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#poll#polls#just curious lol#i grew up with one of these in my house#it was like an antique even then#in the 90s#none of my friends ever knew how to use it lol
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DAY 94: antiquing
#codacheetah#isat#loop isat#siffrin isat#odile isat#isat spoilers#eeeeek i have a million problems with this one......but it's fine we stay strong#loop's holding a star chart btw#i think it'd be fun if siffrin and odile still went antiquing postcanon even if odile doesnt need to find a familytale anymore#bonding activity.#loop ekes their way back into this routine too. i feel like after like the third time odile catches them staring wistfully in the direction#of the antique shop she'd just sigh and ask them to come with#anyways this one is dedicated to the fact that i've drawn odile exactly once on this blog before i think#i'm trying to tally in my head........i think odile and mirabelle both only have 1 prior cameo#but it's fine i want to draw something with mira too......#i have no fucking clue how to draw odile but alas. we try
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me: I've made many garments for myself! cutting and fitting and stitching singlehandedly!
a potential employer: can you finish these seams by machine?
me: I have never sewed anything ever in mine entire Life
#sewing#I never have a REASON to do machine finishes in my defense!#I get most of my undergarments vintage/antique so I don't have to fell those seams by machine#and outer garments are done by Victorian Rules#AKA no visible topstitching#so I have to do it all with whipstitches by hand. which means that I'm a lot more used to having that extra control to keep things neat#and even while I'm actually sewing#you can't make all those little adjustments as you go on a machine#it's why I don't like machines for finishing work#but I get that modern sewing institutions are often working quicker
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Suptober - Day 3 || Inspired [x]
#suptober23#destiel#destiel fanart#dean winchester#castiel#spnfanart#wiggleart#this one was fun#trying to figure out this sunrise sunset with three colors lmao#I think I got it tho#one of my post canon headcanon is Cas gets into photography and also vintage and antique cameras lmao#thio this is a normal one#but yes I like it bc while I was coloring it I couldn’t help but think that Cas is smiling bc Dean looks really good in this lighting and#dean is smiling bc Cas is smiling and looks even better in this light lmao#anyway#eofinsrkfjnerfkjnverkjnver#I’m in my feels about these two#ALWAYS
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Are those little dolls made to look like 3zun as animals in the most recent comic? I need to know how/when Nie Mingjue got those. Are they gifts from Lan Xichen or Nie Huaisang? Did Jin Guangyao sew them himself and stuff them full of evil talismans in case the song didn't work? So many possibilities.
The 3zun dolls were a self-indulgent reference to this (previously abandoned) doodle! As for who made them in universe? I'll leave it up for interpretation B*)
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#jin guangyao#lan xichen#nie mingjue#ask#Ah why not:#mdzs warrior cats au#by 'previously abandoned' I mean to say that this was just a pencil sketch I cleaned up just now.#Because I draw all of these on paper there are a lot of little doodles in the spaces between.#I don't like wasting paper so I try to squeeze something in there! Even if it's just a silly sketch or a doodle.#Sometimes they are little B plot jokes or alt dialogue to a comic.#or notes about what I want to say in the tags!#I was trying to thumbnail what would have been a larger piece (for the lace detailing practice) but put it aside to focus on the comic.#The aesthetic I was going for was 'Antique Victorian Dolls' with the little hand sewn dresses.#I really want to practice drawing lace and I thought this would be a cute way to do so.#Also something about the Venerated Triad being fluffy cats just really speaks to me...This is 3zun. In my heart.#In the comic they are 'cat -bunny - goat' dolls but the kitty trio was the OG concept.
