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@kadusey

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kadusey@kadusey· 6d

Tonight I read A Sorceress Comes to Call (also by @tkingfisher.com), which was also highly enjoyable. Probably will at least start on Hemlock & Silver tomorrow. Which reminds me, I got to see wolfsbane in bloom while I was in Alaska, so that was neat!

Some very round purple flowers (wolfsbane), shaped vaguely like a coin standing on edge, next to a bunch of other Alaskan wildflowers that I mostly don’t remember the names of now but the tall stem of pink buds might be fireweed?

kadusey@kadusey· 29d

Just preordered it from my local bookstore, I’m looking forward to it!

An order summary for Gareth Hanrahan’s The Dungeon Book.

kadusey@kadusey· 29d

I picked up these two rocks today while snorkeling in Ketchikan, Alaska. The white one is probably quartz, I don’t know what the other one is (slate? Schist? I dunno.)

2 rocks held in a hand over a white comforter. One rock is small and cream colored and I think is some form of quartz. The other rock is flat and gray and shiny.

A side-view of the gray shiny flat rock showing it has many layers like a slate. I don’t know if it is a slate or some other type of rock.

kadusey@kadusey· Jun 2

There’s a whole genre of photos of him wearing pants that are too tight just in the crotch that make it extremely obvious. Usually they are khakis.

Yoongi in an Adidas sweater that is white with green stripes going from the sleeve cuffs to the collar. He is sitting on a blue bench, wearing khakis, with his legs spread and his hand on the bench next to his crotch, where it is obvious the khakis are too tight.

Yoongi with white hair, sitting on a low windowsill in a brick wall. He is sucking on an orange lollipop. He’s barefoot for some reason. His outfit consists of a bright blue zip hoodie, and a pair of dark khakis. His elbows are resting on his knees, which are spread, making the not-roomy-enough-for-a-free-dangle crotch area very visible.

Yoongi sitting on a stool, with Jimin and RM in the background. It’s a still from a video, probably an interview or something. Yoongi is sitting up very straight, with a facial expression that might be contemplative or might be spacing out. He’s wearing a cream-colored cardigan over a white tee, there’s a lapel mic clipped to the collar of the cardigan. He’s also wearing very light-colored khakis. His hands are resting on his thighs, which are spread, giving a clear view of his trousers that are struggling to contain what his members say is his “very charming crotch area”.

kadusey@kadusey· May 25

Yesterday was very hectic, but I made it to my seat early today!

Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, still pretty sparsely full, with big central screens facing all four sides above a circular stage. There’s a hand holding a kind of purple cocktail in a plastic cup with ice and a lemon wedge in it.

kadusey@kadusey· May 23

option so am now all pleasantly tipsy, and then my husband had them give me roses at the end as a late birthday/anniversary/Mother’s Day surprise which was super sweet, and I am having a great time already!

Two orange roses in a drinking glass on top of a circular glass table with two chairs in the background

kadusey@kadusey· May 14

I finished my mock-up jeogori! I used almost the entire singular curtain panel that I found at the thrift store. It’s a heavy cotton. I love the pattern on the fabric. 😍 I messed up quite a bit on the collar, and need to make some more modifications when I make the next version, but I’m happy w/it.

Me, from the front, wearing a homemade jeogori hanbok shirt. It has elbow-length sleeves, and is a cross-front wrap shirt. The length reaches my hips. The fabric is dark blue with a very large pattern in mottled white and light green of peacocks and flowers.

The back of the jeogori. The back body panel has most of the pattern on it. Each flower design takes up almost a quarter of the back panel. The peacock is similarly sized.

kadusey@kadusey· May 12

I finally put together my Almost All Edges puzzle that I got, like, a year ago. I decided it would be a lovely activity to do yesterday, and it was.

A puzzle that is almost all edge pieces assembled on a puzzle table. The image is of a river and a pond, with lots of rocks and plants and small creatures (mainly anthropomorphized mice) scattered along the edges and in the water. The river looks like a maze, with lots of squared off curves and twists and turns. All the spaces between the twisty river channel, where there would normally be background pieces, have no pieces in them.

