#tile hell

[demigods-posts]

headcanon that annabeth is freakishly strong. not because she's been training as a soldier since she was seven. but because stretching the limits of your strength is a mental block first and foremost. and as a daughter of athena, goddes of the mind and strategy. all annabeth has to do is believe that she can lift something and she will lift it.

[once-more-with-anxiety]

me,slapping both of my hands over everything about the cancellation while kicking the last episode aside with my foot: so, how do you guys think the next season will start? I'm thinking Charles and Edwin go on a date or something, personally.

[nilefreemans]

buck please renovate eddie's ugly house and paint the walls and demo the ugly kitchen counter I'm begging please

[marzipanandminutiae]

I just encountered the most greedy-ass Landlord Bullshit today

so I'm trying to move from the fairly nice but Landlady In UnitTM apartment I ended up in post-fire to something hopefully just with other tenants, and ideally Victorian-er (not to knock my current place, which is from 1913 and still has some pretty period details). I went today to see an apparently promising apartment in a house from 1900. the listing pics were gorgeous- stunning fireplace with artistic tiles! bay window! pretty doorknobs and plaster molding! It seemed to have been cut up from a single-family at some point, but no matter- the little flourishes remained. delightful

but when I got out there, the landlord cheerfully told me about all the work he was having done. the second-floor apartment with the pretty fireplace didn't NEED a living room and dining room both, surely! so he was going to close the doorway between them, cut a tiny new doorway, and rent the living room as a bedroom. one common room and a kitchen would suffice, for this new three-bed apartment :)

and that big kitchen- well, they didn't need all of it! that could be halved to make a small kitchen for the third floor tenants. so that the kitchen up there could become a living room, and their living room could be a fourth bedroom. as opposed to the three already crammed into what I guessed had once been housing for...two servants? maybe three? not a large space at all

I just nodded, imagining three people stuffed into the not-overly-large second floor of this upper-middle-class Victorian home and four in the even smaller attic. with one (1) common space for entertaining and relaxing, neither of THOSE large either. each room rents for over $1,000/month, so one can't even argue that he's creating affordable housing

he and his wife just bought another c. 1900 house. they're going to rent half of that, too, "once it's renovated"

I can't imagine being that greedy

[gomzdrawfr]

It’s currently 4.19am and I’m being woken up AGAIN by the heat

[2022dirt]

This bunny always sits on the tile that matches its fur, likely as an instinct to blend into an environment that feels unfamiliar.

[upsidedownsmore]

Tonatiuh Requiem

I made this Styanax drawing for a contest being ran by @medusacaptures for her 2nd Warframe creator program anniversary!! You can find the link to her post about it here! (though it's ending in like 7 hours as of writing this, oops lol)

You might also perhaps recognize the eyestrain colors from a certain Tennotober piece... :)

(...i was running out of time lmao)

Alternate colors:

Timelapse:

Kind of an unhinged one tbh lol, had a lot of struggles with the initial rough sketches as I tried to figure out what I even wanted this drawing to be. One of the recurring ideas was with something relating the parazon with Requiem mods with Styanax Tonatiuh, but it just felt like too big of a stretch and I couldn't figure out the posing fast enough

WIPs and grayscaled alts below the cut!

god he's so hot

[saylor-twift]

tell me i’m not isolated in my chronic yearning while i listen to nettles by ethel cain on repeat. wanderer is my willoughby 🥀

[piratesexmachine420]

I'm losing it

[emiett]

What is the process behind the dnd art tile? Specifically with the raised portions if you don’t mind my asking

Ya I love talking about process! I went over pretty much everything here but I'll put all that under the cut

TL;DR Raised portions were cut from a 1/4" slab, scored, slipped, added to the main 1/2" tile, and then carved

This started as a slab rolled to 1/2" on a slab roller. I also rolled a 1/4" slab. I designed my tile and traced the whole design onto a piece of heavy plastic with a sharpie. Then I traced it onto the clay by laying the plastic flat onto the 1/2" slab and drawing over the design with a skewer. I cut this out using a ruler, pizza cutter, and a cookie cutter (for the corners). I did the same tracing method with the chains, the wing, and the bat on the 1/4" slab. I cut out the chains with an x-acto blade in 3 sections. I scored and slipped these and attached them to the tile where they belonged. I started to carve out the shapes of the chains with a small square loop tool.

