#ikea alien my beloved

[wingsofahoneybee]

i was asked to create an alien species by a friend

[star-chxserr]

real question:

[star-chxserr]

favourite post on this site rn

Little posca illust of aftonsparv I made as a gift for my partner, we've been really obsessed with him ever since we got him at ikea he's such a little thang

[gloriousburden]

Okay so for some reason this is the best drawing I’ve ever made in the past year or so of taking drawing a bit more seriously. Maybe it’s a sign that I should dedicate my life and whatever creative skills I acquire to IKEA Aftonsparv. Why I feel the need to share this… I don’t know. IKEA Aftonsparv my beloved

IKEA Swedish meatball variation below as well. had more variations but it wouldn’t let me send myself the other ones 🤦🏻‍♀️ ignore the janky watermark btw LOL

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

whf being obsessed with space is such a fun hc i love it

[leafwateraddict]

I GOT THE IKEA ALIEN EVERYTHING IS RIGHT IN THE WORLF

[cannibal-in-a-can]

Omg I'm actually posting for once

Anywho

AFTONSPARV BLAST!!!

[outdatedprometheus]

Twas reminded to post my doodles of my beloved Ikea alien, Michaelwave (I put him in a doll dress)

[justdeich]

Have you guys seen the new ikea alien???

Look at himmmmmmm. The little duende dude omgg

I need himm

Aftonsparv my beloved

[jpeg-indulgence]

OH MY GOSH THAT DESIGN IS SO FUCKING SICK???? I LOVE LITTLE ALIENS SO MUCH OMG

I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THEY WERE FROM A ROBLOX GAME THEY'RE RENDERED SO WELL LIKE LOOK AT THE SKROONKLE

DO THEY PRONOUNCE S LIKE Z????

THAT'S SO FUCKING CUTE YOU TWO ARE CANON CANON CANON

GET THE IKEA PLUSHIE TREAT YOURSELF TO YO BELOVED

The idea of cat purrs aaahhhhhh you two deserve all the happiness 💙💙💙

NEVER STOP BEING INSANE HERE IS YOUR INFINITE PASS ✉️

(Also yeah glad the old model got updated, both because it was kinda ass cheeks and because of the creator being a weirdo)

GUSH ABOUT YOUR F/O IN THE REBLOGS TO ME AND I WILL ACTUALLY LISTEN AND RESPOND TO THEM ACCORDINGLY BECAUSE YOU 🫵 DEAR READER DESERVE TO HAVE YOUR INTERESTS TREATED WITH RESPECT AND NOT JUST GET A "wow that's neat"

doubles and proshippers dni! Doubles you also deserve respect I'm just not very good at sharing I'm so sorry!

[dazstormretro]

Discovering Retro Gaming Part 3

By the October of 2016 my retro room was dismantled, games carefully bubble wrapped and all consoles boxed up ready for the big move. Saying goodbye to my beloved man cave was a little sad not knowing if I would ever have that kind of space to call my own again.

Within a couple of weeks my family and I had settled into our new house and all was well. It wasn’t until this point that I realised how large my retro gaming collection had become. Managing to fill most of the cupboards, a large wardrobe and two shelves in the spare room my consoles and childhood toys were tightly packed away. My umpteen classic gaming magazines and stupidly heavy CRT TV were carefully stored away in boxes in the garage. In fact the TV was so heavy I had to create a complex puppy system in order to hoist the bloody thing out of my attic space during the move.

Feeling a little apprehensive I decided to sell a few of my gaming items. Needing to make space plus knowing I truly didn’t have the nostalgic connection I sold my Dreamcast with games, Game Gear, Nintendo Super Scope, a few Mega Drive titles and my Sega Master System Light Gun with six compatible games. I was considering selling lots more but luckily I came to my senses as I now regret my actions, especially letting the Dreamcast go.

I may have been without a dedicated gaming room but I still managed to play much of my retro collection thanks to Hyperkin’s Retron 5 console which I had received for my birthday the previous year. Setting the system up in the backroom and storing my SNES, Master System and Mega Drive cartridges in a nearby unit allowed me to still keep up with the hobby. Playing on an emulation device did feel like a bit of a cheat but at least I could play a couple of rounds on Street Fighter 2 or blast away a bunch of aliens in Contra 3 whenever I felt the need.

