#puppet build

[in-my-side]

My pride and joy... my fucked up son... he has every disease... here's the tale of his immaculate conception

If you have any questions about him, feel free to ask!!!

[charlies-trainhopping]

guess who spent 3 hours on a new paper dragon while listening to melanie martinez's portals album on loop :D

his names cozkoii ("cause-coy") and ilhsm <3

[sugarr-artchive]

PROJECT THINGUS IM DOING

It’s Sugarraine!! Aka Sugarr!

(I wanted her to be different than my fursona Sugarr since I’ve turned this puppet into an oc and not a self insert hence the name change)

[sugarr-artchive]

HOLY SHITZ HE LOOKS AMAZING!!! ✨✨✨✨

Some more 🌀✨

@partycoffin

[joudama]

I saw this on Reddit, and I’ve got to agree with the points here.

Veilguard is written to talk directly to you, the player, as a player, instead of talking to Rook as a member of that world. Rook is not a character that you become or form in some way, they are a puppet the games wants you to simply pilot around as its way of interacting with you directly.

You, the player, see and hear Spite even though Rook can’t. You hear the things in-game that only Harding can hear because you are the player so of course you can. That’s how you, the player, know it’s Real and Happening instead of having to wonder if maybe your companion is hearing voices in the not-good way. Varric is dead in the game, before all these events happen, and yet he’s still narrating to you, the player, because everyone likes Varric. In DA2, he was narrating to Cassandra. It was the framing device. But here? Who, in game, is he supposed to be talking to? No one, because he’s dead. He’s talking to you, the player. The fourth wall is gone.

[fratricideation]

Did you ever notice how in the Bible, whenever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel? --The Prophecy (1995)

[aurosoulart]

alright. that's it. technology has gone too far

[anatomical-puppet]

wow i sure do love detective bobby fulbright ^_^ my favorite things about him are that he is Normal and Nothing Happens To Him

[playt0y]

I made a thing

[terapsina]

Let's talk books. Sorted in threes by vibes.

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I Support Women's Wrongs (murder, slaughter and body horror galore).

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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ by Django Wexler - A woman from Earth is dropped into a magical realm, meant to save the Kingdom from the FoRCes of DaRKneSSss... except, unfortunately that might have been a thousand years worth of time loops ago, so it's rather time to lose one's temper and decide to become the Dark Lord herself.

Main character -> basically Deadpool (measured in sanity, humor and levels of bisexual horniness)).

Someone You Can Build a Nest In ⭐⭐⭐⭐ by John Wiswell - Shesheshen, a shapechanging monster who's rudely interrupted during her hibernation by hunters. Manages to to eat one of them, unfortunately she also gets shot by an arrow and falls off a cliff. On the bright side she meets a lovely human woman she might end up falling in love with so much... she'll want to build a nest in her (it's possible there's some Cultural Differences that need to be worked through).

Hench ⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Natalie Zina Walschots - Anna's latest temp job for a villain (because even supervillains need office help) ends with her carelessly injured by a superhero, laid off and with injured mobility for the foreseeable future (because human bodies don't see much difference between getting hit by a truck and getting moved out of way by someone able to pick up a truck). Angry, disillusioned, and looking for some vengeful payback she starts compiling the statistics of exactly how much suffering gets left behind the heroes and in quick order finds a new job working for one of the worst supervillains in the neighborhood.

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Extremely Competent Women Show Up to Fix Everyone's Shit (with a whallop of romance which was actually sweet instead of irritating)

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The Witchwood Knot ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Olivia Atwater - Winifred Hall was invited to the Witchwood Manor under the pretense of being the governess for a very bratty kid, but when said boy suddenly turns into a very quiet and perfectly bland boy overnight it's very obvious her charge has been stolen by faeries (and it might have something to do with the actual reason she's there). Rescue however is complicated by some factors, one, there being something terribly dark and wrong about the house (normal houses don't have screaming faces in the walls), another, the faerie man posing as the manor's butler who would very much like to make her run screaming the way so many servants had before her (unfortunately for him, she's not even half as scared of him as she is the eyes of the father of her charge).

This one's about dealing with past trauma, and otherworldly terrors paling in comparison to mundane monsters, set in a very beautiful and dark and shiver-inducing Victorian time world where the Fair Folk are very real.

(Same world as her Regency Faerie Tales trilogy that Started with Half a Soul but it's not necessary to read that one first to enjoy this one)

Keeper of Enchanted Rooms ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ by Charlie N. Holmberg - Merritt Fernsby inherits a house only to be immediately taken hostage by what turns out to be a very stubborn and opinionated magical house. Hulda Larkin of the Boston Institute for the Keeping of Enchanted Rooms goes there to facilitate the relationship between the house and its new owner.

It's supposed to be a very simple job. Unfortunately there's a third POV character in this book (no, not the Whimbrel House, though I adore that house and *insert here the Rosa Diaz gif about her new puppy and how she would kill everyone in this room and then herself if anything were to happen to that dog*). Anyway, they're a bit... uhhh... let's go with Bad News.

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Heather Fawcett - As one might expect from the title, Emily (a Cambridge scholar) wants to write the first ever encyclopedia of faeries. And she's brilliant enough to do it, what she's terrible at is people (*insert autistic character alert here*).

Someone else might then say it's lucky that a fellow scholar with a far easier time at charming people has stuck his toes in her reaserch trip into the Hidden Ones... that person however doesn't understand how irritating, frustrating and maddening her academic rival Wendell Bambleby actually is.

What follows is a story filled with winter snows, some terrible fae, some adorable fae, some not-very-secret fae, the goodest of good dogs, and lots and lots of squabbling. It's the best.

