Fannish Knits

I finished the sleeve 2.0 earlier this week 👀

My final for the first year of my fashion and textile course :] fossils cardigan featuring living fossils like coelacanth and lots of dinosaur bones. Big love letter to palaeontology and natural history. Got super into my knitting machine but I wasn’t very adept with it yet so I sort of crocheted around the edges of my pieces and sewed them all together, and crocheted some edges/ribbing. The buttons are handmade from polymer clay. Used some second hand gold yarn I found in a charity shop and a whole bunch of mixed variegated wool together. My most ambitious project yet I completely just did not speak to people for that final month I was working on this 😭

Some close ups:

And my watercolour paintings this piece was based on:

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

Also for anyone curious, the character is Luye from The Legend of Hei II. Official design vs. the fanart under the cut:

The hat I made for context

Double knitted a tapestry (cape? towel?) of @narcissistcookbook's logo. This is only my third knitting project and my first time making something off of a grid and double knitting something.

Casting on and off was hard but I loved seeing it come together.

Started: April 2026. Finished: June 5, 2026

I'm making the fox sweater from Project Hail Mary. This is the second thing I've knitted and I'm super proud of it. This is the back panel and so far theres one leg on one of the foxes and I'm beginning on its second leg

I was tagged by @boredandqueer @loki-is-my-kink-awakening @blackbirdofasgard @westwardly