#wait this isn't my main

[izpira-se-zlato]

After the way yesterday and today have gone, what do we think more likely/will occurr first -- Jance kiss on stage, or someone posting hole on IG?

[chenswire]

hellooo i saw you were talking about ch12 story on twitter did you read it from any website or translated it from the game right away?

read it myself yes 🫡

[hailsatanacab]

A Persuasive Argument - dpxdc

"Great!" Danny says, clapping his hands together to get everyone's attention. The dinner table falls silent as everyone looks towards him. It's a full house today and, honestly, Danny's a little nervous. "I'm sure you're all wondering why I gathered you here today."

"It's dinnertime. In our house." Duke mutters, while doing a very bad job of concealing his yawn. He holds his fork poised over the braised beef, but, just like everyone else, still looks towards Danny before tucking in. It's intriguing enough to wait.

"Yeah, no one misses Alfie's dinner." Dick says, with a brilliant smile that Danny can't help but return.

"Precisely! What better time to talk to you all than when you're all actually here!"

"Wait, I thought you came round to work on our English essays?" Tim asks, blinking owlishly.

"I'm afraid I've lured you here under false pretences, Tim."

"This is where I live."

"I would still really appreciate help on that essay though, I mean, what the hell is Hamlet even about? I just don't get that old time-y language, like 'Hark! A ghost hath killed me!' - absolute rubbish, what does that even mean?"

"The ghost never kills anyone in Hamlet, he's there to tell Hamlet that he was murdered. Have you actually read it?"

"No, but it sounds like you have. Tim, I want this guy to help me with my essay instead. I know for a fact that you haven't read Hamlet, either."

"So? We don't need Jason, I've read the Sparknotes."

"Hi Jason, I'm Danny, pleasure to meet you, summarise Hamlet in three sentences or less."

"Am I auditioning to help you write your essays? I can't believe you’ve gone through your whole school life without reading it, it’s good!"

"Hamlet, along with a number of other classics, was banned in our house because it portrayed ghosts as intelligent and sympathetic beings rather than evil, animalistic beasts. I didn’t even get to see The Muppet's Christmas Carol until last year with Tim! It was surprisingly good, and I hate Christmas because everyone always argued and it sucked. But we're getting off topic. I—"

"No, no, please go back to that, because what the fu—"

"Boys, please." Bruce interrupts, looking to the world as if he wants to hang his head in his hands. "Danny, you were about to say something?"

"Oh, yeah, Mr. Wayne! Thanks!"

"Please, call me Bruce."

"Well, that very succinctly brings me to my point, because I'd actually really like to call you dad."

Nobody says a word. Nobody even blinks, all as shocked as the other, watching open-mouthed as Danny pulls his laptop out from beside his chair. Bruce can definitely feel a headache coming on.

"Before you say anything, I've prepared a 69 slide PowerPoint presentation on why you, Bruce Wayne, should adopt me, Danny Last-Name-Pending. Please save your questions, comments, and verdict until the end, thank you."

[egophiliac]

LEON

LEON YOUR EYEBALLS

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This one is for all my fellow "My gender is 'I have a job and I can't worry about that right now"'. I see you.

(part 1, part 2)

[tmntkiseki]

Sometimes I remember Khary Randolph mentioning in the Turtle Tracks interview he was in with Emilio Lopez and Lloyd Goldfine that he's been trying to get more directly involved in the IDW TMNT comics for years, yet they more or less keep telling him "maybe/we'll get back to you on that."

Like it really is a wonder why IDW hasn't taken him on as one of their primary artists because what work he has done thus far has been PHENOMENAL (never mind that he worked as a production artist for the entirety of 2003's run, so he already has plenty of experience with the turtles.)

[blu-ish]

PROJECT SELENE AU ESSAY SHJSHSJ

[PRESS START]

It was Eggman's most ingenious plan yet. And it didn't even require breaking the world apart! Everything was set into place. All under the watchful eye of his old colleague, Agent Stone.

