Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷

@sparkleponycass

JtoE game translator. Mostly romance/VN. 17+ years pro translating! 1 puppy, 2 kitties. She/her, disabled, neurodivergent, queer. I 💖 UTA-PRI & YUMEKURO & BMC!! & bacon. FYI: I block follow farmers by default. ~somewhere in Aussieland~

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Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· 12d

Following out of curiosity! I haven't done mine in like... 6-7 years? But I'd been using Directions then and was happy with it. This is on natural blonde hair. (Left in for a few hours to get the intensity.) I've also heard good things about Artic Fox and Lunar Tides.

A photo of me from behind showing my dyed hair. The left half of my hair is a vivid purple and the right half is a deep pink, and my hair is hanging down my back to butt length.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· 23d

And I'm soooo happy with how it turned out! This pic is the shirt I based it on -- I wasn't going for an exact replica, I just wanted the vibe. But I actually like my new version even better than the original! I think the purple accent fabric for the eyes and mouth really gives him so much depth!

A photo of a pink and black raglan shirt with long sleeves. The main body of the shirt is pink, with a print of two black eyes and a black ghostie mouth in the top centre. Below the face, two pink arms are sewn onto the shirt and hang down. The sleeves and shoulder area of the shirt are black, with two pink horns sewn onto the front just above where the sleeves meet the main body.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· 23d

It's time for more sewing photos! Please imagine I'm grinning with delight in these. Because I am! The backstory for this is long, so I'm posting it in the replies, and I'm not expecting everyone to read it, no worries. XD Please just enjoy my awesome ghostie top cuz I'm soooo happy with it! 👻💖

A photo of me with my head cropped out, just showing my top. (Sorry, I don't like posting pics with my face online anymore.)

I'm wearing an oversized jumper (sweater) in a warm chocolate brown colour. The neckband, sleeve cuffs, and hemband are all in a contrasting fabric that has stripes of random widths running up and down it, in various shades of dark purple, light purple, black, and white.

The jumper/sweater also has applique on the front: there are two horns near the top, also in chocolate brown, and then in the top centre there are two eyes that are different sizes, and a smiling mouth that has four lines running vertically down across it, like stitch marks. The eyes and mouth are done in the stripey purple accent fabric. Beneath them is a pair of loose arms attached at the top and dangling downwards. They each have three rounded fingers.

The end result is a ghostly face and arms that take up the entire front of the shirt!

A photo of me with my head cropped out, just showing my top. (Sorry, I don't like posting pics with my face online anymore.)

I'm wearing the same oversized jumper (sweater) as in the previous pictures, but I'm holdng up one of the ghost's arms to show how it hangs free.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Jul 7

this is priceless tho, thank you for brightening our days

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Jul 6

Just appreciating some absolutely gorgeous art here. 🥰 this is my three. I'm sooo Capricorn but my Sagittarius ascendant also explains a *lot*, lol.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Jul 4

I'm particularly proud of these pants because I hand-embroidered that vine along the pocket bands! I drew the design myself based on something I'd seen online, and then learned some new stitches to makes it work. I'm still an embroidery noob and this is only my second time embroidering on clothes!

Another photo of me from the waist down, to show off my pants.

I'm wearing a black pair of palazzo pants, where the bottom quarter of each leg is a dark mint green velvet fabric with a black paisley pattern printed on it.
The pockets are also visible in this photo, and the diagonal pocketbands are the same dark mint green velvet fabric with the paisley pattern. There is also a thin, hand-embroidered vine pattern running alongside each pocketband, with a tiny heart at the centre of the vine.

I'm also wearing pale pink shoes. I love my pink shoes.

A closeup of one of the pockets on the palazzo pants. Here you can see the paisley pattern on the pocketband fabric more clearly. You can also get a better look at the embroidery. It's a long wavy lne with leaf shapes on either side to make it look like a vine. In the very centre is a small heart. The embroidery was done with two strands of normal mint-green thread, and one strand of pearlescent mint-green thread, so here and there it gives off a little bit of sparkle!

A closeup of one the other pocket on the palazzo pants. Here you can see the paisley pattern on the pocketband fabric more clearly. You can also get a better look at the embroidery. It's a long wavy lne with leaf shapes on either side to make it look like a vine. In the very centre is a small heart. The embroidery was done with two strands of normal mint-green thread, and one strand of pearlescent mint-green thread, so here and there it gives off a little bit of sparkle!

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Jul 4

I don't have a lot of energy with ME/CFS, and most of what I have goes to work. I'd like to use the rest to keep up with friends, but after using language for work all the time, that's often too exhausting. However, I am at least able to use it to keep practising my sewing, slowly and steadily. 💖

A photo of me with my head cropped out, just showing my outfit. (Sorry, I don't like posting pics with my face online anymore.)

