#and don't mind sewing

[tea-and-antlers]

I love when people tell me I make clothing wrong. I love when they tell me “you have to knit sweaters from a yoke” and “you have to sew a back rip stitch for a garment zipper” because I don’t! I don’t!!! I can make clothing however I like! I knit sweaters from the bottom up in panels on straight needles! I sew my zippers on by hand with embroidery thread! And guess what?! The sweaters look like sweaters! The zippers work like zippers! The SNOZBERRIES taste like S N O Z B E R R I E S!!

#this has been a rant #coming at you from people on line getting mad that I make sweaters in 4 parts #and don't mind sewing #witchraft #witchblr #green witch #knitting #knit #knitted sweater #handcrafted #handmade #yarn #magic #kitchen witch #cottage vibes #cottagecore #gremlincore #goblincore

[crabsnpersimmons]

Who has the other pair of his shoes. I don’t believe you can buy a red and black pair

good question! i hadn't thought about it until you asked so here's the answer i came up with:

he got them at a discount at the thrift store

the cashier just saw his excitement and couldn't bear to charge him the full price

they aren't even the same style of slides, this silly guy just marches to the beat of his own drum

#ask the crab #Clip New Do Same You AU #New Do Same You AU #sorry for the delay! #Clip also has a pair of crocs that he customizes with charms #those are his “fancy shoes” #he also got them at the thrift store #they are also mismatched #Sun has tried to get Clip to wear proper shoes at work #but Clip doesn't like clothing that is too constrictive #Clip doesn't like being constrained #thankfully their customers don't seem to mind Clip's eccentric... everything #this is also why Clip learned to knit and sew so he can make his own clothes that are comfy on him #and also clothes for Sun and Moon #cuz ah Moon is a big boi #before Clip making all his clothes there were only a few things that actually fit him #for the people who take the time to read my really long rambly tags #feel free to ask about Moon's onesie 👀 #crab art #traditional art

[aroworlds]

Pride Month Patch Tutorial: Pronoun Text

This year I’ve created five cross-stitch patterns designed for use with a variety of LGBTQIA+ pride flags, including the trans, genderqueer, non-binary, agender and demigender flags.

Each pronoun pattern is available in three scale variants: he/him, she/her, they/them, it/its and ze/hir. With the use of my cross-stitch alphabets, however, they can be adapted and modified for any pronoun set expressible in the Roman alphabet possessing a three, four, five, six, seven, ten or twelve-striped flag.

This tutorial includes sixteen cross-stitch text charts/patterns plus a guide to adapting said patterns for other pronoun sets.

I have more free queer cross-stitch tutorials and patterns available, including "pride" text patches, flag stripe hearts and "queer" text patches designed for a-spec pride flags. Other LGBTQIA+ text patterns are available at my pattern gallery, for folks who want to go all out in declaring our existence.

#pride month #pride crafts #cross stitch #sewing #embroidery #patches and pins #aro patches #links #aro worlds wordpress #patterns #transgender #trans #non binary #agender #long post #image description in alt text #not aromantic #queer #i hope folks don't mind the lack of new aro patterns #but trans visibility is becoming increasingly important to me #and as someone whose pronouns are rarely respected #i wanted to do something to help other trans folks in this way

[gracebriarwoodwrites]

I'll unspool the threads of my heart to stitch up your hems. They keep dragging through the mud and snagging on sticks and stones and getting torn. The repair never lasts. I don't mind, give it here. I have plenty of heart, I have plenty of thread, I won't even ask you to mind your hems. I'll do it again.

Never mind that the scarlet doesn't match. Never mind what happens when I run out of thread.