The puzzle is by Simone Giertz. It’s called “Summer Day on the River” and is available from Yetch Studio https://yetch.studio/products/edge-piece-puzzle

kadusey@kadusey· May 10

Here, have a cute little coatimundi video.

kadusey@kadusey· May 10

Woke up early this morning, went to the arboretum with spouse and youngest child, I got to go see coatimundis for the 1st time while they picked out some native and/or low-water desert plants to buy, then we came home and I got to take a long bath then eat and drink a glass of wine while they’ve

A coatimundi (a mammal in the raccoon family native to the southwestern US, Mexico, and Central and South America) in a tree, looking for fruit or bugs probably. It’s hard to see behind the foliage, but it is standing fairly upright on its hind legs against the tree trunk. It has golden light brown fur over most of its body, with some darker and lighter markings on its face and ears. It has a very, very long tail that is about as thick at its base as its hind thigh. The tail I think is about the same length as the coatimundi’s legs and body and snout are, all stretched out.

Another coati foraging through the leaf mulch covering the ground, surrounded by sparse vegetation and dappled sunlight filtering through the trees. The coatimundi happens to be in a patch of sunlight, making its rich russet coat stand out nicely. She is using her front paws and snout to dig through the leaves looking for bugs, and her tail is sticking upright in the air. The tip of her tail is darker fur, like her facial markings.

The arboretum employee said they’ve got 7 coatis hanging out there right now. There were 13, but the others left after winter mating season was done. He said the groups are almost entirely females, they kick the males out after they’re 2 years old. The males are solitary for most of the year but some come and hang with the group during mating season.

A coati in a tree, surrounded by loads of branches and leaves, they’re really all of the photo except the coati. She is facing to the left and her face is angled a bit towards the camera so you can see her features fairly well. She’s got a long narrow light-colored snout with a decently sized black nose at the end of it. She has light markings around her eyes, surrounded by some slightly darker fur on her cheeks and forehead. She’s got little round-ish ears on the top corners of her face. You can see the top part of her body but not really her legs or tail.

If you can imagine a mix of a raccoon, a fox, a red panda, a lemur, and a ringtail, that’s what i think coatimundis look like.

kadusey@kadusey· Apr 24

Today was a day for my skull bracelets and my suncatcher raincloud earrings.

A photo of a part of a wrist and a part of a face, featuring two bracelets with plastic beads shaped like skulls (one has turquoise beads and the other white beads), and an earring shaped like a cloud with three silver chains dangling from the bottom, each with a little suncatcher droplet-shaped bead at the bottom.

kadusey@kadusey· Apr 20

I already made one towel from this project on the loom I was renting before. I haven’t hemmed it yet, but you can see the pattern a bit better in this photo. That towel is a bit short, I will have to make this one quite a bit longer I think! (I had to remove the project to return that loom)

A towel woven in blue and purple yarn with the same pattern and yarn as the one that’s on the loom in the photo above. It hasn’t been trimmed or hemmed yet, and is very nubbly and probably needs an ironing. The pattern kind of looks like squares or interlocking rings in this photo.

kadusey@kadusey· Apr 20

Well, I’m nowhere close to done, but I got a couple of pattern repeats woven so you can get a vague idea of what it will look like when I’m done weaving (though you will probably have to zoom in to really see it). It’s a color & weave huck lace pattern. I remembered to set up floating selvedges too!

A weaving project that’s just been started on a floor loom. The loom is made of maple wood and is not completely in frame. The weaving is blue and purple threads but it looks mostly blue so far. A pair of knees clad in black space/moon phase pajama pants from Svaha are just visible at the bottom of the frame.

kadusey@kadusey· Mar 26

I finally realized what this hairstyling on Jimin reminds me of: The Little Prince.

The members of BTS standing in front of the blue The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon wall. They are all clustered together and everyone besides RM is making some sort of heart with their hands. I’m rather hoping RM’s hands are occupied with holding his crutches as I’m sure his ankle is sore after the shoot, but he’s at the back in the middle and I can’t tell.

kadusey@kadusey· Mar 26

Tae’s neck mole I think is maybe a little further up and forward than Jin’s so I suspect the Jimin photo is Jin like you said. (My friend is in Korea right now so I don’t know when they’ll respond.)

