but BigB has been the last member on his team 2 out of 4 times, putting him above 11 other people, tied with Gem, Pearl, and Joel, and below Martyn, Ren, and Grian

I-7: If the first red and first yellow are two different people, the first red always survives longer

N-L: Grian almost always witnesses at least one of Jimmy's deaths each season

N-I: For each season, 9th place was: Cleo, Scar, Scar, Scar, Etho, and Gem. Cleo and Etho are Scar's parents in Limited Life, when they are the Clockers, and Gem subs for Cleo for an episode, so she is technically a Clocker

N-F: Jimmy teamed with Grian, Martyn, and Scar in the seasons after they won, and has teamed with Scott and Joel before they won, and has teamed with a winner in every season other than Double Life

N-E: Impulse has been eliminated by the eventual winner in every season since Last Life, until being eliminated by Etho in Wild Life. However, Joel did cause Impulse's final death as a zombie in Wild Life

N-7: Martyn, Pearl, and Grian all placed 2nd or 3rd while on Mumbo's team

G-L: In every season, the previous season's fifth and eighth places are eliminated by the winner or the environment. Pearl and Etho placed 5th and 8th in WL, but I predicted Etho to win, so I think Pearl is more likely to be eliminated at all

G-I: Every odd-numbered season has had three lives

G-F: Cleo typically teams with people who placed high in the previous season, only teaming with someone who placed below 7th once (Scar). According to the second chart in the link in B-E, Cleo likely wants to team with Pearl, Tango, or Bdubs (5th-7th). Cleo just teamed with Pearl in Wild Life, so Tango and Bdubs are the most likely

G-E: The third player to eliminate someone has place first or second in every season, as well as Simple Life

(Edit: This should be G-7, G-E is that Scar and Bdubs eliminated Bdubs and BigB in 3L and Scar dies directly after Bdubs, Grian and Cleo eliminated them in LL and Grian was eliminated after Cleo, and Impulse and Scott eliminated Bdubs and BigB in Limited Life and Impulse died right after Scott. DL is the only season where Bdubs and BigB were both eliminated by two different people and Bdubs' killer was no eliminated right after BigB's)

O-L: Going back to the B-E chart, Gem has teamed with people who have placed in the top five, and Grian, Ren, and Cleo placed 2nd, 3rd, and 4th

O-I: Ignoring Double Life, Cleo has been on three teams of 4 and two teams of 3, and 4th place has been on a team of 4 three times after placing 4th and a team of 3 once, so Cleo has a 67% chance of being on a team of 4

O-F: Even though I expect Etho to win, he always places in the bottom 50% in odd-numbered seasons and the top 50% in even-numbered seasons, which is actually the opposite of Bdubs (before WL)

O-E: Jimmy has accidentally killed someone in every season except for Last Life and Double Life

O-7: Grian is the only person to get an elimination in every season he has been in

[lemonjestercoffee]

horses! horses! horses! horses!

i redesigned them! with my own hcs and species design quirks. also woe, height chart be upon ye

some notes for everypony:

Twilight Sparkle- i like gold on her design but not the absurd amounts everyone else gives her for some reason, so i made it an accent color. yes her magic is gold now too because of her eyes. her hair was also inspired by Mikan Tsumiki's cause i thought a more orderly version of her choppy mess would look good on Twilight, i was right. also glasses go brr, i think she looks cute in 'em

Apple Jack- while i love the long fetlocks people give her, i can't see her actually doing that because they'd be a pain to keep clean, so i did the opposite and had her shave her feathering off. i also put her hair up to keep it off her neck so she doesn't overheat while working. her cutiemark is my favorite part cause it's that family symbol where two adults and a kid make a heart, but i made it an apple instead, does a better job at showing her emphasis on family ties. no hat cause i like the idea of her hat being from her dad, and she doesn't want to mess it up wearing it daily so she wears it exclusively to special events

Rainbow Dash- i decided to make her less of a living lightening bolt and leaned more into her lazy side, going for the type of butch lesbian look that makes her feel like she wears tank tops and hangs out in the basement getting drunk and listening to rock. i wanted her to look like the only part of her she actually puts effort into maintaining is her wings