#poem #poetry #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #sewing #just reflecting on old habits don't mind me

[nochromity]

oh hecc askbox closed I did not account for this what do uh uh uh- oh right I have a blog

@dooblebugs​ I made a,, another,,, a Himb

back at it again at krispy kreme

he a lil chonky but that’s okay. mer-quorl my beloved

bonus: all aboard the Quirrel Tram! (real)

also my friend sent me glow-in-the-dark clay for my birthday so he glows :>

okay I think that’s enough images now;;   👉👈

#hollow knight #hk quirrel #my art #need better pics of him glowing #too bad the effect doesn't last long after I shine the black light on him #don't mind my messy desk or hollow sitting nakey in the background #still intending to sew them a cloak #but anyway #bean man :)

[unexpectedstormy]

It's time to fantasize about having my own Skyloft-themed store of sewn things to sell. I'm thinking of naming it Skychild Sewing since I want it to have the word 'sky' in it and I tend to sew stuff for babies or kids because they're quick and don't use much fabric. Some items I could sell:

Buntings made of white fabric strips braided into a rope with brightly colored triangular flags

Flags or banners with birds on them

Bird or flower-themed mobiles

Baby/toddler clothes and bibs, especially capes and cloaks

Braided rag rugs

Quilts, especially ones with geometric patterns

Baskets and pots with geometric or bright color patterns on them

Children's dress up clothes like crown, fairy wings, animal mask, fairy wand

Children's toys like the memory game, fish purse, juggling chickens, maybe I could attempt to make a doll or stuffed animal

Quilted pillowcases

Watercolor paintings done of Skyloft-adjacent scenery

#don't mind me #I'm just daydreaming cuz I cannot focus on anything else #don't know if I'll actually do this #maybe I'll make an etsy store #I'd rather sew than have a 9-5 job any day of the week #and I do need to get a job this summer

[irishais]

Made an absolutely extra Ursula in like twelve hours for Baltimore Comic Con and am inordinately pleased with it.

(We also did a photo op with Jodi Benson, the original VA for Ariel, so now I can die happy lmao)

#sewing tag. #cosplay #the little mermaid #ursula #i lost my white wig somewhere but tbh I don't wear wigs very often anymore bc sensory issues #also don't mind my angry face in the second pic bc I was staring into the fucking sun

[clownery-blog]

First concept for a hpii clown suit I had in my head, I thought of this while juggling listening to the album

I might revamp this later and do some real drawings, this is just a doodle to get it out of my head

#clowns #clown #aspiring clown #clownblr #clown posting #hawaii part ii #pierrot #heavily inspired by pierrot clowns #i just felt it was the most fitting for the album #keep in mind im not an actual designer #i don't plan on making this into a real suit or sewing it or anything #miracle musical #hpii #hawaii part ii art #hawaii part ii oc #I HAD TO GIVE IT THE HAWAII PART II OC HAT I JUST HAD TO IM SORRY

[tigrensis]

Major Project: Stanpipe

I started creating my next LARP character, Stanpipe, in late 2021. He has had plenty of time to develop and be refined as my current character seems to be immune to death (I've been playing them for almost six years at this point). Stanpipe began as a thought, ‘I want to play a healer’, and has slowly been refined into the horrible little mushroom man he is today.

The costume, like the character, has gone through multiple iterations. I started by making a generic blanket cape, I hadn’t decided on the decay theme yet and instead, I was working on something simple to keep me warm at night. I embroidered dark blue blanket stitches around the edge and some beads on the edge worn around the neck. I also added some lavender embroidery to the front. I wanted to look non-threatening, I'm not a big fan of combat so I went with a softer look initially.

After a while I started to develop the idea of a mushroom-themed character, at events, I saw a lot of people making characters with mushroom aesthetics. These people were often going down the route of cute fey characters with fly agaric themed clothing. I like these costumes but they don’t appeal to me as something I'd wear. I’m not interested in representations of mushrooms that remove them from their context of decay and rot. I’m much more interested in a darker interpretation of a mushroom character. I have also completely flipped on the idea of looking non-threatening, I want to look scary, I want people to be nervous when I come to heal them, and I want to have fun whilst I'm doing it.

I settled on a core concept of a character who had once been a fey but had taken a nap in a forest one day. A few thousand years later he woke up, to find that he had been partially consumed by mushrooms, he had decayed whilst staying alive. There's a lot more I want to say about decay and how it relates to my identity and experiences. I would much rather give those thoughts a separate place to breathe.