Dr. Eggman was--to put it lightly, old. His creations, zany, more than usual. His mind... t h e r e.

But his plan would work, it HAD to work... because if it didn't, he knew he wouldn't have it in him to try again. "It's been too long..." Sage would whisper, "Please, rest."

Stone never told him to quit, Stone continued to encourage him. Stone... wanted him to succeed.

So where did it all go wrong?

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This AU takes place in the somewhat distant future; around 20 years.

Sonic is now in his "prime times" as he likes to call them. After his last scrap with the egghead left him... well, without a leg. He really took a "step" back to revaluate his life choices. And figure out more leg puns to cope--

You see, Eggman was.. losing it, everyone noticed; and to the surprise of some, Sonic wanted to help him. To let him down easy, to offer him help to live the rest of his life honestly...

He didn't want--

He was so sure he would've never needed too... but--

He killed him.

It was an accident. He killed him. He killed someone. He didn't mean too, please, please, please.

The world cheered. He promised, he promised, he promised, HE PROMISED H E R.

Sonic was no tech wizz, but he faintly remembers Tails mentioning something about the whole egg network shutting down not soon after his defeat, DEATH. All the badniks he grew up scrapping shut down. Every single one. I'm so sorry Omega, Tails will think of something.

Eggman saw how the chaos emeralds teleported the Ark away from the Earth all those years ago. So he planned to do it again, this time, he would teleport the Earth itself, from the safety of his egg fleet, from the ARK. If any of the world leaders refused his rule, then the Earth would simply blip away.

It was insane.

Sonic should've known it was a trap.

But it was too late.

He was trapped. He was scared.

He couldn't let the chaos emeralds fall into his hands. his cold hands.

So Sonic shattered them.

And he fell. Along with the airship above him, along with the cannon, along with pieces of the ARK. Along with the feeling in his left leg. Everything was gone.

Shadow was there, holding Sonic after he fell from space, like if he let go Sonic would vanish. He'd never seen his rival so, s c a r e d. Asking why, how he could be so foolish.

There were a lot of things left unsaid that day.

He felt lost.

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The chaos emeralds were destroyed, with no temples to revive them, they were drained of all their energy and thrown away like worthless pebbles by anyone who were too naive to know what they truly hold.

Agent Stone knew better though.

Like the doctor, he wasn't too good with... biological engineering.

Trust him when he says he's looked, endlessly for any other option.

But alas, the Gaia manuscripts... the Echidnas... Chaos...

All sing the same tune.

The emeralds needed a living vessel to survive.

How bothersome.

With the network shut down and no time to revive her it right now, he looked for a more suitable option.

Luckily G.U.N had some spare scientists he could, "borrow".

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Dr. Sunniside was more than eager to assist, not like her life was on the line or anything. She found the project fascinating, as well as terrifying.

When word got out that she had collected a singular emerald that still contained whatever little chaos power was left. The last thing she thought was a well dressed "gentleman" kidnapping her and her team; forcing them to stay in their own forsaken lab in the middle of nowhere-- to create a biological creature that could potentially restore the other 6... wherever they were.

Why did he need them?

She wasn't getting paid to ask, not like she was getting paid at all. Besides getting to live she supposed.

G.U.N had disbanded prior to whatever mess the world had found itself in yet again, her skills and intellect were "going to waste" as her new boss said it. Was anyone looking for them? Too many questions, not enough answers. Too little time...

They had no idea where to start, she knew Mobians themselves had a somewhat natural pull towards chaos energy. So they would start from there. And hope for the best results.

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Six...

Six failed attempts, and they were running out of supplies; out of whatever DNA they were given.

The semantics they were able to "borrow" from within what little worked of G.U.N's internal database, held familiar blueprints for a similar experiment.. ironically enough. Though old and unclear, it did hold a lot of research into something called chaos drives.

It took a couple years to perfect, but Dr. Sunniside and her team were able to mimic these drives to power whatever was left of the lab. And hopefully used on the project.

