So what is Lewis & Clark Month?

[inonibird]

Back in mid-July of 2012, I was about to go on a vacation to the Blue Ridge Mountains (specifically to Wintergreen, where my family was involved with the Summer Music Festival). While shopping for last minute things at the nearest mall, I bought a book to read on the trip—Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose. Why? It wasn’t completely out of the ordinary for me, as I do like buying history books, and for the past few years I have been focusing more on American history. But the Lewis & Clark expedition wasn’t a subject that had really caught my interest before.

Uh, that changed quickly. >_>

Immediately after returning from my vacation, I started looking up more books for reference. I also began drawing, and forewarned my deviantART followers:

I think I need to declare August “Lewis & Clark Month”, because odds are you’ll be seeing quite a bit more of this sort of stuff from me ^_^;;

Lewis & Clark Month was born. It was basically a creative outlet for everything I was reading at the time; I’d find something that intrigued me (a quote, a scenario, one aspect of Lewis or Clark’s personalities or another, etc.), doodle it and paraphrase what I had learned. I had fun and people seemed to like learning about it, so…win-win!

Realizing that I had declared “August” as Lewis & Clark Month (and not just “this August”), I decided to make it an annual celebration. And that’s really what it is: a month-long, completely geeky celebration of the Corps of Discovery, but especially of Lewis and Clark themselves.

This year, you’re welcome to join me by sharing Lewis & Clark appreciation posts here on tumblr! (I’ll be tagging everything as, surprise surprise, “Lewis & Clark Month”; whether it’s art or photos or anecdotes or what have you, participation would be awesome.) I MAY take prompts, but I already have quite a few things in mind to draw and muse about this month, I can’t make promises there. >_> I’m not just doodling this year, either! (well, that’s the plan, anyway, heh)

*glances at playlist*

So, uh…there you go! :D IT STARTS TOMORROW! I will still post other projects during the month of August, but it will be MOSTLY Lewis & Clark, so if you find yourself inexpressibly disinterested in the subject, just ignore me or Tumblr Savior the tag~

Happy trails!

Kanar

[magistrate-of-mediocrity]

I don’t know why, but I’ve always imagined kanar tastes like Jägermeister but not as sweet. Or maybe like gin with more anise. I don’t know, but “licorice” is definitely the flavor I associate with kanar.

DS9 Skirt Update

[thehaikubandit]

I finally finished collecting, organising and colour coding my quotes today. Of the 16 skirt panels I have decided to embroider on the eight rectangular ones. The skirt itself is (or at the moment was) made up of eight rectangular and eight triangular panels. I’m also going to eventually have to take it in at the waist. 

I was thinking of adding a sash or patch or something to mimic the DS9 science uniform (the later one) at the top of the skirt. While looking at it to position the quotes, I came up with a different plan… I’m fabric shopping tomorrow, and replacing the triangular panels with coloured (blue, black and grey) ones. So instead of embroidery tonight I am unpicking the entire skirt. 

Because you know, embroidering 24 quotes on a skirt wasn’t hard enough, let’s hand sew the entire thing back together….

I also ended up with eight Garak quotes, and may have a favourite character or something. The quotes are as follows, with each number being a different skirt panel. They will be colour coded based on speaker.

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[brandyfloweyarts]

I’ve been making a star trek mod… mostly a ds9-themed one, obviously. dukats and weyouns are hostile to each other as well as the player

[douxreviews]

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THE 👏 SISKO 👏 IS 👏 OF 👏 BAJOR 👏 BUT 👏 HE 👏 WILL 👏 FIND 👏 NO 👏 REST 👏 THERE 👏

[mythomagically-delicious]

I was trying to look up some facts about the actors of DS9 I saw on a post, but as I started typing in ‘marc alaimo’ it auto-finished as 'marc alaimo neck’ and I started laughing too hard to keep typing what I actually wanted to google.

[ladyyatexel]

I thought this box was my new water bottle! But it was Halloween fairy cat! @tinsnip you fabulous monster

[tinsnip]

YUSSSSSSS!

Happy birthday, you wonderful mad thing, you.

(ahahah is that the original price tag?? niiiiiiice)

Find me on AO3 as ToasterBonanza

[saathiray]

I became one of the cool kinds and finally put my stuff there. Take a look at the thing I’ve been writing since last year. 

With any luck, I too can be loved like @ladyyatexel 

[saathiray]

*sees LadyYatexel likes this*

IF ONLY I COULD BE LOVED LIKE @tinsnip AND OTHER COOL PEOPLE WHO ARE DEFINITELY THE BEST EVER

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