#himiko posts

Habemus (anti-)papem!!!! Congratulations to Cardinal Luis Tagle who rose to the top of the anti-pope conclave!!!!!

He’s a true antipope, coming after the election of both tumblr Pope Zuppi and Pope Leo XIV!

Cardinal Krajewski had a strong lead for a long time but Cardinal Tagle won the hearts and votes of dedicated electors who carried him to victory!!!!

Thank you to everyone who voted and to @howisthepope, without you tumblr wouldn’t have an antipope of our own ❤️

(okay follow up to me talking about my baachan on anarchblr’s post and also my “time is a flat circle” post)

Time is a flat circle again and my grandma turned 91 and I’m sewing her a kimono (on a machine that’s only a little younger than her) to wear at a festival to honor our ancestors this week.

Time is a flat circle and my college degree lands me a job doing mostly what my grandma and great grandma did except this time English is the dominant language.

Time is a flat circle and FDR and the American people called them “concentration camps” and the only way forcibly incarcerated Japanese people could get recognition for what happened is when they called them the (kinder) term “internment camps” and we are watching that history be erased again.

Time is a flat circle again and we can’t let my baachan leave the country because we’re not sure we can come back. Again.

made it kind of too short but here's my Myssoni shawl for my grandma!

Master post about my Battle Jacket

I decided I finally wanted to start a battle jacket and I couldn’t decide if I wanted a blue or black one when I found this half and half jacket at a thrift store

The blue part was a little too light for my tastes so I dyed it and had… hmmm mixed results

I dyed it with RIT Indigo blue— I’d recently used the same dye on another project so I knew what the “intended” color was supposed to be. My goal was a less intense blue than indigo but more saturated than my original. I started with “light denim” and wanted more like “faded” or “washed”

I made my dye vat half as intense as my last vat, did a little test piece which came out right in my target zone…. and got a lovely saturated RIT indigo instead

I’ve heard RIT color stripper can’t be used to lift actual original indigo dye from denim but I’m assuming the amount of original indigo dye is pretty minimal/negligible since my original garment color was so light. I’m curious about whether using color stripper, diluted, might help me lift some but not all of the dye.