#rep crafts

[reploidbuddy]

I just realized I never showed my homemade Where Home Is trophy hardcover smh

New vs old again bc it has an old "paperback" version!

Hardcover was made with transfer paper for the title stuff and stencils were used with golden acrylics for the patterns. I saw the stencil and I knew on sight it would be for Where Home Is. My hard basis seems to have gotten a weird fold and I think it's from the transfer paper's heat?? Not sure, I just know it wasn't there at first but it's okay, I know Lucerne would love it anyway.

Here's a peek of the inside (gasp, hand pic). I had the paperpack's covers plastified too hard so it had issues opening but it's not too bad since its purpose was mostly "trophy" where I can point at it and go "bruh, I did that, that's a lot of words"

Only Light on the Horizon left, printed Welcome Aboard the Maria and so it's ready for folding and sewing (though kinda debating printing the last signature that holds the refs bc the pencil portions are really hard to see for some reason, so I'd probs need to ink them) but At Hope’s End still needs a few touchups and a last look (though it's kinda long bc there's 71 chapters of it MCNJDNC)

#hardcovers #Where Home Is #rep crafts

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Reasons to play In Stars and Time: Canon Pronoun Warfare.

#in stars and time #ISAT #Siffrin #Loop #Context: early on you meet a character who tries to get you to use the royal We pronoun for them and you shut them down. It's great. #The gender swag and non-binary rep in this game is lovely. #I sketched this out when I was in Act 2 - and as of posting this I have not yet finished the game so *please* no spoilers. #It is rare for me to get into something spoiler free and I have been getting my shit rocked by this game in the best way. #Yes I *am* taking another detour to talk about a video game I love again. I will have some fun crossovers. Trust the process. #I will also do my best to pitch this game as spoiler free as possible. Because you *should* play this game: #ISAT is a very lovingly crafted RPG with very fun and emotional writing. #The characters are great and the mysteries you slowly uncover are intriguing! #The way the gameplay ties into the player's own emotional state is nearly always in sync with the protagonist. You *will* feel things. #And it is not afraid to let those things be hard emotions! Do mind the content warnings and know your limits though. #As someone who sucks at video games I also appreciate that it is so generous with your time and keeps things fun. #Not to mention it is honestly underpriced for the amount of content in it. Buy this game. I need to spread the brainworms.

[whatudottu]

Honestly Ben 10 is probably one of the most based science fiction series out there by sheer virtue of it having the balls to showcase any alien concept it wanted to no matter how ridiculous, and whenever someone is like “there’s no way in Hell that could ever be scientifically feasible”, it dared to look them in the eyes and go “Yeah, well, this is a world where magic and superpowered mutants also exist. What are you gonna do? Cry about it? You grown ass adult who’s expecting scientific feasibility out of a cartoon meant to sell toys to preteen boys that has lore so inconsistent it’s almost impossible to tell what’s canon and what’s non-canon? LMAO loser.”

I mean OS had it all- obviously aliens but not only that, at minimum 10 of them; mutants in daily life across at least America, no doubt in other places too; magic, albeit one without a system beyond ‘there’s a spellbook and some charms’. The shift to purely alien in AF makes the wonderful nonsense sci-fi stuff into frustrating logic trees of ‘how does xenobiology get this powerful’ which I had definitely fallen into. Ben 10 is unabashedly science fantasy, so why not go the full fantasy and bring back mutants and magic, haha!

Admittedly a good implementation of magic in a series tends to follow a magic system, which I’m not especially great at coming up with, especially in comparison to speculative biology which come with pre-established rules. But hey, I don’t exactly expect it to be fleshed out, at least not as well as the alien aspect of Ben 10; even then, there’s only so much fleshed out, it’s to tease us into making lore for it lmao-

To be fair though, Ben 10 itself had to whack itself on the cheek in order to be reminded of its magic and especially mutant parts, which unfortunately in the latter case was central to major retcons so…

