FOOL MASK (GITM BY @venomous-qwille)
Handbuilt porcelain with slip, overglaze, glaze, and gold lustre accents. Paint and lacquer detailing added post fire. Handsewn fool's cap and bells added post fire.
This mask is a part of a (loosely connected) mask series, all hand-built and fired using a range of different temperatures and techniques.
My favourite mask to date, Fool from Ghost in the Machine by the wonderful @venomous-qwille !! GITM is absolutely incredible and I cannot put into words eloquently how much I adore it and Fool so instead I made this mask! Hi!
My word was this mask a struggle to make. The mask itself is entirely one piece, and entirely porcelain!! That's right, those long thin rays are solid porcelain!! The eyes and tips of the blades are done in 22 carat gold lustre. All colouring save for the black and the satin sections of darker red on the face were done with only slips and underglazes. The red colour was correct without the paint, but I thought a contrast from the rest of the gloss would look nice :)
Made to scale, the mask measures 50.8x60.96cm without the hat, and 50.8x116.84cm with it! (20x24in without hat, 20x46in including hat). He is Large, but turned out absolutely lovely and I send my many many thanks to the kiln gods for producing him unscathed.
(naku & wall for scale)
(he's so big guys i have large walls (the top of my head is only slightly above the top of the bookcase beneath him) look at him at the wall it's nuts)
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Inspiration Saturday Sunday!! I was tagged by @ladytauria 💚 thank you bestieeee 💖💖💖💖💖
Okay so uh. Sorry to my jaytim ppl but this is not gonna be jaytim???
In a WILD turn of events, I sat down to write my Jaytim reverse robins fic bc I was feeling inspired about it and I wrote the first chapter. And then by the time I got to the end of it I was like oh. Oh this is actually DamiTim. And then I just. Couldn't stop writing. I definitely am still going to write the Jaytim flavored version, so no one worry about that, but apparently, this is also happening!!
So here you are, some Nightwing!Damian/Red Hood!Tim!!!! I hope you all enjoy 💖 (context to the scene: they are on the phone at a ridiculously early hour)
“I told you already, you may scold me if you like.”
“Scold you? Right now I’d like to strangle you.”
“I think that would be fair.”
Tim laughs, a surprised, sudden noise, and Damian wants to beam.
“How is your throat?” he asks, and his voice has gone gentle, softness leaking into it.
“It’s fine.” Tim's voice is icing over, losing warmth.
“And your wrist?”
“You left a few bruises, but nothing’s broken. Full range of motion. Does it matter?”
Of course, Damian wants to say. Of course it matters.
“I did not mean to hurt you.”
“You never mean to,” Tim mutters, and Damian isn’t entirely sure he was meant to hear it.
“What are you doing right now?”
“Making coffee,” Tim sighs, irate.
“Do you still take it with an obscene amount of sugar?” Damian asks, trying to get him back, trying to get his brother back.
He wonders how much of the rest of his life will be spent trying to get his brother back.
“No, I drink it black.”
That knowledge settles painfully under his left rib.
“You used to take it with so much sugar that I was concerned.”
Tim scoffs. “And you still won’t touch the stuff, I’m sure? Only fine teas for the prince?”
Damian squeezes his eyes shut. “I have… developed a taste for coffee.”
“I bet your blend costs five thousand dollars a bean.”
“I don’t think it even costs five cents a bean.”
“Oh? Where do you source it?”
“The bodega.”
Tim snorts. “Sorry, sorry. I’m just trying to picture Damian Wayne walking into a bodega with a sword strapped to his back, digging through his pockets for enough change to afford his morning cup.”
A smile curls across Damian’s lip, against his will. He is powerless to prevent it.
“The owner is Egyptian. It can be nice to have a conversation in Arabic, every once in a while.”
There’s a pause before Tim answers him.
“How do you take your coffee?” he asks in Arabic.
“Black,” Damian responds in Arabic, feeling that same feeling he always gets when he gets to rest his English. Like collapsing onto his bed after an especially long day, remembering that his comforter and sheets and pillows were waiting for him.
“I didn’t know you missed speaking Arabic.”
“I never knew you spoke Arabic.”
“Yes, you did,” Tim snaps, abruptly switching back to English. “You knew.”
“…not when I would have had an occasion to use it.”
“An occasion, are you kidding me? Any time you wanted. Any time you wanted to walk into the manor and say anything to me, you know I would have listened. I would have done anything for you, don’t you get that?”
Damian sighs at himself. Why is he even doing this? Every time he thinks he finds an opening, Tim slams the door on his fingers.
“Yes, I do."
“You are infuriating to talk to, you know that?”
“Yes,” Damian answers. “Why are you staying on the phone with me?”
“Because you—” Tim groans at himself, and Damian feels like an intruder. “You always make me want more than I can have.”
Before Damian can think of an answer to that, Tim has hung up.
No-pressure tagging @yasmindifference, @jpeg-dot-jpeg, @chipmunkery, and @cheetahleopard!!!
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Heya! Do you think you could draw Hugger and Hondo hanging out?? if you;re still taking requests that is!
