I originally planned on doing a cosplay that allowed me to be comfortable at the convention….and then I saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse. As soon as I saw Kingpin I thought, I MUST BE HIM. I fell in love with his character design and loved how absurdly large he was.
I started sculpting his face after I saw the movie but didn’t start on the body until a couple weeks before the convention. I basically just built a box out of insulation foam sheets with foam pieces inside that rested on my shoulders to give him height. I cut a hole out of the belly area and covered the entire body in sheer black fabric so that I could see through it without any obvious vision holes. For the arms, I bought the largest pair of black pants I could find at the thrift shop and used them as sleeves. I stuffed them with foam and ran a wire through them so they could bend and so I could easily attach my silicone hands (which were lifecasts of my own tiny hands). I ran the face in silicone and backed it with foam. I then attached the face to the body with silicone caulk. Everything else was basically attached by hot glue and a prayer.
I tried it on for the first time a couple days before the convention and realized the insulation foam was really doing its job and within seconds I was already getting warm. So, the night before the show I ran out and bought a battery operated fan that I installed under his armpit.
As much as I stressed about all the imperfections, as soon as I walked into the con and saw the reactions to it, I was immediately relieved. Seeing so many little Miles cosplayers freak out over a giant Fisk truly made my day. Doing cosplay is such an amazing creative outlet for me. I’m a full-time SFX artist, but like most jobs, I don’t have any creative freedom. Cosplay gives me the opportunity to use all these crazy skills I’ve learned and create something that brings myself and others pure joy.
“spicy pillow” jokes aside, I think @flowerkrone’s tags deserve a serious reply:
#my old phone looks like this on my shelf lmao #im too scared to touch it to throw it away #idk what trash this even goes into when its at this point
The pillow-shaped object here used to be the phone’s battery. It’s not a battery anymore. Now it’s a balloon full of corrosive, pyrophoric chemicals and hydrogen gas and it’s one puncture away from burning your house down. I am 100% serious. You should be scared to touch it.
But you gotta touch it, because you gotta get it out of your house before the pressure builds up to the point where the balloon pops. This isn’t going to happen soon – there is no need to panic – but it will happen eventually.
And, indeed, it doesn’t go in the ordinary trash. You put this in the ordinary trash and you’re gonna set the garbage truck on fire. Don’t do that to the garbage collectors, their job is hard enough already.
The first thing you need to do is get a fireproof container. The most common household item that qualifies as a fireproof container is a cast-iron cookpot with a cast-iron lid – often sold as a “Dutch oven.” Any other cooking container that’s unreactive, has a very high melting point, and has a lid made of the same materials will also work: enameled or stainless steel, Pyrex with glass lid, etc.
However: Do not use a pot with a PTFE-based non-stick coating. If the battery does explode, the fire will probably be hot enough to degrade a PTFE coating, producing toxic smoke. (Not that you should breathe the smoke from the battery fire either, but PTFE breakdown products are worse.) Do not use a pot made of aluminium or copper. The fire might even get hot enough to melt those.
Whatever container you use, you might have to throw away along with the phone, so don’t use your good Dutch oven for this. Go to a thrift store and buy a cheap one.
Once you have the fireproof container:
Gently pick up the phone and put it in the fireproof container. If possible, gently tape the phone to the bottom of the container to prevent it from bouncing around. Don’t put any padding in there, that’ll just make a fire worse if it does happen. Put the lid on and tape it shut.
Put a label on the container, something like “DEFECTIVE LI-ION BATTERY – FIRE HAZARD”.
It is now reasonably safe to move the container around. However, if the battery does explode, the container is very likely to leak smoke and get hot, so keep it in a well-ventilated area and away from things that will be damaged by heat. Don’t leave it exposed to the weather, either.
You need to find either a hazardous waste disposal site, or an e-waste recycler that
will accept defective Li-ion batteries. I can’t help with that because I
have no idea where you live.
However, your local fire department, if you have one, will probably be happy to help. Call their non-emergency number. Nothing is on fire yet, so this isn’t an emergency, but things that can easily start a fire are still within the fire department’s responsibilities. Tell them you have a phone with a bulging lithium-ion battery, you put it in a fireproof container, and you want to know how to dispose of it safely.
If the fire department tries to tell you this isn’t dangerous or it’s okay to throw it out in the regular trash (with or without fireproof container), hang up on them and write a cranky letter to your local government representatives, then keep looking for a proper disposal site.
When you do find a a hazardous waste disposal site or an e-waste recycler, call them and make sure they will take defective Li-ion batteries, before showing up. That’s also a good time to ask if they will let you have the fireproof container back.
