Ostensible RF Fic Blog

I've been playing Rune Factory from the beginning, and I like imagining stuff about the characters. Sometimes, I even write it down!

[kardia-library-official]

Hey there! Hi. <3

✮-I have a tag for my fics, or you can go straight to my AO3.

✮-If you don't know who this @silicon-katydid person in your notes is, that is also me! (It's my main blog, where I mostly just reblog stuff I think is neat and sometimes ramble about stuff.)

✮-I like writing longfic, and I gravitate towards angst, h/c, and cathartic storytelling in general. As a result of these factors, I've kind of thrown up my hands in defeat when it comes to tagging potentially upsetting content. If you have specific no-gos and want to know if a fic of mine has them, just ask me and I'll tell you! (Hell, I'll answer any questions you have about my fic, even if I can only respond with "idk" or "no spoilers." Like most writers I am a big ol' windbag and love talking about this stuff!)

✮-As an adult myself, I tend to assume an adult audience here. I'm not a cop, but browse at your risk/leisure.

✮-Slightly less important info for curious people goes under the jump:

✮-...Hi again, curious people!

✮-My name is Katie, but I like Katydid or just K equally well.

✮-She/they by force of habit, pronoun-agnostic at heart.

✮-Technically old enough to run for president, but young enough to know that being a whimsigothic farm sim menace is way cooler!

✮-I'm a housewife (like Izumi from FMA but less cool), I live in the Pacific Northwest, and when I'm not engaging with storytelling in some way (making up my own, enjoying others' in many genres and mediums), I'm usually crocheting, doing other arts and crafts, learning about various topics that interest me, or out seeing what I can see on my ebike.

✮-One time when I was 13, I played HM64 until my elbows locked at a 90 degree angle. I consider this the moment that sent me down the path to everything you see here.

✮-My heart belongs to rarepairs and sad weird guys. >:3

[elvenechoes]

Romancing a robot step 1: breaking and entering

[silicon-katydid]

I've been wanting to do more tapestry stuff, and everyone knows I basically do whatever I want, so I made a beanie! :D

The pattern is probably only useful if you already know what you're doing (there are some typos and the entire last row of the arrowhead is missing), but I only have good things to say about the design itself and the experience of making it! Watching the hearts materialize is really satisfying, and making the textured crown of the hat is really fun! Absolutely worth going "wait... what?" a few times. I love the colors I chose and how they work together (the sparkly lavender compliments the variegated yarn, the sparkly pink contrasts with it, and the neon fleck black brings it all together while providing a nice stark background for the neon pink), and can't wait for it to get cool outside so I can wear it around. ^_^

Tapestry guts under the jump if you're curious:

[kardia-library-official]

Extremely specific problem: sat down with full intent to write and realized it simply cannot be done until I replace my headphone cord. The one I have only works if I sit my phone in the exact right position and keep it completely still, and I neeeeed both my music and my pacing stim to attain and flow within the DRAMA.

Truthfully, I have been living like this far too long and driving myself insane. -_-

[kardia-library-official]

Okay dw I ordered some everything is gonna be fine!!

Ourple... :3

[kardia-library-official]

Extremely specific problem: sat down with full intent to write and realized it simply cannot be done until I replace my headphone cord. The one I have only works if I sit my phone in the exact right position and keep it completely still, and I neeeeed both my music and my pacing stim to attain and flow within the DRAMA.

Truthfully, I have been living like this far too long and driving myself insane. -_-

[silicon-katydid]

Apparently buying packets of party favors all for myself at Halloween clearance was the move all along! ^_^

[silicon-katydid]

More jesters to do my bidding! >:3 I'm pretty sure one only tells lies and the other only tells the truth, but hell if I can figure out which is which. >_>;

Anyway! I experimented on the lil goth clown with the tasseled hat and a row of single crochets with picots replacing the slip stitch trim on the ruff. I think both came out completely adorable!

