#53cm

[rui-drawsbox]

Requests open? :-O I think Mayoi would make a good scary deep sea fish but you can do whatever lol

congrats tho!! 🎉🎉🎉💖

m y f r i e n d~~~~~~~~~~~~

how did you know that im obsessed with this deep sea fish that is sooo damn ugly but cool at the same time/hj

BLACK DRAGONFISH MAYOI

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Was i the asshole for "insinuating" my friend's husband attempted to poisoned me?

I 26cisf have always, since I was quite young, had a fear of people tampering with my food and drinks. If I leave a drink or food in a room with others, my immediate thought when I sit back down is to taste test it to see if it tastes different or see if it looks different. If it dose, I immediately throw it away, wash or get a new dish/bowl/glass/etc and get a new serving. This fear isn't unfounded as, when I was 7 or 8, my dad spit in my bowl of soup and I caught him. He hated me so this wasn't unexpected. Later in life I had 2 different abusive partners threaten to drug me and as a result, all food is suspicious the moment it's left alone with anyone. I've done this to my husband on occasion and he understands.

Earlier this month, I, my husband 26tm, a friend of mine 25cf and her husband 53cm all had a nice dinner together at my apartment. Later on in the evening, our husbands went to play on his xbox in the living room while me and my friend had a drink in the kitchen. The kitchen "ends" right where the living room begins so they were on a couch about 15ft away from us, again, its an apartment. I've been friends with her since middle school so I have no reason to suspect her but her husband is creepy towards me and our mutual friends of our age and is much older than her. I put up with him for her sake and never made an ill comment other than a week after they started dating with concerns about their age gap. My friend and her husband dated for about 8 months and have been married for about 4 months. My husband and friend left so he could show her some break time levels from Mario wonder on the switch in our room while her husband sat on his phone on the couch. My husband mentioned it over dinner, my friend showed interest but wasn't sure so he offered to show her.

I felt ackward and had to pee so I went to the bathroom and when I came back, her husband had changed positions on the couch and I'm pretty sure my drink wasn't in the same place I left it by 2 to 4 inches. I was instantly nervous and took a sip and it didn't taste right. As I was pouring out my drink in the sink, my husband and friend came back and she saw me doing it and glanced once quickly at her husband. I barely turned my head so I'm not sure how she realized I suspected him a little. She knows about my fear and knew how I handled it a few times when I feared she had done something however.... Apparently doing this while mildly suspecting her husband was too far and she absolutely exploded on me out of no where.

She said I was implying her husband was a rapist or abuser or creep and that it was two faced of me to invite people over who I thought might poison me or fuss with my food. She said I always take that fear too far in public settings, which isn't true as I've never done this with groups of people bigger than 3 or 4 friends nor do I vocally accuse them. I just reset my food and move on as it eases my anxiety about it. Her husband got super defensive and started getting my face and my husband diffused the situation by sending them both home. My friend blew up my phone that night and eventually she blocked me for a week before coming back to apologize for her actions but asking me to apologize to her husband for making him feel bad. I told her it was her who made it seem like I was accusing him, not me for doing something she's seen me do a million times.

Eventually it went away but every time I see her, she asks if I'm going to apologize soon but I'm just not sure if what I did was really as offensive as she made it seem. I don't genuinely believe that he tried to poison or roofie me but if there's even a 10% chance, my anxiety is through the roof and I pass out if I just try to push through. No one else, after knowing this fear, has taken it personally as it's just the remains of trauma and fundamentally harmless. Once I'm reset, I often totally forget the scare and they've acted like nothing ever happened. Was i the asshole?

What are these acronyms?

[sagasolejma]

I've come to vanquish your anomalocaris army. This time I have proper reinforcements.

Google tells me your plushie is only 40cm long

I happen to have a 53cm long anomalocaris on the way in the mail right now

My victory should be quite obvious for all to see, even for you with your underdeveloped and frankly primitive dermal-bone covered eyes

[iamjapanese]

Charlotte Baxter（Welsh）

Tan y Bwlch   Wood and Linocut   65 x 53cm   via

[secretmage]

Gaming Heads Solas Statue (Fade edition)

very long unboxing-related post ahead -

So I was lucky enough to get my hands on one of these and it has arrived! My sister was at home when it was delivered by China Post (and my country's post for the last-mile journey) from GH's Asia warehouse in Dongguan, Guangdong province. I live in South East Asia, so that's the closest warehouse to me. Shipping cost me 120USD but that price is likely dependent on where you live from their nearest warehouse.

and let's just say the box is super big (boba for scale). The shipping box is 66cm x 30cm x 84cm (26" x 11.8" x 33") while the actual packaging box inside is around 60cm x 25cm x 79cm (23.6" x 9.85" x 31.1").