The question of whether Stanpipe is the mushrooms, the original fey, or a mixture of both will never be answered. I want to leave this ambiguous for multiple reasons. The main reason is that there's no sense in having an overly written backstory as it does not impact what happens in the game, it can also be difficult to keep track of. Instead, I have a few key facts for my characters that I use to inform their actions and reactions.

My key facts for Stanpipe are:

He was a fey farmer in ancient history

He took a nap one day

He woke up like this

He knows nothing about anything

To match my costume to my character I ended up altering a straw boater and my already made blanket cloak. I used dried lichens that I had gathered after a storm to alter the hat and make it look taken over by nature. I'm still very happy with the hat and I’m looking forward to wearing it in character.

My blanket cloak I am less happy with my, I started by painting lichens onto the blanket using a mix of acrylic paints. I experimented a lot with texture and colour to varying degrees of success. Some of the lichens are too bright and I need to darken them in the future.

I also used real lichens on the shoulders with mushrooms sculpted out of clay. It looks nice in pictures but I quickly found that the lichens, which were living in this case, were difficult to maintain and would be extremely fragile when worn. This fragility would be made even worse by the fact that the LARP I attend is a boffer system meaning that I’d need to be able to move quickly and take hits. For now, I’ve decided to take off the lichens and mushrooms and will re-use them on other, more stable, projects.

To complete this costume there are still a few things left to do, I need to make shirts and trousers. The trousers are almost complete, they just need a waistband (I think I’ll turn the trousers into a separate post because I like them so much). Normally I would use one of the shirts I already own but because Stanpipe is decay-themed I want to be able to break down the shirts and make them look old and rotted. I wouldn’t want to do that to something that wasn’t built for it. It also means that I can make them look however I want, it can be hard sometimes to find a LARP kit that fits me well so I don’t want to buy something that does and then restrict it to being used by just one character.

I’m also starting on making some vests for the character to wear which I am going to go for it with the breakdown. One will be made of scuba suede which is a thick stretchy synthetic fabric with a pile. The other will be knitted from alpaca wool and will have tufts of felting wool knitted into it as I go, the goal is to create a mossy appearance. I’m going to be experimenting with growing plant life on them to see what sort of damage the root system does. I'm expecting some sort of staining at the least however I am currently sceptical about whether any damage will occur to the scuba suede because of how thick it is.

Here are some work-in-progress images from the trousers and the vests.

#First proper post hope you don't mind me rambling about my character for a bit. very excited to eventually finish this one but i'm not #going to rush it #costume design #larp #larp character #larp oc #larp stuff #knitting #sewing #fibre arts #lichens #mushrooms #embroidery #costume #Larp costume #trans artist #queer artist #lgbtq artist

[illumiera]

sewed again for the first time since last summer and it felt like taking a little breath of fresh air

#lollygagging with lumi #rambling beyond this point -> #i stopped when nana got sick and it's been hard to make myself do anything (let alone sew) since then #but she needed a pair of pyjama pants hemming and we're the same height so it was an easy enough job #she's the one who passed her machine down to me so i know i'll keep it for a long long time (it's already about 20 years old!) #on tuesday it was exactly six months since the diagnosis #wild. especially since all the statistics said there was such a slim chance of her still being here six months post-diagnosis #don't mind me—it's just good to blep things out in silly little tags now and then so i don't vent at people!!

[sewstarry]

hi there, we're the cicada crew!! we're a plural system, our catchall name/pronouns are cicada, they/them. we're disabled (physically + mentally ill) and very queer. this is a toy sideblog, we interact from @shadybug

we make and modify plushies, and we also collect and modify robot toys. our favorite things include bugs, nudibranchs, pokemon, neopets, and starry aesthetics. toys are a source of comfort, a creative outlet, and also a practical tool for us (we teach!)

our two dearest toy friends are Lance (orange cat plushie) and SWITCH (orange-and-white meow-chi), who are coincidentally both orange cats. Lance is our childhood plush, and SWITCH was a favorite bot we had as a kid and found again secondhand!

