Just Create - Scorch Edition

[silvercat17]

A little late, but still here!

What have you been up to? What's coming up next week? How are you doing?

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[silvercat17]

Been working on a bunch of things:

- washing and repairing two of my stuffed animals
- writing
- art for the writing

And I redid my desk with new speakers so that it's more ergonomic so that I'll theoretically start sitting correctly.

[alexseanchai]

excellent!

[althea_valara]

I'm excited for tomorrow. Not only is it THE RUN of the Final Fantasy Five Four Job Fiesta, but it's also E3 and Square Enix is presenting. I am hyped!

I've been doing a fair amount of knitting this week. I had good excuse: I'm away from home watching my sister's dog so no access to my PS4. Most of my work went to the graduation blanket. I'm about 28% done with it, and still tons to go. At this rate I don't think I'm going to get it done before his party on July 10th but I'm going to try my hardest! Here's a picture from the start of this month, click to embiggen:



I also made ginger cookies this week! They are very tasty.



Big news: I bought a Zoom Loom! This is a small weaving loom. It's winging its way to me, but I went out and bought some wool yarn for it. I mostly use acrylics for knitting and crochet but I think weaving is normally done with wool? I'm not sure.

Anyway, while picking up the wool for the zoom loom I bought some yarn for a knitting project I had planned. The project requires super bulky yarn, and just over one skein, meaning I would have a bunch of leftover yarn and so I knit a hat. It's reversible! I like the inside better than the outside:



And then I started on the planned project: a leaf scarf. The reason I did the hat first is it's much easier to knit a scarf until you run out of yarn, but it would be an issue if I ran out of yarn doing the hat.



Going back to my blanket: I think I need to knit at least ten rows a day to finish in time. That's quite a bit, and it's boring knitting (next blanket will definitely have a more interesting pattern!) The leaf scarf is very fun to knit, so I've resorted to bribery: I'll allow myself to knit a leaf if I get at least two rows done on the blanket.

Right: I'm at six rows today. Time to finish washing dishes and then it's back to the grind.

[minoanmiss]

Wow! I am very impressed!

[alexseanchai]

the June challenge for mlwritersguild is to make accompanying material for a completed fanfic of ours, so I've annotated the first two chapters of where the firelight fades. isn't uploaded yet, on account of I want a reader perspective on if I've left off any annotations.

also I have made significant progress on the kidfic (though you will notice a distinct and ongoing absence of any kids), including:



("under the weather? isolated? hungry? frustrated? take care of us, of everyone, of you". which is to say, the HALT technique for Miraculous Ladybug's Paris. 'piaf' means 'sparrow', which is not 'pigeon' but the connection is obvious in-setting. Lady3ellewrites helped me figure out the wording.)

(…at no point have I claimed to be a graphic designer)

[silvercat17]

As a graphic designer, I can tell you, that's not bad. Good use of colors, good spacing and white space.

[alexseanchai]

😺

[minoanmiss]

Inspired by a comment about Loki's gender fluidity and the expanding Disney empire, I drew this:

https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/746262.html

Next week I have a few days off, hooray! I plan to spend them 1) sleeping and 2) writing a story about disability, recovery, and magic which will need careful, thoughtful writing.

[lonespark]

wonderful!

[kellan_the_tabby]

GLORIOUS

[ryl]

I'm still picking out the swan I cross-stitched. Almost done so I can restart it.

SOMETHING ate my dill before I could so I'll have to replace it. I found the old oregano plant in another garden so I'm going to transplant that. Hopefully the SOMETHING will leave that alone. Failing that, maybe one of the yard kitties will get the SOMETHING. (Plant catnip, get yard kitties.)

[lonespark]

I haven't been doing very much stuff outside of work. I worked 13 days out of the last fortnight, hard, usually long, physically grueling days. The money is good and so is the exercise, but I'm worn out. Today is an unexpected day off so I'm trying to get a lot of logistical stuff done.

I have ordered a personalized cosplay item, super excited for when I get that.

Last Sunday I did calligraphy of an inspirational quote from celeb crush: https://www.instagram.com/p/CPzEYgynWw0/

[kellan_the_tabby]

*exhausted screeching*