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ok please note i had no idea what i was doing for any of this and theres probably a much better way to construct a base BUT this is what…. ended up happening

the vague shape of it is getting there … . .

needs more bands

MORE BANDS

becoming a flat onion

the top is removed so i can get inside of it

… and then a band of cardboard is placed on the inside to support it ( its standing !! )

the bands are cut on the places where they jut out and then overlapped and taped, so the shape is smoother but its STILL an onion

so i cut the whole damn thing in half and added a big band of cardboard in the middle to lengthen it out. the Orb is being born

its rounded out a little bit more on the sides and then the mouth is cut out

FABRIC

F A B R I C ( this is the point in the game where my gluegun stopped working, and so everything from this point on is glued by me heating the sticks over a candle flame. nice

the seams on the fabric are cut and glued into place ( and hand stitched in a lotta places and a lot of em look, Really bad in the back h hah HA ) and the teeth ( fleece, cardboard to keep em flat, and a little bit of stuffing ) are thrown in the mouth

tongue cuttin

handstitched the seams on the tongue, got the base for it ready and the eyes cut out

the EYES ( cardboard with white on one side, black on the other, and a little thin strip of black going along the edge ) ( also the pupils arent glued down yet hey )

EYES

TONGUE

THERE THEY ARE

tulle time, so much goddamn tulle

SO much of it just everywhere on the back its a mess, the back looks like an awful grape but it doesnt matter its the BACK

heres the Looking Hole ( theres black mesh netting over the top ) - the little pink eye details are also in

and then here it is, this Mess ( tights and boots both are probably gonna change but Oh Well ) i dont know what the tongue was doing so crooked in these shots but its TOO LATE UPDATE: THERES actually a video of it in motion heyooo

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This is cursed but I love it

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A fine and excellent handmade thing with legs

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I believe that this is a Pokemon.

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I mostly got Xenoblade 2 because I was interested in Joseph Anderson’s theory that it was actually a brilliant parody of everything bad about JRPGs. And I kind of saw that angle before I realized I could switch to Nia and ditch those losers. Get lost, assholes!

Nia’s not a particularly interesting (as of 3 hours in) or well-designed character, but “basically tolerable” is so much better that anything else in the game that she instantly vaulted to Best Girl.

Also her tiger can climb vertical surfaces and that’s great. So I started digging the game unironically. The story is dumb, but I’m seeing a lot of potential in the combat as it slowly opens up.

If you care about words like “Ludonarrative”, though, this games is bonkers stupid.

So, I fought off some cops trying to arrest me, which is the first point where the “everyone shouts their attack names every time” thing starts getting really stupid and this lady showed up

And everyone was like “You’re fucked now this is the strongest person on earth”. She gave a speech, but I missed it because her theme song is way louder than her voice actor is because the sound design in this game is comically awful. We fought her, and since I was playing as - and thus engaging as - the white mage, I drew all the aggro on her and died.

And when you die in this game, you get kicked back to the start of the zone but you don’t lose your progress. So I respawned after getting killed and was informed that Pyra had advanced a social rank during the fight. And I leveled up a bit, got non-useless equipment, figured out how pouches worked, and I walked back to the alley where I fought her, and see her standing there patiently waiting for me like she’s a Dark Souls boss and me dying is part of the deepest lore. Walking up to her triggers the fight with no cutscene or acknowledgement of how I escaped her and then voluntarily went back to her so that I could try to escape her again.

So I fought her again and beat her….only for her to pull the ol’ “lose in gameplay win in cutscene” trick and win anyway. She couldn’t beat me when she actually beat me, her only way to beat me was for me to beat her so that she could negate my win in cutscene. That’s incredible in the badness of it’s game design. An unwinnable boss you’re required to beat. Wow.