Going down with the ship

a dwindling, mercurial high, by sassymajesty

Swallowing past the ever growing lump in her throat, Lexa forces herself to say something — because they’ve agreed on this: no hiding, no lying, no shouldering things alone, only open dialogue could give them a fighting chance. “This feels like crossing a line.”

Clarke doesn’t answer right away, tightening her grip around Lexa. It helps, it always does. It keeps her from crumbling, and it only just manages to do the job now. When Clarke speaks, her voice is small. “Haven’t we crossed all of them already?”

because there ARE textual arguments for diversity. Tolkien himself stated that Hobbits and Harfoots were of varying skin tone, and there’s that famous descriptor of Sam’s “brown” hands that offers significant ambiguity. there’s the geographic relationship of Harad and Gondor, which suggests trade routes and cultural as well as population exchange, in addition to the marriage of Berúthiel into the line of kings. even before that, the conflict and exchange between Númenór and Harad in the Second Age implies extensive contact and intermingling.

“When he died the ravens sat in the trees outside for a week, watching. Taking turns. A horde of raccoons tried to break into the house every night, tearing at the siding. Eventually they gave up, but it was unsettling.”

This one has me cryin' at my desk in the middle of the day....

🎶and he drived a rainbow carrrrrrr

(a beautiful rainbow car)

and he goed to a castle cause he lived inside of there... and guess what?

(what?)

he was a prince!

I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.

Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.

So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.

Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.

Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.

Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.

I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.

This is the famous Tom Jung poster:

I was inspired by the black-out poems made by @playing-with-colors and decided to apply it to the locked tomb series!