He was getting impatient.

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She wasn't sure what to do with what she was given.

A broken, robot?

She remembered seeing the wreckage live, the colossal pieces of advanced technology falling to the ground.

Nothing should have survived that explosion, much less be minorly intact.

Yet here it was, a oddly mobian shaped robot with blue chipped paint. Complete with a missing left leg. Must've been whatever was left of Robotnik's tech. Of course by now she had already pieced together Agent Stones her boss is involvement, as well as the metal robot.

She just wanted to go home.

It was almost impossible to turn it on, the metal mobian seemed to run on a very specific network; one that was strictly turned off.

With whatever little power they were able to divert to force its databank to work, Dr.Sunniside and her team had finally found the answer to all their problems.

Encrypted Biodata.

There were two instances, from what they could tell, where this machine copied living creatures biodata. Mobian biodata. Complete with the biological overlay they could use to create a stable lifeform.

The amount of chaos energy the machine had previously been able to withstand with the biodata was incredible.

No DNA required, it would be a copy.

This was their key out of here.

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The 7th experiment was a success.

It survived. When the infant was introduced to long exposure to the chaos emerald, it was able to handle the power extremely well; just like she predicted.

They deemed the lifeform, Selene. Regular updates were given to Stone as requested.

It took 5 years for Selene's development, the child was hedgehog in appearance, taking on the same green hue that the emerald gave off. The emerald used whatever was left of its energy to give its life to Selene.

The infant was given ring like bracelets that would work as cuffs in case of a emergency. They were magnetic in design, and when activated would stick its wearer to the metal walls that made up the lab. It was for her own good.

Next, she was handed her first sets of chaos drives.

She was told to absorb the chaos drives energy, and then redistribute it back. Selene had minor difficultly understanding, but adapted fast. As the years went on, she grew only more curious, asked more questions.. endless questions.

Where did she come from? Here, at home.

Why? Because she would do amazing things of course.

Like a superhero? Yes, exactly.

Dr. Sunniside didn't want to admit it, but she grew fond of the child. She missed her own. Her team grew tired, anxious, and Selene seemed to take notice. Dr. Sunniside knew the little one meant well, but the others didn't see her that way. They were trapped because of her.

It was the 8th year, that Stone finally requested a final update before he would come and arrange for everyone's release after he was handed the experiment. They silently cheered, they would not say a word, they wouldn't say a word.

Dr. Sunniside knew better.

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Selene wanted to be just like the superhero's she watched on her tablet. The tablet she totally didn't take from the storage room and wasn't secretly using to watch videos of things outside her home. Her tablet was only able to show nature documentary's and the News for some reason, but she thought it was awesome!

Her favorite one was the blue hedgehog, like her! He was so cool. He would travel around the world meeting all sorts of people, he put a smile on everyone's faces!

She just wished she could do the same with her friends here. They didn't seem happy. They didn't like her. She wanted to be liked. It's not fair.

Every day was the same, chaos drive this and testing that. It was so.. repetitive. I mean, she thought she would always want to help the doctor, and she did! Doctor Sunniside said she was helping people, she wanted to help, like him!

She just wished she could go outside, it looked nice.

Her pretty bracelets itched constantly, but she couldn't take them off, because Doctor Sunniside said that would be naughty. Selene was a good girl, good girls listened. She knew that.

But she didn't always listen.. so she continued watching all these videos, learning all these cool things. Because what else could she do.

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Each chaos drive gave Selene a boost of energy, just think what her reaction could be to restoring the chaos emeralds themselves?

Red chaos drives would improve her strength. It was given to her in moderation.

Yellow would improve her swimming ability. She didn't like to go too deep though..

Purple would increase her jump height, and distance.

Green was the most reactive, that would increase her speed. She was incredibly fast, she couldn't control it.

Each time she absorbed these drives, she wasn't always able to return the power, she struggled to restore them. She said it made her cuffs bracelets itch.

