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y’know what? FUCK you. i’m putting your ass in the control group. *injects you with boring saline instead of the fun and exciting glowing green goo i originally had planned*
#also using a 14 gauge needle on you#mad scientist#mad science#sciencecore#villaincore#evilcore#unethical science#lab records#yes i know you’re not supposed to tell your test subjects which group they’re in. however i can disregard whichever good science practice#i so please as long as it’s for the bit#addendum: GIRL HELP MY POST
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I finally published the project for my dice roll scarf that went viral last month. If you love dice games, you'll enjoy knitting this pattern.
The color work in this project is determined by an algorithm, a set of rules that determine the final outcome. There isn't an exact set of instructions for this project. Instead, the knitter uses four 10-sided dice or a random number generator to pick the length of the colorwork in each row.
The result is a staggered stripe sequence along the edge of the shawl. There are trillions of unique outcomes, so no two projects turn out exactly alike. The pattern uses about 500 yards of yarn in total, but the amount of each color that you'll need is randomly determined. Before publishing, I wanted to find out the minimum and maximum amount of each color required to make the project and the probability of each outcome.
The knowledge needed to calculate the yardage was a bit beyond my skill level, but my friend Mary W. Martin helped me gather this info. I used an online probability calculator to find out the probability of each unique stitch count. The results are slightly different depending on whether you use four 10-sided dice (blue) or pick a random number (yellow), but 99% of all possible results fall within a very small range.
It was an interesting little tangent, but not hugely important to the actual knitting pattern. I can, however, confidently say there is a >99.9% chance that you'll need a 2nd skein of the main color. If you want to know more about the math, you should check out my project notes on Ravelry.
The thick and thin striped colorwork is created with a super simple "long stitch" technique. The pattern looks great in fluffy mohair or contrasting colors of basic wool and the instructions include some basic tips for substituting yarns or changing the gauge.
Finished Size: 18 x 68” (46 x 172 cm) rectangular wrap.
Yarn: Approx. 315 yards (288 m) of MC and approx. 264 yards (241 m) of CC. Yardage may vary, see notes on yardage below and yardage chart in photos.
• Main Color (2 skeins) - JMR Studio Worsted Weight Mohair, 245 yards (225 m) per 4 oz; 78% Mohair, 13% Wool, 9% Nylon.
• Contrast Color (1 skein each, both yarns held together) - JMR Studio Fingering Weight Mohair, 320 yards (293 m) per 100g; 63% Silk, 23% Kid Mohair, 11% Nylon, 3% Polyester Held with Lavender Lune Yarn Co. Suri Alpaca, 328 yards (300 m) per 50g; 74% Suri Alpaca, 26% Silk.
Yardage: The amount of each color used for this pattern fluctuates based on the random numbers used to determine the stitch pattern. MC uses approx. 233 to 315 yards (213 to 288m) and CC uses approx. 182 to 264 yards (166 to 241m). 99% of possible results fall within a much smaller range. The Yardage Chart shows the distribution of all potential yardage outcomes.
Needles: Size 8 (5 mm) straight needles, or size needed to obtain gauge. NOTE: Straight needles work best with long stitches. Circular needles with a thin cord allow the long stitches to tighten and stretch, making them harder to manipulate.
Gauge: 12 sts x 14 rows = 4 x 4” (10 x 10 cm) square in pattern.
Other Materials: 10 sided die or random number generator, stitch marker, scale, tapestry needle.
Generating numbers: In my sample, I used four ten-sided dice (D10) to choose a number between 4 and 40 sts. If you don't have dice, you can use an online app like RANDOM.org to generate your numbers. If you follow this link, you'll get a list of 63 integers between 4 and 40. NOTE: Each time you visit the link or refresh the page, the list changes. You can also just choose numbers as you knit.
Pattern is available on my website and on Ravelry.
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Wonderlust
My submission for @flurrys-creativity 's 1004 Angel collab!
ღPairings: Park Seonghwa x Reader (f)
ღGenre: pwp, smut
ღAu: Fallen Angel au, Piercer au, supernatural au
ღTrope: s2l
ღWord Count: 1,763
ღRating: 18+, MINORS DNI
ღSynopsis: When a fallen angel walks into your piercing parlor and asks for you to pierce his nipples, looking to experience pain and pleasure in his now human life
ღWarnings: pain kink, customer/service provider sex, jerking off service, piercing service (do not read if you can't handle descriptions of a piercing occurring), spit kink, public sex at the workplace, begging, glove kink, corruption kink, overstimulation kink, Seonghwa likes it hard and fast okay
ღDedication: @mejuii (bitch this is for you, it was all your idea, we all needed seonghwa's nipples pierced in this shirt) & @downtoamagicalland my beta readers extraordinaire @smallfrye honorary suffer with us tag
The man that walked into your shop wasn't something you were used to seeing everyday. The gray blue eyes seemed to take in your shop with equal measures of innocence and shrewdness.
You approached the front desk. “Can I help you?”
“I require assistance,” The man said, eyes finally landing on you and sending a jolt of electricity through your nerves.
“Well, if you’re looking to be pierced, I’ve got a free time slot right now,” You offered.
“I was advised that an easy yet painful piercing are nipples,” The man offered with arrogance and pureness.
You almost swallowed your tongue. “If you’re looking for a sensitive area to pierce, the nipples are generally considered one of those areas.”
The man’s eyes moved up and down your body and then he declared that you would perform this service on him. His name was Seonghwa, no last name. You showed him which chair to sit on and you bent down at your station to apply latex gloves.
Wordlessly, he began to unbutton his transparent shirt and pushed it down his shoulders, with only the crook of his elbows supporting the fabric. Seonghwa had tattoos of black wings. They started at even positions between his spine and shoulder blades. It was a simple but intricate black and white tattoo. The wings curved over his shoulder and then curled under his collarbone, the tips touching exactly where his jugular notch was. The necklace of barbed wire almost perfectly highlighted the tattoo.
“These are wonderful, by the way,” You said, eyes admiring the black wings tattoo that curled around his collarbone. “When did you get them done?”
“Only a few days ago,” Seonghwa offered with a tiny, miniscule smirk. “I’m freshly fallen.”
You blinked down several times at your piercing gun, which you were attempting to set with a 14 gauge needle. Your client was a fallen angel?
“Is there something wrong?” Seonghwa asked curiously.
You turned around on your stool and sent your best customer service smile to Seonghwa. “Of course not. I serve humans, angels and demons alike.”
Seonghwa’s pink lips parted as his eyes fell on the needle in the piercing gun. He looked at you with anticipation gleaming through his eyes.
“I’m going to have to touch you in order to do this piercing. I’ll need to grip your pecs and also pinch your nipple. Do I have your permission to touch you in such a manner? It is simply a procedure, nothing sexual. Although if you do have a sexual reaction, that’s nothing to be embarrassed about, that’s simply chemistry and body reactions,” You supplied, getting in professional piercer mode.
“I give you permission,” Seonghwa said, voice low after your sentence.
You nodded, accepting your mission, and leaned over his body on your piercer chair and squeezed his right pectoral. Seonghwa let out a small noise from the back of his throat and you attempted to ignore it. First you cleaned both areas, watching as Seonghwa’s nipples became pebbled at your touch. You examined his nipple and determined where the piercing should go through his nipple and you grabbed your black marker to place the points where the piercing should enter and exit. You pinched his nipple and Seonghwa let out a low moan. The marker touched both spots on his nipple and you leaned over to do the same procedure to his left nipple.
You could feel Seonghwa’s cock harden under your side and you tried to relocate moisture to your mouth. “Seonghwa?”
Seonghwa panted slightly, his eyes swirling. “Yes?”
“I need you to start thinking of bad things. The response is not embarrassing but I don’t provide a happy ending here,” You joked, trying to suppress the rise of your own lust for the situation.
Seonghwa’s eyes watched you closely as you moved to pinch his nipple. He let out a sigh of pleasure when you did so. “But the bad things make me hard too.”
“Fuck,” You cursed under your breath. “I need a breather. I’ll go take a break and when you’re proper, we’ll continue.”
“Human,” Seonghwa caught your wrist as you stood up. “Why do you shy away from a sin when that’s clearly what I’m here for?”
“I--” Your words were not coming carefully from your mouth, “I can’t be doing this with a customer, Mister Fallen Angel, Sir.”
Seonghwa’s grin was slow and lazy. “You’re already providing me one service, could you not perform another?”
“Fuck,” You cursed a second time because now you were actually considering this.
Seonghwa’s eyes were filled with wonder and lust. “Please continue.”
So you sat back down, with your piercer gun in your hand and leaned over on Seonghwa’s raging boner, ignoring it completely but for different reasons, and grabbed his right nipple.
“Feels so good,” Seonghwa moaned, fully panting now, anticipating the pain that was about to occur.
You positioned your gun and without a word of warning, as Seonghwa asked you, you pierced his left nipple. The pain raced through Seonghwa’s body. You watched as his muscles tensed from the straightening of his feet to points to the tense chords of his neck muscles clenching. Seonghwa moaned as he released his fists, moons of blood deep in his palm. “That was delicious,” He murmured, eyes half lidded.
Still, you didn’t say a word, and moved over to his left pectoral. Seonghwa’s hips bucked up at the stimulation your body was providing to his twitching boner. “Don’t move, sir, or this will become a lopsided piercing.”
“I don’t want the second one straight,” Seonghwa growled. “Make it slanted, like my fall to earth and the state of my soul currently.”
This time it was your turn to moan. This fallen angel was going to drive you to insanity. “Whatever you say, Seonghwa.”
You pinched his left nipple and carefully angled your gun so that no longer would the barbell pierce his nipple as a perfect horizontal plane but more that the piercing would enter at an upwards angle from the left and come out at the upper right angle, the perfect ninety degree angle. The gun clicked with finality and Seonghwa gasped a large lungful of air. He hissed a drawn out yes and the urge to slant your lips over his right now was strong in you. But that was not what had been arranged with the fallen angel.
You placed your gun down and removed your gloves. Seonghwa whined behind you. “Please leave them on,” he groaned.
You applied a fresh pair of black latex gloves and sat back on your stool. You clinically unbuttoned Seonghwa’s jeans and pulled them down. You swallowed fairly loudly as you realized he went commando under those jeans. His cock was long but slender. Its tip was red and angry and it looked very much like Seonghwa required some relief.
You gripped Seonghwa’s cock to hold it upright while your other hand gripped the upper half, swirling your thumb along his slit. Air began to huff from Seonghwa’s now red lips. He had acquired a habit of biting the plush flesh. You rose above his cock and gathered some spit in your mouth. You let it fall from your lips slowly and when the wetness hit the head of his cock, Seonghwa groaned loudly.
His back bowed when you began to jerk him off at a harsh pace. His voice was caught in his throat, small noises of pleasure and pain escaping there. “Please, please, please,” Seonghwa began to chant.
“So greedy,” You murmured under your breath, slowing your pace and Seonghwa’s body rested properly on the piercing chair.
“Don’t slow down, it feels so good, so good,” Seonghwa pleaded, eyes unable to decide whether he wanted to watch your hands do their hard work or meet your own eyes.
“It’s not as satisfying when you’re simply given instant gratification, Sir,” You informed him.
Seonghwa’s hips bucked upwards and you tsked loudly. You removed both hands from his cock. Seonghwa’s body shot upwards, to grab both of your wrists. “Don’t stop, please,” He begged, eyebrows furrowed together. “You’ve given me pain on this day, please also show me pleasure.”
You grabbed Seonghwa’s dick in a harsh grip, pulling a cry out of his pretty lips. You moved both hands in sync as you jerked Seonghwa off. The combination of spit and his own precum applying the perfect lube. You went fast and relentlessly and Seonghwa cried out as his pleasure took him. His cry turned into a groan as you continued to stroke him through his orgasm. You used all the cum that spurted from his cock to spread along his length and eventually hit the timing of overstimulation. Seonghwa attempted to curl in on himself but you braced your forearm against his stomach. You jerked him off through his cries of pain at the overstimulation until it turned into pleasure once again and had him shuddering through a second orgasm that almost sounded painful when he came so quickly after the first one.
Sweat covered Seonghwa’s face, hair sticking to places along his temples and the nape of his neck. His seemingly long tongue came out to lick his lips. The fallen angel looked utterly debauched on your chair and you instantly had zero guilt or remorse for what you did.
“Thank you,” Seonghwa eventually panted.
You nodded gruffly, now ignoring the ache between your own legs. You stripped off your gloves and offered Seonghwa a towel to clean himself up. Seonghwa blinked at the towel. “What do I do with this?”
You laughed and sighed at the same time. “I’m sure you don’t want to put your pants on with your cum everywhere Seonghwa.
When Seonghwa continued to blink up at you, you motioned with your own eyes the ropes of cum that had artfully fallen between his newly pierced chest. Seonghwa’s lips made a small ‘o’ of surprise and you laughed sharply again. Fallen Angels really were a different type of breed.
“Now we’ll have to settle your debt to me,” You mentioned, folding your arms under your chest.
Seonghwa completed cleaning himself up and shrugged his shirt back up his shoulders. When the diaphanous material skimmed his newly pierced nipples, he took a moment to appreciate the sensation, closing his eyes and breathing deeply. When he opened his eyes, they were dark with lust once again. “How will you call in my debt to you?”
