Galaxy Dust

So. I found an exciting thing while watching the latest episode of BNHA and I am excited.

I think All Might’s gaining weight??

LOOK. Below, at the start of the show:

Below, a little after Camino, when Deku first uses Shoot Style:

And below (and at the very top of this post) in the latest episode, a few months after Camino!

His face is FILLING OUT, guys. He’s visibly putting on weight.

And, like… it makes sense. He’s living in the dorms! He’s retired from active heroics, so no more pushing his body past its limits to save people (or just to “be the Symbol of Peace”). He’s in a structured environment, so less opportunity to forget/neglect his own needs. And he’s LIVING WITH OTHER PEOPLE–good people–who will also help take care of him now and make him pay attention to his needs!

…So yeah. It makes sense that he’d be putting on some weight now, with the decreased stress and improves environment. I just…

I never expected to actually see it.

He’ll always be a disabled character, thankfully, since he’s… you know. Missing some internal organs. There’s no fear of them trying to handwave that away, anyway—his arc is about learning to value himself and his life beyond his utility as a superhero, without the strength he built his image around. But…

Now, on top of that, he’s VISIBLY a disabled character whose physical health is improving, in a realistic way, with improved care?? That’s… that’s not even something I thought to LOOK for onscreen. They didn’t just leave him as his default skeleton-man animation model, as they so easily could’ve. They’re visibly showing how the positive changes in his life are affecting him, physically and mentally, in ways that put his health above his old status quo. (A status quo he’d only considered “good enough,” before, due to his own self-neglect… He told us, with apparent narrative weight behind him, that it was the best he could hope for, but now the narrative is telling us and him that he was WRONG. That even being that badly injured doesn’t mean there’s “no point” in looking after yourself–your welfare is ALWAYS WORTH CARING ABOUT!)

tonight’s commission warm down is some more usagi yagi

this rabbit bites wolves. 

The rest of the warm downs are visible on Twitter since I can’t show here. Im @bitediamond

sugar and soft shed fur in your bed sheets

Artwork by Simply_Nancy aka Prolific_Writer on AO3

Like you got this 6,4 beefy dude built like a tank in a video game and he is completely silent. You won’t hear him or see him unless he wants you to. And by then it’s far too late.

Dude’s bicep is bigger than your head and he’s on par with Nightwing when it comes to being nimble and performing acrobatic moves.

The Gods never left us.

Ra is the prickle in the skin of the reveller on a sun-kissed day, warming them inside and out.

Set is the roaring in the heart of every rioter, whose eyes are opened by the unrelenting fire He burns in their belly.

Thoth is the yearning for knowledge that drives the academic to follow their dreams, pushing them to greater heights.

Sobek is the promise of self-confidence, beckoning the shy ones from their shells, His hand guiding them to being their best selves.

Nut is the unspoken connection between lovers as they sit beneath star-spangled sky, Her embrace lulling them closer.

Sekhmet is the guttural roar in the throat of the blood-soaked warrior who defends what is rightfully theirs, fearsome and strong.

Geb is the whistle in the wind that rustles the hair of the gardener who plows His land and enjoys the spoils of His soil.

Hathor is the maternal love between newborn and parent, Her lips the gentle kisses full of tearful joy that make life so precious.

Ma'at is the courage that spurs the journalist to give justice to those who are otherwise denied, and to expose isfet without fear when they see it.

Anubis is the urge to protect those who are dearest, and to guide them to a life of grace and blessings.

They say the Gods are gone, forgotten, and a world away.

But they are here; you only have to look for them.

So I don’t know about you, but I’m often frustrated by the ridiculous smallness of girls’ pockets. At a bare minimum, I need to be able to shove my cellphone in there - come on, pants companies! So what I started doing was making myself pocket extenders. I’ve done this several times, for pants and shorts. It’s great.

I just got this pair of jeans, so I thought I’d show you how to do it. I kind of feel like it just hasn’t occurred to some of you that this is an option, so maybe now it will. All you need is your pants, some fabric (I just took a random piece from a scrap bin), a needle, and some thread (thread doesn’t even need to match the fabric since literally no one will see it).

See? Ridiculous. Like, half a cellphone, or only 2.5″. Useless.

 So turn those inside out to expose the pockets.

Figure out how big you want your pockets to actually be. I kinda go by whatever looks like might be right. I didn’t really measure them. Fold the fabric in half, so you have a pocket, and then fold it in half again so you can have two equal ones.

Try to get the edges to line up enough, pin it in place, then sew up the sides! Are your stitches crazy uneven and wonky looking? Doesn’t matter; nobody’s going to see it. These are in the inside of your pants. The only thing that matters is that it holds up. So I double-did the corners, since those tend to get the most stress.

Cut open the bottom of the existing pockets.

Pin it in place, then sew around, joining the new pocket to the old pocket. I did this by keeping my hand on the inside, so I wouldn’t accidentally sew through the other side. Again, I reinforced the corners, and didn’t worry about what it actually looks like. Then I turned it in side out to make sure the inside was all joined properly.

Yay all done! And the pockets are so much bigger now!