Her quills themselves would also react strangely to the chaos drives, they were naturally green because of the chaos emerald. But would momentarily change color given the specific chaos drive absorbed, fascinating.

It wouldn't be long now.

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The fools.

Stone sneered, staring at the wreckage of the lab. When he asked those goons to destroy the evidence everyone included he SPECIFICALLY said AFTER he had collected the project.

Now look at this mess.

He just hoped they hadn't damaged a certain part of the lab too much. He would need it to track down his investment. It better be alive.

Whatever was left of the Metal Sonic would have to do, he should've never left him here with these animals. But, beggars can't be choosers he supposed... once his years of work restoring the network was completed, and retrieving his missing piece, everything would be set into Stone.

For the return of the empire.

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Sonic wasn't expecting to find a kid out in the middle of the forest. But yet here we are.

She looked pretty rough, heck, it was like if the kid just escaped an explosion. He couldn't see any sign of one though..

The kid had stars in her eyes looking at him, nothing he wasn't already used to. The kiddos tended to be that way around him.

After a lot of head nods of yes's and no's.. Sonic put together that she was most definitely alone out here. Go figure.

No parents, no family, she seemed out of it. But whatever it was would have to wait, he wasn't just gonna leave a kid out here alone. He knew what that felt like all too well growing up.. man, she had to be around the same age Tails was all those years ago.

Sonic knew he and Shadow never talked about kids.. but its not like he was gonna keep her or anything. Yep nope totally not, he has never once gotten attached to a kid and raised them. Besides, Shads was out doing whatever, he hasn't seen his husband in a few months and it's not like they had a house.

They might've been legally married, but hell they weren't anything close to your average married couple. He loved it though, it worked for them both, with Shadow and Sonic out free to do whatever. He couldn't wait to see him again though.. he guessed he could always explain the random kid later. Oh well!

After taking the kid, who said her name was Selene, to Tails workshop. It took one explanation later for his lil brother genius to take a look at her, they needed to make sure she was alright after all.

Selene stayed relatively quiet for the most part, but slowly started asking all these questions, Tails happily giving her the answers.

The fox had labs almost everywhere around the globe, and traveled just as much as Sonic does.. it took some getting used to, but no matter how far away or tall the fox got, he would always be his kid. As he reminds him constantly for the hedgehogs own amusement.

After Eggman... vanished. His eggtech was left scattered wherever they were last placed or used, Tails had started a movement with some of his fellow "brainiacs" to reuse the badniks for helpful purposes and to reduce less waste. I mean they did see how self sufficient egg tech could be when freed from eggmans clutches.. like all those years ago on scrapnik island when they were kids. It took a while to earn public trust, but everything stayed smooth so far.

After a through check up, Tails said Selene suffered some minor cuts, bruises and burns but nothing serious. When asked again about what had happened.. Selene refused to answer, so they didn't pry. As long as the kids alright.

Tails had asked Sonic while Selene explored outside, what he planned to do. Sonic wasn't sure himself, it's not like the world was being constantly threated by some super evil weirdo anymore, besides the less super genius evil ones he's stopped now and again.

He guess it wouldn't hurt to take the lil one under his wing, until they found her a good home of course. It's not like he had no experience with taking care of a kid before. And he turned out pretty great in his professional opinion!

Tails agreed, while he didn't find anything wrong with Selene at first, he did have a funny feeling that there was more to her than she was letting on. Better to keep an eye just to be safe.

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Shadow was not expecting his meet up with Sonic to include a child. Yet here we are.

He had quit working for G.U.N years ago, soon after they disbanded. A small force was still allowed to operate under certain conditions, but it seemed like a lost cause to the hybrid.

Rouge still worked for them, he couldn't figure out why, she always complained back when they were younger how annoying she found them. Not to mention the history..

It was none of his business he supposed.

He does favors here and there for her, its the least he could do for, who he considers.. family. It took him a long time to consider anyone that.

He guessed time did change him.

