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bestworstcase · 4 days

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How likely is it do you think that there are/have been Grimm-based cults? I can't imagine there's Never been Grimm cults, and I'm particularly interested in the idea of there being Grimm cults or even just organizations who Actually Understand the Grimm and safely live alongside them. I think it's such a fascinating idea, I'm very tempted to come up with a mysterious faction that respects/admires the Grimm (like how people did/do respect forces of nature in religion) and (mostly) safely lives alongside them. Any thoughts?

two obvious paths. whether the second is viable depends on how well you trust my basic reading of the grimm as sapient beings who reflect back what they’re given—dark mirrors—but the first is textually sound without any extrapolation required.

#1: the grimm as gods of war

these are the salient facts:

the grimm follow groups of bandits around to scavenge in the wake of their raids

criminals in mistral sometimes use captive grimm to execute members of rival gangs

grimm are more strongly drawn by violent anger and hatred than by sadness, fear, or other negative emotions.

it’s possible (per ‘before the dawn’) for one side of a conflict to "ally" with the grimm in battle if the other side is, er, tastier

ok. imagine you have a region where most of the people live in small nomadic groups—perhaps a steppe or a desert, their subsistence base is herding—with smatterings of fortified towns and villages around the edges of the region where there’s arable land enough to support a larger sedentary population. the nomadic groups can’t produce their own weapons/armor (mines, smelters, and forges aren’t portable), so they’ll need to either raid or trade with the towns for that. and conflicts between these nomadic groups over territory and other resources are inevitable.

how do the grimm figure in this region?

well a) the grimm are going to be following the nomadic groups around, with more warlike groups attracting more grimm, and b) grimm will fight alongside people against a common enemy if their "allies" are calmer or otherwise less appealing.

this is like… a perfect storm for the nomadic groups to start venerating "their" grimm as war-gods, in tandem with fostering warrior-cultures that prize tranquility or joy and mercy in battle; there is no honor in hatred or rage or taking pleasure in killing (our grimm turn against those warriors who lose themselves to bloodlust), so a good warrior must be calm, decisive, and swift, and never prolong a fight unnecessarily. but it’s also beneficial to make one’s enemies fearful and angry, or provoke them into hatred.

all it takes is one or two warriors who kept a cool head in battle noticing that the grimm ignored them to go after another warrior who went berserk and then interpreting this as a moral judgment. historically, we know grimm were thought to be the vengeful or corrupted spirits of animals, or animals possessed by demons; both are understandings that encourage this sort of thinking. these are animal spirits that cannot rest because someone killed them without giving due respect, and now they seek to punish those who commit such wrongs… so we’d better take care to treat our adversaries in battle and the animals we hunt with honor and mercy.

and oh, we should pay our respects to the grimm, too. perhaps make some offerings. they eat the corpses of the slain after a battle, so… a) we mustn’t be wasteful when we hunt, it isn’t respectful, and b) we should consider the grimm in our funeral customs.

this is a very basic. BASIC human impulse. humans will try to propitiate the fucking sky because we’re so good at pattern recognition and also anthropomorphizing things that we’ll find patterns and read meaning into the most random coincidences. take that and add it to the fact that it legitimately is possible to form alliances with grimm… fgrhjsv

under these conditions grimm-worship probably tends to look something like:

warrior cultures that prize moderation, calmness, efficiency, and clever mockery or intimidation of the enemy in battle,

funeral customs that ritualize feeding the dead to grimm, and/or ritual sacrifice of captured enemies,

grimm viewed as battlefield psychopomps and/or patron spirits of warriors, whether as a class or as individuals or both, and

incorporation of grimm-like designs or motifs into armor and clothing of warriors, to intimidate enemies.

with wide variation in the details and elaborations. the reason for this common set of foundational practices is that religion is practical. it’s not arbitrary. it isn’t pretend. prayer and ritual are things people do because it works, or it’s believed to work, and the right methods are figured out through trial and error long before they coagulate into tradition. so with something like grimm, whose behavior really can be meaningfully influenced, similar patterns will emerge across different cultures because whether a given practice does or doesn’t work is a) more than random chance or coincidence, and b) extremely easy to identify because if it doesn’t work the grimm will attack you.

