#like how the gloves ended up

[puttlesculpts]

Step 5: Finish pants, give up on gloves, start hood. Blender pt 4

Gave my hands a break for a few days, but still made a good deal of progress! The last thing I did before my break was to finish adding folds to the other leg of the pants. I went into it wanting to be lazy and potentially just mirroring it, but I was brave and did it all by hand.

I also went ahead and purchased a huge pack of brushes and found out my model was reeeeally tiny, but thankfully it works on vector logic so re-scaling it so the brushes didn't look terrible was a non issue. Anyway, I wanted to go crazy with them but I decided to wait until the end to apply any. My main goal for this project is to practice and learn and idk but the brushes feel equivalent to layering on textures in PS: looks great, wonderful finishing touch, but try not to rely on it to be satisfied with your work.

Next part was the gloves! TBH, the part that convinced me to step back and take a break lol

The orientation of the model made these a HUGE pain in the ass to work on + making these is where I learned the body mesh I am using isn't quite symmetrical (or is at least slightly rotated). Obviously the hand is the most complex part so I am being realistic with my expectations here so I know it's better to step away and work on another part rather than trying to claw my way through it and burn myself out and/or come to resent the project.

SO I moved on with the wonderful knowledge that I can always sculpt these IRL if I can't figure em out >:)

Tonight, I intended to block out the hood and call it a day, but I ended up finishing it lol

This is an absolutely crowning achievement for me because before I even opened Blender, I scoured Yeggi and every other STL site I could find for royalty free hoods on other figures that I could use for this project (and, idk, push it around a bit w/ the sculpt tool to make it more unique??). It's such a central part and to his silhouette and I def did not feel confident about anything made of cloth. But here we are! I definitely think it needs to be thicker as far as print quality goes, but I am thrilled with how it turned out in just one session. No part is ever finished and I am constantly updating them (especially as more and more of the figure comes together) so I am excited to see how this ends up.

Up next: Delete the "Possible Hoods" folder, be even braver than I was tonight and build a skull mask? Probably

[codgod-moved]

nobody asked for chayanne it just felt weird to have his parents and tallulah there but no Him. so there he is

also um. bobby died between me starting this and me finishing it so let’s just pretend he’s still alive and everyone (except charlie) is happy 😃👍

[hyakunana]

Things had not changed so much. He could be patient. He would tell Osiris this story, too, when they were face to face once more.

[wildstar25]

MiqoMarch Day 23 - Midnight

With their intended voyage into the void only a few days out, Arsay thought it the upmost importance that she steal her partner away to Kugane, that they might share one more fond memory together should things not turn out the way they plan in the thirteenth. It was as they crossed the very same bridge the miqo'te had once sat on together two years prior when Arsay gifted Y'shtola with a bracelet matching that of her own. A token of endearment which, Arsay confessed, she would have given to her fellow scion back then, had nerves not gotten the best of her. While their relationship has undoubtedly changed since the initial purchase of the jewellery, the sentiment remained the same. Y'shtola was someone who Arsay loved dearly and she will forever be grateful to have the seeker's life intertwined with her own. No matter where their free spirits took them, they would always hold each other in their hearts. A promise Y'shtola was more than willing to keep. She slipped the the string of beads around her wrist without a second thought. They were never to come off, not even when the two decided to delay their return to Radz-at-Han in favour of a private bath at the dead of night.

[mrehkka]

Zim's PAK regulates his temperature so he doesn't get very cold. .....Dib on the other hand is freezing and hates the snow

[carlarte]

mikey said let's play EXTREME LEAPFROG

[wtftaylr]

I bet you guys are so jealous of my 12 pages of fallout oc ideas

[good-beans]

(Milgram self-insert oc masterpost hehe)

Name: For the sake of posting online I’ll call her Rose!

Color: #E7355B [the pink in the art]

Age: I guess she’d be 20 given when Milgram started huh.

Status: Milgram Staff, Machine Technician

Symbols/imagery: ballet/musical theater, science experiments

Song genre: very similar to Mahiru's, something upbeat and extra pop-y

Tentatively she's number 011? She's not really prisoner but she's also not free to come and go, so I'm not actually sure if she'd get a number (Edit: I've decided she'll actually be 012. Staff is given the 01X range, and even though Es doesn't actively have a number they'd be staff member 011, making her 012.)

