#Surprise craft tutorial jumpscare

[aeriona]

Made a pair of lil squid fellas to sit on my desk :)

I didn’t like any of the squid patterns I found on the internet so i ended up making my own, and after some trial and error I ended up with these little guys. They’ve both even got little beaks! I’ve attached the pattern I made below if anyone wants it haha.

I used size 8 miyuki rocaille/round beads, some bugles and 0.28mm thread, but pretty much any size or shape should work. Hell, you could even use pony beads if you’re crazy enough.

If your thread’s long enough you can even do the whole thing in one go, I’d personally recommend that as it means you have less knots to tie up :).

[monarchisms]

oh yeah, now that it's closed, here's the post i wanted to make about that rt rebrand poll i made last week. this will be pretty long and kinda rambly, so feel free to just blacklist the "long post" tag :)

so like, i made the poll because of 2 main reasons: 1. because of a mix of comments i saw on other sites from people who also didn't know what color it was supposed to be, and 2. because of myself confidently believing it was some shade of orange until i switched from looking at it from my laptop screen to my phone screen.

it being a godawful shade of red/red-orange was mentioned in the article itself, which is why my question was phrased "what color do you guys think it is?" since either red or orange is both technically correct. going more into the specifics of the poll numbers:

tumblr doesn't show the specific number of people who voted for any given poll option by default, just the percentage, so i went digging and followed this tutorial to get the raw data using firefox's inspect tool. the final results are, with 934 votes total, red at 551 votes (59%), orange at 303 votes (~32.4%), and other/a secret third thing at 80 votes (~8.6%).

red winning wasn't a surprise, really, but i was pleasantly surprised at how many people didn't have a definite answer or switched between answers like i did. i can't exactly pin down why that is, but if i had to wager some guesses...

the color scheme has a high chance of being a callback to rooster teeth's Popular Web Series Red Versus Blue™:

and with a want/need for rt to rebrand, the idea of keeping the color scheme while also making it modern and pop out is really cool, but its execution is uh...

i couldn't fit everyone's tags, but you get the gist. it fucking sucks, man.

as @god-of-arts-and-crafts has pointed out:

orange and blue are complementary colors, with them being opposite each other on a color wheel except the people who made the rebrand chose a deeper shade of blue??? they couldn't even get that right, oh my fucking god, so while its technical color is red-orange, it can be overwhelmingly orange when paired with a similarly bright shade of blue, which is what's causing many people eyestrain. hell, the first time i looked at the picture when the news dropped, it literally gave me a headache lol

finally, as i've said in the tags of a different post about this eyesore, this is an accessibility nightmare. with the worst color combination possible, the colors used for the new font and logo are definitely not ada-compliant. there are free sites out there to test images for general accessibility issues. contrastchecker is what i use sometimes, and below is what i got using red-orange as the background and blue as the foreground, and vice versa:

(both versions had the same ratio and color difference lmao)

the americans with disabilities act recommends that the contrast ratio be 7 at the lowest, but should ideally be higher than that, if possible. this is objectively and subjectively a very bad corporate rebrand, and i really, really want rt to break their "no jokes on april 1st because that's our anniversary" rule this year. if for nothing else, then just so that people who haven't read the variety article and/or the reactions on social media aren't jumpscared once the new intros/endcards/whatever else start rolling in.

[phenyxsnest]

HC: Somebody makes an Alcor horror game, and Dipper decides to see what its like for shits and giggles. He screams when the fictional recreation of himself jumpscares him. In fairness, the fictional recreation was absolutely horrifying in its design, and the jumpscare did manage to take him by surprise and anybody can be startled and it doesn’t mean he was actually scared - or so he argues.

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Of the triplets, Hank was the most into video games. It was the challenge of them that called to him. Generally, he preferred the puzzle games, the games that required concentration and could be as quiet as his jigsaw puzzles, but he could ignore the violence, should a game with it catch his attention. He'd already seen too much, with his cult bashing mom and demonic uncle, to let obviously fake blood bother him.

His sisters enjoyed playing them against him too, and Uncle Dipper could be just as much of a geek about it as he could other things.

This newest game wasn't one that was to the usual taste of anyone in the family, but after reading the description online, Hank had to buy it.

It wasn't everyday someone dared to make a game whose big boss, everyone agreed, was an obvious expy of The Dreambender, despite the game creator’s denials.

With that sort of enticement, how could any of the triplets resist?

It was a decent horror game, all told. Good atmosphere, unsettling music, brief hinted flashes of the 'demon' at the center of it all – little things, like eyes watching from the darkness that disappeared when you turned the camera to look at them straight on, black shadows whipping past the edge of the camera, tiny growls that seemed part of the soundtrack at first but were too dissonant, too close, to dismiss.

The fact that the trio were playing it at night when they had the house, the old, old, house that made noises as it settled and was full of demon-touched, if familiar, items didn't hurt either.

But the best part of it all was at the end, when 'Alcor'...oh, pardon, not 'Alcor', not 'The Dream Bender' but 'The Nightmare Warper', finally appeared.

With a screech that shattered the quiet, almost peaceful music that had been playing, a surprise rush of teeth and claws and too many eyes and limbs at the screen, a jump scare that caught all three triplets by surprise.

Once breaths had been caught and heart rates began to slow back to normal, nervous and surprised laughter under control, three evil grins were shared. They had to show their parents...no, they had to show Uncle Dipper this!

“...to shoot,” Hank finished explaining the controls, leaning over his uncle where they were all sprawled on the floor of the living room, working through the game's tutorial level. “Think you can handle it?”

Dipper scoffed. “It's a video game based on me,” he said, and all three could hear the pride lurking in his voice, mixed with a little pain, both from the same source – the was feared and known enough to inspire something (other than Twin Souls). “And I'm a demon. I think I can handle it.”

“Get 'im good, kids!” their mom's voice called out from the kitchen, where she had moved her current craft project, citing a need for a large, flat surface – the kitchen table, in this case.

The triplets, one and all, suspected it was half so she could watch the fun. They hadn't told her what was coming, but their mom was frighteningly good at sniffing out mischief.

Dipper stuck his tongue out in the direction of the kitchen before turning his attention back into the game.

As the kids had predicted, their uncle's laser focus (that their mother claimed had only been sharped by his transformation) soon had him utterly absorbed in the game. His forked tongue stuck the tiniest bit out of the corner of his mouth, golden eyes intent as a cat stalking prey as he squirmed and twisted, as if his character would move along with him.

It was a good thing for the triplets that he was so engaged, or he may have picked up on their anticipation ahead of time and ruined the surprise.

The unholy screech Dipper let out when he counterpart roared into life on the screen, complete with controller flying into the air as he toppled backwards and blipped behind the couch, was well worth the wait.

And G-grunkle Stan's “SHOW ME THE OBJECT OF MOCKERY!” as he came barreling in from the other room as Uncle Dipper began to protest that he was just surprised darn it stop laughing” was the cherry on top.

Utterly worth having to cajole their uncle into replacing all the light bulbs he'd shattered in his surprise, in the triplet's opinion.