Wibbly-Wobbly Ramblings

Hello 👋 I am working very slowly on a thread painting of a Thrawn comic panel but haven't posted about it over here. I haven't done anything like this before so it is an experimental process. Anyway, here is a post about my adventures so far:

1) Sourcing materials

A spontaneous trip to the craft store with comic in hand for adequate colour matching

2) Drawing my outline from reference onto soluble adhesive fabric

I began by doing the lineart in outline stitch. At this point, I also started the line shading from the comic lineart but quickly realised embroidery isn't like drawing at all and the colour needs to go down first! So you'll note those chin shade lines got unpicked and only thick lineart remained while I do colour!

3) Eyeball time!!

Although I planned to do all the lineart first, I really wanted to see how the colour would look so I jumped in and did one of his eyes to give me a bit of dopamine. This is a combo of outline stitch and satin stitch.

4) Blue!!!!

This is where I am currently at! In further search of dopamine, I continued onto the skin around his eye. At this point, I realised I needed a fourth shade of blue but luckily had a nice navy already that worked quite well.

I am likely going to redo the black shade lines - I tried to replicate them from the comic but I'm not sure they work that well. Might just need to adjust their direction a bit more. I will actually return to doing the lineart now before my pencil marks fade away.

@jedihlaalu @nekobakaz !!!!!!!

Back in 2017 I signed up for one of the Cards Against Humanity sillies and did their Cards Against Humanity Saves America. Basically they were like fuck Tr*mp and his border wall and used the funds from the campaign to buy land and to make all 150,000 contributors part owners of said land across the US/Mexico border.

It was fun and silly and I got a little certificate.

Today I got an email that Elon Musk illegally annexed that land for SpaceX and that CAH are suing him over it. So possibly I’ll get like $100 if they manage to win a lawsuit and stick it to Musk. It’s like even more bang for my original buck.

Holy shit

Genuinely solid policy.

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Image description: A four page black and white comic of my tortoiseshell cat, Bunny, complaining that I won’t let her in from the screen porch.

Page 1 

Panel 1: A small tortoiseshell cat sits on the other side of a glass door, looking up sadly, saying, “Mama! Mama, help! I’m in the screen porch!” 

Panel 2: She scratches at the door. “Mama! Mama I’m trapped! I’m trapped in the screen porch! Mama!” she cries. 

Panel 3: She looks through the glass with her sad, innocent expression. “I see you, Mama! Can’t you hear me? Why won’t you let me in? What have I done, Mama!”

Panel 4: The left corner is dominated by a close up of her face, as she reminisces about the cat tree in the screen porch. We see her perched on the very top, looking out over the backyard.

She says, “Was I not grateful enough, Mama? You gave me a throne, here in the screen porch! A place where I could look down upon the world as a god!”

Page 2

Panel 1: While she’s perched atop her cat tree, it begins to rain outside. Bunny looks askance at it from behind the screen. 

“But I couldn’t touch it, Mama!” she narrates, now in boxes instead of word balloons, “I could see the rain lavish the earth, but never feel its cool caress!”

Panel 2: A paw rests on the screen. On the other side, two birds chirp, unbothered by the presence of Bunny.

 “I could smell the blood of the song birds, but never taste its warmth! I lived as Tantalus in this screen porch, Mama!”

Panel 3: Sitting on a cushioned chair, bunny looks out over the yard, barred from her by the porch screen. 

“Tormented by what I could never reach!” 

Page 3

Panel 1 : Another reminiscence, this time of Bunny running through the open door to the screen porch earlier that day while I was taking out the garbage. 

“And yet I returned, again and again and again! Was that my sin, Mama? Is this my punishment? To be condemned forever to a hell of my own choosing?” 

Panel 2: Returning to the present, Bunny looks up from the otherside of the door, her eyes wide.

“Is this what you call justice, Mama?” She says. “Is this what you call love?” 

Panel 3: From Bunny’s perspective we see me; I am ignoring her, going about my business. She calls out to me, “Answer me, Mama! Mama!”

Panel 4:I glance back at her, unmoved by her cries. “Mama!” she yells. 

Page 4

Panel 1: Pulling out we finally see more of the wall which has the door to the screen porch. Directly beside it is a cat door that goes through the wall, out into the screen porch. Another cat, Bunny’s sister Maggie, is coming through the cat flap with no issue.

 I say, “ Bunny, I know you know how to use the cat door.”

Clawing at the window, tears in her eyes, Bunny screams “MAMA!!”

End ID.

I feel like “is this what you call justice, Mama? is this what you call love?” is going to enter my “cats being dramatic” lexicon the same way “you KICK miette?” and “father is…evil?” have.

Some low quality Thrawn memes p.1

Handbinding Project: My Immortal by Tara Gilesbie

This really started over a year ago, with a project started in the Renegade Bindery server: people would format different chapters of My Immortal, without knowing what anyone else was doing, and we would put them together into one file. It was agreed upon that everybody would disregard both good design and good taste. 

(If you click on each image, the caption lists who designed the page in question. I couldn’t include them all here, but every page is basically a work of art. Horrible, typographically hellish art.)

After raiding a Joann’s of materials I thought belonged in Hot Topic circa 2005 (before it just became Think Geek II: We Don’t Light Our Store,) I almost immediately tested positive for covid. So I made most of this over the last four days, and with varying levels of coherent thought and common sense. The process is documented in a thread here

*applause*

TBH I’m not even scared of 1000 demons

What about 1001 demons

Jesus Christ. Just. Fuck, that’s too much. That’s too scary.

i love how with the new ball maps popular blogs can literally leave impact craters on posts

Paolo Sebastian | Persephone

I have a feeling this will become iconic in due time.  

I’ve watched this for like a dozen loops and I still crack up every time

[Singing] T-Birds: Well-a, well-a, well-a– Tell me more, tell me more, did'ya get very far? Pink Ladies: Tell me more, tell me more– Jules (in time, astonishingly): Does he look like a bitch?

I hope that this is the last remaining piece of media that aliens find after we destroy our planet.

Such a classic

when I tell you how loud I yelled

Your creation is malfunctioning again.

a Taika Waititi written/directed Ezra and Thrawn space adventure show is something I feel like we all DESERVE after 2020

No one ever make a tiktok again this one's perfect

Oh my god

@bigdipper24 and I were talking DnD size categories and then-

sw would have been so much shorter if one clone decided to murder palpatine in his office because. who are they gonna arrest. sadly the suspect looks like 1000+ other men and all of them forgot what they did last friday night

alternatively

clone #1, looking at the security cam footage: oh yeah that's totally me

clone #2: no way look at this handsome face. that's me

clone #3: you weren't even on coruscant during that time

clone #2: that's my cover

clone #4: shut it everybody i stabbed him

clone #1, furiously pointing at the footage: he wasn't stabbed you shithead, he got shot!

clone #4: yeah with my knife

One of the Clones eagerly suggests a DNA test to prove he’s guilty and the people investigating die inside. 

"Im spartacus" but they are actually all spartacus

riverdale is a masterpiece

underrated trope: “i’ve lost my memory and idk who you are but i just have this feeling that i’m supposed to trust you”

This - but the feeling is absolutely, completely, 100% wrong.

Person 1: “I don’t know what it is about you…I just know that I can trust you.”

Person 2, their actual, literal worst enemy: “Excuse me, what?”

Cue enemies to friends to lovers speedrun.

This but person 1 is faking to get out of a tight spot and then when enemy 2 confusedly goes with it things just escalate out of control