The packaging box is more than half my height and I unboxed in a really small space, so it was a little of a struggle. I kinda just dragged the styrofoam out slowly and carefully. Both sides of the styrofoam - image of statue embossed on one side, and on the other side, the authentication card:

The authentication card looks and feels like a credit card; the authentication code text is embossed in silver.

I lifted the styrofoam up slowly so the parts don't take a rough tumble. And found myself face to face with disembodied body parts - I never thought I would use those words in a sentence. (I already unwrapped the base for the first photo).

The base is really heavy! Unfortunately there was some really minor damage but nothing super glue (cyanoacrylate) can't fix. Just remember not to use too much, so the glue doesn't ooze out betwee the cracks when you press the pieces together. I didn't bother contacting GH over this.

Boba again for scale, and main attachment points in the statue - the robe attaches to a notch in his butt LOL. Ignore the crack on my wall, clearly the veil is thin in my house as well ;_;

Inventory of parts. The statue comes in 3 variants and here are the differences:

Standard Edition

Head with brown eyes

Hands clasped behind his back

The Veil Edition

Parts that come with the Standard Edition (i.e. Brown-eyed head, Hands clasped behind back)

Isana's Song

Acolyte's staff

One left arm

One right arm

TWO right hands for the staves. Okay this one tripped me up for a bit and I thought GH sent me two hands by accident. It turns out the sculpt is so detail-oriented that Isana's Song and the Acolyte's staves DIFFER IN DIAMETER so one hand is for Isana's and the other is for the Acolyte's (Isana's shaft is wider in diameter). Honestly if it were me I would have just standardised the diameters so only one hand is needed hahah

Fade Edition

Parts that come with the Standard and the Veil Edition

Head with light purple eyes

One left arm clasped across his chest

One right arm

But do check out GH's website for more details, they've itemised it better than I could. Currently, all 3 variants retail for the same price on GH's website so obviously, if you can, it makes more sense to grab the Fade edition to get more value for your money. Just note that the Fade ed. is limited to 500 pieces, Veil's is limited to 1,000, and the Standard has 1,500.

Isana's song has two points of magnetic attachment to his right hand, so he can grasp it slightly higher or lower. The points are marked out super subtly but sliding the staff up and down his hand will reveal the magnetic areas easily so don't bother looking for these marks! Acolyte's seems to only have one.

Height when Isana's Song is held at the upper position is almost 65cm, or 25.4". The entire length of Isana's Song is approx 53cm, or 20.9". The length is perfect as a real-life wand haha

Both staves are secured by magic magnets to his back (though not both at the same time). It feels a little fiddly to me though. But it also means that technically he can hold a staff and carry another on his back like a dual-wielding mage.

Some details (love the chainmail) and scale comparison with Dark Horse Direct's statuette (giving "don't talk to me or my son ever again" energy)

I would say the sculpt and paint quality are great, the only two complaints I have is that:

The fur isn't as vibrant as the master on the GH website. It's missing the contrast as the dark parts of the fur are nowhere near dark enough but this is in no way a dealbreaker for me.

The hand holding the staff feels both secure and fiddly at the same time. It feels like if I brush the staff the wrong way the entire thing will drop right off, but at the same time there is a pin and some magnetic attachment so I am probably overthinking it.

Right now I'm trying to get a case made as cheaply as possible so for now I've left it like this like a museum exhibit with some DIY stanchions (added a human for scale) -

If anyone has questions or wants measurements or more detailed photos feel free to ask away! I just like to add that I consider myself lucky to be in a spot where I can purchase this without going completely broke so I'm grateful for that ;_;

[deepdreamnights]

Fair MisUse: Mona Lisa

or... Ever heard a JPG sing itself to you?

I have been playing around with Suno a bit, something I will be inflicting upon you all more in the coming weeks, and I found something interesting.

Suno lets you prompt music with symbols.

In the Lyrics box, if you put together strings of symbols and punctuation, the system interprets that into the structure of the music. Not quite sure how, or what symbols link to what notes because I'm absolutely a monkey with a flamethrower when it comes to music, but if I build a faux waveform with punctuation marks and extended ASCII, I get repeatable motifs.