After carving the chains for a while I cut out the wing and bat. I scored and slipped them to the tile and carved away at them until the root of the wing and the base of the bat were flush with the tile.

When I was happy with the chains I painted them with a mix of red clay slip and red iron oxide. I carved further around them with a fineline loop tool. I used the same tool to carve some feathers in the wing.

After this I painted in my figure with black underglaze. The details in her coat were carved in with the fineline tool. After this it went in for its bisque fire.

This is how it looked when it came out! I painted the chains with a mix of underglazes (Amaco terra cotta, and teddybear brown) and more red iron oxide all of which I wiped away. These were added again selectively after the wipe. I painted Mayco Dragon's Breath glaze where I wanted darker colors on the un-rusted chains and then added Spectrum Wrought Iron glaze on top. I coated the rest of the tile with a low fire clear glaze. Through test tiles I knew that if I put the Wrought Iron too close to clear glaze it would turn the clear glaze blue. The black carving around the chains is partially to create a a barrier between the two glazes. The tile was fired again at bisque temperature. Because this is a mid fire clay with a low fire clear glaze, the clear glaze crazed. I blocked off the areas I wanted to stay white with liquid frisket and painted india ink onto the tile very carefully, one section at a time. Then I wiped off the excess ink with a cotton swap. The ink fell into the cracks in the glaze making a fake raku crackle effect!

That's pretty much it!

[tortoisebore]

listen. ik i said no more big snippets. BUT. u haven’t even seen any of chapter 3 of the sequel yet & i’m having sm fun writing it & there’s no actual spoilers involved here, just them being sweet for the thousandth time 🧚

so here’s little bit of the beginning of my chapter 3 draft !!! they’re spending an entire weekend at home during a snowstorm !!! i love it here !!!

“Good morning,” Remus whispered into his hair. “Again.”

Sirius groaned and stretched long, narrowly avoiding whacking the side of Remus’ head with his elbow before falling limp on top of him again.

“Time is it?”

He felt Remus crane his neck and reach to the bedside table for his phone.

“Almost ten,” he answered. “Sleep good?”

Sirius gave a vaguely affirmative little grunt, shifted himself around and propped his chin on the center of Remus’ chest. He peeked one eye open and found Remus already looking, watching him with dark, sleepy eyes and a fond little smile.

“You’re cute,” Sirius mumbled, lifting to an elbow and tucking his hand beneath his chin, then resting his other arm on Remus’ good shoulder to run lazy fingers through his hair. It was still a bit too early to do the whole opening his eyes thing, so he opted to keep them shut for now. “How long’ve you been up?”

“An hour or so,” Remus said quietly. He settled in beneath him with a contended sigh, slipped his hands beneath all their layers of blankets and throws to loop around Sirius’ lower back, curling his thumbs in slow, warm circles against skin. “Can’t really sleep past nine anymore.”

Sirius hummed. “You’re missing out. My best sleep happens after nine.”

“Oh, I know,” Remus laughed softly. “You were practically dead to the world when I woke up again. Had to check you were still breathing.”

Sirius snorted, squinted on eye open and let himself smile. “You’re one to talk. Half the time I come to bed nowadays you’re already sacked out.”

“Well, I have this little thing called a normal sleep schedule,” Remus retaliated with a gentle pinch to his side. “You should try it.”

[trauma-tits]

So... what's everyone's strategy for getting through the next 48 hours...or however long it takes to get a consensus on who will be the next POTUS?

[eggman-1]

Every NPC talking about pirates in Lurien village and stuff got my hopes up abt actual pirates. but of course it was just bokoblins

[drathe]

hello!! do you do the romance tiles as commissions?? you're so good at them!

Yes, I do them (lately for DnD/BG3 characters mostly), and it's EUR40 per piece :3

[gu6chan]

Something something men will live like this and see no issue..... something

[aestknowsbest]

Drew some Appling fluff for Femslash February!!

I miss this show so much you guys.