a witch, a bard, a storyteller

24, they/she. Tumblr broke my old blog so moved here. Medieval history, fantasy, writing, and star wars. Please never expect quality posting from me.

[osannagaypass]

One of my small nitpicks is bare, undecorated wood when we have so many examples of decorated or painted furniture and boxes

Which leads to my sewing box. The existing one was covered with stickers and was otherwise bare, but has been traveling with me for nigh on a decade and at this point the hinges have fallen off.

So, I picked up a new box at a garage sale. Plain, bare wood, but with working hinges and a latch that actually latches.

Before I allowed myself to put any supplies within the new box, I needed to solve the issue of the lack of decoration. I'm not the best at painting, but with a bit of inspiration, a dollar tree brush, and acrylic paint, I have a colorful box.

[woolyfaye]

Showing my friends I love them by handing them a book of embroidery and telling them to pick patterns for a set of shirt cuffs

[woolyfaye]

Me when older relative of my character who's perceived as tragically failing to live up to their potential

[woolyfaye]

Writing side fic for my main project because I kept thinking about a side character too much

[woolyfaye]

It happened again! Ttrpg edition

[chefboy-argirl]

Game Changer

“Elizabethan takedown”

Black & white digital photo

Sourced from Game Changer episode Rulette 2

[vel1m1r]

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

rip critical reading born 12,000 years ago in mesopotamia died on twitter in 2013. :( rest easy king.

[reimanticism]

have a corona

[tiffbaxter]

🧡Sweet mother, I cannot weave…🧡 My full drawing of Anglo-Saxon era lesbians for We've Always Been Here artbook along with a look at the progress. (Digital sketch & pencil drawing)

[tiffbaxter]

Shout out to all the #loomheads who are liking this piece. I tried very hard in my research to make it a decent depiction so these tags both make me laugh & very pleased!

[tiffbaxter]

Since a few people have asked me this in a couple of places, I thought i'd answer -

It's not available as a print right now but it will be later in the year, likely October! Sorry for the wait but due to the contract of the art book this is for, I'm not allowed to sell prints/merch etc of the piece until 6 months after the Kickstarter campaign.

TLDR; Please do keep an eye out for a print announcement in October!

[vel1m1r]

[daemon-siblings]

living for the moments where yuru gets to be a normal kid

[rolameny]

i love yuru. my sweet little lad who's brand new to this world. gets excited about white rice. alarmed by unfamiliar mechanical noises. proud of his ability to understand the humble light switch. always very polite to his bonded pair of sexy rock summons.

what a nice young man :)

[noah-wyles]

all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again

[fluoritegalaxy]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[blanchebees]

Medieval maidens and their pointy shoes

Tip jar

[afemalesebastian]

"Sewing is a gateway drug to thinking through complex problems. It seems really simple; culturally, we make it women's work. Let me tell you: real sewing at any kind of level of proficiency is a bloody magic trick. Sewing, like mold making, involves mental frames that require one to think inside out and backwards. It requires one to work on an order of operations that is often taking into account the reverse. It's a really, really important skill, and if you learn how to sew, you're mostly on your way to carpentry and welding and sheet metal work. I'm not kidding: these are planar forms meeting under rules and conditions. And if you can make a sleeve work, I swear to God, you could build a house."

--Adam Savage

[wordfather]

not my circus not my monkeys but thanks to my mutuals i know some of the lore

[discountalien-pancake]

Somewhere in me there is a rant about how “zero-waste” clothing that uses every inch of a rectangle of fabric in a garment isn’t necessarily less wasteful than a similar garment that uses shaped pattern pieces.

Inhale. Alright, bear with me.

I can make a pirate shirt out of rectangles and use up every inch of a piece of fabric if i lay the pieces out correctly. Is this actually less wasteful than if the shirt has a shaped armscye and neckline? So long as the pieces still fit onto the same original cut of fabric?

Or more relevantly, I recently saw someone brand their skirts as an adjustable, historically inspired, zero-waste design. It was literally an 18th century petticoat. Two rectangles of pleated fabric with waist ties for the front and back panels. Aside from the questionable ethics of claiming they designed this skirt, is it actually less wasteful?

People who sew know that generally speaking, a circle skirt is considered very “wasteful,” because cutting it in just one or two pieces requires an awkward amount of fabric, and the inner circle of the waistline is generally too small to use for anything (but it’s big enough for part of a pocket!). But if you divide the circle into pie slices, you can rotate each slice so that you can “top and tail” them across your fabric. And in doing so you can potentially achieve a wider skirt hem, even if you have to trim the hem into a curve. But according to “zero waste” methods of patterning, the gored skirt is wasteful while the pleated rectangle skirt isn’t. That makes no sense to me.

What is wasteful, in my opinion, is making more than you will realistically use, or things that won’t last, or things you’ll only wear once and then shove into a closet never to be seen again.

[discountalien-pancake]

The point is that this definition doesn’t actually fulfill the goal of being less wasteful, IMO. If a rectangle petticoat uses 3 yards of fabric and a gored circle skirt of the same circumferences uses the same but I can also fit my bodice pieces into the off-cuts but I have some bits of oddly shaped cabbage left over, can that truly be considered more wasteful than the rectangle skirt? The same total yardage has been used for both projects, but I got more pieces out of the second method even if there’s also more scrap.

If we only consider “waste” to be the literal trash from a project, then sure “zero-waste” cutting is less wasteful, but that isn’t a functional definition to me, especially when working exclusively in natural fiber materials that will naturally decompose. The goal is to minimize impact on the environment. For materials like cotton or linen or silk, the impact has already occurred in the manufacture of the fabric itself (growing, dyeing, weaving, finishing etc). The scraps from my sewing could be thrown in a compost heap and not have any additional impact. So for natural fiber materials, the only thing I consider true waste is using more fabric than is necessary for any given project. Laying pieces hapharzadly in a way that renders more of the yardage unusable is wasteful. Having a few off-cuts that would have been taken up into a comparable rectangle-cut garment is not.

For polyester and other synthetics that would damage the environment as it degrades, I have different standards, because in that case minimizing scrap is more vital. But if we’re already talking about zero-waste then I feel it’s a given that we understand poly and other synthetics should be avoided where possible.

Also, on an individual scale versus an industrial one, trying to reduce waste means different things to me. Individually as hobbyists, I feel that the amount of trash we generate is less relevant to the goal of reducing environmental impact than the amount of yardage we consume and the longevity of the pieces we make. Using a hundred yards of fabric in a garment I will wear once and only once is wasteful to me, even if I don’t generate a single scrap of cabbage.

On an industrial scale, the amount of trash generated by a garment factory is almost incomprehensible, and zero-waste as a goal is infeasible because consumers largely don’t want the types of garments that zero-waste pattern-cutting generates. But once again, I find the greater waste to be the fact that these brands are generating literal tons of shitty clothes that will be worn for a season and then tossed, if they ever even make it into the hands of a consumer. Clothing that is designed to be cheap and shitty is wasteful, no matter how efficiently it is cut out.