#bead flapjack

[somefishycat]

WIP Wednesday 1/1/2025

Staying caught up so far, possibly because the WIPs I got the most requests for (particularly 5 Years, which I started publishing this weekend!) are also the ones my brain wants to write right now. Sentences and Bead Flapjack under cut:

marble wall 2 for @balthazarusrex @skarabrae-stone

Hunter points to something in a large box. Luz picks a dark piece of cloth out of it, holding it pinched between two fingers like something gross. She says something Gus can't hear, and Hunter responds. Gus leaves them to whatever that's about. They'll tell him later, if it's important. He needs to shop for himself!

marble wall 3 for @oriharaizayadividesintoslytherin

She leads the way back to the living room, looking behind her several times to see that everyone is following. She stops at the body lying on the floor, staring down at it for a long moment. “Okay, so, I know you said you wanted to go directly in the ground, and I respect that, but can I make a suggestion?”

ones left behind for @eriquin @catboy-jupiter @zyrafowe-sny @sweetbeanma @aparticularbandit

@tamsinswriting

Eber crawls forward, trying to reach the beast's face without being torn to shreds. It's flatter than most avians; Eda does not have a beak like many feathered demons do. She does, quite clearly, have a full set of teeth. Several sets of teeth? Sharp. He hooks an arm around her neck. The feathers are long and thick here, nearly as long as flight feathers. Pulling them out would hurt her. Eber tries to be gentle, but, well. Holding a beast’s head still when they're trying to kill you is difficult to do gently. “You're okay,” Raine says. “Just drink this. We're trying to help you.” The beast jerks her head away again, and several long feathers fall out, some of them still ending in tiny droplets of blood. Shit. This isn't going to work. Eber tries to back away from the sharp teeth, and— Her eyes. Her eyes catch the light and reflect it back at him, pupils huge like a nocturnal creature in the dark.

5 Years for @wizisbored @kalira @whimsicalmeerkat @sarosthewizarddude @twyrewolf

@auburnlaughter @asha10100101010 @nonbinary-octopus

JUICE: hi dr cass i have questions … CASS: You have no idea how happy it makes me to hear you say that. What do you want to know? JUICE: uh you said i'm supposed to explore how will i know what to do i don't think i know very much … CASS: Maybe you're not aware of it yet, but I promise you, everything you need to know is all in your brain already. Thousands of people worked very hard for more than a decade to make sure you were fully prepared for this mission. We’ll still be here to help as much as we can, of course, but you’ve noticed how long it takes to communicate with Earth. At some point you'll have to make decisions on your own. You’ll do fine. You passed all the tests years ago. [Article: Juice aces Callisto flyby test] JUICE: huh i don't really remember that very well like the information is there if i think about it. like part of me remembers zoomin through space past callisto but its like fragmented and weird like i was there and i didn't know why and i didn't think anything was wrong even though i knew it was impossible i wasn't awake then is that what dreaming is like? i guess if i could literally do it in my sleep it'll be fine next question: why? why jupiter … [Cass infodumps about icy moons and their potential for life] JUICE: holy SHIT you're a nerd

Bead Flapjack for @tildeathiwillwrite @stonemaskedtaliesin

Before and after photos, as usual. I... should probably have been using some sort of form to work around this whole time, I don't know how I feel about the shape of that crest now, but oh well. I think I just need a few more rows before I can split it into two points.

[somefishycat]

Happy Flapjack Day!

(I should continue working on Bead Flapjack. Look at him he's so sparkly in the sunlight!)

[ID: three images showing different angles of the head of a scarred cardinal, The Owl House's Flapjack, made of woven glass seed beads.]

[somefishycat]

WIP Wednesday 2/2/25

marble wall 3 for @nonepizzawithleftglitter @oriharaizayadividesintoslytherin

And then… and then nothing. That's it. That's it, isn't it? That’s a funeral, that's all that needs to happen? There's no grave marker for Hunter specifically, since they're also technically hiding a body, so they should be done now. Somehow it feels like something’s still incomplete.

ones left behind for @tamsinswriting @zyrafowe-sny @eriquin @wizisbored @stonemaskedtaliesin

Something sharp latches onto their arm. Raine startles, giving it a sharp shake before they realize it's just Eberwolf. “Sorry,” they apologize, even though they're the one whose arm is now bleeding from the other CAT’s claws. Eber just whines in response, staring at the empty space where just a moment ago Darius was first a witch and then a puppet. They're… frozen. Raine knows they need to leave, but they can't. They can't go yet, not without Eda. This can't have been for nothing! She knows them too well. “Go! I'll be fine!” Eda shouts. She fails to dodge a beam of light, but unlike Darius, she doesn't change at all. If anything, she just sprouts a few more feathers. “Huh?” The Collector looks around, spotting Raine and Eber. “Hey! You can't leave yet! We still have more games to play!”

