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Building out the chest followed a similar pattern. The main shell is rigid EVA, but to allow more flex in the shoulders, those are built from softer upholstery foam.

I didn't bother to papercraft the shoulders, I took a measurement from my model and used an online calculator to help create a 1/8" sphere wedge template.

This actually represents the V1 of the chest, I ended up building a second version between its debut at MAGFest and competing at Connecticon.

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Discussing the British Press, and I'm reminded of the time when I had a moderate amount of celebrity in the UK LGBT community, and the press tried to do a hit piece on me.

Now here's the thing. There's a cheat code, and I'm going to explain what it is:

They will contact you for comment.

If you say nothing, they will publish the piece and say you were offered the chance to comment.

If you tell them to fuck off, they will publish the price and say your response was foul and unprintable.

I did neither of these things. I told them that this piece wasn't journalism. It was ridiculous tittle tattle and represented everything that was wrong with a failing and dying industry more obsessed with clickbait than proper reporting. I asked them if they didn't have proper news to report, and said that they should be ashamed of themselves.

They're basically screwed at that point. "We contacted Ms Brown for comment and she said that this was ridiculous tittle tattle and that the reporter should be ashamed of herself."

They're not gonna say that.

I'm struck by something one of my history teachers once said about medieval castles. They weren't meant to be impregnable. They were meant to be annoying enough that an invading army would decide to investigate other priorities instead.

The piece never ran.

If you're a trans person in the crosshairs of the British press, make yourself an annoying target. They're on a deadline, and if you make them conclude that life is too short, they will leave you the fuck alone.

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I tried hair mousse for the first time this morning. I want sure how it would turn out but wow I almost had a cry because right now just before bed it doesn't look gross and lifeless like it normally does... I actually like how it looks!!

I wrote a short blog post showing my process for this illustration. Photo refs, tracing, warping, all the cheats! Check it out here: https://www.joaquinbaldwin.com/blog/illustration-process-for-sterjall-from-the-noss-saga

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Trying again.

Discounted the Traegia avatar for 72 hours.

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Boosts appreciated.

Following on, I bring the model pieces into the program "Pepakura Studio" which is software to make papercrafts. I went through the trouble to cut up and organize all the pieces to print cleanly on printer paper for assembly.

Actually assembling the papercraft means I can verify the scale before moving onto real materials.

And assembling the full papercraft meant I could even try it on first (remembering to account for foam thickness).

For the head, I made 1.5 copies so I could have one reference, and one that I would cut up and copy to cleaned up patterns. Then I'd cut the foam from them.

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"Speak with Animals" seems like the the best way to play Baldur's Gate