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Perler Bead Flight Flags
Made these flight flag coasters a bit back, figured it was a good time to post 'em! I do enjoy Perlers, they're like pixel art but at the end I can hold them and stuff.
Crafting details after the break, if y'all want to make your own.
These are using the original 2013 flag designs/colors on a 14x14 board, with standard 5mm beads. If you wanted to do the current flag designs, they'd need a little bit of tweaking as many are more symmetric in the current art (and also, I'd recommend a 16x16 size, since then you have room to put the current art's border). You could also try out an odd-sized flag, 15x15 maybe, but the angles at the bottom will look a little off. Doesn't hurt to try stuff though!
I got most of the beads for these out of variety packs and various kits, which don't necessarily label the colors in them, but these are my best guesses to what I used:
Earth: Tan design on Brown base
Fire: Butterscotch/Orange on Light Brown base
Wind: Dark Green on Kiwi Lime
Water: Light Blue on Dark Blue/Cobalt
Lightning: Toothpaste on Parrot Green
Ice: Turquoise on Robin's Egg
Light: Cheddar on Creme
Shadow: Pastel Lavender on Purple
Nature: Kiwi Lime on Dark green
Plague: Red on Cranapple
Arcane: Pink on Raspberry
(Most of these came from the Multi Mix packs or the Neutral Colors/Fun Colors trays, but Cranapple in particular was catankerous to get ahold of. Fitting for Plague, I suppose! Anyways, there's some wiggle room on hue for a lot of these, too, I was just using what I had onhand as much as possible)
As for what I would do differently if I made another set of these? Well... I've gotten a bit better at getting the melt level consistent, so there's that. Learned the hard way that trying to melt two designs on the same pegboard, even if said board is big, isn't a good idea (and it's near-impossible to fix). Also, I was using one of the freebie folded pieces of parchment paper, so some of the coasters have creases... On non-ironing notes, I think it would be fun to take a stab at a micro-bead variant, since they support a higher dpi and all!
Anyways, if you decide to make your own set, please uh... I'd say ping me, but I'm not actually sure how that works here? I think it'd be cool to see 'em, that's all. Happy crafting!
#flight rising#frfanart#fr fanart#perler bead creations#flight flags#I picked the 2013 flags because I prefer the palettes used on them#There's no arguing that the newer flags' art is cleaner#I just miss the cream/gold Light Flight banner as opposed to the yellow/brown#I will say that Fire's newer colors are more my jam though (debated making just that one new colors#but decided the mismatch would be worse)#Personal taste really#...I say ānewā but the flags changed in like... 2016... I'm old.#Anyways my desk is covered in coasters now; send help?
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i lied i had like atleast one more weston thought to expell from my brain, before i miss this boat entirely. we're heading to green lands woooo
#god i had a fever this entire morning and afternoon so I think it was my inability to do anything that finally pushed me to finish this#seriously it took a month... disapointing#more disappointing is that i didn't have the time to tear up the internet in order to find what a professors break room looked like in 1899#if there was such a thing#really tragic#ah yea welp im very glad it's out there atleast. I want to release all of my black butler stuff so badly but guh...#tragedy has struck and i have been inspired to finally make a person project of my own#so that's taking a long time#but not to worry after like 5 years and some pondering i know well that black butler will always be one half of my brain#coooool#anyway i got more dorky stuff coming I hope??? wasn't lying before I am thinking of the midfords#and ill pray i can find the strength to get everything done soon#hope my rants are more tasteful after months of absence if ur still here#kuroshitsuji#black butler#kuroshitsuji fanart#fanart#sebastian michaelis#digital art#animation#animatic#video#weston college arc#black butler anime#black butler agares
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I think it would've been really funny if, instead of Marinette being charmed by the umbrella scene, she thought it was all an act and vowed to be Adrien's archenemy or something. It basically plays out like her vendetta against Lila, except Adrien isn't lying at all and also he fell for her the minute she decided to cuss him out. <3 hehe
#lovesquare#love square#adrienette#adrinette#adrien agreste#mlb adrien#miraculous adrien#miraculous ladybug#marinette dupain cheng#mlb marinette#miraculous marinette#I wrote prose for this and it ends with adrien wiping the spit off his cheek and tasting it because surprise! marinette is right that he's#hiding something except instead of being evil deep down he's instead just REALLY REALLY WEIRD#also this feels like a reasonable alternative way for her to act post-derision. instead of wanting to know everything about a person she's#just distrustful of anyone who she deems overly āperfectā#ladyswap au