You shrugged with your shoulders. “I dunno. I’m thinking of me riding you on my piercer’s chair, but I’m up for negotiations.”
Tag list: @hijirikaww @mingsolo @starlitmark @stardragongalaxy @k-pop-ology @pyeonghongrie-main
#kvanity#kwritersworldnet#pirateeznet#cultofdionysusnet#ateez smut#park seonghwa smut#atz smut#seonghwa smut#reader x seonghwa#fallen angel! hwa#ღatz#topaz's work#fuck me why do i do this to myself
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Free Grump crochet pattern!
Ravelry link
Pattern is also under the cut, but there are fewer photos due to Tumblr limits.
My grumpus base pattern is finally done! It's up on Ravelry as a free download in the link above. This pattern was actually fun to create, so I might make more in future.
Included:
- the base Grump (unchanged, it will create the basic Filbo Fiddlepie body type)
- a few different tooth patterns and advice for your own dental config
- extra details: 2 sizes of horns and a fluffy tail
- lil strabby (can change colour for white strabby, razzby, or black razzby)
With a few edits (such as torso and limb length), this pattern can create many different sizes and shapes of Grumpus.
If anyone makes one using this pattern, I'd love to see it!
PATTERN BELOW:
Note: Your DK yarn can be switched out for larger or smaller yarn, and this will change the size of the resulting Grumpus. Make sure to use a slightly smaller hook than the yarn label recommends for the best amigurumi gauge. I used DK and a 3.5mm hook.
Note: This contains instructions of how to make level-jawed Grumpuses, suitable for level or underbite Grumps. A little tucking can make a small overbite possible, but if your Grumpus has a significant overbite, their face would require a different shape.
Note: This pattern will create a Grump with a basic Filbo Fiddlepie body type. See the 'optional' section at the bottom for edits. If you want a drastically altered Grump, this is possible to make with a few edits, but I recommend practicing by making a basic one first following the instructions before you consider large changes in order to reduce errors.
You will need to know:
- how to make single crochets and slip stitches in the round
- how to increase and decrease
- how to attach parts
- how to add simple embroidery (optional)
Some parts are fiddly. This is not a pattern for absolute beginners, but should be possible for most crocheters.
You will need DK yarn in the following:
- in your chosen fur colour (less than one ball)
- in dark grey or another inner mouth colour (way less than one ball)
- in white (way less than one ball)
- in black (small amount)
- in your chosen nose colour (small amount)
Optional yarn:
- chosen claw colour, probably same as nose (small amount)
- chosen horn colour, probably same as nose (way less than one ball)
- red for the Strabby (small amount)
- green for the Strabby (small amount)
You will also need:
A 3.5mm hook
Stuffing/polyfill (I draw from a pillow that ripped)
Scissors
A darning needle
If you have them, pins help a lot
MOUTH DISC (dark grey, black, or another inner mouth colour)
1. Put 8sc into a magic ring (or chain 2 and put 8sc into the second chain from the hook) [8 stitches]
2. 1inc x8 [16]
3. (1sc, 1inc) x8 [24]
4. (2sc, 1inc) x8 [32]
5. (3sc, 1inc) x8 [40]. Finish off, you don't need a long tail because it will be tucked inside. Fold in half with the last stitch at one edge and put aside for later.
(Note: The wrong side of the piece should face inside the Grump, so it should be the outside of the angle, but it doesn't really matter.)
BODY (your chosen fur colour)
1. Put 6sc into a magic ring (or chain 2 and put 6sc into the second chain from the hook) [6 stitches]
2. 1inc x6 [12]
3. (1sc, 1inc) x6 [18]
4. (2sc, 1inc) x6 [24]
5. (3sc, 1inc) x6 [30]
6. (4sc, 1inc) x6 [36]
7. (5sc, 1inc) x6 [42]
8-14. Sc around (7 rounds) [42]
15. Put your hook through the next stitch of the body and up into the final stitch of the mouth piece. Slip stitch (not too tightly) across for a total of 20 stitches. Now half of the mouth disc should be attached to the body. Leaving half of the mouth disc unworked, sc around the remaining 22 body stitches. [42]
16. Sc across only the remaining 20 mouth stitches. Rejoin on the body and sc across the remaining 22 body stitches. The whole mouth should now be inside the Grumpus, though it will look odd at this point. [42]
17. In the back loop only, sc across the next 20 stitches (across the lip). In both loops, sc across the remaining 22 stitches. [42]
18-32. Sc around (15 rounds). [42]
Stuff as you go. Ensure there is stuffing in the head.
33. (5sc, 1dec) x6 [36]
34. (4sc, 1dec) x6 [30]
35. (3sc, 1dec) x6 [24]
36. (2sc, 1dec) x6 [18]
37. (1sc, 1dec) x6 [12]
38. When stuffed, 6dec to finish.
Cut yarn, sew through the 6 outer loops and cinch the hole shut, and hide the yarn end.
ARMS (make 2 in your chosen fur colour)
1. Put 6sc into a magic ring (or chain 2 and put 6sc into the second chain from the hook) [6 stitches]
2. 1inc x6 [12]
3-4. Sc around (2 rounds) [12]
5. (1sc, 1dec) x4 [8]
6-18. Sc around (13 rounds) [8]
Stuff, then flatten the end and sc across both sides of it. Finish off and leave a tail for sewing. Attach the arms flat at the sides, 2 rounds below the mouth level.
LEGS (make 2 in your chosen fur colour)
1. Put 6sc into a magic ring (or chain 2 and put 6sc into the second chain from the hook) [6 stitches]
2. 1inc x6 [12]
3. Sc around [12]
4. 4dec, 4sc [8]
5-18. Sc around (14 rounds) [8]
Slip stitch into the next stitch and finish off. Stuff, then attach just below the hips.
EYES (make 2 in white)
1. 7sc into a magic ring [7]
2. 7inc [14]
Slip stitch and finish off. Attach to the face high and wide, about 4-5 stitches between them. See images.
PUPILS (make 2 in black OR embroider on pupils)
1. 3sc into a magic ring [3]
Slip stitch into the first sc and finish off. Attach to the eyes so that the Grump is looking slightly inwards.
(Optional: You can make eyelids by adding embroidered lines in fur colour over the very top of the eyes.)
ROUNDED NOSE (your chosen nose colour)
(Alternatively, there is an oval nose pattern below.)
1. 6sc into a magic ring [6]
Slip stitch into the first stitch and finish off. Attach.
OVAL NOSE (your chosen nose colour)
Chain 4.
(2sc, 3sc in the end chain), repeat along the other edge of the chain. [8]
Slip stitch and finish off. Attach between and below the eyes.
TEETH (white)
Ok, here's where things really get personalised. Pretty much every Grumpus has their own unique tooth size configuration, and you likely an idea in mind or a reference to work from. Therefore, I'm going to give you several tooth patterns and you can make your own dental configuration.
Canon Grumpuses have 4 teeth on top and 3 below, unless they have missing teeth like Shelda. The outer pairs of teeth often show the greatest size differences but not always.
For my Grump, I've chosen to leave out the outer top teeth for a cleaner look. However many teeth your Grump has is up to you.
TIP: pin your teeth in place and move them around to find the best spacing and configurations before sewing them on.
SMALL TEETH
These will make good tiny teeth. These are typical top middle teeth and the typical bottom middle tooth.
1. 3sc into a magic ring [3]
2. 2sc, leave the last stitch unworked. [3 total]
Finish off. Use the end of the crochet hook to push the centre outwards into a triangle shape.
PLAIN TEETH
These are for those medium-sized unremarkable teeth. (See Filbo's bottom teeth or Wiggle's top middle teeth.)
1. 5sc into a magic ring [5]
2. 5sc [5]
3. (Optional to make them bigger -- 5sc [5])
Finish off.
LARGE WIDE TEETH
These are Fizzlebean style outer bottom teeth.
1. 8sc into a magic ring [8]
2. sc, 1dec, 2sc, 1dec, sc [6]
3. 6sc [6]
Finish off and squeeze to flatten a little.
FANGS/TUSKS
These are Wambus/Chandlo style sharper chompers. Top or bottom outer teeth.
1. 3sc into a magic ring [3]
2. 3sc [3]
3. 1inc, 2sc [4]
4. (Optional to make them bigger -- 1inc, 3sc [5])
Finish off.
Create as many of whatever kind you please and get creative. After the teeth are sewn into their desired places, you've completed the base Grumpus!
FURTHER PERSONALISATION
Thank Grump!
- Look below for extra piece patterns.
- You can add/remove rounds of the body to give your plush a longer or shorter body.
- You can alter the body to flare out at different points by adding increase or decrease rows at the shoulders, hips, belly, wherever.
- The arms typically reach to just below the hips and the legs are typically a similar length, this can be altered by adding/removing sc rounds.
- Using colour changes, try adding splotches or stripes. Or, try variegated yarn.
- If you use acrylic yarn, you can use a wire brush or a stiff plastic hairbrush to brush the fur of the Grump until fluffy. This takes a bit of elbow grease and can cause yarn breakages, so do with caution, and do this to seperate pieces before any sewing or detail work.
- You can use another colour to embroider evenly spaced claws onto the limbs of your Grump. Small lines will do, but 3-wrap French knots can produce good 3D claws.
SIMPLE TAIL (your chosen fur colour)
You don't need to stuff this. Add the tufts to the end before stuffing if you want to stuff it anyways.
1. 6sc into a magic ring [6]
2. (1sc, 1inc) x3 [9]
3. 9sc [9]
4. (1sc, 1dec) x3 [6]
5-17. Sc around (13 rounds) [6]
Finish off with a tail for sewing on. Attach on the lower back/the butt in the desired spot.
Note: add or remove sc rounds to make a longer/shorter tail.
(Optional) To add tufts of fluff to the end, cut a few small bits of yarn (fur colour or another colour) and use your hook to pull it under and out. Pull the ends through the loop and pull tight. You only need a dozen or fewer scraps to do this. Then trim the fluff until it looks as desired.
SHORT HORNS (make 2 in any colour)
1. 3sc into a magic ring [3]
2. 2sc, 1inc [4]
3. 3sc, 1inc [5]
4. 4sc, 1inc [6]
5. 5sc, 1inc [7]
6. 6sc, 1inc [8]
7. 7sc, 1inc [9]
8. 9sc [9]
Slip stitch and finish off. Stuff a little. Position as desired on head.
LONG HORNS (make 2 in any colour)
1. 3sc into a magic ring [3]
2. 2sc, 1inc [4]
3. 3sc, 1inc [5]
4. 4sc, 1inc [6]
5. 5sc, 1inc [7]
6. 7sc [7]
7. 6sc, 1inc [8]
8. 8sc [8]
9. 8sc [8]
10. 7sc, 1inc [9]
11. 9sc [9]
12. 9sc [9]
Slip stitch and finish off. Stuff and position as desired on head.
LIL STRABBY (begin in red, or pink for a Razzby)
1. 4sc into a magic ring [4]
2. (1sc, 1inc) x2 [6]
3. (2sc, 1inc) x2 [8]
4. 8sc [8]
Change colour to green
5. (1dec, picot) x4
Slip stitch and cut the yarn. Embroider two tiny eyes with black and white yarn. Tuck all ends inside.
This can be sewn to the Grump's paws, in its mouth, kept loose, or whatever you please.
Woohoo! Grump done!
#bugsnax#amigurumi#crochet#free pattern#strabby#filbo fiddlepie#tagging filbo because this pattern will create him easily with the right colors
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Probably Bad Advice, But Good to Know if You Use Needles:
Are you someone who self-injects a medication that doesn't come in a pre-loaded syringe? A trans guy on T perhaps? Someone who uses insulin?
Let me ask you a question you probably haven't been asked before: Do you like your needle?
I have been on testoterone for 9 years now. I have used almost all the needles. I'm also a nurse, so not only have I used them on myself, but I've used them on other people. I teach a class of people how to use them at least once per month.
I have preferences.
So I want to arm you with information about the types of needles available to you and how to get them if you want something different than you currently have.
Aspects of the Needle:
Gauge: Gauge is the "thickness" of the needle. Larger numbers mean a smaller size needle. For example, a 14-gauge is horrifyingly large, while 36 is so teeny you can barely see it.
You may think you always want the smallest needle, but what you really want is the smallest needle your medication can easily pass through. I once injected penicillin G into someone with a 25 gauge and it took over a minute. Horrible experience, 0/10. Insulin is really thin, though, and can go through a 30 or 32-gauge pretty easily.
The smallest size for testosterone or other hormones packed in cottonseed oil I'd recommend would be a 25-gauge. I have had pharmacists argue with me that I couldn't possibly inject testosterone through this small of a needle. But I have never had a problem with it.
Length: The ideal length depends on where you want the medication to end up. Generally, people who self-inject are trying to get medication into either fat (subcutaneous) or muscle (intramuscular). If you're injecting into fat you typically want a shorter needle (1/2-5/8th inch).
If you're injecting into muscle, take into account how much fat you have on the part of your body you're injecting into. You need a needle that can get through that fat and also get into the middle of the muscle. Someone of average body composition needs at least a 1-inch needle to get through their fat and into their muscle. Someone with little fat might only need a 5/8th inch. Someone with a lot of fat might need up to 3 inches of needle to get to their muscle. You probably want the shortest one that will do the job.
