Start Something Epic

[maxxie-or-smth]

you ever crave something you can't have? ssssshut up about your ex i mean i want grilled cheese but im scared of the stove

[jumpingwjoy]

travellers of outer wilds ventures….🌌🏕️🔥

[jumpingwjoy]

you can always come home 🌲

[yorhaw]

[dogpuppy]

[bebs-art-gallery]

Christmas Tree by Boris Groh

[tatters-the-bat]

Are they like..... Yknow.... [Goes to do a hand gesture but forgets I'm a wizard and I accidentally cast Lv50 lightning bolt]

[thegeekstressart]

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.

[rosefinchie]

how it all feels lately

[armengoldira]

[drdougdouglass]

[doggofactory]

[slimegirldick]

These are possibly the best tags I've ever seen. Tomato schlorpus indeed

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

actually we in the community prefer the term "escape artist." yes that is the preferred terminology. no i get it's not what you grew up with. yes i know you weren't trying to be offensive. going forward maybe just try to avoid stigmatized terms like "escaped fugitive" or "killer at large". we are trying to move beyond that as a community

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

escapee. escapist. escape artisan. all good terms! while terms like "fugitive from justice" and "escaped maniac" are dated and play into old stereotypes we are trying to move beyond. i am more than just my (long. long.) list of crimes!

[thegeniusidiotnstickmerchant3728]

Non escape artists can reblog this too btw.

[fodart]

Thanks, I’m still stuck

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

hold still im getting the crisco

[iteratedextras]

Poll: You arrive home to find your friend’s cat explaining that Italians are indigenous to the Americas.

1. Wow!  A talking cat!

2. Argue.

[iteratedextras]

Poll: After you tell the cat that he is grounded from Twitter, he informs you that he partnered with a chronoterrorist to bring a large group of Italians to the Americas tens of thousands of years in the past, before the original migrations of modern humans to the continent. Their descendants were subsequently slain and replaced by various migrating bands (mostly from Asia) that became the American Indians. Traces of Italian DNA exist within the present population.

Who now has the rights to the land of the present United States?

3. Italians

4. American Indians

5. The United States

6. Time Travel is genocide

[iteratedextras]

Poll: After you shake the cat for altering the timeline in order to win an argument on Twitter, he reveals that he had originally placed a newspaper ad asking for you to be retroactively genetically enhanced, which is how he met the chronoterrorist, who agreed to change your genes prior to your birth in exchange for the location of various radioactive materials. The cat activated the change by pushing a button.

Your present prosperity is due to these genetic enhancements which you received; in the original timeline you are deeply impoverished.

7. By overwriting the past you, the cat is guilty of murder.

8. Retroactively altering someone’s genome is an altogether different crime from murder.

9. No crime was committed.

10. Contemporary fissionable materials are rightfully the property of contemporary people; chronoprospecting is a criminal activity to which the cat is an accomplice.

[iteratedextras]

Poll: Your friend returns and tells you that the cat is lying about the time travel.  In fact, the cat habitually tells lies in order to cause discourse.

Is the cat still grounded from Twitter?

11. Yes

12. No

[everythingfox]

Volume up

[everythingfox]

Mwah

[karatekamania]

hey, I went to Mad At You Island and it wasn't empty. there was a stranger you were a bit curt with on a bad day, an old friend who you got into a falling out with, a labmate who's experiment you messed up by mistake, someone who's birthday you forgot, an internet stranger who is hellbent on deciding you're not morally good enough for not reblogging a post or not following a one day boycott. and it is kind of mortifying to realise that Mad At You Island will never be uninhabited, but it's just a fact of life. and if you try to reduce the population to zero, you'll end up whittling yourself down to nothing

[kawaiichuchu13]

[everythingfox]

Did not see a single one of those coming