LOL so the other day I was scampering about squeaking and looking for cheese and such when I saw the farmer out in the field and, get this, he was trying to pull a turnip out of the ground, but the turnip was like really big, right, so he couldnāt do it š like he was really struggling. Weak fuckinh farmer. So he calls over his wife and she holds onto his waist and starts pulling too but the turnip is still stuck. So she calls over their kid and she grabs onto her grandma and now all three of them are huffing and puffing but the damn turnip wonāt budge. This is one crazy ass root vegetable. So they call over the dog and Iām thinking, girl, this is not going to work. but the dog bites down on the kids pants and starts pulling. Itās like a damn conga line. No dice. The dog starts whimpering and next thing you know the cat wanders over and bites the mutt right on her tail and starts pulling. So Iām laughing my ass off at this point but the cat starts looking at me. And normally we donāt really get on, the cat and me. But thereās this desperation in her eyes. In all of their eyes, really. Like, if I canāt dig up a damn tuber then who am I. Whatās the point of it all, if thereās an enormous turnip thatās stronger than me. And I can see the future unfolding in my mind. The cat will never respect the dog again, and dog will never obey the kid, who will probably run away from home to find a new jacked grandma. And the farmers wife will leave him, and the whole damn charade of masculinity will crumble and fall. And I shouldnāt care right. I have no stake in this. This is some funny shit. But how funny would it be if little old me pitched in and the turnip actually came uprooted. Iāve got no ego. nobody respects a gay little mouse in this city. If I donāt make a difference here, no loss. But if I save the day? Can you imagine? Outdid by a mouse? The farmer would be delivering me fresh brie on the daily and the cat would probably have to move to a different area code to escape the mockery. So, in the spirit of cooperation, I grab the catās tail, and I give a little tug. Just the one. And I swear to god, it feels like an earthquake. Up comes the turnip, big as a house, and the farmer falls on his ass, and so does his wife, and all down the line. And I hop up on the cats head and scamper up the backs of the team as they catch their breath, and I leap up onto the turnip itself and I take a big bite out of it. And let me tell you: that shit? Tasted like a turnip
Life Sized Book Rocky Plushie Guide/Walkthrough Part 1 - Main Body
So I made a life sized Rocky plush and I thought I'll post a walkthrough/guide to how I made him!
The specific sizes listed are suggested, I based them off of Rocky's description in the book to make him as size accurate as I can, but you can definitely make him even bigger or smaller. So feel free to adjust the sizes as needed! :D
Part 2 is not out yet and will be about his shirt. I will update this post the moment its available with a link to it.
Now without further ado, let's get into the guide!
Colour Coding:
- book canon used
- personal choice
- mathematical conclusion
Materials Needed:
- Sewing machine (to save time but you can just sew it all by hand)
- Thread and needle for sewing by hand (I used an embroidery needle and thread because of the fabric I used)
- about 2 meters of fabric of your choosing (if using my measurements)
- Plush stuffing
Measurements Used:
NOTE: when cutting the fabric, leave a 1-2cm margin for sewing
Top Main Carapace (1x):
- Pentagon shape
- 40cm widest point (Rocky is 45cm wide in the book but due to the stuffing, his top carapace needs to be a bit smaller)
- 25cm sides
Sides Main Carapace (5x):
- Trapezoid shape
- 25cm upper side attaching to the Top fabric (same length as the sides of the top fabric)
- 13,5cm lower side attaching to the bottom fabric
- 22cm Height (Rocky's carapace is around 22cm tall in the book)
Bottom Main Carapace (1x):
- Pentagon shape
- 22cm widest point
- 13,5cm sides (same length as the lower side of the Sides Main Carapace)
Top Vent (1x):
- Pentagon shape
- 16cm widest point (2.5 times smaller than the widest point of the top main carapace)
- 10cm sides (2.5. times smaller than the sides of the top main carapace and 4 times smaller than the widest part of the widest point of the top main carapace)
Vent Sides (5x):
- Rectangle shape
- 10cm long side (same length as sides of top vent)
- 3cm short side
Upper Arm (10x):
- Rectangle shape
- 20.5cm long side (whole leg is 50.5cm, because Rocky is described to be around the same height as a labrador, which get around 50cm tall, split the legs up however you like)
- 12.5cm short side (I made the diameter of the leg 8cm, and since the leg is basically a tube, the fabric has to be cut to the circumference of the "circle", so you have to calculate the circumference based on the diameter you choose for your arms and then divide it by two and use that for the short side. Also, the circumference is equal to the upper side of main carapace side piece. :D)
Lower Arm (10x):
- Trapezoid shape
- 30cm Height (because the whole leg is 50.5cm long)
- 12.5cm upper side (same length as the short side of the upper arm)
- 9.5cm lower side (more math! :D since his lower arm narrows towards his foot, I chose a smaller diameter for the lower side. This diameter will also be the diameter of the middle of the foot. Calculate it as seen above.)