& #2, the grimm as nature gods

these are my presuppositions, based on extrapolation from the text:

the grimm have a physiological need for aura, which they can get by siphoning; they eat their prey in order to extract aura from the remains.

grimm attraction to emotions is akin to our attraction to the aroma and taste of food; strong emotions herald deep auras or excite aura so it’s more "nutritious" for the grimm, so they hunt by following emotion.

because aura/soul separates from the body at death, siphoning aura from a living person is much more efficient than killing and eating; grimm will prefer to be fed aura by someone alive over hunting if possible.

because aura can be channeled outward through tools, clothing, etc, it can also be channeled into a repository and stored for a while; this seems to be how the grimm lures in arrowfell work.

grimm are intelligent, emotional, social creatures who can learn to recognize certain groups of people as 'safe' or as friends/allies, without salem.

grimm reflect back the emotional energy they’re given; they’re not "attracted" to anger or pain per se, they just mirror it. bristle and draw your weapon at a grimm, and the grimm will charge at you. remain calm and retreat slowly, and the grimm will keep its distance too.

if all of these presuppositions are true, you can propitiate grimm by saturating an object with aura and leaving that out for the grimm on the regular. i imagine that organic/living things that naturally have aura would work best for this purpose; sacrificing an animal or a portion of your harvest is intuitive, and if fervent religious belief alone isn’t enough to infuse something with aura, then priests or religious officials whose auras have been unlocked and trained will do the trick.

if aura-saturated offerings aren’t possible, then you’d need someone with aura training to channel aura to the grimm through, like, a stick, or bare-handed if they were brave enough or confident enough. this is a more uncomfortable option (like physically) but we have a canonical example of a character doing it: she found it disconcerting, but not painful, and it’s implied that the grimm didn’t attack her at any point during. so a) it probably doesn’t do any more harm than having one’s defensive aura break, and b) stopping the flow of aura to the grimm by moving away won’t provoke the grimm to attack.

as unpleasant the prospect might seem, if it clearly worked to reduce or eliminate grimm attacks on the community, people would do this. people would absolutely do this. the big hurdle lies in discovering that this is possible—like you’d need someone to willingly approach a grimm, lay a hand on it, and channel aura into it without knowing what will happen, and the kind of person who would even think to TRY that is very rare—but once it was known? religious belief motivates people do all sorts of unpleasant, uncomfortable, or even outright painful and harmful things to themselves. fasting. self-flagellation. hermitage.

like… waves hands. if it’s a known thing in a community that grimm won’t attack anyone if a few people go into the wilderness every morning to stand there and pour aura into grimm who pass by until they’re tapped out for the day, lots of people will be fully willing and able to do that. far more than are willing and able to become huntsmen: it’s not dangerous or difficult, it’s just going to tire you out on your assigned days. and if you have say, a village of a hundred people of whom ten are able to do it, you can rotate so no individual has to do it more often than thrice a month. NBD.

and if nothing else except the emotional mirroring thing is true, then you can… more or less propitiate grimm by doing whatever, because in this case what makes propitiation effective is community belief that it works: if you and everyone else around you believes that wearing pendants carved in the likeness of grimm and pouring a libation of wine outside the village gates to entreat the grimm for safe passage through the wilds is effective in making the grimm leave you alone, then no one’s going to panic or raise the alarm upon seeing a grimm wandering around in the barley field, and the grimm won’t freak out either.

if you believe that a grimm is a being that can be appeased and you cross paths with one in the woods, you’re going to do what you believe will keep you safe; for a huntsman, that’s "draw a weapon and attack," but for you that might be "hold up your grimm pendant and recite a prayer to politely wish it well and ask for its blessing in return," which—if the grimm just reflect your emotional energy back at you—will probably make the grimm pause and look at you for a moment before continuing on, which confirms and reinforces your belief that this is the correct way to deal with grimm. This Is How Religion Works.

so all that to say, as long as i’m correct about at least one of these presuppositions—the one with the strongest textual evidence, no less—then propitiating the grimm will reduce their aggression dramatically if not stop it altogether. and if that’s the case then i’d imagine grimm-worship is quite common and also varied in more remote regions where human-grimm encounters are frequent.

