#WAX

[onlinesweetheart]

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[florietas]

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Urs Fischer, “untitled” (2011): paraffin wax mixture, pigment, steel, wicks

[sunteased]

[dimespin]

Wax is 13 actually =3c

[cosmerelists]

Cosmere Character Descriptions That Are TECHNICALLY True...

...just perhaps somewhat misleading.

[Some spoilers in this for Stormlight, Warbreaker, Yumi, and Mistborn Era 1 & 2!]

1. Dalinar: A widower raising two sons while writing his first book.

2. Szeth: A childlike man who just wants to do what he's told.

3. Vivenna: An eldest daughter who ran away to the big city and immediately fell in with the wrong crowd.

4. Hoid: An old man who likes to stick his nose into everything...and who has begun to worry that he's losing his memory.

5. Jasnah: A researcher who returns from a trip only to find out that her research has been scooped...by her student.

6. Shallan: A self-taught artist and researcher. Also: serial killer.

7. Navani: A widow who courts an old flame...unaware that he killed his first wife.

8. Worldhoppers: Extraterrestrial visitors.

9. Susebron: A newly-wed man who must find new communication strategies if he wants to save his marriage.

10. TenSoon: A guy who impersonates a dog for so long that they make stuffed animals based on him.

11. Nightblood: AI gone wrong.

12. The Machine: AI gone even wrong-er.

13. Wax: Man who kills because god told him to do so through his earring.

14. Taravangian: A dearly beloved grandfather killed by his own former employee.

15. Rlain: A guy who discovers that he's a furry after he joins the army.

[starlet-sky]

(: dab art :)

[anonbeadraws]

Confluence: The Tomb of Wax. Fallen gods and the true ones, their lives are somehow reflected in the light of the candles in the buried tomb. Some candles are bright, tall and well wick'd, the gods they mirror adored and cared for and respected throughout the Coast and beyond. The ones that are dimming, dripping wax and stuttering, almost drowning? Their gods are struggling, working to keep their worship steady, blessing the mortals around them to keep their forms, to stay alive. And the candles that are out, wicks burned and fragile, wax hardened and dripped to the floor? Nothing will bring back the spark of what they once shone for, no matter how many matches you burn. Our Site! Check out our newsletter and backerkit for updates!

[itscolossal]

Inspired by Impermanence, Juliette Minchin Burns Down Her Elegant Wax-Dipped Installations

[zegalba]

A.F. Vandevorst: Arnhem Mode Biennale (2011)

[awishwee]

Wax and Steris! Love these two 😌❤️

[thewisemankey]

Here's a thing I did years ago where I screenshotted the 10 Ixupi from the 1995 PC horror game "Shivers" by Sierra Online/Entertainment.

Looking back on it, some of these buggers weren't exactly all THAT scary. But you know, these were the jumpscares I was used to long before FNAF was a thing.

But yeah, hopefully there's people on this site who remember this game that'll enjoy this.

And if not, there's still always the killer soundtrack. Pun intended.

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[copperbadge]

I was looking at a website selling stationery and sealing wax because I like to torment myself with things I could be buying, and I realized eventually that when they say "wicked" they mean "wax with a wick", not "wax which is somehow evil". But it did take a while.

Wicked Wax would be a great name for a goth band, a scented candle store, a beauty salon, or a car detailer, and I'm sad that the Wicked Wax on the website wasn't even like of the "looks black but melts red" variety.

[ID: A screencap of a banner from a stationery store; it shows wax in long lozenges, labeled "wicked wax", and wax in small beads, labeled "bead wax". I do not need this hobby and yet I desire it.]

[cosmerelists]

Cosmere Characters Do Their Taxes

It was just Tax Day in the US! Let's say that Cosmere characters had to pay taxes. How would that go for them?

Sigzil: Knows the tax code inside and out. Saves his receipts. Is basically the IRS's dream guy.

Hoid: Does not pay taxes. This is canon.

Kelsier: Does not pay taxes. This feels canon.

Marasi: Always pays her taxes.

Vivenna: Always pays her taxes.

Denth: Sure talks a lot about how complicated mercenary taxes are but if you listen carefully, he never actually says he did them...

Nale: Rigorously follows the tax code of whatever country he is in.

Wyndle: Claims Lift as a dependent. Reports all illegally acquired income at fair market value, as the tax code requires.

Lightsong: Does not pay taxes because he's, like, a god. But it's always bothered him, somewhere in the back of his mind, for some reason...

Adolin: Cheerfully hires someone else to do his taxes, at least so long as he's single.

Shallan: Does her own taxes, Sebarial's taxes, and Adolin's taxes post-marriage.

Steris & Wax: Do their taxes together. Romantically.

Wayne: Gives so much money to charity that he never owes any taxes. Orders his accountants to find a way for him to pay taxes anyway.

Straff: Does not pay taxes in the way rich people don't pay taxes--through, like, legal loopholes and off-shore accounts and shit

Elend: Rewrites the tax code to pay more taxes.

Lirin: Committed tax fraud. But only once.

Taravangian: Is not allowed to file his taxes when he is too stupid--because he cries about how confusing it is--or when he's too smart--because he's too good at finding all of the super obvious tax loopholes and anyway he's obviously way better than the government at knowing how to spend his own money!

Painter: Got in trouble once for not filing taxes because he knew he didn't make enough to owe any taxes. Seemed kinda stupid to him.

Moash: Makes an ethical argument against taxes, since the tax laws are written to benefit the rich and screw over the poor and he has no control over what the government uses his taxes for.

Kaladin: Is torn between paying his taxes like Dalinar ordered or not paying his taxes since he promised Moash he wouldn't until he finally files his taxes at, like, midnight on tax day

It's a whole thing.

[bizarreauhavre]

17th century Spanish wood Santos bust with an embedded medical skull sealed in wax.