Sonic and him had tied the knot years ago, they honestly didn't feel like ever getting married. Not due to anything specifically, but Shadow felt like they would just be repeating what they had already felt for each other.. why did everyone have to see it?

But, alas.. they were convinced, Sonic thought it would be funny to get married. Their family was overjoyed to attend, and it wasn't like Shadow got super into it and planned everything; the seating, venue, food, pictures, and--

Okay whatever it was fun he guessed.

He loved that idiot, more than his younger self ever imagined he would've..

He didn't want to leave his side after that incident.. Sonic was bedridden for what seemed like years to the blue blur. Shadow was devastated to see his husband so.. helpless. He should've been there, he should've been faster, why...

The couple always had endless hours of catching up to do when they finally met up, little did he know that came with a kid.

Shadow gave Sonic a firm brow, and after a hasty explanation of the situation. The hybrid was, confused.

The child, Selene. Gave off a strange energy, he wasn't sure if Sonic had felt it too. But something seemed.. off.

After a few days of private discussion, after camping out with her. They decided it was for the best they kept her, for now of course.

Shadow would only stay for the next month or so, G.U.N was going crazy with some accident that happened. Wouldn't be the first time he supposed.. but it sounded bad. Real bad, and he couldn't shake that feeling that it was more, way more than he realized.

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Selene couldn't believe it. She was outside, and it was even better than on the screen.

The grass was greener, the air was fresher, the ground was softer-- in some areas at least with.. what was it called? DIRT! Yeah! Dirt.

The next thing she couldn't believe was her luck, her role model had found her! He knew everything. He'd be able to help her! But...

she did something bad.. very bad, and now they were gone.. she hoped they were okay.. She tried to help, why couldn't she move, why was she stuck, who were those people...--

It wasn't very hero like...

His name was Sonic, and he was even cooler in person. She had already met all sorts of people, she couldn't wait to tell the doctor all about it when she finds her again.

Sonic had a super special partner too, named Shadow. She liked his stripes. They offered to take care of her for the time being, it was like she was dreaming.

But she needed to focus, she needed to find out what happened. She would need to tell them.. but, maybe not right now..

For now though, she wanted to see everything! Experience it all! She never felt more free, even more than when her bracelets fell off when she ran away from the rubble.

This was only the beginning.

[binah-beloved]

slow blink at Binah from across the room. it's a silent way to say that you love her, and that you hope her day is going well. none of your coworkers notice. they're too busy with the hustle and bustle of work- and you are, too. yet you still make time, time to subtly reassure her that you're still here, she's still here, and that all is relatively well. Binah watches your motion, the eyes she finds akin to the most brilliant stars closing for a moment before opening again, and something warm melts in her chest.

after a minute more of staring, Binah slow blinks back at you.

[cheerioskid]

my take on pearls new life copper golem design

[hunxi-after-hours]

The waiter looked toward Mu Sichen, and seeing that Mu Sichen was currently forcibly pinning the bartender to the bar, immediately scampered over and asked: "Town mayor, master, guest, Jade Emperor, Buddha, the Lord on High, God, is there anything I can help you with? After he finished, he muttered to himself: "Weird, why did I just say ‘town mayor'?"

the escalation of titles here really is something akdjskjd

[tinystepsforward]

new (not that new) job is finally getting to a point after nearly a year where i can see the impact of my work and feel competent. unfortunately i am also coming up on the ten-year of my parents finally realising i was gay/dating my now-wife and kicking me out + dealing with adhd med shortage problems + a variety of other things building up so i do not feel productive, plus i'm taking my first foray into supervising someone else, which is not a particularly joyful combination! (they're great + i think we have good rapport already, and that i'm positioned to really advocate for them/give them autonomy and support, so i am excited if nervous about that responsibility.) that said i'm also starting to see what everyone's said all along (this job is fucking insane to have one person do all of) and i'm hoping that the person i'm supervising part-time is someone i can have on my team permanently.

also got a large pile of very intimidating freelance deadlines looming but tonight's task is to not be too sleepy to put away dinner leftovers and knit an entire second beaded lace glove for a birthday gift tomorrow

[gamebunny-advance]

Kun3h0 Custom Doll Repaint

So, here's what I've been working on for the past month or so. I've wanted to do a custom doll project for a long time now, and I finally got the opportunity to actually do it. I don't think she's bad for a first doll, but there's a lot I feel I could do better and differently.

