#just sewing stuff

[nomattertheoceans]

Starting my work on a linen dress and I'm so scared, it's my first attempt at sewing linen 😳

[cadaverkeys]

You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

[eriochromatic]

Headcanon that mihawk embroiders and sews all those flower patterns himself

[doctorsiren]

still haven’t figured out the exact way von Karma was involved, but Prosecutor Wright definitely has his mannerisms the same way Franziska does and the way Miles used to

[kayleerowena]

been chipping away at a new quilt

[marimoog]

i had a sudden urge to embroider my man

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Yo, YOU'RE the badass housecoat person??? I've been following your lovely bird drawings forever and just saw a video of your housecoat-making the other day, I never would have guessed! Awesome stuff!

Oh, I've been following you from my main blog @vinceaddams for at least a year, hello!! Yes, the 6,957 piece patchwork dressing gown is mine! I've been doing historical sewing (and occasionally embroidery) for over a decade, and it occupies a much larger portion of my brain than dinosaurs ever will! And I like drawing various non-dinosaur things, and sometimes make repeating patterns for fabric.

I don't often draw birds though, mostly dinosaurs and vaguely lizard-like monsters, have you perhaps got me mixed up with someone who does bird comics?

Anyways yes, this is my work, which I post here:

And this is also my work, which I post on @vincentbriggs:

It's funny how often I get this sort of message!

[atopvisenyashill]

i was thinking more about characters Performing Gender, but not necessarily Transgressing Gender. I wound up focusing on Ned and Sansa bc I feel like I understand them the most but-

Sansa as a hostage is imo the most obvious (bc it’s so well done) moment of someone clearly Performing Gender but not being transgressive in that performance. Which isn’t to say it’s not a complicated performance; it’s a fine line Sansa walks between weaponizing her gender to protect herself without seeming too fake. She’s trying to placate the Lannisters by playing the perfect, dedicated, air headed betrothed because it’s the only defense she has - if she outwardly rebels, she will be punished in a likely violent and/or sexual way (which isn’t even conjecture - when she says “or maybe he’ll give me yours” Joffrey has her struck with an armored hand). She’s not quite successful in being convincing but that’s because it’s a rather extreme situation; despite no one believing her, she does make herself seem meek and stupid enough that no one suspects she’s plotting to escape with Dontos until she’s well away from KL. The fact that she even has Dontos to confide in is because of Sansa’s relationship with gender! When she saves him, she covers her rebellious slip by playing up Joffrey’s intelligence & his role as King; she reaches for “tools” of her gender AND of ~proper manhood~ to save a life and herself from another beating. Her retreats into the godswood and silence are very much Sansa attempting to recharge from these draining interactions, the same way a knight would need to stop and eat and rest after a fight. She is fighting, constantly, by forcing herself to stay within the narrow confines of a specific type of gender performance as a way of shielding herself from harm.

Ned yelling at Cat is another big one, and I’ve seen the scene referred to as Ned using his patriarchal power to scare Cat, which is a great description. It feels like a Performance because Ned is putting on this terrifying Lord Stark mask in an attempt to get Catelyn to stop asking about Jon (and Lyanna). This is not how he usually acts with those he loves! When Ned is with His People, he is welcoming of questions, curiosity, emotion, even transgressive thought (to a point! the idea that Ned is a feminist because he lets Arya learn to fight is Not accurate but you can’t deny he allows significantly more flexibility wrt gender expression than most of the fathers we meet in this series. the bar is in hell tho). Yet when Cat asks him about Jon’s mother, Ned scares her so well she stops asking & still remembers the moment bitterly over a decade later. And if that snippet we see through Bran’s eyes of Ned praying that Cat will forgive him does come after she asks (like it’s suspected), it’s clear not only that this is a performance he’s putting on & weaponizing against Cat, it’s one he does not like using as a weapon against someone he is close to. After using the power his gender gives him to cause harm, he retreats to the godswood and silence to pray and rest, much like Sansa. A spiritual cleanse, the way a soldier may pray after battle, to reset and reconnect Being A Proper Man to Being A Kind Man.

I think there’s something interesting in that two of the characters most widely defined by how well they adhere to Westerosi gender norms both dislike feeling like they had to weaponize their gender. They are exhausted by the performance, because it’s a performance. This isn’t Sansa getting excited over tourneys, or Ned teaching his sons to fight; it’s toxic masculinity, it’s structural misogyny. It’s something they’re good at, excel at, and connected to something they enjoy but when it’s paired with violence, whether done by Ned or done to Sansa, it crosses over in their minds from an innate part of themselves (The Gender) to a performance necessary due to survival (The Gender Role). And that after these performances, both retreat to nature & god as a way of resting and cleansing from the experience.

[hope-ur-ok]

I might have been insane for deciding to hand embroider a jacket for Olivia's concert and then barely work on it for months, I have a week and I'm like halfway done so all of my time goes to this

[me1och]

Made some Starkid patches (with a bonus Owen) instead of prepping for exams and wanted to share them here. Very happy with how they turned out!

[milf-harrington]

i keep seeing people say "oh eddie would be x in a modern au" "eddie would be y in a modern au" and im ???

a modern day eddie would still be a metalhead dnd player who's probably read the LoTR triology more than once; he'd just also own all the movies and know a bunch of useless trivia about the actual filming and production.

he'd probably still be a drug dealer, still gets held back a year in high school, probably has a second hand phone with a cracked screen that he only uses to listen to music, skips class because his teachers don't like him, runs a dnd club either in the drama room or the art room, either forges notes to get out of phys ed or just doesn't show up, he strikes me as someone who enjoys the process of burning music onto cd's so he probably has a bunch of mixtapes in his glove box and steve would hate driving with him bc his car wouldn't have an AUX port or anything so he'd either have to listen to the radio or eddie's music

a modern day eddie would still be eddie, he'd just have the luck of getting to experience all the nerdy shit that comes out after the 80's and also modern technology

[bunnieswithknives]

Another bonus thing I drew while at school. Roy in the real world, what will he do...

[grntre23]

the best durin boys!! fili and kili with their blue hoods from the book plus inventory…falling dangerously deep into my hobbit fixation again

[cornwatcheshockey]

didn’t like most of the merch (and want player jerseys!) so i decided to make my own jersey inspired hoodie!

i think i’m going to add the shoulder logo and can’t decide if i want to add the arm stripes but this was a very fun project!

[arty-cakes]

anyway my zote plushie needs a bath

[frogs-with-tea]

school is kinda brutal rn, and I have a lot of cosplay stuff to work on for a convetion im going to, but I did start this wip based off of the ideas from this post. I don't know if i want to keep working on it so I'm sharing what I have now. Another comic half drawn and never finished *sigh*