enjoy your stay!! potential tws and disclaimers under the cut:

there may be progress photos of disassembled plushies/bots here!! you will also find bugs, parasites, snakes, and other commonly feared animals - we love biology, and that includes *every* animal. there's a possibility we may make (and post) body horror/cartoon gore plushies in the future. all sensitive posts will be properly tagged!

we are 26 (as are most system members), but have some child alters who post here. sfw age regressors and younger system members are welcome, please do not interact from nsfw/kink blogs.

otherwise, we don't really have a DNI. i don't want to go into detail on our serious opinions here as this is a lighthearted space, but our views are generally far-left, inclusionist, and anti-colonialism if you're wondering

thank you!!

#plushblr #botblr #toycore #kidcore #sewing #hope y'all don't mind the tags!! new blog so i wanna get this out there #plush: lance the cat #bot: switch #meowchi #might also eventually add some tags for which alter is posting but for now we'd like to keep that private

[lordgrimwing]

Friends and Family #03

“This is nice,” Maglor said, stretched out on a beach towel, as his dripping brother settled next to him, wet from running in the gentle waves with his adopted sons. He closed the novel he'd picked up at a second-hand store the day before.

Maedhros grunted, his mouth occupied by several bobby pins as he fixed his hair, recoiling the soaking braid atop his head. The whole point of pinning his hair up so tightly was to keep it out of the salt water, but he hadn’t expected Elros and Elrond to grab his hands and drag him down into a particularly large wave. 

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen them this happy,” Maglor continued, nodding to the boys splashing and paddling in the waves, their nearly shoulder-length hair hanging in loose, soaked clumps.

“They love it,” Maedhros said with a soft smile. He’d come up from that wave spitting sand and might have been irritated except he ended up with two armfuls of very excited peredhil. By the time he left the surf, he’d become much better at diving through waves. 

They sat in silence for a minute, taking in the scene: seagulls cried overhead, keeping a sharp eye out for abandoned snacks; the twins played along the shore, a younger elf child coming over to join them; other families staked out their claim across the sand, leaving towels and umbrellas to mark their favored spots. The beach was both busy and soothing.

“We should do this more.” Maedhros decided, rinsing his mouth out with water from a bottle and then taking several drinks.

Maglor raised his eyebrows. Fëanor nearly had a fit when they announced that they’d be taking a few days off work during the week so they could do something with the boys during their school holiday. “Who’s going to tell father?” 

His brother rolled his eyes in a way that would have had Fëanor pinching his ear if he were an elfling again. “He can take his doctor's advice and take up birdwatching,” He said dismissively.

As the eldest sons, they were privy to more details of their father's health than he appreciated.

Maglor snorted at the suggestion. 

More seriously, Maedhros said, “Maybe just an occasional weekend, then.”

They watched the boys and their new friend join a group of older dwarves building an impressive sandcastle. Maglor smiled. “We really should.”

The sun arched across the clear blue sky. Maglor called Elros and Elrond back for lunch. They ate cold tuna salad sandwiches from the cooler on a blanket Maedhros spread on the sand so they could all sit together. Elros showed the adults the blue shell Elrond found in the tide, proudly telling them about the cool shells they found over the years on the coast further south. The younger twin hesitantly asked if he could make necklaces for them all from pieces of the shell when they went back to the city. 

After lunch, the twins wanted to go back into the ocean.

“Not right after eating,” Maglor shook his head. “Wait thirty minutes.”

Elros looked like he might want to argue, but his brother grabbed his hand and demanded that he bury him under the sand so he could pretend to be a baby sea turtle.

Maedhros took off his shirt, arching his back and enjoying the warm sun on it. Their father really might have an aneurysm if he found out exactly how publicly immodest his sons got when he wasn’t there to frown at them for rolling up their pant legs. He repacked the cooler and sprawled out on the towel, stretching his long arms and legs and bumping into the other occupant. He grinned at his brother. “Join us this time,” He invited. 

