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Saw someone make a tma version so

I made a little appreciation video for sturgeons :)

CREATING SCI-FI FANTASY MOUNTS

Or: Katt rambles about the mechanics of running in quadropeds (and probably kangaroos and some birds, too) and how knowing this stuff will help you to give your sci-fi and/or fantasy race the PERFECT creatures to ride into battle, be they an existing animal or a creature of your own creation. 

The following post is gonna have a lot of pictures, particularly gifs and/or videos when i can find them; there’s also gonna be some pics of skeletal and/or muscular structures where necessary and probably a good number of quick sketches done by myself to illustrate my point. 

Basically, if you have a fantasy/sci-fi race and you want them to have a domesticated creature to ride on, but don’t want that creature to be horses, this post’s meant to serve as a guide to explain why humans use horses (and camels!), examine why some other animals might not be such a great option, and boil down what traits make an ideal mount. I’ll also put a list of animals I think could make cool mounts at the end of this post, though, and I know I’m long winded, so if you don’t wanna read the whole thing you’re welcome to skip ahead to that. 

LETS TALK ABOUT SOME ANATOMY.

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The malevolent fandom:

I just adore it! I love the way his voice is disconnected from his physical being. I imagine while he psychically/magically speaks, his funky little puppet mouth just opens and closes. Like yap yap yap! What a little guy!

I can't wait for Yorick to talk again because I love the clicks his jaw makes

Whatever you say bbg just keep talking

yes yes we're all going crazy about how Yorick said "Dies Irae" which means day of wrath BUT! Let me remind you. The first four notes of the MUSICAL PIECE the DIES IRAE has been used for YEARS now in musical pieces to signify death or character(s) dying. If you heard it you'd recognize it, it's used in sooo many movie scores. So yeah. Day of Wrath but also THE musical signifier for death. No one does it like the dies irae does

Hey Yorick, buddy, quick question. Why did you call Arthur and John the "Dies Irae"? I didn't catch it the first time but I did just now and it's killing me. It means Day of Wrath Yorick. Fucking Judgment Day. Why is that their title Yorick?? What the fuck does that MEAN???

I LOVE YORICK

"what is this place..." "a womb, of course 🤓☝️"

"the maggot queen will beam with pride 🤓☝️"

"why didnt you tell us?!" "you failed to ask 🤓☝️"

"and we're in the lions den already" "it is a hags hovel 🤓☝️"

This is a Yorick appreciation post. Reblog if you appreciate Yorick.

everybody wants to be my enemy

bourgeois beware arthur lester's fists are here to give you a scare!!!

rip that freemason treasurer

This is my lovely creation, his name is Bean. His main purpose was to refamiliarize myself with a sewing machine but I got overzealous with the planning so: Print-friendly version and bonus pic are under the 'keep reading'

Heres the pattern i created and used for my drink monster plush! this is free to use but make sure to credit me if you post it anywhere

I'm not the best at explaining things but I'll try to explain the important parts.

The lines on some pieces that extend into them are to be cut out to add extra curve to tight points.

The thinner part of the head middle is for the snout

Attach the neck fluff to the neck after attacking the head to the body but before adding the limbs, sew the outside of the neck fluff then turn inside out and slide up the body, then sew the top interior seam to the neck and stuff before sewing the bottom interior seam.

After that the limbs can be sewn onto the body in any order, same with the ears,whiskers, and eyes on the head.

The whiskers should be a little more towards the front of the head than i did on mine.

When sewing on the ear, fold the top spike in half before attaching to the head.

If you plan to use this and have any questions feel free to ask, I'll answer the best i can :3

As per folks asking, have the Joltik plush pattern on a DIN A 4 sheet!

First I sewed everything together from 1. - 3. and stuffed it. Next up come the 4 legs (I like to sew paw and leg parts together (4. + 5.) first before sewing both mirrored parts). 

Joltik love to crawl all around your room, preferably in high places , so adding small magnets inside the paws gives the Joltik a lot of potential hiding places! A round magnet with 10 mm x 1 - 2 mm might work best. A short furred Joltik might also need fringes like in 11. to stay warm… (The longer furred Joltik is able to hide any edges and weird proportions more efficiently as I noticed! Though both are nice to touch, so go with whatever you prefer or have on hand.)

They love th play with you, so help them out by only sewing the tips of the legs to the lowest part of the body. That way the Joltik has as much mobility as possible! More spidery that way, too!

Sewing the face is the most fickle part. I sewed extra backsides for the larger spikes and plan to add small ones on the short furred Joltik. (Small spikes didn’t really work with the long fur unfortunately…) Add a bit of wadding and a few stitches to get them into shape as well!

The eyes are done with cutting out felt! Cut a hole for the pupil and press the smaller felt inside. (I love to add a small gradient with a copic marker). The white hightlights can be glued on top and the whole eye can be glued and sewed on the face. 

