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A few weeks later, a youtube channel called "kellygreenjellybean" posts a video titled "Needle Felting like you know what you're doing"

"Hi. I'm, uh, you can call me Jellybean." She's wearing a bright green sweater and barrettes, possibly as an excuse for the other half of her username. "So Liamlearns sorta half-dared half-asked me to make this video..." 

She's not a perfect teacher. She uses a lot of hesitation phenomena, and it's clear she's largely self-taught and has done a fair bit of reinventing the wheel herself, and there are several parts where she refers to something as easy, "unless it's just that I'm naturally good at it and don't know how to explain it to someone who has difficulty; so if you have difficulty, uh, sorry." 

She goes over some mistakes she made in previous needle felting projects ("You want it denser. No, denser than that. You know how you can just pull a puff of fibers apart? You don't want to be able to do that to a finished needle felting piece.)

By the end of the video she has produced three pieces of increasing complexity: first a smiling apple with a heart-shaped leaf attached to the stem ("suitable for giving to teachers"), then a cat standing upright on all four paws, and finally a chubby moth with the wings, antennae and legs all felted separately and then stabbed together. 

Oh no, that moth is so fuzzy...

All needle felting is at least a little fuzzy! There are ways to get them actually fluffy but I don’t know how

Oh, I have an idea...

Benguin and Little Bunny Froufrou

also you know they sell little doll combs for like barbies and stuff, right?

They sell them but I haven't bought one yet!

Interesting suggestions. But wouldn't Froufrou harass my poor defenseless mice? Maybe it's only field mice that are at risk, and teacup mice are safe.

No, no, it's little bunny Fou-Fou who harasses mice. because he is a fool. in french. twice. Froufrou has better things to do

I stand corrected. Unless Froufrou turns out to have a weakness for teacup mice.

for snuggling them perhaps. not for scooping them up and bopping them on the head. ...possibly for scooping them up and patting them gently on the head

It will be so.

...He referred to her as "the delightful Jellybean" as though she were also, like, a legit person with a channel. She--only has the one video up, and it's not very good. Does this mean she ought to put up more videos? Hmm...

A few days later a video goes up titled "[ASMR] combing" and is of her combing a doll's hair with a tiny plastic comb smaller than some of her fingernails while softly humming whatever comes into her head. 

That comb is very little indeed.

Her next video is titled “cameo carving ✨✨✨” and credited to “the blatant enabling of Liamlearns” 

the video doesn’t actually start out with carving. First she explains that she had to decide what material to carve, and explains how she selected a homemade clay recipe from the internet, and shows a time lapse of herself mixing up white modeling clay, then dividing it into two unevenly-sized lumps and mixing blue food coloring into the larger. She takes out a rolling pin and rolls out the blue clay, then squashes the white clay on top and rolls that out to approximately the same surface area. 

Then she takes a round jar lid and cuts out circles of the clay arrangement, setting them out to dry and harden. The remaining scraps she squishes into a paler blue and sets aside in plastic wrap for later. 

The video cuts to when the circles have dried, and she explains how she carefully sketches out designs on the top, white layer, then carves away all the white clay that isn't part of the design, leaving a raised white relief image on a blue background. 

She carves a total of five circles in the video, less than the number she cut out of the white-and-blue soft clay. The designs are a leaf, a ten-pointed double star, a heraldic rose, a sailboat, and a tree under a sky dotted with raised white stars. 

"I'm only showing you the ones that worked," she says wryly after the last one. "Expect to mess up. Like, a lot."

He comments on her video with three sparkle emoji.

In his second air-dry clay video, he reveals that his overambitious design choice was to try to make an ornate little dollhouse-furniture-scale rocking chair. The video runs a little long compared to his usual, because he's documenting his failed attempts and there's a lot of them. In the end, though, he successfully creates an adorable little rocking chair and puts it on the Non-Creature Shelf next to the piggy bank. (His accent sounds British, but the nickel that has mysteriously appeared in the piggy bank's coin slot since the last time it showed up onscreen is American.) He also mentions in his ending blurb that Jellybean has caused him to alter his plans for his next video slightly, "because I'm like a magpie, I see a shiny crafting idea and I just have to take it home to line my nest."

Oh that sounds like a challenge. 

Her next video is much shorter, and shows how to weave a God's Eye on popsicle sticks with yarn. "I'm not personally religious, but a religious friend taught me how to make these at summer camp, and they're soothing."

That's so pretty! It's a shame I have a personal rule about not messing around with religious traditions I don't follow.

Christianity is culturally dominant, it's at worst punching up. Obviously I don't condone disrespecting anyone's religion, unless they're, like, the westboro baptist church! hopefully nobody is going to look at this video and go 'ah, hm, more poorly-thought-out potential satanism' but like even so

Oh, no, that's not the trouble. I don't think you're disrespecting anyone! I just have a personal quirk here. I can try to explain but I don't think it's an explanation that belongs in your comments section; email me?

She thinks carefully about giving him her email by contacting him but decides to go for it. 

Hi! This is Jellybean. Tell me of your quirks. 

(Her email is kellyabigailgreene@[hypotheticalmailservice])

Aha, and now I see where the jellybean came from. Clever!

So the thing I didn't want to get into in public because it's embarrassing is that I have a bit of a superstition about not calling on supernatural forces in case they turn out to be real, and the thing I didn't want to get into in public because it's just a bit strange is that I often find myself thinking of other people's religions that I don't believe in as... sort of like their families? Jesus is many people's weird uncle but he's not mine and I don't want to be overly familiar with someone else's weird uncle. Even though, or perhaps especially because, I don't think he's around to object. It would be like, I don't know, walking into a graveyard and striking up a conversation with a stranger's gravestone. It's not necessarily bad, from many perspectives no one is actually harmed by it, I would not be offended if I saw someone else do it, but it's just sort of weird and I don't want to!

that's pretty valid honestly! 

talk about quarrelsome family reunions though

An angle I admit I have never before considered.

do you know anything about the thirty years war

I do not! Tell me more.

ok so once upon a time a monk named martin luther nailed his manifesto to a church door and started the protestant reformation. fast-forward to the earlyish seventeenth century and there are a bunch of kinds of protestants around and the catholics decide this isn't on and a war happens about it. lots and LOTS of blood shed, and worse, ostensibly catholics against various protestants and various protestants against each other with the jewish people caught in the middle and everyone keeping a leery eye on the muslims to the southeast. except of course it was deeply entangled with dynastic boooolsheet and you get things like catholic france backing Gustavus II Adolphus, champion of protestantism, bc he was fighting catholic spain and france was more worried about spain than about what the scandinavians were getting up to in the germanies