#sand cast

[fuzzkaizer]

Astro Amp - Astrotone Fuzz

"made by Universal Amplifier Corp. of New York. This is from 1967"

cred: reverb.com/Sean's Funkadelic Gear Parlor

[stoicmike]

Holding sand cast urethan foam mask in my studio, early 70's. I cast the eyes out of acrylic resin with dyes, using glass molds, very thin, that were available at the time. The other figure was sort of a take on a kachina, also sand cast. And also you can see a bit of some fiberglass windows I made using deck cloth & resin with dyes. I put the fiberglass loose in a frame and just let it find its own ballooning shape. The wall enclosed my bedroom.

[crystallized-cheese]

Dummies! Dummies!!! DUMMIES!!!

[ravencromwell]

Rereading Dickens Christmas Carol for the first time in a long time. And the more I reread, the more it strikes me how seamlessly a queer reading could slip within these pages. Not an especially twee reading, wherein all Scrooge's troubles start and end with grief over Jacob Marley's death. For we know that Scrooge was a "Tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!" And we know that he and Marley were "two kindred spirits"

And perhaps that very fact makes the similarities to queer life, unintended as they most likely were by Mr. Dickens, achingly poignant to me. Scrooge is, we're told, "secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster." How much that resonates, for so many of us who shield our innermost selves but from a select group of friends. And we know that Scrooge and Marley were, at the very least, certainly that for one another. Scrooge is Marley's sole mourner; his sole executor and beneficiary; and even Dickens notes, "friend." How reminiscent is that of queer couples across history, estranged from their families?

Scrooge lives in a set of chambers that once belonged to Marley—clearly Dickens wanted us to believe Scrooge gave up his own dwellings after Marley's death to economize. But with only a flicker of change, those chambers become _their chambers, rented by Marley as the senior member of the couple. The place is so desolate Dickens notes "one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and have forgotten the way out again." The perfect abode for two queer misers who wanted no one prying into their business.

Marley's name is still above the door of Scrooge's counting-house: a mark by which, no doubt, Dickens meant to convey Scrooge such a penny-pincher he couldn't bother to have it changed. But a thing can be both! mark of frugality to ludicrous excess and! mark of mourning. "sometimes," Dickens opines, "People new to the

business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him."

This is why "death of the author" matters so much, in expanding our interpretations of texts. It is vastly far from the lens Dickens would have intended. But, the idea of a ghost of queerness, so taboo in the society it could barely be glanced at sidewise in this tale that is all about the inexplicable and yet that lingers over everything becomes an astonishing lens through which to read this book. Thinking of Scrooge as a queer man, his "melancholy dinner at his usual melancholy tavern" becomes a eerie prefiguring of the hollowness of days spent by Isherwood's A Single Man. In this universe, little wonder Scrooge doubly hates mention of time with family, marriage, etc. when the precise nature of his grief is both unacknowledged and unacknowledgable.

And readings like this are vital, because the uncomfortable truth is, discrimination doesn't "discriminate between sinners and saints", to borrow a Miranda phrase. It is easy, in my liberal circles, to fight for queer people who hold "the good sorts of politics". But what about men like Michael Hess, culpable for supporting Reagan even as his contemptuous homophobia let the aids epidemic run rampant? How much harder is it to remember Michael had a partner? That he deserves empathy and compassion for being practically tarred and feathered out of the party upon his own aids diagnosis?

Expanding our imaginative universes to include queerness, not as redemptive panacea, but merely as one aspect of identity, personality, often in vicious conflict with others. Even! as we consider those stories equally worthy of being told feels vital if we're ever to truly express the complexity of what queer humanity looks like.

[bonebrokebuddy]

I did a molding and metal melting lab today and when returning home after class, my twin took the little metal smiley face that I so lovingly made and filed down and immediately asked me “is this made out of lead?”

