Introducing Pandora, the archon of Chaos! She wriggled her way into Cantergale just to cause a bit of fun here and there. Back in the day, she might’ve turned an entire village upside down, caused a few flash floods, but in her older years she’s grown fond of more.. subtle tricks. Tricks like taking away a certain powerful unicorn filly’s cutiemark away before she could even get it, just to see what would happen. Among other things…..
She’s also Enos great great grandmother! Don’t ask me details. Idk. Pandora goes by any prns but I mostly use she.
Plus some concept sketches/wips! I really wanted Pandora to have two long braids but alas I couldn’t figure out how to make it work in a way I like. I was very inspired by Dastardos and a few other characters. I hid a couple teeny tiny references, I’m curious if anyone will get them.
I’ll preemptively answer a few questions I tend to get when introducing new characters:
Q: what is this? A: an AU!
Q: why’d you change Discords name? A: for fun!
Q: why’d you change his gender? A: for fun!
Q: fluttercord? A: no, Flora is not very fond of Pandora
2nd place in American Patchwork & Quilting Transparency Quilting Challenge, QuiltCon 2025
this challenge focused on the illusion of transparency in quilting.
So I noticed this was second place in a contest.
So I looked up first place:
This is “Light Me Up” by Lindsey Berres. Closeups here.
Here is the (partial?) gallery of entrants on the QuiltCon website, but the image files are so large that I literally can’t load them so have a selection of much lower quality screengrabs from this video tour instead…
“Neural Overlap” by Jane Eileen GarcĂa (3rd place)
“Surfacing” by Tara Glastonbury
“Dot Your Eyes” by Nora Bauser
“Risograph Rings” by Colleen Kesterson
“Benched” by Linda Hungerford
“Windmill Meadows” by Lynett Muhaso
“Starman” by Lorena Uriarte
“Triple Silk Transluscence” by Cassandra Beaver
“Who Invited Cyan?” by Samantha Saturday
“Star Crossed” by Karin Rabe
“Contintuity of Radiance” by Svetlana Silver
“Mod Layers” by Anthea Naylor
“Dialectic No. 4” by Heather Akerberg
“Perfect Pansies” by Holly Clarke
“Still Life #1” by Barbara Strick
“Circle of Friends” by Erin Case
“Orange Peel Overlay” by Stephanie Bracelyn"“Orange Peel Overlay” by Stephanie Bracelyn
My ocs, Renya and Dinta! I loved someone who once said Boteh were mangoes, and I loved that it was such an abstract depiction.
Renya discerned that decay is a form of re-absorption, a re-entry of the ingredients of the body into reincarnation; in a way, making sense of chaos; He touches his beloved thus- You used to be a fern, here, behind your ears. Half of your knuckles, you were a cat. The bridge of your nose, a tiger, your cupids bow, a hummingbird. Dinta returns the touch, the space between Renya’s nostril and lips: notably absent is a philtrum, a symptom of divinity in philippine cultures; and he asks Renya; here, what bright thing were you? And Renya would smile coyly and say he was an aphid, a spider, a gnat, whatever the hummingbird hungered for.
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