Syringe: The syringe is the actual plastic barrel and plunger setup that attaches to the needle. A lot of times these come apart from the needle by twisting- this is usually either a proprietary twist or a more universal connection called a luer-lok. The size of the syringe is based on the volume of medication you're injecting. Most doses that are a half-milliliter or more can get away with a standard 3-mL syringe. These are super easy to find.
If you're injecting less than half a milliliter, I'd ask for a u-100 insulin syringe. They break the milliliter down into 100ths, which lets you dose with extreme precision. If you take 0.45mls, it's a LOT easier to dose this in a u-100 insulin syringe than it is a 3-mL syringe.
Safety features: I am all for safety features if I'm using needles on someone else. Safety features include plastic pieces that cover the needles, or springs that pull the needle into the syringe after the plunger has been completely depressed. They let you get the needle from the patient to the sharps bin safely without accidentally stabbing anyone.
But if you're self-injecting and like to re-use your needles (which is not necessarily a bad thing as long as you do not share), they can be a pain in the butt. A lot of time, unless you specifically only use your needles one time, you're going to want ones without the safety. You just have to remember to keep your needles in a place where no one else will come into contact with them, preferably stored in isopropyl alcohol and air dried thoroughly before use. If you use them more than about 4 times they will get dull and painful, jsyk. And you need to pay special attention to cleaning your skin and the vial top carefully with isopropyl before use- scrub for 15 seconds, then let dry for 30 before running the needle through either skin or the rubber stopper. If you don't take these precautions you run the risk of getting an abscess at your injection site.
If you have the kind of safety that flips up over the needle, you can easily remove this prior to injecting just by moving it back and forth perpendicular to the syringe. It should snap off but still allow the needle cover to be replaced (which you'll want if you store your needles because it keeps them clean and sharp). The ones that suck in the needle basically you just need to get a different one. These suck in more ways than one.
Asking for Needles:
Let's say after reading this that you want to try a new needle. I will tell you right now that your doctor clicks the first needle on the drop down list unless you specify. I swear it is not weird to be like "hey, I know you wrote for a 20-gauge last time but that's a huge needle and I'd like to try a 25 instead." They probably don't know they wrote for a 20-gauge. They probably don't know what a 20-gauge looks like. You can also say something to the effect of "the safety features keep tripping when I'm drawing up my medication, and then I can't use it. Can you order a luer-lok syringe/needle combo instead?"
Eventually, you'll find the ideal combo for you. Mine is a 25-gauge, 1-inch insulin syringe with a luer-lok coupling that I use to inject 0.45mL of testosterone. I use a 20-gauge to draw up the testosterone and can easily switch the 25-gauge onto it before injecting.
According to my doctor, these do not exist, so I generally have her prescribe whatever she feels is right but then buy my needles directly from the pharmacy. Some pharmacies need a specific prescription for the needle you want, while others are fine with selling you the needles you want as long as you have a prescription for any needles, and some will sell them to you over the counter without a prescription of any kind. Shop around for the pharmacy willing to sell you a needle. At my pharmacy they're like $0.30/each but I only use one per month-ish.
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Technoblade Tribute Hat
Since it's the 1 year anniversary of when the news broke, I tried my hand at making a colorwork hat, if anyone else likes dream smp and knitting. Pattern free under the cut
This was inspired by the Jenna La Due's pattern on Ravelry, check it out it's also free. Mine is adapted to be knit in the round because I suck at colorwork knit flat and the colorwork pattern is obviously adapted to Technoblade's avatar.
Gauge: 20 stitches by 24 rows = 4 inches or 10 cm
Pattern:
CO 92 st
Rnds 1-7: k2p2 until end
Rnd 8 (k22,kftb) 4 times [96 stitches]
Rnd 9 Knit across
Round 10-18: Colorwork pattern for the head and crown (the nose, eyes and gemstones will be added later on with the duplicate stitch)
Continue knitting until hat measures approx. 6 ½ inches (17 cm) or to desired length.
Shaping the crown: (96 stitches)
Round 1: (k10, k2tog) 8 times [88 stitches]
Round 2 (and all even rows through 12): knit across
Round 3: k6, k2tog to end
Round 5: k5, k2tog to end
Round 7: k4, k2tog to end
Round 9: k3, k2tog to end
Round 11: k2, k2tog to end
Round 13: k1, k2tog to end
Round 14: k2tog to end Round 15: k2tog until 6 stitches remain, then cut yarn with a long tail. Weave tail through remaining stitches before removing from needles and then weave into ends. Hat is done, just weave in the ends and move on to duplicate stitches of the desired details
Here's a tutorial for duplicate stitch for those unfamiliar.
Stitchfiddle has a list of the colors from when I modeled the chart but you can use any colors that work; I used spare yarn I had around
I kind of knit and then tried to work out the pattern after bc my process of creation sucks, but if the shaping doesn't come out, please let me know and I'll remake it and do a better job keeping track! The pattern is free but if anyone is inclined/can afford it please consider donating to a charity for research into sarcoma
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will you tell us about victorian knitting gauges?? i would love to hear about victorian knitting gauges. good luck with all your craft endeavors either way!!
so!! the history of knitting gauges begins in the 1830s and 40s with well-selling knitting manuals such as Jane Gaugain's The Lady's Assistant, Cornelia Mee's Manual of Knitting, A Lady's Workwoman's Guide, Frances Lambert's My Knitting Book, &c.
communicating the size of knitting pin (that is, needle) required to complete a certain project was necessary, since larger needles would produce a larger piece of fabric and then the number of stitches the manual told you to use to get a fabric of a certain size was all off. knitting pins of different materials tended to be of different sizes (e.g. since ivory pins would break if made very thin, these would be metal), so sometimes the rough size of pin you need is communicated by material. sometimes, though, it's communicated by number (so Mrs. Gaugain could call for "ivory pins, No. 6."
these numbers would be the numbers given by wire-drawers' gauges of the kind used in manufacturing: the Berlin Wire Gauge, and later the Paris or Standard Wire Gauges, were used. Jane Gaugain (The Ladies’ Assistant vol. 2, FN p. 419) writes:
“The gauge used by me is the Standard Wire Gauge, used by all jewelers, wire-workers, &c. I would recommend every lady who is a knitter or netter to be provided with one. They can be had at the instrument-makers. I am not aware if the fancy-work shops keep them generally, although it is an article which I sell [at her haberdashery in Edinburgh]. They may be had either round or oblong squares, the round is certainly the neatest looking instrument.”
[ID: a metal disc with a hole in the centre and many holes around its perimeter. the holes are labelled and vary from 6 (largest) and 36 (smallest). the disc is engraved "Vulcan Hardware Co, English Standard. end ID]
There were a couple problems with this—the SWG wouldn't be legally standardised until 1883, so measurements could vary from one gauge to the next. Also, it wasn't very genteel to be obliged to get tools generally used in manufacturing, directly from the instrument-maker. At least, Frances Lambert perhaps felt so, and she was the first to take it upon herself to rectify the situation in 1843 (My Knitting Book, London, John Murray, p. 12):*
“The following engraving represents the Standard Filière, or knitting and netting needle gauge, an instrument invented some time since by the authoress, and now in general use, by which different sizes of knitting and netting needles can be ascertained with greatest accuracy.”
[ID: illustration of a black disc with gradated holes arranged in a spiral formation beginning with 1, largest, in the centre, and going to 26, smallest, at the edge. F. Lambert is written on the disc at the top. the illustration is labelled "The Standard Filière." end ID]
The sizing of Lambert's gauge was different from that of most SWGs and from any knitting pin gauges that would be made thereafter.
Seemingly in response to this, Elizabeth Jackson changed the frontispiece of the 1845 edition of The Practical Companion to the Work Table (London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.) to an illustration of a SWG. She writes (p. 14):
Some writers on the subject of Berlin wool work, have asserted that no standard measure exists; whilst others with equal truth but less modesty, have claimed the invention as their own. The writer of this volume begs to state that the above Gauge has been in use for centuries, and may be relied on for its perfect accuracy. It is the standard by which all wire manufacturers regulate their sizes, and may be obtained at the Berlin Brooms, York, or at any respectable ironmonger’s warehouse.
As Sheila Williams says, "[o]ne doesn't have to search far for the recipient of this barb!" (The History of Knitting Pin Gauges, p. 12). Lambert responds in the 5th edition of The Handbook of Needlework (London: John Murray, 1846) that the instrument "used by wire drawers for testing the diameters of their wires" was "a bulky and rude machine, little fitted for the work-table of a gentlewoman," and that smaller versions of these machines (probably referring to the little circular kind pictured above) tended to "vary" in their measurements and so produce problems in knitting (p. x).
It's worth noting that knitting for leisure was at this time the sole province of gentlewomen; other women also knitted to make useful items for their families or to produce items to sell, but most of the knitting guides being produced at this time were solidly marketed at and priced for gentlewomen, who were for one thing literate, and for another thing more likely to want to produce the "fancy work" (rather than "plain work") designs the books included. So if there is squeamishness here surrounding buying and using manufacturers' tools, that's important context for it.
Other writers of knitting guides came out with knitting gauges that would enable the buyer to produce any of the patterns in their book, error-free (they also claimed to be selling a gauge that conformed to the real standard and would thus be able to eliminate all of the buyer's confusion on the subject once and for all). Cornelia Mee produced one such gauge in 1842; Mrs. Savage in 1846; Mrs. Hope in 1848 (Williams pp. 14-16). These could be purchased by writing in to an address specified in the seller's knitting manual, or by visiting the storefront of the writer (if they had one). They were offered in various qualities of metal (from brass to silver-plate) and in various shapes.
[ID: an illustration of a crescent-shaped gauge with holes in the centre of the shape and on the periphery of the inside part of the curve. holes are labelled from 1 (largest) to 28 (smallest). "Mrs. Savage's Crescent Gague" is inscribed on the gauge at the top, and the illustration is labelled "Crescent Gauge." the description of the illustration in Williams' book reads "Mrs. Savage's German silver Crescent, 1846". end ID]
The real revolution, however, came when George Chambers, a needle manufacturer (and thus more able to actually influence standards than the author of a knitting manual) produced the first "bell gauge" in 1847:
[ID: a flat piece of metal shaped like a bell. a circle with a hole in it is the "handle" at the top of the bell; "Chambers & Co." is inscribed on this part of the gauge. on the main body of the bell, "Bell Gauge Patented 17 Sept. 1847" is written and a coat of arms is engraved. the centre of the bell has holes from 1 (largest) to 4; the two sides and bottom of the bell have holes or slits from sizes 5 to 28. end ID]
These gauges were attractive because they were sturdy and cheap to produce (the shape can be punched out of a sheet of metal with little waste by making every other bell 'upside down'). In fact, the moment that it was legal to do so (after the failure of Chambers' business in 1858), other manufacturers started producing these bells without referencing Chambers' patent. This shape dominated knitting gauge production well into the 1930s.
Bell gauges were produced by manufacturers and stamped with that manufacturer's name and logo; they were also produced by manufacturers and then stamped with the name and logo of a small haberdashery or needle store for sale locally, so careful comparison of gauges is often necessary to find out which die they were cut from (and thus, which manufacturer they were made by). Gauges also continued to be made of ivory, bone, wood, vegetable ivory, and cardstock, in many different shapes and sizes. Sellers of knitting manuals continued to make them, as did some small local manufacturers; travelling peddlars would also sell them (Williams p. 21).
Mrs. Hope's cornucopia-shaped gauge, silver plate. 1848.
Mrs. Hope's cheaper version of a knitting gauge, 1865. [ID: an illustration of a rounded rectangular gauge with two lines of gradated slots running from 1 (largest) to 20 (smallest). Text on the page reads "The above is an engraving of a new instrument for measuring knitting pins and netting meshes. It is cheaper, more elegant, and offers greater facility in use than any similar articule, and is a correct measure for twenty sizes according to the numbers in this little volume, and in the works of Mrs. Gaugain, Mrs. Mee, and Miss Watts. Price in German silver, Five Shillings. Sold by all Berlin Shops, or post free of the Publisher for the amount in penny stamps." The page is labelled in Williams' book "Illustration from the 1865 edition of Hope's Knitter's Friend. end ID]
[ID: two rounded rectangular gauges, one longer and thinner than the other and the other having two lines of holes. they are labelled by Williams "Local craftsman-made ivory/bone gauges, typical of a pedlar's ware." end ID]
Knitting gauges would only become more in-demand in the 1870s, after the Education Act increased literacy. More and more knitting manuals would be produced for the common woman (Workwoman's Guide in 1838 had been an early exception), and bell gauges were cheap, durable, and mass-manufactured (Williams p. 22), with Henry Walker's "Archer" gauge being perhaps the most widely referenced and most easily attainable by collectors to-day (this gauge used the "Archer" logo after Walker's death in 1876). Gauges in other shapes would also continue to be produced.
Crescent Manufacturing Co. star-and-crescent gauge, late Victorian.
Robert Hogg's club-shaped "Fairfax" knitting pin and wire gauge, 1896.
Head's steel Diamond gauge. Late Victorian/Edwardian era.