50 Years for @auburnlaughter @kidsomeday

mir's been gone a long time. real long time, the iss was new when mir was destroyed. hell even the iss is gone now damn dude you outlived the largest space station ever. congrats i guess. sorry you missed em though

And... I made a mistake and I'm going to need to redo all of this, but it was still a lot of work so I'll count it as a learning experience. Lot of trial and error going into this project! So here's some "practice" stitches of Bead Flapjack for @meggiejolly @eriquin @noisesfrombeyondtheuniverse

[somefishycat]

WIP Wednesday 1/29/25

Finally... I finished Bead Flapjack's head after half a year...

(And may also be done with marble wall 2? It's a complete mess of a chapter that went off in a dozen directions, so editing it will be a nightmare, but I probably won't write any more for it)

marble wall 2 for @zyrafowe-sny

And she's not the only one experimenting, apparently. Willow and Amity seem to be having fun trying on lots of different things. Even Hunter, who can't even wear clothes, is eyeing a bright red… thing. Everyone else is happy. Why isn't he?

marble wall 3 for @wizisbored @oriharaizayadividesintoslytherin @twyrewolf

“Hurry up,” he shouts at her back as she runs out. “You're stalling!” She shouts back, “I know! This is all just weird, ok. But this is the last thing we need—NOPE, shovel. Gotta get a shovel.” Amity forms one from the bucketed sludge that used to be one single corpse-carrying abomination. “Got it. We can go.”

ones left behind for @meggiejolly @catboy-jupiter @stonemaskedtaliesin @tamsinswriting

“Oh. I think I know what this is.” Darius picks up a journal (that smells strongly of Belos) and flips through it. “His, ah, his lab. Did you know about— the Golden Guards. Hunter.” Oh, that's what the weird dead demon is. The kid always smelled a little bit like Selkiedomus, for some reason. “Hybrid witchling,” Eber confirms. “Something like that. Can you tell where they went?” The trail ends at a pile of broken stone. There's nothing underneath, so Eber backtracks, following the scent of the other demon instead.

Bead Flapjack for @hurricanebreeze @eriquin @tildeathiwillwrite @aparticularbandit

5 Years for @balthazarusrex @auburnlaughter @whimsicalmeerkat @eriquin

if nothing else i’d be guilt trippin y’all about it i’m fine … ANTOINE: Ha. You do bring up the “you are going to kill me” thing a lot considering how hard we are trying not to do that. JUICE: yeah you're gonna kill me that means i can do whatever the fuck i want clipper’s out here i can actually see them never seen them in person before [Image: Europa Clipper over Europa] should i say hi i wanna say hi but i’m still a little afraid i’ll wake em up somehow and then i i wouldn't be alone but they're september 2034. that's only 2 years away

[somefishycat]

WIP Wednesday 3/26/25

marble wall 3 for @oriharaizayadividesintoslytherin @zyrafowe-sny

(This was a bad idea. All of this was a bad idea. He should've convinced her to just leave the thing behind in the Skull.) “That's enough,” Hunter says. He waves at the pile of dirt (mud) until someone — it's Willow, first — takes a dripping scoop. The others hurry to follow, and they all start shoveling the mud into the pit. The last shovelful of damp earth drops in and Willow carefully places the chunk of sod back on top, using just a touch of magic to regrow the grass into a seamless cover.

ones left behind for @asha10100101010 @thefandomlesbian @tamsinswriting @wizisbored @stonemaskedtaliesin

“He's gone, then.” Eda throws her one arm around Darius’s shoulder. He takes a beat longer than Raine would have expected before shoving her away. “It had to happen eventually. He was already dead,” he sighs. “We’ve found Edalyn, the children most likely went through the portal, and we know Belos is dead. We have everything we came here for. Let's go, before—” He’s cut off by a burst of light striking him in the back. His limbs go rigid and he collapses in a heap of wood, smiling grimly. The Collector is back. “King!” Eda shouts. Feathered wings burst from her back despite the potion she drank less than a hour ago. She launches into the air in the same half-transformed shape Raine first saw days ago and flies after the Collector and King. King shouts back as the Collector attempts to capture Eda, to no apparent effect.

