☆ Cloudy Cosplayz ☆

Lia ☆ 1998 ☆ Scotland ☆ Cosplayer ☆ seamstress ☆ tiktoker ☆ fx Makeup ☆ prop builds ☆

[funny-tik-toks]

[funny-tik-toks]

[funny-tik-toks]

[funny-tik-toks]

[julochka365]

21/5.2026 - i'm in the blue phase of my latest weaving project

[vincentbriggs]

wtf is up with the back of this wrapping paper? This is very much not an inch grid, and it's also not any kind of rounded Metric measurement.

This one is almost an inch grid, but it's still off enough to cause problems if it were used as a guide to draft a large pattern.

This also reminds me that a while ago I went looking for gridded paper and didn't end up buying any because so many of the online reviews I found said the measurements were a bit off.

Beware of gridded paper! Measure before you use it to pattern draft, especially if you're going to be scanning and digitally sizing stuff!

[dykepuffs]

Are they some kind of division of a Chinese inch (a cun or a tsun, depending on your romanisation?)

[vincentbriggs]

I don't think so, and the ones on the first paper aren't even square. They're about 2.65 cm x 2.75 cm.

[halluseance]

Not this again. This is always such an unfortunately foolish “hack” to give people. There’s no standard for these grids as far as I know (it’s not an international inch or anything metric half the time) and there never needs to be one if you think about it. Most gift wrapping techniques can easily work with imperfect measurements. It’s meant to be a loose guide for quicker, prettier wrapping and it’s usually a marketing point for more expensive papers too. That’s the beauty of gift wrapping. It can work easy peasy without specific measurements.

A sewing pattern can’t be close enough for government work though. It needs to be precise. I hate this tip so much. I keep seeing it pop up throughout the years and I feel bad for anyone who bought a ton of wrapping paper on sale thinking this would work. (it can… sometimes) I also feel bad for any well made paper companies that get review bombed because their grid is more or less random.

Maybe it’s just me, but a present grid being slightly over a set measurement makes sense. You could give people a decent margin of error. Juuuuust enough to prevent a gap if you mismeasured.

[vincentbriggs]

I've been lied tooooo :(

"Just use wrapping paper", everyone said. "It's got a handy inch grid right there on the back", they said. I use Metric so I'd never tried it before, but I'm about to try a 1917 pants draft that's in inches. Thank goodness I measured first.

At least it'll be useful for making sure my lines and angles are straight while drafting.

[clottedscream]

i do think it’s genuinely a little sad how often tumblr historians and fandom historians forget about paige the notepad. i see so many talking about the tumblr sexyman phenomenon and their lineup will have tony the clock and they’ll say some stuff like “they never shipped these guys with girls, there were no tumblr sexywomen” as if paige did not build that catwalk and walk it so those boys could run!!!!!

[geek-ramblings]

https://glaad.org/fcc/

[anarchistmemedistro]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[pearwolf]

"i want to work on a hobby but i wont because i should be doing more important things" <- person who isnt gonna do either of those

[puraiuddo]

[palaeoplushies]

I've been seeing a lot of Anti-Scottish Green Party adverts and blazed posts, obviously targeted due to my location.

I wonder who is paying for these? Who is scared? It's all AI generated slop "essays" that make no sense.

I feel even more like I should vote Green in the upcoming parliamentary election (7th May), someone is scared of the Greens, it looks like they could stand a chance!

[orteil42]

am i losing the drive to create things for an increasingly alien and hostile world whose mounting taste for fascism feels like a cold metal vise around my skull or am i just lazy and unmedicated and looking for excuses

[segamascott]

[catchymemes]

[ligbi]

Hakumei and Mikochi settei from the official website.