The history of these little knitting tools continues well into the 20th century, but the beginning of the 20th century is about where I start to lose interest. But these gadgets are very useful if you're trying to knit something from an antique pattern, as well as being very fun and downright cheap to collect. I now own several.
To learn more:
"Gauging the needs of knitters and crocheters." Loopholes, blog.
"Commend me to a knitting wife." Ragged Soldier, blog.
"The Bells." Wooly Thoughts & Mental Blocks, blog.
--"More Knitting Gauges."
The History of Knitting Pin Gauges, Sheila Williams. Out of print and hard to come by, but g*ogle books has a preview of it, or ask me to make a scan.
*Sheila Williams, in The History of Knitting Pin Gauges (p. 10), says 1842, but I don't think this is correct. Williams doesn't cite an edition or page number, but the 1842 first edition of Lambert's My Knitting Book (New York: Wiley & Putnam, pp. 93-4) illustrates a SWG and laments the lack of a standard, but does not introduce her filière.
#sorry to everyone who's been dutifully asking me about Victorian knitting gauges. as you can see this post took a while#knittng#knitblr#yarn crafts#yarnblr#questions#Victorian
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Forward, but Never Forget/XOXO - Ch: 7 - Deep Drinker
Summary: Zaun is free—and must grow into its unfamiliar new dimensions. So must Silco and Jinx. A what-if that diverges midway through the events of episode 8. Found family and fluff, politics and power, smut and slice-of-life, villainy and vengeance.
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CH 7: Silco and Singed discuss progress and parenthood. Silco reminisces about the past and present. Zaun drags itself out of the dark.
TW: eye trauma, body horror, and medical horror. Mentions of decay, death and the psychological aftermath of war. Also drug use, drug addiction and drug distribution. Beware of Shimmer!
Whiskey was his friend, he didn't have another
Vicodin his vice, his real and only lover
~ "Everybody Gets High" - MISSIO
The needle pierces Silco's eyeball like a heat-seeking missile.
It is 34 gauge; 0.15 millimeters. Fine as a hummingbird's tongue. Yet the moment Singed bottoms the plunger, it empties a galaxy's worth of agony into Silco's body. Stars bleed purple in his brainpan. Constellations are born and die, enrobed in flames. What follows is a familiar acid burn from his temples to his toes. Silco's muscles bunch spasmodically, a full-bodied reflex that strangles a snarl out of him. His heartbeat accelerates behind his ribs—then plummets. A buzz suffuses his ears. Then—
Silence.
And from that silence, the surfacing into reality. His pulse hitches and stabilizes. The Shimmer spreads in a steady trickle through his veins.
Silco sags in his chair. A purplish tear slices like a crescent down his scarred cheekbone. He knuckles it off, and breathes.
"Any vertigo?" asks Singed.
"Somewhat."
"It will subside. This strain is longer-lasting than the previous. The only anti-blessing is the stronger side-effects."
"So long as it does its job." Silco rakes a hand through his tousled hair. "And you do yours."
Singed hums assent. His suety burn-pocked face, halved by the balaclava, shows little emotion. Robed in a dark coat, he resembles a tall funereal spire, a vinegary scent wafting off him—the usual cocktail of disinfectant and formaldehyde. Half his torso and the length of his arms are swaddled in bandages.
Mummified wraith.
His every molecule is made of ghoulish attributes that mystify and repel Silo in equal measure: alienness, vacuity, lifelessness. As a businessman, Silco appreciates the stratum of intellect that Singed occupies, a stratum that runs disconcertingly parallel to Jinx's. As a man, he wants to stomp Singed under his boot like a centipede.
Over the years, Silco has known his share of monsters. The reckless ones that devour in one savage bite—like Vander's. The steely ones that kill in subtle degrees—like his own. Singed is a different sort—a monster cored by a rationality that is almost insectile, and triggers the same instinctive revulsion.
"You mentioned a headache," Singed says.
"Comes and goes."
"Daytime or nighttime?"
"Both."
"Stress could be a factor. Or fluctuations in dosage. How is your appetite?"
"The usual."
"Libido?"
"Same."
By which he means: hardly-there and hellacious, respectively. Food usually goes out the window when he is preoccupied. Fucking is the opposite.
The reversal of polarities holds no small irony.
In boyhood, he'd been a shrimp. But he'd always had a big appetite. Bottomless fuckin' pit, Vander used to call him. As often as not, he could go toe-to-toe—or belly to belly—with his brother, if they'd make enough coins for a full meal at Jericho's. Later, they'd sit on the rooftops, passing a cigarette between them, and talk of all the premium fare they'd enjoy one day. For Vander, it was all about homecooked nosh: porthouse steaks sizzling with fat and cherry tarts sparkling with sugar. For Silco, gourmet was the passion: fancy cheeses and exotic fruits. They'd stuff themselves until their guts overspilled in white flags of surrender.
Fucking was another story. As a young man, he'd never attracted droves of darlings like Vander. But he was intelligent, he had a wry charm, and though in some respects he could be a temperamental bastard, in bed he was all tenderness. At the Drop, even the most jaded barfly would gravitate to his corner to let down her hair for a moment—figuratively, literally. In the mornings, the girls would roll from his bed and down the stairs, all sloe-eyed and smiling in a way that made even Vander shake his head with marvel.
Quite the cocksman is our kid—if he yanks his nose out of a book and into a cunt, he'd guffaw within earshot of half the bar.
All of that changed after Vander drowned him
Sometimes Silco thinks the night killed off every natural need and desire in his body. Other times he knows better. The drowning didn't kill anything. It just distorted it to its ugliest extreme.
Suddenly, he had wealth pouring at his fingertips. All the fancy cuisine he could desire: orchard-fresh apples, cuts of piquant cheeses, plump wedges of tartlets. Yet at fine Piltovan establishments, he'd hardly touch a thing, before waving his hand for the staff take it away. Alone, he'd eat his meals near-raw, one forkful at a time, chewing over and over until everything tasted of bonemeal between his teeth.
Fucking was, again, another story. The Shimmer micro-dosage put him on a near-manic overload. It also blurred the boxes of sex and violence that he'd once kept scrupulously separate. Something awoke inside him with a slap, and it craved brutal things. The kind that break laws and draw blood. Afterwards, they'd rise on trembling knees—the boys and girls from the brothels, the business flings and fleeting fancies—with hands clapped to seeping wounds, faces streaked with sweat or tears, and stare at him. Sometimes sobbing in shock, sometimes glassy-eyed with pleasure, but always looking like they'd surfaced from drowning.
And yet he left them intact. Left them alive.
A kinder fate than most drowners got.
Singed says, "The new strain will cause a spike on both fronts. A second puberty, if you will.”
“As if the first wasn’t bad enough.”
“It will settle in time."
"Hm."
Silco snaps open his compact—a smart clamshell in black and gold. Most of Topside's brands are designed for complexions of sun-kissed peaches or radiant creams. But the Fissure-folk run on the ashen side of the spectrum. This blend is custom-made by a local visagist. He dusts it across his tear-streaked cheekbone with precise dabs.
His eyes in the mirror are hooded, rimmed by lavender shadows. Singed observes and doesn’t miss a beat.
"How many hours' rest are you getting?"
"Eight."
"Eight hours last night?"
"Eight hours in the last two days."
Singed accepts the detail impassively. Perhaps his eyebrow twitches above his undamaged eye, but if so, it is barely noticeable. He moves to a metal table to consult a notebook. His unnervingly long fingers wield the pen like a scalpel, making incisions on the paper. Letters, or symbolic code—given the illegibility of his handwriting, it might be either.
"You must adhere to the schedule I've set," he says. "Failure to do so will negate the Shimmer's benefits. Its antimetastatic is meant to rot any RNA helix and kill the spread in your eye. But for the full benefits, you must do as I've advised. Sleep at least seven hours. Eat three square meals rich in foliates. Limit your tobacco use. Especially if you are orally ingesting it."
That stirs a curiosity as idle as Silco's canted head. "What makes you think I'm taking it orally?"
Singed lets off a gravedigger's wheeze. "I recognize the scent of brightleaf."
"Used it yourself?"
"Myself? Never. But I once treated a man with his lower jaw totally disintegrated from chewing it."
"I don't chew it, Doctor." Silco tugs his bottom lip down to expose the gleam of sharp teeth, then lets it snap back. "I pouch it."
Singed shakes his head. "Semantics. But you are somewhat partial to those."
"And to my vices."
"Those are best discouraged."
"But what is my onus of burden?" Silco shakes out a cigarette from his case, lights it, and takes a drag. "Myself, with the lifespan of a rat."
"And the resilience." Singed's waxen face is hazed by curling drifts of smoke. "If the doubters at Piltover's academy could see my work now, compared to your state when I first found you, it would be a triumph. Why, if Heimerdinger could see this specimen, even he—"
Silco flicks ash into a petri dish at the table. Singed eyebrow twitches again, and he drops silent.
The Doctor's spiels are predictable in their skew. Usually, his emotional barometer is static. No puffed-up storms of pride like Talis; no radiant beams of bedlam like Jinx. Just a monotone gray that matches the rest of him. But a prized specimen is one of the few subjects that stirs him to something resembling passion.
Silco has never cared for being a specimen.
"I'm still dying," he says tersely. "By quarter inches. What's the triumph?" He unfolds from the chair. "It’s tiresome to talk about. Show me how far along our projects are."
Nodding, Singed disengages the injector from its needle. The latter, he drops into the sharps bin. Through the fluted hole, Silco stares at the tangle of dirty blades. Signs of a busy three months. The rest of Singed's basement laboratory is scrupulously clean as always; barely a speck of dust. He likes a spotless workspace when he's neck-deep into his "projects," as he calls them.
Ten years ago, Silco was one of them.
His memory of the time is ill-defined. Drugs and agony have chewed away the details. Ironic—given he remembers perfectly the moments that preceded his convalescence.
Two months shy of his thirty-third birthday, Vander had drowned Silco in the Pilt. Silco had fought him off—barely—and fled. He'd not gone far. The left side of his face was all blood, slashes opened from his upper-lip all the way to his orbital bone. His left eye was worse; a burst-open yolk swimming in the river filth. He'd practically felt it trickling through his bloodstream with its rotten-cored stink. His body had slowed with the syrupy crawl of septic shock.
Under the shadow of the Old Hungry, he'd dragged himself to the river's edge. There, good eye glazing over, he'd passed out.
Silco-the-man had sloughed off his mortal coil.
Singed had salvaged what remained.
A promising Piltovan chemist who'd once seen his portrait grace the Academy's halls for his groundbreaking research, Singed had evidently found it more cathartic to set aside the accolades in favor of Ionian war-crimes. By the time he'd relocated to Zaun, his professional dossier had claimed as many corpses as the Pilt.
At any rate, he always needed them for his work. The riverside yielded a steady supply.
Silco was the first corpse who'd still been alive. Singed had dragged him back to the lab. Two weeks later, Silco had snapped to consciousness belted to a metal table. He'd been stark-naked and shorn head to toe like a plucked chicken. Agony corkscrewed horrifically from his bad eye into every extremity.
Welcome back, Singed had greeted—before fitting a rum-soaked leather strip into Silco's screaming mouth.
In those days, Singed was working on a promising substance termed S-2. In small doses, it served as a performance enhancer and a mood lifter. In medium doses, it dissolved malignancies and knitted together torn flesh and muscle. In large ones, it produced hideous side-effects: convulsions, neurological issues, cardiac collapse.
This was the prototype of Shimmer. Silco was one of its first lab-rats.
Enough pain can reduce a living man to jelly. Silco wasn't a living man. What lay on Singed's table was a cadaver, split open, its organs excised. Something else would slither into their place. Something that wore its humanity like a costume, while inside there was nothing but bottomless rage.
A week after resurfacing, Silco met his own monster—a black-finned creature from the deepwaters, with teeth sharp as steel and eyes red as blood. It burrowed between Silco's ribs and made a home of him. It spoke to him in a voice belonging to killers who sleep on the bones of their enemies.
Forward, but never forget.
Thus, he and the monster were wed.
He'd felt gratitude to it. Three months, he lay felled on Singed's table. Pain throbbed through him in blistering bursts. Yet it never reduced him. He didn't sink into despair; he didn't beg for death. The monster refused. Instead, Silco had snarled every curse in his extensive vocabulary. When the pain was too awful for speech, he'd growl, grind his teeth, pound the back of his head against the table. His thrashings were so violent Singed had to strap him down.
You're certainly a live one, he remarked. I suppose that's why you survived.
Silco felt no gratitude to Singed. Depended on him, yes, for water and food and medicine. But the ruthless bite of exigency in Silco's chest was balanced by the cold bedrock in Singed's own. The chemist hadn't taken Silco in out of charity. He'd done it with the curiosity of a boy who'd stuck a knife into a fish's belly to take a peek into its glistening innards.
It was difficult to pinpoint when Silco made a full recovery. It felt more like a resurrection at its unholiest.
Physically, he'd sustained massive scarring. Half his face was discolored by narrowly-averted necrosis, the epidermis gone rough as rawhide. His left eye was ink-black from hypoxia. The pupil, layered by Singed with a reflective film spliced in feline cells, caught the light in an otherworldly glow. The smooth tenor of his voice had abraded into a menacing husk; the result of Vander’s knuckles crushing his voicebox. All the muscle he'd earned from a lifetime of hard labor had melted away. In their places was a body composed of pure bleached bone.
