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Burning & Razing (16)

Anonymous said: If you're not too busy, how about a Ghidorah x Godzilla fic prompt?

I couldn't think of anything so I googled "romance prompts" and grabbed "It wasn't love at first sight. But now you were starting to see them in a new light…" and then I went whole hog stream of consciousness on it.

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They hated him. They hated how he loved his vile little world, how he burned and burned and burned to protect it. They hated how nothing they did could make him stop fighting. There was nothing, in all this universe, in all their millions of years of life, that they had ever wanted more than to make him stop fighting.

But he just burned, and burned, and burned—and he was going to burn himself down to ashes long before they could make him give up.

They hated the taste of his blood, his scales. They hated the sound of his pained bellows. They hated how whenever they turned away from him to continue their work, to continue their razing, he lurched and limped in front of them, injured and bleeding and ready to fight again. They hated, hated, hated…

They had offered to spare him if he just surrendered. They'd burn down the world around him and leave him standing, along with whatever territory he needed to survive. He had replied that they would never make such an offer if they thought they stood a chance of killing him, and so he would refuse it and keep fighting.

They'd laughed at him. Didn't he understand that he'd never been any competition to them? Didn't he realize they had him outmatched in every possible way? Didn't he know why he was still alive?

They hated him. They hated his stupidity and his stubbornness. They hated how he burned with love for his world.

Because they burned with love, too. But they couldn't burn like him. His love was warming, purifying, enlightening—and theirs just ate them alive and razed everything they touched.

They would kill to love like he did. But they couldn't.

So they hated him, instead.

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((Screenshot of the original handwritten page below! Reblogs & comments are appreciated. Previous #writing warmup posts are on my blog & crossposted to AO3))

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CLAN OF THE BOLTCUTTERS

I MISS ALL YOUR FACES SO STUPIDLY MUCH. I NEED YOUR FOREHEADS AGAINST MINE WHYYYYY. @primarybufferpanel @thatonezombiecosplayer @youkaiyume @fuckyeahisawthat @dat-shimada-boi @socially-awkward-libra @sacrificethemtothesquid @v8roadworrier @bethagain @iphysnikephoros @yourdykeinshiningarmor @singoallala @yohunny @ooksaidthelibrarian @magicpillzplz @shinobijosh @once-a-polecat @flamethrowing-hurdy-gurdy

Okay also, I’m looking for a photo of as many of us as possible with our camp visible, to post to the Wastelanders Central FB group, get our names and faces out there and hopefully get tagged in pictures and such. I got shit in the way of pictures but I know a lot of you were snapping some! So if you have a good pic of our camp with multiple Bolties in frame (other than the one on our new fanpage), message/email me so I can use it to put our best foot forward in the Wasteland Social Media Arena. ;)

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I’d like to thank me of three years ago for sewing this mockup with contrasting thread in such long stitches, made this sooo much easier than it might have been.

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My ridiculous unnecessary prop for Wasteland Weekend just arrived and holy crap I don’t think I’ve ever loved an object as much, it is perfect and beautiful and a bit heavier than I thought it would be, arm workouts goooooo.

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Heeyyyy Clan of the Boltcutters

Big planning email incoming. :D

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Hokay, really doing this, cutting into 52 year old fabric to make this jacket. Why is this so difficult?? First cut anxiety ugh.

Also: giant hair is a go. (Now to see how it wears the next couple days...)

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Fiiinally finished up the hair fall project I’ve been working on for three months now, these are all the bits I’ll be braiding into my hair for Wasteland Weekend, hopefully keep it from going too flat and boring in the heat and wind.

The set consists of six matched pairs, each intended to go in a particular area of my hair. Several smaller ones for the very top layers, chunky ones with feathers for mid layer, and for right next to my neck two bunches of braids consisting of strips of linen cloth and (very soft) wool yarn braided in with the fake hair -- which will help control the warmth of my neck with my hair and all of this on it in the Mohave sunshine.

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Vuvalini jacket progress! Sorry for the plethora of mirror pics in my messy room, but trying to get good angles on yourself without a timer is a little rough, heh. 

Just finished the hood, v4 of the pattern for it in the lower right there. Thinking in 3D shapes is not one of my strong suits, so it took a couple of iterations to get the hood to lay the way I want. This is the look I wanted (tho I think I’m going to invert the neck seam when I sew the actual jacket -- lots of inverted seams in this, and I liked the way I attached v3 better than this), wide enough that I can wear my big Vuvalini scarf with it, so I can officially call this mock up done woot. If I get time later I’ll draft and sew some lace-on sleeves too, but if this bit (in its actual fabric) is all I get done before Wasteland, I’ll be happy.

I have just a couple of edits to transfer to my paper pattern (the adjustments to the side lower edge have already been made, just didn’t feel like recutting the whole thing), then it’ll be on to deconstructing the circa 1964 US military sleeping bag cover I’m using for fabric, hehe. 57 days to go!!