Then, without waiting for a response immediately put it into her mouth, spit it out, went “Well, it’s mainly lead acetate that’s sweet so I don’t really know if it’s lead or not”

AND THEN PUT IT IN HER MOUTH A SECOND TIME TO CHECK

i mean, it’s not lead but I didn’t even get the time to say that before she popped it into her mouth D:

[bvcktommy]

I have done this thing because it is just. Blood demands blood. We have lived and lost at the whims of our master for too long. I would not have it so. I would not see the passing of a brother for the purpose of sport. I would not see another heart ripped from chest, or breath forfeit for no cause. I know not all of you wished this, yet it is done. It is done. Your lives are your own. Forge your own path or join with us, and together we shall see Rome tremble!

ANDY WHITFIELD (17.10.1971 - 11.09.2011) as SPARTACUS in — Spartacus: Blood and Sand

[in4newz]

[onetimesee]

1?, 2, 3-5, 6

[benjitoum]

[downloadablecreature]

Thinking about how approximately 50-60% of the Akatsuki were Children with Trauma.

Itachi, Sasori, Konan, Nagato, Yahiko, Obito (and Sasuke if you want to count him)- all children with trauma.

Kisame- possible child with trauma (he looks like a shark, what little backstory we get from him implies that he experienced some level of prejudice)

Deidara- Terrorist

Hidan- Freak

Kakuzu- bounty hunter with little to no moral compass

Zetsu- Creature

[fuzzkaizer]

boss CE-1 enclosure replica

[queerquaintrelle]

Martell Week: Sand Snakes (Nymeria 'Lady Nym' Sand) & Quotes

"You know the Fowler words? Let Me Soar! That is all I ask of you. Let me soar, Uncle." - Nymeria Sand

@martellweek

[juliaswickcrs]

HOUSE DAYNE OF STARFALL :: THE OLD THEREBEFORE ( insp.)

"In truth, House Dayne was spread nearly as thin as House Targaryen by the end of the war. It was the bastard daughter of Lord Emyr who'd set the events in motion, engulfing the stars in flame."

@bisexualterror @foxesandmagic @iron-parkr @camiemendess @a-song-of-quill-and-feather

@arrthurpendragon @starcrossedjedis @drbobbimorse @kingsmakers @noratilney

@stanshollaand @astarionbae @darth-caillic @mystic-scripture @aliverse

@misshiraethsworld @asirensrage @eddiemunscns

HOTD TAGLIST: @misskatiewrites (wanna be added? Lmk!)

[heyclickadee]

So. I’m. Haunted by the lighting and posing on the CX-2 poster, haunted by the fact that no one will straight up say that Tech is dead or that he wasn’t CX-2, wondering if the CX-Tech plot wasn’t dropped after all, and hoping against hope that they’re putting this man through the wringer so they can pull him out and give him the happiest possible ending. CX-2 had BETTER be in the next series and he had better be Tech, because I need this to make sense. I mean, I’ll buy that the spear symbolically killed the CX-2 persona. I’ll buy, “Oh, he had to be Crosshair’s shadow in the last third of this series but we had to foreshadow him being Tech in the next one.” “The damage you sustained on Skako Minor all of your behavioral modifications,” coming back around. I’ll buy someone surviving that in the GFFA because they can in the real world (warning for a picture of a real life injury in the link). I’ll even buy that the electricity didn’t kill him because the boulders and the waterfall definitely should have (and it’s Star Wars). I really do not care about plausible survivability. I just want the story to make sense and for Tech to get back to his family.

Anyway all I’m saying is why release a poster that’s going to fuel speculation about a guy whose face we never see after the series is done and out? If you actually dropped that plot, why not change the poster? Or just not release it? Why do this? What is the purpose of this?? Because if the purpose was to drive me, specifically, insane, then congratulations, Lucasfilm! Mission accomplished.

[hamletisabitch]

Hey you! Yes you! Would you like a copy of the zine I made for the OFMD craft fair? Great news! If you donate through the craft fair's link and dm me a screenshot, I will send one to you!!! No minimum donation-I love this little zine, and I want to share it with people!

PS-want to help me with printing and mailing costs? I set up a ko-fi for exactly that here.

[gudvina]

by the way went to the theatre to watch a movie and got hit with the realization that michael cimino would have been perfect for the role of young haymitch, and it makes me seethe that we'll never get it done right.