#glasses crew

[constellations-and-energy]

Just wanna say thanks for reblogging the glasses post! I wasn't aware of sites like that and I get kicked off my insurance soon bc of age and I was *paranoid* about it

omg hi I totally understand!! also, from my understanding, vision insurance is only really necessary if you have to go to the eye doctor A LOT.

Otherwise, most places (especially local optometrists!!) usually have a capped rate for people with no vision insurance, at least for routine visits.

My glasses have specialty lenses with prisms, so they’re a bit more expensive, but typically for an eye exam and new prescription it’ll cap at around $200-$250 for people with no vision insurance.

Just a fun fact I learned when I had to get new glasses this year and I don’t have vision insurance with my health plan! Happy lookin at stuff!

[badly-drawn-doflamingo]

[ slams doors open]

I MADE IT JUST IN TIME!

[astraeajackson]

leo, over the phone: hey, jason, can i borrow like five thousand dollars?

jason: yeah sure, but what for?

leo: *sweats nervously* umm... an-an escape room

jason: w-what kind of escape room costs five thousand dollars???

leo: oh, well, you know...

jason: *raises eyebrow*

leo: *sighs* ...jail

[melly-artes]

Helping around the picnic table

[naancydrew]

danger on deception island

[charminglyantiquated]

9/25 update on the Nautilus, for anyone curious. Details below (long), but in summary: the damage is more expensive than we'd hoped. We will have to buy Nautilus back as salvage and repair her mostly out of pocket. We still do intend to repair her, but it seems now it will be over a timeline of several years. The fundraiser for her repairs has been raised to reflect the new estimate, and will remain up as long as we're working on her, for anyone who wishes to contribute. I'm so unbelievably, profoundly grateful to all of you who have helped us so far. Thank you so, so much.

Damage: a joint survey was conducted Tuesday between surveyors from our insurance and that of the other vessel. It will be another 3-4 weeks before we have the official paperwork, but the consensus was that the damage approaches twice Nautilus' value. In addition to the mast and all the attached rigging, sails, hardware, etc., the teak deck would have to come up in order to address the damage to the deck and hull. This means that rather than pay for repairs, our insurance company is almost certainly going to write her off as a total loss.

I am waiting for formal documentation before sharing any exact numbers. Once we have them I will be more precise. But the general process as I understand it right now is below, for anyone curious about how everything shakes out.

What a loss means with insurance: my understanding is that repair damages are only covered by insurance up to the point a vessel is totaled. Since the damages almost certainly surpass her value then she would be totaled instead. In this scenario, our insurance would give us the value the Nautilus was insured for, and then pursue the other vessel's insurance for their own reimbursement. Additionally the other insurance might give us the income we lost over the remainder of the season, but whether that will happen and what amount that would be is up in the air, with the three different attorneys we consulted agreeing that we'd be fortunate to get any amount. Anything beyond that is apparently unlikely, any other legal pursuit would possibly lose us more money that we might hope to gain.

On our end: we took out a loan to buy Nautilus in April, and still owe the majority of it. By the terms of the loan, with a total loss we would have to pay back the full loan immediately. Then, because this is essentially our insurance 'buying' Nautilus from us, we would have to buy her back as salvage. The salvage price would be determined by the salvageable parts of her, and the surveyor. Hopefully it would be less than five figures, but it depends heavily on which insurance company actually ends up with her, and how exhaustively they tally up the pieces of her that they could sell. The surveyors could not tell us at the time of the survey who would end up with her or what they would charge. For the next month or two Nautilus is in a kind of purgatory where we do still technically own her, but only until insurance gets through the paperwork, which makes it difficult to begin any work right now.

Financially: when the dust settles, once the loan is paid and we own Nautilus once more as salvage, I think that based on the current estimates we may have some funds remaining. But even in the best case scenario - low salvage price, and we do receive lost income - it wouldn't be enough to finance all the needed repairs. My partner and I will be keeping the fundraiser up for as long as we are working on her, for anyone who wishes to contribute to her repair fund. Any help from anyone who would like to see her sailing again will always be deeply appreciated, but we're both aware it's an absurd number. If we fail to meet it, we're both keenly aware it's not through any lack of generosity - I cannot possibly express how grateful we are for the help we have received already, and what a massive difference it has made over the last month as we deal with the immediate and long-term fallout, covering her haul-out and towing and bills over the months it will likely take to resolve all this.