For the finishing touches I trimmed some of the long hair on the long furred Joltik and glued the fur on the teeth together since that’s no place for long fur and pulled out any fur caught in between the seams.

For the short furred Joltik I plan to add more custom small spikes to the face and back (a feature the long haired Joltik doesn’t need). 

That’s all! And without further ado:

Feeding time~!

You said you made that Clydesdale from a vintage pattern? Are you able to give out the pattern/have plans to sell it, and do you have resources for places to find other vintage plush patterns? I find I struggle a lot with finding any vintage plush patterns, but they're the easiest to practice plush sewing with u_u totally okay if not though!!

Sadly it doesn’t seem to be available online anymore as the website I downloaded it from has vanished into the aether. It was IckytheCat.com or IckyCat.com but there's nothing there anymore... I'm sad because it was a great resource for hundreds of patterns.

I’ve made my modified version (with hoofs) of the horse available over here for free: https://ko-fi.com/s/ad98e35459

HIYA!! Guess what I finished!!?

This is my first ever public pattern so I hope you guys will enjoy it as much as I do!

Ko-fi

[FREE] Goldfish Snack plush pattern - Alizard's Ko-fi Shop

This Goldfish Snack plush pattern is perfect for a nice and cozy cuddle or something to chuck your friends with! Contents Contain: *Printab

Depression has been kicking me in the butt lately so I decided to make a little pill bug friend for myself using this pattern by @livvi3love. I changed a couple details to fit my own preferences (like sewing the legs rather than using felt) and I'm very happy with the result! I've been wanting an isopod plushie for a while so it was fun to make my own :>

plush makers get in on this:

want to make fred the alligator (alligator plush from l4d2) and these are my pattern rough drafts. too many seams? what should i fix?

So You've Finally Switched to Firefox: a Brief Guide to a Some Very Useful Add-Ons.

This post is inspired by two things, the first being the announcement by Google that the long delayed Manifest V3 which will kill robust adblocking will finally roll out in June 2024, and the second, a post written by @sexhaver in response to a question as to what adblockers and extensions they use. It's a very good post with some A+ information, worth checking out.

I love Firefox, I love the degree of customization it offers me as a user. I love how it just works. I love the built in security features like DNS over HTTPS, and I love just how many excellent add-ons are available. It is a better browser than Chrome in every respect, and of the many Chromium based browsers out there, only Vivaldi comes close.

There are probably many people out there who are considering switching over to Firefox but are maybe putting it off because they've got Chrome set up the way they like it with the extensions they want, and doing all that again for Firefox seems like a chore. The Firefox Add-on directory is less expansive than the Chrome Web Store (which in recent years has become overrun with garbage extensions that range from useless to active malware), but there is still a lot of stuff to sift through. That's where this short guide comes in.

I'm presently running 33 add-ons for Firefox and have a number of others installed but disabled. I've used many others. These are my picks, the ones that I consider essential, useful, or in some cases just fun.

Adblocking/Privacy/Security:

uBlock Origin: The single best adblocker available. If you're a power user there are custom lists and scripts you can find to augment it.

Privacy Badger: Not strictly necessary if you're also running uBlock, but it does catch a few trackers uBlock doesn't and replaces potentially useful trackers like comment boxes with click-to-activate placeholders.

Decentraleyes: A supplementary tool meant to run alongside uBlock, prevents certain sites from breaking when tracker requests are denied by serving local bundled files as replacement.

NoScript: The nuclear option for blocking trackers, ads, and even individual elements. Operates from a "trust no one" standpoint, you will need to manually enable elements yourself. Not recommended for casual users, but a fantastic tool for the power user.

Webmail Ad Blocker: The first of many webmail related add-ons from Jason Saward I will be recommending. Removes all advertising from webmail services like Gmail or Yahoo Mail.

Popup Blocker (Strict): Strictly blocks ALL pop up/new tab/new window requests from all website by default unless you manually allow it.

SponsorBlock: Not a fan of listening to your favourite YouTuber read advertisements for shitty products like Raycons or BetterHelp? This skips them automatically.

AdNauseam: I don't use this one but some people prefer it. Rather than straight up blocking ads and trackers, it obfuscates data by injecting noise into the tracker surveillance infrastructure. It clicks EVERY ad, making your data profile incomprehensible.

User-Agent Switcher: Allows you to spoof websites attempting to gather information by altering your browser profile. Want to browse mobile sites on desktop? This allows you to do it.

Bitwarden: Bitwarden has been my choice of password manager since LastPass sold out and made their free tier useless. If you're not using a password manager, why not? All of my passwords look like this: $NHhaduC*q3VhuhD&scICLKjvM4rZK5^c7ID%q5HVJ3@gny I don't know a single one of them and I use a passphrase as a master password supplemented by two-factor-authentication. Everything is filled in automatically. It is the only way to live.

Proton Pass: An open source free password manager from the creators of Proton Mail. I've been considering moving over to it from Bitwarden myself.

