A bison hide 4 days into the brain tanning process. Despite my hands, back, and arms being so sore and having most of the helpers back out at the last minute, it's been good. Next I'm doing something much much smaller.
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I've not seen anything from you for a few weeks. Hope you're OK, wherever you are.
I'm alive. I submitted my research paper, and then got really into sorting out my lamby skins*, ready for making slippers. I'm dropping a pair of skins off at the leatherworker's on Wednesday to be made into a bag and two pairs of slippers. I needed to comb all the tiny little sticky thorns out of the slipper-lamby's coat, which has been hours of work with a fine-toothed comb. I'll be back in circulation in a few days.
*I'm being self-sufficient for shoes, and recycling skins from my local lamb farmer, and giving the lambies a second life in a family. Sorry if that triggers vegans. I felt called to shaman for Allister's lambies.
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I haven't really had any standout favourites amongst the DFF characters and I don't really ship any of the canon ships in the usual sense (i.e. no obsessive brainrot, although I'm enjoying them all from a narrative perspective). But the bombshell that was ep 9 has finally made me latch onto a character. This guy:
Although not I think for the most common reason that has caused Tan/New's surge in popularity i.e. being Non's avenger. Because man, New is so much more than that. This kid is a hot mess who's lost everything he holds dear, filled with guilt for failing Non and then his family, seeking answers, revenge, redemption and now has nothing left to lose. I'm so here for it. New's character and his arc is just fucking fascinating to me. Kudos to Mio for playing it so subtle until now and then knocking it out of the freaking park for ep 9.
This kid was the golden child of his family and favoured at least by his mother, and yet clearly felt the pressure of those expectations.
And then! And then! His and Non's whole deal makes my brain buzz. I love me some tragic siblings with a yawning emotional gulf in understanding between them; of a relationship lost or a closeness that never quite made it, of a relationship of two brothers endlessly set against each other and damaged by their parents. A relationship where he failed Non in a litany of little ways by not being there for him, and one always inevitably overshadowed by the comparisons their parents made between them both.
And when Non disappears, New is overcome with guilt! For failing him, and for not being able to be there for him, and so he resolves to find out what happened to him. And he fucking commits to it! This guy throws away his scholarship, his life in England, to fucking redo highschool and infiltrate the gang of kids who bullied his brother! For two years, he hung around with these people pretending to like them and lied to his parents, only to have nothing to show for it and to lose even more when his mother kills herself, his father disowns him and then does the same! This shit would break the strongest of people (and I'd argue something in New is broken now) but he still finds it in himself to kickstart the plan that will bring hell down on these kids.
This kid has lost everything, and is clearly at a place of desperation and despair. But he's still not giving up. Even in the face of ruination and perhaps his own destruction, I feel like New will keep going on regardless if it means finding out what happened to Non. He'll do whatever it takes, burn the world, immolate himself, if it means making that happen.
I think ultimately, I love that New's a tragic, complex character who's been ruined by life and by his own doing, and through ruination, has come out of it unhinged, perhaps even something worse. Someone haunted by the ghosts of his lost family, by his failures and his guilt. Someone with so much potential for further tragedy, who'll likely destroy themselves relentlessly chasing his end goal and end in misery.
TLDR; I love me a haunted, broken, unhinged, fucked up li'l guy.
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tangerine's real name being thomas and when him and lemon were younger and they were watching thomas the tank engine, lemon would point at the tv when thomas would appear and say to tangerine "hey! that's you!" and he still does it as an adult
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Now I'm from a small town but I'm in a town that makes my hometown feel like a major city. It has two streets: 1st street and main street. Neither are paved.
This is Main street.
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