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wardrobe notes for my silly au; travelling king thranduil
#thranduil#the hobbit#lotr#myart#i wanna start drawing him consistently for all of these doodles anyways#i hope his emotional state/proximity to elrond will be apparent by how ornate or stripped down his clothes and jewelry are :)#he wears dark warm colors and greens elrond wears cooler colors and occasional red and copper their tailoring is to personal taste#i like that rivendell elves have really elegant lines in their clothes it makes sense w the art nouveau architecture#i think thranduil dresses p singularly tho i think his tailoring and color choices are all of his own (dramatic)#ugh wish these geezers would hurry up and court each other so i can draw elrond wearing a flower crown in the greenwood
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I love how, despite how much Ceroba and Chujin loved each other, their relationship was pretty damn unhealthy. Chujin's performance at work is subpar so he never talks about his job. He gets fired from the Steamworks because he screwed up his robot designs multiple times so he tells Ceroba that he quit to protect his own pride. Their family is in a pretty precarious financial situation and he blows all of their savings on building a lavish mansion. Ceroba has to take on a soul-sucking minimum wage job to support the family while he gets to travel around the Underground doing volunteer work. Chujin does dangerous experiments on himself, risking his health and killing himself prematurely, so he can develop a super serum to protect Kanako when it would've been better for his daughter to have an alive dad in her life. He literally tasks Ceroba with the burden of murdering an innocent person and continuing his very risky life's work before he passes!
And it goes both ways!!! Ceroba always thinks the best of him no matter what. No flaws. No criticisms. Chujin wins what is essentially a consultation prize, but to her, it's like he won a proper award. Chujin sets Asgore's child's grave on fire and when Asgore fires him (after giving him multiple chances!!!), it's the Royals who are in the wrong. She doesn't criticize him for not providing for the family, for blowing all of their savings, for leaving Kanako without a father and her a widow. She thinks all of his actions were noble. And when a "pure-hearted" human shows up in the Underground and Chujin's plan can be enacted, no matter how reluctant she is to do it, she still follows through.
Yeah, sure, Chujin and Ceroba may have loved each other. But love isn't enough.
#undertale yellow#i don't even think Ceroba comes around to being more critical of Chujin in the end. martlet acknowledges that Chujin wasn't the#perfect person that she thought him to be but i don't think Ceroba ever really does.#idk what the point of this post is. getting my thoughts in order?#rip Ceroba and her loser taste in men#uty analysis
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Your fic has given me "sees Bill as an actual rounded character now" disease so all of the funny fanarts that reduce him to just the pathetic ex guy or to looser idiot triangle i found funny before annoy me slightly now and I'm blaming you
that's honestly hilarious because I'm having the opposite experience
I wasn't deep in Gravity Falls fandom during the peak Tumblr Sexyman Bill Cipher yearsāI watched the show one time and forgot about it for ~4 yearsābut I was close enough to see it happening on my dash. And the suave, sophisticated, infinitely in-control Bill characterization was ubiquitous throughout tumblrāthe "tailor-made to dom in an x reader fic" characterization where 90% of the emotions he demonstrates are "smirking" and "brooding but in a cool way." (those are emotions now.) Some works would go as far as to say that Bill's mind was simply too alien to be relatable to a human. Most of the works featuring him with Ford depicted Ford as completely enthralled with Bill, naively worshiping the ground he floats over, while Bill was usually depicted as cool, distant, disinterested, at best faintly amused by his human toy. In fanworks like that, the idea that Bill could possibly have been distraught by losing hold of Ford was unthinkable.
And that was common enoughāthe cool, aloof villaināthat it's jarring to go from absorbing that via osmosis for years to rewatching the show and remembering oh right, he's a bit of a dweeb that hollers at people through sock puppets and freaks out when the cops bust in on his red solo cup party.
By the time I started my fic in 2023 the sexyman Bill had died down enough that I found other folks exploring his goofy side, but it still seemed like any time I ducked in on ao3 looking for Bill-centric works, I still saw echoes of that old fanon characterization more often than not.
So for me? It's been great seeing fanworks depicting Bill as an emotionally devastated, blubbering mess over losing his favorite pawn. It's been great seeing fanworks that allow him to be a loser, a failure, a dork, sometimes bumbling or in over his head or sticking his foot in his mouth. Hell yeah! This is what I've been missing for years!
Maybe it'll get annoying eventually but right now it just feels like it's finally balancing him out.
