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Papercraft Progress

I haven’t made any more customs, but here’s some stuff I’ve built lately:

Clockwise from top left corner: IT, Paper Totem by Admskt, Rumbolt, handlink from Quantum Leap, and Tubby Eat Coin
  • IT is from Made in Paperland (site is in Russian). I have an original I’m going to make inspired by it, based on the Kaypro II computer.
  • Paper Totem was a platform toy by Dolly Oblong.  They’re not easily available anymore. This was one of the customs.
  • Rumbolt is from Fold Up Toys. It was really fiddly to make.
  • The handlink is from mikedaws.
  • Tubby Eat Coin is from Zerolabor. I have two customs sketched out for it, but I’m not sure if I’m going to make them.

I’m on a papercraft Discord, where we share models that aren’t available anymore (like the paper totems)

Nanibird custom and Happy Turtle

Nanibird is another platform toy, which is no longer available, like at all. This one is by Ivan Ricci at Kawaii-Style (site is in Italian). There are two more by them, but I’m going to make the other Nanibirds smaller.

Happy Turtle is by Fold Up Toys again. It was fun to build.

Some detail shots below the cut

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Recent-ish Stuff

I’m running two communities on Dreamwidth that you should check out.

I was given the Writers Cafe from the previous admin and I made Just Create. Every Friday I post a check-in to share what people have done, seen, made, or read and then Saturday or Sunday they each get a session for making stuff. 

If you’d like a community to encourage you on, come check them out.

We had a roadrunner in the yard. If you haven’t seen them in person, they’re pretty large birds – probably the size of a parrot.

Roadrunner sitting on a fence
Closer view of a roadrunner sitting on a fence

I also finally finished the sampler I started before I went to the Netherlands! (I worked on it very intermittedly). The plan was for every line to be a different stitch, but one of the ones I planned didn’t look good as a straight line so I reused one.

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Papercraft Challenge – Heartbreak

As I said before, I’ve gotten into papercraft models. I also decided that as much as possible, I wanted to do a custom for each model I have (or at least a lot of them) – thus the Papercraft Challenge!

I showed the WIP of ex-tyrannomon before which I only need to build now. (It’s the pink thing to the left up there)

I finished a simpler one first and here it is:

It’s based off the voodoo model from MadeinPaperland.ru (site is in Russian).

I altered the template in Adobe Illustrator and I think it’s adorably creepy. Because the Made in Paperland said for personal use only, I kept they’re label on it and I won’t be sharing the template.

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WIP Preview

I’ve gotten into papercraft models. One thing I want to do though is to customize each model as well as building whatever designs I have (I’ve got more than 200 although I may not do them all)

Here’s the wip of my first custom along with the two I downloaded

Two paper models of velocirapters or tyrannosaurs standing over the printed out modified template

Once I’ve got it finalized I’ll have the template here and on my DeviantArt. Since I’m getting back into Digimon, it’ll be ExTyrannomon the plushie version of my favorite dino-digimon.

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Some more art!

I just scanned all my sketchbooks, so I’ll be posting some of that. Right now, something I just finished:

Head shots of Wild Rush from three angles, plus a rage study

(CW for mentions of child abuse and manipulation)

His instinct from growing up in his abusive family is to hide his emotions. Once he got out and was the biggest baddest villain on the block, he used his emotions to get emotion and to scare people into doing what he wants (…which he may very well have learned from his parents).

He’s usually genuine with Daisy and you can often seeing him glance at her to make sure he’s being alright.

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Shard-verse Art

Just a sketch of Charles being a cutie. I redesigned nem to be a bit more obviously mixed-race in black & white (neir coloring hasn’t changed).
head and shoulders shot of a mixed race enby with a short afro

You can’t see it, obviously, but I also made nem chubbier and less body-builder-esque. Specifically to appeal to a friend of mine. (Also, Shard-verse needs more fat-rep. Right now it has, like, Sevvy. Who is awesome, but not in the main stories. And apparently I never posted the picture here.)