Maglor picked up his book and fingered the pages. “I'll get sand in my hair,” He said. He's done his hair up in a dark half bun, leaving a loose tail down his back.

“I'll braid it for you.” He said. “The rest of us need to wash tonight already.”

“Promise not to push me under?” 

“I would never,” Maedhros laughed, recalling when, decades ago, they were teaching their younger brothers how to sail on a windy lake. Caranthir insisted that the flimsy life jackets couldn't possibly keep them safe in the waves, refusing to set foot on the light boat. When it became clear that he wouldn't trust the words of his brothers, Maedhros shoved Maglor off the edge, leaving him to flounder in the water until their three younger brothers boarded.

Maglor shuffled around so he faced away from Maedhros. “Go ahead and braid.”

The tall redhead sat up. He quickly undid the bun and set about dividing the other’s hair into four parts at the crown of his head.

They sat quietly while he worked, Maglor watching the other families.

A human woman with frizzled brown hair caught a child who looked about seven years old by the elbow. She wore a striped green and gray swimsuit with a white over-shirt and large sunglasses.  

“Oh no you don’t, Elianor,” She admonished, pulling the girl back to the family’s towels and bins of beach toys. “You’re going to be red as a beat and peeling in the car tomorrow if you don’t put more sunscreen on.” 

“Mom,” The girl complained as white ointment was slathered across her bare back and under the edges of her swimsuit. 

“Do your face and ears,” The woman directed, squeezing more of the sunscreen out of a yellow bottle for her daughter before bending down to coat her legs.

Once everything was worked in and the white layer was exchanged for a slightly oily sheen, the child was released into the water. Once all the children were appropriately protected and freed, the woman popped open a beach chair and settled under an umbrella. 

She looked over at Maglor as Maedhros began pinning the braid up like his own. “Some children never learn,” She said by way of explanation.

He said something in noncommittal agreement, a nagging thought starting to form in the back of his mind.

Her eyes flicked around their towels, blanket, and cooler. “Just the two of you then?” She asked. 

“No,” Maglor said quickly. “The twins in red burying each other in the sand are ours.”

She looked out to where he pointed. “Cute,” She said in the way he was discovering many parents did when talking about other people’s kids. She leaned back in her chair and probably closed her eyes, though he couldn’t tell past the glasses.

Maedhros patted his head like he did when they were kids. “There you go, ready for the water.”

Maglor scooted around to face him again. “Don’t get my hair wet.”

Hands raised in surrender were his only response.

He looked down at his wristwatch. Twenty minutes still to go. That nagging feeling kept eating at him. He picked up the book again, opening to where he left off. He tried to read, but he couldn’t get back into the story.

All at once, he dropped the book and turned to Maedhros.

“We didn’t put sunscreen on them!”

“What?” The other asked, blinking as he came back from wherever the warmth sent him drifting off to.

“Elros and Elrond,” He said, looking over to where the boys were just a couple heads sticking out of the sand, several other kids having joined in on burying them. “They’re part human. They could get sunburns!” 

He couldn’t believe he’d forgotten about it. He hadn’t packed sunscreen, he didn’t even think Maedhros or he had any at their homes. Such a simple, everyday thing for humans, and they’d completely forgotten about it. He dreaded to think about how painful the children’s skin would be tomorrow.

Maedhros frowned. “They’re part elf, too,” He reasoned. “Why should they get burned?”

“They might,” Maglor repeated with worry. “I should go buy some. Or maybe we should all leave so it doesn’t get any worse.”

Maedhros sighed. “It’ll be a thirty-minute drive each way. The damage is already done if it’s going to happen, so let’s not ruin the rest of the day. Besides,” He added. “They’ve clearly spent a lot of time in the water. I think they’d know if they need to worry about it.”

Personally, Maglor never thought it was too late to start mitigating damage, but his brother had made up his mind. He’d just have to deal with whatever came of it.

