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Herr DParticipantNot a ten. Definitely needed his own Bodak moment, though. I lost your thread! Where’ve you been?
Herr DParticipantWhen asked why she chose the name Atomic Girl, she replied “Well, I tried going by Higgs Boson Girl, but I kept getting blank looks from most people.”
Now THAT’S a good superhero quote. [brief tentacular dance]
JR brought up a good point, but didn’t mention strategy of picking outline color. Anyone can pick black. Finding the individual color for each piece of your electronic paper doll can be challenging. Most of the time you’re not doing skin, you want the color just below.
Oh, and welcome!
Herr DParticipant“Savage Beauty Pop Q” –This particular creation was a response to Vidan. Vidan challenged his team of designers, saying that it wasn’t enough to turn the fashion world on its ear. Reportedly, no one was fired. The Heeled Hat With Built-In Buckle Sunglasses is by Avant Cardamom Milliners. Feathered Beret and Coiffure Pumps made to match by PUMPITUP! Productions. The HangUp Purse by Shock Accessories comes with ten extra helium charges not shown here.
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-SavageBeautyPopQ_zpsdita4bow.png
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“The Charade Of Undead Pirate Simms”–Because sometimes being cursed isn’t as frustrating as just communicating . . .
Hey, SOMEONE was gonna go there . . .
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Somehow it just screamed “old fish restaurant decor kitsch.” The front and back of Mr. Crab were two of the items. The third item is in three color schemes as most of the ship in the bottle.
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-FishPlaceDecor_zpsmeidnygd.png
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Herr DParticipantSole entry takeover protocol #1.
[sigh]
Time I livened things up somehow. This time, let’s try something MORE specific. Not just category and subcategory of item choice, but also sub-SUB-category. Due 7/13/16 2pm EST, hopefully to be judged by 8pm.
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Herr DParticipant@Madjack: AWHHH, MAAAAAN! I wanted to meet an energy-saving lamp man. That would be a green genie, right? In a parka, so he could live comfortably with his eskimo mom. Because 300+ years ago, there was a wife-sharing incident . . .
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A rare picture of ‘Blaesduft,’ her preferred spelling uncertain. She is, to all accounts, a low-power hero. She has weak wind powers and the ability to generate specific scents. “Blow scent” is how her name loosely translates from Danish, not “Blast Tufts,” as a certain American journalist misunderstood. He was reporting on an incident in Denmark where a terrorist tried to rob a bank to fund his cell. Amid the negotiations, she realized the terrorist’s identity, and that he was allergic to roses. Her attempt to cover him with that scent was nearly botched by the fact that she had to blow the scent in through a disused vent. Covered with rose-scented TUFTS of lint from the vent, the terrorist staggered out, sneezing, eyes watering, and broken out in hives. Interestingly enough, he had proven resistant to tear gas in an earlier incident. She has not been reached for comment.
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-Blaeseduft_zps0f39h8bh.png
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“Well, Aliens Don’t Wear Raincoats”
*pop-Roswell
Herr DParticipant@JR: Have a look at the post #1 on this thread–because now I want to know what they’re called over there!
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The pop quiz gave me THIS:
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It just screamed ‘full cover’ to me . . .
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On an interesting side note, further proof that you can’t please everyone? ‘Eskimo’ as a word is offensive to use in some countries, including sometimes in Canada. It is offensive to NOT use Eskimo in Alaska and many other parts of America, however, so good luck offending fewer people, everyone!
*pop–rnd
Herr DParticipant“The one thing I’ve noticed about conducting vocalists in every galaxy I’ve been to . . . the sopranos are ALWAYS too concerned about their appearances.”–Maestro Ynthi
*The foot made a great hovercraft podium, the headgear made great gesticulating upper limbs, and the guitar made a fair hedge-grooming ‘hairpick-thing’ handle.
Herr DParticipant@JR: Wow! You never read my post #1? Those twisted light bulbs! Compact Fluorescent Lights!
. . . wait–do they have those in the U.K.? I favor incandescents, since I’m allergic to fluorescence, but I’m one of the lucky ones. UV lenses are enough to keep me from migraines.
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“The one thing I’ve noticed about conducting vocalists in every galaxy I’ve been to . . . the sopranos are ALWAYS too concerned about their appearances.”–Maestro Ynthi
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Herr DParticipantVerily did the Conqueror One leave the firmament of this realm under the power of the seven dragonmages. Zordina, the Amazon giantess had inspired the villagers to agree that if there really was a world without magic connected to that moon, that it would be theirs for the taking.
And so they did launch the newly made skyship after the stars which she said were their campfires they ate at as they laughed at us. But it was not long before the Trouble set in.
Someone had picked, among the pixies, a half-pixie-half-SATYR, who incorrectly assumed that Zordina would be complimented by himself acting upon unexpressed amorous affections suddenly and in the darkness of the privy, by surprise.
She was not, as he hoped, complimented. Nor was the male human complimented by the half ogre male making similar advances toward him atop the human’s food. Nor was the . . .
