#is another hobby of mine.

[voidshards]

And THIS is why I've been dead the last couple months after saying i was coming back, lol. Not my usual fare, here, but i think it counts as art enough. This little piece took more than 100 hours, and i spent almost all my free time on it for 2 months. I designed it--drew the sketch and planned the colors, and also hand-embroidered it.

[rinksrats]

hockey screencap 4/???

[birb--birb]

The Pale Elf

3D print sculpted by Bulkamancer, printed in Siraya Tech grey UV Resin on my Elegoo Mars 2, and hand-painted by me! I cannot be more pleased with how he turned out 🥰

Detailed shots under the cut

Had to share all these gorgeous details, like the TEXTURES on this models are just gorgeous! All that filigree and bead detailing is raised which made painting it much easier, but still very tedious (so worth the results though). This was my first time painting a face bigger than tabletop mini scale, and boy was I intimidated. Had some friends point me to ball-jointed doll makers and learned about detailing faces with chalk pastels, so I used pastels to give his cheeks some colour, blush the tips of his ears, and make the shadows under his eyes. I could go back and add more colour/texture to his hair but I think its best if I leave it, lest I play with it too much and end up ruining things. I have to keep reminding myself that just cause I can see things in macro lens photos, doesn't mean I'm actually able to go correct those things 😅

Regardless, I'm so so happy with how he turned out, and its crazy that I can look at this and go "me!!! I PAINTED THAT!! ME!!!", and now I have a stunning model of everyones favourite lil rat bastard (affectionate) vampire mans💕

[aleksanderscult]

Your favourite fics? Book characterizations!

Check out:

the "Timeless" series

"Start a War"

"A Curse Between Us"

All of them are about Alarkling. The first two are my favorites and I enjoyed the third one too much!

[putridpride]

this world is ridiculous. PS2 guitars for guitar hero are fucking expensive. I remember right before covid I bought a guitar from the local vintage game store for goddamn $15. Ppl are asking for fuckin $50 or more depending on the quality. get outta my face with this shit, are you kidding me 😭

[sweetestpopcorn]

Daemon in 111AC be like...

[castelled-away]

So now that we know the marriage market/schemes of the ton are not Benedict‘s cup of tea & he spends the better part of s3 running away from debutantes who want to marry him… I need Sophie (or whoever is going to be his love interest in his season) to be the incarnation of the word no. I need this lovely lady to be absolutely uninterested in this jokester puppy of a Bridgerton so that he HE has to run after HER. And she’s just like no thanks & completely uninterested & pragmatic/down-to-earth all the time until he like…cries & begs her to marry her I guess?

[lurakha]

book recommendation tag game ✨️

rules: recommend as many books as you like. please include genre and some basic information on it (either your words or a copy+paste synopsis). feel free to include cover art, a personal review, trigger warnings, and anything else! just don’t spoil the book!

thanks for the tag @dekarios 🫶🏻

still somewhat getting back into reading after a longer slump so here's some of my go-to favs/recommendations 🤍

BOG CHILD by Siobhan Dowd

Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she’s been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him—his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what—a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.

Genre: Historical Fiction

This was on the list of assigned reading for a literature seminar on the Troubles in Northern Ireland I took back in uni so I didn't really expect it to be so nice™ and it quickly became one of my favourite books. It was a lot 'lighter' compared to the others on that list, both in terms of reading level and also the overall mood of the story.

THE POISON THRONE by Celine Kiernan

Wynter returns from a five-year exile in the bleak Northlands to find her beloved homeland in turmoil. King Jonathan's civilised, multicultural realm is no more; the gibbets and cages have returned. Days of laughter, friendly ghosts and gossipy cats remain only in Wynter's memory - the present confronts her with power play, dark torture chambers, violent ghosts, and cats (those still alive) too scared to talk to humans.

Genre: Fantasy

The Moorehawke trilogy was the first book series that really got me into reading as a hobby. While it's been some time since I've read it, this series and its characters still hold a very special place in my heart.

BLOOD OF ELVES by Andrzej Sapkowski

For more than a hundred years, humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races are fighting once again - killing their own kind and each other. Into this tumultuous time is born a child of prophecy, Ciri, surviving heiress of a bloody revolution, whose strange abilities can change the world - for good, or for evil... As the threat of war hangs over the land, Geralt the Witcher must protect Ciri from those who are hunting the child for her destructive power.