Altogether he'd looked like a carnival freak, like something dredged from a maniac's nightmares.
Or Vander's.
Standing by the lab's cobwebbed mirror, the first thing Silco said was: I want a bloody cigarette.
The second: I'll kill him.
Of course, that hardly needed saying.
It took another month to scrape himself together enough to find a place to stay. In the Undercity's subterranean dens, he'd floated around, a slow drip of sinister potency quietly accumulating power. While Vander played his charade of strength in the spotlight, a slave to the status quo, Silco played the inside game, making connections and cutting deals to overthrow him. He'd swum through the lower echelons, gathering around himself a flotsam of power brokers, scam artists, prostitutes, thieves, druggists, mercenaries.
And Singed.
The betrayal had left Silco's psyche cleansed of any facets that fostered weakness—trust, friendship, mercy. Those he kept close were, by definition, assets of the most brute expedience. Like him, Singed was a monster unmoored from morals. He was also a genius—and an innovator. Paradigms of right or wrong held no meaning for him. The only thing that mattered was breaking boundaries. Unlocking doors.
Progress.
The unsavory nature of their first encounter worked in Silco's favor. After the Ionian massacre, Singed was demonized in the same circles he'd once been feted. Genetic research firms and prominent medical institutions shunned him, refusing to invest a coin on his research. None had experienced Shimmer's miracle firsthand.
Unlike Silco.
Over the years, he'd kept Singed close, and trusted him not at all. The Doctor was a hard worker. He never abdicated his responsibilities. But he was about as loyal as a suckerfish to a shark. At the soonest whiff of fresh meat, he'd scurry off to bloodier pastures.
Best to keep the waters nicely chummed.
His laboratory at Silco's headquarters is spacious and well appointed. The technology is state of the art. Warmth emanates from gilled vents. Its dimensions resemble an hourglass. One half contains Singed's main lab and his living quarters. In the corner is a cot, and a cubicle leading to a toilet. At the other end is a desk, where a lunch tray sits: a bowlful of half-congealed soup, a plate of nibbled-on sandwiches, and a water bottle. The Doctor's meals are delivered like clockwork. Otherwise, gripped by the mania of his projects, he can go days without food or baths or sleep.
It's another thing he and Jinx have in common.
Silco follows Singed down a passage that winnows into a bottle-neck, then opens into another chamber. The secondary lab. At every corner, cameras keep a full-scale view of each corridor and cubbyhole. These are fed to a bank of monitors in the fifth floor, for Silco's personal perusal. The Doctor isn't a prisoner; he has full permission to enter and exit the building as he chooses. But an entourage of blackguards accompany him everywhere.
Like any successful businessman, Silco keeps a close eye on his assets.
And his liabilities.
The air in the secondary lab is muggy. Singed sheds his coat, and drapes it over a hook at the door. The space on his left is dominated by terrarium cages of different sizes. Their interiors are alive with guinea pigs, mice, and rabbits. A nightmare petting zoo—each animal narcotically swollen, with luminous eyes and thick strings of Shimmer veins bulging through their fur. Here and there, the glass is spiderwebbed from their thrashings.
The wall behind them is glassed-in by an enormous porthole window. A bluish darkness presses against it, a secretive swirl of color in motion. Shapes zip everywhere. Sea creatures from the depths. Some are small and pale as candlewax, their sun-starved bodies translucent enough to unveil their skeletons. Others are carved from blackness, their mouths studded with needlelike teeth and the wet jewels of their eyes staring sightlessly through the porthole.
"A genus of viperfish," Singed says. "Your blackguards brought them in after the battle with Piltover disturbed their habitat."
"Lovely," Silco says, meaning it.
"I thought you might find them so. They have perfected their hunting skills in near-total darkness." He taps a fingertip against the glass. "Their teeth are too big for their skulls to accommodate. Instead they unhinge their jaws and then snap them together into a prison that locks live prey inside."
Silco hums around his cigarette.
"Ordinarily, they survive under tremendous pressure. Any alteration in their environment disintegrates their bodies. Yet these fish have spent the past three months intact. Thriving. All thanks to a diffusion of Shimmer pumped into their tank at intervals. They've surrendered no cellular integrity. They show no signs of mutation of decay."
"Promising."
"Indeed. I am especially interested in their reproductive capacity. The females' fertility has seen an uptick from small doses of Shimmer. In time, they could lay eggs all year around. One school multiplying into a dozen."
"Are they edible?"
"No. But their cartilage contains a substance that strongly inhibits tumorous growths, such as cancer and HIV. Their biological systems are also highly delicate. If they can sustain themselves in this environment, with the aid of Shimmer, and produce viable offspring, then the same process can be replicated on hardier species. Those can be used to create a diverse Undercity food supply."
"Keyword: if."
"Such gambles come with their own variables. Unless—"
"What?"
Singed fixes him with a look. "You'd allow me to examine the effects of Shimmer infused with the Hex gem."
"I will allow no such thing."
"Beyond my scope of practice?"
"Your realm is science. Magic is different."
"You do not believe the two should mix?"
A shadowed smile. "On the contrary."
They mix to perfection in Jinx.
And Jinx is the only one he trusts to be the Hex-gem’s vanguard.
He steps alongside Singed to get a better eyeful of the viperfish. Their scales are streaked with veins of glowing blue, like lightning zaps. Like fingerlings of Jinx's neon paint. Coin-bright eyes, their interiors so colorful: reds and emeralds and ultraviolets. They seem barely of this world. And yet he knows the species is likely as old as the Pilt. Perhaps older. Barely evolved from their first stage, because they are perfectly built from the start.
Perfectly built for darkness. But what of daylight?
Singed persists, “I'm curious to see how much more potent the Shimmer dosage could be when mixed with the Hex-gem. Imagine the breakthrough it could presage. If you'd allow me a moment with our priority specimen…”
Silco snaps back to himself. "What?"
"Our priority specimen," Singed says. "J17."
Silco says, in sibilant warning. "Her name is Jinx."
"Technically, yes," Singed says placidly. "Will you bring her down later?"
A blackened nail pierces Silco's spine. "What the devil for?"
"Examination. You say her lucid states are lengthening."
"Yes."
"How often?"
"Ninety-five hours last week."
"Any episodes of violence?"
"Once."
For a time, Silco had feared that Once might be Forever—Jinx's moods had been so erratic. Yet in the past two weeks, her savagery was wiped out by broad strokes of apathy. It wasn't the near-comatose type like before. Instead she was listless and yet restless. Ninety-five hours of lucidness; no restoration to normality.
Awake, she veered between bouts of standoffishness and clinginess. In daylight, she followed him around everywhere with a conflicted unease to her manner and a subdued cast to her face, like a prisoner slapped in handcuffs. Conversation came in stops and starts. They could share silences or even smile together. But then the talk would skirt a raw spot—the past, the future—and discomfort would drop like a guillotine between them.
Other times, without warning, she'd fly at him in a bone-cracking hug. A familiar fabric of touch now threaded with strangeness, because Jinx's usual look of sweet adoration was replaced by a shame-filled apology. Like there was something out-of-line about the very fact of her neediness.
Like the brightness of her presence wasn't a cynosure—but an eyesore.
Nights were worse. Since he'd weaned her off the sedatives, she never got much rest, always twitching at the shores of shallow sleep. She also refused to go to bed alone. Sometimes Silco would jolt awake in his own room to Jinx folded around him, elbows digging into his ribs and her unbraided hair in his mouth. Silco tried weaning her off that too. But his own resistance was futile, a habit of leftover solitude that yielded as all else did to the primacy of his child's needs.
And keeping her nightmares at bay.
He'd tried encouraging her to tinker with gadgets. A return to gentler pastimes, an activity to sweep her mind along the surface of old hurts. But Jinx shut down the suggestion with a vehemence that bordered on terror. There was nothing she seemed quite ready to do, and each day she accomplished nothing to great success.
And for Silco? Great loss.
No doodles on his ashtray. No wind-up monkeys on his desk. No magic in his life.
No Jinx.
Her reduced state made him ache, worse than a knife to his eye or hands around his throat. She hadn't left the suite at all in three months. So far there had been few reasons to leave. Security risks, riots, Jinx's instability, etc. Yet Silco sensed a more instinctual self-preservation on both their parts.
Normalcy—a curious state devoid of the old status quo—had yet to spread its wings over Zaun. The citizens were taking their first faltering steps into freedom. But the city's superstructure was heavily damaged. Certain zones were off-limits; darkness flickering erratically. Others were littered with tons of putrefying meat. The outdoors reeked of ruin and rot.
Two things Jinx wasn't prepared to deal with.
Last week, at the balcony, she'd found a raven. It was barely alive, breathing shallowly. Its body was shredded like cheesecloth to expose the pink gridwork of bones. A rat was gnawing at its twitching remains with the blood-flecked pegs of its tiny teeth.
Jinx had watched silently, crouched with her elbows on her knees, chin resting on her fist. Her eyes held a glossed-over blankness.
From the kitchen’s bay window, Silco kept an eye on her. In the past, it never entered his mind to shield Jinx from death. He'd grown up witnessing worse. He'd survived. So would she. He never encouraged her to skin cats alive or toss lit firecrackers at dogs. Never forcibly thrust her into bloodbaths, or rubbed her face in their aftermath. But once she was fully trained, he'd allowed her to participate in missions. He'd wanted her to be cognizant of the crazy highs and crashing lows of adrenaline. To know life and death in its unfiltered state—as a child ought to learn, he privately believes.
When Pilties cross a body, it's in a casket, all perfumed and prettified. The truth is far less palatable.
The raven's body pulsed in death-throes. The rat clambered nimbly over its chest and sank its teeth into its neck. Blood speckled the tiles and a cold iron scent leeched into the air. Jinx stared; her features set in mute neutrality. Reaching out, she prodded the raven with one fingertip.
Its body rolled over, weightless. The rat skittered away.
When Silco reached Jinx, she was curled into a ball. Her whole body shook. Huge ragged sobs tore from her chest. When he touched her shoulder, she lashed out and by instinct grabbed the nearest makeshift weapon, a hook-shaped fire poker. The next moments were a blur of Silco and Jinx struggling, the steadying manacles of his hands trying to clamp around her wrists while dodging her swings in a deranged dance.
Sevika, alerted by the commotion, burst in. The blackguards were hot on her heels. It took six of them to pin Jinx down. Three others to wrest the fire poker from her clutches. Silco knelt with the sedatives and tried not to look at the mad hatred in his child's eyes.
A brew that undiluted was personal; it had to be. The same poison that once bubbled in his veins for Vander.
The same poison he now felt towards Vi.
"Do it now!" Sevika yelled, ducking away from a spitting shriek.
Silco jammed the needle into the crook of Jinx's elbow. A crackling energy pulsed beneath her skin. Her small body held a mindless force. Only her eyes expressed a tragic understanding: punch-drunk pink darkening into a dull rosewood as the rage bled away.
Afterwards, the guards cleared off on his orders. Sevika lingered while he carried Jinx to bed. It was tempting to resume her dosage and keep her under. Instead Silco administered only a half-shot. She lapsed into a wakeful dreaminess; her fingers plucking at the bedsheets, her eyes a tearful half-lidded entreaty.
"I'm sorry," she kept whispering. "I'm sorry…"
Kissing his thumb, Silco pressed it to her skin as he drew the steel out.
Afterward, he'd slumped on the kitchen stool, nearly steamrollered. Sevika offered him a hash-loaded stoge. Though he waved it off, the choice took him a half-minute. She poured a dram's worth of bourbon from her flask into two glasses. They knocked them back in silence.
"You can't keep this up," she said flatly.
"I can and I will."
"You're like a worm on a hook."
"A worm can turn."
"What's that mean?"
"Means what it means."
Sevika exhaled, knowing what that meant. Draining her glass, she set it aside. "Zaun can't afford a part-time leader."
"I can't afford to leave Jinx unsupervised."
"Get a live-in attendant!"
"I'll not trust her to a stranger."
The very idea leeched the blood from his body. A live-in attendant was a security risk. Their presence wouldn't slide his mind off Jinx. It would eat away at him interminably.
As it was, he wore his disgruntlement like rows of teeth beneath his skin. Prowling the zones of disrepair, his intolerance gnashed sharper for every leftover heap of rubble or forgotten scrap of cadaver. In his office, he gorged on bitter mouthfuls of coffee and smoke, while his blackening mood covered the floor and his orders shrouded the city in security checkpoints and truckfuls of militia to suppress the rioters.
Not everyone agreed with his methods. Some saw his heavy hand as an attack against liberty—an attempt to punish those who dared stand up for themselves. Many believed his tactics were tantamount to a new regime of terrorism. And yet nobody had the balls to suggest an alternative. Or the brains to devise it.
Nobody except Silco.
At a couple of days' notice, he’d brought the riots to a crashing halt. Shopkeepers could whip up their shutters. Clerks could scurry back to the salvaged government buildings. The relentless machinery of enterprise could restart.
