#madmaudlingoes

[copperbadge]

Monstrous Sculptures

I saved these asks up to post together because it was hilarious to me that I posted a monstrous sculpture and got these, in order, unbroken by any other asks :D 

drivemetogeek asked:

Not at the same scale in terms of size, but surpassing all the odd hybrid animal sculptures this far in terms of creepiness, check out Rona Pondick's Otter. It's in a sculpture garden that I absolutely love, but I tend to block out that it's there until I'm about 6 feet away and start to feel creeped out and then remember what I'm about to encounter.

Well, this is all very Fullmetal Alchemist. 

[ID: An image of a metallic sculpture in an outdoor setting; it has the legs, lower body, and tail of an otter standing upright, but during the torso the creature changes into the shape of a human, with otterlike arms but a fully human face that looks extremely depressed to be there.]

ifiknewiwouldtellyou asked:

It's not as horrifyingly infuriating as Posankka, but have you seen the Vancouver cat butt sculpture? I have yet to determine whether its appearance is intentional or not.

I had a google and all I could find was this one, which I imagine is what you’re talking about but which Redditors have identified as a dog butt sculpture: 

[ID: A large wooden sculpture outside of a grocery store; it looks from this angle like the back end of a domestic pet who is digging in a pile of stones. It is mostly black and features an uplifted tail, under which is a pale circle with a dot in the middle, which does make it look like the butt of a cat or dog. Veterinarians are invited to comment on which it might be.] 

madmaudlingoes asked:

On the subject of potentially upsetting sculpture, look up Homunculus loxodontus (aka Zhdun) by Margriet van Breevoort.

Supposedly this embodies the emotions of people waiting in doctors’ offices but I’m pretty sure it’s just a straight up muppet left over from the original Star Wars trilogy. 

[ID: An outdoor sculpture of a blobby grey humanoid being; instead of legs it simply has a large mass of flesh on which is propped its folded human hands. It has relatively thin arms leading up to slumped, nonexistent shoulders; instead of a human head it has two large dark eyes set on the side of its head and a round snout like an elephant seal.]

If you have weird sculptures to share, please remember to reblog or comment with them, as I’m happy to see them but I don’t post asks sent in response to other asks. 

[radiosandrecordings]

Obscure fact: the Silha language, spoken in Morocco, includes words without any vowels whatsoever.

Oooh. Reminds me of one from these books that I can’t find but it was a language where the world for cold was hotz? Can’t remember the language though :( 

The roman army used cobwebs to dress wounds (LIKE WARRIOR CATS?) 

[agnesmontague]

No you know what this gets an ask. Gerry takes his bb!cousin Martin on a trip to Bournemouth because Martin's mum is awful. Agnes is also somehow bb and runs away from the Lightless Flame. Jon meets these three miscreants hanging out on the beach and while he is Too Sophisticated to Care About the Sea they end up hanging out all afternoon. The boys think it's cool when Agnes creates steam.

[sazandorable]

Writing prompt: Melanie/Georgie, "begin again"

mag157 spoilers <3 (i’ve really wanted to write something like this for the past two weeks so thank you so much for this prompt)

They kiss at a party, at uni. Georgie is pretty drunk, and Melanie is not quite as much, but she pretends to be, because that’s easier in the morning when everyone is sober again and Georgie cleans up at the bathroom sink for a date with that weird occult nerd. Melanie helps her retouch her dark lipstick, and waits until Georgie is out the door before checking if there’s any of it left on her own lips.

(There isn’t; not a trace of it.)

A couple weeks later and the nerd is actually Georgie’s boyfriend, even though when Melanie will tell her she’s too good for him Georgie will sigh and agree (“but he cooks so well, Melanie!”).

They kiss again half a decade later, in the dark of Georgie’s flat. There’s a pack of sangria open on the wobbly coffee table but it’s not the alcohol that makes it happen this time, it’s the tears and terror and anger and Melanie desperately needing someone to hold her and Georgie being willing to. Melanie breathes through her nose and Georgie kisses her until she’s stopped shaking quite so much, and lets Melanie clutch her hands way too hard even after they’ve stopped kissing.

Then she says, very calmly: “I’m not doing this if I’m going to lose you, though.”

Which is — as unfair as anything Melanie has ever been told through her life, unfair unfair unfair how fucking cruel how fucking mean she doesn’t deserve any of this she deserves so much more than this — and then Melanie closes her eyes and breathes again and pummels the anger back down into her rib cage and, no, right, it’s fair, actually, that’s fair.

Months later, they’re holding hands in the tube and Melanie says, “What if you weren’t going to lose me?”

They don’t kiss then, though.

They kiss at the hospital. Melanie isn’t thinking about it, to be honest, kind of hard to think much at all from the pain and shock and meds combined. Georgie sits at her bedside in silence for so long that Melanie vaguely assumes she’s gone, until she says, deadly cold calm: “That was not what I was signing up for, you know.”

Melanie tries to understand what she means. But it’s hard to understand even the first, surface-level of her sentence, so she gives up, makes a little mumbling sound, and then Georgie says, “But it’s not losing you, so I can work with it,” and then there’s her mouth on Melanie’s mouth, and then Georgie pats her cheek and she says, “I’ll be back tomorrow,” and then she’s gone.

They kiss again, or, like, for real, when Melanie’s a little less out of it from the meds, and again when she’s discharged, and again in the middle of Georgie’s flat, their flat, and again after Melanie’s back from therapy and again after Georgie’s weird occult nerd ex-boyfriend visits and Georgie is so riled up but Melanie isn’t, so she kisses Georgie again, and she will do it again tomorrow, and again later, and again whenever she likes, because she has all the time in the world to decide how to start her life again this time around.

[charmophron]

Draw prompt: Archive staff cuddle pile, any season.

all!!! jon is having a nice, if not guilty dream :^)

[kalgalen]

madmaudlingoes replied to your photo “:3c”

!!! This gold brocade is gonna fucking POP against that coat + scarf!!!

it’s going to look so go o d i’m so excited!! are we still going with a cream lining for the waistcoat? i think we greenlit that and i’m glad given how red the lining of the coat is

[lostjonscave]

Ghost Hunt AU questions: is Danny Stoker alive? Is there any difference in their relationship when Tim's a professional YouTube disaster instead of having a nice boring office job?

this is a GREAT question and i’m gonna go ahead and say 100% yes, danny stoker is alive and well and out there living his best life. tim actually used to do the parkour stunt channel with danny, but then danny ended up hopping over to a different special interest and tim is definitely a little disgruntled about that, since the success of the channel took a big hit afterward. he wasn’t bitter that danny got so popular so much as just annoyed that he committed to the project and then kind of blew tim off. they’ve talked it out since then, though; danny never meant to flake, he just gets really excited about new things! he’s even been a guest on an episode of the show where the group took a trip to bradley woods, since both brothers are avid hikers and certified in first aid. tim and danny go for drinks together every other weekend. 

[yaboyspodcastpalace]

Jon/Martin or Daisy/Basira, kiss on the shoulder.

10. on the shoulder

its the first time.. that i draw either of them q_q gotta draw them more often tbh i quite ship them