A screenshot of a Vogue Japan article about V of BTS with a photo of his face and a bit of bare shoulder in black and white. He’s wearing three necklaces. There is a small mole on his neck just above the necklaces.

kadusey@kadusey· Mar 20

I wanted to wear an ocean-themed outfit today in honor of Swim, but it is too hot outside today so I went with my vaguely-animal-print paisley overalls instead in honor of Like Animals. I really love all the songs on BTS’s new album, Arirang. They had me dancing around bathroom this morning.

A shot of part of my outfit today, with a teal ribbed knit tank top and teal overalls that have a paisley pattern in dark blue, black, and teal, interspersed with random bits of yellow and black non-specific animal print (I’d guess cheetah if I had to guess). There are three cream colored buttons holding the strap on the overalls.

kadusey@kadusey· Mar 14

Thanks mostly to my friends on here who are willing to accept dupes they already have from me on b-cd in exchange for cards I don’t have yet, I have been able to collect a lot more digital BTS photocards. I find it immensely satisfying every time I get to cross a category out!

A half-sheet of printer paper with a list of some of the categories of photocards on b-cd.app with the BTS member cards I still need from each category written next to them. Lots of the names are scribbled out.

An example of the text is “Black Swan (MOTS 7 AM) - BTS, Jin”. I’ve used lots of abbreviations for things that you probably won’t understand unless you’re also a BTS fan.

The other half of the sheet of printer paper with a lot more writing crammed on it. Some of the categories here are crossed out because they were not helpful long-term, for example “IDOL (LY-A AM) - all but Jin”.

The backside of the sheet of paper, unfolded, with yet more categories written on it. These are mostly the more recently added categories and don’t have as many crossed out. There’s also the categories from the last photo that were crossed out for being unhelpful in the way I’d written them, rewritten on this side with all the names so I can actually cross them out as I get them.

The handwriting on this side is incredibly messy, due to being written on the paper while it was held either in the air or against my leg.

kadusey@kadusey· Mar 9

I finished knitting sock number two! And I wove in my ends!! My first ever pair of knitted socks is done!! I have no faith whatsoever that my 2x2 ribbing will help hold them up but hopefully between the thickness of the yarn and how well they fit the rest of my feet they won’t fall down too badly.

A pair of feet up in the air, soles together, clad in thick teal blue knitted socks with a ribbed cuff. The socks go up to about mid-shin.

kadusey@kadusey· Mar 4

Version 3 I like better than version 2, though version 1 is still my favorite.

A third version of the same lover’s knot, with the knot still tied in just red cord but made to look more like a flower with four large petals. The keychain-y loop at the top is tied with thin white cord. There’s the same silver lotus charm and red tassel below the knot as with all the others.

kadusey@kadusey· Mar 4

I tried a version with just red cord. I don’t like it nearly as much, but it was a heck of a lot faster. Decisions, decisions.

Another lover’s knot, but tied just in red cord, still with the silver lotus charm and the red tassel.

kadusey@kadusey· Mar 4

I think I may have found The Knot I want to tie for my freebies. The knot itself is apparently the Lover’s Knot, and isn’t in and of itself too hard to tie. The hardest part is keeping the red and white cords in order if I decide to use both. I like it a lot with both, but it’s fiddly.

A small red and white keychain featuring a Korean lover’s knot, a silver lotus charm, and a red tassel.

kadusey@kadusey· Mar 3

A couple more tests as I try to figure out what’s gonna be doable for me to make for some concert freebies while also being something I’m happy with how it looks. More tests are needed still. (I have a limited number of the lotus charms and the tassels so I can’t make many this nice.)

