#pattern rotate

[ancient-art-of-craft]

Took my project to the Council of Elders.

"What advice do you seek?"

I bravely stepped forward. "I wish to understand how to use three yarns in a colorwork."

They conferred, and one of their number stepped forward to inspect the pattern.

"FUCK NO. Do the duplicate stitch."

[starbluethunder]

a sketch of me skunk i just cannot figure out what iwanna do for the colours and patterns.hmm

[citrusbusiness]

Oookay I said I had more thoughts about today's page and I'm here to deliver

Am I projecting too hard? I don't know!

"i could've been patient but I wasn't, so now I don't have the right to indulge in patience. I got us into this mess."

Anyways I think this page kind of ties into the stuff Erin talked about on the boat. "I have to everything alone because no one can match me." And that means that he has to be responsible for everything that goes wrong, because he is smarter and more powerful than everyone else, enough to affect everything. He's responsible for the boat getting lost, he's responsible for his channels not sealing, he's responsible for how Tess was treated and holding her back. In Erin's mind, everything is his fault, because since he's more capable, he's more responsible for what happens.

That also means that he has to deal with all the consequences of everything that goes wrong. He (in theory, according to him) had the power to stop it, so he has to take the fall for it happening. That's why he doesn't have the right to be patient. He doesn't deserve to be patient. He has to solve the problem now, because he could've stopped it somehow and he didn't.

Specifically though, when I read this, I focused on how he said he "doesn't have the right." And it's also important to note that while he says "patience," he's really talking about resting. He's saying he doesn't deserve to recover, because there's problems he has to solve first. And that combined psychology of "everything is my problem and I don't deserve good things until I fix the entire world" is so very "high-achieving" of him.

Psychologically, Erin feels like a gifted kid. I suspect that he's been respected and praised for his power for a while, and his intelligence for even longer. That is, I think, part of why he is the way he is. He's smarter and more powerful and he can solve any problem, everyone tells him so, so he's amazing and better than everyone.

If you get told you're good at something a lot, it's quite easy to turn "good at the thing" into "good for the thing," and suddenly your self worth is attached to how good you are at the thing. Instead of a talent, it's a reason to be respected, or even liked.

Easy conclusion for Erin: the reason I am worthy of respect and attention is that I can solve problems that other people can't.

However, that also means that because he can, he is obligated to solve any and every problem. If everything is both his problem and something he can fix, then there's something wrong with him if he doesn't try to fix it. He has, again, an obligation to. He has the power or the privilege to fix this problem, so if he doesn't, he's a horrible person. Even if fixing the problem is detrimental to his own health.

Because if he doesn't fix it, then what is he good for?

If he doesn't fix it, how can he live up to the standards everyone (including himself) has set for him?

Why does he deserve the right to rest, if resting means he's not fixing what he's obligated to fix?

(for a guy who went on a rant about the importance of getting good sleep, he certainly seems capable of denying himself rest)

Uhh yeah. That's mostly it but I have a few more tangential thoughts.

I've noticed that the way Erin describes his younger self changes a bit. In the caves when VD is in his head, he says "I was a child! I was powerless!" But on this page, he says he wasn't powerless, because he could think. Now, the scenarios he's referencing are different, but he uses the same word: power.

This is interesting because I've been trying to figure out how Erin views his younger self. The first mention feels resentful, but the reference today has the confidence we expect from an Erin Ruunaser moment. He's slightly dismissive ("he figured out how to turn himself into me," translation: I'm better than him), but still recognizes his own intelligence and makes a reference to living up to his younger self's standards.

It seems to me like he doesn't like most things about his younger self, but a few parts are okay. He doesn't like that he couldn't do anything for Tess, he doesn't like that he was "holding her back," he doesn't like that he was bedridden and had to be cared for. However, he does like that he was smart.

Notably, that's about the only one of those things that is still true about him today.

[howloopyisthat]

[penisbutterjellytime]

Probably isn't what you expected (also sorry for responding so late lol)

But anyways lol there's two ways this could go

I think she'd either have PCOS and keep the beard. Or she'd have transfem butch swag. Beard could be a safety thing (passing as a man) or maybe she doesn't shave it off because she feels it doesn't take away from her identity so she keeps it. Maybe a bit of both.

Anyway, Butch Kieran Duffy be upon ye

[angeart]

elf scar for the assassin au~

alt under cut

[chiquilines]

Yeah im late to the bandwagon but i've been itching to redraw them for some days now,, theyre so small

[dumpsterbabiiie]

my favs

[ceiling-karasu]

I was discussing Korean shamanism with @agotia-t after they introduced Hanbam, and this encouraged me to finally draw my White-Naped Crane shaman OC, Chongsu (link to months old post here), as I said I eventually would. I have briefly included her in The Rod that Blocks the Lightning (here, about 2/3rds of the way through the chapter), as well.

