Crafts, Babble and Recs
Crafting-wise since I finished the big rug, I finally got around to adding the dyed floral sheet strips from my failed mixed sheet dye experiment to the previously dyed floral sheet rug. I hadn't realized the color wound up so much darker (possibly due to how I dyed it or possibly due to the year that's passed since it was originally made) so I didn't wind up using quite all of it and instead only enough for a border (I definitely didn't have enough for a full second row of the darker stuff and a half row would have looked weird.) I think it turned out okay:
I'm currently rewatching Ancient Detective on youtube using the Language Learning with Netflix & Youtube extension which lets you see both English and Chinese subtitles at the same time, it's interesting. I'm also watching Psych-Hunter (which stars TLT2's Wu Xie) but I'm kind of meh on it so far.
Two weeks of @recthething recs (NIF and MDZS/Untamed fic and also some art, mostly OW, from Battleship)
Nirvana in Fire: just a wall away by ConvenientAlias (1.4k)
Summary: In which Yujin and Jingrui accidentally trespass on Prince Jing's property, and it's all Fei Liu's fault. (short but cute fic)
Untamed/MDZS: Of our own by apathyinreverie (3k)
Summary: Devastatingly, by the time Wei Ying finally remembers his own past, it’s far too late to change anything, his home already lost, the Yiling Patriarch long-since pronounced dead, and little A-Yuan having no one to rely on but him. (short but interesting glimpse into a canon divergent AU)
DID YILING LAOZU REALLY EXIST???: a Thread [1/?] by el_em_en_oh_pee (6k)
Summary Snippet: lan jingyi needs a fucking break @jingY33T 6/8/22
LISTEN UP YOU HISTORY-LOVING FUCKS HAVE I GOT A WILD FUCKING THEORY FOR YOU: THE YILING LAOZU PROBABLY ACTUALLY EXISTED AND MAY HAVE BEEN A HUUUUUUGE SAPPY ROMANTIC: a 🧵 [1/?] (delightfully humorous twitter style fic about the possibly mythical, possibly not, yiling laozu)
Battleship art
Guardian - Da Qing & Zhao Yunlan (this was my gift, it's a wonderfully detailed drawing of the two of them looking up at the stars)
ratatouille - ratatouille rats (Absolutely adorable)
Original Work (Battleship's theme this year was frost vs forest and there were dragons, thus why so many original works are about that):
- Witch Kitty - Sometimes you have to lick the magic out in musical notes.(adorably sweet)
- On a scale (heh) of 1-10 how is the view? Someone captured himself a mermaid... (wonderfully detailed captured space mermaid)
- Forest Dragon (so cute)
- Forest DragonThe Forest dragon waits and protects the gem, how dare the people stole them! (wonderfully detailed)
- khione, the frost dragon (adorable)
- Frost Dragon (another amazingly detailed dragon)
- A Firebird (love the detail on the fire)
(Battleship will have reveals next week but is currently still anon. There's still numerous pages of things without comments, there's a lot of good stuff in it, check it out!)
I'm currently rewatching Ancient Detective on youtube using the Language Learning with Netflix & Youtube extension which lets you see both English and Chinese subtitles at the same time, it's interesting. I'm also watching Psych-Hunter (which stars TLT2's Wu Xie) but I'm kind of meh on it so far.
Two weeks of @recthething recs (NIF and MDZS/Untamed fic and also some art, mostly OW, from Battleship)
Nirvana in Fire: just a wall away by ConvenientAlias (1.4k)
Summary: In which Yujin and Jingrui accidentally trespass on Prince Jing's property, and it's all Fei Liu's fault. (short but cute fic)
Untamed/MDZS: Of our own by apathyinreverie (3k)
Summary: Devastatingly, by the time Wei Ying finally remembers his own past, it’s far too late to change anything, his home already lost, the Yiling Patriarch long-since pronounced dead, and little A-Yuan having no one to rely on but him. (short but interesting glimpse into a canon divergent AU)
DID YILING LAOZU REALLY EXIST???: a Thread [1/?] by el_em_en_oh_pee (6k)
Summary Snippet: lan jingyi needs a fucking break @jingY33T 6/8/22
LISTEN UP YOU HISTORY-LOVING FUCKS HAVE I GOT A WILD FUCKING THEORY FOR YOU: THE YILING LAOZU PROBABLY ACTUALLY EXISTED AND MAY HAVE BEEN A HUUUUUUGE SAPPY ROMANTIC: a 🧵 [1/?] (delightfully humorous twitter style fic about the possibly mythical, possibly not, yiling laozu)
Battleship art
Guardian - Da Qing & Zhao Yunlan (this was my gift, it's a wonderfully detailed drawing of the two of them looking up at the stars)
ratatouille - ratatouille rats (Absolutely adorable)
Original Work (Battleship's theme this year was frost vs forest and there were dragons, thus why so many original works are about that):
- Witch Kitty - Sometimes you have to lick the magic out in musical notes.(adorably sweet)
- On a scale (heh) of 1-10 how is the view? Someone captured himself a mermaid... (wonderfully detailed captured space mermaid)
- Forest Dragon (so cute)
- Forest DragonThe Forest dragon waits and protects the gem, how dare the people stole them! (wonderfully detailed)
- khione, the frost dragon (adorable)
- Frost Dragon (another amazingly detailed dragon)
- A Firebird (love the detail on the fire)
(Battleship will have reveals next week but is currently still anon. There's still numerous pages of things without comments, there's a lot of good stuff in it, check it out!)