Do Not Feed the Inquisitor

I have numerous interests that show up intermittently on my blog. Anything and everything can show up here, as I go through phases of intense obsession over one thing or another. Currently married, with a three year old, and wondering what the hell I'm doing with my life.

[massacre-girlypop]

Was thinking about this last night:

Is…is Matt’s character in C4 an asshole version of Inigo Montoya?

If Matt does not say the words “Hello, my name is Sir Julien Davinos. You killed my father. Prepare to die” this campaign, I’m gonna lose it.

[neverniko101]

who up perceiving and reacting to stimulus

[goldensunset]

per my last desperate howl at the heavens,

[starsandsupernovae]

"there's no platonic explanation for this" some of y'all need better friends

[starsandsupernovae]

"there's no platonic explanation for this" some of y'all need to be better friends

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[depsidase]

[gwinver-art]

ASSOKAPHANT PLUSHIE REAL

So!! For the past couple of months, I have been working on a plushie of Assok, from @modmad's wonderful webcomic The Property of Hate :D

I hadn't used felt to make a plush since I was a kid, and this project took a lot of work, time and efforts, but I'm extremely proud of how it turned out. Very much a labour of love :'>

Special shout-out to @sharoo, who crocheted the little Assok sock on the trunk for me!

I started it around mid-April and we're almost mid-July, so this project took just about three months to complete– although most of the last one was spent waiting for the little crochet Assok to arrive, augh. The package spent 25 days in transit why.

The pattern was made by Voynart on etsy, though I altered it quite a bit to make it resemble Assok more.

Process and WIP pictures below the cut!

After modifying the pattern I had bought I made two rounds of testing (one with just the paper pieces and another out of cheap felt) to check if it all fit together okay! This took two weeks iirc? I only had a limited amount of wool felt and I wanted to make the plushie as big as possible, so I didn't have a lot of room for errors once I got going

The head! (plus one of the paws, I was testing appliqué stitches) I made it first, because it was the most important part and I wanted to make sure I got it right

The body! I made all the paws different because they're not always the same colour in the webcomic (check pages 619, 620 and 637, for example!); likewise, I didn't use exactly the same thread colour on both sides of the body. I really enjoyed the fact that you can embrace visible stitches when working with felt, it's not something I did with my previous plushies :>

Fun fact: as I was sewing on the dark purple pieces on Assokaphant’s front legs, I had to use pliers to force the needle through both pieces of felt plus stuffing, and I managed to break the needle fdshgfds

BUT THEN I ran into A Problem: sock too big for they trunk. Of course I could've put it in the washing machine until it shrank, but, you know, I was afraid it would take a while...

THANKFULLY Sharoo came to my rescue and made a perfectly-sized Assok for me!! It's adorable aaa I'm so glad. Couldn't have done it myself, truly the cherry on top

And then I packed them off into the Tube dgfdgf

Bonus:

They got to meet Elmer wooo!

[modmad]

LOOK AT THIS INCREDIBLE THANG GWIN MADE IM

ASSOKAPHANT REAL!!!!!

[viralfrog]

[afloweroutofstone]

[toadalled]

She is very lonely

[mockva]

This guy's illusions are great

[alexaloraetheris]

[seriouslywhodidthis]

Unfortunately, I think this might be AI. While I was willing to think it was just clever editing, on a rewatch I that noticed his leg clips through the jail cell’s toilet.

[vaspider]

It's a CGI/editing failure, not AI. That's a human mistake. This guy has been doing this since 2008.

[vhen-harel]

[aukkenopsia]

birdfolks

[red-roka]

Oh, Grey Warden, What have you done? The oath you have taken Is all but broken.

[andpierres]

you should have seen me a couple of years ago!

[ploompkin]

People in a fandom who don’t post art/fics, but who reblog/like/follow/otherwise support artists and creators, my beloveds

If artists are the backbone of a fandom, then you all are the muscles. Connecting everyone and everything. Spreading fun and whimsy. That’s real neat, I think

I adore you all so much

[lindriart]

:D