I made a Once Upon a Time dice!

[lilacsigil]

imadeathing is a comm for making fannish stuff. It's just finishing a challenge now, so there's lots of fun things to look at, in various fandoms. Here's mine!

There's so many characters on Once Upon a Time, all starting with archetypes and then breaking out - or failing to break out - of those definitions. I wanted to make something that featured the ensemble nature of the show and thought about making a fabric book with a page for each character. Instead, the idea of the characters as both characters and archetypes stuck with me, so I decided to make a dice with one main character for each face. Roll the dice, see which archetype you get!

This was also part of my "use what you have in the craft stash" quest: the only things I bought were Emma's sword ($1.50) and a piece of brown felt for Regina's tree ($1.25). I felt pretty good about that, though the stash doesn't seem to have decreased! Thanks to st_aurafina for taking photos.



The dice: assorted fabrics with polyfill



Belle, from Beauty and the Beast: printed silk with applique, embroidery and stamping



Cora, the Queen of Hearts: stamped silk with applique



Ruby, Little Red Riding Hood: Applique and crazy quilting



Snow/Mary Margaret, from Snow White: Crazy quilting, embroidery and ribbon



Emma, who has to save them: Applique, ribbon and charms



Regina, the Evil Queen from Snow White: Applique and beaded lace

Comments

[staranise]

Awesome! I love how detailed all the different sides are.

(I confess: I also spent way too long staring at the comm name going, "What's a deathing?")

[lilacsigil]

Thank you! (And yes, I call the comm "I'm a deathing" as well!)

[escritoireazul]

I do the "deathing" thing too with that comm, or "I made a dead thing? What dead thing?"

[escritoireazul]

That's absolutely gorgeous! My favorites are Ruby's and Regina's, but they are all lovely.

[netgirl_y2k]

Ooh, that's absolutely gorgeous!

[vass]

Another person who read it as 'deathing' here.

Congrats on the dice. I particularly like Ruby's side.

[onlysmallwings]

This is awesome! I really really love Ruby's, but they're all amazing!

[gnatkip]

Beautiful! I especially love the dimensional elements, like the charm on the swan and the cloak spilling out of the basket.

(And it's totally I'm a Deathing.)

[thingswithwings]

oh my gosh, this is so beautiful and inventive! Each one was prettier than the last. *hearteyes*

[kannaophelia]

That's beautiful. Amazing job.

[whatistigerbalm]

I gather, then, this is a good show? I am interested in the subject but so wary over its writers (Kitsis & Horowitz, I believe? If not, I can relax and watch) that I am reluctant to begin.

[whatistigerbalm]

ALSO GOD I AM AN IDIOT it's 1:30am, not that that excuses me, but I meant to say how gorgeous the dice are. Because damn that's intricate work!