#stohelit

[ebonylark]

My daughter was having nightmares and feared monsters, so I made her a "sleep sword". The whole thing is non-toxic and the gems glow in the dark. This is where my love of Discworld and LARPing intersect with parenthood.

'But Mrs Robertson told me that her Emma was going round the house looking for monsters in the cupboards! And up until now she's always been afraid of them!' 'Did she have a stick?' said Susan. 'She had her father's sword!' 'Good for her.'

~ Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett

Process detailed below

Materials:

Camp pad

Marker

Kite spar

Epoxy or carpet glue

Box cutter or craft knife

Drywall knife or serrated kitchen knife

Duct tape collection

Board to evenly smoosh

Cord for the handle

Nerf glow-in-the-dark discs for the gems

Foil to back gems

Thin craft foam for the hilt if your cat bites the camp pad all to hell

Doodle of sword

Child

Doodle the sword

Measure the child's arm from shoulder to fingertip.

Cut Kite Spar to length if child's arm. Sand the edges. I used a dremmel.

Draw the outline of the sword three times on the camp pad. Total length should be approx. child arm + 2 inches. You can draw the outline on cardboard and then trace if you prefer.

Cut the sword blanks out. They won't be perfect.

Stack the blanks in different orders to determine which sword blank is biggest. This one will go in the center.

Cut a channel in the center blank to hold the kitespar snugly, with at least one inch of padding on all sides.

Place the bottom blank on a hard surface.

Spread glue

Add center blank

Glue into channel

Kite spar into channel

More glue

Top blank

Board

Weight

Wait for glue to set. Again, it won't be perfect.

Use the serrated knife to shape the blade

Use the box cutter to delineate the hilt

Take a photo and get out your duct tape collection.

Make multiple mockups using only colors you actually have.

Allow child to select color for the hilt

Peel the stickers off the nerf discs

Crumple foil and place inside the disc. I liked the effect better than flat foil or glittery paper, but you do you

Attach gems to hilt - I used little strips of duct tape on the very edges

If necessary, cut two hilt shapes out of craft foam and attach to camp pad. Stuff the gaps in the camp pad created by cat attack with the shrapnel. Tape hilt foam together as you go to hold the shrapnel in place. Rember to cut holes for the gems before attaching the craft foam.

Duct tape all the things in appropriate colors. Cut little slits to smooth around curves.

Wrap the cord around the grip

Charge the glow gems with sunshine or blacklight

Give sword to child

#larp #parenting #discworld #not her fathers sword #susan stohelit #duct tape crafts #sleep sword #did you know duct tape is nontoxic #susan stohelit is my hero #go get em sweetie

[frekless]

Thanks for the tags @jam-the-hologram

Ten Characters, Ten Fandoms, Ten Tags

No particular order:

1) BBC Ghosts: Robin the caveman

(I love him your Honour)

2) Red Dwarf: Arnold Rimmer

(This is where my love of pathetic anxiety ridden angry snarky arsehole characters began)

3) DAAS Kapital: Paul

(Wish this show was more well known another angry snarky character but with the voice of an angel)

4) Doctor Who: Ace McShane

(She was my idol!)

5) Our Flag Means Death: Oluwande Boodhari

(The only sane man on a ship of fools!)

6) Discworld: Susan StoHelit

(Death’s granddaughter who is done with everybody’s shite)

7) What We Do In The Shadows: Lazlo Cravensworth

(Relationship goals with his Good Lady Wife and he tried hard to be a decent father to baby Colin)

8) Epic NPC Man: High Sorcerer Baradun

(I know another obscure one but he’s such a snarky arsehole I can’t help but love him)

9) The Princess Bride: Inigo Montoya

(Who doesn’t love this man??)

10) MCU: Tony Stark

(Honestly it was between him and Matt Murdock but Tony was my initial MCU favourite)

This was fun! I tag anyone who hasn’t already done this and wants to

[famigsart]

The Duke and Duchess of Sto Helit.

