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Trico: The Last Guardian - Handmade art doll

Wow, I never thought I’d get to post this guy up. 400+ hours, and approx 2000 individually cut, painted and glue feathers later, my biggest project to date is complete. Trico means so much to me as a character, I hope you all enjoy him.

I am taking offers for him via silent auction. Pm me if you would like to make an offer. 

There are over 100 posts detailing his creation from start to finish on my Patreon for just $1- www.patreon.com/Nazegoreng

“Evil Friday”

The results of the 2017 popularity polls are up on Tales Channel+!

These include (in the order pictured above)

Main popularity poll

Favorite antagonist character

Favorite mascot

Happy Pokemon Day!!!

Art by: Pixiv - 成

here’s a link to scans of a collection of England’s first advice column magazine, started in 1690.

It covers such timeless questions as :

“Who do I choose - boring, fuckboy, or money?”

“Is it ok to wear makeup?” (the answer was: “everybody wears perukes, because it’s xviith century England, and that’s also altering one’s appearance, so it’s fair to say that yeah.”)

That one anon that just NEEDS to hear your opinion on a character.

Hard-hitting question.

“I have a psychic dog, is that sick or what? Also my entire family is dead because this is xviith century England.”

And then, of course, there’s questions that are at the same time very set in their time period, and also somethign you might as well see on the front page of reddit: “help, I discovered my wife is my daughter, should I tell her if I know it might kill her?”; “help, I married a woman who’s now taking all my money and abusing the shit out of me, all I want is a nap”; “is it chill to throw witches in ponds or nah?”.

if you’re having a bad day, just watch this video and thank me later. 😍

When I worked at Walmart, I went from cart pusher->cashier->electronics->security. Sometimes after I switched to security, when electronics was really swamped, I’d help out for a few minutes. One day, the phone was ringing and I was walking by and randomly answered it.

Sir Scamalot: “Hello, sir, this is Steam Support services with Valve.”

Instantly, of course, I know this is a scam. I adore valve and played so many of their games too. I can’t believe my luck! Of all the calls to answer! Surprisingly he didn’t have some weird accent.

Me: “Oh, uh… what can I do for you?”

Sir Scamalot: “We’ve had reports that game keys shipped to your location may have an error that prevents it from authenticating, specifically the game Counter Strike. We need to validate your game keys to see if yours effected.” [I forget which CS was on sale then, this was 2008].

Me: “Oh, what do I do?” As if I didn’t know.

Sir Scamalot: “Well I just need you to open any copies of the game you have and read me the CD key on the instruction manual so I can verify them with our validation software.” [or on the jewel case, I don’t remember that either]

Me: “Sure thing, can I put you on hold for a minute while I get those?”

Sir Scamalot: [obviously happy] “Sure!”

So I put Sir Scamalot on hold while I called all the other area stores electronics department and warned them about the scammer and confirmed nobody had taken a call like this earlier. About 15 minutes later, I get back to Scamalot.

Me: “Thanks for holding, but I can’t find any CD keys. I looked all through the book and the packages.”

Sir Scamalot: [annoyed] “Well sir, just open any copy of Counter Strike and on the-”

Me: “Oh, COUNTER STRIKE! I thought you said Counting Strikes, that bowling game, ok, hold on!”

Everyone in the department is listening and we all laugh. 10 minutes later, I’m back on the line.

Me: “Ok, I got what you’re looking for! What do you need?”

Now I make him walk me through how to open the box, including interrogating him for 5 minutes about how to do it without breaking the seal, then pretend I can’t find the book, etc etc.

Finally, I’m ready to read the code!

First, I read him the UPC. This upsets him. Then I read him a part number from something. Now he’s livid. Finally, I ask if he means the code on the book that says “game key” and has like groups of four digits with dashes (like he’s said probably 50 times already) and he gets excited again.

Oh, ok heres the game key…

Me: “Ok F… like frank. U… like uncle. C… like cat.”

Sir Scamalot: “Sir, I don’t think thats right, normally a code would-”

Me: “No, its. F, U, C, then K like kite. Next four is Y like yesterday. O like owl-”

And he swore at me and hung up.

<br /><i>Via Flickr:</i> <br />New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Oji. Ukiyo-e print shows foxes gathered around a tree, breathing fire . Color woodcut by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige" rel="nofollow">Andō Hiroshige</a>. No. 118 in the series <i>Meisho Yedo Hiakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo)</i>, 1857.

This unique print is the only one in the entire series that involves fantasy and is generally included among the “best three,” together with prints 58 and 107. On the last day of the year, according to legend, all of the foxes if the eight Kanto provinces would gather at a particular tree near Oji Inari Shrine. They would change their dress before visiting the shine, where they would be given orders for the coming year. On the way they would breathe flames (kitsunebi) by which local farmers were able to predict the success of the crops of the coming year, either by the shadows cast by the flames or by their numbers. The word “foxfire” exists in English as a literal translation of Kitsunebi; both words are used to explain strange lights at night, such as the burning of swamp gases, and both were ascribed to the fox. In creating this image, Hiroshige relied on a composition in the Edo Meisho Zue (vol. V) which shows an old hackberry tree (enoki), backed by a pine. Haystacks are shown on one side and there are touches of green on the pine behind to the left, in overprinting on the haystacks and at the tips of the trees in the distance to the right. Red bokashi is used at the base of the yellow flames of the foxes in the foreground and there are some sixty-odd more foxes breathing fire in the distance. Although the Japanese considered foxes to have supernatural powers, they were a common sight in the city of Edo, especially in the Oji district. The “changing tree” stump has been preserved in a small shrine. A firebombing raid threatened to destroy the area in 1945, but the flames came no further than this point. After the war the residents constructed a shrine and planted a new tree, which is presently seen at Shozoku Inari Shrine.