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I exist. orv sideblog @ chasing-after-the-abyss Art Tag

[strikeslip]

Anathem is a YA novel that really really really wants to be hard scifi but there is actually no number or length of meandering philosophy discussions about quantum consciousness and alternate universes that will distract me from asking why a teenage girl is in charge of organizing multiple major world events. And she's not even the protagonist.

[scrixels]

My summer project for myself is to make a collection of 16 of these embroidered thimble rings (called kaga yubinuki), these are my first 2 ^^

[scrixels]

using this as an opportunity to add this link to this post too:

Thank you for coming back to my blog after so long a leave (again).  I plan to update my blog at least once a month but as you see it has be

really clear, written instructions that explain the why as well as the how. there's a lot of beautiful, simple designs on her blog as well!

[strikeslip]

dreamed I was an elf who befriended a baby giant centipede in a steampunk mansion museum, d&d style. So you know, the centipede was only maybe 7-8ft long. There was also a Jörmungandr of a full adult centipede, so everyone was very glad I had managed to become the centipede's favored babysitter.

[solcattus]

Owlet Moth Caterpillar on Stone Lichens

By Léo-Paul Robert

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

"only a poor artisan blames his tools" is such bullshit, in almost every imaginable line of work the quality of the tools you have access to plays a massive role in the quality of the end product, sometimes in excess of the role played by individual skill! For example, some people have to code in javascript

[milkywayan]

New leather pattens post!

I made a pair of leather pattens three years ago, but back then we were more experimenting, and after 3 years of service, my pattens are so worn that I doubt they would survive another event

So, last weekend I visited my shoemaker friend and we started to make new ones (because he also wanted a pair)

Last time when I made them with another friend, we made the pattern for it ourselves, but this time, we used the actual pattern of a real find to base the shape on

specifically this one!

This is from the book "Archaeological Footwear II: Sandals, Pattens and Mules, from the Roman, Mediaeval and Modern periods" by Marquita Volken, THE expert of medieval footwear in Europe, who I had the pleasure to meet a few years ago at an event. I can very much recommend her books, because not only are they historical analysis and finds, but also she remade a lot of the finds and explains how they were constructed. So 10/10!

so we took the pattern and increased it to match our foot size, and after a few smaller changes made our own patterns for it

and then we started cutting the leather. We used a very thick leather for the soles and then a slightly thinner layer for the strips

I also changed the front pattern to an even simpler one

we found one historical source for that crossed pattern that I ended up using. We then did some cheating and glued the soles together for stability (i want them to last a bit longer than 3 years)

and we drilled holes. Then I stitched the soles together

and with that we reached the maximum images, so next update in reblog

[milkywayan]

After that, we glued a final bottom sole onto the patten, which means that the thread is not exposed and thus protected. If I run the lowest sole through, I can replace it, instead of having to remake the whole thing

And then to the straps

first I made these kind of holes that go from.the top to the side, to sew on the straps

and tested them with medieval shoes, and they fit

Next step is sewing on the buckle, but I am not quite there yet. I am reusing the buckles from my old pattens for this

[strikeslip]

reading a post about robin (batman) and thinking it was about robin (contra dance role). no mental dissonance until the very end of the post. right side dancers fight crime and tell jokes; this is known and accepted as true.

[dykecadence]

every moment of every day i am thinking about this tiktok

[purrfectly]

Lumpfish come in a variety of shapes and colors.

[He scoops up the fish, it spits water and he turns it toward the camera]

This one is stumpy and green. Very beautiful, very powerful.

[He picks up another fish and turns it toward the camera]

This is what a normal lumpfish looks like. It is more elongated, but still a vibrant blue color. Very beautiful, very powerful.

[He picks up another fish and turns it toward the camera]

This is one of the stumpiest ones we have. Its hump is very high. It is very stumpy, but yet very beautiful, and very powerful.

[He pans over a lot of fish, all looking up at the camera]

My fish army is ever growing, and soon I will over throw the world. Very beautiful, very powerful.

[strikeslip]

trying to figure out what I think about Radiant Star, like: I would love a really angry book from this combination of author/narrator actually. kind of feels like reading a historian who wants to start screaming about atrocities being very politely strangled. pretty sure that's on purpose, but also, I feel the screaming would be very good and I would like to read it.

[strikeslip]

Dropped off the three colored scroll printouts I did today, and my vicereine (baron for you non-crown-province scadians) immediately lured me into taking four more. The thing is, the East has a tradition of actual hand drawn scrolls much moreso than printouts, so I feel slightly traitorous doing these, but also, coloring books are fun. Watercolors on a printout does not require me to turn my brain back on after a long day at work.

I feel like the right compromise here would be for me to design my own reusable line art, maybe with a few sections that can be randomized. But guess what. That needs focus. And I, person of limited focus that I am, need to be making clothes for Pennsic.

I do understand why she wants me to keep doing these though.

[berlynn-wohl]

a marriage of humankind's two greatest design achievements: the illuminated manuscript and the cool S

[strikeslip]

The Impossible Things We Have to Believe - Bert Hubert's writings

“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the

[cuties-in-codices]

gospels of john of opava: gospel initials

intricately decorated, full-page initial letters (F, I, I) for the gospels of luke, john, and mark, from the richly illuminated (and written entirely in gold ink) gospels of john of opava (evangeliar des johannes von troppau). manuscript produced in prague, bohemia, c. 1368

source: Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 1182, ff. 92r, 149r, and 56r

[depsidase]

[the-merry-otter]

A MERRY A.S. 61 TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!!

[luntfontanne]

dearly departed fung wah bus may she rest in POWER 🫡 obsessed with ayo's go-to bit in her last press cycle being the great molasses flood and this time around it's the fung wah bus. real bostonian representation 🙂‍↕️

now you gotta pay like $35 for a bus to new york and it STILL will probably break down and leave you stranded at an ihop in connecticut :(

[luntfontanne]

imagine this 💭: open your eyes 🫵 CLOSE 'EM 🙂‍↕️ now open your MENTAL EYE 👁️ right? you are in a BUS DEPOT 🚏🚌 in the DEPTHS of boston chinatown 🏮🌆 you get the opportunity to take a $10-15 💸 bus that will take you to new york 🗽 in UNDER four hours ⏱️ sometimes THREE 🏃💨 it's like the concorde of buses ✈️ this thing's going a hundred miles— BIG bus, too🫸↔️🫷not a small bus 🤏 BIG ol' bus 🙌💪 HUNDRED miles an hour 💯 on the speedway 🛣️ sometimes? catching fire 🔥🧯 don't sit in the back 👈 don't sit in the front 👉 you will hit things 🧳⚠️ and things will hit you 🤕🔨 the bus? might explode 💥💥💥 THAT'S NOT YOUR BUSINESS ✋ your business is GETTING TO NEW YORK 🫡 and then you do :)

[earhartsease]

so our friend who goes by Irregular Joe in robot wars circles has crafted The Luggage, who is "a 13.6kg sportsman featherweight"

just look at it go!!!!

sound on, by the gods

[earhartsease]

if you folks want to see The Luggage in battle, the timestamps are in the description!