#JFJSKDKS

[slicedblackolives]

girl help jensen ackles has turned reddit dudebros into tumblrinas

#JFJSKDKS #the recent boysposting isnt me watching the show its me scrolling thru the reddit #its DELIGHTFUL #the boys #jensen ackles

[spocks-kaathyra]

how did you make those holy shit!!!

jfjskdk okay I'll take any excuse I get to talk abt this more

How I made my Cardassian prosthetics

Disclaimer: I'm no expert, it's my first time doing this!! All the resources I used can be found online. In fact, here's a playlist of all the youtube videos I followed, in case you don't want to read the whole post. You can pretty much make any facial prosthetics following these steps, not just Cardassian ones.

What you'll need:

Plaster bandages, plaster of Paris (a lot more than is pictured here), modeling clay, and liquid latex. You'll also need some things you probably already have around the house, like vaseline (or cooking oil), plastic wrap, wood glue, rubbing alcohol, q-tips, cotton balls, and setting powder (or baby powder).

Step 1: Face cast

The goal here is to make a plaster copy of your face that you can sculpt your prosthetics on, by covering your face with plaster bandages and then casting that in plaster of Paris. This is the video tutorial I followed for this step. There are many methods, and you'll find tutorials for all of them on youtube, but this is the easiest way if you're doing it by yourself, and it results in a perfectly useable face cast for our purposes. And, if you're cosplaying Garak like me, it's a great way to get into character by experiencing claustrophobia for the first time in your life!! (Jk it's not actually that bad. I lived.)

The video explains the process better than I could, but here's some tips I learned from doing it! Wear a shirt that you don't mind ruining. Go a bit closer to your eyes than I did here. When you're propping up your mask in a bowl, make sure you're not squishing any parts of it or tilting it! I ended up with a dent in the chin of my face cast because I accidentally dented the mask while I was casting it. And make sure you have enough plaster of Paris! I probably used 2-3 pounds for this part. Here's what I ended up with, before sanding or sealing it with wood glue:

Step 2: Sculpting

This is pretty self explanatory, but also probably the hardest part. Just use lots and lots of reference photos. I've got a pretty good stash for Garak, if anyone's interested hdjkfhk. I found that gifs made better references than still photos, since they give you a better sense of the 3D shape. You want to make sure you're using modeling clay that doesn't dry. You don't need any fancy sculpting tools! I used my trusty palette knife to get the small details, but you could probably accomplish the same thing with, like, a spoon and a toothpick. It depends on what kind of clay you're using, but you can dip your finger in a solvent to smooth out the surface of the clay and blend the edges into the face cast. I used rubbing alcohol, but I also heard people recommend acetone. Once you're happy with your sculpt, you can move onto the next step!

Step 3: Casting negatives

This step is technically optional. The video I followed also outlines an easier way that skips this step, by simply building your prosthetics directly on the sculpt. But casting negatives allows you to get a lot more fine detail, and a smoother finish on the final prosthetics, so that's what I chose to do. Basically, you pour plaster of Paris over your sculpt, and it hardens into a mold you can use to build your prosthetics on.

Again, the video explains it better, but some tips! If it's possible with your sculpt, do it in small pieces instead of the whole face at once. I did the chin, nose, and forehead separately. If you try to do the whole face, there's a greater chance of it getting stuck or breaking. Of course, if you were doing, say, Odo, then it might not be possible to do it in multiple pieces. Another thing to watch out for:

If your underlying face cast has any "undercuts," or places where it's, like, concave, then if plaster gets into those areas and hardens, your face cast and your negatives will lock together, and you won't be able to use either of them. For me I was worried about the sides of my nose and under my bottom lip. As long as those parts are filled in with clay, then you should be fine. It's okay if your clay sculpt has undercuts! You can see in the (shamelessly stolen) diagram that their sculpt has a lot of undercuts, but that's okay because the clay is soft and won't lock with the plaster, it'll just come off. The video I got the diagram from was also pretty helpful, even if it's meant for casting with different materials than I used. Here are the completed negatives:

Step 4: Making the prosthetics!

Now you have negatives! Your sculpt may or may not be intact, but if your negatives turned out okay then that's fine. This step is also covered in the video for step 3. Using a stippling sponge, foam brush, or q-tip, stipple thin layers of liquid latex onto your negatives. I found that a q-tip worked best, even if it took longer to cover larger areas. Make sure the edges are very thin, so you can blend them into your skin when you apply the prosthetics. Wait for a layer to dry before adding more latex on top of it, or you'll end up with fucked up results like I had:

(Left: first draft, where I didn't let it dry enough before layering more. Right: second draft. Much better!)