I really like how Susan describes her father non violent way of establishing peace on StoLa, while also stating it wasn´t the way of a glorious war raging duke.

While I really really like diplomatic Mort, I totally believe he wasn´t above a few threats. After all, he himself was at the other end of that fist once.

#mort #ysabell #discworld #stohelit #sto helit #duke duchess #duke mort of sto helit #fanart #drawing #lineart

[joqatana]

Here in Sto Linas, in the heart of the Sto Plains, land of brassicas on the hoof. That’s cauliflower they’re rounding up. You can smell it with the windows shut. . #discworld #stoplains #stohelit #stolat #stolinas #brassicas #cauliflower #roundingupthevegetables #wherefoodcomesfrom #gnuterrypratchett #badomens https://www.instagram.com/p/CQtwCISlNcr/?utm_medium=tumblr

#discworld #stoplains #stohelit #stolat #stolinas #brassicas #cauliflower #roundingupthevegetables #wherefoodcomesfrom #gnuterrypratchett #badomens

[thestuffedalligator]

Continuing from this because I’ve lost control of my life, once again choosing to blame @lesbianomens

Armageddon comes.

Susan is with the Them as they confront the Horsepeople. She’s the voice in their ears telling them, They’re only ideas, yours are stronger than them, I know they are, and then there’s the sad jingle of a sword, a pair of balances, and a crown falling to the tarmac.

All that’s left is Death. And Susan is furious. How dare you, she says. How dare you lecture me about humanity, about faith, hope, and then side with them? She gestures to the sad collection of junk on the tarmac. How did you fall so low?

Then the terrible wings open behind him, huge black sheets of night cut out of the daylight.

Susan blinks. “Oh,” she says. “You’re not my grandfather at all, are you?”

The horrible wings move. Susan moves faster. There’s a popping crunch, and then a slow, silent moment as the winged Death reels backwards from the fist. The sound of his form hitting the tarmac is a clatter, accompanied by the tiny plinking noise of teeth.

It’s the only sound on the tarmac for a moment. Then right behind her, she hears in a voice like a crypt door slamming, I WOULD HOPE YOU’D HAVE MORE FAITH IN ME THAN THAT.

Her grandfather eases himself off Binky. The Them make the appropriate noises of admiration. “He’s got an actual horse,” Wensleydale says.

IT DOES ME NO GOOD TO SEE ASPECTS OF MYSELF FALLING TO THE ILLUSION OF GRANDEUR, he says as he walks to the winged Death. CALLING YOURSELF LORD, PRETENDING TO BE AZRAEL? HOW DARE YOU BE SO PRESUMPTUOUS. BUT WHAT GALLS ME MOST IS YOUR UTTER DISREGARD FOR LIFE.

WE ARE MEANT TO RIDE, says the winged Death.

YES, says her grandfather. BUT TELL ME. IN ALL THESE MILLENNIA, DID YOU EVER QUESTION WHO YOU WERE MEANT TO RIDE AGAINST?

The winged Death says nothing. Her grandfather kneels down, and his voice is a leaden whisper. I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THIS IN YOUR MOST PRIVATE MOMENTS. REMEMBER WHY WE TAKE UP THE SCYTHE, AND NOT THE SWORD.

The winged Death spits another tooth. There’s a snap of thunder, and he vanishes.

“So is that all this was?” Susan asks. “An elaborate scheme so you can shame another Death into growing a sense of humility?!”

ALL? CERTAINLY NOT. He sighs, a sound like sand falling in a tomb. I NEVER LIED. I SAID I TOOK AN INTEREST IN THIS WORLD, AND I DID.

His starbright gaze turned to where the winged Death was lying on the tarmac. YES, I DID FIND THIS QUITE...SATISFYING. BUT IF YOU THINK THAT THIS WAS ALL I SENT YOU HERE FOR, he nods to the Them, I SUGGEST YOU LOOK TO THEM.

She sees her students. Exhausted, glowing, grinning, and above all else, alive. They’re all alive, she thinks. Them and their parents and their friends and everyone else on this mad little billiard ball of a planet.