I worry that the omnipresence of ygotas and just ygo shitposting in general will mislead some less informed viewers into believing this is a little fan joke/edit. He actually said this. This is canon dialogue for kaiba that Eric Stuart was paid money to perform.
The problem is, because of the fonts etc, I read this as “sex typo” then “OF OF OF OF OF !!!!” and then since “OF” was in my head, misread the top one as “get a load of this guy” and was then extremely confused. It was a classic case of this:
I’m not sure why I feel this way, but imo this is the most cursed marine mammal fact I have ever heard
THAT’S RIGHT AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME SO I CAN INFLICT THIS ON EVERYONE AT 1AM!
Mammals normally shed their skin in small flakes all the time when their skin cells die off, but because whales are living in the ocean -AKA, Bacteria Stew- flaking off like that would cause microabrasions (really tiny cuts) that would mean the whale is continually fighting off infections. So, when a whale needs to replace it’s dead skin cells, it preps it’s new skin underneath, then sheds all it’s dead skin cells at once, like a lizard:
but not having hands makes it hard to remove this gross film, so molting brings many whales clsoe to shore where they can roll around on rocky/sandy coastal seabeds to scratch it off. Here’s a bunch of Beluga coming in for a mass scratch:
And THIS is what a chunk of Sperm Whale Molt looks like, floating in the water before it’s devoured by pelagic microfauna, because you take what calories you can get in the open ocean:
Nature is Amazing!
wish it still held in one big piece like a snake though. Wish you could be swimming in the ocean and you see a huge empty whale billowing like a balloon. like a latex glove a hundred feet long. imagine getting tangled in that. what if you died cause you got caught in an empty whale like it’s a big blanket
I love your thinkin @bogleech this’s is givin me ✨ideas✨, I’m probably never gonna use ‘em but they’re there is I need ‘em
I also JUST realized this is undoubtedly the “cryptid” this one scuba diver claimed to see. He said a giant “amoeba” floated up from the deep, made the surrounding water colder, then engulfed a shark and returned back to the trench.
Obviously a current blew a whale skin up from deeper water and a shark blundered into it, then kept on swimming anyway. Maybe it was a nice tasty treat??
Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.
Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.
This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.
Holy shit thank you OP. I lived on the east coast and moved to AZ 4 years ago… thought I was done with this stuff. Literally this is the first I heard about it so thank you for getting the word out.
Shit. I have a post I’ve been holding onto about hurricane preparation. One moment, I’ll post it.
I still want to write the fic where an outsider has all these preconceptions about what the Force is and then goes into a room with a bunch of Jedi who are tearing into each other like bitchy old academics.
“Ooh, look at Master Structuralist over here with his ever-so-deep ‘everything is attachment actually’ reading”
“I don’t want to hear that from someone who calls every new opinion ‘new depths of their relationship with the Force’”
“The Jedi Order is a social construct–”
“Could you stuff the po-mo and pick up a book once in a while? These aren’t new ideas! You are not a pioneer because you asked one question!”
“I think you could all benefit on more reflection on how our rooting in the Force is actually deeply sexual–”
“If I have to hear one more word about lightsabers being penis envy you are going to be one with the Force immediately.”
yes please I need more jedi symposiums with knights who had different views than consulars who have different views than shadows. Temple-centered jedi versus those who lead frequent diplomatic or medical missions versus exploratory and research jedi who spend most of their time in uninhabited wild space and the outer rim.
There is absolutely no way an organization that large doesn’t have factions that understand the force differently–my 15-person philosophy class couldn’t agree on a single thing we read all term.
Anakin shows up once, pulls up his PowerPoint and it just says “I am the Chosen One.”
It happened six hundred years ago so no one knows but theories range from “he ate all the snacks” to “he personally instigated a duel meant to settle whether channeling the force through combat meditation is more effective than through regular meditation but the duel got out of hand and everyone but him lost at least one limb”
the truth is that he was never actually banned, he’s just been saying it so he doesn’t have to go. he started all the rumors himself
The conference has a no murders, attempted murders or arrests on the behalf of the Republic clause, specifically because of the number of Jedi trying to arrest other Jedi for disagreeing with their theories.
Dooku take advantage of the facts that you are not required to be a Jedi to attend, for his first 10 years post-Order, and the fact that they can’t legally arrest him for the next three.
Anakin is 14 the first time the Nightsister is invited, and is only doing this presentation for the video of Obi-Wan’s face, so that he can bribe Quinlan into giving him speeder parts with it.