Build up bulky areas with pieces of cotton balls, then cover the cotton with a thin layer of latex. Emphasis on thin! It'll take forever to dry if you saturate your cotton with too much latex. This step mostly involves a LOT of waiting. When the latex is fully dry, brush everything with a liberal amount of setting powder or baby powder to prevent the latex from sticking to itself as you peel it out of the mold.

And now you have your prosthetics! You can tear away some of the excess latex at the edges to make it fit your face better. I ended up tearing away almost all of the edges around the eye ridges, so it would blend better and I wouldn't have to get adhesive so close to my eyes. Tear, don't cut! It'll result in a more natural edge that's easier to blend. This video shows how to apply prosthetics. Use whatever prosthetic adhesive you want! I used spirit gum because it's what I had on hand.

Now you can go forth and live out your lizard alien dreams!!

#IDs in alt text #garak prosthetics tutorial is finally here :)) #u guys better not let this flop. this is more effort than I put into my entire high school career (which is a low bar tbh) #sorry to my friend I cropped out of the first pic 😭😭 I rly didn't get any good solo shots jdlkjhf #narcissus's echoes #narcissus plays dress up #ds9 #elim garak #star trek #garashir #andy robinson #cardassians #star trek ds9 #star trek cosplay #deep space nine #star trek deep space 9 #garak cosplay

[kemalamalam]

Dunmeshi giving dnd race distinct shapes and sizes are so good i had to try it out for myself JFJSKDKS

Humans are voluminous, but not more so than Dwarves, Elves are thinner and sharper, then i made Tieflings bigger and goat-like in their ears and eyes! :3

#my art #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #idk if i should tag it but like why not? jsnfjsjf #chevrotain #astarion ancunin #shadowheart #jenevelle hallowleaf #dnd #races #elf #tiefling #dwarf #dungeons and dragons #durge #dark urge #tav

[d-amore]

Good day!

Isn't it cute how he tried to look more presentable at the end of Chapter 4? (I just realized cuz his beard was a bit smaller)

Like he literally tried to look more open and BY GOD he looks so soft. (To me). The fact that he fixes his look, and trimmed/shaved some of his beard just to thank us? At the end of Chapter 4?

Swooning for real,. .

WAAAH omg i don't remember this!!!! tbh i didn't pay much attention to him on chapter 4, the real thing started when he showed up on chapter 5 and said we could call him, i was like "y'know he's charming..." JFJSKDK

but OMG yes!!!!!!! he's so so cute fr 😭😭😭 i can see him doing it and thinking "ofc i need to look more presentable, i'm thanking them after all!!" only for after some months (and a realization that he likes the ovenist) to think "omg i did in fact want to impress them........."

#gotta watch a gameplay of chapter 4 #nasir with his hair down is my weakness i love his long hair sm #and i never noticed how soft he looked?? anon you opened my eyes...... #nasir 💙🩵 #answered!

[literaphobe]

you like ‘em dorky (the guys u write abt)

FALLS TO MY KNEES… can i tell u guys about a really small crush about a guy i met in class once. we did a group project together in a diff class and i thought he was nice bc he would always wave at me whenever he saw me afterwards. but how he got my Attention was this one assignment we had to study ‘fake laws/theories’ in like. media. and our professor encouraged us to look at shows like himym so i just picked himym bc it was easy! BUT we had to discuss all our theories in groups and um him and i started just being like. ‘WAIT you watch that show too?’ ‘yeah i love sitcoms!!’ ‘omg have you seen THIS SHOW’ ‘YEA!’ ‘have you seen THAT SHOW’ ‘YOUVE SEEN THAT SHOW TOO???’ and mind u there were at least 6 other people in the circle with us as we gleefully made these exchanges and he got this smile and i was like wow… hes seen two broke girls???? what a madman (i was like this guy has seen a female led show 😍 JFJSKDKS) anyway me and my friends were playing this um. we were playing mobile legends. and he joined us a few times and he did SO WELL like he got so many kills he was just like effortlessly good???? which um. im attracted to so i was like wow hes soooo cool guys we should play with him more BUT HE DOESNT WANT TO PLAY THE GAME THAT MUCH BC HE WANTS TO PREVENT ADDICTION BC HE NEEDS TO FOCUS ON SCHOOL. because of course he’s responsible. anyway i lost interest bc he took a leave of absence to do some internship and im very much out of sight out of mind JGNSJDSKDKSKD

in conclusion. do i like em dorky? am i dorky and it projects onto the silly little guys i write about? thats for you to decide anons

give me an extremely specific assumption you have about me based off of my fanfic

[st-danger]

Do you?? Have any dribbles or stories written with dew and his apparent daddy kink? Cause that little tidbit you just gave was H O T and apparently I need more jfjskdk

Not.....yet. Not yet I don't.