#anonymous#ask#meta#bill cipher#gravity falls#(also im really into the most feared arrogant & overpowered villain in a work being reduced to a despondent wreck over someone much lower)#(gotta be one of my favorite tropes)#(BUT that's just my personal tastes)
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I love your take on Crowley!
I know that the early, non-Diasomnia stories aren't really your thing, but are you reading the novels at all?
I have been following some of the fan translations and the second book seems intense! Would love to hear what you think about them.
thank you! ššš I'm not really sure why you think I don't like the earlier arcs though, I love pretty much all the characters and their storis! (I think 5 and 1 are my favorite of the past episodes, though 6 infected me with the Shroud brainrot something fierce.) I just...ESPECIALLY love diasomnia. :') but there is room in my heart for all of these dweebs! like, who among us is not just as ride-or-die for Adeuce as they are for us.
that said, I don't really follow the other adaptations like the manga (aside from a dip-in just to see the new Yuus) or the novels, though I keep meaning to check them out! I do like seeing the differences between the different forms of media, and how certain things get adapted one way or another! but alas, time/a lack of accessibility stands in our way more often than not. :( someday...someday I will have time to consume all of the media...
#art#twisted wonderland#i have been playing this game since the day it came out#and believe me i could not have stuck with it for the past three and a half years if i was not deep into all of these idiots#not to harp on it but i do think it's funny because i actually. really did not like the diasomnias at first.#it was like a month before their cards/personal stories were added and so we knew almost NOTHING about them#the website descriptions basically make everyone sound awful#so i thought they were kind of mean/boring compared to everyone else!#(except maybe lilia but i was mad at him for the two seconds of 'girl? š' hope i had when they were revealed)#but once their cards came out i fell just as hard for them as i did the rest of this silly game#well. sebek took a little longer. but his ketchup incident converted me.#anyway i have so much sentimentality for episode 1 especially#the prologue was like 'oh this is actually a very silly game! oh there is a plot!'#episode 1 was like 'oh i LIKE these characters and what they're doing with them'#(i think ace punching riddle was the moment i decided i REALLY liked this game) (sorry riddle) (you were being a huge dick though)#also...ink drips. ink drips everywhere.#look when i say this game is laser-focused at me and my tastes specifically i am not kidding
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Iām curious about somethingā¦
Please reblog for a larger sample size! ššæ
#cilantro#polls#personally it just tastes like iām eating some kind of chemical that shouldnāt be in my mouth#like it should be used to clean phone screens or preserve bodies#i ā¦ really fuckin hate it#as a latina this has brought me A LOT of grief š„²#coriander#plantalones polls#olfactory receptor gene or6a2
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I feel like a lot of people mistake comic relief or goofiness for lack of effort or caring by the creator, and that belies a real lack of understanding of like, writing and humor and art in general.
#i'm thinking about how on 4sd travis and sam talked about the work they put into chet and fcg and veth#all of whom have been treated really dismissively in weird ways#and the people who are like haha they're a dumb joke character invariably stan characters with WAY less effort put in#which is fine! you should like what you like!#but you're not grading on effort clearly so stop pretending you are! it's fine!#this is actually this blog's mission statement. like what you like but stop justifying it with blatant lies#hell for all braius is by necessity not the deepest of characters sam clearly cared enough to rewrite his spoiled backstory!#like i find it just. really...suspicious isn't quite the right word but i'm not landing on the correct one#how people jump to equate their personal preferences with thought and care and effort and quality in the absence of evidence#like man it's ok if you did a wine tasting and your fave was the three buck chuck. drink that and live your truth
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My cat is currently cuddling me, purring and biting me affectionately whilst typing this.
Now imagine Logan doing this to Wade. He's got his claws partially unsheathed and is pawing at the hand Wade is holding his phone with. Logan tries pulling Wade's hand towards him whilst moving his head in that direction at the same time. Wade has to switch hands and lets Logan just chew on his fingers. It doesn't hurt much so it's fine. Little nomming noises are coming from Wolvie's mouth which can be heard over whatever tv show is playing in the background. They stay like that until Wade decides it's tea time and Logan follows him to the kitchen, ready for his food
Turn up the volume if you wanna hear the purring and nomming noises
#deadpool#wade wilson#wade winston wilson#logan is a little kitty cat#wolverine#worst wolverine#logan howlett#james logan howlett#animalistic logan#logan howlett is literally a cat#I'm british#tea is just dinner and I refuse to change it#also look at my little kitty nomming on my hand before he went to get fed#cat#cat videos#affectionate biting#personally I think Wade is the chef in that household but that doesn't stop Logan from going out to biy ingredients and making a stupidly#good and spicy curry#like if they can afford it Wade will do roast dinners or steak or pasta or a stir-fry but curries are Logan's thing#fuck i want a curry now#my dad made this really nice curry years ago and got some stuff from a market near me to make it#it tasted so freaking good but we couldn't find it the stall again and I'm sad that I'm never going to have that curry again#needcoffee - kitty logan posts
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From now on, wherever I am, that's your home.
