#apologies in advance for the tag spam

[doodlebeeberry]

osc gift exchange...2!

Heyyy gang, guess what i’m hosting again! This was pretty fun last year so hopefully it goes just as well this year

If you wanna join, either reblog/reply to this post or dm me with what you’d like included in your gift, like certain shows/comics, characters, ships, etc. Asking for ocs is absolutely allowed, just please send over a ref of them as well!

Entries close on November 27th!

Further details and dates are under the cut! :]

For those who are out of the loop, a gift exchange is pretty simple! After signing up, you’ll be randomly assigned someone to make a gift for based on the things they request. You can make pretty much anything: art, writing, music, provided you include their request, the options are endless! Then, once the day comes, you post your gift and @ the person its for.

The timeline of events looks a bit like this:

November 12-27: enter by letting me know what you’d like! If you want oc content, please don’t forget to send over a ref of them as well! Please be sure your gift requests are object show related. Also, in the interest of keeping this accessible to everyone, please dont ask for anything nsfw :]

December 1: I’ll let you know who you’ve been assigned and what they’d like. Please be sure to have dms or asks on so i can let you know!

December 1-30: make your gift! i should also note here that if someone asks for a bunch of shows/characters, you don’t have to make something for each and every one of them if you don’t want to. You can just pick one or a few of their requests to make something for, if you’d rather!

December 31: post your gift, and dont forget to @ whoever its for so they can see it!

I’ll once again be tagging everything with #osc gift exchange, so feel free to tag your gift to make it easier to find!

And thats it! If youve got any questions or comments, dont be afraid to ask!

[silverscarletroses]

I can't believe that the shipcest girlies (gender neutral) continue to sleep so hard on Wanda & Pietro!

I mean, they are literally canon (in the Ultimate timeline), and just LOOK at this shit:

The ANGST before they were officially together! Though I think (by my calculations) that they were fucking already. (Going off the flashback in The Ultimates 3, issue #4.)

Ultimates 1 (they weren't in that much):

The Ultimates 2 was prime:

The Ultimates 3 is where they became confirmed canon:

Ultimate Fallout when Pietro was being mentally manipulated into thinking that Wanda's ghost was telling him to do evil shit:

(So, naturally, he did evil shit! 🤷🏽‍♀️)

Ultimates Disassembled when he wanted to die by her grave:

And then Ultimate Power, when the writers forgot that Wanda was dead for just a moment (she then went back to being dead):

And then, there's all the shit from the movie!

(That was unfortunately not the official version of this scene, but it's on the blooper reel.)

And that's only a few things from my Wandtro folder and this post! (And I couldn't fit everything I wanted to because Tumblr has a 30-image-max limit.)

They were quite popular back in 2015, but sadly (for many reasons), we are not in 2015 anymore. 😞

[exosciences]

i just think they deserve a chance to be silly together

[ifievertoldyou]

i am once again liveblogging my reactions to the new thaw chapter using only the silly reaction memes i have

[pumaskulls]

an old ref update i forgot to post!

[relaxing-n-podcasting]

Starting a Podcast Sexy Women Poll!!!

Please put your nominations in the comments/replies!

[kutiee]

[&TEAM] First Howling: ME; Concept Photo » JUVENILE

[garlictoastedbread]

Art dump [for @asktrio516 ]

So I found these wondering around in my sketchbook, here ya go

I must be stopped at once

Anyway there’s your man :]

Have a splendid day/afternoon/night

Don’t scroll.

I mean it.

I said don’t scroll past this.

Last warning…

Last last warning….

Get GWR’D [insert maniacal laughter]

[Queue ‘Lavender Haze’ by Taylor Swift]

[always-a-joyful-note]

So I've read Bogie Time and Fist of Idol, as well as a few other stories (cannot for the life of me remember their names) thanks to the Sanctuary Event almost being out on Engstars = free stories to read and have realised that enstars also has

- cryptocurrencies (shoutout to the tags that said this) - vampires - literal war flashbacks - debates on the fluidity of morality (who was the philosopher who said that morals change as people evolve?) - censorship laws discourse - nonconsensual drugging - power rangers - questionable but compelling breakdowns of classic literature - did i mention the monologues? - urban fantasy characters - references to tax laws - a surprising amount of crossdressing - on that note, a surprising amount of flirting (you guys weren't kidding) - information wars - a concerning amount of teenagers with god(ish) complexes - totalitarianism