Once again, my pictures hardly do her any justice... mostly due to color balancing.

I tried to edit these pics to make them a little more accurate, but it also yellowed out everything else, so... yeah. A photographer/image editor I am not.

That said, aside from the poor quality of the images, I'd say that the pics capture both her good points and her jank.

(More about the process and other thoughts under the cut.)

So, she started with a Cave Club doll as the base (I believe her name was Fernessa).

I unfortunately didn't take any pics of this doll with her clothes on, but I'm sure you can search pics of the original base doll yourself.

Besides being very cheap, I really liked the proportions on this doll for Kun3h0. I like the short torso with the long legs and the huge feet. Even the face is kinda Kun3h0-esque (though, a little more on that later).

I've had the idea to customize a Kun3h0 doll for a while, and I always thought the best base would have been an LOL OMG doll since they also have the big head, small torso, and long legs. But, I was always on the fence about them because their hips are a lot wider than Kun3h0's, and I felt like that would always bother me. But once I found out about Cave Club and also found out they're bascially cheap as dirt for the amount of articulation you get, I knew that this was the best match for Kun3h0.

Sadly, the hands aren't as big, and I did consider resculpting them to be more accurate to Kun3h0, but I lack the materials to make that look good enough to be worth doing, so in the end I just repainted the original hands. So I guess this doll is gonna have the non-standard 5-fingers XP. (I forgot to take pics, but the back of the hands do have the heart detail on them. )

Because I have to tie this back to NSR somehow, I think this doll would be a great base for some NSR characters, or really any other stylized character like this. I could def see a cute Mayday coming out of one of these (but not from me~ If I made a Mayday, then I'd want to make a Zuke to go with her, and I just cannot imagine how to make a Zuke doll without him becoming way too top-heavy).

However, I did resculpt the legs to become her boots, so she stands a little taller than the base Cave Club. While I think doing this works for Kun3h0 since she's a robot, if I want to make some alternate outfits for her, they're gonna have to include these boots, or I'm gonna have to get another doll to make some alternate legs.

Unfortunately, my only material I have for body mods is air-dry paper clay, and it doesn't transition as well into the plastic the same way something like apoxie sculpt probably would have. It's not super noticeable at a distance when they're painted, but under scrutiny, you can see a clear transition. I also forgot to detail her heel, so the shoes are flat even though they shouldn't be~ They do help her to stand on her own though, so I guess it's not the worst thing in the world~

While I was doing the sculpting, I also made the wig.

Finding a yarn that would properly convey Kun3h0's hair color is nigh impossible, given the cartoony shading of them, so I settled for a median between the dark rasperry and hot pink and got this regular raspberry yarn. The unaltered pics make it look a little more purple than it actually is. It really is a warm raspberry color.

(I'd say that this is closer to the actual color, maybe a tad darker.)

Let me tell y'all, brushing out yarn wefts is not fun. I also felt like I wasn't doing it right since I lost a lot of material brushing it out. From the little research I did, this seems to be a common problem, but it doesn't sit right with me for so much of it to get wasted like that~

Another challenge I had is that there (of course) aren't very many resources for getting yarn wefts curly or how to make curly hairstyles using yarn wefts. I know that this is relatively easy to achieve with actual doll hair through boil washing, but that wasn't really a viable option for a yarn wig like this. Since I really wanted the hair to look naturally curly as opposed to looking like it was curled after the fact, I curled the hair before gluing it onto the wig cap, which was a mini-nightmare. I followed a video tutorial about how to make a pigtails wig, I just applied the methods to the curly hair.