Fluttershy- i take great enjoyment in making Flutters a fucking lumbering giant compared to his friends (yes my Flutters is a guy), taking fluttertree and running with it. no notes aside from tall and green patterns and long hair and ooo pretty bronze jewelry. ig also his cutie mark is like- it was suppose to just be a paw and a butterfly but i accidentally made a parasprite with it, and instead of fixing it i just rolled with it and made it look more intentional

Pinkie Pie- THIS HORSE GAVE ME SO MUCH TROUBLE!! every part of my body was like "give her patterns! add things to her hair! it makes sense for her!!" but everything i did looked wrong and i couldn't get it to work. so i bit the bullet and made her really plain... and it worked. i don't know why but she just.... looks so much better with a really simple design, the hair texture does all the heavy lifting really

Rarity- of everyone, she's the one who'd have the long pretty fetlocks, and i decided to double down on that by not only making them so long you can't see her hooves, but also by making her have the longest and softest coat in general. she has the time and dedication to take care of such a high maintenance coat and she's gonna do it. it's even more impressive when you realize ponyville uses exclusively dirt roads. aside from that i think she deserves nice jewelry, and they use leather straps cause i think leather would be a ponyville fashion staple, she shows her hometown pride in her fashion

Spike- i thought it was weird he was so small the whole run, he should have had a growth spurt at some point imo, so i made him a bit bigger and more proportional to the older teen dragons, this is less of a redesign and more of a "make him actually grow up" thing, he's still small but not toddler small. this is the point where Twilight starts complaining about him sitting on her back cause he's getting too heavy. i also don't like how adult Spike ended up looking, but i haven't made a redesign of him yet

i have made an older alicorn Twilight design that i've been referring to as Ethereal Twilight, but i might hold off on sharing that for a while cause i have some funky hc lore ideas for the alicorns that i wanna refine a little before posting her. maybe i'll have older Spike drawn by then too, who knows

[sarahdawnsdesigns]

Welcome to November, with freezing nights and. . . . 22 C days? Yep. Weather is drunk. Usually, I'd be switching over to my winter coat and knitted woolies right now, but instead, I'm here in a tank top, deprived of the chance to wear my knitwear! It's a travesty!

So, while I may have planned the Celtic Hood pattern for the November KAL, now I'm sitting here, hoping it gets cold enough later I can actually -wear- said hood.

. . . . Anyway, yes, the Celtic Hood is the November Featured Pattern and Knit-Along.  Don't worry, if you don't have the pattern, it's 50% off through the month of November during the Knit-Along! (and yes, you can absolutely double dip with the @fastenoffyal, provided you can knit your hood quickly enough, as they start on November 22nd!)

Plus, if you finish a hood by the end of November, (don't worry, WIP's accepted!) you have the chance to win a Gift Card from Knit Picks. (US/Canada only at the moment, sorry!) or 4 patterns of your choice from my web shop!

Other cool stuff to know:

The cable stitch pattern is both charted and written.

The pattern has a large-print version for folks who need it (this version also works with screen-reading tech)

It comes in two sizes, adult small and large, with a depth of 9.75 (10.75) inches, 25(27.5) cm and a height of 12(14) inches, 30.5 (35.5) cm, not counting the ribbing.

It uses 11100 to 1500 yards (1006 to 1372 meters) of worsted or aran yarn (the cables eat a lot of yarn!)

The pattern description is non-gendered (because hoods do not have a gender, no clothing is gendered in English - and remember, linguistic gender is not the same thing as the social constructs of gender!)

Sample was knit in Cascade 220 Superwash Wool, in "Rose" but, any worsted-weight wool or wool blend should substitute quite well. Worsted/Aran weight acrylic yarn would also substitute nicely, if desired. (link above is an affiliate link, I get a commission if you make a purchase, don't worry, there's no additional cost to you!)