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the smut-writing struggle is 20% repeated pronouns, 30% choreography, and 50% needing more words to describe a human body but then you try to look up synonyms and this happens:
“she let her kisses grow openmouthed across the gloopy planes of her abdomen”
“the quagginess of her breasts”
"her neck was terribly boggy"
(supple. supple get in the car we are LEAVING)
#the first line is all that came up at first and DEAR GOD#i do prefer onelook but sometimes it's even worse about stuff like this#3 antiquated spellings of the word and then a bunch of scientific terms#onelook really needs to come with a disclaimer that's like 'only use if you're a native speaker'#tbf onelook is really designed for finding synonyms of phrases/looking up words you forgot#fic tag
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a carved mother-of-pearl quran box and matching quran depicting al-aqsa mosque from bethlehem, palestine, dating to the 1960s.
mother-of-pearl carving is a traditional craft in bethlehem; said to have been brought over by franciscan monks from italy in the 15th century. the tradition is still going strong today.
#palestine#items#worship#muslim#my posts#check out yasser barakat's site too (in the content source link)#he sells antiques & funds palestinian artists & craftsmen in jerusalem he's a cool dude#also yes i copied the description of the other post i made lol#like i said in my last post mother-of-pearl carving is usually associated w/ christianity but it's not exclusively christian#there's some muslim or even jewish things which are carved mother of pearl#(palestine had a small pre-you know what jewish population that got absorbed into you know where)#btw the crown on the inside of the lid is the royal hashemite crown since this is from when bethelehem was under jordanian control
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Okay I'm desperately trying to find examples of horror film artbooks, or ANY concept art for older low budget horror films. I'm not finding much at all, which does track bc of the nature of these productions but they still would have had production art, that art has to be somewhere. SO if anyone has book recs or blog posts or anything pleaseeee drop them. Rn the best I have is the mars attacks artbook, the return of the living dead art book and some really shoddy production art for house of 1000 corpses I got off a prop site. Long shot too but any kind of concept work for John Water's films would go crazy as well, so far I've only got tangential stuff like the scrapped designs for the Pork stageplay with Divine and the paper doll book that Van smith illustrated (costume designer and stylist for his films and for Divine).
#they do absolutely want nice clean concept work 4 school but too bad for them. I'm obsessed with studying how designs are#conceptualized and presented based on budget like this#like my project is based off John water's films and B horror movies it makes sense to study the production art of low budget films#even the presentation of the art#like the pork designs were released on antique sites first afaik#it's just overall harder to find this kind of rougher production or pre-production art which is a shame
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day 177
i used to collect music boxes
i should get back into that
#day 177#year 4#aradia megido#homestuck#most of them were also snowglobes#but i have a couple from my grandma that are like#antiques and i should maybe have taken some reference pics of those for this thing#oh well i was on kind of a time crunch tonight#even then i spent way more time on this than i meant to#i should come back to the concept when i have more time to spend on it#why do boxes have to be like. made of geometrical shapes huh#rude to me personally
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So I came to the realization today that I am not going to get anymore work on this trunk done this year. I still need to finish stripping the paper inside and redoing that, but it's just. Not happening until spring. With that realization, I decided it's time to finally bring it back inside, put all the junk on my floor that used to be in it back in it, and guys
It looks good.
This is going to be a summary post of the project, so let's go back and remember what I started with. Back in, like, 2015 or something, I bought this dome-top steamer trunk at a missionary shop for $65
Yeah. Rough. But underneath that paint it was sturdy, and the only thing missing was the lock and the right-side hasp. While I lived overseas this sat in my parents' house, and when I got back I kept meaning to do something while storing all of my yarn and cat food in it. When I finally got my own space (almost a year ago now!) with my own garage, I finally decided: it was time.
Heads up, this is a long post under the cut.
Did a lot of research online, grew to hate how generative AI has even permeated niche topics like how to refinish a vintage steamer trunk, WHY is there generative AI for that, PLEASE stop, went to Lowe's and bought some supplies (I used Citristrip for the paint stripping, it worked VERY easily), and started stripping that hideous brown* away.
Almost instantly I could tell how good it could be. The tin looked amazing, and for most of the stripping process I wondered why on earth someone would cover it with any color. It took multiple layers of stripping, and I got better at it over time.