She participates in the spiritual and medicine making practices of the mudang, while avoiding the performances of the kisaeng path.

Here is an example of one of her gutdang worship rooms, in which she would perform sacred ceremonies.

Generations past, a Joseon style caste system was kept in place with the help of the spiritual priest class, mudang shamans with a mixture of Confucianism and Buddhism, enjoying many luxuries and power in their caste high above most other species.

In the current day of the AU, generations after the former kings and caste systems were overthrown, the scars still remain (ex. Weasels thinking they are superior to smaller species and the squirrels needing to be reminded that they are allowed to join the soldier hedgehogs).

The White-Naped cranes spiritual practices, and preference towards the old caste system, have fallen out of favor with the general populace of Flower Hill. It is, however, very popular with the Weasels, who still hold that they are superior to the smaller animals. Many shaman leave Flower Hill to join the weasels to provide spiritual practices, something Flower Hill cannot stop due to migration permits.

Chongsu is based on a mudang shaman whose bloodline supposedly ties back the strongest to Sungmo, the mother of all shaman priestesses. Which makes her a sort of community elder despite her young age, as well as her constant mysterious illnesses.

She is a young crane, who lives in Flower Hill, too sickly to make the annual migration to Teikoku (Japan), like most of the White-Napes cranes. She and her followers assist in making medicine for the troops. Her biggest wish and command is for all species to get along with each other in harmony. What she does not realize, is that as the ‘supreme leader,’ this could possibly be misinterpreted as a command for her followers to reinstate the caste system, by any means possible, which could even mean teaming up with weasel, wolf, or tiger leaders, who also wish to return to the caste system and crush all underfoot.

In real life, white named cranes are unusual in that they primary live in the demilitarized zone of North Korea, but migrate to Japan. Shaman still exist in Korea to this day (participating in spiritual/healing leaders, fortune telling, and entertainment such as with the kisaeng), but are sometimes treated with suspicion, especially in North Korea, due to many of them, especially the kisaeng (who the Japanese troops found similar to geisha, apparently according to reports), siding with the Japanese during the invasions. As a result, the distrust and semi discrimination the Flower Hill commanders hold for Chongsu, is a hint that all is not absolutely perfect in Flower Hill.

[pegglefan69]

miku-colored sock yarn + sweater for myself I got into a groove with over the past few days

[wayti-blog]

"Beams of light that can be guided into corkscrew-like shapes called optical vortices are used today in a range of applications. Pushing the limits of structured light, Harvard applied physicists in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) report a new type of optical vortex beam that not only twists as it travels but also changes in different parts at different rates to create unique patterns. The way the light behaves resembles spiral shapes common in nature."

"In a peculiar twist, the researchers found that their orbital angular momentum-carrying beam of light grows in a mathematically recognizable pattern found all over the natural world. Mirroring the Fibonacci number sequence (made famous in The Da Vinci Code), their optical rotatum propagates in a logarithmic spiral that is seen in the shell of a nautilus, the seeds of a sunflower, and the branches of trees."

"The research builds on previous work in which the team used a metasurface, a thin lens etched with light-bending nanostructures, to create a light beam with controlled polarization and orbital angular momentum along its propagation path, converting any input of light into other structures that change as they move. Now, they've introduced another degree of freedom to their light, in which they can also change its spatial torque as it propagates."

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[floral-atom-collective]

Finally switched so you guys are stuck with me for now

>_>

Amelia may or may not be back

If we dont switch before school ends you got me for the next week or so

[bismuthburnsblue]

finally finished tracing out the skirt embroidery!

there was a lot of adjusting i had to do to this to make it symmetrical and also just... make sense (seriously look at the original skirt for a few seconds and you'll start seeing all the places where its.... weird) but im super happy with my results! im planning on using this (or at least elements of it) on the rest of the costume to tie the thing together!

in the end, i couldnt get the lower flower to come out in a way i liked that also felt cohesive with the rest of the design, so i left it off, but i think its just as good without! you can see my first attempt at it in one of the templates below the cut though, if youre interested!

this was fun! idk if anyone other than me will find use in this, but it was worth it anyway,i learnt a lot about using the path tool in the process of making this & already have some future plans for the things i picked up on.

↓ versions with thicker lines and each element separated out into its own template ↓

thicker lines!

The border- this repeats perfectly, just match it center to center

The main flower

The upper flower

The Tulips! i included both directions here

[howloopyisthat]

From a video on ojoloysoy

[tradingstorieswiththeleaves]

Happy anniversary to THE SONG I haven't got tired of listening to in a whole year:

Combing through the wreckage, pouring through the sand Surrounded by the remnants, what we could and couldn't have Raking through the ashes, falling through my hands Charcoal on the faces in the burned up photographs

[seases]

some tarots for @puddleslime it was very fun to attempt the rider tarot style and i learned about screentones