Sydnie Jimenez

i can't recommend skyjacks to people because 1.) it's so fucking long. like it's soooo fucking long and 2.) i haven't even listened past episode 50. HOWEVER. it's so sad that travis matagot isn't a world renown tumblr sexyman. it's what he deserves.

two immortals who own my heart and soul

[ID: two digital linearts of Travis and Gable from Skyjacks. The left picture shows Gable staring at the viewer with one hand on the handle on their sword on their back. The second picture shows Travis sitting on a couch with his legs crossed and a smirk and Gable leaning over the backrest. End ID]

TDF day -1: results

Here's all the yarns I made! From left to right (/bottom up):

1 - Finnsheep/Alpaca roving 100g/390m. I bought this last year at a tiny spinnery. It's a lovely natural colour - light brown/beige with reddish undertones

The fibre mix was something I never had before and I was a bit sceptical at first because Alpaca and I have never been friends but spinning this was lovely. I just love making woollen yarns. It's unbelievably soft and fluffy, but still has structure and a bit of a rustic feel to it. Hard to describe, I wish y'all could touch it.

2 - Polwarth combed top "summer solstice", fractal spin, 390m/100g

3 - Polwarth combed top "autumn equinox", 420m/100g. This yarn is my favourite 💚

4 - Polwarth combed top "spring equinox", 460m/100g

5 - Corriedale combed top, undyed, 390m/120g - this had surprisingly short staple length for a combed top and for Corriedale. I find that's often the case for naturally coloured wool. This was my least favourite to spin.

The Polwarth is all from @littlebirdinagarden's mystery boxes from last year. All in all I spun about 2030m, which is not bad but less than I know I can do in 3 weeks. I had to go away with my nephew during week 2; I took a drop spindle and I did spin every day, but my output with one of these is ridiculous. Hence, the somewhat mediocre result.

However, I did manage to reach my goals - spin the Polwarth and spin every day - so I'm still happy with the outcome! My first completed TDF. The secret is having fun things to work on.

I regret* to inform you that I took all this beautiful yarn and made something very silly

*lie

Now you might ask. When are you ever going to wear a biblically accurate tunic thing? To which I reply. Must clothing be wearable. Is it not enough for it to be fun to make and have eye motifs.

Pattern: Pavlin by Natalia Moreva

I once had a plan to read at least one classic novel from (almost) every country, I keep forgetting about it but I really should do it, I usually end up enjoying them

Anyone has any non-western recommendations?

This was getting a bit out of hand with people sending asks instead of commenting, so I compiled everything that was sent to me under the cut. The rest of the recommendations are in the comments as usual. Thank you all for the recs!

Ok, inspired by @toadlett, I started compiling these in a google doc

And I saw that there are many lists online of a similar kind, but as I'm mostly interested in classical literature rather than modern, and also as I'd like to prioritize the books that have been recommended to me rather than ones I find online, I'll continue to curate this list. Thank you again! ☺️

I am using Discworld to figure out how to use Procreate. Also...it was nice challenge to draw just dialogue scene in slapstick way. Ughhh...I would love to spend year or two drawing Feet of Clay graphic novel, I love that book so much x_x ...and I have no job just now...I should ask around...about how licences works or something.... .

Some of the paintings I’ve done of our adventures so far.

Prints available at Sur Ton Mur

concept: one of those fancy book box services but instead of sending you a full-size fancy hardcover they send you a 1:6 scale miniature version along with a code for the ebook so you still get the book as well as the ability to show off the fancy version of the book but without having to buy more bookshelves. every january they send you a new tiny bookshelf for your tiny books. maybe there's a year on it to display specifically the books you read that year. you can put your tiny books in a jar and pick them out randomly to decide what you're going to read next. also it's cheaper because the boxes aren't as heavy and they don't have to produce a full size hardcover with the edges printed by the like one company that does that.

do you see my vision

My husband and I were just bemoaning last night that there aren’t readily accessible tiny books any more.

Granted, it was in the specific context of “if you could have an animal to train up as a familiar as a sort of graduate-level project, leading it to gain increased intellectual abilities as you worked more on it, what would your choices be” and he was keenly and devotedly in favour of training up a frog to reading ability, largely because of the lovely picture of giving it a little bowl with damp moss and a small armchair for it to retreat to, and it could stretch out its legs and cross its ankles and read a book - you know - one of those novelty tiny books - with real text in them -

At which point, as if stricken by great loss, he sat up in bed and said AT WHAT POINT DID THOSE TINY BOOKS YOU COULD BUY IN THE 80s GO EXTINCT?

I’m a lot younger and American, but between the two of us, we think it was sometime in the mid-90s. There used to be these gimmick tiny books with the full text of the real book printed in them -

(Dr Glass said, anguished: “back when rubbish was REAL TAT! And tat was REAL RUBBISH!”)

- and they were a bit bigger than 1:6, because you could still read them. I remember them too. You used to see them in shopping malls.

Anyway; if you do pursue this idea, it would be very useful, if, on our end, we manage to create a working system of magic in which a sufficiently motivated person can impose sufficient sentience on a frog to teach it to read

Kind of like this?

The majestic man-taur

Half man... half another man

@horsefigureoftheday

*muttering to self* You can't idiot proof your book. You can't idiot proof your book. You can't idiot proof your book. You c

I love when artists know how to depict realistic breasts with real weight and sag to them. both as an artistic merit and because I’m gay