Blue Canvas of Youthful Days Episode 8
#blue canvas of youthful days#chinese bl#bl drama#rosygifs#I love the direction in this show#the camera movements#the way they move from wide shots to close ups and back#it's really good#and the focus on the hands of course#I'm not sold on the blurred edges completely#because I think they are being used too much imo#and also because in conjunction with the handheld it looks a bit messy#but I guess that's a style and maybe just not my personal taste#these tags got away from me
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Re: the headcanons I shared in this post...
Man. I really do enjoy headcanoning Q as the World's Worst Date.
Like, I adore Q. He's my special baby boy. And I think Bond adores Q, too. I think Bond believes Q is the best date.
But on a date with anyone else, I feel like Q just sucks so bad.
First of all, there's only a 30% chance he'll show up. He may get busy in the labs and forget he had a date. He may have one of his eternal and recurring 'work emergencies' (which he always refuses to explain). One of his cats may develop a slightly upset tummy, and of course Q is not going to keep the date if one of his babies might be ill! Never mind that you booked this restaurant six months in advance or that those theater tickets are nonrefundable and cost you Ā£200 apiece!
But even if he manages to keep the date, I feel like Q is still just The Worst.
He will talk, very passionately and enthusiastically, about some really boring topic his date absolutely does not care about. (Might be something to do with physics. Might be some obscure detail related to 17th century French oil painting. Might be something about cat biology. Who knows! Q has so many interests and opinions, and he would like to share all of them!)
He will 'well, actually...' you. Not with malice! Not to mansplain! Just because he thinks being accurate and factual is extremely important, and of course you want to know if you're mistaken about something...don't you??
He will debate things over the dinnertable. He will provoke a passionate, determined, bare-knuckle academic debate at a candlelight restaurant while a violinist plays in the corner, because that is what's fun for him and he forgets this is not always fun for everyone else.
Q is extremely cute and extremely kindhearted and extremely loyal and really a lovely partner overall! ...But he literally never gets asked on a second date.
Until he meets James H. Bond, who thinks it's very fun and interesting when Q infodumps at him about nanotechnology! He delights in Q arguing with him about increasingly pedantic things, stubbornly refusing to cede any ground whatsoever!
And of course Bond understands about cancelled dates and work emergencies. (He is probably at HQ, too, dealing with the same emergency!). And of course he would not expect Q to keep a date if one of the cats are unwell.
Honestly, I think Bond is very contemptuous of the men who previously dated Q and foolishly declined to ask him on a second date. (You couldn't handle it when Q argued with you for 20 minutes about the aesthetic merits of neoclassical architecture? Skill issue, tbh. Bond is built different. Arguing is such a fun activity! The best part of any date! Needling and pestering and provoking one's partner is the height of enjoyment! Truly, some people have no appreciation for the finer things in life...)
IDK, I just like it when 00Q are meant2be in the most eccentric of ways.
#i also like it when Q is a genuinely kind and delightful person#beloved by his nearest and dearest#but also something of an Acquired Taste#who can be really annoying to be around sometimes#i like it when Bond and Q are both Very Annoying People#who genuinely enjoy one another's most irritating qualities#00q#my headcanons
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Do you think if the trolls all came back, like everything in the main comic did happen and they were alive again. Do you think Feferi would actually forgive Eridan? Or want to even be his friend after everything? I don't personally like the erisol and fefertasprite interactionā¦felt rushedā¦..so I just wanted to know your opinion if things were different! :)
Yeah, I think they would be! Feferi is one of the trolls who takes dying the least badly (relentless optimism) and Eridan does genuinely feel bad, which means a lot when it's Eridan. I think she really is genuine when she says she wants them to be friends and also that she's really not the type of person to hold a grudge, and like... death is SUPER cheap in Homestuck, it's really not the horrific, irredeemable, irreperable damage that it is IRL - and if you're talking about (Feferi) and (Eridan), then they're both dead (and irrelevent) now, so the score is kind of even.