I don't know if I just didn't make enough wefts to make the tails poofy enough, or if this method just wasn't suited for curly hair, but I just didn't get the volume I was looking for.

To achieve the fuller look that Kun3h0's puffs have, I glued some scrap yarn fluff in the center of the original puffs and just tried to manage the shape from there. It's not perfect, but I think I've more or less brought her original hair to life. It's hard to see since they get lost in the mess of hair, but I was even able to get those stray curls that she has to look nice~

However, for some reason, the wig really doesn't like to stay on. I dunno if it's the ears pushing it off, or if something else makes it loose, but it really doesn't like to stay on her head. I might try applying heat to the cap to see if I can get it to reshape around her head properly, but I don't have high hopes for that.

Overall, having made the wig and seen it in real life, I've confirmed something that I've kinda felt for a while: Kun3h0 really needs something on her head between her antenna. I feel like her antenna and the top of her head create a sort of "empty box" that is just asking to be filled with something. I recently did a drawing of Kun3h0 where I have her an ahoge, and I think it helps a lot.

It's a little too late to add this to the doll (and I don't even know how I'd go about it), but I think from now on, she's gonna have a curl that sticks up on the top of her head.

Moving on: the face.

I really wish I could get some clearer pictures here, because the eyes really aren't as bad as the pics make them look.

While I am trying to keep her right covered as much as possible, I did still paint both of them with acrylics. I don't have MSC or watercolor pencils like most of the pros do, so I made use of what I had. I'm certainly not getting that "crisp lineart" look that Kun3h0 is basically built on, but I don't think the results are horrible. They're sealed with a gloss varnish, so they don't photograph well, but I do like how the texture is very different from the skin, it almost sells that they're made of glass.

As for the other details, I did do the lining in dark purple, like I usually do for her lineart. I'm on the fence on if this works IRL or not. On the one hand, I feel like the purple lineart is a part of the character design, it helps balance out all the pinks, but when I only use the purple on the doll for the face (and her stomach paneling), I do wonder if it looks strange, and if I would have been better off lining her with dark brown instead.

In fact, I did the original sketch with brown for the paneling.

(Right eye not canon.)

But when I made the actual doll, I wound up doing purple anyway to match the eyelashes, so they wouldn't look as out of place.

Other details I wanted to mention are that the upper eyelashes/eyelid is actually a piece of painted foam that I glued on. I really wanted to achieve that cartoony look of how I usually draw the lashes over her hair, even if it doesn't make logical sense.

I wasn't able to do the same thing for the brows, but I still did something a little "special" with them.

Instead of making myself cry trying to get an accurate color-match with paint, her eyebrows are actually flocked using some of the leftover yarn. I've hardly seen anyone do this for a doll repaint, but I don't think this look would suit most brows anyway~

Overall, I'm only a *little* unsatisfied by the face-up, but my disappointment is mostly in the eye-shape. I didn't want to go against the face mold too much, but that meant that I couldn't really make the eye taller like Kun3h0's actually are. If the eye was any taller, the brows would have been right against the hairline, and that wouldn't be a great look IMO. I feel like 80% of Kun3h0's identity is in her face, so having it be even a little inaccurate does bring her down a little.

Lastly, I think all that's left to talk about is clothes and accessories.

I am personally really in love with the shorts and it's why I chose them to be the preview for this project. I added the beltloops after I took that pic, and I think they turned out so cute, even if you can see the stitching of the belt to the shorts.

I went through quite a few patterns trying to get them right. The Cave Club dolls don't seem to be super popular in customizer circles, so there aren't many if any patterns out there for them. At first I was just eyeballing a shorts pattern from this video and going through some trial and error trying to adapt them to the doll's body.

I made 3 or 4 pairs of shorts this way, but they all ended up too tight. In the end, I wound up using the "wrap-and-tape" method of pattern making, and made the shorts from there. I honestly wasn't too confident in the results, so I very haphazardly made the trial pair with this new pattern, but they fit so great that I wound up using the test shorts for the final product.

