#astern

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Dirt by Astern

Right off the bat not gonna tell you how long this took me to finish, cause it's embarrassing. But it's done, it's huge, and it's mine!! More glamour shots and process pics under the cut!

Hand dyed cloth, done with an ice dyeing method; title painted with gold paint, as well as the distressed areas; speckled edges done with acrylic ink and metallic bronze acrylic paint; handsewn endbands made from silk-finish cotton sewing thread; typeset and printed by myself all from Word.

Cheeky little video showing it all off together.

My first and sadly second ice dyeing attempts to get this looking right. First pass was not near what I wanted at all, so we stuck this bad boy back in the freezer.

Steps from trimming the unruly head and tail, to splattering the edges, to sewing the endbands. Took me probably approx 3 hours for each one, and I did 2 copies, so four endbands RIP. (The keen-eyed will also notice the patterns do not match between the two photos of the endbands. That's because I wasn't paying close enough attention and inverted two of the colors between copies. But it's a feature not a bug!)

And Tommeh :3 Thank you for looking!

[berndblacha]

Herbstastern, Aquarell 95lbs 65x50cm

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[naturugarten]

Die #Astern 💜 blühen und liefern Bienen 🐝 & 🦋 Schmetterlingen auch jetzt noch Nahrung. Wir haben sie dieses Jahr gepflanzt, leider zu nah am ebenfalls neuen #Wasserdost, dessen Wuchskraft wir unterschätzt haben. #Naturgarten #mygarden #savethebees

[eldaraksworld]

Autumn has come, but Ilya Mironovich still didn't buy any really warm clothes.

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Astern

HOLY FUCK this is not a drill, Astern is writing again, see link above. It’s Dirt-compliant. 

I’m heavily of the opinion that if Naughty Dog even sidles up to the idea of doing a DLC, it’ll likely be Joel/Tommy early Outbreak focused to assuage the male gamer tears (citation: TLOU 2 reaction). *IF* they decide to tread that ground, Dirt has already done that storyline perfectly in character, consistent with the canon universe, and handled encroaching trauma between these two men perfectly. 

I can’t wait to see what happens on Tommy’s journey through Seattle. 

(Here, go look at this @duckydrawsart post with pre-Outbreak boys tolerating each other & post-Outbreak boys who are not trying to kill each other, maybe you’ll feel better~)

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