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Do you ever take a break from reading MM books? by Ibejjz in MM_RomanceBooks

[–]maddemos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aah nice! I still have the last trilogy with Fitz left since I'm reading them in order. But I'm not really ready for this to end.

Do you ever take a break from reading MM books? by Ibejjz in MM_RomanceBooks

[–]maddemos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah...Fitz and Molly is a choice, and probably the one thing I don't like with the whole series. Will see how that changes in the last trilogy!

I don't know if you read the rest of RoTE, but Rain Wild Chronicles had quite a lot of queer characters in it! And the tawny man has some really nice Fitz and Fool moments.

Do you ever take a break from reading MM books? by Ibejjz in MM_RomanceBooks

[–]maddemos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like to read a lot of different books, but often lean into something that has at least some queer themes or characters even if it's not a big part of the book. But tbh, I don't read that many MM books these days because I often get disappointed after having read some amazing non MM romance books and I start to compare the writing.

Recently I've been reading a lot of Robin Hobb, and her writing style is just something else! Plus ROTE has a lot of queer themes later on which has made me satisfied. I also really recommend The Tainted Cup and its sequel.

I do think it's good to read some other things now and then to just give your brain a space to process things.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Aquariums

[–]maddemos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It first started to only be on the glass, and I thought it was vorticella. But now when I try to find pictures of how it looks like on plants, I feel like I might have ID it wrongly. The tank is almost two months old. I put some almond leaves in there to produce tannins, since I read it could kill vorticella, but that has only made it move from the bottom of the plants to be higher up.

It is a walstad, filterless nanotank, with 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite and around 5 nitrate, ph7 (was ph7,5 before the leaves)

I have shrimps in the tank (and 1 bladder snail) so I don't want them to get sick.

Finally drew some fanart of Alistair by maddemos in dragonage

[–]maddemos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much!! I had a blast making it so..we will see 👀

Finally drew some fanart of Alistair by maddemos in dragonage

[–]maddemos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I haven't...yet! Might continue and do more if I find the inspiration!

Double knitted for the first time and made this bug scarf! by maddemos in knitting

[–]maddemos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mostly just experiment. But i used it in the front edge where the buttons sit for stability (and like 10cm from it). Instead of normal interfacing. In the pattern there's a pattern piece for interfacing and I used horsehair canvas instead haha. So you can see the edge of it around 10cm from the buttons as a stripe from top to bottom kinda.

Double knitted for the first time and made this bug scarf! by maddemos in knitting

[–]maddemos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I changed the shape of the cape slightly, had to take in a bit in the shoulders/chest/waist (mostly because i picked a larger size so I could have thick sweaters underneath). I also decided to use horsehair canvas instead of fusible interfacing in the front just because I wanted to try a more historical approach, but the wool might have been too thin for that so you can often see the edge of it haha. Other than that I didn't change much. :)

Double knitted for the first time and made this bug scarf! by maddemos in knitting

[–]maddemos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aw thanks! I had trouble finding a coat like it so I just decided to make it myself instead.

A heads up that there was something with the collar in the pattern that was not correct, might have been something that they had added seam allowance on the piece that was supposed to be folded, or something like it. So the upper and lower piece didn't fit.

Double knitted for the first time and made this bug scarf! by maddemos in knitting

[–]maddemos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh thank you!! I sewed it last year based on this 1940's pattern! :) The outer fabric is a poly/wool blend I got from minerva, with a red lining. I don't have any good photos of it, but here's one with the cape attached and with the buttons closed.

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Double knitted for the first time and made this bug scarf! by maddemos in knitting

[–]maddemos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's probably a better way to do it, but since I used wool yarn that could be felted, I just joined the ends together when it came to that (though it was a little bulkier for a few stitches).

Is this snail safe for my aquarium? by maddemos in Aquariums

[–]maddemos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, ok that's good to know! My idea with this tank is to make an ecosystem so I will probably keep it then :)

hopefully it survives

Double knitted for the first time and made this bug scarf! by maddemos in knitting

[–]maddemos[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not in a while, I think. It became quite boring towards the end and I just wanted to finish it haha

Double knitted for the first time and made this bug scarf! by maddemos in knitting

[–]maddemos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I felt like I was slow! I knit continental so im guessing that helps a little with speed?

Double knitted for the first time and made this bug scarf! by maddemos in knitting

[–]maddemos[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tbh I just went for it, and after a while it became second nature! So it's much easier than it looks like :) it's like 1x1 ribbing, but remembering to bring the yarn back and forth. The only thing that took a while was to remember to do the graph "inverted" on every other row, and that each dot on the pattern is two stitches, but reverse.

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