Zara's Den

[sillystigmata]

Ok well someone’s gotta post it.

[nvexe]

my pronouns are she/her bc I'll never be him (anthony head playing on his pink ds in full costume on the set of merlin)

[youdontknowhowtodiequietly]

RIP King

[captainaubreysbicorne]

hello jack aubrey enjoyers

[dumnslut]

[hollygl125]

Amanda Root + Ciarán Hinds in PERSUASION (1995), dir. Roger Michell

“I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never.”

– Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818).

@pscentral event 49: literature

[shutyourmoustache]

*whispers* holy shit. he’s done it again.

[shutyourmoustache]

*yells* THIS IS THAT TIME HE DID IT WITH POTTERY AND IT FUCKING RULED.

[rozieette]

as an apology for previous post heres magnus during kain's conquest and a wip of putting him throught the horrors

[station18908]

The small voice in your head that says: "I don't need to write down every small detail of this plot idea, I love it so much, I'll remember this."

That's the devil speaking.

[sillystigmata]

The twirl is lethal.

[fluffyrockyroad]

[Bookbind] Hornblower Short Tales of the Sea

Hornblower Short Tales of the Sea

A series of short stories by C.S. Forester:

The Hand of Destiny

Hornblower and the Widow McCool

Hornblower's Charitable Offering

Hornblower and His Majesty

The Last Encounter

Size: A6. 24,543 words. 127 pages. Printed on Munken 90gsm bookwove

Font: Dante 10 + Times New Roman 9.5 for Italics. Typeset by me.

I wanted to read the three Hornblower short stories that are no longer in print. So I made a book. As you would. The stories were arranged in chronological order. Widow McCool and The Last Encounter were threw in to bulk out the book.

The title came from the blurb on the back of the Hornblower books, which always starts with "A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea". I guess it makes these his "Short Tales of the Sea".

Forester allegedly discouraged the republishing of these three short stories. Having read them I understand why. To quote Sean Gilder (who played Styles in the TV series):

"Hornblower, by comparison, is just a series of well-described events"

Sean was comparing Hornblower to Joseph Conrad, which I have not read. But as a Hornblower fan who loves Hornblower for how diabolical he (and the writing) is, it did make me chuckle. The earlier short stories are the pinnacle of "a series of well-described events", that are out of place in the later canon. Though it is interested to see the parallel between The Hand of Destiny and Lieutenant Hornblower.

This is the second time I bound this text. The first attempt was an A5 copy set in Dante 13, which I wasn’t too happy with.

Big book, little book. The big book has too much hinge gap, the little book has just too little. One day I will get it right.

If anyone is looking for a fic rec, The Bare Word (Hornblower/Barry McCool, Explicit) is the perfect companion piece for Hornblower and the Widow McCool, also known as Hornblower's Temptation (this is canon I did not make this up).

[moderatly-fast-chickens-blog]

The new guy is going to dissolve himself with his face issues

[tiredmid30sman]

[okayyoureacab]

Hexagon Quilt

[rumade]

This is the second time I've seen a video of this technique and this explanation is so clear! It does use more fabric than English paper piecing (EPP) but you end up with a double sided hexagon so don't have to source fabric for the backing.

I'm doing EPP at the moment but I have a hole punch to make the papers and just use leaflets and junk mail, so it doesn't feel wasteful. I don't think it's difficult either- in the video she mentions it's not for beginners, but I don't have that much experience with hand sewing or EPP and I've been finding it pretty easy so YMMV

[lindstromm]

I saw this video yesterday and was seized with the need to try it out immediately. Lookit my cute lil' hexagon baby!!

Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.

[lannamichaels]

Hexagon quilt tutorial video by tiktok user camelscrafts. Method:

Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.

These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.

With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.

Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.

Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.

Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: Take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.

This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.

Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.

The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.

Attach hexagons to each other along the sides. With right sides together, whip stitch the sides together.

[icantspellthings]

[graygiantess]

"I hope your favorite character is played by an actor you hate!" Tired, unoriginal, etc.

"I hope your favorite character fucks your dad!" Devastating, weirdly specific, about to happen to Harry Bogosian in three weeks.

[icantspellthings]

The way they were doing this while Eric's wife and son were also in attendance.....it's not even june 7th yet and he's already experiencing the horrors

[xxhellonursexx]

[mydearzero]

Feeling all sorts of insane bc of this GQ photoshoot AAAAAAAA

[skyrimhusbandmaterial]

when you find someone who's equally unwell about The Character

[anineillustration]

A commission for Dave - thanks again Dave!

Email me if you'd like me to draw something for you - I'm saving up for a new laptop, so I'll leave my ko-fi here as well