I'm wearing a black pair of palazzo pants, where the bottom quarter of each leg is a dark mint green velvet fabric with a black paisley pattern printed on it.
On top I'm wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt with a loose sleeveless top over it. The visible part of the t-shirt body is blue-green, with a grey neckband, and the sleeves are grey, and each sleeve has double-layered bell-shaped cuffs, one blue-green, one grey.
The sleeveless top is a chocolate brown fabric that is a sort-of wavy mesh, allowing the blue-green of the shirt to show through in places. It has a v-neck that nicely shows off the rounded neckline of the shirt under it.

I'm also wearing pale pink shoes. Because I can.

A photo of me with my head cropped out, just showing the top half of my outfit. (Sorry, I don't like posting pics with my face online anymore.)

I'm wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt with a loose sleeveless top over it. The visible part of the t-shirt body is blue-green, with a grey neckband, and the sleeves are grey, and each sleeve has double-layered bell-shaped cuffs, one blue-green, one grey.
The sleeveless top is a chocolate brown fabric that is a sort-of wavy mesh, allowing the blue-green of the shirt to show through in places. It has a v-neck that nicely shows off the rounded neckline of the shirt under it.

A photo of me from the waist down, to show off my pants.

I'm wearing a black pair of palazzo pants, where the bottom quarter of each leg is a dark mint green velvet fabric with a black paisley pattern printed on it.
The pockets are also visible in this photo, and the diagonal pocketbands are the same dark mint green velvet fabric with the paisley pattern. There is also a thin, hand-embroidered vine pattern running alongside each pocketband, with a tiny heart at the centre of the vine.

I'm also wearing pale pink shoes. I love my pink shoes.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Jun 18

💗💗💗

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Jun 13

This is so incredibly cool, thank you! I just looked up both mine and my wife's, and I love how different they are! ✨

A visualisation of my wife's bluesky account.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Jun 7

Y'all I was so excited when I won this and yet I still did not appreciate how much incredible stuff I won omfg 😍 It turned up today and I'm floored. Thank you, Leigh!! It's been a rough year so far, but my heart is so full right now. Also READ SCHISM EVERYONE! I love it so much you have no idea 💖

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Jun 6

ahaha my wife saw my post and brought the manta ray out for proper photos so here you go! I got the minky fabric as a large offcut piece from someone on ebay ages back selling a whole lot of minky offcuts. I love how over-the-top it is. ✨

A manta ray plushie with cute anime-style eyes! The top is made of a minky fabric with a very 70s-esque print, with stars, flowers, swirls, and peace symbols in shades of pink and blue, with some orange, yellow and white for good measure. The bottom is only just visible, but is made of plain yellow minky fabric.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Jun 6

So I finally tried my hand at making plushies so I could give my wife some plushies for her birthday, and I'm really happy with how they turned out. 💖 I made mistakes here are there, but as they're my first ever plushies *and* my first attempts at doing applique, I'm still really proud of them!

A cute t-rex plushie made of bright pink velvet, with a fluffy pale pink belly. He has big white teeth, and big anime-style eyes done with applique.

A manta ray plushie made of a funky minky fabric with a 70s-esque pattern in pinks and blues on top, and a yellow minky fabric for the belly. It has cute anime-style eyes done in applique. It's being held up in the foreground of the photo, with a fireplace in the background (with fire burning), and a grey tabby cat sitting in front of the fireplace. I forgot to take a picture of the plushie before I gave it to my wife, so instead you get her photo after opening her present!

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Jun 5

Wow, and talking about it brings all the creeps to the yard

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· May 27

Excuse me but how is our cat so damnedly adorable????

A grey tabby cat named Gwennie standing on a black box in front of a white wall, and leaning forwards curiously towards the camera. Her expression is curious, and she is unbelievably adorable.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· May 22

This wallaby came all the way up to our verandah recently! ✨

A wallaby hanging out on our lawn, looking surprisingly chill considering there's a human nearby.

The same wallaby, still on our lawn, but closer now and even eating the grass right next to the verandah, despite there being a human nearby watching and taking photos!

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· May 21

So glad you're home safely and that it went well!! And glad you got confirmation finally 🫂 here's some recent wallaby and kanga pics to brighten your recovery! 💖

A whole lotta kangaroos mowing our lawn for us.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· May 19

My wife and I have been pronoucing it VICTOLY for multiple decades because of Samurai Shodown. (We originally bonded a lot over SS3.) (I've also been unknowingly spelling showdown wrong for the same length of time due to Samurai Shodown. Only finally realised a few years ago. Thanks, SNK! 😂)

A screenshot of the final moment of a fight in the fighting game Samurai Shodown. One player has defeated another, and "VICTOLY!!" is written across the screen in large letters.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· May 2

This is such a great read, thank you. This hit hard and I'm going to be sitting with it for awhile. I've never heard it summarised like that before but it makes so much sense... and I can see parallels to so many other situations where being treated unfairly is dismissed as inconsequential.

"Every falsified meme offered up tends to have its own moral weight for this reason. They offer a pressure release valve to members of a community that feels they can’t simply say that they’re being treated unfairly, because the broader social system of capitalism deems that an unacceptable plea."