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Dark and Impactful Stories about Children Who Decide on Their Own Paths

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A Skinful of Shadows ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ by Frances Hardinge - Kate, an orphan and the illegitimate daughter of some stuffy (and evil) aristocrats runs away because being a bastard doesn't mean she didn't inherit the family magic that allows her to get possessed by the dead.

A dead bear ghost is one thing, a Get Out situation is something else entirely.

A Sorceress Comes to Call ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by T. Kingfisher - Cordelia isn't allowed friends or the privacy of closed doors, and whenever she's done something she shouldn't - a category too unpredictable to guard against - she's not allowed power over her own body.

Because her mother is an evil sorceress (think Regina and Cora... except somehow even worse). An evil sorceress that has found herself a Squire to lure into a marriage.

Hester is an old maid living with her brother, a Squire (well look at them coincidences), when said brother acquires a woman clearly set on his fortune. The plan is only to save her brother, except Hester can't help noticing how the woman's daughter keeps flinching in her mother's presence.

In The Lives of Puppets ⭐⭐⭐⭐ by TJ Klune - A family can be an android inventor, his human son (*homoromantic asexual alert*), a sadistic nurse droid, and a very emotional roomba.

And it can be a very happy family. Until one uncovers and wakes up an android that shares a very Skynet past with one's father, said father gets kidnapped, and one has to go on a journey to get him back.

(A book I like to call Sci-fi Reverse Pinocchio)

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Unraveling an Unjust System (and a hero that - on a scale from occasionally to constantly - hears a disembodied voice directly in their heads okay the connection between these three is a bit of a stretch but they're all great books so shut up)

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Hell for Hire ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ by Rachel Aaron - 5000 years ago Gilgamesh conquered the heavens, enslaved the demons and made it so that the only road to magic humanity had access, was through him.

Now, however a mercenary team made up of free demons gets hired by a Blackwood witch to protect him (and his familiar, the talking cat named Boston) while he puts down roots (literally) inside the new forest grove he's about to start so that he can stand up against the warlocks after him.

The witch quickly becomes the best client Bex and her crew have ever had (after all, warlocks under the rule of the Eternal King Gilgamesh are slavers of their kind, they are delighted at the chance to kill some).

Vespertine ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Margaret Rogerson - In a world where the veil between the living and the dead has been kinda broken Artemisia (*another autistic character alert*) is training to be a Gray Sister (magic nun).

Until her convent gets attacked by possessed soldiers and she has no choice but to pick up a Saint's Relic containing a malevolent revenant to protect it.

Problem. Only a Vespertine is supposed to do it. Another problem. The only one "alive" who can teach her to be a Vespertine is the revenant. Another another problem. The revenant cannot be trusted and if she loses control to it, the death toll will be counted in cities.

Terminal Alliance ⭐⭐⭐⭐¾ by Jim C. Hines - Post Zombie Apocalypse, where some aliens showed up, sort of cured the zombies and took the (mostly) cured zombies into their military.

Which leads us to Marion Adamopoulos, also known as Mops, the Leutenant in charge of Shipboard Hygene and Sanitation of the Earth Mercenary Corps Ship Pufferfish.

Right up until a bioweapon turns the entire crew except her crew back into zombies. Congratulations, she's the captain now.

(Space Janitors save the universe story).

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[cletusbug]

I FIGURED IT OUT! 🎉✨️

I finally figured out a way to make Frank Franklys Unbrow move! After watching a video on tiktok of burt and Ernie being adorablely silly! It clicked in my head how to do it! So i grabed misos (my muppet ocs head base tester) mini head base and got to work with a test wire to see if it would work and it dose!

Im so excited to work on this Frank Frankly puppet! 🎉✨️

Ik it looks silly on how to control it but i have plans to make it a lot easier to control!

If youd like to see more as i work on building this plz consider a follow and please like and comment it helps boost my motivation to work on this! ✨️✨️✨️

[in-my-side]

A nurse and her captain...

Hello Mouthwashing Tumblr, I humbly present to you: Curly and Anya 🫶

And I'm gonna hit you with a bit of a yapsesh about these two

I haven't made a new cosplay since September 2021, and I haven't made a puppet since I was a child. I had a huge puppet hyperfix when I was a kid and my parents shamed me out of it because they HATE fun and want to DESTROY it, but now I'm an adult and I can make whatever I want... so I made a burn victim. I've been hyperfixated on Mouthwashing for months, and this cosplay has me brimming with autistic joy. This is one of my favorite pieces of horror media to exist, and what I've made is a love letter to the viscerally human story the game has told, and the characters of Curly and Anya specifically. I wanted to put some of my own headcanons into the designs because it makes them feel a bit more real. If Swansea's clothes got stained with mouthwash over time, I stand to say that Curly and Anya also got stained. I'm glad I decided to go with a puppet for Curly instead of a doll, I absolutely love making him seem alive and aware of his surroundings, always looking at you no matter where you are with the follow-me eye (shoutout to u/someguywithdiabetes on r/puppets for the suggestion). This blends the two art forms together beautifully and is a testament to a decade of honing my skills. This was my dissertation, I now have a PHD in cosplay. This is my magnum opus, I fear

[gifs-of-puppets]

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

[flufflecat]

Grunkle Stunkle wins the Funkle Bunkle, live action edition

[nellonsartblog]

Wanted to draw something with a bit more pizzazz to kickstart this blog, but the puppet brainrot is real and I couldn't commit to one idea so y'all got scribbles instead :')

[teh-nos]

plotting regime change with mama