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@anymoretastelessdemands

20s | 🏳️‍⚧️ | she/her | Fandom and art/Animation blog | side blog-turned main blog of anytastelessdemands

No, I would not steal a car. However, if I had the ability to create a copy of someone's car that I could have for free while the other person retained their original car, I would definitely do that.

MY MAGNUM OPUS HAS FINALLY BEEN RELOCATED...

this was my final for my sound design class in 2024. the assignment was to recreate a movie scene with entirely different sound effects to change the tone/genre/whatever and i chose the legendary nightcrawler breaks into the white house scene in X2. i won 'silliest project' and was rewarded with a clown horn for this video.

all sound effects are either free to use or straight up just my voice lol

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.

Bad news. The pawn you just promoted to queen has challenged the existing queen for dominance

Good news. The pawn who got promoted to queen has just tilted the other queen's chin up with a sword to make her look into her eyes. For dominance

Ooooh... the girls are fightinnnnnggggg...

Um...

Oh...

Hmmm...

Okay, good news, they do not appear to be fighting... maybe... I mean, they might still be fighting, but they are definitely also doing something else...

Live rook reaction

This has 1k in my heart

"let me kiss it better" voted number one thing to say when your friend is complaining about her boobs hurting

or when her lips are chapped. or when she's sad. or a multitude of other things really its a very versatile phrase

Honestly, part of why it irritates me when people act performatively shocked at the homophobia in 2000s media is it wasn't just media. "Can you believe this aired in 2008" buddy, in 2008 I was having shit thrown at me from moving cars for having long hair, and you wanna get worked up about sitcoms?

Like, I need to emphasise that it's really only within the last ten years that I've been able to stop worrying about being physically assaulted in public over piddly shit like "being a dude with long hair"; if that surprises you, you have no frame of reference for how recently things were real bad out there.

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