Impy

@impchan

Former Webcomic Editor Current Literature Student Agender, queer, polyamorous, disabled, neurodivergent Quaker currently living in South Korea

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Impy@impchan· Jan 2

I have finished the main section of my La Passacaglia project! It has taken me four years and a day of intermittent sewing to complete it, and I have absolutely no idea how many pieces, stitches, or hours it contains. But it's pretty and the colors make me happy, so it was worth it.

Impy@impchan· Jul 28

Tendonitis eased off enough so I can go back to sewing, though I have to be careful to pace myself so it doesn't get worse again. Working on the last center rosette for my La Passacaglia quilt. The longest part of this process is getting past my executive dysfunction enough to plan the fabrics.

A geometric pieced quilt top creating the effect of concentric blue and purple alternating bands of color similar to water ripples. The fabrics are all batiks. There are ten different fabrics used in the pattern.

Impy@impchan· May 12

Update: It did taste good! I still have the first cold I've had in almost five years. I blame losing my mask at play rehearsal when I was teaching everyone choreography. It was fine in the open air, but then I went inside and rode a crowded elevator. -_-'

A white bowl containing a very yellow chicken soup with chunks of carrot and chicken, and fresh dill sitting on top.

Impy@impchan· Apr 15

So apparently the guy the professor brought in to teach acting for our Drama as Performance class literally wrote the book on method acting and Shakespeare... And then our Shakespeare team didn't do an acting demo. I hope he wasn't disappointed not to get to explain things with us!

Impy@impchan· Apr 11

This is probably my favorite thing in my course reading for this week. I would like everyone to please behold this absolute masterpiece of nerd friendship in Franklin's autobiography.

Impy@impchan· Feb 26

Continuing my habit of making fun little cartoons of the familiars for our new players... Behold, the single most ridiculously impractical and unnecessary mini I have ever doodled! My friend Cat's character has a pet mouse, named Kitten.

A tiny cardboard stand holding a ⅜ inch square scrap of bristol board with a mouse doodled on it. It is placed beside a coffee cup, which utterly dwarfs it, on a trpg mat with 1 inch squares.

Impy@impchan· Feb 5

Okay, have interpreted the instructions. Poe has declined a sling. I am Done for today.

Still from The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, depicting a skeleton resting against the wall of a cave, overlaid with text from the film's dialogue reading "I sleep now."

Impy@impchan· Jan 26

Back when I had a group our maps used to consist of a wet erase play map and some cardboard stands I made myself. I have no objection to playing this way, there's a certain charm to it. But also, it'd be fun and cool to play with the fancy stuff, if I didn't have to buy and store it all?

Photo of homemade D&D character stands consisting of paper with ink sketches and cardboard triangle stands on a beige wet-erase map grid. Some old incomplete character sheets for a couple of the characters are cut off in the foreground.

Impy@impchan· Dec 22

I have found a temporary storage solution for my quilt so it doesn't wrinkle! Apparently, since I mostly did the big assembly on that half while watching Critical Role during the Mollymauk Tealeaf episodes, and since the colors and vibe fit so well, it has been renamed in my head as the Molly side.

The left half of a La Passacaglia quilt, with geometric shapes arranged in overlapping concentric circles of light and dark batiks in shades of rose, pink, magenta, violet, lavender, eggplant, cyan, and pops of green and deeper blue. The partial quilt hangs on the back of a wooden door. In the foreground is a work table with a laptop paused during an episode of Critical Role next to another several sections of the quilt in brighter shades of purple and blue and green still in the process of being assembled.

A photo of a small pond at Jogyesa Temple, reflecting the colored lanterns that were overhead during a persistent rain. The pond ripples with pinks, blues, purples, and a few bits of green, surrounded by green grass and crossed by an arching red painted wooden bridge leading to stone steps.

Impy@impchan· Dec 19

I have reached the stage in which I am now assembling all the larger segments of this quilt. Two episodes sewing off and on to attach three double-circle segments is slow, but there's a lot of wrestling paper-backed pieces around corners involved in this part. (Toldja Mollymauk would like this)

Part of a La Passacaglia quilt composed of geometric batik pieces in varying shades of plum, pink, purple, and blue, arranged in overlapping concentric circles of light and dark.

