I was sick with a cold and lost the energy for hanging out on dw....but I'm back, feeling myself again! and trying to catch up!


one

It's love meme season again!

✨ holiday love meme 2024 ✨
my thread here

two

my household has two printers.

printer one: a fancy modern printer that came with an ink subscription you can't opt out of. you get 10 pages per month included; beyond that you pay per page. great for easily printing one-off forms you need in a hurry! terrible if you want to print anything of length.

printer two: an elderly laser printer that does single-side b&w printing only, but is very reliable and easy to use, once you're going. however its print driver doesn't work on modern computers so I have to boot up my 7 year old laptop that takes approximately forever to do the simplest of tasks, and laboriously convince it that it wants to download my documents, open them, and print them.

you see my problem, as a hobbyist bookbinder and as a frugal sewist who collects free online pdf clothes patterns!


three

the framing of certain kinds of stories as being interested in getting people in cahoots with each other struck me so hard from one of the early 8 days of dwj podcast episodes.....like yes. yes. that is SO one of the things I love in stories! and dwj does it so well!

I am going to be talking about characters being "in cahoots" forever now fyi

and I've been thinking about how more romance stories need to make the romantic leads be in cahoots with each other tbh. show me how they work together to a common goal!


four

weight talk, no numbers

a pants alteration project I recently completed was one to increase the size of an old pair of pants that had gotten unwearably tight a couple years ago, to make them a useable part of my wardrobe again

and the funny thing is, these pants have had alteration from me before.....when I had taken in the original waistband by a bunch of inches to make them fit how skinny I was, once upon a time. those waistband tucks were taken back out again years ago, but I can still see the marks of where those seam lines used to be. and now I am adding panels of fabric to make the pants even bigger!

I've worked to be at peace with my body and I'm not even upset at the thought of how much bigger I am now than I used to be, but it's wild to spend time working with this very physical reminder of the time in my life when I thought it was important to spend energy on Watching My Weight

five

did you know you can just MAKE things. I'm all 😍 every time!

here's a link to a pic of the little coiled basket I recently made out of fabric scraps!

of course the shaping of the basket is not perfectly smooth and even and symmetrical, but that's to be expected; this is the first time I've made a basket of this type. it takes practice for hands and eyes to learn! and I have learned things, and also have a cute little basket to show for it .


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I'm amazed it isn't a common plot in post-canon mdzs fics to draw on the deliberately hanging thread of people's interest in the tiger seal, and the idea that they can get it from the nieyao coffin

like. here's a passage from mdzs ch 13, wangxian part three:

Suddenly, he heard a young man’s voice. “Then is the Tiger Seal really inside the coffin?”

A cloud of silence fell over the wine shop. A moment later, someone answered, “Who knows? Perhaps. What could Jin Guangyao have done with the Tiger Seal except for carrying it on him?”

“But there’s no way of telling. Didn’t they say the Seal’s become just a piece of scrap iron? There’s no use for it anymore.”

The boy sat alone at a table, holding a sword in his arms. “Is the coffin really firm enough? What would happen if someone wants to see if the Tiger Seal is inside or not?”

Immediately, someone raised his voice. “Who’d dare?”

“The Qinghe Nie Sect, the Gusu Lan Sect, and the Yunmeng Jiang Sect all sent people to guard the cemetery. Who in the world would have the guts to do it?”

Everyone expressed their agreement. The boy didn’t speak up again. He took the teacup from his table and sipped, as though he gave up on his idea. Yet, his eyes hadn’t changed at all.

Wei Wuxian had seen those types of eyes on many faces. And he knew that this definitely wouldn’t be the last time he saw them.

that tiger seal is hungered for. people ARE going to be digging up nieyao coffin and releasing angry spirits before that 100 years are up! and that would be so interesting to explore in a fic, if you are looking for a plot backdrop for whatever ship you're writing! and I for one would love to read a million of those fics.