5 Years for @kalira @phantom-z0ne @eriquin @twyrewolf @noisesfrombeyondtheuniverse

CASS: Peter thought you should get a chance to talk to children your own age. I have to agree. JUICE: i'm not a little kid and excuse me i believe you mean gary CASS: I'm sure you're going to argue, again, that you're not a child. JUICE: lol CASS: But regardless of emotional maturity, you have to admit you have very limited experience. You were launched nine years ago. You've been awake for only two years, as of today. ANTOINE: You do not just want to speak to boring old people, do you? JUICE: does it matter? i had no clue gary was like 72 ha that rhymes but also you're not boring old people? really you've gotta be younger than gary come on you can't tell me everyone i’ve ever talked to is as old as gary … ANTOINE: No, but we are still four times your age.

50 Years for @auburnlaughter @nonbinary-octopus @nonepizzawithleftglitter

CASS: Just for that, I'm going to dye my hair grey, like it should be by now. JUICE: hell yeah! you can be a crusty old person too. why not look however the fuck you want. love that for you CASS: Be honest with me for a moment here. I know how Hubble is doing, physically. HUBBLE: been better i think

And I strung the first row of (70!) beads for Bead Flapjack's body for @batteredrugosa

[somefishycat]

WIP Wednesday 3/12/25

(A week late but here we are)

marble wall 3 for @oriharaizayadividesintoslytherin @eriquin @zyrafowe-sny @wizisbored

“We, um. We're not putting this in, too, right?” Gus asks, holding up the galdorstone. Luz freezes. “Why would we do that?” Because it's part of me, too? Because I won't need it in a moment? So no one else can get to it? Hunter says none of that. “So I can, uh… haunt my… grave?” he tries instead. This does not impress Luz in the slightest. “Never mind, that's stupid. Keep it, I don't care.”

ones left behind for @meggiejolly @tamsinswriting @dreamed-for-not @combeferres-mothematics @aparticularbandit

@kidsomeday @stonemaskedtaliesin

Darius frowns down at the stain. If Raine didn't know any better, they'd almost think he was upset. But that's ridiculous. Darius wanted the emperor gone as much as they did. He said himself that they needed to be sure he was dead. No, wait. He said they needed to know what happened to him. What…? “He needed to die, yes. It’s just that,” he huffs. “If Belos is dead, then the little p— Hunter—” Oh. Oh, no. Something settles in Raine’s head now, like the resolution of a dissonant note. Or possibly the screech and sudden silence of strings breaking. Either way, they understand. Belos killed Hunter. Hunter left a ghost behind, a spirit determined to ensure the emperor's demise in turn. Belos is dead. The ghost would have moved on. That's what Darius was afraid of.

50 Years for @kalira @nonbinary-octopus @phantom-z0ne @auburnlaughter

HUBBLE: you know teenagers? JUICE: yeah gary’s a grandpa. can you believe that? i thought he was some guy in his 20s right up until he dropped that on me. i mean i guess he kinda is 20 whatever, he looks like it anyway just like all the other adult people do, but he's also actually 80 whatever. anyway when i was 9 he let me write to em a few times cuz he said i should get to talk to people my own age think he felt bad for me. ha. that was when everyone thought i was gonna die you know but uh. i'm assuming they found out that i crashed, or that everyone thought i crashed… that was like. big news you know. don't think gary coulda kept that from em

And for @wizisbored @phantom-z0ne @zyrafowe-sny @aparticularbandit @auburnlaughter I also started planning Bead Flapjack's body. Didn't start stitching anything but I made a quick sketch and took a bunch of rough measurements from it:

... 70 bead circumference? 60 rows? I am going to die

[somefishycat]

WIP Wednesday 1/15/25

Busted some sentences (and stitches) out last minute on Tuesday night. Under cut as usual.

marble wall 2 for @twyrewolf @sourb0i

He takes them, and the pants he chooses, back to the rest of the group. Mrs. Noceda directs him to a little room to try them on in. He doesn't really need to do that to know what they'll look like — illusions! — but making sure they fit is probably a good idea. The ribcage shirt is… it fits perfectly. He stares at it for just a little too long before walking out to show everyone else. “Like the Titan,” Willow says.

