Lurking About

I post whatever, whenever

[crustystherat]

Random thing for people to consider is that since Laika is the saint of one way trips should Felicette be known as the saint of safe landings since she did make it back to the ground safely

[somefishycat]

tu LANCES félicette ? tu lances son corps comme la fusée ? oh ! oh ! prison pour les scientifiques ! prison pour les scientifiques pendant Un Mille Ans !

[bug-yogurt]

You can understand the French perfectly fine with only context but the English translation I got still had me floored

[xt1me]

I went to Wikipedia to find out what colour Laika and Félicette were (very hard since there were only black and white pictures) and I found out that while Félicette was the first cat to survive a space journey, she wasn't the first mammal to survive orbit. That was in 19 August 1960 where 2 dogs (Belka and Strelka) a gray rabbit, 40 mice (or 42, different pages said different things) and 2 rats (and 15 flasks of fruit flies and plants) went up into orbit and returned alive. Since they dogs were stuffed I could find colours for them so I made this as well.

Thanks to Heraldicart.org for some of the outlines I used

[xt1me]

More messing with abstract ribbon stuff

[xt1me]

Messing about with the ribbon brush I made in krita again.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Me, tears streaming down my face, sobbing, as I stare at the stars: it’s just so beautiful

The medieval peasant I went back in time to give a bag of Doritos to, concerned: what terrible and powerful sorcerers they must have in your age, to be able to veil the vault of heaven itself from view, as you say

Me, sniffling: I didn’t realize, I can’t, it’s so much, I, I… are the chips good, at least?

Medieval peasant, trying to make me feel better: they’re… magical, strange traveler

[xt1me]

What my prev post is referencing

[jadeharleyinc]

kind of crazy no one has drawn the time traveler and the medieval peasant staring at the night sky with their bag of doritos

[jadeharleyinc]

in 2014 there would have been shipping fanart

[xt1me]

It's not shipping but..

Pic from NASA

[xt1me]

I spent far to long making this. This is a joke I made related to my job and it took me about 43hrs.

Alt colours under the cut

[without-ado]

13 Full Moons of the Year 2026 (x)

[alex51324]

okay, so if you're like me and you're wondering why there is a blood worm moon, it turns out that it's two separate things. March is the worm moon because in the Northern hemisphere that's when the ground is usually thawing and all our little worm and bug friends start waking up! And then the blood moon is when the moon passes through the Earth's shadow and looks sorta red. This year, the worm moon happens to be a blood moon.

No bloodworms are involved.

Other names for March include Sugar Moon and Goose Moon, so if you don't like the sound of blood Worm Moon, you could say Red Sugar Moon or Shadow Goose Moon.

[evilwizard]

sorry , no. the blood worm for thee

[xt1me]

blood worm or Blood Wyrm?

[xt1me]

Avatar the last airbender Playing Cards

Back when I did the Batman playing cards I was thinking of what else I could make into cards.

Since Avatar has 4 elements and playing cards have 4 suits I though maybe I try doing that next.

I finally got around to it.

I decided to not do individual characters this time and just do the 4 nations as cards instead. This is all manly based on The Last Airbender but I did use The Legend of Korra for the Jokers

[xt1me]

Just a little something for my D&D game Sources used under the cut

Music: SILENT NIGHT | Christmas Background Music by Scott Holmes Music - Royalty Free Music Character pics by @crystallineprincess in Hero Forge Fire Explosion Video from Pixabay Sound effects: Explosion by freesound_community The Sound of dial-up Internet by William Termini Smite from Jocat Crap Guide to Paladin Uploaded by Beaky Angry Girl by Universfield

[izbnart]

Batman animation 👍🌟

[xt1me]

So cool

[xt1me]

I didn't do any of the art challenges this year but I did whip up a quick transparency trick pumpkin.

And then I forgot to post it.

Solid version under the cut

[xt1me]

The DM in my D&D game just saw Tron and made a joke about the spectral steeds we summoned having the lightcycle trails so I made this real quick. Photoshopped from this & this

[xt1me]

OSP mentioned a bit where the Sinister Six become a rock band so I thought I try photoshopping something. (Instruments picked mainly by what I thought would be easiest to photoshop)

Some quick googling, as I was trying to find pics for this, shows there is an alternative universe where the Sinister Six are a band. There is also an actual band called Sinister Six.

Individual pics under the cut

[starsinursa]

“The markings upon the band begin to fade. The writing, which at first was as clear as red flame, has all but disappeared… a secret now that only fire can tell.” - The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, 2001

Want to knit this scarf? You can download my free pattern here! :)

[sunlit-capybara]

This is called illusion knitting! Basically, you knit a pattern in 2 color stripes, but then you use the difference between the texture of knits and purls to make a pattern appear at a low angle

When you look at it from the aide, a knit stitch looks flat while a purl stitch looks like a little bump. So if you have a pattern of knits and purls you look at from the side, the knit stitches will fade into the background while the purl stitches will stay visible. You use that effect, while keeping a steady stripe pattern, to create the illusion:

From above: plain stripes because your eye focuses on the colors

From the side: you see the pattern of purl stitches because they stick up above the flatter knit stitches

(Photos source)

And this lets you do some absolutely AMAZING patterns:

Plain stripey shawl becomes a PORTRAIT

Or, like above, a scarf becomes the One Ring

[thefibrarchaeologist]

This is fascinating, thank you for the explanation! I´ve never seen something like it, but I´m also not the most experienced knitter.

[heymerle]

A source for patterns is http://www.illusionknitting.woollythoughts.com/information.html

The main site has all kinds of interesting knitting stuff, but this page is *just* illusion knitting.

[emilysidhe]

Man, I remember 20 years ago one ring illusion infinity scarves were everywhere online. You make me nostalgic for the nerdy and fandom knitting communities on livejournal

[xt1me]

This is so cool.

I’m going to try it. Even though I’ve probably only knitted 3 things in the last decade.

Let’s see how long this takes me.

[xt1me]

It's done!

It only took about 5 months.

At least I finished well before Christmas so I can give as a gift.

[xt1me]

Smaugust 31: Divine

Bahamut, technically a legendary fish, is a god in D&D. Though, this is mostly based on the one from FFX

[xt1me]

Smaugust 30: Cocoa

Hot chocolate dragon.

Admittedly I make my cocoa in a microwave

[xt1me]

Smaugust 29: Chain

Is it trapped by chains, or are the chains it's hoard?