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Lal 2b

OK, so, first it didn’t feel right to have no regulation briefs under that extremely short dress, then the regulation briefs didn’t feel complete without a regulation top, and then it felt silly to have both the briefs and the top underneath to never see the light of day, so here goes:

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Lal 2a

As I've mentioned, I'm not actually all that sure Lal should join Starfleet. I do agree she has no business hanging out on the Enterprise, narratively speaking, but I'm undecided whether I'd rather see her go to Starfleet Academy and hang out with Timothy, – or hang out with Alexander Rozhenko in some interplanetary Oxbridge. So I compromised by having her pull a Will Hunting and choose an area of study which absolutely does not require computational ability of 60 trillion operations per second😝

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Also, an inadvertent wink to my long-ass Thomas Barrow post,

or

 the age-old recipe to make a complete asshole likable:

Step One: give him an angsty self-image:

Step Two: make him repent too little too late:

Step Three: get him a child to hold:

Screenshots from this performance; Željko Lučić as Carlo Gérard.           

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Age-appropriate :-P

The real André Chénier died at 32, and (fictional) Gérard’s father is 60, so Gérard himself must be pushing 40, but the plot would make so much more sense if they were all young and stupid!

I know, that’s just opera logic 🙄

The same logic says one doesn’t get a major part without oh-so-many years of experience under one’s proverbial belt.

In fact, the ‘Gérard’ I’m going to listen to tomorrow I’ve been low-grade celebrity-crushing upon for, ouch, over 2 decades 🤩

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No, not that one ;-P

In the years I’ve neglected the whole opera, content with the two major arias on my playlist, the plot of Andrea Chénier has, apparently, got thoroughly mixed up with Scarlet Pimpernel within my head.

Gotta love evil baritones, though😋

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Random answers wanted ;-P

Since my friend tells me her kids' favourite animals change every week, and our scheduled outing is two weeks away -

what animal, would you say, does karate?

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Reptilian Cardassian Update (continued)

While I'm dealing with Stage 2 of the body, you can help me choose his eyes. I am not entirely happy with any of them, but that's all I've got handy:

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Reptilian Cardassian Update

So, Stage 1 of the body is done. Now he's all pretty and shiny. Such a pity I'll have to put a layer of 'skin' over it all, and paint it gray.

While I'm doing just that, you can contemplate his eyes.

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Lal 1

I kinda want to add some accents, like buttons or rhinestones; but, on the other hand, without them it fits very well with Star Trek’s ‘Why can’t we all just wear pajamas?’ general approach to civilian fashion.

Cat’s probably mechanical too. The name is definitely Fluffy  😝 

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When you start your way to the stage as a fan

Went to see a local production of Notre Dame de Paris (yes, again😁)

They had a new Phoebus, who, having forgotten what exactly he was supposed to be singing halfway through his part of Belle, - finished it in the original French🙃

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Lal, Day - whichever 😝

Meanwhile, Lal is actually ready, but has to wear an OOC hat to keep her hair lying flat while I’m summoning the motivation to give her a proper photoshoot:

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Reptilian Cardassian 3.0: Update 2

Shoes are going to be an issue, with all those osteoderms: what kind of shoes would a space lizard wear, anyway?

Perhaps we should try giving him detachable reptilian feet for posing naked🙃

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Reptilian Cardassian 3.0: Update 1

We’ll make a proper crocodile of him yet!

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Reptilian Cardassian 2 - well - 3.0

Eventually, I had to admit my initial approach was just fundamentally wrong, and I might as well start from scratch. Again🙄

Considered using a different body while I was at it. Wider shoulders and thicker neck are, supposedly, more Cardassian, but, idk, the proportions just don’t look right to me:

Thus, in the hot water he went, to wash off all that fishy skin.

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@vaicomcas,

remember:

Your art is grRRRRRRReat!

"Unlearn the shame"

"fail forward"

"embrace the suck"

All excellent advice for learning a new skill (drawing) that I can totally get onboard with.

But it doesn't address a very realistic situation: the terrible urge to show my suck to people

For that the remedy is "nobody cares"

And also "maybe there will be critique I can learn from"

And also "I can't show people in real life due to subject matter being too embarrassing and that's exactly why I have a secret identity on tumblr"

And once again "nobody cares"

Yet...

I hate how much time and energy I waste on this inner struggle. Someone should slap me comedy style.

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For storage, mostly.

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kinda Angel with kinda Rose

Mostly because she's still kinda Claire ☺️

Kinda based on a song that kinda goes like 'At the sinister hour of sorrow and ire, when dark forces awaken, an angel descended from the skies to plant the rose'.