This lance shall end that slothful, festering dream!
Allow me to regale thee... that, in this... adventure of mine... Verily, I was blessed with a family of twelve. Together, we have braved and vanquished innumerable foes, our wills entwined as one... We were enactors of hope, who have never forsaken justice, not even for a fleeting moment. And at last, I have come to...
I have come to understand what thou hast dreamed.
For canto 7's beautiful ending. Here's to the next Season and Canto of limbus.
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here's something funny i've found while datamining before canto 7 dropped officially.
according to an acquaintance who went looking through gamefiles when mirror of the wuthering dropped, this was not at all there back then, so i feel like these will show up in canto 7.
my guess is a durante-esque ability, but it might as well be a new mechanic. maybe a certain someone going into a frenzy into battle will be getting these sin affinities, or they're things for aleph egos in the future.
much to think about.
(also fun that we have Crimson, Amber, Violet, Indigo like the ordeals in lobcorp...)
tbh i actually am pretty satisfied with cathy and her amount of evilness. i think people's perspectives get warped because this canto is heathcliff's, who is so deeply in love with her that he looks past what she's done.
like, she DID engineer for a fuckton of people to get kidnapped and killed and become dough. she DID manipulate linton for all that time, weaponizing his infatuation with her for everything. she did purposefully bankrupt hindley just to get the manor. all she did was very cold for the sake of love and her own warped perspective
unfortunately the other sinners can't comment "wow cathy was actually fucked up" so that people get it but 💔
This is a long post about the plushie I made as a beginner and just me venting about the process. Just skip this is you don't like long posts. Also I will probably mix up UK and US English a lot here. The usual Internet learning experience.
Canto 1- I can (not) make a plushie myself
So... As you may gather from the existence of this blog, I love Ryōshū a very normal amount. And like many other PM fans, I wanted a plushie of my best girl.
Two problems arise.
Independently made plushies made by commission are EXPENSIVE (For a very valid reason, this things take AGES to make and require a lot of work and skill.).
And
All the "Mass" produced ones by indie designers that I saw had animal ears or features, which I don't really like.
So, Sunday at around 10:00 pm, I, in all my wisdom, say to myself "I want it! So I'll make it!" I already had some material from a previous failed attempt, so might as well use them.
I dug up the doll skeleton and the body I had and stuffed that thing. By then it was already late and I had to work on Monday so, to bed I went.
Canto 2- The Real Start
By morning on the following day, I had already gotten over the Idea of making a plushie myself. Too much work. Too little skill. Like any other good little ADHD demon, I am allergic to completing my own projects and I jump from new idea to new idea too quickly to get anything done.
So, imagine my shock when at 11:00 pm I get that little itch to just make the thing. That little night owl brain magic that happens when everyone else is asleep and you are just now deciding to be productive.
So I grab the body, my embroidery thread and a bathtub of coffee and I just started.
Luckily I already had a pattern that a friend printed out for me two years ago. But then, the mistakes also started.
Mistake 1- Improv
I had no idea what I wanted to make. I had a design that I had painted In photoshop before but I didn't have that materials nor skills for that. So I made a simpler one on the spot. I don't own a printer. I don't have transfer paper. So... like a person with a very aesthetically pleasing smooth brain, I just drew the design STRAIGHT ON THE FABRIC with BRIGHT red pen.
Mistake 2 - The bright red pen
At the start it wasn't much of an issue just something to mark the design because I don't have a tearaway stabilizer.
By the end of this saga, those smooth clear lines had bled SO MUCH I could no longer tell the difference between te guide and random stains. Oh! And you can also see the guidelines from the outside of the doll. Cool.
Mistake, the third - The felt hair
This doesn't seem like a mistake, but trust me, It will haunt the narrative.
Mistake forever after - Hubris
It took... around 1 hour to line up everything correctly on the embroidery ring? Why? Because I am stupid, that's why.
During this first day I decided that I didn't need to use pins. I could just put it on the ring by eyeballing it. How bad can it be?
I was a fool. There's a reason why professionals use them, and there's a reason why some people sew some pieces temporarily during certain steps of the process before finally attaching them together. Pins truly are unsung heroes.
Canto 3- The unembroidered
So... embroidery. Embroidery is hard. Symmetrical embroidery is hard. Symmetrical embroidery with bleeding guidelines and no stabilizer is HARD. Symmetrical embroidery with bleeding guidelines, no stabilizer and you are a total beginner is maddening.
I watched someone do it by hand on YouTube before and I tried to mimic the process as much as I could. It didn't help much. Youtube tutorials can only do so much to compensate my lack of experience.
By the time I had done one eye I was already seeing problems. My stitches were all scattered to the four winds. They were all going in different directions. Some of them were too far apart or too close to others. The lines in the back of the doll were piling up and there were more knots in the thread than in your average omegaverse fic.
I went colour by colour. First black since I needed it to line the hair and it was the most used colour, then white just for the little highlights and finally red.
(Funny thing, the number of this red thread of this brand is 666 wich is kinda funny for miss hellscreen over here.)
After the red thread it finally started to look kinda decent (by beginner standards)
Canto 4 - Revenge of the felt hair
After all the embroidery was done it was finally time to get her off the ring and sew the parts together.
For those unaware, the regular soft plushie material, Minky, is really lightweight and very thin. Felt... isn't thin. And when you are sewing a plushie head with may parts and layers, all those millimeters of fabric pile up really quickly. One layer of felt is easy to pierce with a needle. Five layers? Not so much. Several needles were broken in the process of joining the front of the head with the back. I do not own a sewing machine. I did all of this shit by hand.
Thank god for the tetanus vaccine. When I say this little creature has my blood, sweat and tears, I MEAN IT.
The curse of the felt hair didn't end there.
Now that the head was done, it was time to stuff it.
Naturally, I had to rip parts of the stuffing to get it inside the head and around the skeleton. This sent bits and pieces of the thing flying everywhere. My room is FILTHY. And the felt hair got the worst of it. All those little dusts and microfibers stuck to it like a fly in a web. As I write this I am still trying to rip out bits of stuffing without damaging the felt. It is horrible. My girl is DIRTY.
(Also, plushie heads take WAY more stuffing than I thought. Holy shit.)
Finally, on the last day, it was time to attach the body to the head and sew the back of the hair. (I should have done that before but... more layers of felt. Broken needles. You know... nheeeeeee)
So, with a lot of fear in my heart I ladder stitched those bastards together and mocked up a decent enough pattern for the back of the hair. And just like that.... she is done.
Canto 5- The Plushie Defining
So... what did I learn?
Use pins. Stitch things temporarily with an obvious visible line that you can cut out after and test things before committing to a permanent stitch. If you are a beginner, like me, and are afraid to sew pieces together because you don't want to ruin your embroidered parts that you spent SO LONG working on, do this before.
Fuck felt.
Don't use a bright red pen.
Mess up. Make your plushie. Make it ugly. If you hate making bodies like me, buy one made and practice the head. Despite everything, I love my asymmetrical girl a lot. Like... I made this little bastard. She is MINE and I made her. This never stops being magical. It's a nice feeling.
And I did it without specific materials.
Some cheap threads, a body you can probably make too, some felt I found at the discount bin and random needles. That was all. No tearaway stabilizer, no sewing machine, no printer, no embroidery machine. The minky fabric is the only thing that was more of an investment. The rest is pretty accessible.
Do you know that post that says "Everything worth doing is worth doing poorly." Yeah, that applies to artistic projects. Go for it! Just... don't start with something hard like a human... Christ sake that was a nightmare.
I'm probably still gonna get a better plushie of her in the future, but for now, this is my baby.
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