Two little norigae-style keychain charm thingies, tied with mostly red cording with a little bit of white, with silver lotus charms in-between the knots and the tiny red tassels.

kadusey@kadusey· Feb 20

I finished the bit of my roving I was spinning off of and think it’s probably time to take the turtle off the spindle so I can start a new one and eventually have multiple little turtles to ply together. I just need to figure out how to take it off without anything unwinding itself. 😅

A hand holding a small white 3D printed Turkish drop spindle with some thin turquoise yarn wrapped around the cross bars at the bottom of the spindle in roughly a ball shape. The yarn hasn’t been plied together yet so it’s called a ‘single’ (as in, a single ply yarn). The ball of yarn on the spindle is called a ‘turtle’.

kadusey@kadusey· Feb 16

I made myself a little norigae! I was thinking of attempting to make a bunch of these for freebies, but connecting the big knot to the charm to the tassel took entirely too long, so maybe I will just make some much simpler ones sans lotus charm.

A very small norigae with a tiny red tassel, a silver lotus charm and a couple of small Korean knots (maedeup) along the red string to the big knot (which is about 1” across), which is a chrysanthemum knot tied with red cord paired with very thin white cord. The knot is woven together in the center and has seven petals coming out around the edges.

kadusey@kadusey· Feb 14

I went and read their article about GQ’s article, and holy crap, it’s so bad. 😂 They just summed it up, poorly, and cherry-picked a few quotes from it.

A screenshot of BB’s tweet linking to their article about GQ’s BTS article. The headline reads “BTS Wants to Stay Together ‘Into Our 60s’ Despite RM Saying He’s Considered Disbanding ‘Thousands of Times’”. The photo of BTS they used is from the PTD promo where they’re all wearing brightly colored button-ups in a convenience store.

kadusey@kadusey· Feb 11

I just got this pc from bcd Dark&Wild album streaming mission the other day, and how did anybody at the time possibly think this man was straight?! 😂

Yoongi with dark red short hair, heavy eyeliner, wearing a shiny black pleather-looking jacket and pants, with a medallion bracelet and a ring adorning one hand. He is sitting on a stool or cube or something, with his right leg crossed closely over the left, his right hand reaching across and resting, fingers artfully arranged, just below his right knee, and his left elbow resting on his right forearm with his hand up cradling the side of his face, which is turned slightly off-center.

Nothing about this photo looks remotely straight.

kadusey@kadusey· Feb 10

The knotting cord (surprise, surprise) worked very well, though it’s that terrible tinsely silver material on the outside, and the cord diameter is smaller than I want. The white braided nylon cord also worked very well, save for being kind of flat instead of round. At least it’s the size I want.

Two more of the flat circle-ish flower oval ring knots on top of the blue blanket. The one on the left is very small and made with silver “knotting cord”, while the one on the right is larger and was made with white braided nylon cord. Both only have two strands of cord braided through, rather than the four strands of the red yarn one.

kadusey@kadusey· Feb 10

The rattail cord I bought is quite slippery and a bit difficult to work with for tying knots. I bought a braided red yarn to try, but it’s too floppy to hold its shape well. I’ve now got some braided nylon cord and some knotting cord, we will see how they do before I pick one to get in red.

Two Korean knots (maedeup) resting on a blue waffle-weave blanket. The knot on the left is a chrysanthemum knot in red shiny rattail cord, it has a braided center and 6 petals around the outside. The other is an oval ring knot (?) in braided red cotton yarn, the knot has four strands wrapping around each other to form a shape kind of like a flower with 5 petals. The petals are not very long though, the knot is almost a circle.

kadusey@kadusey· Feb 8

Anybody want to send me $50 so I can buy this glorious blue terracotta fish pizza oven? 😂😍 She is a majestic lady and I would adore having her in my yard. 🐟

A large dusty blue pizza oven in the shape of a fish with its mouth wide open (which is where you put the pizza in). It is sitting on a black circular metal grill/grate thing over some large gravel. Below the photo is text that says “Outdoor Terracotta Fish Pizza Oven $50”

kadusey@kadusey· Feb 6

If anyone knows someone looking for tickets to El Paso, I have a ticket next to me for both day 1 and day 2! Section 23, row 61 for day 1, Section 22, row 66 for day 2, $143.15 each (original price after taxes). Cross-posting to X. @875tickets.bsky.social