Oops, There I Go Sewing Again...A Follow Up To Last Year's MetalGreymon Plush, What Would Be More Appropriate

Oops, there I go sewing again... A follow up to last year's MetalGreymon plush, what would be more appropriate to follow up with than WereGarurumon?

This came out to be a bit taller than I wanted, measuring about a foot tall if you don't include the ears, but I am incredibly happy with how it turned out! Its a MUCH smaller project than the last one, so it took just over four weeks to complete, and could have been done faster if life hadn't got in the way. But I love how detail dense it is, especially the pants! I also experimented with a new technique of using the string itself to make some of the details, like the scars and mouth, and I'm pretty pleased with the results. Once again, this model is made entirely out of felt and was entirely hand stitched (I don't know how to use a sewing machine...). This was a lot of fun to work on and I love how both figures look standing next to each other. Guess I'm going to HAVE to make four or six more...

Fun Fact: Apparently there are two designs of WereGarurumon. One with a tail and one without. I always assumed that art Ive seen of it with a tail was just an artistic choice or mistake, because the anime never gave it one, nor does the figure I used for reference. BUT the original artwork for it does have a tail, even if 99% of it is covered up. Anyway, I didn't realize this until the 11th hour, made one, and decided it looked better without one. I'm just obsessed with the fact that it took me about twenty years to figure that out...

Fun Fact 2: A lot of the comments on the MetalGreymon plush were asking how I'm able to make this sorts of things when I don't use any sorts of patterns, and I never really had an answer. I just understand how to material works, and that comes with experience. HOWEVER, I learned from my aunt, my Mom's sister, that she is able to do something similar and can recreate a pocketbook from just seeing it. And she told me that her grandmother, my great-grandmother, who immigrated from Cuba close to a century ago, and who died long before I was born, was also able to do this with dresses. So combine that talent with an ADHD fueled ability to sit and do a simple task for hours and hours, and you get an ability to make things (tm). Anyway, just a cool story about where my talents might come from that makes me feel connected to parts of my family that I never got to know.

ヽ(；▽；)ノ Made some Bruce GIFs !

Something I always wondered about is why the localizers chose to give The Legend of Zelda : Spirit Tracks that name. I mean, if you played the english version you´re rprobably about to say “Well the spirit tracks are pretty important in the game, since the power that holds Malaldus imprisoned flows though them and all”

But here´s the thing, while that is true, in-game the general public actually doesn´t know that that power flows through them, in fact, Zelda herself doesn´t know it until she meets Anjean!

Anjean: “It’s not chains or bars that keep him imprisoned, but an energy that flows between the tower and the four temples thatsurround it.”

Zelda: “Oh, of course! Anjean, then the Spirit Tracks—”

Ajean: “Correct, my dear. The Spirit Tracks carry that energy.”

It´s even more clear in teh japanese version that Zelda is just figuring it out at that point where something a long the lines of this is said:

Zelda: “Power is sent from the Tower to the Four Temples…That is what strengths the seal of the Tower of teh Gods that is holding the Demon King…Ah- Could it be that it is the tracks that are connecting the tower and the temples?”

But, even with that in mind, the Spirit Tracks are still very important, right?

Yeah sure but…here´s the thing, the term “Spirit Tracks” is pretty much invented by the english localization. In the japanese version, and the german version that I played, the tracks are always just called, well, tracks. They don´t have any special names, they´re just “tracks”. Which confused me when I first played Spirit Tracks, because the term “Spirit Tracks” is never once uttered in the german version, makign me wonder what was up with that weird title.

It would have made more sense if the german version had the same name as the japanese version. In japanese, The Legend of Zelda:Spirit Tracks is called “Zeruda no Densetsu:Daichi no Kiteki” which means “The Legend of Zelda:Whistle of the Earth/Land”, which is a pun of sorts. In the title its “whistle” as in “train whistle”, while in-game what is called “Spirit Flute” in english, is actually called “Flute of the Earth/Land”.

So, in japanese, the game is, as is common in Zelda, named after the “important main object” you obtain during the game. Which I personally like a lot more, to be honest.

Adding to this, I don´t like how in the english version so much is named “Spirit something”. I mean, in japanese there was a lot of things named “something of The Gods”, but it wasn´t as often, and it sounds a bit more magnificent to me, anyways.

Yeah um, not sure where exactly I´m going with all of this, just some brain dumping, I suppose.

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(Update: revised version of Chapter 10 now online)

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and I assure you I will ship it til my dying breath (insp)