Zaun's emergency funds were drained. But with a little persuasion, the chem-barons replenished them from their own strongboxes. Sanitation crews were dispatched to scrape away the remains in damaged neighborhoods. A small monetary reward was offered to volunteers. At clinics, medicines and vaccines were distributed to the sick and wounded. At shelters, food and clothing were doled out. Women with bellies bloated from assaults were seen to. Men with mangled limbs received chem-prosthetics. The Old Hungry, restored to off-key stolidity, chimed the bells away.
Whatever it cost to make the Zaunites feel safe again.
Silco kept his iron grip on the city’s day-to-day grind; to loosen it would be a mistake. Progress in theory is always attractive. But at their hearts, people are creatures of habit. They seek refuge in order. To snatch it away is to leave a void within which chaos festers.
For all his outward control, Silco relishes chaos. It is a brilliant tool. A blindsiding tactic.
But governance calls for a stabler hand. Too many revolutionaries are devoured by their own monster of instability. To preclude a bloody end, Silco must take up arms in a bloodless shell-game. Keep Zaun's daily life rocking steady, while he insinuates a completely different paradigm at its center.
It is nearly staggering. The hugeness of responsibility paired with the smallness of action. A single loosened finger and everything threatens to come crashing down.
The irony is a killer.
A nation's power at his fingertips, and yet what he wants—Jinx, Zaun’s soul, restored—is not at his power to summon. In its place is an interminable torment of quashed hopes and bitten down remorse, sleepless nights and days of hysteria and ennui, paired with the kind of intense caretaking that would mentally tax even a trained professional.
And yet he is adjusting to the disrupted rhythms of his life. His new life. An altered Zaun, an altered Jinx. The dual loci of his world, the bells devoted to each one's care blurring into one another so he no longer bothers to question when one crisis merges into the next: a knife-sharp meeting with the chem-barons on a bankrupt treasury melding together with prying an actual knife loose from Jinx's trembling fingers, or the rise and fall of sirens after a fire in Entresol bleeding with Jinx's muffled sobs into her pillowcase at night.
Giving up would be easy. But Silco's survival instinct always runs stronger. In a battle of attrition, he refuses to yield.
(I won’t lose my child again.)
Singed says: "You mentioned Jinx has resumed menstruating."
Silco's eyes snap to the Doctor's as if at gunpoint.
"What of it?"
"That is another cause for examination."
"It's scarcely a crisis."
The lower half of Singed's face is enveloped by the balaclava. Yet Silco senses a tepid smile. "A celebration, rather."
"How so?"
"The Shimmer used to save her life was highly experimental. I expected treatment-induced amenorrhea, if not outright premature menopause. Some strains of Shimmer can damage the reproductive system. Of course, the resumption of menses is in itself no marker of perfect reproductive health. If I could have a moment to scan her—"
Silco cuts him short. "You will not discuss reproduction and my daughter further."
The pinkened skin around Singed's eyes crinkles.
"What?" Silco asks.
Singed offers something resembling a shrug. "It's unexpected to hear it."
"Hear what?"
"Daughter. Of course, she was always that."
Silco's face reshapes itself to impassivity. "Show me the F12 specimens."
Singed inclines his head. Silco follows him to the right-most wing of the laboratory. It is dominated by stainless steel doors: six in a row, each one with numerical labels. Singed crosses over to the door marked F12. He punches a code on the keypad.
With a muted hiss, the lock disengages. Singed pulls the door handle; vapor floats out in chemical-scented plumes.
The interior is a refrigerated cube. It is chockful of night lilies. Dozens of them. Every ledge and table is festooned. Some in utilitarian glass vases, some in orbs, some in corrugated soil shelves. Their colors are Zaun's colors: red as spider mites, black as oil slicks, green as toxic sludge.
In the Undercity, flowers are rare as black diamonds. It makes them a go-to gift among the chem-barons: a way to flaunt wealth and curry favor. Yet Silco has always detested them, cut or rooted. They never stand firm on their stems; they never die in one piece. Each time he's received them, he's longed to toss them in the rubbish where they belong.
These night lilies are different.
They've been hyper-developed in his cultivair's hothouses. A special strain of Shimmer is injected into their roots, lighting the cellular walls of their petals with a queerly neon glow. The superior nutrient absorption compensates for the Undercity's dearth of sunlight. Bigger bulbs; sturdier roots; faster circulation.
And so full of fragrance they'd knock out a perfumery.
Silco is pushing for the same strain of Shimmer to cultivate non-toxic vegetables and fruit, grown year-round in indoor hothouses. It would free Zaun's horticulturists from a dependence on soil, sunlight and fresh air. It would also undercut the future rising cost on imported produce. He's given Singed a deadline. By the end of this year—or else. He and his staff are to cut no corners, but take any risk, until the gamble pays off.
Some may call it a crime against nature. Silco begs to differ.
What is Zaun—if not a defiance against dehumanizing odds?
Singed plucks a blackly glossed leaf off a bloom, and proffers it for Silco's perusal. Silco rubs it idly between two fingertips. Its texture is both delicate and curiously dense. The striations of Shimmer pulse like embers, the softest scintilla. Silco wafts it under his nose the way he would a cigar. The leaf carries a sultry whiff of soil, rainfall and something stickily decadent. A pungency like fermenting berries.
The signature scent of Shimmer.
Silco sniffs. "You ought to bottle it as a perfume."
"Perhaps."
Singed plucks a petal for himself. Tugging down the balaclava, he bites it in half. His teeth are tiny and unnaturally white, like they've been filed down and soaked in bleach. He chews thoughtfully, his scorched-off lips stained dark purple, like from too many popsicles.
"This, unlike the viperfish, is edible," he says. "The petals contain trace amounts of polyphenols and antibiotics."
"Oh?"
"For the Undercity, they stand a chance of treating respiratory infections."
"Side effects?"
"So far only a mild sensory distortion roughly five minutes after ingestion."
"Addictive?"
"Only in terms of compulsive use."
"Then we'll market it as a two-in-one." Silco pops the petal into his mouth. It crunches agreeably between his teeth, like a strip of cabbage. "Sell the first batch to the chem-barons. We'll see if the aftereffects are lasting. Once the kinks are tweaked, we'll begin supplying it locally to Zaunites. The final product will be exported overseas."
Singed nods. He is always pragmatically attuned to the needs of the Powers That Be. Where the Grey sits, as the Undercity saying goes.
And Silco? Was his choice to flood the Lanes with Shimmer a pragmatic means to an unsolvable end? His naysayers can be counted on to toss epithets, each one colored by pre-determined ideological prisms. Some focus on his mouth-watering corruption. To hear them, you'd think he'd invented drug addiction as a vice, rather than catering to a social symptom. Others are hung up on the immorality underpinning his enterprise—arguing that suffering met with suffering is no different from a mother with Munchausen syndrome mixing poison in a tot's pablum to salvage her marriage. To them, he is a devil every bit as dangerous as Piltover, an effete hypocrite leading the community down the dark path of self-destruction.
Silco's answer to both?
Fuck off.
He has no qualms baring the abominable scraps of his psyche for a pearl-clutching peanut gallery. So Janna's honest truth? He sells drugs because drugs are what sell. Over half the Zaunite populace live in a toxic pit of glowing green death. The consequences are inevitable. Spiking cancers and skyrocketing malformations. To say nothing of the psychic toll of subsisting in a disease pit.
Nothing in their world is free but dreams. When you wake up, those vanish in double-time. Addiction fills the void.
In peoples' lives, and in Silco's pockets.
He’s never forced anyone to imbibe Shimmer at gunpoint. Rather, he favored the soft sell. Shimmer wasn't just a narcotic. It was a promise of salvation. It could heal wounds. It could cure ailing bodies and minds. It could reverse the ravages of time. It could accelerate the growth of cells, and curb the spread of decay, and counteract the thousands of miseries that are part and parcel of survival in the Fissures.
It could pull Zaun from the brink of collapse—and back to life.
He'd let Shimmer's blessings take center stage, sneaking its sinful sales through the side door. It wasn't chemical dependency he was selling. He was curating a cure-all. The missing ingredient to spice a stagnant life.
The medium was the message: Be More. Be Free.
He'd read a story once at Hope House Orphanage about a shining utopia, the perfectness of its citizens' lives hinging on one inconvenient truth. A child serving as a literal scapegoat, trapped in a filthy basement and cruelly abused. A few citizens, discomforted by the suffering of one for a multitude's bliss, walked away from the city. They unhooked themselves from its ideology by their own choice of action.
Silco had sat in a corner with the book in his lap, reading the story over and over, trying to glean sense of the message. At the time, he'd thought it served as a prescient allegory of Piltover and the Undercity. Older, he finds it a nasty piece of sophistry. The onus rests not on those who abandon the city—but those who remain. The former have no recourse for rescuing the child. The responsibility is incumbent upon the city itself, and the disparity of its own making.
And the child?
Suppose he was more than a narrative widget? Suppose he found a way to destabilize the city from within? To flood the basement of the building?
Drown everything and begin anew.
Shimmer was Silco's floodwater. His weapon to splatter Topside's spotless hems. Show them the rot at their roots. He took little pleasure in Zaunites succumbing to the drug's anti-blessings. But he took great pleasure in the profits as an armament for resistance. In reclaiming Zaun's natural rights by trampling Piltover's inherited ones, he satisfied a universally human need for payback.
But revolution is about more than payback. It is about the equity of loss and gain.
Past suffering; future potential.
(We pay what we owe.)
(Isn't that right, Jinx?)
"How is the fresh produce faring?" Silco asks.
"There have been some setbacks. Most are expected. In time, they will be ironed out." Singed glances at his watch with a hint of anticipation. "By this time next month, I should have promising results."
"I'll stop by to see."
"Will you require more sedatives for Jinx?"
Silco shakes his head.
"At a later date then?"
"No," Silco says, with deliberate stolidity.
Singed's look is circumspect. "You'd rather have her at your throat than at rest?"
"She's at the opposite of rest." Silco flicks his thumb and pointer finger in mimicry of a switch. "The sedatives shut her body off. Her memory stays in motion. Worse than drowning, I'd think."
"And you know this because—?"
"Because she told me."
There is a tight silence. Then Singed says, "I understand… it is difficult to see one's offspring suffer. But sometimes suffering in the short term precludes worse in the long-term."
"Drugging Zaun's most gifted mind benefits neither."
Singed chuffs an ashen laugh. "I will not flatter myself you are referring to me." The humor fades. "I did warn you when I initiated the process. It would be demanding. On the girl's body—and mind. The latter is a curious organ. I could give you details about its weight, or the number of neurons. But its inner-workings remain a mystery. We can only make vague conjectures on how each experience is processed."
"Your point?"
"The sedatives are not just to minimize Jinx's outbursts. They are to keep her compliant. At this stage, it is unknown whether she is a well person who suffers the occasional lapse of control, or a sick person with the occasional good day. Time alone will reveal the Shimmer's effects. But she must be contained in the meantime. Not in your suite, but somewhere secure."
"Jinx deserves better than imprisonment."
"Tell me: if a machine in your factory were running amok, would you send it for repairs? Or let it function as usual?"
"People are not machines."
"A curious philosophy for an industrialist."
Silco scoffs, barely. Any other time, he and Singed would end up in the grip of a fierce argument—as the implacable rhetorician to Singed's interminable logician, he and the Doctor remain locked in discourse. But now that Silco has a daughter of his own, he can begin, in the vaguest way, to enter the dilemma from the other man's viewpoint.
"Would you do it, Doctor?" he asks. "If it were your child?"
"Mine was not half as deadly."
"The question stands."
Grimacing, Singed shakes his head.
The negotiations are concluded, both parties at a stalemate while still saving face. Silco standing firm and Singed retracting his roundabout request:
Let Jinx stay under observation in his lab.
A hazy corona of smoke crowns Silco's head. He pinches the heater off his cigarette, then stashes the remainder in his coat. "Whatever you believe,” he says. “Jinx is not the threat."
"Half of Piltover would disagree."
"Half of Piltover ought to try drowning in the Pilt."
"A fair number do drown."
With a finger, Silco taps his scarred cheek. "And carry its marks as medals."
"Not all are so blessed."
"Indeed not. You may not know this, but my father was the Riverman. During his tenure, he pulled out at least a thousand bodies. Not all were dead. At least fifteen clung to life, like flotsam to the shores. Some, he hauled on deck before pumping air into their lungs. The lucky ones puked up rancid riverwater, and went their merry way. The unluckier roused, at a cost. They were hauled up blue in the face, with barely a pulse. Even if saved, they seemed to stay underwater. A Piltside lobotomy."
Singed nods. "Water trauma leads to cerebral hypoxia. With each minute gone, the mind surrenders more of itself."
"I often wonder what I surrendered."
"It was a near-call for you,” Singed recalls. “Severe ataxia. Fortunately, you were pumped with adrenalin and glucosamine at my table."
"Fortunate indeed." Silco's tone holds a biting lightness. "Since then, I've seen a number of men drown in the river. Some at my orders. Others to escape their consequences. Men of keen intelligence, reduced to the brain capacity of goldfish. But others… they weren't reduced. Deep Drinkers, we call them. They found in themselves something they'd never imagined possessing. I remember one. A Piltie banker. A typical specimen: puffed-up and pompous. Yet three minutes in the Pilt, and he surfaced smiling the strangest smile. Pure epiphany. Like he finally understood his own place in the natural world."
