Ooo I love this idea!
Although I could also see Ghoul really enjoying a kick wheel too, because there's just something so delightfully tactile about giving big leg-flopping kicks against a large metal disk to make your pottery spin... I always found it more satisfying than the electric wheels so maybe I'm just projecting, but I feel like Ghoul would also vibe with the sensation of using kick wheels.
Ooh, and also, if they couldn't make it out to the kiln sometimes, they could always try a pit firing! It would be a good excuse for a nice big bonfire with the crew, and then the pottery would have a cool, smokey look to it, even unglazed (I think?)--like this:
(Image source) [Image ID: a short stout clay pot with an almost watercolor-esque swirling and speckled pattern of rust, dark silver, smokey grey, and maroon splotches on its surface resulting from a pit firing. End ID]
Of course, the bonfire might risk drawing the attention of Dracs, but then again we know they do canonically have fires at night sometimes... Ooh I just decided my new headcanon for the campfire scene in Na Na Na is now that they were doing a pit firing! (Or you could always just pit fire during the day when it would be less obvious, but I’m just enjoying the thought of this.)
Anyways. Fun Ghoul does pottery. There’s a wheel in the diner, and they got it to operate off battery power, and they drag Kobra out on clay-finding missions, since he’s got such a skill for finding water. They make all their own tools for it, and stuff is mostly unglazed. There’s a working kiln at a studio in Zone Two, and every other month they load up the Am with one of the others and drive out to it.
They’ll make functional pieces whenever someone breaks a few too many plates by mistake, or clay shells for certain kinds of bombs, but mostly they make abstract, rarely-useful pieces, all warped and twisting, halfway between sculpture and dream. Sometimes they handbuild pieces on after throwing it on the wheel.
Hogwarts kills it with their holiday aesthetics, though. It feels like just yesterday that I was praising their Halloween décor, and now I see these great Christmas gifs going around again. Maybe not everyone at Hogwarts knows what they’re doing, but the decorator sure does!
(Okay, so like half of these are just snow, but still.)
“One can never have enough socks,” said Dumbledore. “Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
My mom asked me to knock a spiderweb down for her the other day (she's very afraid of spiders and I kinda like them so I'm the household spider deal-wither) and I was like, "but mom! Free Halloween decorations!"
It's still up. For now, at least.
the spiders in my house watching me put up spider webs as halloween decorations
They’re so cute and so fluffy :) And the colors are so bright and also did I mention how cute this is? I love it! <3
For @lordazazel23 !
I love your pencil sketch style and especially the nygmobblepot sketches! 💚💜 These two (x | x) make me always laugh so hard! 🤣
You are an amazing artist! 😉👍
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One of your wishes was “Something cute” for nygmobblepot - I hope you like my gift for you. 😊 Please try to ignore the anatomy, i’m sure there are still many mistakes. 😅 Oh, and I still can’t upload vector graphics on tumblr properly … (pic looks always blurry) … please click on it for better quality!
These drawings and photos helped me very much creating the gift so I want to thank their creators:
LeniProduction | deviantart.com (bodies)
Lena London | supercoloring.com (Oswald’s umbrella)
oswalddcobblepot | tumblr.com (Oswald’s coat)
Brooke | customstyle.wordpress.com (Ed’s bowler hat)
And this pic for Ed’s glasses 👓
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I wish you a very Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁🎅
Yours, buntesfuenkchen (Steffi)
Oooo okay, let me pick out some things from my Vampire Vibes playlist:
Uninvited, the cover by Red Sun Rising
Possum Kingdom by Toadies
Little Monster by Royal Blood
Nocturnal Me by Echo and the Bunnymen
Animal by Badflower
Out for Blood by Sum 41
Animal, the cover by Chase Holfelder (it’s not the same song as the Badflower one)
There’s more on the playlist but I think those are the most evil and s*xy :)
send music recs for a playlist about sexy evil vampires
If this was “people from Montana” it would be an entirely valid summary of the play I’m in right now.
People from Wyoming
Thank you! Very festive :)
So Ravenclaw common room is absolutely gorgeous with Halloween decorations right now. It’s making me curious–what do the other houses’ common rooms look like right now? Please reblog with a pic of your house’s Halloween decorations; I want to see them all!
This is so mysterious and spooky and I love it. I do kind of wish we got to see a little bit more of Ed’s interactions with the Court of Owls after he finally got to meet them, i.e., got captured by them.
That whole mystery illustrated him as a Ravenclaw villain so beautifully. While I love Oswald dearly, his villainous motivations are very much classic Slytherin ones--he’s ambitious, and his cunning and manipulation serve his ambition. And of course, there’s nothing wrong with a classic Slytherin villain, but I suppose as a Ravenclaw I love to see villains from my own house. Unlike Oswald, Ed doesn’t care about ruling Gotham. He wants people to know how smart he is and to be recognized for that, but also, he’s a genuinely curious person. He wants to know all the secrets the city keeps. The Court of Owls was a perfect trap for him, really--curiosity is one of his greatest downfalls (arrogance is another, of course, but that’s for another time).
Anyways, I just love how creepy and eerie this is, and I think it’s a fitting and illuminating picture of that moment when Ed finally got his answers. Or, well, just more questions, really.
I love how Ed was really just starting to think of himself as a big, scary supervillain, starting to have that power and feel it, and at that very moment, he stumbled into something much bigger and scarier than himself. This picture really gives off that feeling in a lovely way that makes one shiver a little.
This is another one of those pieces of art I’ve simply stared at for an inordinately long period of time.
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Puck and Oberon / Titania and Bottom
Happy belated black hole day because I have a bad habit of forgetting things in my drafts!
Also both the black hole picture and Treasure Planet are still awesome.
Happy black hole day!!
They are truly fascinating
I actually did call it, but only because I recognized him from his more recent role as dashing international art thief Pierre Despereaux in Psych, which is a pretty solid intermediate phase between Westley and Mayor Jerkface.
I was just as surprised as you to learn that Despereaux was Westley, as I recall, back when I was first googling him. Like I think I thought he looked familiar but I couldn’t place him. (Then I ended up writing more than half of the Psych Wiki page on Despereaux but that’s another story.)
But it was hilarious because my mom, who has also seen Psych and Princess Bride, totally thought I was wrong. I looked at the mayor and I was like “hey, that’s Despereaux” and she was like “Nah, I sort of see the resemblance but that isn’t him”. Then I looked it up and it was; it’s bloody Cary Elwes. I’m very proud of my facial recognition skills, which are frequently lacking but in this case were spot on.
Although, to be fair, I also kept getting the mayor and the newspaper guy mixed up, to the point where I briefly thought that the mayor also ran the newspaper, and when I learned they were separate I had no idea which one was Heather’s dad, so I guess that’s 1 win and 1 loss for my facial recognition skills after all.
(Also Pierre Despereaux is the #1 best side character in Psych and if you love Westley, I highly recommend you watch Despereaux’s episodes on Psych. The first one is called Extradition: British Columbia and it’s great and you should watch it...)
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