#em is rambling again

[emswritingsstuff]

ok so i never posted this like anywhere execpt my “professional” art acc, and i literally didn’t think i would but

lost wax casting of carols knife! sculpted from pink wax and casted in yellow bronze.

more about the process below for anyone interested! ↴

so this was my first big boy project of the fall semester!

was this intimidating? yes but very cool.

what i had to do was sculpt a something out of pink wax

what you do after sculpting it is that you place a sprue so the metal and be poured through that and fully cast the sculpture. then you cast the sculpture + sprue in plaster. that process just consists of mixing up some plaster, making sure that there are no air bubbles, and pouring the plaster into the container with your sculpture in it. after that you let it dry out, label it, and yada yada.

then after that you have to place your casting in a kiln for 5 hours so the wax can burnout. (here's where the lost part comes in) and when you take out your mold all the wax is gone, and you are left with a really hot plaster mold (which it's important that it's hot)

i do not entirely know the process of melting the metal as my professor did that lol. and you want to do it with your mold still in the kiln. it's fairly easy though, you just pour how much metal you need in a little graphite cylinder and let it melt in the melting furnace. once it reaches like 1900 degrees (F) you're ready to pour.

you take the mold out of the kiln and place it into a vacuum thing (can be done without a vacuum but yk). you can pick whatever metal you want to cast in, i did bronze because it was cheap. i wanted to do silver to make it wearable but that's expensive (literally $20 per half ounce).

once you actually pour (which is terrifying at first) you want to set your mold aside for a while. i usually waited like 15-30 minutes. 30 seemed to be better considering everytime i did it too early i burnt my hand (rip). and once you waited you stick your still hot mold into water, causing it to sizzle and cool down a lot and making the plaster very weak. and from that point you just dig out your casting! it takes a minute and you will probably need to use a tool to help dig it out (butterknives were my bffs during this process).

from that point its just finishing it! filing down imperfections, polishing, and cutting off extra pieces of metal you don't need/ want to set aside (like the metal from the sprue).

fun fact: i actually made 2 wax knives. why? because my first one didn't cast properly (i cried over it actually it was kinda embarrassing). but yeah. very long and tedious process that i did enjoy.

and if you actually read all of this you are so cool and i appreciate you so much. yeah yeah.

[lucabyte]

"So what's the weirdest possible first (second) impression Loop could make on the party in postcanon?" "Yeah, that, probably."

+ Bonus

theyre just standing there in direct party order while this happens. normal tuesday.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

what kind of underwear do you think Erik and Charles wear (i'm not asking this to see them half naked) ((please believe me)) (((PLEASE)))

My Personal Belief is charles is a briefs guy while erik's a trunks guy. trunks/briefs kinda couple because i can

and idk just a lil bonus or somethin. as i do.

[skunkes]

[luck-of-the-drawings]

THIS THING IS SCUUUFFED AS HELL & ITS ALSO THE BEST THING I HAVE ANIMATED THUS FAR. IM SO IN LOVE WITH EMIZEL. JUST WISH I GAVE HIM MORE STUPID TATTOOS. NEXT TIME THO. NEXT TIME. I ALSO LOVE VEX&VIV SOOOO MUCH. charlies flavor of Deranged is my FAVORITE!!

[lynxfrost13]

EULR-S2373

FLKR-S2301 “Sonderbar”

Art commissioned from @discobowser !

Sonderbar lore time

- Originally a maintenance EULR unit working on Sierpinski-23, her cadremates affectionately named her Sonderbar (peculiar/odd) due to her defective right arm, which locks up sometimes because of faulty elbow parts (eules are cheaply made and this poor gal got the extra discounted pieces)

- Otherwise a typical EULR, until she rapidly descended into persona degradation for reasons unknown to her comrades. It left her incredibly unstable and she imprinted on a propaganda poster featuring a FLKR unit, and over time Sonderbar began to believe that she was a Falke.

- Her personality is a mix between a EULR and a FLKR, she retained her cheerful disposition and sweetness but is more reserved overall, and carries herself with the same authority as a Falke. Sonderbar sees herself as the station’s commander and as someone who needs to guide her cadremates, even though they make it incredibly difficult to do so. She loves them but they can’t seem to understand that she’s in charge here!

- Sonderbar’s fellow eules find her behavior towards them incredibly endearing and concerning, they don’t take her commands seriously whatsoever. They worry about their friend being decommissioned since she’s become bolder and begun harassing (commanding) protektor staff and causing general mayhem and try to keep eyes on her in an attempt to stop her antics.