I did also start to see some oxidation issues with the tin that made the purpose behind the paint job a little more understandable.
One side was particularly bad, but I will never forgive the decision to paint the entire thing one single color.
At first, the flat metal seemed okay, but the longer I worked on stripping, the longer it was exposed to air, the rustier it started to get. I had already planned on coating it, and I ended up getting some Rust-Oleum Rust Reformer spray paint. Instead of removing the rust, it bonds to the oxide and stops the process from continuing. It also happens to leave it a nice matte black that didn't need additional painting. I taped everything off, then sprayed.
Then it was time for the tin. I looked for ideas, and the best one I found was Rub'n'Buff. It's not so much a paint as a pigmented wax, with the idea that you can buff it to a higher shine. As I was stripping paint, I found a spot under one of the slats that the painter missed, and the original tin had been painted a gold color, so I used that to decide on color. I decided on Grecian gold, though I used the antique gold as a kind of base to make sure the Grecian stretched far enough.
I originally started applying it with some craft foam brushes, but they didn't really want to work for me, so I ended up buying a pack of makeup sponges, the little disposable wedge ones, and the finer texture worked much better. I had to trim them down pretty frequently, because the wax would build up and stop applying as nicely, but there were more than enough in the pack to finish the job.
The coverage is amazing for this stuff. This side was the worst of them, and one layer of the stuff was almost perfect. The Grecian gold was almost a bit runnier, though, and ended up needing a second layer to cover some patches that were almost too thin, thus the other underneath.
This tin is so pretty though. I still kind of regret that it needed it; the places that weren't oxidized were so bright in a way that the Rub'n'Buff had no hope of emulating. There are some places you can still buy the embossed tin for rehabing trunks like this, but I haven't found one with a pattern quite like this, and this one is so much nicer than the ones I've seen. I'm very glad that it was all intact except for where the lock goes.
After the tin came the slats. I knew from sites like Brettun's Village that I wanted to use tung oil, so I had bought what I thought was tung oil. Turns out Minwax gets to call their tung oil finish that even though there's. No... tung oil. in it. ? So uh, if you want actual tung oil, do NOT listen to Minwax, they're lying, I don't understand why it's allowed. It still looks nice enough, but quite annoying.
Speaking of Brettun's Village, they not only do their own restorations AND provide a guide, they have a very extensive supply of recently furbished and original parts. They happened to have a nearly identical hasp to the one that was missing (so nearly identical I only noticed after my dad pointed it out) and an old lock also similar to my original, made in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
The next step was to tackle the inside. Instead of just adding more paper on top (like the last people did, so now there are two layers, one of which hides some original stickers ;3;), I decided to try to scrape that out, and I've found some structural issues that the metal and slats outside have held together and kept hidden.
The top split in the wood is an actual crack on the front that needs fixing. The middle split is just the gap between the planks. The bottom is also a crack, but not as extensive as the top one.
So the final steps, when I get the motivation again come spring, is to finish getting as much of the paper off as I can. Then my dad is going to help me use some bondo to hold the cracks, and I'll find a removable wallpaper I like. Then I can sort out what I'm going to do with the lock. That top split runs right through where the lock should go - you can see some of the wood filler we already put in from where the original was ripped out - so we can't try to put anything there or it'll crack worse.
But I brought it in today!
It looks so good, I glance over and get to feel so satisfied; I did that.
*I don't like to call any color hideous, because a lot of the time it really depends on the context, and it's an okay brown. But for THIS? It was probably the worst brown they could have picked. Mixed with the orange of the paint stripper it looked like I was scraping diarrhea.