SUKKIII I AM SOO SORRY 4 MAKING U WAIT !! i was struggling soo bad to pick a scene omg ,, but HONDO AND HUGGER ! they're having fun fishing , but Hondo didn't have any proper attire so Hugger bought him his own set of overalls 4 the occasion 🩷
(Tumblr quality is evil as hell , click the image for crisper lines and more vivid colors !)
they're sooo cutesie i loved doing this BESIDES CHOOSING POSES as u can see Hondo fucked me up baddd omg id fix it but im a pen and pen only lover so erasing is out of the question 😭 ANYWHO ENOUGH BABBLING I HOPE U LOVE IT AND GENUINELY THANK U SOO MUCH 4 UR ASK !! 🩷
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I just finished tearing through Nothing's Wrong with Dale over the course of 24 hours, and I am in love. I have not fallen for a story this hard in a long time. I love these characters, I love the setting, and I love how you're writing the "there is a secret that only the protagonist knows" trope without coming off as tired or unrealistic. It's just all so good!!! I can't wait for more, and I'm going to be so sad when it's over. I seriously wish it was a book so I could buy it and have it to read whenever!
@ivybladewitch
ah! thank you so much - it always blows my mind to get such lovely comments and appreciation for my very self-indulgent story! i'm so so happy whenever people love it as much as i do!
keeping all the tropes fresh while also hitting all the ones i love is a balancing act so i'm always glad when people notice!
i really do hope to publish it fully one day so definitely keep an eye out for that (but obviously the rough draft isn't even finished yet lol)
until then, u'll hav to content yourself with the next chapter! to be posted within the hour
thanks to everyone for their patience!
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honkai domination and kolosten arc spoilers/rambling+ some heavy complaining after the read more (it's basically a whole ass essay im so fucking sorry lkfjdslkfjdslkfj)
thinking ab how fucking rad and meaningful kolosten would've been if the domination arc had ended with kiana and HoV coexisting instead of what we got.
It definitely would've been better to do that with more setup of them actually talking throughout the story (which is the same thing you can say about the way it went, imo) but even without it- it would've been even more in line with what I think are the most resonant themes of that story.
The thing that made me fall in love with honkai like I did was the themes around victimhood and antagonism. Sirin, Wendy, Bronya, basically all the Herrschers we've seen- whenever a character that wasn't Otto during the beginning stages of the story became a threat to the world, it was never really because they were "evil". They were victims of the cruel world around them, sometimes victims of the same organisms that fought against the supposed real evil of the honkai, and either broke or lashed out because of their real vulnerability.
But in a lot of those moments the story understood two things: one, that that's a tragedy, one that deserves to become motivation to change the world so this kind of thing can't happen again, and two, that if at all possible, despite the threat they might pose to our characters or the world, what they deserve isn't hostility but compassion. Because they aren't the perpetrators of their own violence, only the victims through which it becomes externalized.
This compassion IS extended to Sirin, not only in Second Eruption but also through Kiana, who, despite being a danger in a sense because of HoV, is shown compassion as one of two different people carrying on from Sirin's past.
But imo, it undercuts this theme that HoV isn't extended the same compassion. Because HoV is not only a more direct threat to the world than just Kiana by proxy, she's a much more direct inheritor of what Sirin could represent: A righful anger at the world that victimised her, one that isn't content to fight to protect that world.
And in a story that had at that point so wonderfully allowed characters who were framed as villains to be accepted for who they are, to be recognized as the victims they are and shown a path forward that didn't end with them burning out, in a story with Bronya's self-determination being fought for, with Mei becoming a Herrscher that fights in her own way to protect who she loves, with HoS being shown compassion, Fu Hua being stopped from sacrificing herself for absolution and a pointless so-called victory, with Seele being allowed to live in harmony with her other self and taking her own name, it's just painful that HoV's anger cannot be accepted and coexisted with.
I know that it's not a hugely popular opinion, but I think kolosten drops the ball with Otto, and I think it's because until that point, we had seen Otto from the perspectives of those who were the most hurt by his actions, some of whom might have developed a sort of stockholm syndrome but who were still able to see the hurt he's caused the world. We knew, always, that his view of the world did not include the real compassion that we'd seen growing in the main cast towards those victimised by him, the thing that to me was the emotional core of honkai. Where kolosten fails for me is that now we got so, so, SO much from his own perspective, his own hand-washing, while getting absolutely NOTHING about the people he'd hurt.
We knew throughout the story, always, that the kinds of experiments he'd done to people en masse for hundreds of years were a kind of mass torture that was what created Sirin as a Herrscher in the first place, the pain that created her anger. We knew that Kallen would've been better off if he'd never been so obsessed with her because we got her perspective on that history, and we knew that the world would've been better off in the years after that because we got the perspectives of the people most hurt by his actions. And yet kolosten gave us none of those perspectives, only focusing on him, the people with the most stockholm syndrome for him, and Kiana as a newly-reborn protagonist who isn't about to let anger cloud her judgement.
All kolosten felt like was a pity party for what was undoubtedly one of the most horrid men imaginable in that world. And that's really only because there were perspectives that were sorely lacking, perspectives that could've been there, ANGER that could've been there, if HoV was allowed to exist, if she was allowed to be there to say what I wanted to say the most to every character that I otherwise adore throughout that entire arc.
"Fuck this garbage fire that's been burning for 500 years. He doesn't get his pity party, or his one in a million shot to save someone who never wanted to be saved by him. He's hurt too many people to deserve anything other than a million void lances tearing him apart, one for each person whose life he ruined by existing."
Because if your compassions for victims doesn't extend to accepting that they're allowed to just fucking HATE those who hurt them, then it isn't worth shit.
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