Monster-Loving Safe Zone

Howdy! I make art and shit and I love chimeras and reptiles. Currently a fourth year in my PhD Cell and Molecular Biology program. Mostly furry art + space + monster fucker blog.

[chimericmacandcheese]

swirly leeeezord~

slowly filling my home with plush lizards 🥺

This lizard is about 12in/30cm, and can pose just like the others. Made with faux fur, minky, plastic beans, white fabric mesh, polyfill stuffing, and paint pen on ribbon for the plush tag.

I can’t resist making them I just love these lil friends so much and they feel so nice to hold and stack.

I documented the process for this lizard and will post the tutorial soon.

[kirby-the-gorb]

[mapledonutlizard]

Every lizard deserves a sweater to nap in

[mapledonutlizard]

Biblically accurate sona

[chimericmacandcheese]

another queer gecko emerges 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️

please meet my scuffed nonbinary gecko plush I stayed up all night sewing, definitely rushed it but asdfghjkl now I have two pride lizards aaaaaa

This plush is the same dimensions as the trans gecko plush, roughly 12in/30cm from snout to tail tip

same as the trans gecko, it has a simple pipe cleaner skeleton to allow posing. Made with scrap fleece, faux fur, polyester plush stuffing, and plastic beans, as well as paint pens for the plush tag.

these are handsewn so i definitely need to take a break because these have been my obsession this month and i pulled too many all-nighters for these. Takes 3-4 nights of work to complete… if only I had my sewing machine.

🏳️‍⚧️Trans rights or perish🏳️‍⚧️

(plush patterns coming soon)

[fragilescales]

my nefarious trans agenda

[crispyfryy]

Happy pride month!!

[drakonstar]

ouroboros — n. a circular symbol depicting a snake, or less commonly a dragon, swallowing its tail, as an emblem of wholeness or infinity.

kofi | my website

[chimericmacandcheese]

🏳️‍⚧️Trans gecko trans gecko trans gecko🏳️‍⚧️

my ass really got the plush craving so I made myself a trans plush for pride month

It measures roughly 12 in/30 cm from snout to tail tip. Crafted from minky and fleece, filled with plastic beans and polyester plush stuffing, and plush tag made with ribbon, painted with acrylic paint.

aaaaaaand it’s posable too! I used craft pipe cleaner with this but it was very difficult to work with, I wish flexibly posable plushes were easier without wire.

[haarlow]

I wish I knew.

[unsavorythud]

Nana banana

[chimericmacandcheese]

Giant Microbes does not have haloarchaea, so I must take matters into my own hands.

This is my first attempt but I’m not the happiest with it because it prioritizes look over tactile feel. It is overstuffed so it’s not very squishy, and the tail is posable but the archaellum wire isn’t fun to cuddle.

Here’s attempt 2, going for something softer, less detailed, and cuter. Soft minky, not overstuffed, and it’s weighed down with plastic beans. Wanted to make it extra cute and added a lil tag to write my signature.

What do you think? Do you prefer my first attempt more?

I might make a tiny keychain version of one of these soon. I also want to make a bunch of these for my lab members but I need to collect more materials beforehand, both plushes were made with scraps.

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[chimericmacandcheese]

fruit fly needlefelt sculpture made for a professor, nickel for scale

It has a pipecleaner skeleton, allowing it to stand on its own and have a mild degree of posability

The wings were very challenging, as I wanted them to look transparent but couldn’t achieve that look with roving. At the very least it looks like a fly, I suppose…

[chimericmacandcheese]

I’m so touched by all the replies to this, I genuinely did not realize this would excite so many people but I’m so happy you enjoy this sculpture too.

I made this for a professor that continues to support me through the rough time I’ve been going through for the past year, and I wanted to gift something back to show how grateful I am. I gave it to my professor and she loved it, she said it made her week. She studies Drosophila melanogaster as her model organism for her research.

If you want to try your hand at this yourself please do! The pipe cleaner skeleton is a bit difficult to work it, and may damage your needle keep in mind, but it’s what allows the head, legs, and wings to move. There might be other alternative wire frames you can try, experiment!

here’s progress shots to help

Use references! I used a picture and lined up everything to retain proportions. The legs I added after wrapping roving around the thorax, but after finishing this I think keeping the legs attached to the pipe cleaner skeleton before adding roving would have been better.

The wings are mesh fabric wrapped around a pipe cleaner and fastened with hot glue, but you could try other materials too for more accurate/detailed wings!

[chimericmacandcheese]

fruit fly needlefelt sculpture made for a professor, nickel for scale

It has a pipecleaner skeleton, allowing it to stand on its own and have a mild degree of posability

The wings were very challenging, as I wanted them to look transparent but couldn’t achieve that look with roving. At the very least it looks like a fly, I suppose…

[chimericmacandcheese]

Pacifica coast

done with acrylics and gel pen

[chimericmacandcheese]

[chimericmacandcheese]

glep needle felt sculpture I gifted to a friend

the eyes are clay, painted over with acrylic and anchored with a paperclip