#long post#vintage trunk#steamer trunk#antiques#antique restoration#antique refinishing#I tried to look up the lock again for the dates they had but they don't have the old stock ones anymore#so my timing was good#mom has wanted some quilting projects so I suggested something for under this#cause it has the original roller wheels! three of them anyway o3o;;;#but I'm afraid that the very old roller wheels will scratch the floor#i gave her the measurements and double checked idk how it ended up so skinny ;3;#but it's good enough#is there a chance that now that I've brought it inside my adhd will think “hey good enough” and never finish the rest?#yes#yes there is absolutely a significant chance#but I am beyond positive that no more work is going to get done before winter#so why leave it out in the garage over winter where it might expand and contract and force those cracks wider#I BARELY tapped the door frame on the way back in and it chipped the door frame though#like what kind of cheap materials did they use how was that even POSSIBLE#rude#oh oops I'm awake too late again tonight I gots work in the morning
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Reading pulp fantasy and understanding how it shaped the fantasy genre is extremely fascinating because its like "oh, that's why every Strong Female Character heroine of the 80s-90s fantasy boom was Like That, huh"
#like whoof the fantasy pulps of the 30s were a bad time for literally any female character at all#even when there was any bit of like narrative agency or protag focus given to a character its like WE MUST DESCRIBE HOW SEXY SHE IS! TITS!#like knowing pulps shaped the zeitgeist of ADnD is like#yknow what. i think its a fucking miracle we got any female characters at all out of that actually#like certainly it's uhhhh antiquated attempts sometimes but. holy god.
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#mine#my photography#my pics#me#photographers on tumblr#i love how these came out so much#like even unedited these are some of my faves :3#btw this is me formally asking to be put in a horror movie pls#also no caption for this because idk man i cannot think of anyyy#also shoutout to this lil sleep set from that antique mall in arizona shes really THE best#regional gothic#american gothic#americana#gothic americana#midwest#midwest gothic#small town gothic#midwestern gothic#morute#digital photography#digital camera#self portrait#self portrature#antique clothing#vintage nightgown
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My first chanukiah! This was in my shul's small judaica for sale collection, and I think it's vintage. I was told many of the objects have been in the display cabinets since the 1960s, and since I can find no evidence of this chanukiah online, I'm inclined to believe it. If so, this is older than my dad is!
#jumblr#jew by choice#jewish conversion#chanukah#personal thoughts tag#i might lightly clean and polish this but i like the aged brass look of it as it is#i saw some much more elaborate (and expensive/expensive-looking) chanukiahs on amazon but it wouldn't be as special as this one#and franly i like this one better because there's meaning. even if either chanukiah was mass-produced this one still has a personal story#i decided to get this early because i want to start hoarding judaica i will need eventually#i'm a HUGE sucker for old/vintage/antique/secondhand objects like this#i have second-hand dreidels and i want as much of my judaica to be old or secondhand whenever possible#if i can't make it myself then i want it to come pre-loved
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the evolution of the operator symbol over the course of the series is so endlessly fascinating to me, because like. Alex came up with the symbol and only ever really used it on his hypergraphia papers, which we don't really see him do much (if at all) after season one
but Brian,, Brian uses that symbol constantly. It's basically a signature by the end of the series - he leaves it on Tim's medical records, and on the back of Alex's photo of Amy, and on the note he left for Jay about Benedict Hall - he even uses it in his final video to unveil his name - it's self-referential, but he doesn't ever really seem to use it to denote The Operator the way Alex did?
Like, to me it really does seem like he basically appropriated it. "This is the symbol you created for the thing that was hunting you, but now I'm the thing that's hunting you" - like, hh fuck dude, Looking At You
#N posts stuff#marble hornets#totheark#mh lb#i was thinking about this last night and just rewatched all of the totheark videos to check my own work lol#and like. even in the videos he uses it as a self-referential symbol#he uses it in Intermission - 'did you see me? i saw you'#he uses it in Reminder - 'do you remember me?' immediately followed by His footage of Jay at the antique store#he uses it in Decline - 'he will pay' denoting His revenge quest on Alex#sometimes there IS more ambiguity in its application - like in 'Inquiry' or 'memories'#where like maybe it could be denoting the effects of the operator's influence? but those are s2 and i'm Mostly talking about s3#but i mean even in s1 the symbol shows up in the last frame of some videos like a signature/sign off#sorry brian is just so fascinating to me i want to study him like a beetle
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Dick: "I'm not going to pretend to be the best motorcyclist in this race."