the shape of that worship will evolve out of how people in a given community figured out that you can do this with grimm. if one person tries a certain thing and it works, and then more people try the same thing and it works for them to, then that is going to become known as the Thing That Works and it will be gradually refined and elaborated on from generation to generation. and on the other side of the mountains they might be doing the same process but with a completely different thing that also worked the first time.

so you might have a village making huge ritual productions of preparing a feast for the grimm with a portion of the harvest, orchestrated by a coterie of priests who fill the offerings with aura… and in the hinterlands a few hundred miles away you might have a group of nomadic herders who leave the bones of every sheep they eat for the grimm and also have elaborate coming-of-age rituals where you go into the wilderness to prove yourself to the grimm by baring your soul… and up north on the coast you might have a whaling town where sailors pray to something like the leviathan or the feilong as a sea-god because their ancestors happened to stumble into a symbiotic relationship with a giant grimm that preys on whales and realized these little guys in boats make better hunting partners than they do snacks. etc.

basically if you accept a presupposition that the grimm aren’t "soulless evil monsters whose sole purpose is to kill humans" and consider them as beings that have some rhyme or reason as to when they’re aggressive and when they’re not, and the rhyme or reason is something humans/faunus could plausibly figure out how to accommodate and/or influence, there are a lot of ways to build a grimm cult. ’cause religion is at its core humans trying to understand the world so we can keep ourselves safe, healthy, and comfortable; worshipping grimm is just a cultural framework for a threat management program.

think about it in those terms, and take however you think grimm work and ask "what could people Do to lower the risk of grimm attacking them?" and "what might people Do that doesn’t really have an effect but seems like it maybe does?" and then start to elaborate from there with "okay, what stories do people tell to explain why they do these things and how they learned to do these things? how do they conceive of the grimm and their relationship to grimm? how does this shape the social and moral values of this religion?" etc.

praxis comes first, belief second. and the praxis develops through trial and error with the basic goal of "how can we make the grimm leave us alone?" so things that clearly don’t work will be discarded. (with ‘clearly don’t work’ meaning "we did this and grimm immediately attacked us"; people will tend to take "we did this and grimm didn’t attack us for two months" to mean "it worked! we should do it every other month!")

#and that’s how you build a religion :)#worship is practical! it’s meant to be effective! humans are really bad at distinguishing correlation from causation so we #develop irrational belief systems based on coincidence and our bonkers pattern recognition #which is why all religions ever are So Weird. WE’RE weird.#but it’s practical nevertheless. people do it because it works or it seems to work and the belief systems are just us #telling stories about ourselves #to explain why we do stuff because ''it works'' isn’t satisfying. we ALL have the toddler urge to go BUT WHY??#and then we come up with a better story. scientists do this also they just invented a process that #puts up guardrails against the universal human reflex to go ''well i put a bucket outside hoping it would rain and it did rain. therefore #putting buckets outside makes it rain.'' lmfao

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mxddyhero · 3 months

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made this lil guy to go on my juza ita bag ^^

#it was my first time making a pattern for a design... i dont think i did too bad !!#though i know where i need to adjust things now... it's a process !!!#gonna try to make torment doll next !!!#shut up hahn anyway

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rawliverandgoronspice · 5 months

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I think we may have integrated a little too hard the idea that being aroace is the "easy mode" of queerness, and so contextualized all acephobic experiences as "not that bad" inherently rather than taking a hard look at them and what they can look like

#thoughts #personal #asexuality #aromantism #took me a while to acknowledge how absolutely *horrendous* my coming out process was #it was a bingo strike of bad coming out moments honestly #in a way that would have been obvious and followed very known patterns of systemic abuse #or at least I would have recognized them as such if ace experiences weren't demeaned as “less bad” by almost everybody #and so the focus becomes gatekeeping community empathy instead of listening to what's actually going on #it may be a mostly invisible identity but it also makes the surrounding violence much more insidious and harder to name #but it is very much there #and keeping that side of me a secret is still something that I have to put active thought into #(it becomes harder to hide as time goes on and hhhhh don't love that for me)#(can you tell I'm dreading the christmas family reunion.....)