Fixing Nautilus: my partner and I are still committed to repairing her, despite the cost and the time involved. The thought of letting her be cut up for salvage is too heartbreaking to bear. But at the pace things are progressing and with the resources we have, it's obvious now that it's not feasible to fix her fully over the winter; it will instead be over the course of several years. However, my partner and I hope that by doing as much of the work ourselves as we are qualified for, we can bring down the overall cost of repairs by a fair amount. Additionally, the broken mast was built only a few years ago by a gentleman who still has the plans for it and is willing to guide us through the process of building a replacement. There is a possibility we can connect with a local boat building school's fledgling restoration program. And a great many people have offered their time, advice, expertise, and contacts. The timeline has changed, but we are not giving up on her.

In the meantime: with the survey done, we now have at least a general idea of what the future will look like. Since working nonstop to get Nautilus sailing again by June is not on the table any longer, my partner and I are currently figuring out a long-term plan for ourselves, our little company, and the Nautilus herself. We have discussed a few ideas, which I'll share more about once we settle on anything concrete. Nautilus herself is finally clear of wreckage, with the pieces of her mast on sawhorses beside her, her deck swept clean, solar panel plugged in, and a tarp over the worst of the damage. She's as safe as we can make her for now; there's nothing else we can do except wait for the wheels to turn.

Lastly: thank you all, more than I can say. I have been trying not to miserypost, but I have been having a very hard time dealing with this, as has my partner. It took us ten years to save the money we put into Nautilus, and the few months we were able to spend sailing her together were the happiest and proudest I have been in my life. We have lost the future we'd imagined, and regardless of how this resolves, we are never getting that time back. We are determined not to lose the Nautilus as well, but it has honestly been difficult some days to push through the grief. The one consistent silver lining has been the kindness and sympathy and outrage from everyone who has taken the time to reach out to us. I have been floored, over and over, by how many people we have rooting for us. I am never, ever going to be able to express my full gratitude to all of you. Without exaggeration, you have kept me going.

I will share more once we know more - exact numbers, exact damage, exact plans for repairs and the next steps. Until then, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

[sparkleresthold]

Space pirate Elita 💫✨

[kazthisnuts]

daily sketch #27!!!!!!!!!

more sg!luffy :PPPP

i finally brainstormed east blue. this au never really went past childhood until a few hours ago

doesn't mean ill stop posting small sgluffy (spoiler: the "meeting ace" comic isn't over)

[ref] [masterpost]

his hair-not-hair eventually got more human looking

the cloud texture can't really go away tho sorry lu

surprise surprise this Luffy is actually a pretty good liar (except he doesn't have the looks for it)

keeping his eyes big is a STRUGGLE.

[atypical-artisan]

Canon vs Headcanon/how I color eye colors for the boxers:

Decided to do this for shits n giggles and so others could have a bit of reference for the boxer's eye colors

Mac:

Eyes are a teal color in canon and I tend to color them the same shade due to them being unavoidably obvious. Kinda wish they were canonically brown tbh.

Doc:

Can't tell, though I figure they're brown and color them as such.

Joe

Hard to impossible to tell from the 2D art but the in game model has them as brown!! I make them a slightly lighter, warm shade of brown because it reminds me of coffee.

I honestly think he looks best w brown eyes cause it compliments his warm toned color scheme and goes w his association w bread and coffee.

Kaiser

Can be seen in the 2d art has a muted shade of green, almost greyish, on the 3D model they are black. I color them a darker, more saturated shade, like army green, just for fun.

DIsco

His eyes are colored black in the 2d are and we can't see anything for the 3d model to see his eye color. I color them brown cause that makes the most sense to me.

In my art, his eyes are a very dark, but still visibly distinguished, shade of brown. A bit darker than Joe's but lighter than Hondo's or Hippos.

Hippo

Eyes are black dots in the 2D art and 3D model. I color them a very dark shade of brown, darker than Disco's but lighter than Hondo's.

