Wister Shybell West gets some cross-stitch supplies, then learns to cross-stitch from YouTube:
He watches the video however many times he needs to finish learning everything it teaches.
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 1:00 am
Shybell looks at cross-stitch kits, and cross-stitch patterns online, favoring trusted stores, such as stores with real commercials.
Shybell asks his dad, Dorji, to help him pick out some cross-stitch kits to learn with, then buys some with his Dad's help.
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 1:33 am
Shybell is excited about his new cross-stitch kits, and that he's starting to learn to tailor. And, he's confident that he will do well, and that someday he'll have no more issue of being too small for clothes. Shybell: "Dad! I'm going to change the world! I'm going to evolve traditional fashion!"
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 2:13 am
After Shybell has his cross-stitch kits, he decides what order to do them in, picking to go from what looks to be the easiest to the most difficult. Then, he asks his dad, Dorji, to help him have them in that order. After Dorji helps, Shybell says, "Thank you, Dad, for all your help. I never had a caring father before that helps, so I will always appreciate fathers who do their job as a dad. When I have homework, I'll be sure to ask for help when I feel like I need it. I love you, Dad." Shybell smiles happily as he opens his first cross-stitch kit. He plays Alanis' Wunderkind, happy that he'll someday be a top fashion designer.
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 2:47 am
Shybell is thinking as he stares at a cross-stitch project: "I should be more inclusive of my grouphome siblings. We are all going to try home ec. so I should be inclusive about home ec. type learning. Next time I ask Dad to help me get tailoring supplies, I should tell the others to see if they need anything, too. I'm not gonna buy for them, but I should have let them know Dad was working on this. In the future, I'll try to be more considerate." Shybell then carries it back to the topic from earlier, "When I start having homework, I should do it in a group together, so we can help eachother, too. I think this is called a study group. I should do a study group of doing crafts, too. for those interested enough to invest in it for themselves, so we can learn together. We could be a club!" Shybell plays Dionne Warwick's That's What Friends Are For:
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 2:58 am
Shybell works more on his first cross-stitch kit, playing Disney's Whistle While You Work song.
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 3:13 am
Shybell stops, and thinks about it, "The Disney princesses do nothing but be housewives. They're crowned princesses, and they achieve absolutely nothing in life but being housewives until Mulan. Then, it takes till Brave to do something again. Disney princesses might be beautiful, but they don't seem to enjoy life, and they seem to want to be slaves. These stories are tragic tellings of how queendoms were conquered by villains to subjugate women. They need to continue these stories with stories about defeating male patriachist villains that tried to subjugate them, when they're the rulers, or the rulers to be. I should work on such fanfictions, but later, not now. Presently, it's cross-stitch time. I'll write in my journal a reminder to write such fanfictions later. And, I'll share the idea online, with a non-changeable time-stamp on the post, to guard against plagiarism." Shybell starts playing Brave's Touch The Sky, then tends to his journal, and to sharing the idea publicly online. He then returns to cross-stitch.
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 3:23 am
Shybell says out loud, "Someday, girls will aspire to truly live. They will aspire to achieve skills, and to put them to careers. Disney's influence on girls has been terrible. They make them think that even crowned princesses, like the one in Tangled, can achieve nothing but a ring on their finger for a man to conquest their queendom. When I grow up, I will refuse for my daughters to be subjugated. They will co-reign, and they will do so lovingly, and healthily, not by trying to reverse the abuse. And, they will know that women can achieve, and can live. They will know women do not have to be in the shadows, or behind the scenes. And, they will be taught that they don't have to take their clothes off to achieve it." Shybell plays "Halestorm's" Dear Daughter, and continues focusing on cross-stitch, knowing "Halestorm" didn't write or sing this song, nor did they write or play it's music.
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 3:43 am
When Shybell finishes his cross-stitch, he goes to Atlas, and shows it to her, smiling, "Look what I made!" Shybell soon after asks Atlas, "When you were young did you notice that Disney princesses don't achieve anything, or live their lives? Did it upset you? What was it's influence on you? Did it hurt your life quality?" Shybell quietly plays ImagineDragons' Follow You song out loud, and sits down, waiting to hear about Atlas' past. Shybell tries to get lots of dialogue about this, if he can, "I want to know what this did to women and girls. I want to write continuations of the stories where the princesses defeat patriarchist villains that did everything to subjugate women. I want to turn these stories around, and give girls good influences."
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 4:18 am
Later, Shybell gets himself a cheap sketchbook, and some wooden #2 pencils, and a pencil sharpener. He then starts trying to draw belly dance clothes ideas that are conservative for when it's too cold to show a lot of skin, "I love belly dance, but belly dance shouldn't be all a woman achieves in life. And, she should have not only outfits that are skimpy for when it's hot, but also warm clothes for when it's cold."
Shybell continues a little later, this time posting it online, "Belly dance attire should be for all seasons, by offering both skimpy for the heat and conservative for the cold."
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 4:36 am
Shybell remembers to autograph his artwork, and does it like a watermark, directly over his artwork, so it can't be removed from the picture, "Wister Shybell West."
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 4:47 am
Shybell tells his dad, Dorji, "Dad, some girl tried to steal my drawings by trying to make me go to the bathroom with poop-flinging after I finished it instead of autographing it. Then, she tried to make me autograph it in the corner where she can tear it off the page. Then, she tried to mutilate me with my pencil for autographing it over the artwork. And, she is repeatedly calling me the S-word through music videos."
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 4:58 am
Dorji announces to the orphanage through a microphone: "Anyone who thinks they're going to use boys, or other girls as personal ATM machines of magically created money better think again. We know who does and doesn't own everything, and who has and hasn't achieved skills. You will not be tearing autographs off of other kids' artworks, or erasing them, and walking away with them. You will not be stealing other kids' creations, and saying you did it. You will not be making other kids do your homework for you. You will not be getting the answers to tests. Any such TRASH trying to go to Heaven will be evacuated to Hell."
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 5:23 am
Shybell goes back to cross-stitch.
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 5:25 am
Shybell tells his dad, Dorji: "There's a pervert couple trying to touch my legs as I sit, and every time I move my arms away from my legs, they position them to push themselves to standing to yell at me in angry outbursts. They're elderly."