#dovetailed

[fastfoodcrimewave]

Rustic Patio

Example of a large mountain style backyard stone patio design with a fire pit and no cover

[wikirobot]

Put together the frame for the coat rack. Used some cherry and some very simple hand cut dovetails. Pretty happy with how it turned out.

The finish is still drying but it's complete.

[toothspurs]

some cas pics from the drafts

[medsteeth]

right so about 162 days ago i said i would draw fanart for the really fucking good bushmedicine fanfic "thou giveth fever" by @mickmundy and, like a dumbass, proceeded to do nothing and worry about school for that entire time 😭 i'll do more and better fanart very soon (god i hope) but have these silly ass drawings for the mean time. this fic gave me life to draw tf2 again after like... 3 years lol so thank you kind fellow ❤️❤️

[utilitycaster]

I am very excited for Unend and I have absolutely no insight into what it will entail but I do want to offer a gentle warning regarding what I'd like to call, for the CR audience anyway, the Campaign 1 to Campaign 2 problem.

I found in the early-ish days of Campaign 2 there was an immense focus from some parts of the fandom on what previously seen characters were doing, rather than the current cast of characters, and at times a bitterness that we weren't just showing the same characters 25 years down the line. Which was silly, because we got a great story with new great characters and saw the world grow before our eyes, and there were even some small nods without them overshadowing something new and exciting.

I feel this way about Unend: again, I know nothing, but I don't think it will be heavily focused on characters introduced in Midst or Moonward at all. I think it's an opportunity for a new cast of characters to explore new things in the same world. While I suspect the islet of Midst may show up simply because it's a strategic location for an exploration vessel to stop given how the cosmos work, the story is explicitly going to be taking place as far away from Midst as possible, since they're trying to find the extremes of the cosmos, not the middle. I don't think we're checking in extensively with past characters, and I think that's great! Get excited for new ones!

[a-bit-knitty-gritty]

Art reflects life...

I'm knitting a cowl (Dovetail by Melanie Rice) to match the tool box I built over the last few months at my dayjob! The tulip poplar I used was from some boards in VERY different colors- the more typical pale grey/beige and a very olive green. I wanted to remember it with a commemorative knit since I painted the box and then gave it to its new owner.

[eternalgirlscout]

i saw a review that called season 2 of sweet tooth "too confined" and maybe it's just me but i feel like that's misidentifying what's actually a strength of the show. in an era where streaming series that try to Go Bigger and do as much as possible in their second seasons out of fear of not getting renewed again frequently result in bloated, poorly-paced messes that speedrun plotlines without giving them room to breathe, having a season of tv that focuses very tightly on playing out and resolving the problems established by the prior season is fucking refreshing.

[yashley]

nothing just matt planning to ruidusly smash imogen and fearne together since the beginning

[catteries]

I think it'd be remiss if I do not highlight the fact that, being both an ACD canon and Granada adaptation enjoyer, and also a member of one of the British Empire's ex-colonies, that I'd like to be in a comfortable enough headspace to share a perspective on this text site on how a Straits Settlement person views the works.

There's enough references to the Crown Colonies to make it interesting for me, so I just need to sit down and type it out, I guess? Just off the top of my head:

- The Penang lawyer cane reference

- The Haj pilgrims boat that departed from Singapore (presumably from Kampong Bugis)

- Lascars and Malays being explicitly referenced as part of certain subset and communities

- References to opium, which the Straits Settlements were one of the largest port of call for the Empire's supply

- Anything Sumatra region, given proximity

There's also a lot to be said about Granada's The Last Vampyre episode, which is such a profound piece of work about the othering of 'different' people by society, as well as the criticism and calling out of the quintissential brand of British racism that remained in ex-Straits Settlements' mentality today and how the general British public still practices it, that more expert people that is Not Me should talk about it.

But then again, how many would be able to reflect on this from a Malay peninsular residents' perspective?

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

TONY DREHFAL

Wisconsin wood engraver Tony Drehfal delights in intricate, tightly-focused, textured surfaces as demonstrated in this 17.5 x 12.7 cm (6.9 x 5 in.) print entitled Dovetail, selected by my Wisconsin colleagues Tracy Honn and Jim Moran for inclusion in the Fourth Triennial Exhibition 2020-2022 of the American American wood engravers society, the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN). This image is from the catalog for that travelling show.

Drehfal learned wood engraving from Ann Arbor wood engraver and WEN founder Jim Horton in 2002, and after a 35-year career as a college photographer, Drehfal retired in 2015 to focus exclusively on wood engraving. He has quickly become a leader in the wood engraving community, and is a member of both WEN and its venerable British counterpart, the Society of Wood Engravers. Of his process, Drehfal writes:

Landscape and the minute details of the natural world serve as the primary inspiration of my wood engravings. Photography, drawing and engraving interweave in my creative process. I take photos often during hikes . . . near my home . . . in northern Wisconsin. Over time, recurring visual themes accumulate; birch trees, decaying stumps, knots and bark textures, and reflections in woodland ephemeral pools. I then draw and expand a theme in my sketchbook, using photos as reference. There is a point when photo references are put away and the process of drawing and wood engraving take on their own natural cadence towards a resulting print.

View other posts with engravings from the WEN Fourth Triennial Exhibition.

View more engravings by members of the Wood Engraver’s Network.

View more posts with wood engravings!

– MAX, Head, Special Collections and juror for the WEN Fifth Triennial Exhibition.

[silvyadrakkon]

100 Followers Celebration

Fifth victim: @madebythe0cean’s MC, Evelyn

Nominated by: @ravenwind-75

Evelyn is such a sweet-looking MC. I love drawing short-haired girlies.

Gotta get these finished! (I’ve been working on other projects which is why this is late. But I haven’t forgotten y’all.

Ocean, DM me or send me an ask with whose Hogwarts Legacy MC or OC I should draw next!

It can be just about anyone you’d want to see in my style! However, the creator needs to be on Tumblr so they can nominate the next person.

Can’t decide? Send me two numbers between 1 and 103, which will sort of randomly select someone from my followers. (The second number is just in case the first doesn’t have a Hogwarts MC.)

[toothspurs]

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[beaft]

regarding the not-anxiety, did you ever check your home for carbon monoxide? between that and the brain fog you also mentioned recently, it might be a good idea to at least rule that out

i haven't yet - but you're the second person to mention it as a possibility, so i'm gonna go ahead and order one. to be honest i think it's pretty unlikely, but at least i'd be able to rule it out.

[witchofthesouls]

There's just some Aus that live rent-free in my head because of shenanigans.

I like to think if the canon D.J.D. ever get shucked into The Donor Clause Au, then everyone would be insta-killed via secondhand embarrassment and astonishment over the fact that the married Tarn with a brood of sparklings... doesn't know his spouse's name.

You take advantage of that fact to win the bet because canon!Tarn had thought he could trick you easily and attempted underhanded methods to get in your space. No. You literally give your (legal) husband a crisis of faith because of it.

[keystrokecascade]

slutty cyber-mercenary belly (i had no idea what to call this costume). full pics below the cut.

[nomsfaultau]

New chapter of Fault!