#but i am going to sew

[lesbian-moon-gf]

i could scream and cry and throw up. artists are so cool. to put so much time and dedication and skill into something you love and SHARE it with the world? AUGH!! it makes me think i can enjoy creating again. art is not about the "end product", it's about your process as an artist

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[vinceaddams]

17th century gloves are. very good.

[cometblaster2070]

so i'm going to go fucking insane because for a while this aspect of malenia's character design has been bothering me and making me think I'm seeing things and going fucking crazy.

the aspect in question is malenia's left arm:

when i first saw malenia's arm my first thought was oh okay they're probably just bandages or some sort of wraps.

but then you look a bit closer and like

idk about you (because i might be losing it) but it seems like the mesh of whatever the fuck that is very clearly melded with her skin in a way/it looks like it's going into and then emerging out of her skin (which is HORRIFYING to think of I won't lie).

and once again i thought i was going crazy and seeing things because surely these were just meant to be wraps or bandages like the ones we see in the scene of her fighting radahn right?

and then the thought of the needle came to my mind. along with something malenia says in her cutscene before we fight her.

"my flesh was dull gold"

huh. now isn't that interesting.

this would imply that in order to stall the rot from consuming his sister, miquella made a plan to sew unalloyed gold into malenia's skin using his needle in a last-ditch attempt to save her arm.

(granted it's funnier to imagine he just sticks it in her arm and goes okay great all done! and that's probably the canon way it went but)

the thought of the sheer pain malenia must've gone through during this process, to be honest, and the thought of the guilt miquella must've felt at having to force his sister to endure even more agony just to help her is just sad.

and all of it is done just in an attempt to salvage what they can of her and hope that more can't be taken.

edit: btw when looking at malenia pre-bloom and pre-losing her needle it looks like there's a proper layer/cover/whatever it is around her arm up till her knuckles making it seem like an actual covering or layer on top of her skin and what not, but when we fight her post-bloom and post-losing needle it appears like some of the layers have either flaked or fallen away and that reveals that it's actually meshed with/into her skin.

[obsob]

there he is......the man of the house

[tj-crochets]

Today’s experiment: giant ant!!!

[i-may-be-an-emu]

channeling my inner Toby rn :D

Snakehips vest for my cosplay ^ :]

[frobby]

rin 1000000% has a list somewhere of things hes good at that yukio is bad at

[heckinwacky]

oh my god??????

[stellaluna33]

And the collar is finished! (Mostly. I need to add snap closures, but that's a problem for Future Me, haha)

It looks better in person, and will also look better when it's smoothed out, but anyway, here's a close-up of the little wires and the channel I made (just a 1.5 inch wide strip of the net, folded in thirds and stitched down each side). The little loop at the end of the wire gets stitched through a few times to keep it taut and in place, but can be removed for laundering. I also made two vertical tucks in the collar on each side of the throat to fit it more closely to the neck. These lace collars are meant to fit like a second skin for a slender look, but the lightweight material keeps it comfortable, especially with the wires keeping the fabric from bunching up!

[pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird]

Last update on the Laios breastplate before I start the long process of painting it! Today I did the most painful and sad step of the whole process - weathering.

You'll remember that throughout this whole build, I stopped myself from adding unnecessary decorations and details because Laios is very utilitarian with his gear and doesn't care much about appearances, especially because he can't afford to replace his armor. This became my chance to add texture where I could.

In short, I always intended to make his armor look like it had been beat to shit. And so, after a month of making sure everything was clean and precisely perfect... I tore it to shreds.

I learned a lot from Laudna in '22, including the fact that you can't half-ass weathering if you want it to read in pictures. I focused on the parts that would be the most likely to catch a sword or a claw, the protruding seams and edges, while trying not to make too many busy little spots.

These cuts and gouges will give me something to highlight with my paint job, improve the overall texture of the armor, and hopefully be a little removed from the shiny, cartoony look of the anime. Now I just have to get the rest of the armor to this point 😓

[neonhellscape]

okay his outfit has really been bothering me for absolutely ages so here. bastard man.

[scribefindegil]

i miss. leaving the house :(

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

actually yknow what I think sun fnaf would tolerate me. I think it’s possible so. So there.

[anetherealpoetess]

it would be hilarious if one of sauron's forms floated and therefore charlie vickers needed to wear heelys under his costume like sierra boggess during her broadway run as the little mermaid

[tj-crochets]

A teddy bear!