Yet another recent comm I finished. This time featuring that funky elf from ffxiv.

Jail

Reading this article was pretty depressing btw, everyone’s going to therapy allegedly but the emotional cowardice of this as a concept lmfao

Posting a link for people to actually read the article because I find the framing of it very strange, and the way the author avoids confronting the gendered aspect of this trend highly suspect. Out of all the anecdotes provided, all but one are men ghosting their female partners. The sole example of a woman doing the ghosting is stated to have been escaping an emotionally abusive partner, as if this is in any way the same situation as a man ghosting his girlfriend because she "allowed her mind to be polluted" by feminism.

Maybe there is a trend here worth studying but I think this article does a very poor job of interrogating what that trend actually is. If this is a trend that crosses gender lines, why not show that with a more balanced array of anecdotes? And if the trend is so strongly gendered that is was impossible to balance the stories, why does that pattern go completely unexamined? What's the actual trend here? I don't know, because the article doesn't do a good job of demonstrating it.

Made a comic about the “Revolting Refreshments” side quest in Il Mheg. Urianger is truly living in the 8th Umbral Era.

Pigeon warp begins with maaaaaaaths. The hardest part is trying to plan the not-quite-random colour and texture blends that I want - the arithmetic will be fine, but weaving has so many choices which must be fixed in advance for things which I want to feel organic and spontaneous. Hence testing out warp arrangements (adding a bit of texture/shine with linens and mercerised cotton) by wrapping yarn around a ruler.

Winding the warp and the light is fading fast! Quick, make two order of magnitude errors that cancel each other out!

If I don't tell you how many issues I had while warping then it's like they never happened, right?

Anyway, we weave!

Sampling with the supervisor; first proper towel underway, one plain bar and one textured bar; like 5 minutes of weaving and then 40 minutes to unweave and re-weave the section when I realised I had forgotten a chunk of the pattern 3 times 👀

T-check pigeon in progress, the weft is all black but I still wanted some bars for interest so I made a little undulating section which I feel looks quite feathery, not pictured: lots more unweaving.

I didn't photograph the barless towel because there was nothing new to show, so now we reach the last towel, a very literal interpretation of the checker wing pattern! The change of pattern required cutting off the other towels and re-threading the loom (a pain), plus it's my first time using the double shuttle (amazing).

I want to make this project again and I will choose a different, more organic interpretation for the checker pigeon, but this method was straightforward and therefore I'm actually doing it, which makes it perfect even if I don't like it that much. And I still managed to give him some funky bars.

never forget that you are someone’s most legendary fumble

Writing Urianger: A Guide

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Introduction

So you want to write Urianger! Of course you do, he's a great character. But he speaks an archaic form of English that can be difficult to pick up and replicate. Urianger's form of English has its own rules and grammer, and without knowing those as a foundation, sometimes it can feel like you're just guessing. Do you use thee or thou? Should you add -eth onto the end of this word, or -est, or neither? How do you make him sound like himself? This is a guide designed to help you get a handle on all of that and more.

Not quite what he expected from that "next adventure"

1/4(?) for wolgraha week day 5: Adventure/Relaxation

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Illustrated design for wooden charm HERE

"WOAH hey buddy where did you come from? no no these are for a client....cmon hand it back over...."

Wint should have known better than to let their guard down while mining in spriggan territory. Hopefully this spriggan returns to you with a shiny rock that was meant for a client @galadae ♡

-- in the garden.