#st-speaks

[damnchoclitos]

Jsjdjjsjs quiero hacer un oc pero no tengo ideas gente

No me ignoren o lloro 😔👉👈

#nose jfjskdk

[ghostlypawn]

hm interesting…

#no idea why haley and krystall are so high jfjskdks #idk how accurate it stressed me out to do i tried not to think about it too much just instinct cjmskd

[stevethehairington]

JCJSKDKDKS MY SISTER JUST SAID IT CHAPTER 2 IS HER FAVORITE MOVIE BC SHE THINKS BILL HADER IS HOT FJSKDJDJSJSK

#bill hader #it #it chapter 2 #IM CACKLING SO HARD RN #shes got good taste tho jfjskdk #but also hes like 28 years older than u girl so chill jdksks

[habibharry]

people usually wear a second bra to throw on stage, i dont think it was anyones actual sweaty bra akljdfak

why waste bras, you could buy so many flowers w that money

#asks #anonymous #irdk w these ppl tho they could just throw theirs #but i can't believe ppl really go thru the work of bringing an extra bra to throw? jfjskdk tf

[1loml]

x

#jfjskdk i cant believe i broke my queue to cry about face yourself.... im resuming #i swear im studying and being productive when im not here :^) #rambles 101 #sadia.txt

[worldsmightiestwitch]

SAME JFJSKDK

#nmguuuu #esc 2021 #eurovision #croatia

[mirclealignr]

watching nowhere boy and i already recognise so many places JFJSKDK

[apo77o]

Jfjskdk did you ever post that pic of kc and zane?

SHIT I FORGOT <//3 here it is!! kc drawn by me, zane drawn by clue :))

#clue!! <3

[literaphobe]

the funniest thing about “oh no! every day a new dream smp cc joins tumblr!” thing is..... ONE of them must’ve started it at least right? like i imagine a post from tumblr got sent between ccs and stuff and it could’ve sparked interest. the question is which of the dream smp members got influenced into finding tumblr and which of them are shameful little bitches who’ve been on the website for years

#dream smp #mcyt #it’s probably ranboo but..... who else #JFJSKDK #who is ‘was on tumblr from the get go’ #and who is ‘got sent a cool tumblr post and got curious’

[zzariyo]

The whole post basically takes a character who is not in the slightest a bad guy, not a villain, and goes on to explain how instead of just being a nice character, that he displays toxic behaviors. You don’t have to explain why you dislike Sidon you can dislike whoever you want, but when it comes to sharing a post that takes a character that is not made to be a villain and putting him in a toxic light, it’s hard for people who have experience trauma to sit and read that without some warning.

I'll be honest when I saw u sent me multiple asks I was ready to put my fists up but. NAH

I understand what you mean now. I get why it would hurt you.

My thing is, I have trauma too (who doesn't in this day and age tbh lol) and I can't see myself feeling the way you do. Closest thing is that I'm mentally scowling at anyone who thinks Endeavor is worth redemption or even thinks he's hot.

And, with these sort of things, if I don't get it or I have no reason to twist myself to sympathize....cuz, granted, no matter what words we say to each other through asks, at the end of the day you'll pretty much be a faceless entity to me.....then I'll label it as ridiculous. And maybe that's a vice I have to get over.

I think just after getting multiple asks in the last 2 or 3 years angrily throwing the words toxic at me and calling me full of myself, I've gotten almost desensitized to it and decided that I don't have to do the mental workout to understand them when they are faceless strangers that are being...mean to me LOL. But if things are explained to me this way, I'll understand the best I can. Cuz I do want to understand and sympathize/empathize with people. Cuz, hey! I do want to care! But sometimes ppl make it hard JFJSKDKS and then make it harder for the next people who need that kindness and grace

So thank you for explaining it to me. And I'm sorry i hurt you. I'll start tagging things to make it up to you