“Edge of Great” verison of one of Leyendecker’s illustrations (included under the cut). I’ve been meaning to try a redraw of one of his pieces for ages and couldn’t resist when I saw this one

and happy Juke Jeudi!🦋👻

them 🦋🦋

Jesper: Ive had 9 cups of coffee today and now I can see through time and I might be inside out. I have no blood left. Just vibration. Im going to alphabetise the alphabet (it’s all wrong I’ll explain later) then going to fight the moon.

Wylan: I think you need to be sedated

underrated Wylan line in the show:

Jesper: always been a fan of shopping

Wylan: oh, for explosives?

like my main complaint has always been that Wylan was not nearly bitchy enough, but that line is 👌 wylan is trying so hard to avoid Jesper so when his plan backfires he immediately gets snarky and i love it. its so him. i wish we'd had more lines like that in the show.

crow profiles

Stained Glass Can of Sardines : Renske van Barschot

do you like when i wear your clothes? yeah.

Why do we segregate sports by sex?

Disclaimer: this video was intended as a fun look at the inconsistent logic of gender segregation in sports, but as a short-form video, it naturally does not go into much nuance. One thing I want to make clear is that I do believe we should be making sports more inclusive to trans and intersex athletes, and it seems to me that a great starting point would be to stop gender segregating sports that really don’t need it. Like archery!

I am on my way to being the best auntie ever or the worst sister-in-law that ever lived. Possibly both.

I am making my 2-year-old niece a plushy for her birthday. She is very hands-on baby and wants to help with everything and be involved in the center of attention. A few weeks after her birthday everyone is going dipnetting. She is two and can not help with dip netting or do anything but watch.

So I am making her a toy salmon. And I am making it so she can filet it. It has guts. It has bones. It is all one piece and child friendly, and I am debating using embedded magnets or velcro to hold the filets on.

She has a kitchen set with a little wooden knife at her grandparents house, who have already heard about this and think its a great idea. We are gonna teach this kid to clean and process fish. She already knows where meat comes from and she will want to get in and do what everyone else is doing which she can not do because the fish are only slightly smaller than she is.

So, salmon plushy

BTW, I make plushies by winging it. Actually I make all my art by winging it. If you would like to comment on the fine art of making shit up as you go, feel free. If you wanna ask for a pattern, uhh,

Progress! On to bones! On to guts! Be the unhinged fairy godmother!

One sad looking headless inside out fishy 🐟

And the much happier right-side out headless fishy 😄

I have weird priorities for this fish. I want the gill plates to be shaped like a real fish so she can learn how to pick a fish up correctly and develop the fine motor skills to do so. But thats turning out to be a bitch and a half.

Also I have no googly eyes anywhere in the house and thus far I've been able to do this entire project with material on hand. I've used 4 old tee shirts and a pair of jeans, but I will need to buy velcro and eyeballs.

the head/jaw/gill plate got a lil wonky and honestly I'd like to take it apart and try again but I'm running out of time.

But we have eyeballs! We have guts! We have a gill pocket and oddly attached pectoral fins! I just need to get ahold of some white velcro for a spine and I'll have a completed plushy.

I'm actually quite proud of the velcro arrangement I've come up with, because to peel it apart with the toy knife she'll be mimicking the motion of actually fileting a fish.

He's done! He's adorable! He's filetable! I had to hide my phone from my niece because she wanted to see the pictures I was showing her grandma.

I think I may try and make another one that's less child friendly and more accurate, because I had a great time solving topology problems, but I did sacrifice alot of anatomical details in the name of practical toy construction. I like what it says as an art peice, the junstiposition of a medium associated with simplified design and the details biological reality. There's also a fun parallel that comes up when sewing and food processing (specifically fish processing) are both pretty heavily gendered labor, but when you put them together they almost cancel each other out conceptually.

Oh I love this! Such a great way to teach these important skills to a little one.

That’s so cool OP! When my first kid was little we used to have Li Ziqi videos on sometimes, and one day I found them making Fish Soup by whacking at a stuffed toy robin with a dinosaur-shaped comb, so that indicates how many young children would take an interest in this.

But yeah, one change I really like about Bridgerton the show is Pen didn't have to lose 27 pounds before Colin was like oh no, she's hoooot. She just showed up in the emerald dress and pretty wavy hair and Colin was thirsting.

Six of crows 🐦‍⬛

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Also I think this is my first official fanart I’ve ever made!

I felt like I needed to draw something after finally finishing Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom so I can feel like I’m satisfied and can move onto reading another book :)

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Had a family wedding to attend and wanted to look my dapper best. I purchased a couple of bolts of this brushed cotton herringbone with the intention of making a three piece suit out of it.

I already had the pants that I made a couple years ago (interestingly for another wedding) so I decided to level up and add welt pockets to a vest.

Did a test run on scrap, cut out my pattern, sewed in my darts, and added the first pocket. Isn't it beautiful?

Reader, she should have stopped there.

I added the pocket to the other side, placing it the same distance from the top of the dart, not the bottom of the vest.

Grievous error that I didn't notice until I put it on after buttons, buttonholes, and topstitching. The pockets don't line up.

Curses.

So I did what any sane and normal person who is most certainly not under a deadline or anything and obsessed about it for a day before making a whole new vest, this one with one waist pocket and one chest pocket.

Final look, complete with pocket watch and purchased jacket (because I'm still trying to fit a jacket pattern).