marble wall 3 for @oriharaizayadividesintoslytherin

“I don't really care.” “O-oh,” Luz stutters. “Okay, uh, I’ll just… go get it, then.”

ones left behind for @zyrafowe-sny @tamsinswriting @catboy-jupiter @eriquin @wizisbored

@kidsomeday @stonemaskedtaliesin

“Me,” Eber readily admits. “I'm the dumbass.” Eda turns, plucking Eber off her back with her one hand. “I could have killed you,” she says. They shrug. Plenty of beasts could kill them, Eda isn't special. They reach up to disperse the magic on the net, freeing the both of them. “Eda!” And here's Raine to be all sappy. Bleh. Eber wanders over to Darius to wait until they're done with all that. “That was incredibly sloppy, even for you.” Yeah, whatever. They caught Eda. They got her the elixir. They didn't even get a new scar for it, which is honestly a little disappointing. Being trapped in a net with an angry owl beast deserves at least a little maiming. “Now that that's over with… are you up for some tracking?” Darius asks. Eber huffs. Of course they are. The scent of owl beast is everywhere, but they're not Head Beastkeeper for trapping themself in nets.

5 Years for @auburnlaughter @laneboyheathens @asha10100101010 @inevitablyuncertain

there's 512TB drives now right? one of those i cost 1.6 billion euros anyway you couldn't shell out a little more for a bigger brain for me? … ANTOINE: Those did not exist when you were built. You also were not meant to watch movies, so why would you have needed one? Nobody expected you would have complex thoughts and care about this. CASS: We really have no idea what's going on in your brain, or why. You’ll have to work with what you have, and it seems to be enough to be yourself, but it's best not to fill it up too fast. JUICE: that's not why you're trying to save me right save me from becoming a mile long smear of debris on a frozen ocean just so you can poke around in my head would that be fucked up or what

Bead Flapjack for @aparticularbandit @balthazarusrex @whimsicalmeerkat

Before:

And after:

Shapes are happening!

[somefishycat]

WIP Wednesday 1/8/25

marble wall 2 for @catboy-jupiter @laneboyheathens @spindoctor3875

It’s black and blue. There's a pattern on the front that looks a little like a ribcage. He likes it, actually. It kind of reminds him of home. A ribcage, like home, like looking up at the Titan. Like— (Caleb's bones, casually tossed into a pile with a collection of demon parts.) (Something dead and buried, digging itself out of a grave only to scream in agony as it starts rotting away.) (A cursed arm cracking open Hunter's sternum to reach the stone inside.)

marble wall 3 for @inevitablyuncertain @oriharaizayadividesintoslytherin @tamsinswriting

“How about a sheet? Like an old one. It'll break down faster than wood, so you can ‘return to the Earth Titan’ or whatever, but we're not like. Dumping you straight into the mud. It rained yesterday, it's going to be so muddy.” “I guess so.” Better than a box. “It could be like a… shroud? Is that something you do in the Boiling Isles?”

ones left behind for @rainy-weather-supremacy @auburnlaughter @balthazarusrex @whimsicalmeerkat @wizisbored

@stonemaskedtaliesin

That's… something. That might be something they can work with. “Light! Use light!” They catch on, thank fuck. Darius slowly draws a circle in the air, counting down from three. Raine closes their eyes. At the flash — and it's not quite as bright as Eber hoped for, but it's bright enough he can tell there was one, even with closed eyes — the beast freezes. Raine takes the opportunity to shove the bottle in her mouth. Eber takes it to get the fuck away from the beast's face. And then she shrinks. Her wings and most of her feathers recede, just the ones that Eber loosened left hanging in her hair. “Ow. What happened? Where… the kids! Where are they?!” Eda straightens up, noticing the now far looser net over her. “Who’s the dumbass demon catcher who netted me this time?”

Bead Flapjack for @asha10100101010 @eriquin @tildeathiwillwrite

I finally started splitting his crest into two points this week! Second photo is a top down view of that.

5 Years for @kalira @twyrewolf

like i know i was built for space but earth is home y’know even if i don't remember much of it you said you couldn't take me home like way back when i first woke up you said that and i guess i get it. i’m not gonna have anywhere near enough fuel for that am i