#spinners

Spinners - The Best of Spinners (Atlantic, Compilation, 1978) - Art direction by Bob Defrin, illustration by David Willardson

A rare album cover with with the artist's signature. I've said this before but we should have more of that.

League of Villains icons from the 10th Anime Anniversary event!

Title: Yuri!!! On Ice Postcard Spinners

Description: Postcard spinners for your displays. 2 swatches. Mesh linked below.

Another older work, with updated file name and info.

Please let me know if there are any problems and I’ll do whatever I can to fix them.

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Credits: Sims 4 Studio Around The Sims 4 ChronicallyKiki

Requirements: Mesh: Postcard Stand

Download: Sim FIle Share Ko-Fi

Time to do a mammoth run of gentle washing, drying and checking for moth holes in this set of handspun that has been lingering in my neighbour’s mother’s attic for probably more years than is wise. (I had to put approximately the same again straight in the compost because it was badly damaged/super tangled 😱

Drying

Caking set up

Sadly more damage than I hoped. Skeins don’t age well/are easier for the dreaded moth to decimate.

Will see what we can salvage of this. If I can get 10-15m with less than 5 joins out of any of these I’ll keep them as mini skiens, otherwise they’ll join the giant pile of lengths that I’ll use to make a cushion cover or something using crochet similarly to the End Of The Yarn rug for the neighbour.

I’ll leave the ecru for another day….

For example, when they started, Lockjaw and Biteforce were originally grapplers.

I didn’t know that when I first watched the show and always thought it was weird that these bots with biting names were vertical disc spinners. Turns out they adapted.

And to be fair, adapting worked. I think the only reason why Biteforce never came back was because a 4th Giant Nut would’ve been too greedy.

(The real reason is because the creators could not own the name and image rights to their own creation but I’m trying to be funny here)

But compact boxy 4-wheeled vertical spinners sort of became the name of the game. And you can see it in some of the top bots in the game; Hypershock, Witch Doctor, Endgame, Ribbot(sometimes, it’s modular), Tantrum, they’re all from that same general design concept.

And again, it works which is sad because there are so many other possibilities.

But since we’re on it, Grapplers are such an interesting archetype. They make great shows. Basically you have a robot with gripper arms or hook of some sort. The name of the game is control: they drive their opponent around the box, slam them against hazards, and sometimes suplex them if they’re strong enough.

The problem of course is that it’s not really an “active” weapon so when you’re touching your opponent you’re not actively damaging them. And of course you have to run around trying to get the right angle on the enemy so you can actually grip them with your grippers. Because you don’t want to engage with the opponent’s active weapon. Trying to grab them risks you taking damage or your grippers taking damage.

It requires speed, technique, timing, patience. But with 3 minutes in the battle box timing and patience are at a premium and you’re getting a blade to the face while you’re trying to find the perfect moment.

Folks, if you ever feel like you're in a rut and that things just ain't breaking your way, consider that maybe the thing that's most to blame for your predicament is the amount of letters that are in your name. Dionne Warwick took this idea to heart, added an 'e' in 1973 to become Dionne Warwicke, and then scored herself a big, chart-topping hit the following year with The Spinners on "Then Came You." She hadn't had a top-tenner in about a half-decade prior to making that decision, so, there's something for you to think about if you feel like you might be in need of a change of fortune too 🪬.