ayyyyyyyyy

Qifrey, when you're not committing crimes, you're almost TOO good.

I feel like exiting the castle into literally THE HOTTEST hotspot mess of tentacles would be quite a bad idea, actually.

Secrets for the sake of secrecy. Sharing, but never Too Much. Yes, that seems like the usual.

Is... is it BAD that I want Qifrey and his entire Atalier to defect to the Brimcap side, or create some weird Middle Side of their own?

Qifrey, the flap-hat witch.

They're both so fucking endearingly stupid.

Somehow, Beldaruit seems to attract the wily, young ones with an intense sense of justice that can only be sated by theatrics

Okay Drama King.

Born to be on a backstabbing reality tv game show, forced to be a king without magic.

I swear if we do some sort of CLAMP style eye-injury matching bullshit, I will riot--

THANK FUCK

Question that just occurred to me: what if someone who had previously studied/knew medicine ended up being taken in as an apprentice? In an alternate universe, what if Coco, a commoner, had been studying under her mother, a doctor, when the events of the comic happened? Just a thought.

Ya know. In case anyone needs fanfics to write..........

.......not me. I don't. I don't have time for that.

Bad apprentice, back to bed.

ohhhshi-

THAT'S NOT THE POINT, CHILD

Somewhere off to the side, Beldaruit is crying tears of joy from the vindication.

no, no, he has a point. Yeet him, Coco. Yeet the man.

oh no........they're both stupid.

I'm about to tape this child to the bed.

You can throw yourself directly into danger when you're an adult, Coco.

GRANDPA NO.

Is he inviting her to hit him over the head with something heavy and make a run for it?

Or, perhaps, inviting her to turn herself into a tiny smoke statue...?

okay I gotta admit that's vERY cute

also, probably easier to draw than her regular getup.

sigh. Grandparents are all the same.

But I mean, he has a point though.

I'm glad that's how she remembers it, because that could have easily been a huge part of the trauma.

After modifying the pattern I had bought I made two rounds of testing (one with just the paper pieces and another out of cheap felt) to check if it all fit together okay! This took two weeks iirc? I only had a limited amount of wool felt and I wanted to make the plushie as big as possible, so I didn't have a lot of room for errors once I got going

The head! (plus one of the paws, I was testing appliqué stitches) I made it first, because it was the most important part and I wanted to make sure I got it right

The body! I made all the paws different because they're not always the same colour in the webcomic (check pages 619, 620 and 637, for example!); likewise, I didn't use exactly the same thread colour on both sides of the body. I really enjoyed the fact that you can embrace visible stitches when working with felt, it's not something I did with my previous plushies :>

Fun fact: as I was sewing on the dark purple pieces on Assokaphant’s front legs, I had to use pliers to force the needle through both pieces of felt plus stuffing, and I managed to break the needle fdshgfds

BUT THEN I ran into A Problem: sock too big for they trunk. Of course I could've put it in the washing machine until it shrank, but, you know, I was afraid it would take a while...

THANKFULLY Sharoo came to my rescue and made a perfectly-sized Assok for me!! It's adorable aaa I'm so glad. Couldn't have done it myself, truly the cherry on top

And then I packed them off into the Tube dgfdgf

Bonus:

Uh so I've mentioned in my first (emotional) wha post, there is a poem in the begging of chapter 47

it's about the Star who fell in love with the maiden of silver silverleaf tree and taught her magic. soo it sounds PRETTY familiar doesn't it?

I mean we have

the sky's kindest, most radiant star

And silverwood boy

And

The star taught silverwood tree magic so it could live in the world without suffering

And well kinda far-fetched, but the silverwood shared this knowledge with weakest creature on the world she loves

(he loves his girls sooo much I'm gonna cry)

So yeah basically Olruggio and Qifrey are just like guys from this poem. I will just hope they will get their's happy end

still relevant