Example from an early test: -_---…--.--

And since that worked, I prompted with this:

I loaded the JPG file into notepad, copied the results, and used them as a lyrics prompt (first 3000 characters at least). I've since found that if I can crunch an image to around 2k I can load the whole image's data into the lyrics block.

For the style prompt, I used a truncated version of the Wikipedia info block on the painting:

Mona Lisa Italian: Gioconda, Monna Lisa da Vinci c. 1503-1517 Oil on poplar panel Lisa del Giocondo 77cm×53cm

(I had to omit the word "Leonardo" from the prompt because there's apparently a musician called that.)

(the same prompt (more or less, had to change some symbols MJ uses for code) run through Midjourney, as a bonus).

Mona Lisa (the Song) and the above image are very obviously in the public domain. Not really sure about the Machine Ghouls' Hunt since technically I did compose it.. but if you wanna use it, go nuts.

Check out the whole DeepDreamNights Robot Band Oeuvre here.

[adorkastock]

Have you ever done any shoots with little people/dwarfism or know of anyone with a similar vibe to your work that is/has? (Bonus points if they'd be doing any sort of sword & sorcery type themes.) It's hard to find references of such wildly differing heights interacting that don't include children and/or that I know for sure consent to being drawn. Thank you for your time and your team's hard work over the years. Truly invaluable!

I have not hired any models specifically with dwarfism but the shoot between Sailor Starlight and Prince Nova did include a height difference of 1' 9" (~53cm) Sailor Starlight, a trans woman, is 6'6" (~198cm) and Prince Nova, a trans man is 4'9" (~145cm). Price Nova is also a left arm amputee. Here's a few images from that shoo! There's also a few in the DA archive and two packs in the Patreon Archive. ♥ We didn't do much sword stuff this shoot but it might be possible to use Nova's build and combine with a reference from the sword or magic folders to create something! Hope they are helpful!

[flock-of-cassowaries]

Baltimore:

- average annual snowfall: 21.1” (53cm)

- average daily high temperature in Jan-Feb: approx. 45f (7c - snow will melt quickly at this temperature)

Toronto:

- average annual snowfall: 77” (155cm / 5 feet)

- average daily high temperature in Jan-Feb: 35F (just barely above freezing; snow will soften, but mostly stick around)

NBC Hannibal: “Let’s film in the winter, and do every possible outdoor scene in deep snow! That will definitely evoke our purported setting, and not scream ‘CANADA!’ “

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

The Lion of Mari, from Syria (Mesopotamia) c.1782-1759 BCE: this is one of two lion statues that once guarded the entrance to a temple in ancient Mari; the lions were partially crushed when Hammurabi laid waste to the city in 1759 BCE

That's a pretty fitting expression, given the circumstances

Together, the two lion statues that were found at the ruined temple are known as the "Lions of Mari." They were unearthed from the ruins at Tell Hariri, where the ancient city-state of Mari once stood; this site is located near the border between modern-day Syria and Iraq.

The lions were likely designed as protomes, given their lack of hindquarters. They were originally stationed on either side of the entrance to the temple, so they are often described as the "temple guardians."

This is the same statue that appears in the first three photos, just seen from a different angle

It's believed that the temple at this site was originally built in honor of a West Semitic deity known as Dagan. Dagan was the chief deity of the Mariote pantheon; he was a particularly prominent figure in the middle and upper regions of the Euphrates, with cult centers in Mari, Terqa, Tuttul, and Ebla, but he was known throughout many parts of the ancient Near East.

The lion is primarily made of copper, with limestone and shale inlay for the eyes, and it measures 53cm tall, 77.5cm long, and 43cm wide, weighing roughly 55kg (about 21in x 30.5in x 17in, with a weight of 121lbs)

The Lions of Mari were partially crushed when their temple was destroyed (along with the rest of Mari) by Hammurabi's forces in 1759 BCE, leaving the statues badly warped...which is why they look really upset.

It's hard to find high-quality photos of the second lion, but he does have a particularly distinctive appearance:

This second lion was most recently housed at the National Museum of Aleppo, in Syria, though its current location/status (in the aftermath of the Syrian Civil War) remains unclear.