#let them be happy! #let M+M experience a real childhood through E+E #stumbling their way through parenthood #whatever happens later. they love each other now #when your kids are peredhil and you don't know when they'll be like humans vs elves #it's happy time but i sure am sewing the seeds for later things in this one #Maglor is the parent who worries #change my mind #the silmarillion #maglor #maedhros #elrond #elros #twdd au #grimwing writes

[shrineofdolls]

um *whines about working on comic* 🥺 why is this so hard all i wanna do is sew or play with yarn instead

#melloof #lol im ridiculous don't mind me #but real talk sewing and crochet bug is serious rn and drawing is like making me sad #although... the comic looks great so yet again idk My Problem

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

If you could turn back time, would you wanna play TWDG series for the first time again? Your blog and posts would still exist but your memory would have no prior knowledge of the game

Hell yeah, I would. This blog has 5+ years of twdg content on it and if my memory of just that was erased, it would be a lot of fun to replay the games now, then read the stuff that past CJ thought and wrote. I'm a different person than I was five years ago because that's how time works, funny enough, so I wonder how differently I would think, y'know?

Plus, on top of cringing at my very old posts, me and past CJ would disagree on some things. I mean, I have changed my mind on quite a bit but you get me.

and I dunno, I haven't posted a lot on this blog lately but outside of it and in all my fandoms, I'm very much in my "oh no I've lost most of my fucks" era where I like what I like, I dislike what I dislike, who gives a shit? So I feel like if I were to get into twdg for the first time now, I would be a lot more open with my opinions and interpretations of the series and a lot less worried about conflict in the fandom.

I would also get to experience Lee dying for the first time again, and I would get to experience tfs all over again, THAT I would especially love.

#asks #i've been quiet but i'm planning #i got the notification that my copy of clementine book two shipped which means its almost time for me to read and write an in depth review #i've also got a couple of posts in the drafts #including a character analysis for a certain someone #don't know when that'll be out since i have other things i'm working on like my da2 multichapter fic #and i'm sewing together a personal cook book for myself #and i've been trying to branch out and play some other games and that's been.... a whole thing :/ #aaaaaand i have my full time job on top of it all.... busy busy ugh #but it'll be posted eventually along with anything else that happens across my mind

[vermillioncrown]

how do you think flying on a sword compairs to skateboarding/snowboarding? if an expert snowboarder ended up reincarnated do you think they could be a flying prodigy?

oh my god this ask has me doing the equivalent of that stick figure biting into a thing and tearing it apart (in a good way)

yes and no. i think they'd have a leg up and have a higher chance at being a flying prodigy if and only if qi powered flight has aerodynamics involved, and isn't just the equivalent of using your mind to hover through the air.

think of a paper airplane. you can 1) throw the plane and have it glide, or 2) personally hold the plane and move it through the air. both have the paper plane 'moved' but the forces and energy involved are very different.

(1 is more energy-efficient btw, and energy in the physics sense of work)

so let's say 1) is how sword flight works. okay, let's compare it to riding a skateboard or snowboard.

the key difference is that you don't have the ground. that sounds stupid but it matters.

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before sword flight, let's think of an aircraft. and before motion, let's think of being still.

without doing work, you can stay in place with a skateboard. why? because you have the ground. the balance of forces is stable without motion. you weight a certain amount and press on the ground, and the ground can push back through the wheels. it's called normal force and we don't have time to go through intro to hs physics. it's why you don't fall through the ground.

snow is a bit different but it still works out. ground is dense enough that you don't compress it like snow, it's solid. snow isn't... purely solid--the individual snow flakes are solid crystalline structures, but it's a collection of these tiny little solids that can move if you press them together. we can call the collection of snow, not an individual snow unit, a fluid rather than a solid. fluids do not hold their shape if you use an outside force on them. from basic chem, we have gas, liquid, solid states, so fluids encompass gas and liquids (with so many caveats but again y'all aren't signing up for intro to viscous fluids)

but let's treat snow like a very dense fluid. the entire snowboard is distributed over the snow rather than the tiny wheels of a skateboard. you can already intuitively imagine that if you put a skateboard on snow, it'd sink until the flat part. the density of matter is what affects how it can 'push back' at things. ground is super dense compared to snow, so little wheels can stand on it vs snow needing a huge distribution to push back the same weight (snow shoes).

