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IT IS DONE (for now)

I finished the disco jacket I've been working on for ages. I might still change or add some more details but I'm really really happy how it turned out and I'm looking forward to actually wearing it

I tried to recreate the halogen watermark effect by using two different types of reflectors, using one as the background, cutting out the design from the other one, and sewing that onto the first one. That leads to a kind of cool effect when taking photos with flash:

For the phasmid, I cut out pieces from the first reflector material and painted on them with acrylics, then sewed them all together and onto the jacket. That the phasmid is an actual extra layer leads to a nice 3D-ish effect

I probably will add some more stuff, especially in the front side of the jacket -- but that might take me another 8 months, so I'm calling it done for now

I'm also going to take some photos of the jacket actually being worn soon

Some more progress pics under the cut:

This was my very first plan for the jacket -- I didn't really think about how exactly I wanted to make everything and hadn't even bought the actual jacket at this point so a lot of it turned out to be too much effort to make (for now) -- like the reeds at the bottom and the whole front part. Also I changed the text because A I couldn't find a good way to place the letters of sunrise parabellum and B "something beautiful is going to happen" just sums up the spirit of disco elysium so beautifully to me

Soooo when I finally got the jacket I started by making the reflector patches and then made a new plan for the rest of the jacket:

Then it was just a lot of work painting everything and sewing everything together. The reflector material is very sturdy so I hurt my fingers a lot making it, and after sewing on the first version of the phasmid I had to paint over the whole thing again to hide the damage sewing did to the paint as well as possible

I also put some work into trying to make it more durable by heat setting the paint and using some acrylic spray over the whole thing but I'm under no illusion that it would survive a washing machine, so hand wash it is

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My first large ink work form earlier this year, its Dolores Dei from Disco Elysium.

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no cause this is genuinely making me so fucking mad. how the fuck do you look at a fascist who believes in the superiority of his own race and a lawyer/union rep that is kinda rude to the cop trying to question the ppl she represents and come out of it thinking yeah the former is bad but the latter is worst. like how is that a thing you think is normal and ok to project onto the world

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my first disco elysium art!! i think this art style doesn’t rly look as well when the characters cut off screen like that but idk. i’ll fix it next time i make art maybe

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Oink oink

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Oooooooo when you do this can you let me know what sewing pattern you used?

i must not be jealous of people who own the kim kitsuragi jacket. jealousy of people who own the kim kitsuragi jacket is the mind-killer. jealousy of people who own the kim kitsuragi jacket is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face my jealousy of people who own the kim kitsuragi jacket. i will permit it to pass over me and through me. and when it has gone past, i will turn the inner eye to see its path. when the jealousy of people who own the kim kitsuragi jacket has gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.

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head in my fucking hands

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disco elysium fans

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i be like “damn i got a lot of shit to do” and then go lay down for 17 hours

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i think it's interesting how you only finally get to go into kim's room at the whirling after the tribunal (assuming you successfully warn kim). there's no reason for it, they could've left it unrendered and kept you locked out, but they made the decision to allow you to go in kim's room. which is an interesting way to highlight the shift in harry and kim's dynamic post-tribunal. the bond between them is solidified now that it's been confirmed that they really would die for each other, not in a theoretical "it's his duty" kind of way but in the very real "our blood is mixed out there on the flagstones" kind of way. they risked their lives together and both survived because of the other. so harry can go in kim's room. kim is finally letting harry in, in a small but significant way. kim *truly* trusts harry.

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one (1) piece of an animation i will hopefully for the love of god actually finish

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„He has the look of an upstanding officer of the law, someone you can lean on — and, sweetie, you *are* looking unsteady“

(I‘m in my fourth playthrough and still finding things I haven‘t seen before)

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This part in „NOT ENTIRELY ALONE“ by The Narcissist Cookbook always feels like a personal attack on HDB:

[ID:

Screenshot from the Spotify Lyrics Feature:

"And while we might've forgotten/

Everything else that happened/

In the moment between our birth and our death/

No one ever/

Ever/

Ever/

Ever/

Forgets their name"

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I love Disco Elysium because they solved the "obvious correct dialogue choice" problem by making all of the dialogue choices equally bizarre. At no point are you permitted to be normal

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all my eyes look on you