Story: Since the project is supposed to be realistic/present day, the mv machine would be brand new and unpredictable tech, so they’d want someone keeping up on maintenance and making sure the brain-invasive process won’t cause any harm to the prisoners. Rose was studying abroad in Japan working on some cool neuroscience tech (irl I know nothing about technology or brains but shh) and she stumbled upon some secret tech/plans from Milgram. Long story short, she was dragged into the experiment to make sure things ran smoothly.

Writer's Reasoning: She’s really fun for me to play around with, as she allows me to work with a character who has a tiny bit of pull over Es’ mindset in conversation but not the final decision (aka mirroring the voting system), and someone who is simultaneously trapped in the prison but has a reason to see all the canon content.* I really enjoy the character interactions and dynamics Milgram has set up so far, so it’s been super fun seeing how things change for better and worse when someone not quite aligned with either Milgram/the prisoners is thrown into the mix!

*As much as I love dramatic irony in fiction, it would drive me crazy if I knew every detail of of the vds/mvs but Rose didn't – and every single Milgram character is The Worst Communicator Ever so I couldn’t justify that she’d hear it secondhand from them...

Story roles:

She’s a bit conflicted -- she’s officially Milgram staff and knows she should remain neutral on the prisoners, since she won’t be allowed to interfere with the process/executions. At the same time, her job description is literally “make sure the machine doesn't hurt them and everyone's safe :)” and she's way too emotional to avoid getting hopelessly attached to everyone 😅

I really enjoy the theory that the machine extracts videos based off of priming, so one of Rose’s duties involves listening in on the interrogation and making sure there’s been enough material discussed/not too much time has passed overall (hence the ringing of the bell happening at different lengths for each vd -- That's her ringing it :3). She then watches the mvs along with Es to make sure there are no machine glitches, and know how to calibrate it better for next time.

(IEdit: I've since decided to add in official trial mvs, but before when I wasn't ready to tackle that:) She has to run some tests on the machine to make sure things are calibrated correctly, so she'd extract little things here and there. It gives me the opportunity to think up lyric snippets and recurring symbols for her without worrying about full encompassing music videos.

I'm not afraid to admit she can fall into Mary Sue territory every so often by being everyone's friend, because it's less about "aw everyone likes her" and more about "canon is too painful rn and I need a fix-it tool to take care of these guys and give them hugs and tell them someone forgives them and cares about them and unfortunately these characters wouldn't let anyone less than a friend do that." Rest assured she's definitely not perfect and will fuck everything up on occasion :3

Miscellaneous: Whenever I play around with normal au ideas she's still working on the machine (but in a public, more ethical setting), and she's Mahiru's roommate :) Her character isn't super focused on love, but if I had to pick a cover song it'd be Stickybug II. It's very much my vibe, the lyrics fit well enough (better than most songs, at least lol) and it's one of my favorites out of my limited knowledge of unchosen Deco songs! (Edit, I've actually given her non-deco cover songs hehe)

So yeah, I hope she's not too boring without a cool crime to decipher, but I wanted to share since I was really proud of her! It took a bit of tinkering to find a way to fit her into a perfect secret-third-thing role that runs very smoothly with all of canon, so I was very excited!

[cyatzura]

me this morning watching beef episode 9 at 7 am before work on my phone while doing the dishes from breakfast and last night's dinner

[thetangibleghost]

I've always wanted to wake up from a dream laughing and I just did but I realized after I woke up that I have missed a million social cues :((((((((((((((((( it wasn't even funny idk why I couldn't stop giggling. I dont even giggle irl.

[kingdomoftyto]

The funniest thing about Billford as a ship to me is that there is a competing ship that is objectively better by almost every metric, but most of us are insane and gravitate to the fucked up mess of red flags that is Bill because the story there is simply more narratively interesting.

Make no mistake; I ship Billford hard and will continue devouring fic of it for a while yet, but I also feel it's worth acknowledging that I fully endorse Ford's Perfect True Ending romance being with Fidds.

[aliosne]

Man absolutely nothing better than casual abemiha physical contact

[the-yearning-astronaut]

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[darabeatha]

/ WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN W-

[quarklynx]

Cosplay concept sketch for Phos from Land of the Lustrous, they’re like if Theseus’s ship were a protagonist and I love them so much

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Asia Kate Dillon in costume as Lucifer backstage at a performance of The Mysteries