Impy@impchan· Dec 17

I have finally, many many years late, started watching Critical Role: The Mighty Nein. Mostly, it makes me really miss playing D&D, but it is also excellent company while I'm hand sewing my quilt top project! I finished this big center rose to it. (Mollymauk would love this whole project, I feel.)

Center rose from the upper left quadrant of an ongoing La Passacaglia EPP quilt top project. There are 180 geometric pieces in batiks ranging from a vivid sky blue to pale pink, with a lot of emphasis on deeper purples and rose shades. They are arranged in roughly concentric circles of color in alternating bands of light and dark meant to evoke the reflections of colored lanterns on the ripples in a pond from rain.

Impy@impchan· Nov 27

It snowed today, and all day long I've been spotting people taking a moment to feel the joy of it. Campus was mobbed with people taking photos or playing with the snow. One person had climbed up on a wall to break an icicle off a tree. One was using a snowball mold!

A brick path through an apartment complex. Each side is lined with trees dusted liberally with snow, and small drifts line the plant beds. Ahead is a gray sky visible between the buildings, and looking closely shows the snow is still falling.

Impy@impchan· Nov 27

I still feel just fine about my decision five years ago to stop purchasing fast fashion, for example. I enjoy learning to mend rather than just replacing everything. I enjoy my daily walking because I no longer own a car, and I love the freedom from the expenses of maintaining one.

An example of visible mending on a previously torn bedsheet. The bedsheet is dark blue that looks charcoal in the light of this particular photo, and the darning is in shades of cyan, teal, chartreuse, and black. The stripes of these colors made a darned patch in plaid a little larger than a playing card.

Impy@impchan· Nov 4

Jack Savage January 23, 2007 - November 4, 2024 Dapper Gentleman and Proud Destroyer of Coffee Mugs

A tuxedo cat with a little white mustache and little white paws and bib sits politely atop a D&D map.

Impy@impchan· Sep 26

Update: utilizing pure panicked emergency power, I made it to the hospital and was able to handle the translation for the five minutes the appointment took. But now I'm running on empty and can feel the PEM waiting to land on me like a fuckton of bricks. Doubt I'll make it out of bed for a few days.

A black and white image of a somehow exhausted looking skeleton lying supine in a cave. The text on top reads, "I sleep now," in all caps.

Impy@impchan· Aug 18

Some runners up

A collection of very comfortable looking round bubble sculptures set at bench height and a bubble shaped sign requesting "please don't sit on the artwork."

Several wooden dick sculptures are mounted on a plinth and a sign with a picture of a hand covered by the red no symbol sits next to them. The sign reads, "Do not touch it," in English and in several other languages, primarily Korean. There is a blank space on the plinth that makes it clear an additional dick sculpture has been removed at some point. Perhaps someone yanked it a little too firmly.

Impy@impchan· Aug 18

I like this one... Though it was hard to choose, because I collect a specific type of signage (signs telling people not to do things they would obviously otherwise do because people are sometimes just predictably Like That, which I affectionately call Stupid Human Signs).

A sign in multiple languages advising people not to climb on the wall. The sign helpfully includes a graphic of a person climbing a crenellated wall, with the no symbol in red overtop. The sign is in the foreground, in the background is the ancient city wall with a mountain visible in the far distance behind it. Regardless of the signage, people have in fact been climbing on this exact same wall for approximately six centuries.

Impy@impchan· Jan 16

Brother in law and niece and I went to Changdeokgung today, and here my brother is modeling that the sky was so perfect today it doesn't even seem real.

An enormous person with a cane standing triumphantly beneath an intensely blue sky outside the throne room of Changdeokgung. There is a white swoosh of cloud directly over the ornate roof, which almost seems like it must be Photoshop but definitely isn't. Additional tourists, some wearing hanbok, peer into the throne room in the background.

Impy@impchan· Jan 13

Behold! We had to go up a flight of Death Stairs hidden in a tiny claustrophobic alley in the middle of a flea market to find it, but we found a shop full of robots, etc. Jim felt like he was in a museum.