The top was not as successful. Unlike the shorts, I didn't start making test tops until I'd already done the wrap and tape. So the pattern making wasn't actually the hardest part: it was putting it together that was a nightmare.

While I was making the top, I would of course have Kun3h0 put it on to test the fit, which stretched out the fabric to a noticeable degree. This was one of the last things I worked on, so I was getting really fed up with working on this for so long, so I told myself that I would probably just hide it with paint later.

That was mistake number 1.

As I should have learned from painting Green's face, the paint hardened the fabric tremendously, giving it almost no stretch. Originally the plan was to use velcro to close the top in the back, but the pattern didn't account for the lack of stretch, so it's actually too small to close edge to edge. So, I had to cut velcro to extend beyond the actual clothes to close it up. So basically, there's a gaping hole in the back of her outfit and is the main reason why I refuse to post back pictures of this doll.

For the time being, I do consider this top to be a "prototype" and I'll probably remake it in the future with some improvements. But, painting the fabric after stitching it together is not the only mistake I made.

Since this top is a prototype, there's a lot of other things that I did in a bad order: I really should have done the hemming and put on the accents before putting the pieces together, but since I wasn't sure if the pattern would fit first, and thought I would have the energy to make a second better top, I didn't bother with it. This included the cuffs of the sleeve.

That was mistake number 2.

The way I made the sleeves is that the arms are really just a large trapazoid with the shoulder shape at the top. The idea was that I would just sew the large side to a piece of shorter elastic band which would serve as the cuffs. I figured this would cause the sleeve to look "ballooned" at the end. And it kinda worked. You can kinda see how it turned out on her right sleeve in the first picture, but actually sewing it together was kinda terrible because the only way I could think of to do this was to sew the cuff and sleeve separately first, then sew them together, and that just seems ass-backwards to me, but I couldn't think of any other way to do it, and it came out with the cuff being mostly obscured anyway. I tried a different method on the left sleeve, so the cuff is more visible, but the sleeve shape is worse.

So if/when I remake this top, I'm still gonna do this in my ass-backwards way, I've just got to figure out how to keep the sleeve from eating the cuff.

Otherwise, I think the top would actually be pretty cute. I was really getting tired of working on it at the end, so a lot of the details are actually hot-glued on instead of being sewn. The faux-zipper pull is a *little* large, but it's something I had that I thought would work, and I actually really like the oversized look. It works for the proportions of the doll and helps bring in the heart motif that's getting a little lost in the sloppiness of my painting~

The last thing I think worth talking about is the mini GAB.

I thought I'd taken a pic of it by itself, but I guess not. Anyway, the only thing I wanted to say about it is that there's a little "clip" on the back made from wire that allows it to hook onto Kun3h0's belt and be held in her hand. I dunno, I just really like the little accessories, and that little feature amuses me~

But that's it for now. I am actually working on two other accessories for her:

The doll came with a pet dinosuar that I'm currently turning into her GAB.

It's just about the right size to be in scale with Kun3h0, and the hair is basically already the same as GAB's. I've already modified the base with clay and cut off the bits I don't need. It's mostly a matter of sanding and painting right now. I have no idea how or if I'm going to get the collar onto it without it looking bad, but I'll give it a try. If all else fails, I'll just make a tiny bow-tie like GAB!classic~

I don't have a pic of this one, but the doll also came with some sort of flower pot thing that I'm turning into her drill using a metal piping tip for the drill head~ I'll post about them in an "accessories DLC" when they're both finished.

But wait... if you've made it this far, and you saw my preview post, then you might notice that there's one accessory missing.

Well, this mask doesn't actually fit Kun3h0...

But it does fit someone else.

[tecchan]

Local cis man starts having periods and loses his fucking mind

[c0smiccom3t]

So.... I heard a version of Crash 5 never saw the light of day and got canned.

And now people are thinking Crash 5 as a whole got canned....

I need a moment.

[blujaynoodles]

holy shit y'all