#chemical-processes

[quotidian-oblivion]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗

Oh hiii! Thank you so much for the ask. It's delighting to receive (especially since I am obsessed with your 'Hydrogen Peroxide' fic, like- soft baby batboys? I adore)

My School's Local Mafia Boss I love it so much because just- the idea started out as a rant in the middle of the night about how Tim would absolutely take control of his school through blackmail. I also just love the character progression and character relationship progression too! Like- I was (still am) new to writing full-length stories which are novel-length and just- yeah.

Sometimes You Have To Find Your Own Genes This was my first multi-chapter fic. And it's novel-length.

I Feel More Than A Simple "Miss You" This fic. Let me tell you. This. Fic. Nearly all of the sentences rhyme. I didn't put it in poem order cuz I wanted it to be a narrative rather than a poem sort of thing. Tbh it'll sound more glorious if it's a podfic. But I can't put my voice out, so it stays that way. I'm proud of it though. Cuz like- nearly every sentence rhymes.

Can You Deduce Where I Am Now? I redid the plot like four times. No lie. I redid the plot four times and rewrote it twice. Until... this masterpiece was born. Full of hurt, pain, and love. I am very proud of it.

Phone Alarms GUYS! I genuinely thought that this wasn't that funny! But then apparently I killed people in the comment section with it (metaphorically) so *shrugs* I like it!

I'm also very proud of two of the fics I've written but I haven't posted. One of them's called 'Somebody Else's Magic' and the other shall remain unnamed for now. But I'm very proud of both of them. Especially since the unnamed one's plot has been rewritten five times (no lie). It's the last fic in the ongoing series and I wanted it to be perfect. And it is!

[eiraeths]

gaz: is tav okay?

ghost: he’s calmed down

gaz: really? usually takes longer

ghost: put on his favorite youtube series

soap: [watching metal mailboxes being stripped and cleaned with muriatic acid]

[swdlovell]

wip!!

[ky-landfill]

more winged tim? 👉👈

[hballegro]

"It's more than something. It's everything."

s8e11 "Life Time"

painted screenshot. cannot give a time estimate, i lost track long ago. still gouache brush, my beloved, with blur tools to fade edges and so on

i have to go to the zoo now and will be making the version with the clock later [i cannot express how long ive been battling with hawkeye's face, gamers]. background went very fast like i said it would lol

version 2 [as in, w/ clock] will probably be done later today, and i will edit this and add it when that happens [and prolly make a separate post too, for celebration purposes, and will link them]. i will also compile progress pics for that post. they are terrifying early on lmao

"A lot of very touching songs came outta that war" previous painting

"It was pink, and perfect, and I tossed it in the scrap bucket" previous painting

everyone say thank you to bj to being a perfect painting subject today he was very polite and he looks about how i wanted unlike SOME PEOPLE

that was me to my sibling last night, and i stayed up til 1:10ish and still didnt finish the final pass over hawkeye's eye. everything else took like 5ish minutes

also everyone say thank you to margaret and nurse kellye for also being perfect and lovely and pleasant to work with

photo used blatantly stolen from this post thank you again @remyfire i owe you my life

update edit;

clock back

[starlessflies]

seeing gerard covered in fake blood really is a good omen today has officially been blessed

[herecomesthesound]

listen i totally understand that most trans ams manufactured in ‘79 were automatic but i just think that the concept of party poison having to learn stick and fucking up at it miserably for a while is inherently funny

[mintakablue]

mikey way weirdgirl moments

[frnkiebby]

coveralls for the coverall whores~🎃

[averlym]

"c'mon lin, give me something to work with here- I can't exactly tell all the freshmen to dissect someone if they want to win the phaethon..."

[thepunkmuppet]

dead secretary gerard,,, ooouuughhh dead bloody secretary gerard ooughhh hhh secretary gerard oouuughgh

[ky-landfill]

[lavendervalleyexpress]

My Chemical Romance is trending which might mean something but Supernatural isn’t trending which means it’s not MCR5

[transjudas]

Gerard needing Frank Iero hazard insurance (x, x)

[handweavers]

my mother has asked me to ask “that weaver friend of yours” lol — do you have experience dyeing linen? what does the process look like for natural vs synthetic dyes?

happy to be that weaver friend of yours 🥰❤️ dyeing linen is basically the same as dyeing cotton or any other cellulose fiber, so any synthetic dye that works for cotton will also work for linen. a professional grade fiber reactive dye like procion mx or dharma's procion (here) dyes cellulose fiber without heat, and the process is quick and painless. it just involves a large bucket, water, the dye powder and the cloth you wish to dye. i have little experience with rit dye so i'm not sure if you'd need heat for that, but procion dye is higher quality, comes in a lot more colours than rit, and a 2oz container is like $2 usd and goes a long way

the natural dye process for linen takes a lot longer than the procion dye process and requires several steps. cellulose fibers really don't like to take dyes so you basically have to do a bunch of alchemy to convince it to do what you want (compared to protein fibers like wool and silk which love dyes and only need some gentle nudges)

naturally dyeing linen depends on the dye you'd wish to use, but the process is essentially: scouring, mordanting, and dyeing. it's really important that you scour linen especially because it contains a lot of pectins that prevent dye from penetrating the fiber, so a harsh scouring is best (ie. washing it with hot water and ph neutral soap, even to the point of boiling the cloth. linen can take a lot of heat and is better for it, cotton is more sensitive) you'll probably have to do this before dyeing it with the synthetic dye too for best results

most natural dyes require that you mordant the cloth before dyeing. some dyes don't require a mordant (indigo is the big one, but if you're working with onion skins or other materials that contain tannins this is also true. however mordanting the cloth before dyeing with tannins or even mordanting with tannins is still recommended for better colour performance long-term unless you're working with indigo in which case using a mordant can actually cause problems) but if you're unsure, assume that you need to apply a mordant. you essentially have to simmer the cloth in a hot pot with either a material that contains tannins (tannic acid), a natural bio-accumulator of aluminum (symplocos), or use a metal salt (alum acetate is best for cellulose, but iron and copper salts can also be used. the metal salts route requires more safety precautions esp if you use copper salt, you can't dump that down the drain) your choice of mordant impacts the final colour with different mordants shifting the chemical reaction that happens in the cloth when you dye it

with cotton and linen, after you use the mordant you need to use either a chalk or wheat bran bath to remove excess mordant from the cloth, esp if you use alum acetate, otherwise it can leave a whitish cast over the cloth and also impede dyeing lol. wheat bran baths tend to cause a warmer tone to the final dyed cloth, chalk baths cause a cooler tone. i only use wheat bran baths bc i prefer the warmth and i get the bran cheaply at my local punjabi grocer

only then can you dye the cloth, again unless you're working with a dye like coffee or tea or onion skins OR indigo. linen really doesn't like to take natural dyes unless you do all the above steps, it's stubborn. the dye process itself depends on what dye you use and you can do stuff like solar dyeing if you don't want to simmer it in a pot on a stove. if you plan to go the natural dye route lmk and i can send you some scans of a book i have that contains precise instructions for preparing linen for dyeing

[dreamtdebris]

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