If you're a Patron, you can download the pattern here

Anyway, you can find all the details about how to enter the Knit Along on the Pattern Page, and if you've got any questions, please, drop them on this post or in the Ask Box!

[parttimedragonslayer]

X Stitch Quick Start Guide

Fabric

You can stitch on anything you like, but for x stitch it’s going to be a lot easier if you use some kind of evenweave fabric. Evenweave is fabric where, stay with me here, the weave is even. 

You want to be able to see a little, evenly spaces holes between the fibres that go up and down, and the ones that go across. 

This is aida, it’s what x stitch is usually done on

Here’s some examples of other evenweave fabrics that you could also use

If it’s got evenly spaced holes, then you can x stitch on it!

Thread

The thread that you typically use for x stitch is called floss. The key feature of floss is that it can be separated out into six individual strands.

This is not floss for x stitch. 

Neither is this 

Cut a length of thread to start stitching with. About 40-50cm is good. Not so long that it gets tangled, not so short that you’re constantly threading needles. Now you want to separate that cut length, but grabbing three of the individual strands and separating them from the other three. This can get messy. Everyone develops their own ‘never fail’ method of separating their strands. You’ll find what works for you, but only after many tangled threads and swear words. 

These three separated strands are what you will stitch with. NOTE: you will not double these over (then you would be stitching with six strands).

You can also stitch with two strands, whichever you choose, just stick with that choice for the whole project. 

Needle

You can use whatever kind of needle you want or have to hand. You will find it easier if you use the right kind, but we don’t always have the choice. The most important thing for x stitch is that the needle has an eye large enough to accommodate three strands of thread. 

A tapestry needle is the best kind. It has a large eye and a blunter end. 

The blunt end helps us go through the holes of the fabric more easily without catching surrounding threads. 

This needle has a very small eye and a very pointy point. You can x stitch with it if it’s all you have, it will just be more difficult. 

How to read the pattern

X stitch patterns, or charts, are a grid that align with your fabric. Each intersection of a horizontal and vertical line on the pattern corresponds to a hole in the weave of your fabric. 

Most patterns will either be coloured blocks

Or symbols 

For each coloured block or symbol on your pattern, you are going to stitch and X on your fabric

Deciding where to start can be tricky. 

The centre is always a good choice. Find the centre of your fabric by folding it over and noting where the middle is. Most patterns have numbers on the top and sides to help you keep track of where you are. Use the numbers to find the middle of the pattern, or just eyeball it. 

Starting in the top left is also a good choice. Make sure you leave a couple of centimetres of space, don’t start your first stitch right in the corner. The fabric will fray with handling, plus you might need some excess to work with for framing or finishing, depending on what your plans are for the final piece.

Starting

Tie a knot in the end of your thread. 

Don’t listen to the gatekeepers who tell you knots are bad. 

Knots aren’t great, but for now, to get us going, we’re just going to use a knot. Later we learn some better ways to start.

Stitching the X

Bring your needle up through the top left corner of the square you are going to stitch

Bring your needle down though the bottom right corner or the square you are stitching

That's your first 'leg'!

Bring your needle up though the top right corner of the square you are going to stitch 

Bring your needle down through the bottom left corner of the square you are stitching 

Congratulations! You’ve made your first x stitch!

Find the next square and repeat.

Where it can get tricky is when you finish your X and the hole you have just brought your needle down through, is also the same place you need to bring your needle up to start the next X

When this happens you may have to change the order of how you stitch your X. Instead of starting at the top left, start at the bottom right.

The most important thing to remember is to keep your X’s going the same way. Always have the first ‘leg’ slanting \ and the second ‘leg’ slanting /. It doesn’t matter if you stitch them top to bottom or bottom to top. As long as your X’s all look the same when you’re finished it doesn’t matter how you stitch them.

Finish your thread

When your thread gets too short, finish it by flipping to the back of your fabric and sliding the needle under a few of the stitches and cutting the thread off. 

Keep going until you have finished your pattern. Now you can display your finished x stitch however you like! Frame it and hang it on a wall. Stitch it onto a bag or a jacket

You're now a x stitcher!!

