WIP interview with a vampire
Part III
turn-in’s (or how I fucked them up and fixed them)
Working with cork cloth turns out to be an interesting experience.
It combines a couple of qualities I did not expect. For once it’s rather reluctant to get glued down. I used undiluted PVA and still had to do each side separately and let it sit with a weight on top a moment for the glue to stick before I could keep going.
When working with it it behaves a bit like leather and a bit like cloth. The good thing there is, it stretches slightly similar to leather. Not quite as far, but a bit. The bad thing, there’s glue everywhere as if working with un-backed cloth (the good thing of the bad thing, somehow stains don’t show on the cork, so as long as your hands and the glue stay clean you’re good).
With the rather thick material I went for the same way I do leather corners. I took of the tip off the corner and left a small flap at the long side turn-in to cover the corner securely. Then I cut the corner as I usually would, safe the flap... and this is where things went wrong. the angle wasn’t right and I had a gap between both turn in’s leaving a strip of board visible in the end. The cork cloth does stretch, but not that far. Luckily I keep cut-off’s until I’m done (yeah, this is not a first time experience for me -_-’) so I could glue on the ‘right’ strip of cork to fix it almost invisibly.
Then I glued the short side turn-ins, cut along the edge of the turn-in in a 45 degree angle and peeled out the excess material from under the short side turn-in. I could have left it, but that way I’d have kind of bumpy corners and with the other material peeled out the corner is completely smooth.
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Tonight I learned that my 20 yr old partner has never played chess and doesn't know how to play chess. This is mind boggling to me. They claim its not weird for people to not know anything about chess so I. I need to see. Please.
Okay so, I made a mistake in not elaborating the meaning of the options. You do not have to be good or know what you are doing in the slightest to pick that you have played before. The middle three options are for your understanding of the game having never played it at all. The reason there's a percentage on the last option is because my partner made a tumblr so they could pick it because they think they are hilarious.
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women's sports is one of the loudest and most successful anti-patriarchy campaigns in human history. what women's sports did and does is prove, over and over again, the excellence, the raw power and strength of the human woman. it completely disrupts ideas on gender.
you have big, powerful women in rugby. fast, endurable women runners. impeccably strong gymnasts. women with strong, large bodies that take up space. that are HEALTHY. they are not RESTRICTED or ladylike. they are free of the stillness/deadness that femininity demands. no corsets. no (aesthetic) thinness. no hourglass bodies for gawking. women's sports screams to society "we are fully human, not objects, not small men. we are not domestic dolls. we are hunters and foragers. fighters."
why do you think men are so vitriolic about it? why don't they want women in football? why don't they want it televized? why do they keep harassing female basketball players? why do they insist on dressing women in sexualized uniforms? why do they now make it taboo to exculde men from women's sports?
i firmly believe it's because women's sports tears patriarchal gender ideology apart so effortlessly. it completely spits in the face of patriarchal political propaganda and shows how null it is. it forces all of us to view women as full, as the beginning of human excellence, as central to human history. not as decorative sexual objects, no matter how men want us to be.
that's why there's so much aggression and derision when it comes to women's sports from men. because women's sports destroys the idea of femininity and depicts women as non-derivative. women must be monsters and cannot afford to play into the childlikeness that femininity demands. the arena of sports forces us to focus on women's physical performance rather than appearance. their strength rather than how attractive they are. their skill and strategy. their humanity. it is a form of entertainment where all female roles are agentive and active rather than passive.
women's sports events are also hotbeds for female and lgb solidarity like you have no idea!
y'all need to start watching women's sports. not only because it is exciting, but it deprograms the patriarchal bullshit out of you so fast. you realize how much is possible. how much we can all achieve right now.
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ur art is sooo pretty to look at :3 could i mayhaps request a desert of the duo,,, if ud like to,,,
Idk what scars thinking about here but it doesn't seem very funtimeswithscar 😔
And thank youuu, finally got an excuse to draw desert duo hehe
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Major ISAT spoilers below so SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL
havent seen anyone with this idea yet but
AU where Siffrin fills the role of Loop FOR Loopfrin during SASASA:P
Siffrin appearing in the form of Loop for Loopfrin after their successful attempt on the King. Right before Loopfrin cries out to the Universe
just
being there for them like they were for him, y'know
and yeah he's a few... thousand loops late but bETTER LATE THAN EVER HAHAHAHA
imagine how suspicious and then angry and then desperate Loopfrin would be about Siffrin. The "What are you??" "Why didn't you help me sooner?" "You're staying?" "Actually, I don't care" <- cares a lot
everything about this star person is a novelty for Loopfrin. They had a whole moment when Bonnie handed them a candy with a crinkly wrapper. imagine how off foot they'd get after coming back from a loop and this star person remembers.
Siffrin taking as many chances to casually touch Loopfrin. Arm slung around their shoulders. Booping their nose. Holding their face and reassuring that they're real. Hugging them- getting them feeling present in their body once more.
encouraging Loopfrin to stop using the knife
poking them in the right directions- PROVIDING THE SAME QUALITY OF LIFE MEASURES LOOP DID FOR HIM! Memories saved. Important locations indicated with magic. Level progress saved. Control over where they can loop back.
do you see??? do you understand?????
tl'dr: let siffrin be there for loopfrin i think it'd be cool
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