Singed seems about to interject. Silco shuts him up with a look.
"That banker was a powerful man in Piltover. Yet his life was a bubble of pettiness. After nearly drowning, his mind blew wide open with its own unfathomable depths. Last I heard, he left everything behind. Presently, he operates in Bilgewater with the infamous Malcolm Graves. I can't say he's any safer than when I had him drowned. But he's certainly more in-tune with his base nature."
"Jinx is not a banker," Singed says blandly.
"No. She is a girl who has suffered tremendously. Seen multiple explosions of her world. Each one breaking down the safe parameters she once knew. And each time, she has survived—not by shying from her truth, but diving down to seek it. And emerge stronger."
"Even the strongest deserve respite."
"She shall have it. And whatever else she needs. But not through imprisonment, Doctor."
Singed emits a dry hum. "You see no mercy is allowing her to tread water for a time?"
"For Jinx? Treading water is inertia. She'll drown." Of her nightmares, if nothing else. "Better to take the waves as they come. Dive down to meet whatever is under her surface."
He can't tell whether Singed is smiling, or if the faint slitting of his eyes is a muscular spasm. "And if there be monsters, you will rescue her."
"Until she's capable of rescuing herself."
"Such is a father's love."
Silco stares at him, a tiny compression to his mouth. "Is your interest in this matter scientific? Or—"
"I am interested insofar as J17's progress. The rest?" For a moment, Singed's eyes retreat from behind their flat absence, like the reversed lens of a microscope. "The rest is my own solicitude."
Silco tips his head. "I never considered you the type."
"Nor I, you." Singed shrugs a bony shoulder. "But our conversation reminds me…"
"What?"
Singed's eyes pass speculatively from Silco to the rest of the chamber. As if Silco is one of its myriad test subjects. As if they both are.
"It reminds me," he says, "how a daughter can fuel one's dreams to profound heights. Or depths."
Silco treats the Doctor to his special brand of silence—two monsters separated by a half-meter and a riverside of corpses, and yet brought together by skeins of Shimmer and a single-minded goal to surmount limitations. Not for the same reasons at the start, but with a disconcerting shadow of sameness in the present.
Except Singed's daughter rests in the groves of Piltover's cemetery. Silco's own slumbers above, dreaming her hopeful dreams.
He plans to keep it that way. At any cost.
"I suppose that's fatherhood," Silco says. "It makes Deep Drinkers of us all."
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#32. (sex survey in here, btw)
What was the last big change through which you went? Do you deal well with change, typically? Have you always?
Mmm, it was getting a boyfriend and him actually being long-term haha. And it depends on the change.
What is something fun you have done within the past week?
Maniacs show last night was very fun, I went with my wrestling friends and the crowd was big and rowdy.
Have you ever read any self-help books?
No.
Do you thank the bus driver?
Yep. The only time I don't is when it's super busy and the driver likely wouldn't hear me. Otherwise I always do.
Are you scared of needles?
No.
Do you know anyone who is/was a drug addict?
No.
Do you tend to cave into peer pressure?
Not at all.
Do you still talk to the person you last made out with?
Yep.
Who was the last person you went to the movies with?
My boyfriend.
Do you ever fear falling asleep?
If I'm being honest, a few times I have, but it's just my anxiety acting up. When my heartrate was being weird, I told my boyfriend and he was like "stop being silly, you'll be fine, you'll wake up tomorrow and annoy me immediately" LMAO. Of course, he was right :P
What do you think is the youngest age someone should lose their virginity?
I was 14, I think it should be older than that. 16 is the age of consent here and that's fine.
Do you believe in abstaining from sex until marriage?
Good lord no. I don't want to get married, does that mean I should just never have sex? Get the fuck outta here lol. If you wanna do that, more power to you but everybody should make their own decision on that, it's nobody's business when people have sex, that's personal.
What is your sexual orientation?
Bi.
What is something you have acquired with age?
Hmm.
Do you enjoy history?
Not particularly.
Have you ever changed religions?
I've never had a religion to change.
Have you ever lied about your gender?
No. People have accused me of it though, I've been accused of being a dude loads of times online. It's stupid lmao, I had a bunch of pics of myself and if I was gonna lie about being somebody else, I'd use pics of a much hotter girl LOL.
Have you ever designed your own Facebook timeline cover?
I have, kinda. I put together a montage of pics of me meeting The Shield guys when I finally got to meet Seth and had it as my cover pic for ages. Now I just have a pic of The Shield as a group xD
What is one site that closed down that you wish would come back?
Bzoink lol, it closed down not that long ago, it was my main site for surveys. I'd also love different forums I posted on to come back so I can re-read the threads I posted on and that.
Are you a fan of the Saw movies?
Not really, I've seen a few of them but they're not really my thing.
Do you ever forget how old your siblings are?
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Who last talked about kissing you?
My boyfriend.
Did you speak to your father today?
Not today, but he liked my last FB post lol.
Would you ever get gauged ears?
No.
Do you believe in moving in together before engagement or marriage?
Sure, if that's what you want.
Did you ever give a hickey to the last person you kissed or you guys didn’t go that far?
Hickeys are gross, I told my boyfriend if he gives me, I will kick his ass LOL, so I wouldn't give him one either.
List five of your favorite YouTubers.
Call Me Kevin, ashens, Gray Still Plays, HeroVoltsy and Matt Rose. CMK and GSP do absolutely chaotic gaming videos, ashens reviews knockoff and cheap items, HV is a Pokétuber who plays fangames and ROM hacks and Matt Rose does insane videos where he reads things from the internet.
What pet names do you use with your significant other?
I mostly call him babe or baby.
Who is your best online friend?
All of my Discord wrestling friends, but I get on with Mordy and Donnie the best.
Who knows more about you: online friends or offline?
Online tbh hahaha.
What’s something you find unconventionally romantic?
When my boyfriend attempts to show interest in things I know he doesn't give two flying fucks about, haha. It's so cute seeing him try when I ramble on about girl groups or boybands xD He tries to be interested cos he knows it means a lot to me, and I find that very lovely.
List 3-10 things in nature you find amazing.
Um...
What is one song that you’ve been listening to on repeat lately?
Most of Madison Beer's Life Support album, but "Effortlessly" the most from it.
Do you enjoy creative writing?
Yes.
Do you sleep with just a sheet in summer when it’s hot?
Yes, I have a duvet but I always throw it off immediately when I get in bed haha. I HAVE to have a cover of some sort on me even if it's blazing hot, otherwise I can't sleep.
Do you get bursts of creative energy or is it more consistent?
I definitely get bursts.
Have you ever been chased by a dog?
Yes.
Is your voice high, low, or somewhere in the middle?
Lower than what you'd expect from me.
What’s the next friend or family birthday coming up? Will you buy them a present?
My boyfriend on May 1, and I've bought his present, I'm getting him aftershave and a shirt he had his eye on but keeps forgetting to buy lol.
What was the last book you read?
Reach For The Stars.
What are your plans for tomorrow?
Work, and the gym afterwards.
Is there a gang problem in your area?
We have gangs, but I don't know if they're a "problem" as such. The ones we see just go jogging and are always polite when they pass you LOL.
Do you make your Starbucks order more complicated if it isn’t busy?
No, I stick to my main favourite drinks.
Would you date an already attached person?
No.
When you marry, will you wear white?
I'm not getting married.
Is there anything significant happening this month?
April is almost over and nothing big is happening for the rest of it - next month is my boyfriend's birthday, a few WWE PPVs, a few indie shows and Eurovision. Gonna be a fun month.
What are your grandfathers’ names?
Jack was my Granddad on my Dad's side... I'm gonna admit I don't know my other Granddad's name, cos I never met him :(
Have you ever seen a snake in real life?
Only in a zoo or something lol, cos there isn't snakes in NZ.
Do you know anyone that has been held hostage before?
No.
Can you ever hear dogs barking from your house? Does it annoy you?
Yep. One of our neighbours has this dog that loves to bark whenever they go out and leave it alone, it's so annoying. The poor dog gets ignored a lot.
What’s your main reason for booking taxis?
I don't remember the last time I took a taxi in NZ lol. So I guess the main reason is that I'm traveling and in a foreign country xD
When was the last time you saw your partner (or your best friend)?
Partner - yesterday, he picked me up from work. Best friend - a few weeks ago, before she went to Japan.
How did you sleep last night?
I slept alright.
Do you like candy corn?
Never had it.
Are you bored right now?
No.
Do your grandparents speak English as a first language?
Yes.
Do you remember to turn lights off in the rooms you’re not actively using?
Most of the time, but I forget the hallway light when I come down the stairs sometimes.
Do you have many snacks in your house right now?
Yeah, I have two bags of chips in my room and a few other things.
Do you keep alcohol in your house?
Sometimes.
Did you have a bunk bed when you were a kid?
Yes.
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What was your first “adult” experience?
Does masturbation count? Cos that xD Otherwise, it was giving a boy a blowjob lol.
What’s the hottest thing you’ve done to someone else?
My boyfriend says the hottest thing I let him do is cum inside me! He loves it.
Do you like giving head?
If I'm being honest, I really don't like it, mainly cos it's super easy to trigger my gag reflex and then I panic. My boyfriend thankfully isn't too obsessed with it, he says that getting to do anal, cum inside me and do a bunch of other kinky things more than makes up for it.
Would you rather give head or receive it?
Receive, but I don't ask my boyfriend to do it much cos I don't want to be selfish. If he's not getting it, neither am I.
Have you ever had a friend with benefits?
Yep.
Have you ever fooled around outside?
Yes! I've had full on sex outside hahah.
What are you wearing now?
Nothing sexy lol - yoga pants and a Mox t-shirt. And ugg boots xD
Where is the craziest place you’ve done it?
In a bathroom at a nightclub.
Do you like sexting?
Yes! My boyfriend and I do it all the time, it's great when I'm at work and I get a dirty message from him xD
When you’re on top, what’s your favorite position?
I like facing the guy, so you can see each other's faces.
Do you like eating ass?
It's alright haha.
Would you rather eat ass or have your ass eaten?
Have it eaten.
Do you find older people/partners attractive?
My boyfriend is 18 years older than me, what do you think? :P
Do you like being naked or are you shy about it?
It's fine! I've taken naked pics and stuff.
Have you ever fooled around with more than one person in one day?
Yes.
Have you ever done stuff around other people?
Oh yeah. Once we went to a get together at one of my boyfriend's friend's places, and everyone crashed there afterwards cos we'd all been drinking. My boyfriend and I had sex with one of his friends right next to us xD I have no idea if he was awake or not though lol.
Do you ever fantasize about an ex or a previous hookup?
No.
Have you ever gotten or given car head while driving?
I have, but it's dangerous so I prob won't do it again xD
Have you ever had a threesome? If not would you like to someday?
Yep. It was me and two guys.
If you could have sex with any porn star, who would you choose?
I don't know porn star's names haha.
Do you like getting tied up? How about tying someone else up?
I LOVE getting tied up.
Most embarrassing sex thing you’ve confessed to a friend?
Haha not sure.
Have you ever been caught fooling around?
Yes.
How old were you when you started masturbating?
I was super young like 3 or 4 years old from what I remember.
What was your go-to sexual fantasy in high school?
I had fetishes right from my teen years, so one of them.
What’s the highest number of sexual positions you tried in one session? (feel free to name a few if you can remember)
4 or 5, probably?
Would you suck on anyone’s toes or let them suck yours?
Yeah, sure.
Favorite things to do or have done to you during foreplay?
Oh, everything. Nipple play, groping, mutual masturbation, stripping etc.
What is the riskiest text you’ve ever sent?
I sent my boyfriend a dirty text when he was at work and it came up on his screen as he was showing a coworker something on it LOL xD Luckily, it was one of his friends and they thought it was funny.
Have you ever hooked up with a friend?
Yes.
If you knew there would be no future repercussions, do you think you could ever be a porn star?
Haha maybe xD
What’s an instant turn-on for you?
Petnames like baby girl or kitten haha.
How old were you when you had for first kiss?
7.
What’s the kinkiest thing a partner has asked you to do? Did you do it?
If I said it, I'd probably get banned or get in trouble lol.
What’s the farthest you’ve gone on a first date and did you think that would happen beforehand?
Oh, I've had sex on a first date haha.
Would you rather be blindfolded or blindfold someone else?
Be blindfolded.
Would you ever have phone sex?
Oh yeah sure, my boyfriend went to Wellington for a work thing last year and we talked dirty on the phone while he was there LOL.
What do you think of open relationships?
If it's your thing, then you do you, that's cool.
What’s the longest you’ve gone without jerking off?
Haha maybe a week xD
Is there a position that you would like to try, but have not done yet?
There's a few I'm unable to do cos of my shoulder, so one of those.
Have you ever hooked up with a coworker?
No, cos since I've been at my job I've been with my boyfriend haha.
What’s the most memorable sexual experience you’ve had?
There's so many to pick from, I can't decide.
Would you lick someone’s armpits or let them lick yours?
Sure.
Have you or would you try BDSM?
I do, I love it! I love a bit of pain.
How many exes’ numbers are still in your phone?
None.
Have you ever caught someone else having sex or masturbating?
Maybe, not sure.
Would you say you have a (physical) type or type(s), and if so how would you describe it?