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universalblips · 2 years

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here she is!!! finally fixed up my pattern for pretzel, here it is for anyone wanting to make their own frogtopus (I would love to see pics if you do! it gives me the sweet sweet serotonin of online validation)

here's a pdf version of the pattern to print, tutorial under the read more!

I would probably consider this an intermediate level project and this tutorial assumes you have a general knowledge of sewing, but I tried to explain some of the little details for anyone who may not be as familiar with sewing/making plushies

Materials needed:

¼ yard main fabric (smth like minky or fleece would work best!)

⅛ yard accent fabric

Matching thread

Safety eyes (I used 24 mm ones)

Alternatively you could use:

Small amount of black and white felt

Buttons

Embroidery floss

Stuffing

Other basic sewing materials (scissors, needles, pins, etc)

First off you’ll want to trace and cut out all your pattern pieces! If you’re using minky or a similar fabric, you’ll want to make sure the nap (direction that the “fur” lays) matches the direction of the arrow on your pattern pieces. Personally I also like to trace the seam lines onto the wrong side of the fabric so I know exactly where to sew (and bc I like to micromanage my seams to get the exact shape I want lmao) - you don’t have to do this, but I do recommend it for the dart lines on the body front and especially the tentacles as they might be a little tricky without that guide. After cutting out everything you should have something like this:

(If you’re doing applique for the eyes and mouth, you’ll also need to cut the mouth and 2 of the larger eye circles out of black and 2 of the smaller eye highlights out of white fabric, preferably felt)

MAIN BODY

Start with the front body piece and fold it in half vertically with the right sides of the fabric facing each other. Line up the edges of both darts and make sure the seam lines match up, then pin in place and sew along the lines. In case you’re not familiar with sewing darts, you’ll want to start at the outer end and sew in towards the middle where it comes to a point for each one. These will help give your finished plush a fuller, more rounded shape!

Here’s what the top dart looks like finished! I also like to leave a little extra thread at the end point and use both ends to tie a knot there to secure it (mostly bc that’s just smth my costuming prof always told us to do lmao)

Once you’re done with the top dart, you’ll want to do the same thing with the bottom one.

Next you’ll want to align both pieces of the back body with right sides facing together and sew along the smooth edge, leaving an opening where marked for turning later.

Lay the front and back body pieces flat and align them with right sides facing. Pin and sew all around the edges, leaving the bottom open.

TENTACLES

Next up are the tentacles! You’ll want to take two of your top tentacle pieces and match them up along the top edge with right sides facing, then sew along the straight line there, making sure to stop at the corner where the curve of the tentacle begins. Repeat for the other pair of them, and do the same with the bottom tentacle pieces as well.

To make sure your top and bottom tentacle pieces all line up correctly when you go to sew them together, you’ll also want to sew a little diagonal line going from the corner bit to the edge like this:

Clip the corner of the seam allowance like so, making sure not to cut through the seam itself. It’s important to clip your corners and curves to make sure everything will lay right and look smoother when you’re done!

Once that’s done, you’ll want to align the pairs of attached tentacles together with the right sides facing and repeat the last steps for the other two sides.

Do this for both the top and bottom sets of tentacles, and you should end up with something like this:

Take the bottom oval and pin it to the bottom tentacle piece around the center hole, right sides of the fabric facing. It helps to mark the four points on the bottom piece and match them up with the four connecting seams of the tentacles. Sew all around the piece.

Take the whole bottom piece and line it up with the top tentacle piece, making sure to match up the seam lines. Pin them together and sew all the way around, taking care around the inner corners in particular. If you’re using a machine, it helps to stop at the very point of the corner, leaving the needle in the fabric, then lifting the presser foot to pivot the fabric. Drop the presser foot back down and continue sewing along the line like before.

Once you have both pieces sewn together, you’ll want to clip the corners and trim the seam allowance. You could also clip the curves, but I find that trimming the seam allowance down to about ⅛” around the tentacles works well and doesn’t take nearly as long to do. Just be careful and make sure you don’t snip through any of your seams!

The inner corners are most important here, because you want to release tension in the seam allowance so the tentacles can spread out properly when you turn everything right side out.

