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After 5 days and 700,000 words I was attempting to explain the triads of Meet Death Sitting https://archiveofourown.org/series/1639717 and

ha people keep asking when Geralt fucked Ves and the answer is that he did during W2 and it hasn’t actually appeared onscreen in Meet Death Sitting yet but there’s going to be a hilarious scene when Yennefer’s POV comes to pass where Roche is horribly nervous around her because he thinks she’s a jealous harridan and will be mad that he’s like, quite recently fucked Geralt (that is going to be onscreen very soon, his POV of ch 6 of Pearls when the timelines finally fucking align), and she decides to play this up for LOLz and Ves is very bravely like “you’ll have to hate me too” and Yen is like you adorable thing, I’m only messing with him because his jaw is so square and so is that stick up his ass.

also i can’t stand the Jealous Harridan archetype Sapko was so delighted to shove Yen into, and I did get a hate comment about that recently, my first in a while, someone was furious about the whole of Aretuza Craftsmanship because how could I make, and this is a faithful reproduction of the spelling here, Ian a cuckold, yes it took me a while to work it out. A N Y H O W give me ethical polyamory or give me death, and I have been waiting for months to write the Yen/Geralt reunion where she ties him up and “tortures” him for information about who he’s fucked that he hasn’t told her about. (He was laboring under the mistaken assumption that she only cared about the women he fucked! Foolish fellow indeed.)

Also that’s when it makes MDS canon that Geralt and Iorveth fucked, which is here illustrated but nobody seems surprised by.

I had to pre-warn runawaymarbles​ about those so that the shape would still hold up and not have to be totally redrawn in five seconds. Though I’m not sure, there’s another connection waiting to happen that’ll be tricky to draw on here…. scene’s not written yet though so maybe it won’t go that way. We shall see. (Your picture was not posted)

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so i have been doing things other than writing.

let’s see. project updates. Oh yes! I have developed a full-on addiction to scrolling through all of the listings on goodwill.com. i did buy like half a dozen fur coats and Tuesday afternoon since it was sunny and above freezing I sat out on the sunporch and disassembled one. The sleeve was torn, and that let me get inside to find how the lining was attached and let me tell you there is so much hand-assembly in these things, holy fuck. So interesting, construction-techniques-wise! So I have a lining removed from one damaged coat, and the coat itself is still coat-shaped (and still has the pockets attached! very interestingly done), but I need to dig out my good boxcutter to start separating seams where the fur is sewn together. It’s machine-overcast very finely and I’m not sure how to do the least damage but I think not using scissors is the first step of that.

Mostly though I really like looking at things on goodwill because people own such weird stuff. It’s a weird kind of voyeurism I think. Not i want that so much as what kind of person owned this. You get no context. You just have to think about it for yourself. I love it especially with the jewelry, and sometimes the housewares. Like… the inexplicable art… the things that are obviously part of the same collection…. I have whiled away many a braindead evening just. Looking at everything on there. I’ve bought too much but mostly have kept it under control, but the sheer amount of time I’ve wasted– best not to contemplate it too deeply.

another project: I got Jenny Rushmore of Cashmerette Patterns’ book for Christmas, and the book is kind of a lot, but the patterns it came with, well.

So the book is all about how to adjust patterns, so I started off by printing off my size of the patterns for the tops and dresses which are the thing I’m interested in mostly, and–

I’m not going to have to adjust the pattern. She’s got them all cleverly designed so that there’s one pattern piece that’s totally redrafted depending on your cup size range, and a few others where there’s a line indicated– cut here for C/D, here for D/DD, here for F/G– and i can already see that’s the FBA already done. That’s all the patterns I’ve ever worked with in the past where I’ve been like well i can see even with this flat on the page that there’s no room for me in this already, i don’t even have to cut out the fabric, whereupon i most often just abandon the project– don’t need to worry about that. If I look at the size chart, I am a perfect 20/G with no adjustments and no translations. Every garment or pattern I have ever bought in my life, I’ve had to be like wellll do I go by the bust measurement or do I go by the waist measurement and figure I’ll just have to add some or how much do we think this will stretch–

yeah I’m never going to buy any other patterns, i’m just going to get my basic bodice block etc out of whatever Cashmerette makes and every garment I ever want I’ll just make from that, because. Fuck. I haven’t even made a toile and I can already tell exactly what’s up, here. So! That’s exciting.

I both never and constantly thought about the fact that my measurements have not lined up with any measurements anywhere I’ve ever seen a set of human measurements until I looked at Cashmerette’s size chart and went to do the “ok i’m in column A here and B there so I’m going to take a stab at–” and then was like oh. no. there i am. in my entirety, just as i am. Like– like I’m something both normal and expected. Like I’m. A normal person. Anyway that’s proven to be unexpectedly profound!

The last thing is that we’re watching the original Cowboy Bebop series, one episode a night, and every single one we watch in silence and then at the end are like that was fucking weird. I remember some of it from when I first watched it circa 1999, but man that series is fucking weird. In an extremely relatable and manageable way, mind– not like some things, this is not an epic, this is just four weird people and a weird dog in space doing weird shit to each other and society in general.

so anyway that’s what’s up. How’s everyone else doing? Surviving February? Heh, so far, eh? (Your picture was not posted)