Hondo

In the game and 2D art, his pupils are huge but there's no distinguishing between his iris and pupil, therefore his irises are most likely meant to be black. I color them almost-black.

Bear

In the 2D art his eyes are blue! You have to zoom in a lot but it is visible. In game his eyes are just black. I color his eyes a dark shade of blue.

Tiger

Eye color isn't visible in the 2D art but the game shows they're a muted dark brown. I Color them a very rich and dark shade of brown.

Don

Hard to tell between black and brown in the 2D art but the game has his eyes be a rich, dark shade of brown. By chance, I happen to color his eyes almost the exact color.

Aran

His eyes are a dark blue in the 2D art and teal-ish in game. His beta contender intro (Here) also showed his eyes to be a darker blue. I color them as a darker blue myself.

Soda

Can't really be told in the 2D art, the game has them as black. I color his eyes hazel cause i think it's pretty :)

Bull

Okay so Bull seems to have at least 3 different shades of brown. His title defense art looks to have hazel eyes while his contender art has a very pale caramel brown, almost the same shade as his skin.

However, his in-game model has dark reddish-brown eyes. We also have to consider that his Super Punch out edition has bright blue eyes *Shudders*. So he either has a lot of contacts or multiple clones, you decide.

I color his eyes a medium brown, just a tad darker than Joe's.

Macho

The 2D art looks like a light brown to me, but the 3D model has no coloring. I color Macho's eyes as a medium-dark brown.

Sandy

In the 2D art, his eyes look brown, but the game has them as black. I color his eyes as an almost-black brown.

[lilithknoxville]

HE’S HERE!!!!!

AND HES SO FUCKING ADORABLEEEEEEEE

[writing-for-life]

Sandman Cover Project #13—Michael Zulli

This weekend, I’m going to post artworks commissioned via "The Sandman Cover Project": What would the covers have looked like if created by the issue artists instead of Dave McKean?

I will gradually add all illustrations via the tag “Sandman Cover Project”.

We’re starting off with Zulli (and without giving too much away, we’ll finish with him as well)…

[mycroftrh]

Can’t find it right now but there’s a post out there saying there should be more TV/movie characters with glasses and a reblog saying “well but it’s hard to film with glasses because of the light glint etc”

Hmm. They don’t seem to have any trouble filming people with glasses when it’s the “before” on a makeover/ugly-to-beautiful transition, tho?

[fourphoenixfeathers]

so is your shattered glass au inspired by the cancled tfa animated where bulkhead and sari went to the shattered glass world?

No, not really. I've heard of the cancelled plans, but nothing really caught my eye. I was mainly inspired by the IDW shattered glass comics, and the way the Decepticons in TFA are always just a few war crimes away from being good guys. The times where they were living up to their name and being deceptive, I always found myself thinking "what if it wasn't an act? what if they really did care?" and that's where the sg au thoughts began.

Stuff like the autobot high command being deeply messed up even in canon, the way that Sumdac was so sweet and kind with Megatron when he thought he was an autobot, and the way Longarm/Shockwave was the only bot who seemed to care about Bee in training were a major part of it.

I didn't need to change the autobots too much to be honest, they just had to be a bit more ruthless and overtly cruel. And for the decepticons, they were already fighting for their own reasons. I just wanted to see a world where they became freedom fighters instead of terrorists. And since Optimus and the space bridge crew aren't as entrenched in the autobot brainrot, I wanted to jump on the opportunity to get them to switch sides, so I can have all my fave characters.

There are also some things that I just injected straight from the IDW shattered glass, aside from the color palettes, like Starscream being a scientist and Shockwave struggling with his infiltration bc he has too much empathy. But there are also a ton of things that I don't want to mirror, because even though they were interesting, the overall tone of the au is fluffy. If I could make everyone turn traitor, I would, but right now I'm just looking at the space bridge crew and Blurr.

[gingeredroots]

i ❤️ pinterest refs

[thisisadecisionimayregret]

girls will say they're saving money right now and then go into an antique store "just to look around" and leave with a bunch of star trek collectables and no regrets (it's me, i'm girls)

[papenniesandbentoboxes]

Inspired by a recent poll I saw, I have a question for y'all