Kiki’s Cozy Corner

Kianthia | She/Her | AU Work - Fic and Art | Spoilers tagged upon Request | OCs are Cool | Yes, that is my cat in my banner

[dragonofmagnolias]

Find the Fundraiser Here

I hate that I'm back to having to share this, but my financial situation is once again not great (tm). For those who don't know, I lost my job a few months back and have been stuck on unemployment since.

While I do have a part time job now and can still qualify for some unemployment payments, I barely get paid over $100 for a week's worth even with $16 an hour.

It's been piling up, so I updated my G0fundme appropriately with a little bit of a breakdown of my current finances.

While I do not want to force anybody to donate, all I ask is that you share it around if possible. I know a lot is going on in the world right now on a much bigger scale, but every little bit helps me out. Thank you.

[starlinedsword-deactivated20240]

addicted to overanalyzing music and applying it to my ocs

[quillith]

[bird-gifs-collection-agency]

if you stack three winter ptarmigans of varying sizes... maybe it would look like a snowman? well, the top one would have to hold a carrot in its mouth. this is a pretty good circle

[which-ocs]

Which OC?

[hedgehog-moss]

Looking for water in the woods

[okayyoureacab]

Hexagon Quilt

[rumade]

This is the second time I've seen a video of this technique and this explanation is so clear! It does use more fabric than English paper piecing (EPP) but you end up with a double sided hexagon so don't have to source fabric for the backing.

I'm doing EPP at the moment but I have a hole punch to make the papers and just use leaflets and junk mail, so it doesn't feel wasteful. I don't think it's difficult either- in the video she mentions it's not for beginners, but I don't have that much experience with hand sewing or EPP and I've been finding it pretty easy so YMMV

[lindstromm]

I saw this video yesterday and was seized with the need to try it out immediately. Lookit my cute lil' hexagon baby!!

Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.

[fromankyra]

ok so i've been doing one of these and I think it is important to point out: the puffiness is mostly not the technique for making the hexes, but the fact that the person making the video isn't ironing/pressing them. Here are a bunch of hexagons when i first made them:

and here are some after ironing:

the quilt top ends up being a lot less puffy and with much sharper lines this way:

now! this may not be the look you're looking for! OP in the video mentions liking the puffiness, and this will need batting in the way OP's doesn't

another reason to avoid pressing is because the hexagons aren't super precise - the puffiness can help compensate for that in a way that what I'm doing can't - if you look at the corners you will see they're not always great.

but if like me you prefer sharper lines, and were thinking this technique wasn't worth it because of that, give it a try! just remember to iron your hexes

[corruptimles]

[feefal]

Gold, Silver, and Bronze!🥇🥈🥉

Now as sisters and with a complex sibling dynamic.

[feefal]

did you know 24k gold is so soft you can scratch it with a fingernail? Because bronze knows

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

not naming names but some of you are so creative and talented it's an honor to have you in my phone

[hotvampireadjacent]

You guys are gonna wanna see this

. A baby giraffe was born Monday at Hogle Zoo (Salt Lake City, Utah). Photo by Kennedy Camarena of KSL News.

[bunteybrooks]

Fish bowl

The fish depicted on this bowl is a coelacanth. Coelacanths were believed to have gone extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago but in 1938 were discovered to still be a living species without changing. They are my favorite fish, and I chose to depict them to try creating a detailed design with sgraffito

it is made in dedication to the account @fuckyeahcoelacanths

Brick Laws, Fish Bowl, 2025, ceramic, 6x14.5x14.5cm

Process documentation

[konohahater]

(shows up to a ship 10 years late) is everybody seeing this

[waxenneat]

This was a man, dressed as a plant, making pigeon noises at people walking by. I said hello, asked if it was okay to take his picture, and then asked why he was dressed as a plant. He said, “I’m just working through some stuff. Thank you for asking. No ones asked yet.”