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Herr DParticipant“We all thought One-Legged Dave had gone nuts, what with losing his leg to the monsters. He burned out a power drill winding up all that copper into the black trash chute lining and stole a car battery we were going to use for another car. He was moving stuff from one end of the old dock to the other when THEY came back again. Everyone else on the dock dove into the water. Not him! He pulled out that “coil gun” as he called it later, plugged it into the car battery, and opened that box of metal parts he’d SAID he needed to fix engines. He just waved that tube on a stick around and the steel sprayed the monsters. Poked holes in ’em and brought ’em down. Then he wheeled up to them, waved it just right, and collected the nuts and bolts and iron filings and bits of flatware and fishhooks and broken knives into a bucket of oil. And back into the monsters that were still moving. Then he dipped it down into the water and sprayed the metal he’d missed with back into the bucket. Waved it again and tore the metal out of the ones limping at him into the others coming at him.
“He got nearly sixty of ’em BY HIMSELF. They couldn’t see him very well with the fog rolling in, and his weapon is completely silent. Just the screams of the dying monsters. Dave said later he gets somewhere over twice the flux of an old MRI unit with the right power and all those coils. I guess he knows–I can’t follow him when he talks physics.”
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The “Dob” beetle is too fast for regular shutter speed on a regular camera, as evidenced by this blurred image. Migratory and British invasive, , this specimen was headed back to where it once belonged in the most unusual weather, a tangerine sky. It normally infests the Sergeant Pepper plant, but will accept lotus, discarded polyester or vinyl, or acid-washed denim. Has a noticable aversion to rye.
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*pop-spmdob –This effect was produced by typing “Sir P. M. 6-18-42” in various fonts, stretching and shrinking and spinning and layering and coloring them. Djuby SAID to use that information to make the image–I used almost nothing else.
Herr DParticipant. . . and back to creepy. This is an Escherian loop, reminiscent of Escher’s “Drawing Hands.”
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-Teamwork_zpsnhwhkuw9.png
I happen to think that this one is also commentary on the darker side of “Teamwork,” its title.
I can’t remember, but I think this one was an entry in a competition about use of Companious.
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Any cup that has a built-in set of manacles so you can’t drop it is probably designed for A PRETTY STRONG DRINK. Preventing droppage or throws during — throes. One example is the “Chalice Of The Wereserpent Priestess.” Most people, when they say, “Look, no hands,” don’t mean the results of this drink.
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Herr DParticipantSticking to the lighter side for this next post, djuby had this neat pop quiz to design a bicycle for the ‘wrong’ era and make it fit. So I conceived of the ‘Sincycle.’ Adam and Eve have to find their new homesite, right? What better way to travel than to wrestle that troublesome serpent into position, saying that if he wants to get beaten less, he’ll act as a tire for them, never wimping out on getting spoke-poked, or he’ll get shredded by the works and protruding branches? They’ve already eaten his recommended fruit, so–now it’s humanity’s turn to mess with HIS life!
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-Sincycle_zpstkjtbwej.png
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Herr DParticipant“War Came By” had some interesting limitations. The items were odd. The Dr. Who console became part of the rotor support, a Klingon weapon became part of the stanchion on the same helicopter because I somehow imagined it was on the list, the item that really WAS on the list in its place became a missile and half the chopper body, and the dinosaurs became land. Not oil–land.
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On the lighter side, “Sole Train” depicts how trains might get better mileage. Ingredients from RightFoot except for a few insignia circles I masked to.
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Herr DParticipantGak! Falling behind in posting! [winds up and throws . . . ]
“When Dave Drove The Hovercraft Thru The Cafe” Yeah, title probably says it all.
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This particular section of the Flood-Damaged Scroll in the Archive Of Swirra The Studious depicts the legend of the Threesinger. A flighted lizard with a prehensile tail, the Threesinger was unique in that never fought or participated directly in any violence, using its surprising speed to dodge any attempt to hunt it, even by ambush or crossbow bolt. Its crest functioned as a sort of sound baffle and noise directer. Its three wings could propel it through any complicated maneuver. Its three horns and springy tentacles would depict, musically, the actions of those it observed. One to three individuals or groups could be emulated simultaneously by such thematic music. The legend says that the Grey Cardinal was repeatedly insulted by the occasional sour note played by them in his presence and so drove them from his province by hiring Eric The Deaf as a minstrel. They left en masse and have not been sighted since. This entry in the folio shows examples of runic musical symbols complete with color denotations of timbre–very rare indeed.
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Herr DParticipantInevitable that there would be some of that happening sometime . . .
Well, I’m by no means an authority, but the first thing to do would be establish a timeline. For the sake of this site, regardless of whether you intend to do anything else, look up the earliest possible time their character went public. Then look up any likely coincidences (the writer, illustrator’s Facebook page says they’re from your location, likes the same restaurants, happens to like your music, etc..) Because, if you can say you’re first and wouldn’t likely have overheard someone talking in another city . . . heromachine is safe, and you might decide to call a free lawyer service to ask for whatever.
If there ARE some likely possibilities of crosstalk leading to duplicate and near-simultaneous inventions, you might enter in the post a statement declaring it coincidental and non-malicious.
If THEY were clearly first, ask a moderator to rule whether it’s too derivative or it can stay.
Personally, Marvel DOES need to be trolling us for ideas. They don’t bother to WRITE. They just reboot so often that they wind up making some fans angry and most of us confused.
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