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Ever since I used up the paper that these dinos and dragons are made of, I've been regretting it. Not the using it, but the using it up. So I was thrilled to find the gift shop of our favorite Japanese restaurant had finally imported some more -- 60 sheets of just about the best stuff I've folded, for under $4. In this and an alternate pattern. Restocking FTW. So giddy with thrill was I, I also bought a pack of patterned unit paper -- as in, 7cm squares useful mainly for modular models, and as in, cute animal patterns. Clearly, I said when I got it, something Needs To Be Made.
As one does.
So, one of my favorite units is Tomiko Fuse's "dual wedge" from Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations, from which I made this Spiky Red Ball of Infatuation. Thanks to Japan's ability to kick our butts when it comes to cute, I can present the Spiky Purple Ball of Friendship.
I suspect I'll fold some more units and grow it up to the size of its big sister. The difference between a 12-unit octahedron and a 30-unit icosahedron being a fair amount of repetitive effort. But it's worth it.
Speaking of effort, I was amused at the start of chapter 51 of 100 of Journey to the West when Monkey tells someone that they've traveled halfway to their goal—just like the reader. Clearly, a story constructed by someone paying attention. This happens, btw, shortly before the Womanland episode, during which half our party gets pregnent. This in a country entirely of women, all of them straight, but never mind the worldbuilding -- people, this is canonical m-preg in a work over 400 years old. If that doesn't convince you to read it, I don't know what will.
---L.
As one does.
So, one of my favorite units is Tomiko Fuse's "dual wedge" from Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations, from which I made this Spiky Red Ball of Infatuation. Thanks to Japan's ability to kick our butts when it comes to cute, I can present the Spiky Purple Ball of Friendship.
I suspect I'll fold some more units and grow it up to the size of its big sister. The difference between a 12-unit octahedron and a 30-unit icosahedron being a fair amount of repetitive effort. But it's worth it.
Speaking of effort, I was amused at the start of chapter 51 of 100 of Journey to the West when Monkey tells someone that they've traveled halfway to their goal—just like the reader. Clearly, a story constructed by someone paying attention. This happens, btw, shortly before the Womanland episode, during which half our party gets pregnent. This in a country entirely of women, all of them straight, but never mind the worldbuilding -- people, this is canonical m-preg in a work over 400 years old. If that doesn't convince you to read it, I don't know what will.
---L.