#but yayyy sewing...!

[szczekaczz]

maybe i've sewn over ten tiny dog plushies based on the same pattern but tbh i'm still not in the mood for anything more complex for now

[manicpixieforwonbin]

LONGSHOT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTEEEEEEEEE!!!! HE CAME OUT PERFECT! I AM SO HAPPY WITH MY WORK! And Jet was there for the vibe ofc! We love that! besties 😁 slay! It’s almost 4AM!!!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[arilovescookies]

Fursuit reveal lol

And now I present *dadadadaaaa* one from my fursuits!!! This is Friken and she is a dragon muhehehhe She is my second fursuit ragh X33

(Ik her hair is kinda messy, im gonna brush her laterr ;33)

[thepatchworkpress]

thus my first task as a craftsman born anew is in motion: i am, indeed, making patchwork on the sewing machine out of the scraps of fabric i've acquired though the past three years of patch-making. i've been storing these to recycle for ages and i'm really excited to see it coming together! especially since i am NOT super handy on the machine.

[aropride]

i have the whole night ahead of me. better spend all of it thinking about all the stuff i could do and not doing any of it

[beepsparks]

I made a plushie of Cosmo yayyy ⭐️

[marsbotz]

collect my fabric parts

[bismuthburnsblue]

ok checking in for the evening <3 the sleeves have, as sleeves tend to do, caused a whole bunch of issues (honestly this is why i hate sleeves- its not that theyre particularly hard to put in but they just seem to pull a perfectly good pattern out of shape So Easily) but those are problems for future me, i think. im tempted to just throw in my sleeve pattern that i know works for me and go fro. there, but thats gonna be a chunk of work making the armholes fit together... so maybe its easier to work with the pattern that "goes" with this (but its not the right shape, either. so)

up until that point it was going well! i forgot how long it takes to move changes onto paper, though, god. but i was being Good, so thats gotta count for something. i have a couple more changes to make before i go into the real fabric

take in the side seams more (though lets see with the sleeves now, urgh)

shorten the button stand another inch

raise the waist at the back

think theres some things im gonna need to adjust further (mostly the fine tuning of the fitting), but they can be done in the final fabric i think. just gotta figure out the sleeves. all will be well

[veresidae]

Oh lol i may take more / nicer photos again somrtime soon or tonight I really realize his little waist coat was pulled up to a strange degree...im not sure its visible on the photoset so much but it felt more off than it was irl...well, that is why...

Also since i dont really text post to this blog my artfight is ~Veresidae and im going to try and actually upload my attacks here in a timely manner >_> ok.. updated. Farewell

[unripe-lemon]

Since i know no one will see this:

1 note and i will email my therapist

ok so for this one,, like since then i have emailed my therapist?? that counts right????? tbh i dont even know what to talk abt anymore, but i do have a session with her so dw

2 notes and ill put my laundry away

ugh….. stupid. internet.. making me do things that will make my life easier…. gugh yeah i put my laundry away!!!!! everyone clap now

5 notes and ill try to brush my teeth more often

ok so like for this one i found this video https://youtu.be/pvutTiPY7q8?si=PASnBmUXZ0xiHzWM imma sing this song to myself every tike i dont feel like brushing my teeth

6 notes and ill try to put on cream for my dermatitis (anxiety hives!!! yayyy!!!!) more often

just did it hehe :) tho it is getting a little worse and my kitten scratched me on top of it 😭

10 notes and ill attempt to learn my timestables

11 notes and ill study for my exams

my exams are over!!!! so idk what to do for this one? maybe ill go do my homework instead

20 notes and ill try to go one day without using my pc/phone

30 notes and ill vaccum (more bc we just adopted kittens) my room entirely

40 notes and ill try to explain my depression to my mom again

50 notes and ill clean my locker out at school

imma do this tmr!!!

i forgot 😭 someone remind me

80 notes and ill fix the posters that are falling off of my wall and are probably going to rip soon

doing this rn! taking dinner break

100 notes and ill REALLY unpack everything with my therapist

maybe tmr?

we talked about medication and kittens, also exams so like success??

200 notes and ill ask my mom if we can go to my go and get! me! medicated!

ill discuss w therapist tmr

discussed with therapist, we are now getting the conversation started with my mom and are going to see what my gp says after that!! :) ty to everyone in the notes rooting for meds

300 notes and ill re organise my bookshelf

400 notes and ill clean all of the mold off of my wall

damn 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 ion wannaaaaaaaa

this is a weekend activity tbh, and idk if its even going to BE this weekend :P

500 notes and ill clean the mold off of my roof

600 notes and ill try sewing some new clothes

i crocheted a scarf!!! does that count?

