July 3rd, 2020
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Cast: Arpana Sherpa, Jack O'Malley
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Oh. Oh, he’s smiling. Oh I’m so soft.
Oh please give him a break, he doesn't live at the foot of a mountain in perpetual cold :P And he has the Purple Hippo of Happiness(™?) to keep him warm, too! It IS a nice colour scarf though.
Now maybe Arpana has something to tell O'Malley that PHoH wasn't able to... about running away.
Hey now, no need to knitpick about it ^_^
you win, alright. you win.
here. take all my upvotes.
She's really handing out purls of wisdom!
Well, of course. Having a sage in the story makes it a better yarn.
Expecting him to wear a scarf in the middle of May? Making him feel guilty about not appreciating all she does for him? Being there for him when he needs moral support and guidance? Is Arpana Mal's Mum?
It gets cold up in those mountains and... in... those... extradimensional spaces??
There's cold in them there hills?
"Pffeff, when I was young we sent kids up to mine that cold outta them hills.
They'd bring it home in buckets and sell it for pennies!"
As a knitter, I'd say it's definitely both.
If it turns out she spun the yarn herself, it's "both" with an extra helping.
Oh, your mom would have liked Arpana, O'Malley.
Imagine Arpana teaching Mal to knit and his first project is a scarf for Wolfe. It's lopsided and he spilled tea on it at some point but there isn't a single dropped stitch because he wanted to do it right. With Ben's help, he makes it with yarn the color of Wolfe's spirit when he's playing violin.
I need this immediately.
I like her. B-)
mal: but its too hot for a scarf
arpana: dont care have some guilt
Worth noting: before this chapter, I think we always saw him wearing a scarf (to hide his scar).
As a knitter and an artist, I have to appreciate the detailing of those knit stitches at the bottom of the page, as well as those knitting 'motions'. Thank you for this beautiful page
I'm a knitter too, and I was coming in to say the same thing! The close-up of the knitting in the bottom panel is really well done.
thanks! i learned to knit the other year with this scene in mind :)
You learned to knit so you could do a future panel? THAT's commitment to one's art! 😎
That is some true commitment. Hats off to you, madame!
bow you are commited to your art. From story threads to actual threads (well, yarn, but close enough!)
Mal is a lot more relaxed with Arpana than he usually is when meeting someone new. Is it because she's a witch too, or because she's a motherly older woman who might remind him of Enid?
He looks very young here :)
He does, especially in the first panel! Smiling seems to do that to him.
I was never able to learn to knit. My fine motor skills aren't good enough.
Try loom knitting. It's a bit easier.
I learned, but I'm not good at it. My gauge is too affected by my mood, and if I drop a stitch or make a mistake I don't know how to correct it. I have to go to my sister and beg her to fix it! I crochet. Tunisian crochet looks like knitting from the front. And it can only unravel a stitch at a time.
Mal's next line:
"Ye're not the boss of me!"
I'm curious about the stitch pattern. It looks like she has an unusual way of purling.
Maybe she's purling through the back loop? Or knitting through the front loop?
...hmmmmmmm.... should I continue to do school work or work up a series of swatches because I'm so bloody sick of this assignment.
Multitasking is an important skill for a witch.
""A scarf is simply a thread twisted into a beautifully complex knot."
Brilliant. That's going in my quotes file.
I don't knit, but plenty of my friends do. Those are some honking thick needles!
I've got bigger, honestly. if vampires are real, I will be very prepared
*snerk
So, when do we get all three witches fighting some spirit for a climax
She's really breaking the tension (square) here. I like her already. :)
So … Mal does not seem to be bringing up that last time he saw a witch in this space between (himself in Pride's mirror shard), he was blinded.
Has he already figured out an explanation for it, or does he just not see a discrepancy in that the sight of Arpana is not similarly blinding?
Nyree said she can't sense another witch, so maybe it's only a witch's own aura that has that effect in here.
Yeah, I saw that suggestion, but Mal never heard her say that, so that's not his reasoning.
"A scarf is simply a thread twisted into a beautifully complex knot."
Beautiful metaphor for relationships.