#ask #anonymous #ben 10 #my favourite mutant characters that come to mind when i say ‘mutants in daily life’ in os #are gatorboy and porcupine- from ready to rumble #you can see a lot of mutants there and how fourarms- visibly an alien- doesn’t look out of place #the lore implications alone- a mutant wrestling ring with monetary winnings- are enough to entice fan expansions #then that mutant rep- even if only in the background- was lost to the tides of af making everything exclusively alien #magic being taken away because 1) anodites but also 2) charmcaster and hex and others came from ledgerdomain #and thus are technically alien to this dimension- or whatever plain of existence ledgerdomain exists on #the only ones who canonically use magic are those connect to- reside within- or holding something from ledgerdomain #which kind of makes it exclusively alien in a way that’s kinda i guess radioactive? not the word #sorry i shouldn’t say only- the others are mr jingles santa’s elf- sir george holding an apparent galvan crafted magic sword (no thanks)- #or ben 10000 who learnt magic from gwen but is also technically part anodite in the same way gwen is #to note on ascalon- sure maybe azmuth’s creation of it and the subsequent destruction of the incursean homeworld got him motivated to #make and save life rather than destroy and warp it #but come on a sword? a magic sword? like seriously azmuth your ass did not make that #i bet the omnitrix was actually made for the intent to fix malware but azmuth’s isolation and general grievances with the universe #ultimately made it appear he was abandoning his suffering (son) creation to fuck off and mope #he’s already an asshole that fits more than him making a bloody magic sword for ascalon’s sake #it could simply be a magic sword from the incurseans that had been used to destroy their planeg #i mean milleous seemed to think the annihilarrgh was a viable persuasion technique despite the fact if activated it would destroy everything #including the very fleets he would clearly be much more interested in expanding rather than erasinb #it fits the INCERSEANS to destroy their planet with a powerful magic sword- let aliens have magic

[hyenaboycunt]

Kink saves me. Heals me. Gives me comfort and relief where I thought none could be found. Being able to paint a veneer of "This Is For Sex Reasons!!" over my fears and insecurities and dark curiosities has made them approachable and manageable beyond my greatest expectations.

I love being a kinkster. I love being chained to my §witch. I love being a t4t faggot.

Kink saves me.

#yeen talkin bout stuff #girlthing #dynamics #love #ownership #kink is penultimate salvation crafted out of bone and desperation #in every universe that has me— i am trans and i am kinky and i am bad rep and i am a perfect example of humanity #i am a dog

[shatteredparadoxes]

just learned there's no bi pride flag emoji 😔 very sad (at the very least none on my phone)

-🌑💋

#WE GOTTA MAKE AN EMOJI ROTOM #WE GOTTA CRAFT BI REP FOR THE PHONES #𝐰inged 𝐤ing ;; olim responds! #koraidon #ask blog

[risingsunresistance]

back when i played skyblock i decided my goal was getting all minions to max level and tbh i got like 3/4 way there

i finally crafted a bunch of the minions to help out getting to the pink level rank, i'd been ignoring the rest of them for a bit bc there's no hope of me getting another minion slot anyways. i made a little document to keep track of how many i have left, i am also close but some of them just arent worth the effort

the slayer minions are so annoying to craft...

#mycelium is only so low bc im not a mage so we have to wait on ark's mage rep to go up #and we havent rlly been doing crimson isle quests anymore so that's probably never happening lol #asks #narwa #sb #the crossed out ones are the ones i was not planning on doing btw kjfhg #this is just the ones i had left over after i hit lv320 #also some of them say t11 t12 just bc i kept forgetting which minions have a t12 variant and which ones dont #didnt wanna craft the t11 and go ''ok im done!''

[your-local-granny]

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#I’m so happy gang I feel like I’m finally progressing vocally after my big scare last semester and it’s so good #I’m finally not stressed every hour of the day waiting for my voice to give out again and I feel like I’m on track in terms of memorizatiob #I finally have time to make a healthy dinner and lunch every day I’m finally getting enough sleep and I have time to do stuff outside schoo #also!! Faculty keep complimenting me and I know that it’s a low bar but still :))) I’ve put so much work into this role #and I was so excited/ scared to have a lead role because I have all the space to show people what I can actually do #and I half expected to fall totally flat or to have it like my first opera where I was too stressed to do it well or enjoy it #but I’m actually GOOD at this!! I have something I’m GOOD at!! And I get to do it!! #also I know the operas for next year finally yippee I won’t have another big role probably (tragic) but at least I can start preparing #and also I finally have some vague direction for my senior recital yippee so now I can focus on crafting a storyline w the rep #ALSO!!! Im probably gonna do study abroad!! And I feel good about my stage management stuff!! #go d I’m just so happy it feels like things are finally going well 😭😭😭 I’ve been throwing myself at this school for 3 years #and I’m finally getting something out of it hhh #portal of rambling

[countingnothings]

me: governance and operations are separate for some important reasons, like x and y. this is not just the case at our institution, but at any institution that has a board of governors.

students who are trying to get me to intervene in operations: it's very strange that you would say governance and operations are separate! we don't like this, and therefore you must be wrong about it.

both of these students are in the process of phds, which i think is proof that you don't need to have reading comprehension to get an advanced degree in the humanities.