Genre: High Fantasy

This recommendation probably isn't a surprise bc I can never shut up about the Witcher but still. All the love. Technically my favourite of the series is a tie between Time of Contempt and Tower of the Swallow but it makes more sense to recommend the first book of a series.

THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig

The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger. Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

One of the few books that I actually put tabs in to re-read certain paragraphs and lines. You know when you just find something at the exact right time? This book was one of those. Made me feel all sorts of things. Made me smile and sob and laugh. Made me feel a little more alive. Also I'm just a sucker for anything butterfly effect/what if.

TW for this one are big so I'm including them: the main underlying theme/premise is mental illness (namely depression) & suicide (attempt)

Tagging anyone who sees this and wants to do it too 💞

[itstimeforstarwars]

I feel like I need to start making more of my own clothes again because Joanne doesn't carry Great fabric but it's better than the shit they're putting in my work clothes these days. I know yarn stores. They have cotton yarns that aren’t mixed with plastic. I can learn to knit socks. But also fuck. Fucking fuckity fuck.

[the-holy-ghosted]

What the fucks a guy gotta do to get a decent coffin around here. I mean really

[thstarsofsilver]

"i hate love triangles" is such a common thing to hear, but we never really think about why.

sure, some people are just extremely decisive and hate watching the slow, painful indecision of love triangles. and the idea of stringing two people along when (generally) you can only have one is silly and a little unkind a lot of the time. plus it can be really frustrating to watch 1 single character wreck relationships (i'm looking at you, love triangles that pit siblings/best friends against each other), and mess things up around them through their own indecisiveness

another very frustrating thing about love triangles is that they're actually not as common as they feel. the media pushes love triangles all the time because they're marketable and a surefire way to get engagement by pitting fans against one another and putting them on a "team" and making it personal.

a storied example is the hunger games. suzanne collins made the point in the story about how katniss's romance with peeta was pushed to distract from the horrors of the games, and in the real world, lionsgate/the marketing team pushed the "love triangle" to distract from the heavy themes and political messaging of the story. but there was never really a love triangle. yes, katniss kissed 2 boys. yes, there was a point where she saw them both as viable options. but the narrative tells us she was never going to be able to pick anyone but peeta - gale is simply not ideologically right for her, and that is made relatively clear relatively early on. and yet the "love triangle" was pushed, when (unlike other stories like the summer i turned pretty or the vampire diaries) it never really existed.

but love triangles don't have to be bad if they service all the characters. in 'never have i ever', devi gets something completely different from each of her 2 main love interests (sorry des and ethan, i'm not counting you. neither of you lasted more than like 4 eps lol), and more importantly, even when broken up with her they get something from their relationships with her. she ends up pushing both ben and paxton to achieve their academic potential, as just one example.

doing love triangles correctly is hard. there probably isn't necessarily a "right" way. but if you can present an equally strong case for both characters, resolve the triangle without assassinating or throwing away the development of one of the characters, and keep the integrity and likeability of person in the middle, you might just be on the right path.

now reblog with examples of good/bad love triangles because my mind's gone blank and i can't just keep using nhie/tsitp/tvd

[nightyraven-art]

Once I learn to make better bracelets I'll make Zelda ones.

I've been also doing friendships bracelets for awhile and I want to make some based on like my fav game but im just newbie so yk it will take awhile

[gucci-depressione]

Am I willingly gonna travel 2 hours just to get the claptrap popcorn bucket? Yes, yes I am.

Will I go broke because of it? Oh most definitely

Will it be worth it? Hell yeah

[thisismycorneroftheinternet]

My latest playlist is so stupid I love it alfkhajlkha

[hiratelier]

Current state of my small gunpla collection

[there-will-be-a-way]

After the day clinic I'll go to a rehab clinic that specializes in trauma and addiction (most places only treat these two separately). I'll stay there for 3 to 4 months. Rip to me am I really that sick?

The social worker in my ward and I wrote down my addiction time line for my insurance company today which made me realize how fucked up I really am. Midway through I asked her to stop for the day and do the rest tomorrow because it was so confronting. (Yes, I listened to my boundaries for once.) I really have been in this cycle ever since I was 13 without realizing it.

After that I went to the city with some of the people from my ward and that was really nice. I feel accepted there, and I love how diverse our group is.

This evening is easier than yesterday. Less urges, less cravings. But somehow I'm shaking. Man, all of this is a lot but I'm doing it. I'm doing it.