Retro gaming was still growing in popularity so Nintendo had decided to jump in with both feet with their release of the NES Mini. Growing up I never owned an original NES, I wouldn’t get to experience the power of Nintendo until the release of the SNES in 1992. At launch these mini consoles were like gold dust, always demanding high prices on eBay. Luckily I stuck to my guns and after months of searching I finally picked up the console from my local Argos. Now thanks to the NES Mini I had access to some of Nintendo’s greatest titles which I got to experience for the first time as an adult

Though I was still able to have the satisfaction of playing plenty of my old games through the Retron 5, having my collection of classic consoles stored away felt like such a waste. It was time to solve this issue so after a bit of reconfiguration I managed to create enough space in the spare room to install a decent sized IKEA cupboard. Here at least, I could display my consoles out of view knowing I could nip upstairs at any point just to look upon their beauty!

Outside of playing games I was still listening to podcasts, watching my favourite YouTubers reminisce about their gaming childhoods and attending a number of retro gaming fairs in the North. Being able to visit these events and physically handle potential purchases was way better than the minefield which was eBay. So to was meeting fellow retro gaming fanatics like myself. I remember my first retro fair at Leeds town hall, people were actually queuing out of the door to get in, it was insane how popular buying up old video games had become.

Another milestone in the retro gaming scene around this time was the increased interest in old arcade machines. Throughout my childhood any visit to an arcade was a treat. Unlike some, I wasn’t luckily enough to live near the seaside as a kid so the highlight of any family holiday was defiantly a visit to the amusements where I could play the latest arcade games. This is where Arcade club comes in. Based in a three story warehouse in Bury, Arcade Club is a fantastic trip down memory lane crammed full of all the best arcade games from the 1970’s to modern day. After paying a one-off entrance fee all the games are set to free play so you can relive those carefree days of being a kid but without the stale smell of cigarettes or the chance of being beaten up over ten pence!

It was one evening after returning from a pleasant day spent at Arcade Club that I had a heart stopping moment. Feeling a little nostalgic after spending the afternoon playing four player Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles I decided to check in on my retro console collection. On opening the cupboard I was suddenly hit by a strange smell, the smell of MOULD! On closer inspection I could see each of my gaming consoles plus all the joypads had started to develop a thin crust of mould. I immediately went into panic mode, how could this happen, how could my console collection have become infected with mould safely locked away in a new and well ventilated space?

Not wasting any time I was straight on twitter for advice from the retro community. Luckily the community was quick to respond and having caught the issue relatively early I managed to save all the consoles and joypads effected. For the next week I painstakingly dismantled each and every item, gave them a thorough clean and got them back to working order. Turns out the damp had been coming through the outer wall of the house thus spreading to the back of the cupboard and then onto the consoles themselves.

Seeing the anguish and panic I went through thinking I had lost my beloved console collection my partner suddenly had an idea, well more of a revelation really. Knowing full well how much I missed my old man cave and how we simply didn’t have the room to build one within our new house she suggested I had one in the garden. “Why not buy a summer house and turn that into your new man space”, she suggested. As you can imagine I didn’t need much persuasion on this subject. On hearing those magical worlds I immediately started researching ‘man sheds’. It wasn’t long before I had found the perfect structure to purchase, all I had to do now was build it, and build it I did!

[randomthingsthatilike1]

I do wonder if Kara the adjudicator’s daughter, who we see in her Black Mercy Fantasy would have been an attorney p much (i mean they say she was in court so we dont really know) and Kara the journalist did consider that by sending James/Guardian to investigate (also remember: i am not a lawyer) instead of a DEO agent (since humans aren’t in their jurisdiction would need a warrant to go search a corporation--see: the shit that happened with Roulette, and Maggie and Alex needing to team up since she’s a DEO agent and didn’t have jurisdiction there, if my memory is serving me correctly) that any possible damning information found would then be pretty easily thrown out in court--”guardian” was wanted by police and didn’t deal with things like information gathering. Thugs sure, and there were probably witnesses/victims that were also there, and there’s probably some kind of procedure established for Supergirl considering that it’s supposed to be anything in your sightline/hearing is fair game and everything is in her hearing/sightline

but Kara knows the National City Fire Department Chief by sight. Kara probably knows almost all the city’s government workers, knows their families and their kids names (she helps out a random couple out with an Ikea table).  She’s beloved. This isn’t the case for Guardian. “Supergirl brought evidence of Lena Luthor making Kryptonite and so we went in” is much more legitimate than “guardian gave us evidence of Lena Luthor was making Kryptonite, which is illegal, and we went in”--honestly no one’s going to nay-say a member of that family when they say “A member of the Luthor family is up to shenanigans.” The DEO does not have jurisdiction unless it is proven that they are dealing with extra-normal activities. This is why Maggie and Alex originally started teaming up, and Maggie the police officer plenty of times was like “what the fuck are you doing don’t do that WE WANT TO ACTUALLY ARREST THEM AND HAVE THE CHARGES S T I C K THAT WORKS AT THE DEO WITH ALIENS BUT NOT WITH HUMANS”

see: roulette

Guardian, however is not a valid source like Supergirl would be. “How did you know?” “Guardian told us” is something that potentially, if Lena had a good lawyer, could easily get thrown out in court because even if she clearly did it if the method of acquiring that information is w r o n g. At least that’s the theory.

