what if we were an elite goalie tandem who gave each other hugs after winning games. and what if i sat half-naked in the locker room as cameras filmed me before the game. and i grabbed you by your hip pad and dragged you close. and you had a little happy giggle about it. and we were both boys.
Okay, I love making a nice thick book, but there's something about boxes that is just SO rewarding. Now, who here has heard of a peller pop-up box? I have to add a disclaimer that even of this post, I have made... three whole boxes, ever. But my personal take is that what's the point of diving into a craft if I'm not gunning for a target far above my skill level? The ambition gives me a thrill, I don't have to feel bad if I fail, and if I succeed, the rush is SUBLIME. And now I have a box with a mechanism (a ribbon) that pops the book out of an inner sleeve when I open it. I'm in love.
This was a learning process and a half! The only instructions I can find for this are some handwritten notes from a class in 1990, and the person who posted those notes also posted a number of critiques of the technique as described in the class. Also, the class notes (and addendums) come from an expert perspective, catering to experts. I'm an enthusiastic amateur who's still learning basic competence with leather. I was smart enough not to do a leather slipcase, but overconfident enough to cover my spine and edges in leather, haha. But even though I have a LOT of notes for what to tweak next time, I love it SO MUCH
I arbitrarily decided to work with my millimeter binding of 'and love unbolts the dark' by blackkat for this experiment, because it's small, it's one of my favorites, I had more of the leather I used for its edges, and I thought I had more of the cover fabric and it would be a good match to one of my yellow marbled papers. As you can probably tell from those photos, things didn't quite go that route!
First, I couldn't find the fabric. It might be in here somewhere, but I have FAR too much fabric, lmao. But I did find a lot of this dark green one, in the same line, and with some lovely color overlap, and a nice aesthetic match for the leather. And then I also realized that the marbled paper was a Lot in comparison to the rest of what I was pulling together. So I left it as a liner for the inner slipcase, to tie into the yellows of the original fabric. Then I dug up an embossed teal paper that matched the dominant palette of the new fabric, and went for broke. And I love this so much, truly, it was a headache trying to wrap my head around the instructions and I still have some minor complaints about the process, but I am so, so pleased right now. I would joke about how little time it will be before I do this again, but... I've already started
Eddie: Remember the time you were kicking your feet when I praised you for the first time?
Buck, blushing: That didn't happen.
Eddie, smirks: If you say so, babe.
[The (praise kink) scene that started it all]
After five months and knitting three different versions, I am finally satisfied with these Franklin Relic Gloves to share the pattern
Based on a glove found by Lt. Hobson on King William Island near Cape Felix as part of McClintock’s 1857 search for Franklin's lost arctic expedition
Working on this pattern was humbling and I think I will, on some level, be carrying it around with me forever, it's full of ghosts and memories and love and loss and I am so glad to be a tiny part of its story and to breathe some life and color back into its fragments and images
So if you're not familiar with how "Sports Man And Famous Girlfriend" is played, any subpar performance on Sports Man's part will be blamed on Famous Girlfriend, and fans of the Sports Man's Sports Team will say some really extraordinarily misogynist things about her.
The funny part about the Travis Kelce/Taylor Swift round of the game is that Swifties are absolutely going to square up with anyone who breathes the slightest hint of negativity toward their queen, and in a stand-up internet fight between NFL fans and Swifties I know who I'd put my money on -- but that doesn't mean the dudes wearing cop shades in their profile pics are gonna go down easy.
Complicating matters is Taylor's recent statement that she has never dated any women, which has majorly pissed off the weird Secret Lesbian Taylor conspiracy theorists (even though she has never actually pretended to be wlw in any capacity, and frankly presents as the straightest woman in show business). I expect only a few will turn away from her altogether, but will some of them opt not to defend her from the consequences of a hetero relationship?
I have no personal beef against Kelce but I feel like I need him to drop a touchdown pass in the next game just so I can see how this plays out.
Random thought: to an alien species with blue blood from a planet with different atmosphere than ours our blue planet with its blue oceans and blue skies would look ominous as fuck