#but i need to pack all my shit up and clean.

[jennilah]

How did you make your Strahm water cube?

ooo I dont know how detailed of a response you want, but let me try :) thank goodness I have some wip pics saved on my phone

First I hot glued a box together with 1 ft x 1 ft plexiglass, careful to try to retain a perfect cube shape. (with no bottom, for your head!)

then I cut strips of upholstery foam for the metal borders

it wasnt an exact science, but you can see how I cut L-shaped strips to account for the glass corners:

then i painted some water on the inside of the plexiglass with semi-transparent blue paint, and glued black eva foam strips to each upholstery foam piece to make the nice metal siding

(the pieces were just kind of gently laid on the cube and taped to see how the progress was going)

then I took the pieces off and drybrushed them to get that rusty, weathered metal effect. same with a bunch of little circles of eva foam for nuts and bolts

Not seen, but I also painted the inside of the pieces with black so you dont see the inner foam yellow through the glass. which was a lazy way of avoiding cutting more black eva foam

and so I glued those pieces into their final positions, then I stuck in some battery-powered light strips that I was able to cut to the exact sizes I needed

the battery packs are positioned in such a way that they rest at the bottom of the cube, hidden away. I'll show better pics in a minute

and then glued some water bottles on top that I found in the dollar store. I kept in mind the placement of the inner tubes

the tubes were found at a hardware store and cut to size and also glued inside, with room for my head to not be constantly knocking around against them

(i wanted to get the screen-accurate tubes but that shit was outrageously expensive for a costume so i just went with the cheapest tubes i could find)

the bottom is harder to explain so I just grabbed the thing out of my closet to demonstrate haha

on the bottom, I half-glued a simple sheet of fabric to pop my head through. it also hides the battery packs, which are nestled between strips of more foam so they dont fall out the bottom and dont slide around

back in the inside of the cube, you can see I glued strips of velcro to the fabric and battery packs so I can easily access the batteries if needed, and cover them up again for presentation

and then I drilled some holes on the top piece of plexiglass because my breath steams things up in there pretty quickly

thats pretty much it!!

it all sounds more difficult than it was. it was a lot of just eyeballing measurements and not caring too much about it being super duper clean and perfect. I'm not entering competitions, most people arent gonna look that closely at the imperfections, so i think it does the job at looking complex without being that impressive :)

[thetangibleghost]

I need to go. Store.

[satans-knitwear]

Behold! An enormous snugglebeast.

It has cookie flavoured lipbalm on its head now.

[grossillygirl]

I am doing laundry so late. Niw i stay up later. Now i cry and cry and cry. Cus i am so very sleepy ob yes i am infeed sleepy

[theflyingfeeling]

tomorrow-me: I'd really appreciate it if you could drag your arse to the grocery store so that I won't have to get up early tomorrow morning to do it you know?

now-me, wrapped in a blanket with tears in my eyes: but I'm just a baby?? 😭

[flourescencia]

people who enter their adult life and don't care or outright refuse to learn how to cook are incomprehensible individuals

[screamingay]

somehow these current roommates we have are the worst that ive known yet and last semester we literally had a girl who smoked cigs IN her bedroom. list of grievances below lol

[handcat]

lease is up on my student housing and i can’t get a fucking job so i can’t get a new apartment so i’m probably going to have to move back in with my parents for a bit which is a six hour drive away from my friends and girlfriend so i’m thinking maybe i should set myself on fire

[nooomagnus]

It’s DONE

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

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[jeremiahthefroge]

Autistic/adhd people who have been working on unmasking when their disability disables them: dude what's going on, why can't I get anything done, why am I crying/crashing out all the time, why do I feel like I'm being torn limb from limb rn lol

[rise-of-the-zombicorns]

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[divin8ion]

i think ive done everything i can do for the apartment application right now!! and i set up a tour elsewhere for saturday in case this place falls through too

[deepfriedseagullfeet]

might go thrift shopping to buy a bunch of old t shirts so i can cut some vinyl and make shirts that say random shit. feeling better than i did last night. nothing matters and im going to die but i should make something even though everything i make is shit

[fuka-petals]

I hate fancy places I hate expensive places and I hate minimalistic places

[polarfarina]

I am really sore from work I wish riding five hours in the car didn't require having your feet on the ground