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Building Bitzer part 9 Owing to the enormous setback of a broken clicker plus the fact that N-O-B-O-D-Y is selling friction-powered machine...

Building Bitzer part 9

Owing to the enormous setback of a broken clicker plus the fact that N-O-B-O-D-Y is selling friction-powered machine guns any more… I’m working on the mask appliance and the heart once more.

I decided to test and see if lamp black would work with the crackle top coat [Thanks to Masters, the only place that had what I was looking for!]. It didn’t, by the way.

The best results were achieved with the kit, which produced a nice, fine crazing with gentle application of the overcoat.

And I’m doing both sides of the mask because I can never remember which side is the left. Sometimes, I am an intense derp.

The mask is now drying in the sun and I shall commence twiddling with blinky lights.

…something I have no truck with…

Wish me luck

My main tools in the foreground

My test arena. Spray paint on the left, roller paint on the right

...and with the top coat on. I was experimenting with varying thicknesses to see what worked

Success! Micro-crazing!

And a comparison with a ruler for scale

The second mask after a heavy base coat. I may have overdone some portions

We're losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome

We’re losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome

missdoodle:

Many modern action movies, including How To Train Your Dragon 2, are visibly trying to make their female characters more than trophies and ...

I hadn't thought of it this way before but now that it's been pointed out to me this makes me so sad, because it's completely true.

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Challenge #00608 - A243: Wait, what?

Found embedded in the radio signature of almost every star that had a sapient species evolve in orbit around it:

Couldn’t solve the heat death problem in this version. By the time we figured that out, life had evolved. Sorry about that. Good luck.
-The Creators

“It’s the same message. Encoded into every star that evolved life over sixteen billion years ago.”

“It’s taken two thousand years of research and decoding to decipher the

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hellyespapermario: calliedope: thehijackbunny: silversteampunk: I used this image because I've seen it posted without a source SO many...

hellyespapermario:

calliedope:

thehijackbunny:

silversteampunk:

I used this image because I’ve seen it posted without a source SO many times.  (I’m looking at you Disney fandom)

Artwork - [x]

I’m gonna go ahead and signal boost the living fuck out of this.

http://saucenao.com/ is a good site to use as well. Another thing you can do is add sources to unsourced art you see on your dashboard so anyone who reblogs from you will spread the source around

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Challenge #00607 - A242: One Disasterous Afternoon, Mid-Alien-Invasion

Most certainly a [species] spy in disguise. I mean not. Not a [species] spy. Human. Completely human. Yes.

“Oh, now, come on,” said the Doctor. “That can’t be a Friendly. That’s obviously a Golgafraxan spy in disguise. Do none of you notice her complexion?”

“Doctor…”

“If it is a her. They get the genders mixed up.”

“Doctor…”

“Look I’ll prove it. Golgafraxans react

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Challenge #00606 - A241: Essential Equipment

Recalibrate your sarcasm detector.

“All right,” said Ama. “Where we’re going has lots of humans. So let’s make sure we’re prepared. Remember, even though they’re Class Four Deathworlders, they don’t mean to harm us. They’re aware of our relative frailties and will act accordingly.”

“Yes’m,” said the entire class. They were halfway into their safety suits.

El struggled with her Permaseal Line, panicking, and desperate to not be left

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Building Bitzer part 8 This interesting little gizmo is a Clicker. That’s my official name for it. dakhur tore down a rattling toy...

Building Bitzer part 8

This interesting little gizmo is a Clicker. That’s my official name for it.

dakhur tore down a rattling toy gun, and a couple of non-functioning toy cars to build this nifty little device.

It’s up to me to figure out how to make it work. And I have the gear-sense of a dead whelk. I have gears, thanks to a secret cache of asthma medication thingies [I know, so technical] and only the vaguest

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Ah, the wee small hours

My continuing sleep issues battle against two factors: A restless SO, and a hungry cat.

Best-beloved woke me up at 3AM today. In the time between then and 5:30, I have:

  • tried desperately to get back to sleep

  • re-read some of my own fanfic

  • disassembled some old seratide and flixotide dispensers for the gears

  • and sorted some DVDs out.

It’s going to be a fun day. I can tell.

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sorayachemaly: 10 Simple Words Every Girl Should Learn These behaviors, the interrupting and the over-talking, also happen as the result of...

sorayachemaly:

10 Simple Words Every Girl Should Learn

These behaviors, the interrupting and the over-talking, also happen as the result of difference in status, but gender rules.

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Challenge #00605 - A240: Tax Haven

“I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.” – Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

Patriot Imbaw swaggered up to the immigration counter, and pressed his paperwork through the little slot. “I need citizenship on this here Galactic Station ay-sap. How can we -ah- accelerate that process?” He had a greasy smile and greasy hair. In fact, just about everything about him could be described in terms of grease. It seemed like he perspired oily residue that had no origin in the

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