You’ll also want to clip the curves and corners of the main body piece if you haven’t already (except for the seam allowance around the opening on the back body piece, you’ll want to leave that alone). Turn the tentacle piece right side out and now you should have something like this:

FINISHING THE PLUSH

Now, with the tentacle piece right side out and the main body piece inside out, place the tentacles inside the main body piece and line up the raw edges of the fabric. Match up the tentacle seams to the ones on the main body, making sure the widest points of the bottom oval are aligned with the side seams. Pin and sew all the way around.

Use the opening you left in the center seam of the back body to turn everything right side out. I found it easiest to pull the tentacles through first, and then everything else.

Now would be a good time to add on the safety eyes if you’re using them! If you’re going for the applique option (or maybe button eyes!) you could also probably do that now, or you could wait until after stuffing your frogtopus if you prefer, it’s up to you!

When you go to stuff your plush, it’s best to stuff the tentacles first, then the main body, taking extra care to push some stuffing into small areas like the eye bumps to make sure they’re well defined. Once you have your frogtopus filled, you can go ahead and stitch up the opening in the back with a needle and thread. I like to use a ladder stitch so the thread stays hidden and the final seam looks nice and clean

I used heat transfer vinyl for Pretzel’s mouth, so I’m adding that on now and ironing it in place. This would also be a good time to sew or glue on your appliques if you’re going with those and haven't already!

Add on any other details you might like, and then you’re finished! Congratulations on your brand new, extremely marketable Pretzel plushie!

#jrwi riptide #pretzel jrwi #just roll with it #jrwi fanart #just roll with it riptide #jrwi #sewing #plush pattern #hopefully this all makes sense I am by NO means a professional at this #also fun fact I was a little bit stupid and forgot to take pics of the Process the first time around so I had to make pretzel........2!!!!#so now I simply have two of them to love and cherish

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bookwyrminspiration · 6 months

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antennae aside, I like to think the reason Tiergan has those hair swirls is because of Wylie. Marella said she started braiding her hair as a nervous habit, and with all Wylie's been through, who's to say little Wylie never played with his new dad's hair while he was comforting him? twisting it around a bunch? and whose to say Tiergan didn't keep it that way even after he moved on to different coping mechanisms? just a thought

(bonus points: maybe prentice used to do it too, before he was arrested. maybe tiergan never tells wylie this. maybe wylie starts doing it on his own. maybe he saw his dad do it and started copying him once he was gone. there's many options)

#kotlc #my thought process is hmm does tiergan seem like the kind of person to braid/twist his hair? and my answer was no #so then the question becomes why would this man do that then?#what would make him? what matters to him? who would he let do that?#wylie.#but adult wylie wouldn't. so kid wylie. why? comfort. marella did the same. we can form a pattern #anyway #an idea

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aworldofpattern · 4 months

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The making of the Maison Margiela Artisanal safety pin dress worn by Miley Cyrus to the Grammys 2024.

Designed for her by Creative Director, John Galliano, and constructed in the haute couture ateliers of the Maison, it took 675 hours of craftsmanship, using 14,000 safety pins.

#miley cyrus #grammys 2024 #grammys #safety pin #dress #fashion #john galliano #maison margiela #maison margiela artisanal #process video #the making of #pattern #surface pattern #surface pattern design #pattern design #textile design #textiles #2024 #video

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stuffyflowers · 2 months

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No turning back.

#undertale yellow #uty #ceroba ketsukane #ceroba uty #slight ceroba redesign since she’s rotating in my brain 24/7 #I tried to make her fur pattern on her face resemble the kanako mask… I think it kinda got lost in the process lol #girl who is sooo sunk cost fallacy.#gekkos art

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tj-crochets · 1 year

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Giant mushroom creature pattern progress, with the mini mushroom pattern for scale!