#i spent five days crafting a gentle email explaining my position without commenting on the legitimacy of their accusations against staff #which they took less than 30 minutes to respond to in a very incoherent screed #that conflated 'when i was a student rep to the board i felt that i wasn't taken seriously' #with 'it's weird to say that student reps represent students to the board' #hilariously this guy wasn't taken seriously because he neither showed up to meetings nor had anything substantive to contribute when he did #the one thing of value he contributed was something multiple board members took up and advocated for on his behalf #my email: in reviewing policy we may adopt a multi-stakeholder approach that would include student voices #their email: we think it's horrible that no one ever thinks of student voices! you can't make policy without us! #my email: complaints against the Director of X go to me. complaints against the Principal of Y go to this other guy #their email: we want to launch a complaint against the principal of x #no such position exists but alright then #having heard about the situation in which they have appointed themselves the Voice of the Students from multiple perspectives #including student perspectives #they have no grounds for a formal complaint and in fact have been treated with extraordinary generosity by all the non-students involved #but nobody will promise to adopt the strategy these 2 students think is best #(we're in a stage of policy review for the relevant policies and these students have received multiple promises to duly consider their inpu #but unless i get my way i will continue to throw a tantrum!!! #GPOY #i have been chair of this fucking board for two months. #they are so damn lucky they are not interacting with the previous chair #who would have shut them down immediately and forgotten about it two minutes later

[new-lorien-artist]

One of my worse fears when I do rereads of the series is that I look at moments where the characters are obscenely rude and/or make offhanded comments and gestures, and they're actually not OOC moments or contradict previous establishing character traits, because the reality is that they're total assholes and we just choose to believe they're nicer than that

#delete later #ernest talks #it's a late night thought and i usually don't trust my own words #but i think about how the narrative leads you away from realizing half the questionable thoughts and actions the characters have #range from 'why would you do this?? at all??“ to 'im starting to think they're assholes' #I'd be horrified if this is frey's idea of crafting a cast of morally gray characters based on trauma and war/abusive environments #and going overboard on the 'their decisions are based on questionable doctrine and living as child soldiers so therefore they are assholes' #'but as the main characters and children of war they are slapped on with the hero label' #'and though their decisions are horrid it makes sense for them and i don't want the readers to hate them' #which i doubt was a reason going forward because the series really pushes you to hate five #who embodies a lot of attributes associated with villainy or the low brow joke so as fat = wealth and power #but also fat and autistic = the weird joke #and is continuously dragged through the series so successfully we have ll fans with a 60/40 chance of going through a five hate phase #was frey trying to do a whole 'show me a complicated man' thing odyssey style when doing this #i doubt the research into references and basing lorien on anything was this deep #but even if it were #the series really dates itself showing a womanizer and an enabler and fatphobia and ableism and racist remarks and poor use of culture and #pushing this really upsetting narrative to its audience #a YA novel series mind you which means middle schoolers seeing this rep and not fully developing critical analysis skills to see what's on

[space-prophet]

