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Hiya :D

I'm Seafoam, an avid fanfic writer and consumer who occasionally posts scattered pieces of her brain matter for all to see. I'm currently studying to become a vet tech, so schooling is taking up a lot of my life (hence infrequent updates).

Feel free to send me your pet pics, prompts or questions! I love making connections with others, so any messages are always appreciated <3

You can find some of my work on ao3 here!

I'm actively being consumed by life series/hermitcraft brainrot, but I also post some Carry On content as well!

Blog Navigation:

➼ seafoam drafts: here you can find ficlets and drafts

➼ seafoam rambles: for miscellaneous thoughts not guaranteed to be coherent

My Current works:

➼ These New Dreams: my Stardew Valley ranchers AU!

➼ Signs Of The Past: 1800s haunted house Snowbaz AU that despite not having been updated for nearly a year isn't abandoned

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So I've been having a Tough Time™ and I'm doing writing about it. I got an idea for a ~20k rancher cursed god oneshot, which is fine and dandy, but the last oneshot I came up with is currently 45k words long and only about halfway done soo... I haven't exactly got the best track record with them.

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Cod Grian Cosplay Build!

The fish man himself, season 10 Grian!

Reference Sketch

Some notes:

I always end up changing somethings from the reference when making the actual outfit, although I stayed pretty close it it this time.

I initially drew him with a handlebar mustache and goatee to mimic the whiskers of a fish, however I switched to a fluffier mustache beard to match the guy from Frozen.

I also opted for my turtleneck shirt over the red sweater+collar to go for more of a fisherman vibe

Since Grian is usually drawn with parrot wings, I wanted to call back to that with red yellow and blue feathers on the bobbers.

The tail and fins

I wanted to lean into the “fish”er man design and gave him fish fins and a tail.

It’s design is based on a cod fish with striped fins based on the feathers of an osprey

To make it, I drew the tail pattern on a large piece of paper, cut it out, cut each section out of the respective fabric times two, sewed the two sides together, and lastly filled it with a ton stuffing.

The tail is heavy, but it’s fun to wack people with it.

The fins for the arms and beanie are made in a similar way, each hand sewn onto the beanie/bracers once stuffed.

The Overalls

I had originally planned for him to be wearing waders, but wanted to make the outfit more wearable for everyday wear without overheating. So I opted for some brown corduroy overalls instead.

To add a “wet” look to each pant leg, I briefly dipped each one into some black fabric dye before rinsing and drying.

The green pixels on his skin look like they could be kelp or patches so I decided to go with the latter and dug through my scrap fabric to find these green pieces.

I embroidered the edge of each piece with a unique stitch and placed them randomly on each leg.

The snails!

Of course we can’t forget about the snails

There are three snails for this project with two more eventually on the way (a plush pink snail, and a plush brown snail).

I made the clay blue snail first with polymer and attached tie tacks to the underside so I can use it like a pin and stick it anywhere on my clothes.

Same goes for the pink worm snail which is also made of clay.

The blue plush snail is based on a pattern from Etsy by willowynn with some slight modifications, mainly to the eyes/feelers, and doubling the size.

Facial hair

This was one of the parts I was the most excited about for this cosplay and the only part I didn’t do myself. I commissioned @basic-amoeba to make a custom ventilated beard, styled and everything. This part turned out so good!

Some final notes for this project

This cosplay took from Feb 20 to March 15th to complete since I was so determined to finish it before Grian changed his skin. Haha look at me now. He still hasn’t changed it.

Not pictured (cause why can I only add 10 photos 😭) is the mending book with a fish hook I made using scrap faux leather, cardboard, and some cut printer paper. I painted in galactic the word mending and sprayed the whole thing in my “enchanting” spray paint (a blue to purple iridescent glitter spray paint)

A small fun backstory to the fishing rod:

My grandpa is an experienced fisherman and has dozens of fishing poles. When I talked about this project with him, he brought me out to his workshop and pulled down the dustiest fishing rod there. He told me he had fished this fishing rod from a lake one day with the line and bait still attached. Can’t get anymore accurate to Minecraft fishing than that lol.

Obligatory cosplay photo:

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They're all obsessed.

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I’m currently workshopping a rancher duo AU involving aspects of eldritch horror, cryptids and doomsday/the end of the world (aspects may change but I hope to keep the core of these 3 aspects the same).

I have many possibilities and one of the things Jimmy and Tango will do is create logs so im wondering how I should go about it. Here are my options!

Multimedia: The way I portray the adventures of Jimmy and Tango in The Eldritch Ranch AU is spans over a few tags that involve handcrafted journal entries of the entities and horrors, short stories or novellas of their adventures and artworks of their shenanigans and domestic days

Just one: I pick one of the above mentioned in ‘multimedia’ and proceed head on with it to try and tell the story through that medium.

What idea do you think works best! Would you be open to unravelling the Eldritch ranch through multiple tags and aspects?

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My Rancher playlist is way too long to add every single one, but a few that are close to my heart are:

Afterlife by Holding Absence

Kiss Goodnight by Idkhow

Icarus & Apollo by Ripto

(If) You Are The Ocean (Then) I Would Like To Drown by Violet Night

Take On The World by You Me At Six

Kill Ur Vibe by All Time Low

Fourth Of July by Sufjan Stevens

maybe... reply with songs that reminds you of Team Rancher. I want to make a playlist <3

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Incorrect quotes my beloved

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wdym scar's hotguy posters and doc's perimeter art almost messed up the marketplace thing oh my god

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guys i think my sewer cats got fucked up

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real life spoilers?

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the only good innovation from facebook was the poke feature. tumblr needs the poke. when a cute girl is mass reblogging me and i don't wanna call them out to their face but i wanna go hey. i see you. being cute. rubbing your face on my blog like a cat. that's what the poke's for

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the fact that desert duo had the opportunity to emote in game and the first thing they did was hug is doing cocomelon shit to my head rn

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Reblog to let your followers know that they’re safe from jumpscares/screamers/etc from you on April 1st but they are NOT safe from getting boop’d like an idiot amen

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this worled s beautiful