You know, this always happens -
I'd be pretty content with my life but then I'd watch something like Black Sails and then spend a week brooding melancholic on how I wish I were a handsome ruthless emotionally destroyed gay pirate captain
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im going to have a stroke
Instead try… Person A: You know… the thing Person B: The “thing”? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING ROD
As someone with multiple bilingual friends where English is not the first language, may I present to you a list of actual incidents I have witnessed:
- Forgot a word in Spanish, while speaking Spanish to me, but remembered it in English. Became weirdly quiet as they seemed to lose their entire sense of identity.
- Used a literal translation of a Russian idiomatic expression while speaking English. He actually does this quite regularly, because he somehow genuinely forgets which idioms belong to which language. It usually takes a minute of everyone staring at him in confused silence before he says “….Ah….. that must be a Russian one then….”
- Had to count backwards for something. Could not count backwards in English. Counted backwards in French under her breath until she got to the number she needed, and then translated it into English.
- Meant to inform her (French) parents that bread in America is baked with a lot of preservatives. Her brain was still halfway in English Mode so she used the word “préservatifes.” Ended up shocking her parents with the knowledge that apparently, bread in America is full of condoms.
- Defined a slang term for me……. with another slang term. In the same language. Which I do not speak.
- Was talking to both me and his mother in English when his mother had to revert to Russian to ask him a question about a word. He said “I don’t know” and turned to me and asked “Is there an English equivalent for Нумизматический?” and it took him a solid minute to realize there was no way I would be able to answer that. Meanwhile his mom quietly chuckled behind his back.
- Said an expression in English but with Spanish grammar, which turned “How stressful!” into “What stressing!”
Bilingual characters are great but if you’re going to use a linguistic blunder, you have to really understand what they actually blunder over. And it’s usually 10x funnier than “Ooops it’s hard to switch back.”
I know everyone is making fun of the op scenario as being unlikely, but my coworker is Russian, and she does accidently speak Russian to me without realizing it.
You’ll laugh but I am a Russian/French/English trilingual fluent speaker and ALL of these things have happened to me. Are you sure @artykyn that I’m not all of your friends at once?
PERSEPHONE - stained glass, Luci's legacy. I had to. Wouldn't you have? Also that was way too many pieces - 56 for the tentacles (?) alone! And yes, those bracelet beads are individual pieces of glass too, all 11 of them. I finished soldering her at 2am on a Friday so I could display her at #SVCC the next day. The shadows are airbrushed, the details painted on with fusible paint and the best part is that HER EYES GLOW IN THE DARK YOU GUYS
On the Persephone detail you can see bubbles in the lips - it looks like glitter gloss! The effect was utterly unintentional - the fusible paint is rather viscous, so it traps air bubbles if you mix it without thinner - which I had to do for color matching. Was sad at first but then I saw how cool it looked so I decided to leave it the way it was. The eyes are clear gloss mixed with blue/white glow in the dark powder (and there's a bit of it in the nose ring as well).
LUCI - I've been wanting to make it for so long you guys it's finally happened I'm so excited. To me Luci is a strangely romantic character (in a literary sense, not in the kissy-kissy sense - although that too because come *on*), so I wanted her to have an halo of bruised roses the color of decay. Which I think I achieved. She is mostly made of a really expensive frosted clear glass that scatters the light and appears white. She's got some airbrushed shadows and a painted face, which was very hard to make look acceptable - and even then she looks like she's just about done with everyone's nonsense. Also, I now now how to draw roses? Which is *really* hard, by the way.
On other news I have no idea where to put it and Luci - right now they're just lying on my floor. They are matched in size, about 36 inches tall - I told the FedEx guy to “print is as big as you can”. I will eventually put them up for sale on etsy, once I get my website going.
From the comic book The Wicked and the Divine, by @kierongillen and art by @mckelvie.
Locke and Key Shadow Box
This is my very first attempt ever at making a shadow box (or a papercraft in general... actually no that’s not really true, I made some paper weaving at some point) and, as you well know, I am a big proponent of the Go Big or Go Home mentality. So, got a bunch of paper, some gray markers for shadows, bookbinding glue, and, just, well, went at it with an x-acto knife. That’s *days* of work right there, and yes, those feathers are all individual bits of paper; at some point I couldn’t figure out how to make the owl, tried to cut it out of this golden specialty paper but it looked really horrid so I just flipped a table and gave up for a while. It sat on top of our fungus terrarium for a while, but I’ve been meaning to finish up a bunch of old abandoned projects this weekend and that one has been at the top of that list for some time. The owl is just thick black cardstock colored with golden sharpie, with highlights drawn with one of those really runny push-down-to-splurt golden calligraphy pens, and the shadows made by scrapping the gold off with the flat edge of a knife; black lines traced in gel pen. The stone cliffside is crumpled gray paper; the fog in the background that I feel really proud of is some special wispy stupidly expensive fancy paper I got at Blick’s. The box has a magnetic “door” that swings open - the unfortunate sibling trio is anchored to the box by the wing only, which is attached with double-sided tape to the edge of the box where the door cuts it.