(You may have noticed that my heart is a little different to the one in the pattern. You are about to learn that you do not know how to count. Yes, you learned how when you were very young, but when you count while doing x stitch, suddenly you numbers no longer make sense.)

I know that buying materials for arts and crafts can get expensive, so I'd recommend checking your local thrift stores. You can usually find different kinds of even weave and floss, even if it's not the right size or colours that you want, it's great for practice and you never know what might inspire your next project.

This ended up being a lot longer than I thought, and I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface! If anything is unclear or you need help please let me know, I’d love to help. 

I really enjoyed writing this guide so if you want more there’s also a whole lot more I could go into. If this has helped you at all and you’re interested in any of the below, let me know. More suggestions are welcome!

Advanced topics

Cloth count

Stitching on high count fabric

2 over 2, 1 over 1 etc

Stitching with things other than floss

Number of strands, when to use more or less

Patterns with lots of colours

X directions

Full X’s or \\\\ then /////

How to have a neat back

Loop start

Stitch in hand vs stitch in a hoop

Framing

Edging for a patch

Backstitch

Other counted embroidery types

[hishoi]

HELLO PEOPLE!

ARE YOU A COSPLAYER?

ARE YOU A SKY:COTL PLAYER?

DO YOU LIKE TO CROCHET?

ARE YOU HERE BECAUSE THE ACTUAL SCARF ON THATSKYSHOP IS RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE?

After maybe 2 months, i've finally put together a pattern for this! First, i wanted to make a video about it, but decided it was too much work for me, and it would have been to mentally draining. (And i hosted a poll about it too). This is of course my pattern for the days of feast scarf from sky: children of the light! This is not a hard pattern, but may be a time consuming one. My scarf isn't as long as the one in the game, do i can't wrap it like how it looks in the game, but if you want to make yours game-accurate that's fine too! Now, here's the pattern!

Days of feast scarf

Materials:

2 balls of red yarn

1 ball of white yarn

Hook size of your choosing, mine is a 2.50 mm hook.

Scissors

This pattern really only has 2 parts, the scarf, and the ends. The scarf uses a graph/chart? i made, but if you don't know how graphs work, i suggest looking that up.

Now, i personally did this graph 8 times, to make the lenght of the scarf i wanted. I would suggest maybe 14-16 for the in-game lenght, but i'm not sure. The entire thing is worked in herringbone half-double crochet stitches.

When switching colors, i recommend not taking the yarn with you through the entire project, but cutting the yarn when you switch, and only take the color you begin with you. So for example, you are going to change color to white. You cut off your red yarn, and finish the stitch with the white yarn. Take only the white end with you to fasten as you go. Otherwise the scarf will not look as clean. You can fasten the red yarn later. It's a time consuming process but it is so worth it.

To make the ends, i have a short video showing the process. It is not very hard, you just have to get the hang of it. Take five threads of red yarn for each end. The scarf has four ends on each side.

(my desk is very messy so i filmed this on top of my sketchbook)

Use five threads at once instead of only one, but you don't have to pull it through with the hook if it's too hard. You can use your fingers. You can have the ends to be any lenght you want, it just depends on how you want it to look!

Repeat this for the other side too, and your scarf should be done! If you make it, i'd love to see how it turned out!

[thorgans-guide-to-thedas]

Can you guys re-imagine the culture(s) of the Chasind?

Hey anon!

That's a fantastic suggestion! Our campaigns have been taking place mostly in northern Thedas, so we didn't even have Chasind people/Kocari Wilds on the map yet, but you're so right. I didn't know much about the Chasind before reading up on the Bioware Wiki (BW for short) and.....yooof.

We'll definitely do a more thought-out and 'official' entry, but since a lot of our re-imaginings move at a snail's pace, I'll share some of our immediate thoughts after discussing this:

Geography:

It's giving BIG bayou vibes, and we're taking that and running with it, nodding at inspiration of early Black-American culture that emerges in the southern USA and the greater Caribbean Islands. Visuals of the Florida Everglades and Bayou Bartholomew in Arkansas, with a majority of the villages being built on stilts or the massive trees that are similar to the ones seen in the Frostback Basin (Jaws of Hakkon DLC specifically). There are settlements on more solid land, but most of the population and the 'civilians' live inside the swamp, as the tricky terrain doubles as protection and security.

