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This surely must be the best sheep I've ever sculpted.

how to draw a sheep: draw a cloud, legs, a circle for the head and there you have it a sheep

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10th kingdom sequel book

Heyo, if anyone is a fan of the 10th kingdom series, then theres a sequel book already written and being published this year for the 25th anniversary of the series! Along with a petition ot show support for a tv sequel if youd like. Ive got a link to the article i found and the most recent info i know of is that the book is finished being written and being published soon. Heck the first chapter is already up as a reading on youtube even. (https://youtu.be/goTVIKGk2yY)

https://www.change.org/p/the-10th-kingdom-connection-make-the-10th-kingdom-sequel-happen/u/33421934

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fighting girls tired admin tea and cake society

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Thought y’all might enjoy my very “in progress” Castle Heterodyne LEGO build 🤪

The Castle is roughly scaled to itself based on the full sized pages right before it releases all the monsters from the towers. Not minifig scale, it is way too small, but scaling up from here will be…”not brains tough, just hard work tough”. The clanks and monsters, including the Fun-MADD, are mostly from Ninjago sets, where LEGO really understands what makes a good mech suit. Speaking of:

Second pic is a closeup of Agatha in Old Vorthang’s Sunday Best, which started out as a Ninjago mech set before a lot of tweaking. I am unreasonably proud of the Torchmen, which I kit-bashed together part by golden part. Godzilla auditioned for the role of Franz and since there were no other dragons around, he got the job.

Third pic is Agatha (with Gil’s boomstick) and Zeetha at the top of the main tower. Jim Woodring’s vinyl “crazy newts” make pretty good monsters! This is another area where I put way too much effort into matching up the architecture; in fact, I solved this part first and the entire rest of the castle was scaled to match.

I have a giant bin of a discontinued “tall rock facade” pieces and have thought about trying to build the hill the castle sits on and the winding path up…but I would need a huge piece of desk or floor real estate and we just don’t have that!

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Theres all the botw commentary on how, ecologically, geographically, the map is very small. But, considering time in the game is sped up x60 (1 minute per hour, but correct me if im wrong) then its more like the area has been compressed for sake of gameplay.

Sure the game has things in that measure distance (goron golf, bird man research), but again, sake of game play.

So really, all of hyrule and surrounding area should be more like 8,716,500 square kilometers instead of the 145,275 thats determined by the map's grid. For comparison, Canada (the closest i could find) is 9,093,507 square kilometers (according to wiki). (And the europe places i checked went to 000,000 digits, so smaller but still having seasons and geographies. There's probably better examples.)

This doesn't actually mean link's speed is compressed, though, cause both time and land are compressed, in game. I think. For fanfic writing purposes he's got normal speed but if theres a math explination someone has that i can't quite articulate, id love to see it. (It think its that game distance/irl time=expanded distance/in game time, so same velocity? Like, with the expanded map and time, would link, moving the same speed he does in game, still take the same time to go from point A to point B? I think so?)

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big day today

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0% useful, but 6 isn't technically *wrong*.

Oo, actually, now im getting ideas. 22% useful.

I need potential inspo for a botw fic, so, courtesy of my skeleton anatomy deck, i have drawn 10 diamond, 9 diamond, and 6 spade. Thank you!

Random Card Prompt Generator

Don't know how helpful these results are going to be, but this is what we've got!

♦️10 - Alternate Universe: High School & College

♦️9 - De-Aging

♠️6 - I wrote this instead of sleeping

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Mamma! Oh she's so nicely rendered, and such dramatic movement lines, well done.

Cherry pop mama

Mama!!! she is no longer timelocked!

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a gift for my wonderful friend @bigasswritingmagnet from her Girl Genius fic "Helpful, in a Heterodyne Sort of Way" wishing her luck on her new hyperfixation <3 (don't expect more of it from me tho I am but a visitor in this land kjdh)

(ID in alt and under cut)

ID: 1. Full body of Saturnus Heterodyne, an old man with long gray hair and beard, wearing a maroon smoking jacket with a brass trilobite brooch, striped pajama pants, and slippers with a trilobite pattern. He enters into an open doorway riding on an ornate brass and gold steampunk-style chair moving on multiple spindly mechanical legs, gears and steam whistles tangled at the back. He grins and calls out, "Gilgamesh Wulfenbach!" 2. Extreme close up of Saturnus's face, his grin going a bit maniacal as he says. "Or should I say...Gilgamesh Teuful?" 3. Knees up of Gil in a plain shirt and trousers, sitting in a chair with his wrists shackled to the arms. He stares upwards at Saturnus with wide eyes. 4. Repeat. Gil looks uneasily to the side, as if searching for the right answer. 5. Repeat. Gil looks back toward Saturnus with a nervous grimace and answers, "...Should you?" /end ID

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In which jägers get seasonal jobs during non-rading seasons (given the present Heterodyne has a non-rading season.) Its not usually retail.

“Hy ken help who's next! Hallo.”

“Hi… how are you?”

“Ho, vell, iz de off season zo could be better. Hyu haf an account vit us?”

“What was that?”

“Do hyu have an account vit us?”

“Maybe? I'm not sure, can you check?”

“Ho yeah, sure. Vhat's the name for it.”

“Might be under Levering.”

“Goot traditional name, dat. Hokay, uh, no, hy isn't seeink it in hour files.”

“Might be under my maiden name then. Try Vettr. V-e-double t-r.

