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Sketches with Knights of Walpurgis.

I drew them while I was lying down and feeling sick… I don't like almost all the designs, I just couldn't come up with anything 😔

i tried my best to translate it into digital so that people get a bit more accurate look at them. Tho bear with me I've never done an actual pattern design sheet before!

so basically my hope is that anyone could print these out to any size of their choosing and get the same result, but ive never tried anything larger than approx. 3 inches with these sooo idk if you try it tag me!

the goal is to sew the backs together to the lines at the tip of the head to the middle of the butt. then leaving a space along the belly piece near the butt end and sewing from one side of the butt including all the legs and the "mouth" to the other side with its legs to get back to the butt. if that makes sense

i usually pause sewing up the body once the head is fully sewn together,, usually after ive sewn both arms and ill yank it inside out where ill start sewing on the little poofball eyes so i know theyre in a good place, then resuming the body, and then pulling the whole thing inside out and pushing out the tips of the limbs with a skinny blunt object like a dull pencil until i can see the stitches. if you attempt this piece definitely make sure you stitch up the arm and leg crevices very well!!!!

then just stuff the lad and sew up his back end and its done :)

one suggestion for fabric is always try to use a stretchy soft fleecy fabric with these because its much easier if mistakes are made during sewing and to hold the ROUND shape better

I think he would. I see him really engaging the students and also talking about philosophical questions, especially since defense against the dark arts brings a lot of questions like “what is right or wrong?” “What is evil?” “Is it okay to do evil for the greater good?” and he would be the only professor daring to talk about the ethical dilemmas in the wizarding world. (And also influencing his students thinking in these debates.) He would be super strict, but would still have a close connection to every single one of his students so he could subtly pull the strings.

Yes, he definitely would have been a pretty good professor (posts relating to Hogwarts education are here and here).

I will never say Tom Riddle is a good person, especially by the point that he asks Dumbledore for the position. If I’m being honest I wouldn’t hire him either by that point, but let’s play around for a minute and imagine if he was hired straight out of Hogwarts.

Tom is incredibly intelligent, has seen how ugly humanity can get, and has a unique world view in my opinion. He would have made an amazing DADA teacher because of these traits, he understands humanity in a way most wouldn’t and understands not all things are black and white.

DADA is taught usually as right and wrong, you are right to defend and wrong to use the dark arts. The class is rooted in an agenda that all dark magic is bad and that you should only ever defend yourself. They’re taught that magical creatures like werewolves are dangerous, dark and shouldn’t be trusted.

Tom Riddle knows humans are just as dangerous, understands you don’t have to preform dark magic to harm and kill others. He grew up during WWII and the Great Recession, he’s seen people who are completely down on their luck and are desperately fighting to survive. He’s seen the destruction muggle inventions can cause and how many lives can be lost.

This is not me saying he’s morally righteous, fuck no, Tom is most likely morally dark and morally grey at best. However, he would challenge his students world view, their morality, and force them to think outside of what they’re told to think. I always interpreted Tom as a character that doesn’t care for laws, rules and society norms unless it’s convenient for him. He’s aware of what society claims is right and wrong, now he’ll challenge it.

This is a class that has tons of grey area and is great for exercising a students mind. Even if they’re not talking about morals they could talk strategy that could be applied elsewhere. They’ll learn to understand what could be going on in a perpetrators mind, learn what leads animals and people to violence. DADA is a great place to strip a student down to just thinking logically for a moment, forget societal norms and beliefs for a moment.

This will help students tremendously in their futures by helping them understand themselves and others to an extent. I’ve had many teachers in my day challenge my morality, force me to try and understand the why behind horrible events. There’s always a reason behind actions, whether emotional and logical, and Tom would teach this.

The next generation would be interesting because they would be able to identify what people in the government are doing because they recognize strategy. They’ll see when propaganda is released to turn them against another group because their morals are being challenged. They won’t just blindly trust what they’re told because they’ve been taught to look deeper, not just at what they’re fed.

Also me, attempting to flirt: How's your day been? :) Did you know that trees pump nutrients into nearby stumps in an effort to keep them alive, resulting in stumps that survive for years entirely on the support of the tree community around them? I like how the trees can sense through their shared root system that their neighbor has been felled, and instead of taking advantage of the new lack of competition, they use their own nutrients to support their now-cut brethren. It's an act of innate, selfless community love from an organism that you'd think is incapable of such a thing, and, in a sense, it's a form of grief, because those surrounding trees won't be able to keep the stump alive forever, and yet they try to keep it alive for as long as possible anyways. It's both touching and a bit disturbing, the sense that trees are trying to hold off the death in their community for as long as possible, almost like they're unable to come to terms with it initially. It seems as though the themes of loss and grief transcend even animal life and have a presence in everything in the world around us. What're your thoughts on that? :D