Also Dick: wins against aliens, androids, and gods in the greatest and deadliest motorcycle race in the cosmos.
#if i was writing nightwing then you bet your buttons i would place more importance on dick's bikes#like him actually showing interest in new models or taking the time to stop and talk about his bike to curious bystanders (in civvies)#i want it to be obvious that bikes are one of his interests/hobbies#and even when he's on patrol he'll take the time to briefly stop what he's doing and comment on someone riding an antique bike#and then i need him to pull up next to some other bikers and play rock paper scissors with them at the red light#or for another biker to get his attention and to make a motion that clearly means ''watch out: cops ahead''#like move over and let me make him interesting again#Dick Grayson#Nightwing (Vol. 4) 48-49
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Hi!! I don't know if you remember me, but I'm the person you explained the Castalia thing to a few days ago. I've been following you for a while now, but I just managed to go through your blog well and proper, and I'm here to express both my gratitude for the amount of info and links you've shared (I did NOT know about the hepatoscopy and haruspicy, and I'm about to go down a lengthy rabbit hole) and my horror at once again being given a new hyperfixation (I didn't imagine wanting to read about liver-divination help).
Also, also, are you the author of Exeunt Phoebus Apollo on AO3 because that was the fic that sent me on this greek mythology spree, and it's so good I got obsessed with Apollo, and he's everywhere around me now. Thank you for writing it!
AAAAAA THIS IS SO SWEET?? THANK YOU!! I do remember you and hey man, I'm always happy to help <33
I'm so glad to recruit someone else to my hepatoscopy group because it is a long and storied tradition with many many different types of study and schools of thought dating all the way back to the Sumerians! It's an extremely underrated bit of study when it comes to sketching portraits of divination and prophecy when it comes to adaptations of imaginings of greek myth works - similar to bird augury (which was such a widespread skill that most people had some level of understanding of the basics of what the omens of common birds meant the way people now can look at the clouds over head and know if it'll rain and when approximately that rain'll happen).
It's a great and common misunderstanding that things like prophecy and magic were these fantastic elements that had no tangible features to their practices and while there's nothing wrong with interpreting things as more fantastical for the sake of coolness or aesthetic, I personally think these elements are interesting enough to be worth looking into and portraying!
Also yes, I did write Exeunt 😳I'm very very honoured that you enjoyed my work so much and I'm even more grateful that it could let you see the Apollo in everything 💖 Thank you for reading it!!
#ginger answers asks#HAPPY HARUSPICING!!#Idk man this stuff is just super interesting#I know the Argonauts aren't a very popular tale (for some reason)#But Medea's works of magic are also some of the clearest we get to see descriptions of in text#And part of why the morality of Medea is something that's so widely debated even now is because of what her magic entailed#I personally love stuff like that#Communing with the gods in greek myth always necessitates some kind of sacrifice#The link must literally be made in blood and when mistakes are made or ceremony is ignored#those prices are also paid in blood#now to modern sensibilities it seems cruel or unusual#but many religions in antiquity worked on these bases and the spilling of blood meant more than violence or death or ill omen#There were so many other nuances to it in terms of honour in death or divine death etc etc#One can be very cynical and say 'oh well it doesn't matter they were still killing things and there's nothing cool about that'#And to that I say buddy you're in the wrong hobby#If you can only perceive the spilling of blood whether human or animal as gross/murder/etc etc then you REALLY shouldn't be consuming#pagan culture and tradition LMFAO#Apollo was like#The Butcher God#There's no point is erasing half of his identity to make him some sterile always nice positive good god#He was a hunter a butcher blood stained a sacrificer#Of course blood would be but a language to him#Anyway all of that is to say hepatoscopy is cool and there's a ton of reading to do about it#Fly free my liver brethren!! Fly free!!!!
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