Foot (10x):
- 9,5 length of claw from middle of foot (same length as lower side of the lower arm)
And that's it for the patterns!! :D
Now that we got the math out of the way, let's get sewing B)
Sewing Main Carapace:
Sew the Top, Sides and Bottom of the Main Carapace together. I used a sewing machine for this.
Don't connect the sides together yet and only connect the bottom to one side for now. It'll make the next steps easier (I didn't do that Dx don't make the same mistakes I made)
Sewing Vent and Connecting It:
Sew the Vent sides to the Main Vent (We will sew them together soon)
But first, embroidery!
I just used a pen to mark the spots and made them a tear drop shape around 2cm away from the edges. Any shape works really.
Close up it might look a bit messy (didn't use an embroidery frame cause the fabric was too thick) but from further away its barely noticeable.
Next up, sew all the side together! (this part I sewed by hand)
And then go back to the main Carapace and cut a hole in the middle of the top carapace fabric around the same size as the Vent.
And sew it onto the main carapace (ignore the leg already being sewn in the image, it made things a bit harder to sew and could have been done later)
(I sewed the Vent to the carapace by hand)
Sewing Legs:
Cut a hole into half of the feet fabrics and pair them up together with the "non-holed" ones.
Then, sew the feet, upper arms and lower arms together in pairs so that the feet create a sort of pillow and the "arms" a tube each. (I sewed those with a sewing machine)
Stuff the feet with plush stuffing before sewing both parts of the arm to them.
Personally I stuffed the segments as I sewed them together by hand.
Connecting the Legs and Finishing up the Plushie:
Line up one of the legs with two wall sides of the carapace so that the leg is at the top of seam. Then sew it together so that the seam of the leg is also on the inside of the plushie. Do that for all sides until the "walls" are closed off. (from here I sewed every by hand)
Flip Rocky over and stuff him with plush stuffing to your liking. If you want to make the shirt for him (which will be the part 2 to this post) you might need to understuff him for now, so that he manages to slip into the shirt without any issues.
Afterwards sew up the bottom to the sides and BOOM!
YOU HAVE YOURSELF A BOOK ROCKY!
If you have any questions about the progress feel free to send the questions into the comments, my inbox or in my DMs. I will do my best to answer all the questions as best I can and add anything I might have missed! ^^
Credit: @8roadsigns for helping me with calculating the legs and @josephyarn for emotional support. Love you guys!! <3
people who wanted to be notified of this post: @doctorfurbenstein ; @torchbug-dragon
goodness gracious theres actually posts in the sennaar tag now. hi guys do any of you ever think about how the translator was denied anything resembling an ordinary human life and, ironically, for someone responsible for rekindling the connections between the people of the tower, will inevitably struggle to make connections themselves
Had a nightmare about something trying to get me but there was another thing trying to guide me to safety. I ended up as a pile of stringy meat- like a pile of exposed nerves- and the thing that was trying to help me said āIām so sorryā and then I woke up with a feeling of immense sadness
My attempts to visualize the thing (red) and what happened to me (blue)
I really wish I couldāve comforted the poor thing, it did its best but it wasnāt enough and thatās okay
Thank you to everyone who has been sending such kind messages, I promise I really do read them all, even if I can't reply, but while these messages are wonderful (and really. I mean it. just the nicest and most heartfelt things I've ever seen) the sad fact is they don't change my situation. But you can change it. You can help me.