The People:

Based off the BW, we're seeing patterns of love for nature and the seasons, and the mention of "animalistic goddesses" is making us think....DND druid style. (we took one look at the "barbaric" descriptions and tossed it all out, thank you)

Animal companionship is common among Chasind, whether they are "working animals" that warriors and hunters may keep that help them in their tasks, or companions for your local shopkeep or fisherman. Big or small, smart or.....lovable...animals are all around and children may even receive their companion at very young ages, growing up with their animal friend.

Some more magically gifted Chasind can even transform and take an animal form.

Chasind are bonded by clan systems, not blood or background. Meaning that if someone needs help in the village, people will band together to support that person. Once you settle in the swamp, you're family.

The Chasind have a large population of people with darker skin tones, but people with lighter skin tones are not uncommon either.

The Culture

Being situated on top of it, of course, water is EVERYTHING.

Navigating the bayou is no easy feat, and children are taught from a young age through legends, stories, and all sorts of oral histories how dangerous the water can be.

There are definitely some pretty cool eldritch beings living out in the swamp, and there are definitely stories about them.

Fishing culture is HUGE. Fishermen are taught a very sophisticated type of navigation and tracking, most commonly using the stars as a guide to chart the swamp, because the landscape can be incredibly difficult to navigate, especially after dark.

According to the BW, the Chasind have "developed their own language, but are capable of speaking the King's tongue", so we took this as they've managed to blend an older language like the one spoken by their Alamaari ancestors and merged it with the King's tongue (not unlike real-world languages, such as Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, or Michif)

People also traverse the swamp on stilts to keep out of the water and out of the way of other water predators. Whether they are walking across the village or going out to the fishing holes to get a daily catch.

Please feel free to add your own comments or thoughts on this re-imagine! This entire project is a joint effort, and having perspectives from other backgrounds is always helpful to make it more inclusive.

[acaplaya-musings]

Voiceplay Visuals: Running Up That Hill

I've never seen any episodes of Stranger Things, but I've learned bits and pieces about it from Tumblr/the internet, and of course I heard about its usage of Running Up That Hill (which I did know a little bit already) in season 4, which had the song shooting up to the tops of music charts, breaking a record for the longest time for a track to reach Number 1 spot on the UK's official Singles Chart (as well as the oldest female artist to get there).

Voiceplay's video for their cover of Running Up That Hill was released on the 2nd of July, 2022, and like the other "trendy"/popular song featured in a piece of recent media that they covered that year, it features Ashley Diane! So let's go! 😁

Apparently (if I'm correctly remembering the comments I read about it), Voiceplay used mops to cover the floor with a thin layer of water (which had to be done multiple times during filming), to get a cool reflective effect that would give the vibes of "The Upside-Down" from the series.

(And as always, shoutout to Eli for the lighting design!)

Ayyyy

Eli is going double-denim (very 80s) with his jeans and denim jacket combo, and his "Hellfire Club" shirt is merch from Stranger Things! Ashley is wearing a cute crop top, and I love her hair and makeup here. Cesar's got a button-up shirt and a maroon jacket (which I kinda want for myself tbh), Layne's wearing ripped jeans (like Eli) and a kinda-patchwork-pattern button-up (which I also want), and Geoff... is doing The Least again. 😆 His "80s-style" outfit is a plain black/grey shirt, jeans, and a barely-noticeable jacket/jumper tied around the waist. I do love him but I can't help but (lightheartedly) call him out sometimes. 😂

Love the eyeshadow! 💜

Cesar is absolutely vibing at the start of this and I love him

Lighting change!

And again!

When your multiple superhuman abilities include lighting control /j😝

(Also notice the water droplets around/near Layne and Cesar's feet?)

