Welp.

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”

cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/

Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)

More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)

Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/

A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code  spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/

The Linen Lab has a variety of weaves, weights, and colors available

Like, that man has lived, breathed and died for every second of all those 800 years; he is peepaw. Everyone else is still very much like 17-30 mentally, and it FUCKING shows. Heaven just feels like the PHD corners of a college campus.

Hua Cheng is the only one who even comes close to being on Xie Lian’s level, but that’s cause he is one of those young people with the souls of an ancient being kinda characters like he’s giving teen vampire boyfriend like he still very much feels like he’s 25 but he’s been 25 forever.

It's almost hard to believe, but the amazing and gorgeous @moonnogginn and I have collaborated! 💥🦊🐲 The fusion of our styles was so smooth that you might not even notice that I was drawing Foxxian's lineart and then rendering it on Lu's Dragonji lineart, just like she rendered mine one 😸