#the pattern making process #Idk if any of y’all are interested in behind the scenes pattern making stuff like this #like that the big version has a separate piece for the bottom of the feet and a dart in the middle #that the little version doesn’t have #to make it more 3D. the little version relies on the stretch of the fabric and the stuffing for shaping #the big mushroom miiiight be a bit too tapered #but we’ll see lol #and it’s a mushroom so some irregularity of shape is expected

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youraveragecatastrophe · 11 months

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[Image description : three drawings of characters from the 2019 show Carmen Sandiego, lined with black ink and colored with pencils. Carmen is wearing a striped shirt with the colors of the original Gilbert Baker flag, and she and Player are draped with a large transgender flag. They are looking at each other and smiling. Julia, her hands in her pants' pockets, wears a brown leather jacket and a horizontally-striped shirt the colors of the lesbian flag. She is looking at the viewer and smiling. Devineaux, his hands on his hips in a proud posture, wears a vintage-styled jacket in the colors of the transgender flag. /End description]

To cap off this pride month, a few of my queer headcanons for Carmen Sandiego (2019) characters!

I headcanon Player as a trans boy and Carmen as a trans woman! I also definitely think Carmen's sapphic but I don't have a more specific identity in mind for her.

Julia is a lesbian ofc. Her shirt is inspired by this retro lesbian shirt! If I had seen it before inking I would have made it an actual shirt with a collar and all but alas I saw it too late.

And I headcanon Devineaux as a trans man. His jacket was heavily based on this vintage jacket, obviously with the colors reworked. That's his new lucky coat probably.

(I have headcanons for other characters but since they're less fixed I won't talk about them here)

#carmen sandiego 2019 #carmen sandiego #player cs #julia argent #chase devineaux #my art #yeah it's the beginning of july. what about it. i finished these the night of the 30th of june it still counts #some additional notes that i don't want to clog the description up with :#imagine player and carmen going to pride together. just imagine it 🥺#julia's jacket is a nod to treasures of knowledge's jules who wears a similar jacket!#my thought process can often be boiled down to 'omg they chose their own name... trans'#now obviously that's mostly true for devineaux. it started as a fun haha thought after s4 and now it just is.#carmen obviously has a lot more trans coding. and i love the idea of her and player being t&t #i can't for the life of me imagine julia as anything other than a lesbian #fun fact about me is i can't design clothes. so if they look any more elaborate than 'pants and shirt' i probably needed a ref or five #also colouring with pencils is hard. i hope the colors are mostly fine i stared at them for so long i don't want to look at them anymore #now i have another set of drawings i wanted to finish for the end of s2 but they're LATE bc the last drawing is taking forever #someone (me) had the brilliant idea of drawing a fucking detailed pattern by hand instead of making a pattern with photoshop. smh

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mythsandmonaidhean · 9 months

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This week's video is a how-to guide on making a cross stitch bookmark

#cross stitch #cross stitch bookmark #how to make a cross stitch bookmark #cross stitch pattern #youtube #process video #how to #fibre arts #fibre crafts #cross stitching #Youtube

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puppyeared · 16 days

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who up seeing their disorder in a fictional character but feel like its not their place to put a name on it

#id have to be waterboarded before i can talk abt how i see a lot of my adhd and personality in mitsumi iwakura let alone post it #idk how to talk abt this without feeling like im talking over or invalidating ppls experiences relating with a character #someone was talking abt how ppl tie laios' autism to special interest and social difficulties but not much else which kinda flattens it #and then went into a respectful in depth analysis of other autistic behaviour that laios exhibits and it wasnt phrased meanly #its fascinating and important to me to hear someone explain a little bit abt traits that they recognized and often go overlooked #because it does help me learn more about it. but i think thats also where hesitancy kicks in when it comes to depicting it accurately #like i have adhd and some of my adhd symptoms overlap with autism (time blindness and pattern seeking behaviour) but that only means #it feels familiar to me even without having autism. on top of that traits arent always cleanly determined as being /caused/ by #a disorder. to understand my environment i compare it to something unrelated but similar to make it more familiar and for the longest time #i thought that was a personality thing and not an information processing thing since i loved playing pretend in my head as a kid #so if you make a character who experiences that hoping to reach people that also experience that and tell them its not weird or #smth youre making up like. thats the goal. ppl who dont get it arent expected to it just means it doesnt cater to them but it helps them #become familiar to it yk? since i dont have autism myself i dont feel confident i can depict it properly or explain it in my own words #but that doesnt mean im trying to dismiss it or try and cut it out completely.. ill just leave the floor open to someone who /can/#a lot of issues around fanon depictions are when smth is baselessly popularized or a characters personality and behavior is flattened #especially to fit them into a trending meme. its harmless and its supposed to be for fun but it gets tricky when you drag things that #need to be carefully explained beforehand or else it gets lost in translation. like that tweet abt 'hyperfixating' on cooking pasta #once it becomes popular language usually the original meaning is left out for the sake of simplifying it for everyone that when it #circles back theres a sort of hesitancy like. am i using it the way it was intended or am i unknowingly using the popularized version of it #actually thats probably why i felt wrongfooted during diagnosis bc it felt like i was misusing the words i heard to describe what i felt #i /know/ i see a lot of myself in mitsumi because our minds are always somewhere else and we tend to put good faith first and for me #that personal connection is enough. but idk it feels like its always gonna have to be 'palatable' first before i can talk abt it openly #mad respect to writers and creators who stick to their story even if theres the looming fear of ppl misinterpreting it and letting them #have it.. its been almost 2 weeks and i am so close to deleting that m3 dunmeshi drawing bc ppl keep saying chilchuck wouldnt have 200 HP #IT LITERALLY SAYS I MADE IT WHILE WATCHING EP 1. I USED EARTHBOUND LOGIC AND I WASNT EVEN TAKING IT SERIOUSLY CHILL #yapping