Mace loves it, because it’s the one time of year he gets to see Skywalker cause everybody but him a headache.
“I know this because the Force told me so” was Qui-Gon, who uses this as his regular excuse for everything, in this case, as an excuse to be a little shit-stirrer.
Thoughts on the idea that Lystrosaurus caused the Permian extinction by being so dang numerous and dominant, making them one of three organisms that were so overly well-adapted that they broke the ecosystem and led to a colossal mass extinction (the other two being early photosynthesizers and humans)?
I pay so much more attention to invertebrates, I actually knew nothing about this idiot fool here?!?!
I did not know that this big mole rat walrus sloth looking ass survived the permian so fucking well that at one point it constituted possibly 95% of the terrestrial vertebrates on Earth. What the fuck. What happened.
And we have a fucking MUMMIFIED SKIN fossil of one?!?! A little baby one!?!?
augg they flattenated him I can’t believe it :( I can’t believe they’d pancaker a little guy like that
It’s worth mentioning that they didn’t cause the End-Permian Mass Extinction - the Great Dying - that honor goes to fart bacteria learning nickel tastes good after Siberia exploded (don’t ask*).
When 90% of life on earth fuckin’ beefed it, Lystrosaurus found itself in the enviable position of being…
…the ULTIMATE GENERALIST!!!
Basically, when the planetary biosphere gets shaken up like James Bond ordered an everything-martini, the best thing to be is good at nothing and kinda ok at everything. Lystrosaurus was, for its ecological context, the Default Animal. And so, when global temperatures went back to normal, and the noxious clouds from the rotting seas settled, Lystrosaurus shook itself off…and proceeded to become the most numerous single taxon to ever exist in the history of life by virtue of pure physiological mediocrity.
The absolute JOAT GOAT.
@poondragoon I am very much asking, please tell me about nickel eating fart bacteria and exploding Siberia causing the Great Dying.
Right, so: around the time Everything Almost Died, Siberia exploded. Not violently, mind you. It was more of an enthusiastic oozing than a bomb going off, but it did do a lot of lava and (presumably) greenhouse gases. The map below shows the area affected, outlined in black:
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So…yeah. That’s a lot! And for the longest time, scientists thought that the greenhouse gases emitted by the formation of the Siberian Traps caused the acute global warming which in turn caused the Great Dying. However…recently…that has come into question.
Basically, it wouldn’t have done enough to raise global temperatures by that amount. Not even close.
Enter the plucky little bacterium with the greatest genus-level K/D ratio to ever exist: Methanosarcina
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See, right around the time Siberia blew its top, Methanosarcina evolved a nifty little trait: how to digest acetate using nickel as a catalyst. The end-product of this metabolic marvel? Methane. As long as there’s dead stuff in the environment, Methanosarcina has a source of acetate, so the limiting factor to its fitness was the availability of nickel. Guess what the Siberian Traps blasted into the environment.
I think you can see where this is going.
When the mass influx of bioavailable nickel into the world’s oceans, Methanosarcina populations exploded, and with them? Global methane emissions. What resulted was a horrid positive feedback loop: more Methanosarcina making more methane increasing global temps killing more sea life providing more food for more Methanosarcina to make more methane.
It’s plausible that the only thing that kept this cycle from perpetuating indefinitely was the fact that Methanosarcina populations were so high, and thus dying off in such tremendous numbers, that the nickel they were consuming simply couldn’t be recycled back into the food web fast enough to sustain their growth. Eventually, Siberia calmed down, and Methanosarcina populations crashed back to pre-Triassic levels. But by that point, they’d already left their mark.
If the Methanosarcina hypothesis holds true, then it means that they are probably the most important single genus to ever exist since the time oxygen nearly sterilized the planet. (But that’s another story entirely).
So yeah, moral of the story? Be careful when you explode a whole continent: some bacteria might fart your biosphere to death.
Fascinating, thank you. Well done little bacteria, you did a global mass extinction event.
friend that doesnt drive: anyways really look the thing about origami is that its not about getting the fold right on the first try its meant to be an exercise in precision sure but also in patience the instructions are repeatable tasks that you do over and over again to polish the skill before applying it to something else. a thousand swans arent folded in a day and really its meant to bring you to reflect upon what it means to even be folding in the first pl-
friend that drives: HOLY SHIT 3.20 A GALLON? I SHOULDVE FILLED UP THERE anyway i understand the process is meant to soothe the itch of perfection that gnaws at the soul through exposure to imperfection but OH FUCK [drives over median straight into Walmart parking lot while nearby F150 lays on the horn because you stopped him from running a red light]
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