Cool 3D-glasses-like visual effect!

Man she's so pretty (Voiceplay videos spoil me sometimes, they really do)

"Let me steal this moment from you nowwww"

(Trust Geoff to get a low-key dark line of a song and make it even darker/spookier! 😄)

Lighting change again!

As if I was going to talk about the visuals for this video without talking about this moment! So extremely cool, even if you're not into Stranger Things. No clue how they managed to pull it off, but very well done!

The guys' reactions are all absolute gold, of course 😂 ("what should we do?" "I don't know, just keep singing!")

Based on the very-fixed and very-specific shots we get of Ashley while she's "levitating", I'm guessing this was more done via clever editing and post-production work rather than anything like harnesses to actually lift her in the air (not sure if Voiceplay/Pattycake Productions would have the money or resources for that anyway), but still, absolutely brilliant job, and what a way to elevate the video! 😉 (couldn't help myself 😁)

3D-glasses effect again!

I honestly wonder whether or not it was difficult to hold those expressions and not break character, while still singing/vocalising

The last frame of the video, right?

Wrong!

This is the actual last frame (before the Patreon credits), thanks to a very quick bonus scene that Voiceplay decided to include. They sure do have a flair for the dramatic, don't they? 😄

Shoutout to Layne for both the arrangement and video for this one! Voiceplay continue to knock it out of the park, every time, without fail. They know how to do songs justice, while still putting their own spin on it, and it always works so well!

[tweedlestrove]

Part 8 of A Treatise of Embroidery, crochet, and knitting with illustrations

By George C. Perkins, Anna Grayson Ford, and M. Heminway & Sons Silk co circa 1899

Please note, this book was written in 1899, and as such uses a racist term to refer to the dyes that were used for the thread. If you'd like to read more about this period in time, the term, and the stereotypes that the Victorians had, I've actually linked the wikipedia article here that goes more in depth. It's not the end all be all of it, but it's a good starting place for anyone wanting to educate themselves on the topic.

The alt text for the page on the left containing the actual embroidery pattern is written below:

Page 31. Lessons in Embroidery.

This is the chart for the embroider by letters/numbers diagram on this page.

La France Rose. (Pink.) Flower: 580 is shade number 1, 581 is 2, 0582 is 3, 582 is 4, 583 is 5, 584 is 6, 585 is 7, 586 is 8, 0432 is 9, and 432 is 10.

Leaves and stems.

Green:

570 is Shade letter A, 571 is B, 572 is C, 573 is D, 436 is E, 437 is H, 438 is I, 439 is K.

Old Red: 233 is M, and 234 is O.

Rose Design.

Materials. — M. Heminway & Sons' Oriental Dyes, Japan and Spanish Floss.

La France Rose. — 580 to 586, 0432, 432, a645, 0645. Leaves. — 570 to 573, or 0428 to 430, or 436 to 439 Japan Floss ; 233, 234 Japan Floss. Scallop. — 691 Spanish Floss ; also 370 Japan Floss.

Description. — Work the top petals of rose with 0582, 582, shading darker underneath where the leaf turns over with 584, 585. The turn-over leaves make of the lighter shades, 580, 581. A very little of green, 0432 and 432, can be used with effect in one of the lower petals, running the green into the light pink. Also in the fallen petals of rose use these greens with yellow, a645, 0645.

Leaves. — Shade the same as Design No. 138 on page 37, using the red-brown, 233 and 234, for thorns and stems.

Scallop. — Long and short buttonhole with 691 white Spanish Floss, shading with 370 Japan Floss.

In any La France design containing buds just bursting, use darkest shades of pink, 585, 586

There is an illustration of a doily captioned Design No. 239— Double Rose. 22 inch. It has three large roses and one small one paired with one of the larger ones flowing clockwise around the doily. there are also some petals shown scattered from one of the roses as well.

There is also a diagram for the rose captioned Spray of Design No. 239. Showing Slant of Stitches. The stitches curve in the direction of the leaves and petals. I will list off the shade letters/numbers as follows:

The stem begins in D with a thorn done in O emerging on the right, and another one a ways above it emerging on the left. A small sprig of three leaves emerge from the right.