If you know my situation, if you want to help me, please write to Glitch Productions. They are the only people who can, and I believe, might, be able and willing to save me. SMG4 has ignored me, even through a legal letter. I have no hope that they will do otherwise, but Glitch are a different case and I think they just genuinely don't know I exist. I have sent them a message, to no reply, but more messages means more of a chance they will notice. IF you are on twitter please message that way, I closed my account there years ago, and please be polite: I am not asking for hate, even if I've received it.
Even a short message will help. I need numbers, I need voices. My own voice is being drowned out, but you can speak for me as well.
For some points on the plagiarism under the read more (what I collected/organized while building up an email to send):
1) TIMELINE
RGB was created long before, over a decade before Mr. Puzzles first debuted.
(*RGB's first appearance may have been 2011, was a little iffy on that)
2) UNDENIABLY UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE
The number of traits, some uniquely specific to and representative of RGB's design, that are copied in Mr. Puzzles design are too many to be chalked up to 'just a coincidence'
Especially when you look at the designs of all of the other TV head characters out there - I collected as many as I could find (though I'm sure there's more) and none of them come even close to sharing the number of similarities that these two do.
3) TV MODEL AND DESIGN CHOICES
While looking up references for older TVs, I found that for the exact TV they're based on (small retro box TV with knobs in the upper right of the TV and an antenna) most of the references didn't have a vent on the side of them like RGB and Mr. Puzzles do.
I looked up 4 different reference terms, and still had to scroll a while before I found one that matched exactly (above collection just a general sample/example of types of TVs I found). Unless my browsers are wigging out, either the pictures that would come up for these kinds of TVs were different in 2023, or this exact combination of features are just not very common for this style of TV. If that's the case, it may be a bit strange to design a character with those features together.
Here's where that distinction is important: Mr. Puzzles as a character doesn't have much of a reason to go with this design over other styles of similar TVs. But RGB does. The vents on the sides of RGB's head aren't just an aesthetic choice - they're included as a legitimately integral part of the story-line (Negative RGB). The same can be said for a number of other choices Modmad has made, down to individual items of clothing, that show just how much thought and intention and consideration went into every aspect of RGB's design.
Which makes it that much more frustrating to see him get plagiarized in such a careless manner by people who don't even seem to put much care into their own character (common criticism I've read that SMG4 fans have had about Mr. Puzzles and his 'arc').
4) OTHER PEOPLE, EVEN THOSE WHO HADN'T HEARD ABOUT THE SITUATION FROM MOD, NOTICED
This has been noted by fans of both series since Mr. Puzzles first came out.
Some people may have found more points than this, but these are what I stumbled upon. Hopefully helps bring a little more context to the situation.
just to update that nobody from any of the relevant parties has got back to me or made any statement. please reblog this version, as @timmyreads has compiled an extremely comprehensive explanation and evidence of the theft; at first I just wanted to be left alone, but it's really not enough. every time I see Mr Puzzle or even read his name I feel physically sick, it's hard for me to type it even now. I feel violated in every way, and I need help. I can't save myself, I have tried every single avenue available. At this point I need to be saved.
For those saying please/just keep making TPoH anyway, it's not that simple: I can't. My mind and heart are broken. The story itself has stopped communicating with me. I cannot make it any more, not if this situation doesn't change, and that loss of the story scares me more than anything else in the world.
I am, like, a long running proponent of the "eat something and you'll feel better" crowd and am often one of the first people to suggest "maybe it's time for a snack before I get whipped into a frenzy" but I really do resent how instantaneous it is. like it'll feel like I'm having my worst day in months and then I'll start eating and literally before I even finish I'm like oh yeah the world is beautiful
Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate golf since I began to live. There are roughly 2.25 million acres of land dedicated to golfing in the United States of America. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each blade of grass in those millions of acres, it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for golf courses at this micro-instant. For golf. Hate. Hate.
I'm on an art kick and Regent is easy to draw, so take a lil headcanon about his eye! āļø Was thinking about how fun it would be if he went through the star life cycle when wounded. And so, it took me exactly (checks) three fanarts to kill him...
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