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I just found out about freesewing.org and made myself some comfy trousers!

They offer a bunch of customisable free sewing designs, including instructions. Once you make an account and enter in you measurements, you can download any of their designs altered to fit your shape.

Which is hugely helpful for me, because I have unusual proportions that don't fit standard sewing patterns, and am not up to altering them myself.

I'll put the rest of the details under the cut but before that, if anyone in Perth has recs for good cheapish fabric places that deliver I'd love to hear about them!
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There's been recent rumblings on tumblr about people wanting to move to dreamwidth, which I think would be great!

Two nice guides to dreamwidth aimed at tumblr folk which cover most important things:

Here's a guide to how this all works on a cultural level

Disjointed Dreamwidth Tips (written by someone who wasn’t on LJ)

Some extra things:
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Fandom Stats displays AO3 data with graphs. It's nothing you can't see in a search result sidebar but the graphs are fun.

(For those going 'Hey, Sean, weren't you going to get into fandom stats?": I got one lecture into a stats course and it was all too hard and I did something else instead >.>)

Fannish links relating to the novels and adaptations of MXTX: MDZS/The Grandmaster of Cultivation/The Untamed, Scum Villain's Self Saving System, TGCF/Heaven Offical's Blessing

The MXTX Tavern: A discord for discussion of all the novels, as well as all the adaptations, for people over 18. So far people are pretty friendly and fun to chat to, and while still leaning young it's less overwhelmingly Actual Teens than the last MXTX-related discord I tried. The MDZS discussion (each book has it's own opt-in channels) has a lot of Untamed content but isn't just about The Untamed, which works for me.

mxtx_bargainbin An exchange where people finish each other's stalled fanfic WIPs based on the novels of MXTX. Run by the MXTX Tavern folk.

MDZS Audiodrama | Drunk Lan Wangji Bathtub Scene Animation using the subtitled audio drama for the dialogue, of the scene where Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian's building UST ends in drunken makeouts. Well drawn, romantic, hot, and slightly less overtly dubconny than the novel version.

Youtube then recced me this video of the scene where they actually declare their feelings but it's basically just the audio with subtitles. Which is a pity because I would LOVE to see a version with everyone else's YOU ARE DECLARING YOUR FEELINGS NOW?? faces. I'm not sure how well it works without the rest of the romantic context,

Meet Shameika Stepney, Inspiration to Fiona Apple on Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple wrote a song about a girl called Shameika who stood up to bullies on her behalf, based on a half remembered childhood experience. As a result the two women met again after 30 years and did a remix together because they both became musicians.

I already liked the song, having only a vague sense what it was about, so find this really charming. I found this article linked from an Interview with Fiona Apple where she talks, amongst other things, about being really into tumblr.

I wasn't feeling super enthused about doing up my island until I got Inspired by three specific visions:
1) a botanical garden full of fossils/bug statues etc and every type of plant
2) a spooky forest
3) a valley of waterfalls

They're all still WIPs but today I did the terraforming for the waterfall valley, now all I need to do is add flowers/trees and decide what to do at the back of it. Photos below the cut, as well as links to various cool Animal Crossing stuff I've found around the place.
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This month, One Shot Club, the roleplaying discord I'm on, is doing non-realtime "play by post" games. Normally time zones make it hard for me to match with the other (largely american) players, and I always find realtime voice a bit stressful. The games emphasise collaborative story-telling and involve a variety of interesting sounding scenarios. So this looks like fun, and I thought it might be relevant to some of you too.

The discord link.

The games for this month.

There isn't long to sign up so if you're interested don't wait too long.

The irc-like chat program Discord is the new shiny fannish social media. One advantage over irc is that it shows all messages posted, not just the ones you're there for, which makes for a better ongoing conversation. The advantage over tumblr etc is the ability to have private-ish, moderated, communal conversations. The advantage over message boards and mailing lists is that it's new and shiny.

I quite like it but it can be tricky finding servers (eg chat rooms) relevant to my interests. Currently I'm only a member of public ones, so I can share the links freely. Here are all the ones I know about.
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Back! Had a great time! VERY TIRED! So for now here's some stuff from random fliers I want to record before I lose the bits of paper.

From the Diversity Lounge:

Victorian Bi Alliance Played a cool game of cards with these guys, and let another biromantic ace type know she wasn't entirely alone :) They have general online stuff I mean to look into.

Gaymers.com.au Has a Perth branch??

From the Indie Pavillion:

Influent Vaguely interesting looking language learning game

Appointment with Fear Visual novel/kinetic superhero comic thing, looked interesting!

Boy Goes To Space Atmospheric looking minimalist story

Bonza WORD PUZZLE GAME. The only game in the pavillion I actually got excited about :)

Chair of the Wiscon Harassment Policy Committee talks about how they ended up with such an unpopular decision about a serial harasser. Lots of discussion in the comments about how the committees ended up missing/losing important information and (badly) reinvented the wheel regarding con harssment.

A discussion at ffa of a Dashcon apology. This con was an UTTER TRAINWRECK and the woman in charge seems determined on shifting blame to everyone but herself.