So here’s the picture of Sevvy with Anita:

Very fat somewhat black woman being hugged by a smaller white woman. The black woman is reading a book and is dressed in pants, button-up shirt, and vest, with very tall strappy heels. The white woman has her hair in a braid and is wearing a knee-length skirt, a shirt with ruffled sleeves, and mary-janes. Contessa Seffora de Sant’Anna & Anita Trevino. Sevvy is the awesome woman in front. Anita is Ostanes/Iosis’ mom. Sevvy is basically everyone’s teacher (she’s, if not immortal, really long-lived). (Neither of them show up in the chapters posted, but I think Anita is mentioned).

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Shard-verse Art Dump

Charles and Andre back to back
(Transcript of text in the picture:)

Charles is a soft autumn. Andre is a cool winter.

Andre likes bright Hawaiian or bold patterned shirts. Think comfort. Goes for t-shirts for casual around the house wear.

Charles likes patterned shirts and stripes, but more subdued colors unless it’s super cute and femme. Loves florals. Goes for plaid flannel for comfort.

When working, they wear dark suits with shirts and ties that match Wild Rush.

Charles likes suspenders. Andre prefers belts.

Layout of police uniforms for Shard City
Not great art, but important info
Wild Rush shirtless and ironing a shirt while Daisy hugs him from behind
Zoom in! (I did fun things with the hatching, cuz MangaStudio gives options)

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The White Knight #1 – Devotion

Content warnings for talk of police corruption, references to military service, chronic illness, hospitals, shooting (nothing graphic), blood and medical issues, prejudice against fictional people, talk of gangs, non-graphic violence, mentions of drug and alcohol addiction, misgendering (in the context of someone assuming the gender where it’s not known), mention of spiders and rats, smoking, and swearing.

Many thanks to LB Lee and KristyCat for sensitivity and beta-reading. Any mistakes are my own.

Please let me know if you see any typos or other mistakes. Thanks.

Shard City doesn’t love anybody, but I can’t help loving it. It has its bright spots but unless you stay in those small oases it turns into a very ugly place at night, The cops hardly try anymore – too many crimes, too many gangs. It’s funny how you get used to it. Used to watching out for the sun setting, for the alleys like open mouths, for the people with gleaming eyes and hidden weapons. I’m sick of it. And I mean to do something about it.

My name is Delia Tyelu. I’m the White Knight.

 

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A family photo - a tall white, blond man in doing bunny ears to a shorter, chubbier white, blonde man, who is holding the hand of a short Asian woman. She has her arm around her teenage kid who has his arm around her shoulders.
Left to right: Leonard Burton, Nathan Burton, Delia Tyelu, and Joel Tyelu-Burton. Picture taken on Joel’s 19th birthday.

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Lexember 2017 – Nyjichxn #6

I don’t get to garden today. The Santa Ana winds damaged the fence so one of my roommates and the neighbor are fixing it. So instead, ya’ll get updates! Yay!

One of the fun but sometimes frustrating things about translating is that you keep finding situations where what you did before doesn’t work. This is one of them. In previous sentences zɯ got the accusative case marker, but it could be replaced by the answer. So, new rule was noted: if zɯ can’t be replaced by an object answering the question, it’s unmarked.

Lexeme: sɯa
Gloss: world, planet
Combination Form: sɯ
Stress: IPA: Ŋyjichɯn phonetic:
Singular: sɯa – sɯa sɯa
Paucal: soosɯ soosɯ ˈsɜːʔ.zɯ soo’zɯ
Plural: sɯasɯ sɯasɯ sɯɜ.ˈzɯ sɯozɯ

Example Usage:

suizɯasɯn sychiyvmowza zɯ
sɯa<uiz>ɯa-sɯn sy<chi-yv>mow-za (stem: syza) zɯ
planet<PEJ>planet-ACC origin<1s.SBJ-3s.POBJ>you-origin what
What damn planet are you from?
Phonetic: suisɯazɯŋ sijiyvmoza zɯ
IPA: sʊy.ˈsɯa.zɯŋ sy.ˈdʒɪiv.ɱɜ.ˌza zɯ

PEJ = pejorative

Singular, Paucal, and Plural

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Lexember check-in

I’ve come up with a bunch of words for Nyjichxn because I was on a roll, but I have to do all the fiddly bits before they’re ready to share. It won’t be tomorrow, because I’m going to a thing. Probably won’t be Sunday because I’m going to prune the heck outta the tomatoes and do other gardening crap. But those eight words are coming soon.

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