air is much less dense than snow. with a density of 1.225 kg/m^3, let's say you weigh 50 kg (~110 freedom units). using basic ass Pressure_liquid=density*acceleration_gravity*height and Pressure_you=mass*acceleration_gravity/Area -> we want P_liquid = P_you -> solve for Area... to stay still at a height of 10 meters, you'd need a 'board' of 4.082 m^2. or about 44 sq ft. but! that board will also have a weight, so you need something bigger, and bigger,

there's nothing out there that can support you, and be lightweight enough to not outpace the pressure that air can exert back to keep you in place. so how do you stay in the air?

two ways. either hover like a helicopter, continuously moving upwards to counteract gravity... or you continuously move forward like an airplane.

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motion time! probably heard of lift force? what you're doing is, as you move through the air, you're displacing the air molecules. think of how it feels to wade through water. the faster you go, the more water pushes back.

now up the magnitude for air since it's less dense. you need to move very fast to displace enough air such that the amount of air pushing back can actually keep you up. but! you also need to deal with that resistance against your motion, too, aka drag.

but in this case, to even keep in constant motion or zero motion, work must be expended to push you up or keep you moving forward, or you eventually slow down and fall like a paper plane

skateboard relies on normal force and friction for its movement. i count staying still as movement, too; it's just movement = 0. you push on the ground with your feet, the ground resists your sideways push, and the wheels can turn, so you move forward.

snowboard relies on something like buoyancy and gravity for its movement. the pressure of the snowboard on an area of snow keeps you up, and you slide downwards because gravity pulls you. friction is still at play but not like skateboarding; the snow is 'slippery' compared to the ground, so you can glide forward

aircraft rely on external forces for any constant motion, even motion = 0. air isn't dense enough to support things in the same way as the ground or snow.

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let's get to why it matters for sword flight.

for changing directions horizontally, all three would be similar. you lean (banking) towards the direction you want to turn, relying on the force keeping you level to push you towards the turn.

for climbing or rolling up, similar--you need to push the ground, expend effort to go up a hill on snow, or provide more thrust to exceed gravity's pull to climb in altitude.

diving, rolling downhill are similar. gravity does the work.

the mechanism for slowing down or staying still, however, very different. for sword flight, it's not that you can't; it's that you cannot rely on the same intuition as for terrestrial boarding. you probably need to consciously trade between the qi-pushing you forward to needing to push you upwards, and it's always a balance. you basically need to treat your qi like a reaction control system for spacecraft, which gets into optimal control theory and of course it's not that the human can't intuitively do it. but it is DIFFERENT than skateboarding or snowboarding. you're not moving your weight around to change motion; there's this nebulous qi thing that needs to be controlled alongside the positioning of your weight to do what you want it to do.

so i think the pro-skater (pro-boarder) will have an advantage, but it's not directly equivalent.

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now, if qi-powered flight was the equivalent of holding a toy plane making airplane noises to move the thing through the air, moot point. entirely not the same thing at all, they don't have an advantage in qi control. but they do have the advantage of balancing on a thing in motion.

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happy winter holidays, sorry not sorry to ambush y'all with physics

#inquiry #Anonymous #on dbd #science shit #look i almost drew diagrams but like i have shit to do #there are a lot of caveats to what i said too but we're going through so much #kinematics+friction+work-energy+pressure+hydrodynamics+fluid mechanics+aerodynamics+control theory #never mind i didn't get into aerothermodynamics for the temperature/density/pressure fluctuations #never mind viscous theory + more complex drag forces #and if they manage to go supersonic that's a WHOLE new can of worms #we don't even know if qi is a field #back to sewing #french seams are a special kind of hell when you need to tailor #and i'm adding gussets so extra extra hellish

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Fred is finished! 🥹

#i'm gonna go eat now #i just hope that the sewing holds up #because i have no idea how to tie stuff off after you've attached everything together 🥲 #anyhoo don't mind me 😅