As for the rainbow clown, he's actually more by-the-book than their predecessor, who you will note had bells instead of the little pom-pom nubs on the hat points. I wanted to try the pom-poms, and I'm glad I did, especially because you can put bells in the pom-poms, which makes more of a rattling sound but is still lots of fun.

All told, I'll probably be using what I learned here again, especially because there's now an updated tutorial with different hat styles. Yarn clowns shall be my terracotta warriors. <3

[silicon-katydid]

Had this moon windchime that was so decayed that the chimes fell off when I put it under the faucet to clean it up. Now I have a pretty ornament for my kitchen window! And that is the Power of Art. <3

[silicon-katydid]

I have created a beautiful Jimothy! :3

He is so splendid! And one of the amazing reasons is that apparently the pattern is by the same person as the perfect lil tardigrade, which I somehow didn't catch until I sat down to make it... I want to make a whole bunch of her other creatures now! But first I'm going to make another Jimothy to live in my house, because this one is going to my mom. And tbh I'm probably going to make another tardigrade or five also.

Honestly, I think I'm just gonna keep making lil guys until I run out of googly eyes. >_>;

[silicon-katydid]

Important update:

[hellenhighwater]

Does anyone else get a little excited when you're reading and come across a word you don't know and you get to look it up and add it to your vocabulary pile? weehoo! a little treat for me, a little exotic snack

[silicon-katydid]

Spent the actual entire afternoon making another owl! This one is for my aunt, and I think it's my best one yet! <3

[girlwhodoeskratom]

Dianne DeWitt @ Jean-Louis Scherrer Spring/Summer, 1988 Haute Couture

[yellow-cat]

i have wild sentences roaming through me at all times

[zinesbycee]

sadomasochism? no, i'm actually quite happyomasochism ^_^

[kardia-library-official]

[ot3]

when people say stuff like "you need to have hobbies that aren't media" i agree with the letter of it, because i think that you have to have at least one or two tactile hobbies to stop you from descending into madness. but its never actually about that it always comes with the smug, condescending implication that media is a kind of consolation prize for people who aren't able to have Real interests. and its just like. well i actually do think the collective body of books, film, plays, television, comics, and video games produced by the human race is vast and meaningful enough that a life spent mostly picking through it and reflecting on it could be perfectly fulfilling

[kardia-library-official]

People I’d Like To Get To Know Better!

Tagged by @daybreaksgaze! I don't know why your blog name isn't coming up, but we roll.

Last Song: According to my MP3 app, it's"Joey" by Concrete Blonde... I've been wrapping up an angsty Russell fic and it's kind of a tradition haha.

Currently Watching: I've been watching Daemons of the Shadow Realm as it comes out, and have slowly been working through HxH 1999 for a while now. Also, partner and I were re-watching/catching up on The Expanse together before the move really kicked into gear, so I need to bother him about resuming that soon.

Currently Reading: I'm working on Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh, but it's slow going because I like reading in bed at night and keep falling asleep. -_- I'm enjoying it though, I love the surreal loosely medieval setting and multiple POVs! I'm also following/collecting several manga series, and the last manga I read was vol. 2 of the Mushishi collector's edition.

Current Obsession: Decorating things with my paint pens, The Magnus Archives, googly eyes, house projects, Jimothy the raccoon, the deer in my yard, the hydrangea stick I'm trying to root...

Currently Working On: The aforementioned fic and hydrangea, various arts and crafts to-dos I've been meaning to get to, painting the master bedroom...

Currently Wearing:

...The classiest lounging clothes, natch.

Last Google Search: Aside from like, the weather (mostly to check the AQI because Spokane is on fire), I think it was some lyrics to a Metric song I heard in the car ("Faster than you think, time staggers on," from "Dream So Real.") I want to put them in the summary of the fic I've been writing when I eventually post it!

I tag @twig---verginix, @justpastsaturn, @handyhandman, @mizziecornart, @bumblepuppy, and whoever else feels like it!

[silicon-katydid]

Little space empress.