#like maybe...just maybe...i can hope...it'll happen...

It begins again

It's done! Yeah, the frame's not square, it's stretched weird, and I wasn't able to do all the bits and bobs that I wanted, but I'm proud of it. It looks cool. It got 2nd in counted cross stitch at my county fair (out of five, so I'll take it).

I used some of the satin floss to get the shiny parts on Soundwave, since I have a shiny version. I dunno if this is an appropriate use for it, but there it is in it all it's hard to use glory. Between it and the glow-in-the-dark, I'm not sure what was worse to work with.

I wanted to add all their names in the glow-in-the-dark, but it just wasn't looking good, so I nixed it for the cassettes this time around - I'm thinking if I do it on the 14-ct aida like I'd planned it might have turned out easier to read, but that floss is just a bitch to work with anyway. So, just Soundwave gets it this time around. I thought it was a cool idea, since they're robots in disguise and the floss blended in well to the fabric from afar.

I spaced the letters out the way because I couldn't get it to be even, but I figured a longitudinal wave would be a good way to go about it. Because sound.

Picking which cassettes to put in, since there just wasn't room for more and still look good, was a little difficult. I got the most common ones on there, but wasn't sure for the last two... I went with Garboil and Howlback, since that's what was listed in the RPG book, though I toyed with Flipsides and Enemy. If I get around to selling the pattern, I'll probably add a couple extras for people to customize it a little to what they like the most.

Colors were picked based on the toys I had on hand and looking for pictures of them on the internet. I looked at the sides to get an idea of what pattern to use for each cassette.

(I've been informed this is a Rumble is Blue household, but I'll leave it to you to decide who's who)

I'm not sold on using "80s HITS" on there, but it fit and I'm not a great designer. The coloring came from the toy box logo, at least the best I could get out of it.

Finally, here's my back and before backstitching images. The back's not pretty, but it could be worse.

This project was the first time I used fractional stitches, fractional backstitching, 22-ct hardanger, actual gridding, satin floss... I learned a lot working on this.

I'm pretty sure both the fabric (from some random stuff I had around) and the frame (from my grandmother's basement) are older than me, so it kinda fit into the vibe. I've more than doubled my DMC floss selection from this.

Oh, it's also on my WIP Soundwave wall now too. Not too full, but once I find my few other toys (mostly a couple cassettes) and buy frames for the Skybound comic issues I've collected, I'll have more up. I'm hoping to get more pins, though.

in an ironic way this write-in makes me like the battle van more after calling it a 'family-sized mini-van'..

But. Who on Earth recommends them as comedy books. They do have some funny and even hilarious moments, but overall it's such an upsetting read. Genuinely.

Like sure, it's absurdist and some weird/dumb shit happens and there's some quirky narration, but evidently my brain is very good at suspension of disbelief, so those bits don't really give a tonal whiplash, and it has the full ability to focus on the parts where the main characters are going through some kind of torture carousel of horrors and have horrible things happening to them constantly.

And I heard the next books are even worse in that regard, especially Last Human. I'm still gonna read them, probably, but maybe like a few months down the line, I don't think I would be able to handle them right now.

HIIIIII so we're done with the main part of trial 3. yay yay. all verdicts are here and now we can move on to post-t3 voice dramas.

i just wanted to explain how exactly the trial will end and what post-t3 things to expect.

there's gonna be a lot of stuff so i hope it's not too confusing...

(no exact dates bc i'd rather not make promises that i can't keep ^^'' im finally done with all the vds tho!!)

so here's the post-t3 vds list! honestly there's so much i think this can be counted as linagram season 4 😭😭

[ Post-T3 Voice Drama #01 ] Came For The Reward, Stayed For The Punishment

a first voice drama about a conversation between a certain guard and a certain prisoner. pretty short compared to. the rest of the vds, but still kinda important.

2. [ Post-T3 Voice Drama #02 ] The Recollection of Everyone's Sins (Part 1)

discussing the first five prisoners' crimes (akio, aimi, shun, naomi, kei) and what is going to happen to them.

3. [ Post-T3 Voice Drama #02 ] The Recollection of Everyone's Sins (Part 2)

discussing the other five prisoners' crimes (eiko, asahi, yurika, riku, reina) and what is going to happen to them.

4. [ Post-T3 Voice Drama #03 ] The Judge Becomes The Judged (Part 1)

the guards' trial. yikes.

5. [ Post-T3 Voice Drama #03 ] The Judge Becomes The Judged (Part 2)

discussing the guards' crimes before coming to milgram. YIKES.

6. [ Post-T3 Voice Drama #04 ] No Justice In This Place

punishments. we're really doing this.

7. [ Post-T3 Voice Drama #05 ] Accept This Punishment Called Life

the very last vd. kind of a short one but it's. very emotional. at least to me.

andddd that's it! i really meant it when i've said there's going to be. a lot of stuff

like I need Erin Fitzgerald as Chie. and Yuri Lowenthal as Yosuke. and Johnny Yong Bosch as Yu and Adachi. and so on.

I understand why SEES got a whole new cast. There was controversy, and a couple of members had already been recast a few times anyway, so a fresh cast made sense.

I feel like the ITs voices are too. iconic? at this point though? and I'm fairly certain all of them are still very active in voice acting too. so I'd hope that at least some of them would be able to come back.

What gives me hope is that Tara Platt got to come back as Elizabeth. and now that he's not voicing Makoto and Ryoji, Yuri's Yosuke will sound more distinct.

not that I don't enjoy/not looking forward to what I have left... but I wish it was already done so I have new things to write!! or at least imagine writing lol

sometimes I have things sitting on my list for so long that the more I look at it, I'm imagining it more, and then it gets. idk. kinda like the equivalent of my brain chewing a piece of gum for a long time till it can't taste flavor anymore??

my brain is like "well I've already thought about it for a while, now you wanna actually write it down??? lol no" BRAIN WHY

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