I don’t normally post stuff here on Tumblr but I was just so happy with my cosplays this weekend from FanX that I had to!
Seriously one of the bests cons I’ve been to and it’s all thanks to my wonderful friends and the new people I got to meet!
Dungeon Master Tango is inspired by @lunarcrown with the cloak design from @wasyago , both used with permission (thank you!)
@queendomcosplay and I did Scarland employees the next day. Thank you bestie for all the hard work you did on the uniforms with all the little details!
Last day @queendomcosplay and I were ImpDubs from Double Life, which was so much fun for the Life series meet-up we had that day. 10/10 will be doing more Bdubs cosplay in the future.
Something something it was always going to end this way.
Process under the break!
EDIT: I will be selling this as a print sometime in the near future! If you are interested, follow me or my pinned post to get updates on that!
A piece has never consumed me quite like this one did. I spent every spare minute making DOTS for A WEEK. I skipped class to work on this! I SKIPPED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. I LOVE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ANDI SKIPPED IT FOR THIS.
Because this was an assignment for my drawing class, it was very well documented.
This assignment was called The Vehicle Project.
Firstly, we needed to explore all the directions we could go, which was a problem for me since I decided I was making Iron Lung fanart for this project after I had seen the movie. As a part of this, we needed to explore different objects that could be incorporated, but again, I was dead set on making that submarine lol.
Because our vehicle needed a minimum of two wheels, I needed to adjust the submarine’s design a little bit and decided to put water wheels in those tube things.
And then my next decision was to make the eldritch eel using stippling (shading with dots). On my 18 x 24 inch paper…
Pro tip: Don’t do that if you have any self respect.
I spent days stippling, getting what felt like zero progress done.
And then the dots were finished.
And then I have no progress shots of me painting it because I was deliriously painting until 5 AM the morning it was due. I do have what I submitted though.
And I didn’t like it lol. Don’t trust any decision made after 3 AM, pro tip. I revisited it over a week after submitting it and got rid of the pink on its face (what was I thinking?) and made the text brighter and more luminous.
Weirdly enough, the most miserable part of this project wasn’t even the stippling. I got used to that, it was relaxing even. The fucking letters gave me the most trouble. I hate painting letters never make me do it again <- gonna have to do it again.
Anyways that has been my contribution to the Iron Lung hype on this lovely site.
This is how I think about the ending, about Dark. Based on my own theory.
When we died, we saw Celine and Damien. They asked us to take our body so we accepted. But it was not them, it was Dark.
They’re baits made out from Dark to trick us and take our body. They’re not an actual Celine and Damien. It’s fake.
Those two and Dark is not a same person.
unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school
things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)
how to troubleshoot by yourself when you have a technical problem
what common file types are
some very basics on how to use ""developer tools"" on your computer (because i cant think of a better way to refer to them) like task manager and command prompt (and their mac equivalents, terminal and activity monitor ofc)
how to read and understand a privacy policy and what your personal data is, as well as what it being collected actually means and steps you can take to keep it private
how to understand terms of service
(hey. if you have trouble with reading legalese and worry about being able to understand these policies anyways, here's a site that gives basic summaries of privacy policies and ToS)
what a cookie actually is
internet privacy and your digital footprint!! seriously i dont know why we stopped teaching people that they shouldnt be putting their entire real identity online in a world where your online actions can ruin you irl
basic safety measures like antivirus software (and why you should use it or if the built in one on windows or mac is enough for you) and backing up your computer (also a mac guide)
common keyboard shortcuts (and on mac)
as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on
vpns and adblockers! (btw for most of these where you can pay for things im purposefully not recommending any specific software but seriously just use ublock origin for an adblocker)
how to not get a virus while pirating something
what a temporary email is and when to use one
red flags that you shouldn't trust a website (and how to quickly check the security of a site)
what javascript on a website does and how to disable it to get around paywalls
ok one last addition! if you want to take it one level higher, i think learning the very basics of at least one programming language is good for people. it makes computers less scary and it makes you feel very cool, and a lot of people get discouraged about it because it seems overly complicated and hard to learn outside a formal classroom setting, so heres some resources for learning the very basics of python (because i consider it the easiest language to learn and knowing one language will make it easier to learn others)
an online compiler so you dont need to download anything or worry about running code directly on your computer if that makes you nervous
a basic video guide to introduce you to python and walk you through beginner steps
a guide to some syntax and commands you should know (this was literally my lifeline in my first CS class)
some performance tasks to give you things to code to practice and assess yourself