Rant in tags do not clown

#boom- gay #ok. ill say it. steddie doesnt have any chemistry at all. i legit can not see it. it feels like the newest mash too hot guys together ship. #if you like it thats cool and i hope you have fun with it but what???? they have like q handful of conversations and none of them seem like #'flirting' like everyone in the tag is saying. stg we have to take the word queer bating away from u people bc youll use it anytime a ship #isnt canon that you like. sherlock? queer bating for sure. stranger things??? u have robin but shes wlw so no one cares much beyond #complesionist shipping ronance. the top ships in this fandom (aside from byler which isnt queer bating its queercoding will jesus christ) #are like steveXbilly and steveXeddie aka the hot guys everyone wants to fck for thier own weird gratification. what if it was murry and hop #huh?? two middle aged traditionally unattractive men who had arcs abt being gay? what if it was lucas who came ojt and realized he loved #like idk some random kid at school it kinda feels like the love for solangelo but worse bc stedi not even together and have satisfying arcs #im just tired of shipping culture and the wierd gaze fans have towards hot white boys who they can put in mlm ships. i want ugly gays. i #want a well crafted story like wills where its obvious he's figuring himself out. i dont want steve and eddie to out of nowhere in a time #and place where theyve never even taken time to think over or adress thier sexuality to like make out in a situation #wherw thier main focus is to look after thier very-young-child-friends. it would not be a well crafted or #compelling narritive for anyone. i hate #i hate straight ppl writing in queer ships for fetishistic gazes. you want well written queer rep in stranger things #we have robin and will- will whos arc this season was abt tackling his feelings for mike through body acting and subtlety- smthng #yall cant handle i guess #and robins queerness is adressed this season as well very very openly multiple times. stranger things is not abt queer life but it tries to #be respectfully inclusive. not every show can faithfully and respectfully be heartstopper or ofmd and st has never had that intention. #in fact it needs more diversity in other areas first i think. #anyways if ypu like stedi fr fun thats fine but some ppl have been so fuckin insane abt it that its made u lose your minds!!! i get it i #ship byler and elmax (potential ellumax) but im not expecting them to beome canon bc the show is truing to explore other things at the mome #nt. that is not queer baiting and the duffers are not evil for having a different plan for thier show #idk i only got q few hours of sleep cut me some slack for being ungraceful. #tldr: have fun shipping but dont be like thatTM when you know that youre blowing things out of proportion #sending the duffer brothers fucking threats for queer baiting will make them not want to be inclusive for fear of the tumblrrnas sherlockin #shit up #personal

[the-trans-dragon]

Product representatives are literally so fucking wasteful, they’ll build an entire shelf for a display and then throw it into the dumpster next week when they take the display down

Sometimes they build the shittiest, wobbly-est, most useless shelf ever out of a silly little kit with particle board and plastic screws but sometimes they’re actually sturdy and held together by really structurally sound joinery and sturdy metal nails or screws, and I just want to sit on the dumpster yowling like a feral dumpster troll and tell them to at least take the good shelves to a fucking thrift store

#yeah I have 3 old product display shelves in my house 3:< they’re mine now #I am percolating on an idea of finding a thrift store that would be willing to send someone to gather up our old displays once our boss gets #tired of them cluttering up the warehouse #there’s a HUGE rolling table rn with a shelf underneath and a sturdy metal 冖 over the top for hanging tools on #and I swear if that goes into the dumpster I’ll go feral #it’s literally perfect for like. a rolling indoor-outdoor gardening set up. or a fabricwork table. dang it would work as a baby changing #table. or a thrift store could use it to display items. or a school could use it as a rolling craft table. #our art teacher would come to each classroom lugging around a whole cart of art supplies and this would be *perfect* for that #or a million other things even. #reps 🙄 #sorenhoots

[reploidbuddy]

Did two other homemade hardcovers pretty much at the same time, so I’ll start with my older fic!

(I think there's a piece of thread on the back cover there but I'm too lazy to take another pic)

As it may be seen, I had some issues with the transfer paper this time, with the dark blue and purple emeralds. Blue one straight up folded while ironing and I'm not sure why but I fixed it as much as I could while the purple one just didn’t stick at all on one side for some reason and finally held after I put another layer of varnish there. The rest was fine though aside from me picking a slightly too pale color, whoops. Oh well.

The back cover was supposed to be fireworks using my gold and copper acrylic pencils but I realized i didn't know how to make fireworks so I just embraced the chaos and hoped for the best hehehe

Tried to texture it too with black acrylics but it didn't texture as much as I had hope. It was a good attempt though.

Here’s a look on the inside:

I kept it a little more "normal" looking since I didn't feel like a particular vibe fitted for the fonts, but I think it looks nice still.