Webmail/Google Drive:

Checker Plus for Gmail: Provides desktop notifications for Gmail accounts, supports managing multiple accounts, allows you to check your mail, read, mark as read or delete e-mails at a glance in a pop-up window. An absolutely fabulous add-on from Jason Saward.

Checker Plus for Google Drive: Does for your Google Drive what Checker Plus for Gmail does for your Gmail.

Checker Plus for Google Calendar: The same as the above two only this time for your Google Calendar.

Firefox Relay: An add-on that allows you to generate aliases that forward to your real e-mail address.

Accessibility:

Dark Reader: Gives every page on the internet a customizable Dark Mode for easier reading and eye protection.

Read Aloud: A text to speech add-on that reads pages with the press of a button.

Zoom Page WE: Provides the ability to zoom in on pages in multiple ways: text zoom, full page zoom, auto-fit etc.

Mobile Dyslexic: Not one I use, but I know people who swear by it. Replaces all fonts with a dyslexia friendly type face.

Utility:

ClearURLs: Automatically removes tracking data from URLs.

History Cleaner: Automatically deletes browser history older than a set number of days.

Feedbro RSS Feed Reader: A full standalone reader in your browser, take control of your feed and start using RSS feeds again.

Video Download Helper: A great tool for downloading video files from websites.

Snap Link Plus: Fan of Wikipedia binge holes? Snap Link allows to drag select multiple hyperlink and automatically open all of them in new tabs.

Copy PlainText: Copy any text without formatting.

EPUBReader: Read .epub files from within a browser window.

Tab Stash: A no mess, no fuss way to organize groups of tabs as bookmarks. I use it as a temporary bookmark tool, saving sessions or groups of tabs into "to read" folders.

Tampermonkey/Violentmonkey: Managers for installing and running custom user scripts. Find user scripts on OpenUserJS or Greasy Fork, there's an entire galaxy out there of ingenious and weird custom user scripts out there, go discover it.

Browsing & Searching:

Speed Dial 2: A new tab add-on that gives you easy access to your favourite sites.

Unpaywall: Whenever you come across a scholarly article behind a paywall, this add-on will search through all the free databases for an accessible and non-paywalled version of the text.

Web Archives: Come across a dead page? This add-on gives you a quick way to search for cached versions of the page on the Wayback Machine, Google Cache, Archive.is and others.

Bypass Paywalls: Automatically bypasses the paywalls of major websites like those for the New York Times, New Yorker, the Financial Times, Wired, etc.

Simple Translate: Simple one-click translation of web pages powered by Google Translate.

Search by Image: Reverse search any image via several different search engines: Google Image, TinEye, Yandex, Bing, etc.

Website Specific:

PocketTube: Do you subscribe to too many YouTube channels? Would you like a way to organize them? This is your answer.

Enhancer for Youtube: Provides a suite of options that make using YouTube more pleasant: volume boost, theatre mode, forced quality settings, playback speed and mouse wheel volume control.

Augmented Steam: Improves the experience of using Steam in a browser, see price histories of games, take notes on your wishlist, make wish listed games and new DLC for games you own appear more visible, etc.

Return YouTube Dislikes: Does exactly what it says on the package.

BlueBlocker: Hate seeing the absolute dimmest individuals on the planet have their replies catapulted to the top of the feed because they're desperate to suck off daddy Elon sloppy style? This is for you, it automatically blocks all Blue Checks on Twitter. I've used it to block a cumulative 34,000 Blue Checks.

Batchcamp: Allows for batch downloading on Bandcamp.

XKit Rewritten: If you're on Tumblr and you're not using whichever version of XKit is currently available, I honestly don't know what to say to you. This newest version isn't as fully featured as the old XKit of the golden age, but it's been rewritten from the ground up for speed and utility.

Social Fixer for Facebook: I once accidentally visited Facebook without this add-on enabled and was immediately greeted by the worst, mind annihilating content slop I had ever had the misfortune to come across. Videos titled "he wanted her to get lip fillers and she said no so he had bees sting her lips", and AI photos of broccoli Jesus with 6000 comments all saying "wow". Once I turned it on it was just stuff my dad had posted and updates from the Radio War Nerd group.

BetterTTV: Makes Twitch slightly more bearable.

Well I think that's everything. You don't have to install everything here, or even half of it, but there you go, it's a start.

Me: I shouldn't disturb Neil Gaiman. I shouldn't send an ask unless I really have no way of getting the information otherwise. I'll check old interviews and all the articles that vaguely mention the subject. Of course it goes without saying that I'll read though the FAQ in its entirety. Only then, will I send an ask. However, I'd be very polite and praise his work, as anyone would. I'd also keep it short, because I don't want to waste his time. But I'd keep it very very respectful. I'd be sending a message to a very talented, amazing author that deals with god knows how many like me. Or I'd just stay in the dark and not send him an ask. Yeah, I'll do that.

My Dash:

I love tea/coffee theory

please I need more of them