i have to make stuff. for my health

i do art! crochet and digital art mostly! everyone who leaves comments, in tags or otherwise, has my entire heart

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a little post for navigation of this blog: the tags on this post should also be able to take you most places

about me

my fibercrafts discord server - links to tumblr post with info and invite

my redbubble

i might add links to specific tags on this blog later but for now, use the option to click the tags under this post

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a fibercrafts discord server: funky fibercrafts!

i know fibercrafts should technically be written fibrecrafts but that makes no sense

funky fibercrafts is a server about any and all textile crafts! we've got yarn crafts, we've got fabric crafts, we've got an "other" category, whatever your heart desires! (these categories all have more specific channels as well for the common crafts!)

if you need help we've got helper roles you can ping, as well as a forum channel especially for asking for help (and also for giving tips without a question being asked), which is neat because it allows specific questions to get a lot of attention while also leaving the craft channels open for casual chatting!

we've also got a verification system to keep everyone safe, so if you join the server and see nought but one channel, that's how things should be, your discord isn't broken, just follow the instructions and you'll be verified!

besides those helper roles there's also a bunch of other roles, like pronoun roles, age range roles, dm boundary roles and ofc craft interest roles

link below the cut in case it breaks :)

Join the Funky Fibercrafts Discord Server!

fibercrafts! a nice place for folks who do Things With Textiles | 324 members

link to join ^

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made a little flower pouch bag charm for my lip balm tin to live in

i used the Mini Popcorn Flower Square on ravelry with two strands of cotton held together, made two, and then added an extra row on both sides where i did shenanigans to make the two squares be attached on 3 sides, and then made a button with a modified popcorn

modified how? just kinda. pulled the working loop through a couple more times to make it rounder. no science was invovled in the making of this pouch

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Oak Tree — a Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries drabble zine

so a drabble is a work of fiction that's exactly a 100 words, and as such, this drabble i wrote fits within the confines of an 8 page zine

if you're not familiar with the fandom, it's a detective show set in the 1920s in Melbourne, where very Modern Woman Phryne Fisher becomes a lady detective and bothers Jack Robinson into helping her solve cases. (Jack has been separated from his wife since before he met Miss Fisher. just fyi)

this is the first fic i ever finished and posted, so it's quite dear to me

also, see if you can spot the jewels in the tree

here's the ao3 link

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to see a fairy: a kaleidotrope drabble zine

i wrote this drabble, and since it was only a 100 words, being a drabble, i decided to turn it into a zine!

if you don't know the fandom, this is a fanfic for a fiction podcast called kaleidotrope, it's only 10 episodes and "a queer fannish romcom" and takes place on a maybe magical college campus where fanfic tropes happen for real. or do they...

it's also implied magic is real besides the trope magic that's maybe real, and i think that's the case and this is canon compliant

link to the podcast website. link to the fanfic on ao3

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a zine about wanting to make a zine to tide me over not having a good printer at my disposal at the moment. i usually print my zines with a printer that's also bad, but that lets me print colour and with basically no margins at least.

i had to finagle this with an outline so i could cut off the margins the printer didn't let me turn off

and as a result it's also rather wonkly. but i wanted to make a zine, so i did

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i have a redbubble shop now!

i currently have 3 categories of thing:

1: meme

would you like a reminder to just Start staring at you from your potted plant or mug or most likely, wherever you put your stickers?

well. you can. even in holographic

2. pronouns

currently i literally just have very simple he/she designs, but i plan on making some cute ones with flowers or something.

ones with just he/she and ones with "my pronouns:" preceding it because i think the few times i went out with a pin that said he/she people may have thought i was just making a statement on gender inequality or something.

if you want your pronouns in my handwriting, feel free to ask. especially if neopronouns. and once i make Designs i'll try to have those pronouns represented in those too.