Binky trots up. Her grandfather pulls himself back into the saddle. I CAN TAKE YOU BACK NOW, IF YOU’D LIKE.

Susan considers it. “Oh, I don’t know,” she says. “I have report cards I need to finish, papers I need to grade-”

She pauses and wheels around to face the Them. “And you four, if you think the apocalypse is a good enough reason to be late on your paper, I will knot your hands above your heads, is that clear?”

There’s a general chorus along the lines of “Yes, Ms. Stohelit.”

She nods. “And besides-“

She hears the yell. She turns. She sees Anathema running across the tarmac for her.

She looks at her grandfather. He nods. IF YOU EVER RECONSIDER, he says, LET ME KNOW.

There’s a snap of reins, and she watches him disappear into the air.

When Anathema leaps into her arms, the inertia makes the two of them spin. Their teeth click together, but Susan swallows the pain, sinks deeper into the kiss.

They part only for enough distance to look each other in the eyes.

“Hi,” Anathema says.

“Hello,” says Susan.

“That was-”

“My grandfather.”

Anathema smiles. “I think we have a lot to talk about.”

“Of course,” Susan says. “It’s a long story. But now we have all the time in the world.”

“Ah,” says Pepper. “Ms. Stohelit’s a lesbian.”

“I thought she was English,” says Brian.

#good omens #discworld #susan sto helit #anathema device #witch loves witch #narrativia

[confessionsofanoperaghost]

I’m finally getting to this

@queenofthemorgue sorry it took me so long!

Sign(s): Aquarius but an overwhelming amount of my chart is in Scorpio

Fave color(s): Midnight blue, Aubergine, black

Fave food(s): basically anything made from dairy

Fave drink(s): red wine

Fave flavors: Lavender, rose, hazelnut, green tea, blue raspberry (why tho??) and artificial watermelon flavor (WHY THO???)

Fave female writers/poets: I have many lady authors that I SUSPECT that I’d like... but I live in the patriarchy so I still haven’t yet actually read much Ursula K LeGuin, Jane Yolen, Anne Lamott, LM Montgomery, Edna St Vincent Milay, Emily Dickenson, Anais Nin or Mary Shelley...BUT I SUSPECT they’d be my favorites. I did read a lot of Laura Ingalls Wilder as a child. And Beatrix Potter. And some Lynne Reid Banks but not her most famous work.

Fave female characters: Princess Leia, Christine Daae, Galadriel, Laura Ingalls, Anne Shirley, Princess Irene, Tallis Keaton, every single femme-identified character that Terry Pratchett ever wrote but ESPECIALLY Tiffany Aching and Susan StoHelit. 

Fave books written by women: The first half of Little Women (seriously once Meg got married I was SO DONE with that book... which is related to the reason that I can’t seem to make myself love Jane Austen...) The Fairy Caravan (Beatrix Potter’s only chapter book). The Farthest Away Mountain. Little House in the Big Woods and By The Banks of Plum Creek.

Fave movies directed by women: Jane Champion’s The Piano. Wayne’s World (1992) was directed by a woman! Little Women (1994). Frida. Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola. Monster by Patty Jenkins. 

Fave dresses/outfits in literature or film: oh god this is difficult. what did I see recently that just SLAYED me? I was really impressed by the costume design in Game of Thrones... but there was something else....

Fave historical women/woman: St Claire of Assisi, Anne Bonny & Mary Reade, Dr Ruth, Carrie Fisher, Ethel Waters, AND MARY SEACOLE   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT9BTuBtCJs

Fave princess/queen(s): Catherine the Great, Princess Diana, Grace O’Malley aka Granuaille

Fave godesses: Hekate and Persephone. Kali. Arzuli.