I would say no, but then again I think I kinda do cos one of my exes looked a lot like Jon Moxley xD
Have you ever had sex with someone that you weren’t really attracted to?
No.
Is there a sexy scene from a movie or porn that you would want to try and recreate?
Not that I can think of.
What do you find most attractive in a partner/hook-up?
So many things.
Have you ever hooked up with your teacher/professor?
No, cos I did university online, and I didn't fancy any of my high school teachers LOL.
Big ass or big dick?
Big dick, thanks.
Do you like sending/receiving dirty pictures?
Yes, love it!
Do you like to edge?
I do yes, but I also have a hard time holding on xD
Have you ever recorded something sexual?
Yep.
Do you like being dominated in bed, or do you like taking the lead?
I am a major sub haha.
Do you like dirty talk?
Yep.
Do you prefer to top or bottom?
Bottom.
Do you like your hair pulled? Being spanked? etc.
Spanking is amazing, I don't see it as a punishment, I love it haha. And hair pulling is hot too.
Most inappropriate place or time you’ve gotten aroused?
At work. Thanks to my boyfriend sending me a dirty text lol, I was on reception too xD
Favorite sexual compliment you’ve ever received?
Hmm.
Do you own any toys?
I have a Satisfyer vibrator and some anal beads. I think I might buy a new vibrator though cos I think the battery in my current one is dying, I have to charge it way more these days.
What is your favorite position with you on the bottom?
Missionary where my boyfriend folds me in half haha.
What’s one public place where you would want to do it?
Anywhere where it's easy to get caught, but I don't want to get arrested LMAO.
Biggest kink or fantasy you’re willing to admit?
I'm pretty much open to anything.
What is your go-to sexiest pair of underwear or outfit you own?
My boyfriend loves it when I wear this super tight black playsuit, it shows off cleavage and legs xD
Does the thought of recording a video or being watched turn you on?
Yes!
Do you shave?
I get Brazilian waxes, shaving is way too itchy and I miss bits so I let a professional do it for me.
Do you prefer your partner shaved, trimmed, or all natural?
My boyfriend is trimmed, but really I don't mind.
Have you ever tried roleplay? If not, would you?
Sure, yes. Last year for my boyfriend's birthday I dressed up as a police officer and arrested him HAHAHA.
What kind of outfit or clothing would you like to see a partner in?
Hmm, good question. He wants to dress up for me for my birthday, so I guess I need to think of something xD
Have you ever choked someone or been choked during sex?
Yes, absolutely love it. My boyfriend knows how to do it properly without hurting my neck.
How often do you watch porn?
For my porn needs, I mostly use BDSMLR, but I do watch actual porn too.
Last time you jerked off?
Yesterday, lol.
Have you ever done or received a striptease/lap dance? Would you want to?
Yep, I've given one and received one before, I went to a strip club YEARS ago for a laugh and my friends dared me to get a lapdance lol. She did a good job!
Would you rather hear or watch a partner pleasure themselves for you?
Watch!
What’s one thing you would like more of in bed?
My boyfriend does everything I want, and he's always asking me what I want more of.
What kind of porn do you usually watch?
I like pretty much everything, but I always skip blowjob scenes lol.
Weirdest sexual experience?
Prob the time with an ex where my back gave out on me and it legit locked me into place and I couldn't move, and I was on top LOL. My ex thought he was doing a bad job but my back just wasn't cooperating haha.
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How to Get Rid of Birdnesting on Your Embroidery Machine
Introduction
Birdnesting can be really annoying when it happens on your embroidery machine. It slows down your sewing and affects your speed. But don't worry, we've got you covered! In this guide, we'll show you how to fix birdnesting and improve your productivity.
Step 1: Check the Tension
Birdnesting can occur when the thread tension is too loose. Check both the tensioner and the bobbin to see which one is causing the issue. Turn the tensioner knobs to the right to tighten them and see if that helps. Make sure to refer to your machine's manual for proper tension settings.
Step 2: Needle Size Matters
Sometimes, the size of the needle can also affect birdnesting. If you're working with elastic fabric or high stitch density, try using a needle with a larger eye. This will help the thread pass smoothly through the fabric.
Step 3: Use the Right Thread
Different threads require different needle sizes. For example, if you're using a 40 gauge thread, use an 80/12 needle. If you're working with metallic threads, a 90/14 or 80/12 needle will work best. Check your thread guide for more information.
Other Methods to Avoid Birdnesting
In addition to the steps above, here are some other things you can do to prevent birdnesting:
Method 1: Rethread
Make sure to properly rethread your machine, removing the thread bobbin and spool. Check that the presser foot is down before sewing.
Method 2: Replace the Needle
A dull or damaged needle can cause sewing issues. Replace it with the correct size needle for your fabric.
Method 3: Check the Presser Foot
Always double-check that the presser foot is down before you start stitching. Forgetting to do this can lead to birdnesting.
Ways to Avoid Birdnesting
Here are some important things to keep in mind to avoid birdnesting:
Proper Threading
Make sure to thread your machine correctly to ensure smooth operation. Missing a point on the thread path can cause tension issues and lead to birdnesting.
Correct Bobbin Placement
Check that the bobbin is placed correctly to prevent snagging and birdnesting. Refer to your machine's manual for guidance if needed.
Thread Tension
Incorrect thread tension is a common cause of birdnesting. If the thread is too loose, it can unwind from the bobbin and create a buildup below the metal plate. Adjust the tension screw on the bobbin case to tighten the tension.
Maintenance
Regularly maintain your sewing machine to prevent birdnesting. Clean the machine and check for any thread shredding or buildup. Keeping your machine in good condition will help avoid issues.
Proper Hooping
Incorrect hooping can cause flagging, which leads to birdnesting. Make sure the fabric is hooped correctly to prevent bouncing and slipping during embroidery.
Mechanical Issues
Sometimes, birdnesting can occur due to mechanical problems with the machine. If you suspect a mechanical issue, seek help from experts to resolve the problem.
Positioning
In some machines, positioning can cause birdnesting. Pay attention to trimming, positioning, and hook timing to avoid this issue.
Conclusion
By following these steps and avoiding common mistakes, you can easily fix birdnesting on your embroidery machine. Don't worry about damaging your fabric or design, as these methods are safe to use. Happy sewing!
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Understanding Your Heavy Duty Truck Dashboard
There’s a lot going on when you are driving a heavy duty truck. You need to make sure everything in your truck is running smoothly to avoid potential disasters. Heavy duty trucks are complicated and have a lot of moving parts, and for this reason there are many more dashboard symbols and gauges that truck drivers have to keep an eye on.
Here is a guide to help you understand what your truck dashboard symbols, gauges, and warning lights mean.
Common Truck Gauges
Truck gauges provide drivers with vital information about the state of their truck and how it is functioning. All heavy duty truck dashboards have the following truck gauges.
Odometer: All vehicles have odometers, including heavy duty trucks, so most drivers are familiar with this dashboard gauge. The odometer shows the total mileage on your truck, and most odometers can also show the mileage of a specific route you have taken. This information is useful for knowing when your truck needs an oil change and other routine truck maintenance.
Voltmeter: This truck gauge shows the charge of your battering, either with numbers or with three colored sections. If your truck has a numerical voltmeter, it will read 14 to 14.5 volts when your battery is fully charged while your engine is running. This is the range your battery should typically stay in. If your voltmeter consistently reads below 14 volts or over 15 volts, then your batter is under charged or over charged, respectively, and you should have a diesel mechanic check your system. If your heavy duty truck has a colored voltmeter, you want the needle to hover in the middle green area. If it is in the red area to the left, then your battery is under charged, and if it is in the red to the right, then your battery is over charged. Keeping an eye on your voltmeter will alert you to charging issues before they turn into serious problems.
Tachometer: All vehicles have tachometers, too. The tachometer tells you the engine’s speed in revolutions per minute, or RPM. The diesel engines in heavy duty trucks are now designed to have maximum peak torque with lower RPMs.
Fuel Gauge: The fuel gauge is a vital auto and truck gauge in all vehicles. It lets you know how full your fuel tank is. Heavy duty truck drivers should check their fuel gauges regularly so that they can be sure they have enough diesel to make it to their destination. Running out of fuel while on the highway is a less than ideal situation that you want to avoid at all costs.
Engine Oil Pressure Gauge: The engine oil pressure gauge allows you to keep an eye on your heavy duty truck’s oil pressure. You want the oil pressure to stay between 30 and 70 pounds per square inch, or PSI. If your oil pressure is too low, your engine can suffer serious damage.
Air Pressure Gauge: This truck gauge monitors the PSI of each truck reservoir. You should regularly check both your primary and secondary air pressure gauges to make sure they do not fall below 90. If this happens, there could be a leak or some other problem with your air brake system. Pull over as soon as you can before your heavy duty truck experiences a breakdown.
Temperature Gauges: Heavy duty truck dashboards have a number of different temperature gauges. Some temperature gauges should be high while others should be low. Keep an eye on all your temperature gauges to keep your truck performing as it should be. The following are the different types of temperature gauges you will see on your truck dashboard.
Coolant – This gauge monitors the temperature of the coolant and should be around 165 to 195 degrees Fahrenheit. If you notice that your coolant temperature is too high, you need to pull over when it is safe and let it cool down before continuing your drive.
Engine Oil – This gauge shows the temperature of your heavy duty truck’s motor oil. If your oil is too hot, your engine can be damaged.
Pyrometer – This gauge displays the temperature of your diesel engine’s exhaust. This can warn you that your heavy duty truck may have engine damage.
Transmission – The temperature of your truck’s transmission is shown here. You can find out what a normal transmission temperature is in your manual. Normal temperature ranges vary by manufacturer.
Rear and Forward Axles – The temperature of the oil in your axles is shown here. Forward-rear and rear-rear axle oil temperatures should stay around 160 to 220 degrees Fahrenheit for Meritor axles or between 80 and 200 degrees Fahrenheit for Dana Spicer axles. When your heavy duty truck is under heavy loads or climbing steep grades, it is normal for these axle oil temperatures to go up, as long as the temperature falls back to normal afterwards.
Dashboard Symbols and Warning Lights
Heavy duty truck dashboards have a variety of warning lights and dashboard symbols that can indicate both emergency and non-emergency issues. You should familiarize yourself with what the different dashboard symbols and lights mean so that you know if it requires immediate attention. The location, design, and color of each warning light and dashboard symbol can differ among truck manufacturers, but here are explanations of what the most common symbols mean.
Check Engine Light: The check engine light can be indicative of both major and minor engine issues. If your truck’s check engine light comes on, check to see if any other warning lights have come on as well, such as those showing that your diesel engine is overheating or that the oil pressure is low. Pull over when it is safe so that you can turn your engine off as soon as possible.
Alternator Check Light: If your alternator check light comes on, this could be informing you that your truck’s alternator is not correctly charging your battery. When this happens, you should pull your heavy duty truck over when it is safe and only use the necessary battery-operated accessories, such as your windshield wipers, headlights, etc., until you can get the alternator checked by a diesel mechanic.
Low Coolant Level Light: The low coolant level light tells you that your coolant levels are low. This does not need to be attended to immediately, but you should schedule truck maintenance in the near future so that a diesel mechanic can find and fix the cause of this issue.
Tire Inflation Light: This warning light lets you know that one of your tires is underinflated. A tire that is underinflated is likely to cause a serious breakdown or accident. When you see the tire inflation warning light up, find a safe place to park and manually check the pressure of each tire.
Schedule Heavy Duty Truck Maintenance with a Certified Diesel Mechanic
When one of your dashboard symbols or warning lights flashes to alert you of an issue, you should get the problem fixed as soon as possible to avoid further damage or breakdowns.
Here at Certified Diesel Solutions, our certified diesel mechanics can find the root of the problem and fix it quickly. We provide diesel engine repair and preventative truck maintenance services to keep you safe while on the road. Our diesel mechanics have years of experience and use all the latest tools and technology to accurately diagnose and repair any problem your heavy duty truck may have. To avoid experiencing a disastrous breakdown, schedule truck maintenance today. Give us a call or reach out to us online.
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Jewelry Making Tips - Getting Started With Wire Jewelry Making
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The Winter Wave Hat was a spontaneous project inspired by the arrival of a new family member. I used two 100g skeins of bulky weight yarn in contrasting colors. This project features a simple stacked stitch motif worked in 2 colors in the round. Stacked stitches are a increase and decrease technique used to create wavy color work. Only one color is worked at a time in this project. It's a good starting place for any one new to this technique who wants to practice with a quick and (relatively) easy pattern.
I know it's a strange time of year to publish a hat, but it's still cold enough to wear this today when I arrive in Wisconsin. It's also perfect timing for those of you who live in the southern hemisphere.
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Yarn: BULKY
Small size uses 60g of MC and 30g of CC.
Large size uses 67.5g of CC and 37.5g of CC.
Finished Size: 18" (20") / 46 (51 cm) circumferenceat ribbing, unstretched, to fit 20-23" (23-26") / 53-60 (61-66) cm head.
Needles: Size 8 (5mm), 10 (6mm) 16” (40 cm) circular needle, or size needed to obtain gauge.
Gauge: 14 sts and 19 rows = 4 x 4” square in stockinette stitch on larger size needles.
Find the pattern for sale on my website and on Ravelry.
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