[courierdumbass]

If your interested in the Fallout ttrpg "Wasteland Warfare", humble bumble has a huge bundle for $18. It includes book PDFs and 3D printing scamatics. Proceeds go to charity <3

I'm gonna give the same advice I did when posting about the cyberpunk ttrpg bundle, Make a humble bumble account so you can access these on whatever device you want. I'm pretty sure otherwise you get a one time download link (from my understanding).

[sanguine-tenshi]

Played The Cat Lady for seven hours straight, got all the achievements and now I'm ugly crying on the floor.

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

i don't remember if i posted last year's version of this one or not. i wouldn't be surprised if i didn't because i didn't actually have a piece for every month of the year. it feels nice to have a completed board this year, though

[virtual-minotaur]

OC poll bracket! Vote for your favorite, each poll will last for 24 hours.

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

hiiii shift at work completed and family movie over with, now it’s time to go sit down with my iPad and do all the girlies’ bingos !!! :D

[movie--obsessed]

jerry “i cant believe these people are related” hathaway

[copperbadge]

Custom Wax Stamps

banesidhe

Would you be willing to share the source for custom stamps? I also do these and have had a hard time finding stamps with what I want on them

Oh sure! I hope it's okay that I pulled this out into its own post, I didn't want to spam the OP on the other. Apologies in advance if you know any of what I'm about to say, I'm just going to infodump and I want to make sure I don't miss anything. I will say that the process was smooth and pretty painless for me, much more so than I expected.

As preface, if you haven't been to the Craspire website, they have acres of stamps for very cheap, and I think the vast majority of sellers on Amazon/Ebay/Etsy actually just dropship from Craspire. If you're looking for variety, I'd definitely look there. (If you have, again, apologies, it just took me a while to find it and I spent more than I should have on a couple of my stamps before I started buying direct from them, so I like to make sure I mention it.)

There are a ton of shops on Etsy offering custom stamps, with wildly varying prices -- when I was doing research I saw one that was $55 for just the stamp, and another that was $30 because you couldn't buy the stamp without a starter-kit bundled in (furnace, spoon, wax). Definitely don't pay that much. I didn't get super exhaustive with my research because I couldn't really find a better price than a shop that I'd already done business with, and I knew they were reliable, so I just stuck with them. The shop is PraeyDesigns -- they have reasonable rates overall and everything I've bought from them has been good quality, so they're one of my go-tos for both stamps and wax (there's cheaper wax available but I like their selection). They offer a number of different sales pages for custom seals, so I'll link direct to this one, the one I purchased.

On that page, the third image lists the sizes they offer -- I bought the 3cm oval because I needed it "long" to accommodate the tail on my image. For reference, most larger stamps you buy prefab are 4cm rounds, most of the smaller stamps are 3cm rounds; that particular page only offers up to 3cm but PraeyDesigns does have other custom stamp pages that offer 4cm. In any case, it looks like the page just offers you the chance to pick from a variety of designs, but they do explicitly offer custom engraving from your own image; under "add your personalization" you should give the size head you want and then say, "I have an image for a design, please message and I will send it to you."

They reached out about 24 hours after I purchased, through Etsy, and asked for the image; this is what I sent them, also through Etsy's messenger function, and the result:

I'm given to understand that they generally have to retrace the image regardless of size or quality to turn it into a vector, so they can take a fairly low-res image and do a lot with it, but I tried to give them as clean a JPG as I could to work with. While the result is not absolutely identical, for an engraving smaller than a quarter it's pretty damn accurate and I think most of the minor shifts in design were for clarity's sake.

But I was pleased it really was that simple -- I bought the item, they said "Please send the design", I sent it, they confirmed they had it, and I didn't hear from them again until they sent me the shipping notification. Potentially if you don't have as clean an image they might need to talk to you about issues with the design, so I would make sure you have a very clean-line black-and-white image to send, but they seem pretty competent and they do good work.

Love to see what you get if you end up getting one! Definitely tag me. :)