Lena is human, white, and wealthy--she would do just fine. Kara the adjudicator’s daughter and James, the former boyfriend of Lucy Lane the JAG lawyer, would probably both think this.

(again i am not a lawyer its been a while since i had a ConLaw class BUT THESE ARE JUST MUSINGS)

[chromalogue]

I'm in Mississauga--the city that Toronto just sort of bleeds into on the west--apartment-sitting and cat-sitting for a friend.  I'd agreed to spend two and a half weeks here while she's in England and Italy.  (The pictures she's sending back are GORGEOUS.)  Then I got accepted to a conference that I thought was the 16-17th--it turned out to be the 18-19th--and thought since it's just a few days later I should just see if I can couch-surf for a few days after she gets back.  I know she'd have me, but I also remember what it's like to get back from a long trip and just want to settle back into your own skin, so I'm not doing that to her.  

Anyway, everything just changed as of a couple of days ago, because it looks like in the next few weeks I'll be going back to work.  A commission was appointed to take a look at the university's offer, and the union's offer, and Will said they're going to be making their recommendations to the province soon.   I really hope we get a fair deal out of it.  And to be honest I want to go back.  For one thing, I want to get paid.  I'm supposed to graduate in June, and I have to have my student account paid down.  For another, working this term, shuttling back and forth the way I was, was really hard, but I miss my students, and I'm down here already anyway.  I might be back teaching as early as next week, and that would be sweet.

Thing is, if my gig here ends on the tenth or eleventh, and I teach on the 15th, and the conference is on the 18th-19th, and I teach again on the 22nd, there's no point at which it makes sense to go home before May 23rd.  That's a whole month down here.  Two extra WEEKS of couch-surfing.  I've got the clothes, and I know some friends and family I can hit up, and I even brought all of the books and most of the files I figured I'd need if the strike ended.  But to cover things like transportation and host gifts I'm going to have to be a lot more frugal than I'd expected.  And I'm going to miss the Victoria Day weekend with my family and my beloved.  

The other thing that's happening is I need to get all my paperwork done and in to graduate.  One of my bugbears has been this massive appendix, 1.5 GIGS of photos arranged with Microsoft Publisher.  Back when I was putting it together in 2014, I couldn't have it as one document; I had to break it into three parts to edit it at all.  When I figured I was done, I poured the three files into one gargantuan megafile--I was in the campus library, and I went down and got coffee while I was doing it, and when I came back it was still chugging away--that I saved as a PDF file.  Except I never did add page numbers.  For the past few months I've been trying to work out how I can do page numbers without crossing the picket line.  Then, tonight, I hit on the most ridiculous of solutions: take a screenshot of each page of the PDF, crop it in MS Paint, and paste it into the main body of my dissertation.  The quality isn't quite as high, but I wouldn't call it terrible, and it doesn't involve the kind of technogymnastics I was contemplating.

I'm working too hard, though.  I can feel it.  I woke up at noon today, showered, put on an audiobook relevant to my conference presentation as I made breakfast, and then spent the rest of the day working.  Eleven and a half hours, because I took half an hour out to walk to the trattoria down the street and grab some cake for Beltane.  And I'm nowhere near done for the day.  It's going to catch up with me.  Probably on the 23rd.  :)  I think I'll deserve the week off after that, probably.

I don't like Espanola very much.  It's tiny and smelly and I'm an alien there.  And Jen does have this ridiculously comfortable mattress.  IKEA, I'm told.  And I'm seeing a friend tomorrow, and last week I went to the art gallery and ate Indian food and walked around my city in the rain.  But I miss my family, and I miss Will, and I miss being able to sit at a computer without being bombarded by a furry water-spilling pen-stealing toe-chomping missile, and a lot of the things I have loved about Toronto are still out of my reach.  I am so grateful to be down here again, but it'll be a relief to get back.

[ihavetoomanyfandomstobesane]

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Seonghwa (Ateez) | Hongjoong (Ateez)

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