Fave celestial body/planet: Betelguse Betelguse Betelguse

The stars or the moon: The moon is queen of the stars. But if you can find a clear sky and get enough stars (a winter sky in the Northern hemisphere for example), I prefer a moonless sky. ;-)

The rain or the fog: So much both, but I’ll take fog

The sea or the lake: the sea

Lipstick or Eyeliner/Mascara: Mascara is the one thing that i’m like, “its hard to overdo it”

Gothic Heroine or Classical Heroine: EVERYTHING ABOUT ME IS GOTHIC MKAY

Ballet or Ice Skating: Ice

Ophelia or Juliet: Ophelia

Giselle or Odette: I don’t know enough about their stories to pick one...

Mermaids or Unicorns: Mermaids

Impressionism or Romanticism: Romanticism

Fave quote/poem by a woman: 

Edna St Vincent Millay Witch-Wife 

She is neither pink nor pale,    And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,    And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs;    In the sun ‘tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads,    Or steps leading into the sea. She loves me all that she can,    And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man,    And she never will be all mine.

funny story... I went through all my old tags to find this, but there’s actually another one I know I didn’t do which is all positivity-based... so I might go looking again...

#asks #queenofthemorgue #feminism

[reikiajakoiranruohoja]

Why read Discworld books...

Because sometimes your greatest destiny is not where you need to be (Carrot) Because you deserve love and happiness, no matter how low you see yourself as (Sam Vimes) Because family can be a girl, Death and a cranky wizard (Susan Stohelit) Because somes you need to whack somebody on the head to make them see the truth (Witches) Because the greatest faith means willing to be an example for your god (Brutha) Because what you look like and what you are bears no meaning how good you are at your job ( The Librarian) Because your causes are valid, and your strenght is subtle but strong (Sybil Vimes) Because your followers should be goats, not sheep (Om)

#Discworld #rambly ddw

[silanahredwing]

FR - 4 headcanons meme

Headcanon A: (realistic)

Headcanon B: (while it may not be realistic it is hilarious)

Headcanon C: (heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends)

Headcanon D: (unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.)

My Liar - Any dragon up to StoHelit is free game!

#mees #flight rising #(this is geared more towards fandoms but try me)

[docclaras]

I was tagged by feunoyr! Thanks darling xD

✘ Four things people call me : Clara (shorts for Clara-Belle, my full first name). Bebelle (nickname from my parents). Bubble (nickname from my sister...she’s so funny). The “shy one” (I hate that). ✘ Four jobs I’ve had : I’ve worked in McDonald’s during vacations for cash. Otherwise I did some work placements in a bookshop, a publishing house and librairies. ✘ Four movies I’ve watched more than once : The Fifth Element (God bless Luc Besson for this movie!), Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre (french humour, you can’t compete), Pacific Rim & Hook.  ✘ Four books I’d recommend : Arg! Too much choices! OK. Well... I go for The thousand and one nights, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, 1984 by Georges Orwell & the complete works of Pushkin and Ibsen. ✘ Four places I’ve lived : Naintré (France), Thuré (France), Poitiers (France) & Bordeaux (France). ✘ Four places I’ve been : Odense (Denmark), Gävle (Sweden), Djerba (Tunisia) & London (UK). ✘ Four foods I don’t eat : Shellfishes & crustaceans, giblets, tripe.  ✘ Four TV shows I watch : Once Upon A Time, Game of Thrones, Vikings & Orphan Black. ✘ Four things I’m looking forward to this year : Success at my graduation, get a nice job, Star Wars VII & Jurassic World. ✘ Four things I’m saying : “Fuck” (Putain), “So” (Donc...), “I’m so dumb!” (Oh la c**), I need a coffee (J’ai besoin d’un café).

Now, I’m tagging those four wonderful people:

http://ikrscasillas.tumblr.com/ / http://stohelit.tumblr.com/ / http://sayimabird.tumblr.com/ / http://marymorstan.tumblr.com/ (yes I know you hate me xD).

#ikrscasillas #stohelit #sayimabird #marymorstan

[silanahredwing]

Dragons go up to StoHelit on the 2nd page

#flight rising #wbw #world building wednesday