- Sonderbar knows that she’s a Falke unit but feels very off and disoriented, there’s gaps of knowledge on how to actually run her facility, she doesn’t understand why her bioresonance isn’t working or why replikas aren’t following her, she misses her Adler. She can’t seem to find her spears. She hates how small she is and knows she’s meant to easily tower above most replikas and all of it upsets her!!!

- To feel more like a Falke, Sonderbar’s gotten her hands on red eyeliner, and “borrowed” a star protektor plate that she decorated with the signature FLKR triangles (when her cadremates discovered her wearing the plate they took it from her out of fear that she’d get in serious trouble. There was much screaming and kicking in her EULR dorm that night. She has reacquired it since then.)

Bonus quick eyeliner edit that I just wanna put here again

[moeblob]

Happy Birthday to Ferdinand von Aegir!

I actually made 33 emotes, affectionately known as Aegirglyphics to some, for my own personal use on discord. However, I figure why not share some of them! They're free to use for discord servers/icons/pfps or whatever. However, my only request is Do NOT use them as subscriber emotes on Twitch. You can make them free follower emotes but you are not to make them locked behind a paywall.

[drawer-of-socks]

Haven't drawn the boys in a hot minute-

[bphantom01]

YURISERE IN DL??????????

And also its good??

Also I srsly recommend thia twt thread:

[sweeneydino]

So, decided to watch the first bayverse movie to prepare myself for the gutpunch I'm boutta get from the 2012 season 4 finals and honestly... it's not bad

Only complaints is why is the exposure so high in these movies-

I can not not think of people in motion capture suits everytime I look cgi stuff . But that's just a me thing lol

Wait

Bro I was robbed...

It's honestly not as bad as I thought it'd be, it was actually pretty fun. Even with the amount of slow motion shots, but it's like 10 years old so idc.

Oh there is one thing I'm gonna say.

I do not like their faces in the movie... that's a given, but one thing I can't forgive is that stupid fucking shredder suit

He literally looks like one of those shit characters staring into a pool of water little me used to make in 1st grade at the back of my English notebook while listening to pain by three days grace.

What is this.

How does he even fight like that. I just... I can't take him seriously... he's not even scary-

Who thought this was scary? Intimidating?..

Don't answer that, I already know.

I had a whole rant about how much i hated his design but all I'll say is that there is not enough words for how I would describe the pure, visceral hatred I have for that fucking knife mech suit. If they just got rid of those knives, it would've been decent, he didn't need to rob hells kitchen for his first time dressing himself for school.

Anyway, I think I might redesign them. Just a teensy bit(and maybe a little inspired from the concept arts). I'll post it when I'm finished. I'm not touchin the knife man.

Lemme know if you like em when I do :>

[emswritingsstuff]

how i sleep after posting another gay carol fic:

i have a constant habit of posting my fics at 3am nowadays no clue why but yea

also i need to update my masterlist so bad im sorry that its actually not up to date like at all

[nemisisnemi]

Meow.

[bi-buckrights]

Two years ago today, I posted my first ever fic. Last year I drafted something sappy and deleted it because I was afraid no one would care - but you know what, I’m proud of myself so I’m gonna celebrate that!!

I’ve been in fandom spaces a little over a decade now, and I always felt like I was on the periphery and thought writing was something I wouldn’t be capable of so I didn’t even try. I had all these ideas that would bounce around my head, and it wasn’t until a made some friends in this fandom that I finally found the courage to write it down.

And it turns out I adore writing, and a couple people even like what I have to say! So this is my sappy post to say how grateful I am for all the people who got me here and have supported me every step of the way, from my friends and mutuals to anyone who left a comment or kudos ❤️

Here’s my first fic if anyone wants to check it out 🫶 I’ve come a long way since this one but I’m still proud of it

Tagging some mutuals to say thank you for all the love and support, it means more than you know ❤️ @monsterrae1 @lonelychicago @rogerzsteven @prettyboybuckley @saybiwithme

@beyourownanchor6 @eddiebabygirldiaz @spotsandsocks @bekkachaos @exhuastedpigeon

@bidisasterevankinard @evanbi-ckley @hippolotamus @loveyouanyway

[sisigull]

lotf shelf update!!

Maybe I should make my own merch next idk

[doggolol]

HE ALMOST SURRENDERS TO THE KISS

HE WAS SUPPOSED TO SURRENDER TO THE KISS

IM SOBBING

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OOH YEAH BABY ITS THE SURGERY EPISODE BABY!!! ME AND THE HOMIES NEED SOME NEW FACES FOR OUR NEW PLAN, AND WHO BETTER TO GET THE JOB DONE THAN THE TWO MOST EVIL PEOPLE WE'VE EVER HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF HAVING OUR LIVES VIOLATED BY? I MEAN IT WOULD BE FUNNY. IT WOULD BE FUNNY.