A good pal of mine told me I should have put kudos and bookmarks on that lil "distributed" there and she's absolutely right so while I won't have them on the next hardcover I'll be presenting (it was printed at the same time), they will be on Light on the Horizon’s hardcovers B)

I still ran in that issue where the book doesn't fully open but it's much more lowkey now? Starting to wonder if maybe it’s a thickness thing since the other two with the issue are both 20k-ish words while this one is 50k (aka p thicker)

I'll just have to see if At Hope’s End has this issue I suppose hehehe

#A Use for a Doomed Soul #hardcovers #next up is where home is and it's my favorite so far #rep crafts

[seiwas]

Sel my honey now you gotta tell me your favorite thing about mr timothee chalamet or maybe what was it that made you go 👀 HEEHEEHEE

ohmegawsh erika this is so embarrassing 🫣 ok. just for some sel timmy lore. i really never used to get the hype around him, i mean, i knew he was a good actor and stuff but never rlly found him attractive or anything (he looked like a lizard to me HAHA you know the lizard-handsome vibes... which is not my type HAHAH)

but then i watched dune 2. and IDK. something in that movie. something about him in that movie... by the end of it i was like... whoah. and then i started watching interviews, and a bunch of scenes from his other movies, and then i started following him on instagram. i even watched wonka for him 😭

BOTTOMLINE. i still don't really consider timmy a physical type of mine; logan lerman would take the cake any day!! but i like how sincere he sounds in his interviews!! genuinely just feels like a chill guy who likes what he's doing and is really passionate about it too. he's got a kind of awkwardness to him that i find really endearing 🥹

ask me anything you want to know about me!

#oh and you can kinda tell from the way he talks that he's really intellectual IDK HOW TO EXPLAIN IT #his dedication to his craft is also another bit hsdajsh #HEHEEHE i tell myself i do NAWT simp for him like that but then #i literally just wrote 3 paragraphs talking abt him here so now idk..... #erika.🦇 #kedsandtubesocks #ask #rep #ask game

[himoon]

all day yesterday i was vending across from a jerk sauce guy and he had merch that said their slogan. Whicg was. "No one can jerk us off". And at first i was like haha wtf but as the day went on... i kinda wish i bought the purple one djdjjsbdj

#unintentional ace rep #kinda a fail event for profits but the ppl were rlly nice so i think ill do it again #the lady next to me was so sweet and bought a bee keychain #if i had monee i would have bought one of her ceramics :( #art #craft fair

[mellifluousoctopus]

Can we talk about how embarrassing it is giving gifts when your only creative skills have no physical results. Like Merry Christmas! I wrote and performed an oration about how objectively cool you are. Happy Birthday! I edited a photo so that you're picking George Washington's nose. Do you want me to print it? Happy Chanukah. I got 5 theatre kids and organized them to reenact how we met. Happy Valentine's I wrote smut about those two depressed dudes you like. I don't know if it's ooc or not because I'm not in that fandom but I gave them wings bc I know you like that.

#and its worse bc performance arts gets rep for it being made for the perofrmer rather than the audience #like you made me something how do i return the favor accurately without making it about me #ahhhh #presents #holiday season #christmas #birthday #hanukkah #performance arts #art #crafts #theatre #dance #writting #gift giving #gifts

[justassorted]

Details: Ithadel

So I have played Ithadel in DnD one (1) time.

By the end of the campaign, he had taken the vows and co-opted the powers of a dying angel and was well on his way to establishing a significant power base in the literal Abyss, doing everything in his power to give hundreds of damned and/or lost souls a second chance at living a good (after)life.

(He nominally started as a paladin, but considering this was back in 4e and he punched his own [fallen] god in the face when the opportunity was presented to him...)

I’m not saying the guy is perfectly moral. And there’s a lot to be said for the influence of that particular GM’s storytelling and worldbuilding styles.

But I am saying that Ithadel is genuinely and wholeheartedly devoted to finding ways to help people, no matter how daunting or surreal the circumstances might be.

(…once he’s had a chance to collect himself. 😂)

#(Ithadel got a heck of a rep in that campaign for shutting down and just staring blankly at the floor after any bigish event slkdfhdg) #(though part of it was just Me as a player having to get fucking creative to figure out how the heck to craft a course of action) #(that Ithadel would actually be willing to take? Given the. Again. Literal Abyss setting.) #(so I made the stall out in-character so that everyone else could go on playing while I thought fffff) #details #details: Ithadel #Ithadel #dnd verse #dnd verse: Ithadel #queue