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Hey iamshadow21, it’s your fic! 😀
Fun note: Wal-Mart now carries Marvel knee high socks, and in addition to the shield, Cap’s has little wings.
Even MORE fun fact, I bought a pair and snipped the wings off to use them on a hat.
OH MY GOD THAT’S AMAZING.
TONY, STOP. NO MEANS NO.
(Tony would totally want to do all kinds of tests on Steve’s headwings. He would also get very very angry at the lack of logical physics surrounding their ability to make Steve fly.)
Barely started this, and I am already in love with everything about it. The handle on the yarn is gorgeous – it’s Moda Vera Beetle, a 50/50 cotton acrylic blend – and the radial lines of the faggoting lace (not an epithet, a historical knitting term) are really pleasing and stand out despite the bright colourway. I hope to have this finished in time to wear to Mardi Gras, as it’s kind of the perfect mix of autistic/queer pride between the spiral design, the sensory friendly fabric and the rainbow colours. Pattern is Breathe by Siew Clark.
1) Why did you choose your URL?
Way back in the heyday of Angelfire, when you chose your URL, you had to choose from a set handful of two-letter combinations and then your chosen handle went on the end. ‘ia’ was one of the options, so I chose that and made my username ‘mshadow’. The 21 is because I like the number 21 and because some websites I’ve created accounts with, iamshadow has already been taken.
2) What is your middle name?
I don’t give out personal information, but I will say that it’s old-fashioned. Like my first name, which a couple of you know, it’s a name people associate more with old ladies than people in their thirties. I was given it because there were people with that name a few generations back on both sides of my family tree.
3) If you could own a fairytale/fictional pet, what would it be?
I used to want a pocket-sized dragon. Common, maybe, but no less awesome for it.
4) Favorite color?
Right now, probably purple, but I have strong loves for peacock blue, duck egg blue, jade green and cool yellow.
5) Favorite song?
I don’t really have one? I have very eclectic tastes and have handfuls of songs I like in many genres. If I had to pick one I come back to a lot, even though I don’t listen to a lot of electronic music, it’d be Massive Attack’s Teardrop. It was on one of my Triple J’s Hottest 100 albums that I bought around the time I left school, and I found it soothing to listen to on repeat while I was writing, many years before I was dignosed autistic and learned that aural stimming was a thing. I still use it sometimes when I get anxious to mellow me out and calm me.
6) What are your top three fandoms?
Right now, Marvel/Avengers is my primary, but I dabble in Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, CSI, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie’s Marple/Poirot, White Collar, Welcome To Night Vale, and Endeavour/Inspector Morse/Lewis.
7) Why do you enjoy tumblr?
I love the fan content, especially the amount of visual media and meta.
8) Tag all 9 of your tumblr crushes (they have to do all 8 questions too who can do this if they like)
No obligation for anyone to do this at all (I rarely do memes myself), but people I love dearly and follow avidly on Tumblr include: @actuallyclintbarton @jabberwockypie @kath-ballantyne @randomyayness @neurowonderful @spiralstreesandcupsoftea @the-wordbutler @literalbookworm and @copperbadge
amara1783 replied to your photo post
That throw is GORGEOUS!!! Well done – having knit something similar I know it must have taken ages – what a labour of love! Thank you for sharing and brightening my day and making my knitterly heart skip a beat 🙂
Thank you! It took me maybe two weeks? It was 8ply yarn and I knit all day, pretty much, so it went fairly swiftly. It was very heavy on the needles by the end, though, so I was glad to finish it.
Winter Soldier Blanket – more or less complete! My job is done, anyway. Emma is going to outline the star in black, and may yet do radiating lines from the star points to the edge. Knit in 8 ply acrylic with a soft handle and a slight shine. Absolutely winged it with the colourwork star, making it up as I went, then once I switched to the silver rings, I used pi shawl increases. There’s slight ruffling because Emma wanted smooth increases, so I did kfab rather than yarnovers, which would have left eyelet holes. For scale – that is spread on our double bed. Final stitch count was 576. I used seven 100g balls of silver, part of a 100g ball of red, and about 1 ½ 80g balls of black, so the final weight is fucking heavy.
Newly acquired comics – Hawkeye: Blindspot and Captain America: Man Out Of Time. Blindspot is unfortunately a very flimsy-feeling softcover, because the entry on the website I bought it from was wrong and said it was hardback. I got a partial refund, but I kept it, because I couldn’t find a single hardcover available for sale on the internet. Maybe I’ll find one in the future. Man Out Of Time is hardback and lovely, and I’m just happy to own it.
Same Dan, same.
I mean, yes, this is true, but I also feel like Peggy has better sense than to volunteer as the guinea pig for an experiment when the previous test subject developed megalomania, noselessness, and terrible case of red cranium.
Volunteering AFTER Steve successfully beefcaked up without contracting supervillainous side effects is far more sensible — similar to what happens in roboticonography’s amazing fic Flames We Never Lit.
I may be writing an AU where Peggy has always been sick and is actually dying when a newly arrived Erskine offers her the prototype serum to save her life…
Knitting update.
Number one is the Winter Soldier blanket I’m making up as I go as per Emma’s wishes. The rest are of the completed Forest Path Stole commission, pinned out for blocking.
When I snap a wooden knitting needle, it MIGHT just be you know, stuff happens. So I switch to metal for a bit.
When I BEND A METAL NEEDLE IN HALF, I’m probably too stressed out to be knitting.
*headdesk*
I originally purchased a Knitpro Spectra kit with beautiful rainbow acrylic tips. I stress fractured a pair of tips in six days. Fortunately, I was able to negotiate a replacement/upgrade to a Nova kit with nickel/brass tips, which are a bit more hard-wearing. Still, this is how my 3.25 pair looked after I finished the Forest Path Stole commission two days ago.
A Long Beanie made into a slouchy hat for a lady with a 23" head by adding an inch in length and eight stitches to the diameter. Knit in our handspun from our coloured fleeces (not dyed).
As an autistic person with major anxiety issues, I do a lot of comfort watching (and watching, and rewatching). I like mysteries, and have a fond affection for Agatha Christie. David Suchet’s Poirot and Geraldine McEwan/Julia McKenzie’s Marple are series I can watch over and over and enjoy just as much every time.
And as a knitter, as someone who knits every day to help control my anxiety, keep my mind active and make a little pin money on the side, it’s a wonderful thing to watch the skill with which both Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie knit.
They’re not just mocking for camera – they’re both wonderfully accomplished knitters who can knit speedily, often without looking at their work, all while delivering a performance. How often is there something made for television or film these days that involves a character doing any kind of handcraft, let alone a fibre art? There are so many of us out there in the modern world who still knit for pleasure and for pasttime and for pocket money. It’s lovely looking at media and admiring characters wearing everything from a jumper to a hat to a woolly scarf, and guessing what might have been lovingly hand knit by someone in the costume department, but actually seeing it knit on screen – that’s a rare joy indeed.
knitting in the dark 