[anekie]

I’ve been dealing with stuff the wrong way. 

[ghost-faces-deactivated20250916]

do you like my repetitive and outdated music taste

[bewbin]

you were born in 2006? what are you? a Honda Civic?

[2006-honda-civic]

can i fucking help you?

[randomalistic]

Your artstyle is like your gut microbiome in the way its everything you consume and like and it also has all your bacteria up in it. Thats probably how that works

[cadriona]

So, a funny thing happened on trigun twitter

(amazon link where its 50% off as of May 8th: https://www.amazon.com/This-How-You-Lose-Time/dp/1534430997/)

[cadriona]

Update, “this is how you lose the time war” is now #21 on Amazon’s bestseller’s list

(semi-related note but I too have now ordered the book)

[cadriona]

another update: Amal El -Mohtar wrote a small article on her blog (https://amalelmohtar.com/i-tried-to-title-this-post-for-twenty-minutes-and-failed/), one which contains the words “[…] and the upshot of it all is that corporate marketing people at Simon & Schuster now know the name Bigolas Dickolas.”

[cadriona]

Further update!

Time war has reached #7 on the amazon bestseller’s list and is still discounted!

(thread found here: https://twitter.com/tithenai/status/1655613629604016151?s=20)

In addition:

[leebrontide]

I know it made it up to #6 at one point. Being a pre-existing fan of both Trigun and This is How You Loose the Time War made this especially enjoyable.

[kittydesade]

I’m just going to add some more Twitter screencaps I pasted into the groupchat.

The producer of Trigun Stampede. (No word from Nightow yet, I checked.)

A literary agent. To be precise, the agent of at least one of the authors of Time War.

Slate, posting their article about the whole thing.

A frenzy of mutual adoration and signed hardcover offers.

Other authors want in on the Bigolas Dickolas goodness.

Dongwon again.

Saw this on Twitter and HAH.

Bigolas Dickolas is now Alexander the Great.

And finally, the forecast is good for a livestream of Max and Amal watching Trigun.

[exsequar]

This is apparently still unfolding! Tumblr “news” is sometimes 5 years old so I wasn’t sure 😂 The latest - it’s up to #3!!

[cadriona]

LMFAOO YEAH I JUST SAW IT HIT #3 been trying to keep this post updated but didn’t want to spam, and the speed at which these things have been happening is beautifully astounding so:

trigun, following bigolas dickolas, has also become a trending topic in business and finance

Interview with Bun (or Mr. Bigolas)

Crossover art (https://twitter.com/xxrat__punkxx/status/1656446745088278529?s=20)

thread of semi-current placements on the book

memes

and the situation very much escaping online confinement xD

[cadriona]

A significant number of hours later (and too much to summarize):

Time War summary: reached #3 on Amazon overall, #1 (and 2, And 3) in science fiction romance, #3 in lit and fiction, social media presence overseas, and- 

printing with a bigolas dickolas sleeve and so much more

Bridging the two: so many articles

slate article

techcrunch article

insider article

kotaku article

Gizmodo article

tor.com

polygon

and etc

And then on the bigolas dickolas trigun side-

And then after tweeting @ dark horse for a potential trigun maximum (trimax) reprint due to the eng verison being out of print for several years by this point:

so everything can now basically be summed by by this tweet!

(I don’t know if i’ll keep updating this thread considering how many branches there are and idk how much more this can escalate, but I’m keeping an eye on the situation so we’ll see!!)

For those asking what time war is about, per Mr. Bigolas’s post: DO NOT look up anything about it. Just read it.

For those asking about trigun, it is an amazing manga, anime adaptation, and new reboot anime.

[cadriona]

its been over a year since all this first occurred, but felt it was necessary to tack on that bigolas dickolas declined the Hugo that the infamous tweet was nominated for 😂

[dduane]

…It’s an amazing world. :)

[madlori]

may the spirit of bigolas dickolas bless all my author friends including me