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Apr 27

I also like putting up strands of fake flowers twined with fairy lights in various places for fun! I coloured the bulbs of these fairy lights pink and purple to better match the flowers.

A photo of a white brick wall and the white boarding over the top of a sliding door. A long strad of flowers twined with fairy lights is hanging artfully along the full length of the boarding. The flowers are purple roses with green leaves, and the led bulbs of the fairy lights have been coloured pink and purple to match the flowers.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Apr 27

I've got a feature corner above my bed with removable wall stickers. They're for kids' rooms but I picked a set that works for me (I love butterflies). I bought from a local business and they're really good quality; I've moved house and they came off with zero issues and went up again fine too.

A photo of a brick wall painted white and covered haphazardly with removable stickers. The stickers are mainly of butterflies in various shapes and sizes; some have their wings fully spread while others are shown from the side with only one wing visible. They're all in shades of pink, purple and blue, and between them are a few random cloud stickers in pink and grey. The top part of a large, ornate black and purple bedhead is visible at the bottom of the photo, with some octopus plushies on one side and some fake purple flowers draped over the other side.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Apr 22

Lol I'm so out of the loop lately I didn't even know who they were and yet... 😂

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Apr 20

Email Subject: "Your IMDb account will be closed soon" Me: "I don't remember making an IMDb account, sounds fake" Email Body: "Dear Goober" Me: "oh yeah that was definitely me then!" XD

IMDb partial email screenshot:

"Dear Goober,

We noticed you haven't signed in to IMDb in over three years, and your account shows no activity (no Watchlist, ratings, reviews, or lists)."

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Apr 6

Bonus video: LOOK HOW SWOOSHY! ✨

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Apr 6

Okay I should be in bed but first I'm going to post my pride and joy, which I finally finished sewing last night after months of working on it (note: mostly percolating ideas for how to finish it XD). I'm still a noob sewist and this is the most complicated thing I've ever sewn! But I looooove it 🥰

A photo of me from the waist down, wearing an amazing skirt! The skirt is made of dark blue velvet with a layer of gold sparkly pleated material over it. The velvet layer has ruffles all along the front. Matching velvet ribbons hang down the front from the waistband in two places, and are used to hitch up the pleated layer, allowing it to drape more artfully. Matching velvet drawstrings can just be seen on either side of the pleated layer, where they're used for ruching it up to a shorter length. Oh, and I'm also wearing black boots.

Another picture of me from the waist down, wearing the same amazing skirt, and the same boots. This picture is taken on a slight angle, and my leg is stretched out towards the camera to help show the ruching on one side of the skirt.

Another picture of me from the waist down, wearing the same amazing skirt, and the same boots. This picture is taken mostly from the front again, but I'm lifting up the ruching on the opposite side to better showcase it.

Another picture of me from the waist down, wearing the same amazing skirt, and the same boots. This picture is taken from the front again, but here I'm holding up the very outer edge of the velvet layer to show just how much fabricis in it! There's a lot of fabric!

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Mar 23

Gotta love those SINOULAR nouns.

COLLECTIVE NOUNS CAN BE SINOULAR OR PLURAL

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Mar 19

My wife and I are mostly housebound due to disability. She is also my carer because I am mostly bedbound. Neither of us qualifies for DSP or NDIS. This paragraph felt very on the nose, given that our dog only gets walks when my wife feels able to. In other words, I appreciate this article a LOT.

"In the world that outlets like the AFR want, disabled people would be eternally locked in their houses alone, being supported just enough to barely stay alive while they slowly die, away from where non-disabled people can see them, with maybe a dog to keep them company, but that dog also doesn’t deserve to go outside, and it’s slowly dying too. Greedy, good for nothin’ dog."

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Mar 17

There's not one but *two* people in the replies to this being disingenuous and trying to discredit the OP and/or defend the MTL team, and both accounts have no other posts on Bluesky aside from these. Just a headsup, block and move on.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Mar 15

Hey, I have a backpack like that, but mine's shinier. Also it cost more like AU$40, not $400. I guess it has less layers, though?

A shiny reflective backpack that looks like a carapace, or some sort of insect pod or egg.

The shiny reflective backpack from a different angle. It is being held up and turned slightly to the side to better show the layers of the carapace/pod/egg.

The shiny reflective backpack from a different angle. It is lying on one side to better show the layers of the carapace/pod/egg, as well as the equally shiny straps that go over the shoulders when wearing it.

The shiny reflective backpack from a different angle. It is lying on one side, and the top has been opened to show how the layers of the carapace/pod/egg part retract.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Mar 10

Forever and always!

Ed from Cowboy Bebop being ridiculously awesome, as always.

Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷@sparkleponycass· Mar 9

I don't know if you use pdf patterns or anything but if you ever want to talk patterns or pattern swaps or recs, feel free to hmu! I don't know many other people who are also learning to sew but I it's fun chatting to you about it! oh and here's a pic of the only small pouch I've made so far ✨