700 notes and ill buy some new shoes

800 notes and ill check out dnd club at school (im scared)

900 notes and ill come up with more goals

edit: bro……. 😭

so im gonna take my time w these bc there is a lot to go thru!! i will try my best to remember to update!!! ty for notes :)

- random internet stranger

edit 2: WTF 1000 NOTES GUYS CHILL

ok so like i have to come up with more goals now???

1500 and ill start taking study notes with a study method (rb with study method that is your fav eg cornell method)

1700 and ill attempt to hype myself up enough to eat at school (long story, germs)

2000 notes and ill start whatever book wins this poll:

[ace-up-your-sleeve]

mostly finished first aid kit!! theres some hand sewing that needs done to fix some spots, and i want to surge around the zipper on the inside possibly. its messy but like. in a charming way :3 I didn't do a lot of planning with this and just tried to do it really quickly... but it still took almost 4hrs on my machine...

patterned using a first aid kit i bought, but the plastic case doesn't fit properly so i have to find other containers :') it goes on a belt (yayyy utility belt!!!!) and can hook to my patch pants for more stability

[strawbcherriies]

hihi, I saw your post about struggling with hijabi lolita and thought I'd give my advice (since I'm not in the comm you posted it on)

if you don't already, learn how to sew! this could just be for alterations, but making your own pieces is also probably a good idea when you have trouble finding things modest enough. even if you're not interested in making your own pieces, being able to make basic alterations and add lace and ribbons to things is very useful. my second point is that you by no means have to look exclusively at lolita brands - pretty much any a-line skirt can be lolitaified with a big enough petticoat, so searching for longer skirts that you like normally and altering them to make them more lolita is definitely an option, and you end up with super unique pieces nobody else has!

if you're looking to wear brand pieces, you'll obviously be able to find plenty of suitable blouses, and for dresses and skirts, try victorian maiden! they have the most modest pieces of any brand I know.

that's kinda a lot of text, wow, but I hope it helps <3

thank you so much for all this info, it really means a lot to me :D

how could i learn how to sew exactly? i know that there's tutorials on youtube and stuff but most of them require like 20 different threads and a sewing machine (i do not have either) and are there like any tutorials for like lolita clothing specifically?

also the idea of having completely unique pieces sounds AMAZING YAYYY :DD thank you for the advice on sewing and i might try it out if i ever get the tools needed

and on top of that thank you for the recommendation for brands :3

you are so sweet, this means a lot :,D

[hagbrigade]

actually just found it for the low low price of two thousand dollars 🤩

atp it’s a moral failing that i don’t know how to make clothes bc i have in mind the perfect dress for my friends wedding but it doesn’t exist yet I’d have to make it … And it’s very simple so like if I’d started learning how to sew four years ago like i was supposed to it would be very doable but alas. going to hell for this one 🤘🏾😔🫷🏾

[mxlinoe]

Mollymauk and the Modern Dionysus

Something that has always driven me insane is the weird accuracy of mollymauk/lucien/kingsley’s story to that of Dionysus. Like, it’s a tired thing to equate Mollymauk to Dionysus - i’m sure everyone in the fandom at some point has done that - but i cannot stress enough how entirely accurate it actually is.

Lets start from the beginning: dionysus’s creation myth.

Parts of it vary here and there depending on who you ask but the story goes Zeus is having his nth affair with Semele. Hera finds out, but instead of just outright killing her, disguises herself as an old women. In disguise she speaks with Semele who reveals shes pregnant with Zeus’s child. Hera deceives Semele and tells her to ask Zeus to show his godly form “and deceived by Hera she asked that he would come to her as he came when he was wooing Hera” (Apollod. 3.4.3). This means basically come to me as your godly form, and when zeus did “came to her bridal chamber in a chariot, with lightnings and thunderings, and launched a thunderbolt” (Apollod. 3.4.3) it fucking killed her. From there, Zeus sews the childs heart to his leg and months later Dionysus is born from Zeus. Theres another version of the story where Zeus impregnates Semele by giving her a liquid version of Dionysus’s heart?? “Liber, son of Jove and Proserpine, was dismembered by the Titans, and Jove gave his heart, torn to bits, to Semele in a drink” (Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 167). Keep in mind this constant idea of death.