Starting from the upmost leaf which is curled and emerges from the leftmost side of the sprig, we will go row by row.

1st Row, the furled underside of the leaf: A 2nd row onwards, the upper side of the leaf: C, B. 3rd Row: B, C. 4th Row: M, D.

Next leaf, Sprig tip leaf, rows from tip to base:

1st Row: C. 2nd Row: B, A, B. 3rd Row: B, A, A, C. 4th Row: M. 5th Row: C, D, D.

last leaf, bottom leaf but the rightmost leaf on the sprig.:

1st Row: D, A. 2nd Row: C, D, B. 3rd Row: B, B, B, A. 4th Row: A, A. 5th Row: M.

Back to the main stem, we go upwards and there is a thorn done in M just before another sprig emerges from the left. This one does not have any lettering so I would go by the previous pattern or improvise. It does show the lines of the stitches curving with the leaf.

The Stem continues in D with two more thorns on the right side done in M. The receptacle of the flower, aka the green part where the petals emerge from, starts in M and then transitions to C.

There are sepals, the tiny leaves around the flower base, with one on either side. The tips are twisted to reveal the underside and done in A, while the bases are done in B.

Onto the actual rose,

Right bottom outer petal which is opened and nearly totally sideways, done in rows working upward from the bottom to the top.

Row 1: 10, 4, 2, 2. Row 2: 9, 3, 5, 5, 3. Row 3: 5, and the curled over top part of the petal is 3.

Left Bottom outer petal:

Row 1: 2, 3, 7, 6. Row 2: 5. Row 3: 2, 4, 4, 7.

onto the next set of petals, there are three this time emerging from the bottom two:

Left outer Petal:

Row 1: 3, 7, 6. Row 2: 2, 5, 6. Row 3: 2, 4, 3. Row 4:3. Row 5: 3, 5. Row 6: 5. Row 7 has just a slight furl to it which is done in two.

Center Outer Petal:

Row 1: 3, 2, 3, 4. Row 2: 3, 4, 4, 3, 5, 6. Row 3: 5, 6. Row 4 is alternating furled and unfurled bits: 3 unfurled, 3 furled, 2 unfurled, furled and has no number but is likely 3.

Right Outer Petal:

Row 1: 7. Row 2: 5. Row 3: 4. Row 4: 3, 2. Row 5: 2.

Next row of petals, we'll be going right to left this time because the rightmost petal is actually sort of cutting in front of the previous petal and the center outer petal that we just did.

Right Center Petal, both sides furl and join at the center in a point, the left furl says 2, so I would guess the right one is also done in that as well even though it's not numbered.

Row 1: 6, 5, 7. Row 2: 5, 4. Row 3: 2.

Center Petal:

Row 1: 6, 7. Row 2: 5, 5, 4. Row 3 2 is a furled edge that goes diagonally upwards towards unfurled 3, 4, 3 is the unfurled tip of the petal, 2 furled rightmost bit diagonally upwards towards unfurled 3.

Left Center Petal. The edge of this one is completely furled and goes diagonally upwards to a point and comes down. It is done in shades 3 and 2. For the rest of the petal:

Row 1: 5, 6. Row 2: 3, 5. Row 3: 4. Row 4: 4. Row 5: 3.

Now there are three petals left to do and they emerge at a diagonal offset from the previous 3. With the next set, each petal is wider than the previous one, and the first petal is the small centermost petal of the rose while the next two are the outer petals, with the last one emerging from the center of the second to last petal and the corner of the Right Outer Petal we did earlier.

Center Petal: Row 1: 5. Row 2: 3, 4. Row 3 is furled but has no number, I'd go with either 2 or 3 judging from elsewhere in the diagram.

Center Outer Petal:

Row 1: 2, 2, 3.

Outermost petal:

Row 1: 4. Row 2: 3. There is some slight furling around the 3 which is unfurled, one of which is labelled 1. *******

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