The median artery is an artery that is occasionally found in humans and other animals. [1] It is present in 35% of individuals born in the late 20th century. [2]
occasionally I’m reminded that biology just sucks to think about
patients often experience disruptions to splenic development during embryogenesis, resulting in an overall lack a spleen (asplenia) or development of many spleens (polysplenia)
hey what the fuck
people are like ‘aspects of biology and human anatomy need to be nearly delineated and sorted into distinct boxes’ and then actual biology is like 'roll 2d3+2 to determine how many artery branches your cerebrum has’
Look at him go! Remember when i said i want some little “meet the artist” thing as a pinned post but i dont want to sculpt a self portrait? You all had such awesome ideas and this is what i decided to pick! Now i just gotta see if dumblr allows me to use this and then this fucker is gonna be my new online face! This extremely poorly done animation took me 900 years btw, how on earth do animators do this at all. I do 3 frames and im like “ok this is enough”
So Anastasia Tremaine is one of my favourite side characters from Disney, and with her whole story arc in Cinderella 3 I really wanted her love interest, The Baker, from the second movie.
I’ve been putting off doing this custom for so long because he has SUCH  drastically different body type from any male dolls out there that I knew it was going to take a while to attempt it.
But I decided to finally do it and went ahead and started modifying a Mego Aquaman since I had a spare of him around. I added to his chest and stomach, as well as added more bulk to his face so he would look less like Kristoff and vaguely different enough to be his own person.
Also, since the Baker has an upturned nose I modified that as well.
I hemmed and hawed about shortening his legs until I realised the shoes I had didn’t fit the Mego feet so I cut off his original feet and ankles and added some Monster High feet instead. I also trimmed out a portion out of his thigh and strung the pieces back with wire, foil and a lot of superglue and cornstarch to fill the gaps.
I then covered his thighs to bulk them out but also to fill in the mess it left, as well as filled in the upper arms as they were too detailed for my taste.
I them sanded him over two days, and then painted him up in acrylics. I’m still kind of insecure about my colour matching abilities but since he’s gonna be covered up I don’t mind it.
He is such a uniquely shaped doll but I’m really proud of how he turned out.
What are your go-to sites for finding fabric in period prints/colours, specifically cotton? I'm starting a quilt that's going to be entirely of repro or plausible-looking 18th/19th century prints and while I've had some luck with 'traditional' collections from brands like kona, was wondering if you knew of any smaller purveyors I might look at?
Ooh, I don’t think I’m the best person to ask about historical cotton prints, since I’ve never sewn a historical garment from a reproduction print. Someone who’s sewn 19th century day dresses would probably know some much better options.
However! If you want a bunch of different little pieces and are willing to do some editing, one option is to dig through Smithsonian Open Access, and The Met’s collection, both of which have a huge amount of public domain high resolution images of fabric swatches & fragments, including lots of 18th & 19th century printed cottons. Some are pretty stained and ragged, but there are plenty of nice looking ones too. Make a pinterest board for them!
You could make a blank document the size of the printable area of a yard of fabric at 150 DPI, and fill it up with all your favourite fragments (cropped and resized to be the right scale) and then get it printed on a basic cotton on a site like MyFabricDesigns, ArtFabrics, or DesignYourFabric. (Spoonflower is also an option, but they print with inks, and the other 3 I linked use reactive dyes, which are more colour fast and don’t make the fabric stiff and crinkly like the inks do.)
I plan to eventually make repeating patterns of some of those swatches, but it’s quite a lot of work for each individual pattern, and I think you could get enough small bits for a patchwork quilt pretty quickly of you just arranged them all in one big rectangle.
I don’t know if you have any photo editing programs, but if not then photopea.com works, and is one I use sometimes!
I’m going to put this as succinctly as possible, and this is just my opinion so please take it with a grain of salt if you disagree, but stock G3 Ghoulia is pretty awful.
I wanted to attempt to do her justice because I definitely saw potential because her doll isn’t bad, but Mattel putting her in rags and making the same poor choices they always make made her really unappealing to me.
So I made her some pants, swapped out her ill-fitting shirt, made her a better functioning/more art accurate beanie, gave her a better looking skateboard, and repainted her lips.
Anyways, I like her significantly better now. Pants patterns will be available soon.
Ghoulia had been one of my favorite G1 dolls, so I was pretty disappointed how bland she looked G3 (even though she had green skin!). This is inspired, tho. Might reconsider getting her now.
I have a lot of memory issues, so I tried to capture that ‘spotlight searching’ feeling. It sometimes feels like recalling one thing means forgetting another!