3. pride ichthys stickers/other things

if you don't know what ichthys is, it's a little fish that was first used as a christian symbol back in the 2nd century, i am christian and really like the symbol, but i also want to make it clear to people i am a queer christian, so i got myself a genderqueer pride ichthys sticker, and you can too! and lesbian! and rainbow pride! and more if i make more!

and last but note least: the shop link

Bismuth209 Shop | Redbubble

Bismuth209 is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

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quick little zine! i really enjoyed doing a zine a day in april, but it's been too long since. so! just some objects on my desk right now

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✍️ more fic writer asks!

reblog & your followers can send asks with the questions they’d like you to answer!

the last sentence you wrote

a character whose POV you’re currently exploring

how you feel about your current WIP

a story idea you haven’t written yet

first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP

the word that appears the most in your current draft (wordcounter.net can tell you)

your preferred writing fonts

if you had to write a sequel to a fic, you’d write one for…

start to finish, how long did it take you to write the last fic you posted?

what is the longest amount of time you’ve let a draft rest before you finished it?

a WIP you’d like to finish someday

a trope you’re really into right now

a fandom you’re thinking about writing for

where do you get your inspiration?

favorite weather for writing

favorite place to write

talk about your writing and editing process

if you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic

the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic

in what year did you publish your first fic?

when did you publish your most recent fic?

do you ever worry about public reaction to what you’re writing? how do you get past that?

pick three keywords that describe your writing

how do you recharge when you’re not feeling creative?

besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

are you able to write with other people around?

your favorite part of the writing process

your least favorite part of the writing process

how easy is it for you to come up with titles?

share a fic you’re especially proud of

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Would it be okay if I made a zine inspired by the one you made about your favorite fic tropes? I could credit you for inspo if you’d like :>

i missed this!! totally cool! i would love to see your take! also if you want to do similar things with the formatting and are handy with inkscape (or willing to become so) i could send you the inkscape file and/or tell you how i did it

tag me in it! i wanna see

also i should make a zine again.. i miss it

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i plan on making a neocities! i will be hosting my zines there ideally, and maybe other things. i'm currently still in the stage of "brushing up on html basics" so it'll be a while before i'm done but i want to name it so it Exists

(neocities is a web hosting service that people make really cool personal websites on about basically anything. it's like old web vibes)

and i'm bad at choosing! so help me choose a name/url

what should i name my neocities

bismuth-actinium

bismuth-arboreum

bismuth-cadmium

bismuth-cobalt

i have a more nuanced opinion that i will share

Voting ended onJun 9, 2024

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Zine Jam: Pride Edition

A game jam from 2024-06-01 to 2024-07-01 hosted by Metaparadox. From the Zines and Zinesters Discord server, here's a new zine making jam! D

hey i'm going to be participating in this zinejam and i think it'd be cool if you did too

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another corset belt! i basically did almost all of this within 2 days (one of which spent mostly on trains with little else to do) and then procrastinated the lacing holes.

but i did it! if you would like to know how to make your own, tell me, and i might finally finish that instructional post. maybe

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my magnum opus, a blackwork turtle i started in april 2020. according to messages at the time the outline took me three days so i reckoned the whole thing would take me months. maybe i'll finish it this year!

this is my emotional support emergency project, she's so creased cause she usually lives in this pouch that goes in my bag and everywhere with me

many of the patterns are from string-or-nothing, an invaluable resource for blackwork

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shoutout to @adorkastock for this ref that i mostly traced

i'm considering making this an oc. the file was literally called "undecided", i really just started drawing, but i like this design. considering specifically making her a goddess oc, part of some sort of fictional pantheon. if you have thoughts on what she could be the goddess of, let me know :>

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after several hours of being on trains i have another corset belt in the works. the stitch pattern was highly inspired by this pattern (instagram link)

and i drew a bridge! i haven't used this sketchbook since 2020/21 i think, high time to get back to it

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step one: completed

now comes my least favourite part of crocheting up the sides and hopefully getting the same amount of stitches on both sides and then making lacing holes

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after several hours of being on trains i have another corset belt in the works. the stitch pattern was highly inspired by this pattern (instagram link)

and i drew a bridge! i haven't used this sketchbook since 2020/21 i think, high time to get back to it