In general, the fandom - I mean, people in general, really - tend to have difficulty divorcing themselves from other people. We tend to assume that the people and characters they like will hold similar opinions to themselves. This is how people who like Karkat and don't like Eridan can mentally gloss over or even block out their clear, close friendship, or how people who dislike Cronus can end up overlooking that Meenah actually takes his opinion seriously and unironically defends his wizard thing. Feferi really isn't mad at Eridan or upset about dying the way we probably would be, because she's friends with the horrorterrors, relentlessly cheerful, comfortable with death in general, and death is also just not really that big of a deal in this setting. "I'm really sorry about that, that was shitty of me" is honestly probably all the apology she needs, especially if they came back to life anyway.
#i dunno in general the fandom loves to blow stuff up#and make it all way way angstier than it needs to be or was even shown to be#by all accounts feferi takes dying really well#im sure shes still not STOKED to be eridan's friend again but out of all her faults#holding long unreasonable grudges isnt really one of them#(that's a kanaya thing actually)#eridan's always gonna be an annoying pest to her in large doses but i think she basically thinks of him as a friend#also eridan responds to problems overwhelmingly with Fight#so this idea that eridan will be forever mopey and angsty also doesnt ring true to his character#if anything i can see him becoming annoying again because now he won't stop fucking apologizing#like bro chill its fine already oh my god why is everyt)(ing suc)( a PRODUCTION wit)( you#because thats the last point too like#homestuck always returns to humor#hussie even says in the book commentary that homestuck is lighthearted and comedic at its core#that it keeps returning to that as a touchstone#even during its tensest moments like murderstuck theres just constant funnies and gags#so i just end up going kinda :/ when an interpretation is purely maudlin or cathartic#like its more homestuck when its funny and characters treating murder with the same gravitas as irl#not only doesnt make sense in universe where death is cheap - ESPECIALLY for trolls#but also just doesn't really feel very homestuck to me#but that is 100% personal taste so if you like that stuff by all means keep enjoying it lol#you just arent going to get uber angst from me u_u
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I truly believe Will Wood is an incredible musician and songwriter and is one of the top lyricists in the last decade both in and outside of the genres that he chooses to play in with absolutely zero irony. I also believe that you can only fully understand that if youāve either had a pet die before listening to his music or you have a history of drug abuse and mental health crises. Or youāre trans.
#this may sound like a snooty post where Iām just upholding my own favorite music as the best#but honestly itās in response to a lot of fans Iāve seen be really self critical?#like yeah haha I listen to bad music#and I also have been known to joke about my own weird taste#but hereās the thing! from a technical level! his music! goes hard! it is experimental and that is GOOD#and lyrically listen I listen to a lot of music#Iām even familiar with top forty stuff and while yes the content of his songs is very niche#the lyricism is so genuinely clever and playful and ugh god#ok anyway. sorry#listened to Will wood again#and also this post is about the fact that I first I didnāt get it.#and then I went to a really low point. and suddenly I got it#ok it cracked me open like a fucking egg#music#text#personal#kinda
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to be honest I think the fact that a very significant proportion of people found jason/his povs to be uniquely boring is more evidentiary of a writing flaw than something being wrong with the readers who felt that way
#not to defend jason haters because i love that boy#i would die for him#but it puts a bad taste in my mouth when people put forth a criticism like āi found jason's povs to be boringā#and people are like U are literally the worst person in the world and you probably have no friends#??????#if you are a writer and 60% of your editors say āthis pov isn't jumping off the page and feels boringā#are u going to acknowledge that criticism and go for a rewrite or just be like Everyone's wrong i'm right u guys suck#in fact i really just attribute most jason hate to rick's lack of care put towards his character#but i have always seen his potential so i love him#jason grace#rr crit#pjo hoo toa
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Inspired by @kipperlillycopperkettle, thought hey that sounds fun!
Rules: shuffle your song playlist and create a poll from the first 5 songs.
Tagging: @monsata @bardace @deathianartworks @witchkittymeow @hotgirlnosebleeds @goodapollo @shitsncraps and anyone else who wants to I guess lol
#tumblr polls#regina spektor#coheed and cambria#radiohead#ashnikko#florence + the machine#ny music taste is all over the place#this is tame really#my master playlist is multiple days long#I just hit shuffle every time I put it on#my personal fave is like#when it goes from hyperpop into folk#into math rock and then into disney#lol
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