Anyhow, where the story really varies is who ends up raising Dionysus. Obviously, Semele is dead, and Hera wants him dead so he can’t stay on Olympus. Apollodorus states that he’s raised by the king and queen of Thebes as a girl (keep this in mind). A whole other version of this story is Dionysus is the child of Zeus and Persephone. This gives him connections to the underworld, death, and rebirth. Another version of the myth has him raised by nymphs? It all jumps around and I can’t find concrete textual evidence for anything but what Apollodorus states.

That’s where the story pretty much stops varying. From this point on it’s agreed that Hera drove Dionysus mad to wander the world and he teaches people about wine while he wanders, then he gets back to Greece and yayyy hes on the pantheon. 

Second thing to look at: Madness

In Euripides’s ‘The Bacchae’, Dionysus returns to Thebes to learn that worship of him has been banned and to clear his mothers name. He returns with a group of “bacchants”. When he arrived in Thebes, Dionysus drove Semele’s sisters mad - and then they fled up Mt Cithaeron to worship him. In the meantime (still in disguise) Dionysus is arrested and begins to drive King Pentheus of Thebes mad. The funniest part about this is how EXTENSIVELY Dionysus is physically described: 

“Well, stranger, I see this body of yours is not unsuitable for women’s pleasure— that’s why you’ve come to Thebes. As for your hair, it’s long, which suggests that you’re no wrestler. It flows across your cheeks That’s most seductive. You’ve a white skin, too. You’ve looked after it, avoiding the sun’s rays by staying in the shade, while with your beauty you chase Aphrodite” (Euripides. Bacchae. 564-571) 

LIKE??? Anyway. He starts to drive Pentheus insane by tricking him, causing a fire, and an earthquake. He persuades Pentheus to go undercover IN DRAG to the maenads (the women driven crazy on the mountain). Dionysus knows that this will be his death, but Pentheus doesn’t. So he goes up the mountain and is promptly torn apart by the women who believe they’re actually tearing apart a mountain lion (because they’re also mad). 

There’s also a myth where Dionysus gets captured by pirates during his worldly travels because they think he’s so cute so he drives them mad and then turns them into dolphins. Dionysus also drove A king of Edonia in Thrake (north of Greece) mad and in this madness the king killed his family. Dionysus really enjoys driving people mad. Like, I lose count of how many times he’s driven mortals mad for disrespecting him.

Thirdly: historical evolutions and aesthetic

Dionysus is an ancient god, believed to be as old as wine itself (which was invented in 6000 BC). He’s gone through a good few aesthetic changes over the years, but my favorite and most important thing to note is that Dionysus once had horns. HORNS! Because of these aesthetic changes, he’s also sometimes split into three separate “eras” - Mycenaean, Orphic, and Hellenized. The first is the oldest known Dioysus, he’s depicted as an older, beared figure with horns. It seems he was more worshiped for his connections to the Underworld and e was associated with marriage, death, sacrifice, and sexuality over wine. Orphic (of Orphisim, from Orpheus) is a younger, androgynous figure with horns. Dionysus was a central figure in Orphism because of his connections to death and rebirth, which correlated with Orpheus going to the underworld (and also correlated with Orpheus being torn apart by the maenads). Hellenized Dionysus is the modern day one. He’s still androgynous but doesn’t have horns :(, and the main thing people cared about regarding him was being the god of wine.  

Dionysus is also half the time wearing women’s clothing. Here’s some quotes about Dionysus and how he dresses from Lucian’s “Dialogue of the Gods’:

“Well, Zeus, I should be ashamed if I had such a son; so effeminate, … tying up his hair in a ribbon, indeed! and spending most of his time among mad women, himself as much a woman as any of them;” 

“Anyhow, my dear, this wearer of ribbons, this woman among women…” 

I also want to mention that Dionysus is cited multiple times being. Uh. the bottom? The receiver? I have no other way to say this that is pg lol. I make this note not to sexualize but to highlight the fact that out of all male gods who had fellow male lovers, he is the only one to “fulfill” the “women’s role” in sex. The rest of them were doing it, but it was only being done to him. Everyone’s favorite myth is Dionysus and Prosymnus and the creation of the “toy”. In that myth he, yknow, does it to himself on Prosymnus’ grave. There’s also a quote that describes is androgyny as:

“Androgynos (androgynous) : [A word applied to] Dionysos, as one doing both active, male things and passive, female ones [in sexual intercourse].” (Suidas s.v. Androgynos)

So, finally, with everything I just said in mind, how does this related to the threeleafs? Let’s make a check list to see the amount of overlap!

