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Today's Fuck It Friday feature: Hubris Nebula! So many more pictures and words on the gallery page, and available to touch and hold and lay claim to here.

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Welcome Kabak! ...Large. So many more pictures and words over on the gallery page, and he happens to be looking for a place to hang out here.

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Today's Fuck It Friday feature: Signs of Life! It stone. More pictures here, and currently available here.

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Today's Fuck It Friday feature: Shyguy Bracelet! Silly and necessary. Gallery page is here, and snag-it-yourself link here.

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Today's Fuck It Friday feature: Legacy of the Nameless Queens! Many more pictures here, and available as a set over here.

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Today's Fuck It Friday feature: What it Wants! Additional pictures to be found here, and purchase-able here.

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Taking some time out from actually making something to be annoyed on the internet, like you do. But I hope it serves as a warning when it comes to pleathers without a particularly sturdy backing. or maybe just in general.

I was going through some candidates for decently stiff fabric for a project and just happened to tug on a small hanging scrap of shiny black pleather and--

It sure wasn't supposed to be stretchy. Turned out the mesh the plastic used to be attached to was 2-way stretch, and well. It sure did stretch one way. The plastic did not.

Before and after very little effort put into stretching the fabric:

It isn't as if I don't understand that plastic degrades over time. I am what you call an "action figure enthusiast"; I've seen some horrors. And, full disclosure, this fabric had been purchased around 2010-ish, but also not exposed to excessive environmental stress or wear and tear. This is also a bit new to me in that there's not even any integrity in the mesh underneath, as it too immediately develops runs and with a little more force, pulls apart completely.

Alternately, the sturdy-backed shiny stuff I used for Crash is still perfectly fine, and purchased around the same time. But then I have had pricier (and objectively nicer!) pleather quite literally shed plastic coating in small particles until it was all separated from the cotton underneath, so...

Beware pleather for anything you may actually want to last unless it's already proven itself, I suppose.

...Back to working with ancient fabrics that aren't falling apart.

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Today's Fuck It Friday feature: With Abandon! And I never have to do this again. ...More images and explanation here, available to buy here.

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I'm calling this the Sucks at Remembering Linear Time is a Thing Saturday inspired once again by recent events feature: Prickles the Cockasaurus Wrecks! With accessories! Get ready to clutch your pearls while checking out the gallery page, and this big boy still happens to be available here.

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Bit of a double feature today, but this one's new: Shades of Control. More pictures and info here, and currently available over here. I am not immune, etc. etc.

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Today's Fuck It Friday feature: Neon! While there's not a lot more to be said about this piece, the gallery page is here, and it's still available over yonder.

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Today's Fuck It Friday feature: Evalis! ...I really gotta get back to random critter creation one of these days, but in the meantime here's the gallery page with more pictures, and he's currently available over here.

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Today's Fuck It Friday feature: Gunslinger Gear! Directly inspired by Roen's actual design for Prompto Argentum's (FFXV) belt, but the details got... "lost" in the actual game. I love this phrase so, so much. More pictures are available at the gallery page, and it's still available to buy.

Horrible trivia: I did this entire thing in a single week and I will never do that again jfc.

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In a new feature I'd like to call "Fuck It Friday", I'm highlighting a past thing I've done because artists are expected to take care of all their own promotion these days. This is "Despite the Inevitability of Death, I Will Live in Defiance", what one might call a "statement piece". More pictures and information are available here, and the piece itself is still available to buy here.

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Snow Melt. Because it had been staring at me from my desk for far too long, so now it is done. Many more pictures here, and currently available to buy!

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This is officially my once-yearly evidence that I can do simple things. Everything from here on out? Ridiculously complicated. You know the drill.

Anyway! Links to Etsy listings: Burple Berry Punch Blue Razzle Dazzle Cherry Ice Lemon Lime Toxicc Brew

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At long last it is finished and my desk space is liberated: Bite Me.

As always, a whole lot more pictures and words are available over on the gallery page, and this just so happens to be available at the shop.

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