This scene is from one of my favorite comics of all time, Locke&Key, written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez.
Overall that was surprisingly meditative and a lot of fun, plus I got to catch up on my re-watch of Supernatural.
She lives!! Or... not? I guess she's supposed to be the avatar of death, so... Hum. Anyways SHE'S DONE! Clearly very fragile, with a ridiculous amount of restrip running along practically every seam, four anchor points, airbrushed shadows, painted face and toes. Antique streaked purple glass for the body and water glass mauve for the cape tatters, bullseye charcoal and light gray for the wings, frosted white for the skull, spade and pickaxe, white streaked baroque for hair, peach cathedral for the skin. I filmed the whole process, so I will be posting a time-lapse on YouTube soon!
Night Vale vase
I had such plans for this. First I wanted to carve it out. Then I wanted to sculpt some flowers onto it. Then I went “FUCK IT FLOWERS ARE BORING” so I wanted to sculpt a PERCHING CONDOR onto its side but by the time I’ve thought of all these things the vase had dried too much so I went with the “creep everyone out at the studio” option and sculpted in an eyeball. The eyeball is glazed, making it shiny and even more real-looking.
If you look at it sideways, you can see an angry fish going TOOT-TOOT
Made a gift for my BF!
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friend: You do NOT need that many colored pencils.
me: I VIOLENTLY DISAGREE
Everyone’s doing it, so I thought I’d also give it a go. Here are the 9 fictional characters off the top of my head that I identify with (which was surprisingly hard, because I like a lot of characters but I don’t necessarily find myself in them). From left to right, top to bottom:
Nimona (from eponymous comic by Noelle Stevenson) - Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Marvel) - Edward Elric (FMA Brotherhood/manga version)
Li Xiong Mao (from “Freaks’s Squeele”, a French comic) - Harry Dresden (from the Dresden Files books, by Jim Butcher) - Anton Gorodetsky (from the Nightwatch books by Sergei Lukianenko)
Vala Mal Doran (Stargate) - Esther (Giant Days comic) - Black Widow (Marvel)
Looking at this it would appear that the emerging themes are mischief, empathy, perpetual emotional distress and badass smirks.
These characters are all awesome and part of amazing stories that I would greatly recommend.
my body: having a heart attack
my brain: stop these shenanigans now is not the time
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People: So you're Russian?
Me: Yes
People: GUYS LOOK OUT SHE'S A RUSSIAN SHE'LL KILL YOU!
Me: Well actually-
People: SHE'S A COMMUNIST LIKE WOW DO YOU HATE AMERICA?
Me: Well hold on-
People: IS THAT REALLY WATER IN THAT BOTTLE OR IS IT VODKA? LOLOLOL
Me: why haven't we nuked you yet
Lasers are awesome. My boyfriend and I have been playing around with wood, casting resin and - obviously and logically - glow in the dark pigment. I can't believe we're old enough to be counted as adults. #wood #pearl #stevenuniverse #laser
This is what happens when Ouliana gets access to a laser I make completely useless ornamental objects out of super expensive materials for no reason #nacre #simic #mtg #inlay #wood #ravnica #craft
Death Vigil gives me life. Actually, anything @nebezial-asheri touches is gold. No, platinum. No, rhenium! This is a terrible photo, but the idea is there. It’s dancing Bernie! The dress is antique mauve, with shadows, capelet and central brooch in dark violet waterglass. The headphones are blue waterglass, and her hair is a streaked baroque white (you can kiiinda see the streak texture in the close-up, but it looks better irl). Details painted on with fuse-on paint.
My SO told me she was too tall, but her legs are obscured by the dress to look like she’s floating (also, the camera angle exacerbates it a bit). The original art only extends to about just below the waist, so for the bottom half I had to improvise - and I didn’t think I did such a bad job until my BF was like “is she on stilts...??”
Hair always makes my life complicated - long curvy nonsense that has to line up with the streaks in the glass... But then again that’s my fault for choosing this instead of traditional stained glass designs such as ducks and butterflies.
49 pieces total! I still can’t believe I cut the two long skirt pieces without breaking them.
Nimonaaaaa ~~~~
I love Nimona, I even cosplayed her at ECCC this year.
These photos are not very good, it’s hard to capture all the glass colors at the same time with the weird morning light. The pajamas are antique mauve, the shark is a rough textured gray and charcoal, and the hair is a dark violet waterglass. The details were painted on with fuse-on Vitrea 160 paint. 37 pieces, about 9 inches tall.
Original art for this piece by the amazing @gingerhaze !
Sakura Card Captor Staff, under different lighting conditions. That pink Uroboros glass is reeeealy pretty… Frosted white glass for the wings, amber cathedral for the yellow, dark purple waterglass for the eye and antique mauve for the beak. It’s around 12 inches long, with 21 pieces total; notice the ibby-bibby ones at the bottom of the staff… No paint on this one, since the design was pretty simple.