These photographs were taken during the original excavations at the ruined temple; they depict the first lion statue as it was still being unearthed (top) and the second statue shortly after it was removed (bottom)

Sources & More Info:

The Louvre: Lion of Mari

Archeologie.culture.fr: Lion Protome

Archeologie.culture.fr: Detailed Information about Ancient Mari

Virtual Museum Syria: Lion Sculpture

[sleepyfins]

hai!! dis my first ask ever so um!!! can me get one of dem clothign thingys, except based around a sea butterfly OR black dragonfish?

That's awesome! Honoured to be your first ask ever!!!!! Here's your board!

Black dragonfish are known for their incredible jaws - which can open over 100° wide and have huge teeth [though Males lack canines]. In their larval stage, they eyes are on super long eyestalks. They look so funny! Then they grow all serious looking, as their eyes retreat into their body as they age.

They're sexually dimorphic - males are small [5cm/2in] brown, toothless and always remain below 1000m [3,300ft] though often up to 2000m [6,600ft]. Females are black, larger - growing around 40cm [16in] long and migrate from atleast 500m deep to the surface and back, daily.

Their barbel [which only females have] is bioluminescent, emitting infrared light, which they use it to hunt. And they're venomous!

Fish information can be so inconsistent sometimes. Some sources say they can grow up to 35cm, others 40cm and another 53cm!

And they just leave the boys out.

[somediyprojects]

Hobbit Meals stitched by hedwigstheme01. Patterns designed by CrossStitchForYou.

Now Serving… in the Shire! Finally finished this long piece! It's a combination of 2 separate patterns, both from CrossStitchForYou on Etsy - "Hobbit Hole" & "Now Serving Hobbit Menu”. Dyed aida from SewItAll Australia! I’ve measured it, the stitched area is approximately 53cm long and 25cm wide - there are some leaves at the top that I sadly had to hide on the backside of the frame, as the frame itself is too small 🥹

[The Lord of the Rings]

[puhsinhsien]

2022 Taipei Taiwan

白樺樹平原1&2

Pian delle Betulle 1&2

53cm X 65cm

Oil on canvas

[supertanya-mohair-sweaters]

Purple cable mohair sweater SuperTanya, ready to wear, size M-L

        PRODUCT DETAILS         HANDMADE CABLE KNIT MOHAIR SWEATER. Style: 100 % hand knitted mohair sweater. Material: premium class longhair mohair yarn. Color: Purple. Design: Cable knit style. Neckline type: Crewneck. Rib trim at hem, cuffs, and neck. Cleaning: Hand wash only. Ready to wear. Body length: 29.5 inches / 75 cm. Chest width: 20.9 inches / 53cm. Sleeve length: 29.5 inches / 75…

[natsukoelgar]

“Singing flowers”

花の歌声

53cm x 45.5cm

acrylic on canvas

[danieyells]

Alan Jiro and Thoma are the obvious big dick squad. But you know who would be part of it (even if just bc it's fucking funny) Kaito and Subaru. The virgin who might never get a date and the one who refuses to touch someone else.

What makes it funny is that both know quite little of the act itself so it ends up like the 'is 53cm good enough for you' (a fanfic where the striper asks the girl if that was long enough for her) where he asks all bashful before they have sex

TO BE EXTREMELY FAIR my understanding is that big dicks are often worse and people who have them don't know what to do with them and tend to cause more pain than pleasure--so I can absolutely see that backfiring for Kaito every time he gets close to getting any action lmaoooo CAN'T GET ANY PRACTICE IN BECAUSE HIS MASSIVE COCK SCARES OFF THE HOES PORN LIED TO HIM!!!! You end up back in his room after a date and he thinks he might maybe score and he's suddenly frantically explaining and reassuring you that yeah he has 0 experience and all but he promises he'll uh be gentle??? Go really slow??? HE'LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT JUST PLEASE DON'T LEAVE THE SECOND YOU SEE IT. God forbid you not have actually planned to sleep with him when you got back there, it'd be 100% more uncomfortable then.

And Subaru. . .if you tell him you're comfortable with him learning all of your secrets and touching you I think he would, hesitantly, eventually, be open to sex. In the event you somehow get his clothes off I feel like he'd find being well hung extremely embarrassing and uncomfortable. He can't even get his little hands around it. . .isn't that embarrassing. . . . And he'd get even more self-conscious if you stared. At least he's open about not knowing what he's doing and he, like Alan, would be very, very open to other options/methods in bed. . .he'd nearly collapse after he touched you anyway. Are you into somnophilia perhaps because he kind of wants to take a nap the second you get started--

[jetix]

'Jennifer' (2022) Oil painting 45.5X 53cm, Mashi Ando