“V-e-vhat?”

“Double t.”

“Ho, two t's, hokay. And, yep! Dere hyu iz. Hokay, let's get all hyu's tings tallied op den. Iz hyu vantink a bag?”

“Yes, please.”

“Hooohkay, und, ho. Ve's actually out ov de paper fer wrapping de delicates in. Hy can mebbe double bag dem, iffen hyu vants?”

“Oh, if you could, thank hyu.”

“Dere ve go. All dat comes to fifty-tree, forty-two. Hyu gots any coupons.”

“Not today, no.” 

“Hokay, den-”

“Oh, wait, this wasn't on sale? I don't think I want it then, could you take it off?”

“Ho, hokay. Hy chust needs to retally... Brings it to fifty-vun, tventy den.”

“Thanks. Here.”

“Hokay, out ov sixty. Vould hyu like to round op de eighty cents fer de orphanink fund?

“No thank you.”

“Den here's hyu change, eight und eighty. Und hyu's all set.”

“Thank you, have a good day.”

“Hyu too. Hy ken help who's next! Hallo.”

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So Girl Genius is not a neurotypical piece of media right? Like I know the Spark is clearly it’s own distinct thing but for me, as an autistic girl with many ADHD friends, it’s kind of difficult not to see most of the characters as having both ADHD and autism unless stated otherwise.

Like the vibe is just so neurodivergent and I love it. It applies to almost all the characters but especially Gil falling in love with Agatha because he’s entranced by her knowledge and understanding of his special interest and then utterly failing to convey this to her whatsoever with catastrophic levels of miscommunication.

He’s in love with her hyper focused genius and willingness to boss him around regardless of social cues and she’s in love with his mind, shared special interest and the fact that he pays attention to her infodumps.

Agatha and Gil’s romance is top tier autistic representation and you will never convince me otherwise.

I’ve kind of thought this since day one but what really solidified it for me was the description of Agatha’s Breakthrough in the first novel because holy shit she literally experienced a heightened awareness of sensory stimuli after she became a Spark. Her food tasted different, the lights were brighter, things felt different on her skin, this is all canon.

Add to that the fact that Breakthrough is usually highly traumatic rather than pleasant like Agatha’s was and I can’t help but think that other Sparks might have sensory issues because of that.

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A Sheep poll perhaps?

As usual, I will treat the results as character creation sliders.

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For me its cause i know all the details of my stuff (for fanfic at least) so it's more difficult for me to realise the more generalized concepts (like useful ao3 tags).

Same for the actual products i make, difficult to make descriptions with useful searchable tags cause i know i made a [thing], but i don't really know the associated terms other people would use to find that, or things like it. (Like sketch book vs art pad vs blank page notebook vs ornamental book. All appropriate terms, but since i have the preconception of its intendeduse as a sketch book, those others wouldn't necessarily occurre to me. Or think to decribe other feature of it that i might think unimportant (and thus why i added this thought last) like being hand sewn or traditional binding or having a bookmark ribbon)

My biggest writing weakness is I have no clue how to describe my own work

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The folks of the gg fandom discord were discussing the ways that Jägers have changed in appearance since the first page. And one person was mourning the disappearance of the Volume One Jäger needle teeth. (So valid, it was an excellent feature)

So I agreed and suggested "Draw the needle teeth you want to see in the world, I guess?" unfortunately Jägers are not included in their art skillset. And so I figured "I suppose I must draw the needle teeth you wish to see in the world". And thus my fate was sealed. A "quick sketch" (ha! I should know better than that by now) turned into a colored shaded drawing with carefully colored lineart. I do believe something like 5-6 hours were passed in this manner of painstaking lineart and unnecessary (albeit loose) rendering.

The moral of this story, as with any attempt at quick digital sketches, is that I cannot be trusted with the art app. Inevitably a casual affair turns into a several-hour-long details fest. Such are the hazards of having your cell phone be your digital drawing device.

Does this mean I will stop? No, of course not. As with every mishap of this variety I learned so much about my drawing abilities and the features of my long-beloved art app.

Gradually I am acquiring new skills and abilities. Someday I will be able to create things that used to be well outside my capabilities. Through the power of Autistic Hyperfixation and ADHD Hyperfocus Fugue-State we can accomplish anything!

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I find myself difitng in this void. Trillion specks of dust blow past as I am pulled by the gravity of these celestial bodies. I would have froze, I think, were it not that I simply haven't. My shell is metal, reflecting light and I glint like a star to distant ships that pass me. I seek one thing in this endless journey.

Delicious, nutritious, nuclear pasta. Could you give me directions? My gps has failed me.

Hmm. I can't in good conscience recommend that humans, or anyone even close to a human, eat nuclear pasta. Nuclear pasta is not pasta, it is atomic nuclei pressed so close together by the gravity of a neutron star that they form shapes vaguely like pasta. Proximity to a neutron star can kill a human or other living, corporeal thing incredibly quickly, so don't approach unless you have some way of not getting instantly pancaked by its gravity.

But based on your descriptions, it doesn't sound like you are human? In that case, coordinates probably won't help you since your navigation doesn't work, but you could try to find pulsars (rotating neutron stars that emit beams of radiation) by detecting pulses of electromagnetic radiation at regular intervals, and then travel in that direction until you reach the neutron star.

Good luck, and please be careful.

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Agatha Heterodyne, Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, and Tarvek Sturmvoraus (Girl Genius)

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big day today