Fectless

If you can't write: Edit.

If you can't edit: Outline.

If you can't outline: Brainstorm.

If you can't brainstorm: Rest.

Say enough, say enough

Did I let her know, let her know?

If I found my body in chains

I'd lay down and wait

And hope she looks for me

i was a ichiji for shots, but a niji for splinters THE DRAMATICS i threw~ this is so messy but i love it that way to indicate chaos... yes that's the reason

ps the tag "vinsmoke get along au" isn't just for the kid strip here! i'm using it as a tag to indicate the quadruplets depicted are ones that love each other and aren't emotionless so feel free to use it yourself ^^

It’s called Chrome Vinyl, and it’s a metallic wrap used for automobiles.  

There’s a cosplayer who’s already made a basic tutorial for what it is and how to use it here: http://calgarycosplay.deviantart.com/art/Cosplay-Metallics-SOLVED-FOREVER-464151191

…though she’s not the first one to figure it out.  Chrome wrapping is actually a really popular method used in Asia for covering armored costumes, it just hasn’t really taken hold in western cosplay yet.  

You can look up youtube tutorials for how to apply the vinyl (all the demonstrations will be on cars) to get you started.  

To add to Calgary’s tutorial, I would say that if you buy a cheaper, no-brand-name vinyl wrap, it’s not going to give you the same results as buying a known brand of vinyl wrap.  I have a sample of generic wrap I bought off of eBay, and then a sample of Avery chrome vinyl wrap, that’s advertised to have a nice bit of stretch to it, and the Avery definitely works better because the stretchiness helps go around those curves.  Generic brands tend to be less stretchy, the adhesive less sticky, and more prone to dents and wrinkles when you apply heat.  As with all things, you get what you pay for.

Generic 

Avery

In addition, whether you’re using foam or worbla-coated foam, or wonderflex… it’s a good idea to stiffen it up a bit before applying the vinyl so that it can retain its shape.  Applying heat to the vinyl helps it stick and stretch, and you don’t want the heat un-shaping the foam/worbla/wonderflex underneath.  I find that using a few light coats of wood glue helps a considerable amount (don’t worry, you don’t need to go get yourself a gallon of epsilon or anything).  At the same time, don’t use your most powerful heat gun when applying your vinyl.  A hairdryer works fine, and the lighter heat will also contribute to keeping the shape of the foam/thermoplastic you’re wrapping.  

And of course, the more time you put in, the better the results.  Go slow, experiment on scraps first… if you’re using worbla or wonderflex, I do actually recommend smoothing it out a little bit first.  Stretchier chrome vinyls will hug a little bit to the grooves of the rough exterior.  For the smoothest possible finish, take that wood glue or wood filler or gesso to your worbla and just apply 2-3 coats to help even it out.  Not as much as you would need to if you were painting it, but just enough to give the vinyl a helping hand.  

If the adhesive seems to be losing its stickiness or just isn’t holding well enough (and you’d be learning this through your test scraps that I know you’re taking the time to do), I’ve been using contact cement.  

You can find this and various other brands at Home Depot or Lowe’s, etc… I find that using contact cement also reduces air bubbles and creases, especially as you wrap the vinyl around the edges so you get a nice cleeeeean finish.  

If you don’t know how to use contact cement, google is your friend.  

Obviously armor has a lot of pieces, and the unfortunate bit about vinyl wrapping is that you have to do it with every individual piece BEFORE assembly, as opposed to painting, where you can assemble everything first and then paint.  

The back of Kuvira’s armor has 10 pieces, and I need to wrap each of the ten plates before I can attach the plates.  The inside tends not to look very pretty, but nobody’s looking there anyway.

Worbla scraps are GREAT for assembling those wrapped vinyl pieces btw.  

not Saw specifically but a slasher with a legit body count. Summer camp slashers are overplayed but I think it really works because it's the type of thing the Scooby gang WOULD get caught up in.

like some of the counselors didn't show up (got got) so the head counselor calls his younger cousin to see if him and his friends can fill in last minute. They show up and they're a bunch of nerds, one of them even has an anxiety dog, and they don't have a big role at first. It seems like the movie is setting them up as cannon fodder.

Well, since the New Year is a hopeful time, I opted for the "Daemon finds himself literally/physically at the Battle of the Trident" version of this...

Enjoy these 100-ish (*mumble* 1200-ish *mumble*) words...

x~x~x

The tepid waters of the Trident at its lowest crossing had a choked stench to them even when they weren’t red with the blood and bile of lives spent needlessly. And as much as Rhaegar blamed his father’s cruelty, honed to a deadly edge by the horrors he suffered at Duskendale, his own foolish heart was equally at fault.

Not for loving Lyanna. There was nothing foolish about that. But in thinking he might concentrate his father’s fury on himself alone by eloping in secret, trusting that for all his paranoia, he would not kill his own firstborn.

He had not counted that Lyanna’s brother would march upon King’s Landing, nor their father after him. That they would challenge the king, or that his father would extend his notion of protection to Rhaegar when they demanded his head with such perfect malice.

And thus the Warden of the North and his heir had been executed in a fashion that would turn the steeliest of stomachs, and the realm had sundered. The enemy hungered for blood in return for that which had been spilt. Ned Stark for his fallen kin, and his missing sister. Robert Baratheon for the insult of having his betrothed stolen away.

A threat awaits us that is far greater than a mad king, he wanted to shout at the clash of men around him, except that it too would be taken as madness. The darkness that had plagued his dreams for as long as he could remember, death stretching icy fingers across the realm to bring the eternal night.

Only dragons could stave off the threat, and for all that he had thought that he might be the one to waken them, his efforts thus far had been in vain.

And even that failure would not matter if he could not hold back this rebellion.

Rhaegar’s sword arm moved instinctively to parry the blade of the man who had made it through the line of knights defending him, and he struck just as quickly to take advantage of the man’s sloppy guard, blade finding the soft flesh of his gut. He stepped back, letting the body fall backward rather than exhaust energy trying to fling it off the blade himself.