Queerness? Check and check. Mollymauk is so aggressively bisexual and gender-nonconforming it hurts. I wish Molly lived longer so we could see more of the transness that totally was going to happen but alas, the dice rule. I know we don’t know where Molly lands in bed, but most people see him as a bottom anyway so I thought I’d include the facts above about Dionysus’s position in bed.

Madness? Check and check! Focusing on Lucien a little more here I sort of equate the “pattern” from the Somnovem to be akin to the madness Dionysus emposes upon people. Mostly because when you are driven mad by Dionysus you’re seen as a maenad - and when you’re exposed to the pattern by the Somnovem, you’ve got yourself an extra few eyes. 

Death and rebirth? Check and check and check and check and check and check!! Must I even spell it out for you? It is the MAIN part of the threeleafs! 

Three different “eras”? Check and check! I feel like I’m stretching the link here but I thought I’d mention it. The fact that there’s three versions of the same person in one body - that all each have a defining difference between the three of them - reminds me a lot of Dionysus. Lucien being the oldest and more associated with his madness. Mollymauk more associated with the parties (by the fandom mostly) and sexuality. Kinglsey closely associated with identity. It’s really interesting to me to see the shift in how important wine was to Dionysus’s characterization over the three “eras”.

Horns? CHECK AND CHECK. When I learned Dionysus once had horns I went so crazy. He had bull horns, and bulls were notoriously used in ritual sacrifice for Dionysus. Bulls and serpents are some of his sacred animals. While Mollymauk may not have bull horns, he definitely has a snake tattoo!

I’m sure there’s more things I could link between the two of them but these four are the main things that have been driving me absolutely insane for a few years. I know Taliesin said he was really inspired by mermaids but I have a really hard time believing that when there’s THIS MUCH STUFF that lines up between the characters and Dionysus. 

Soooo, that’s basically it. I’m sure I forgot something I wanted to say but whatever. Mollymauk was so right when he said “I am your god, long may I reign”.

[jacarandaaaas]

moabel headcanons yayyy!!! 🌊🦋

- mirabel makes moana little plushies all the time and moana has a collection of them on her bed

- like how mirabel weapon uses her puppy dog eyes on family members moana also falls victim to her tricks

- they love dancing together all the time and are always seen out in the village dancing!

- mirabel tried to teach moana how to sew but moana got frustrated and gave up😭

- they have picnics by the river all the time

- mirabel always surprise hugs moana!

- moana always kisses mirabel on the cheek and mirabel always melts when this happens

- mirabel will often grab moanas hand and run off somewhere!

- she brought her to the seamstress one time and asked her to pick out some fabrics (she was making something for moana ofc)

- moana does the casita stair slide thing first time flawlessly (this drives camilo insane) also mirabel tripped whilst trying to demonstrate casita was not on her side that day🙏

- mirabel cant function when moana calls her by her full name

- moanas always showering her in kisses could be neck, forehead,cheeks,lips she just loves kissing her <3

- even though moana is aware mirabel can take care of herself she still is a lil bit protective

- she finds it cute when mirabel gets frustrated by something stupid like stubbing her toe

- moana is a really good listener and lets mirabel ramble for hours

- most of the time she is listening but otherwise she just loves the sound of her voice

- they’re both really big sleepers and often fall asleep on top of eachother

- moana loves casitas parties and always makes a bet with mirabel to see who can stay awake the longest

- moana loves picking mirabel up and spinning her around

- moana makes fun of mira’s height

- moana gets hot headed really easily and mirabel loves watching her rant about people

- mirabel shows moana her sketchbook and asks her for ideas

- moana is very athletic and mirabel loves watching her work out

- one time mirabel tried to but dropped a weight on her foot💀 moana was concerned mira insisted she was fine and they both started giggling about it

- mira loves when moana strokes her cheek or squishes them

- when moanas falling asleep mirabel will often play with her hair gently to help moana relax

- cuddles!! they love cuddling

- moana tried wearing mirabels glasses one time

- casita and antonio are their number one shippers

- moana asked isabela what mira’s fav flower was and got isa to make a bouquet for her <3

- laugh at eachothers jokes even if it’s unfunny

- moana thinks mirabels freckles are really cute

[wetslug]

yayyy went to my sewing class w friendo then went to mcdonalds then grocery shopping then mealprepped for entire week. cleaned my outside chairs ate a strudel now im snuggly in bed watching dumb shit