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atthebell · 5 months

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bell I do have a crochet question for you. how do you get better at freehanding things? is it just experience? bc I've been crocheting for a few years now but I still sweat if I can't find a pattern for what I want to make 😭

so my initial answer is just fuck around and find out-- as in just start making stuff, sometimes don't even try for a specific shape, just do stuff and see what shapes you make and get a feel for how increasing and decreasing impact a work, how to incorporate larger stitches (i.e. switch from sc to dc to make one side of the round taller), all that kind of stuff. and maybe try and make something purely based off an image-- as in, no pattern, no fucking clue how to go about it, just go at it and see what you get. it won't always be pretty, but it'll teach you! and practice helps immensely, so you can even just work on things you do have patterns for/know how to make and that will teach you how shapes come together and how to sculpt something (bc that's what amigurumi is, really, just figuring out how to sculpt something with loop & hook-- imo, it's what makes crochet pretty different to other fiber arts, although you can do 3-D stuff with them as well) into what you want.

my other answer is i've been crocheting for thirteen years and i consider myself pretty damn good at it and i still whine and cry when i can't find a pattern for what i want 😭 i think getting really good at tracking stuff down and also sometimes just resigning yourself to having to buy a pattern is really the answer. also, tbh, you can look at how someone else made it and try and replicate that without a pattern-- if you sell stuff, i recommend you still credit the original designer, since you are basing it off their work, but looking at how someone else made something and trying to do the same thing is how a lot of artists build technique. again, don't rip them off entirely, but going "how tf did they make this?" and trying to do something similar can help you learn more about how pieces are put together.

also ravelry, pinterest (if you know how to use it properly and are willing to deal with the spam/clickbait fake pins... bane of my existence), various pattern databases, and, tbh, just rando people's blogs are your best friend. i have a few amigurumi artists where when i'm just absolutely lost, i go on their sites and search up what i'm trying to make to see if they've done it before, and sometimes they have! elisa's crochet has really cute stuff, as does ami amour, and you can find way more people through instagram (the one and only time i will recommend going on that site)

#asks #anons #crochet talk #really truly genuinely fuck around and find out though. make weird stuff and see how it turns out and tbh. finish it even if it sucks #you never know maybe your niece would really love a lopsided freak little lobster creature with no eyes! whos to say #i freehanded a random little multilegged creature and gave it to the kids at my mom's work and they LOVE it #it looks like an scp but they're obsessed #also im in the middle of pepitos mask like i keep saying #and figuring out how to get it to the shapes i want is really fun #maybe ill do like a process discussion post along with the pattern whenever i write it up #also im thinking about making a ko-fi in case people want to throw a few bucks my way for the patterns #the commie in me wont actually let me put them behind a full paywall #but if people want to give me money for them that would be neat #anyway long rambling aside. practice practice practice #that is really the key to every skill

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