Further Beafts

Feb. 14th, 2023 07:36 pm
These critters are on one of the cups of the headphones. Eventually both cups will be covered in them.

some kind of vegetable shrimp lizard with a collection of mismatched fins along its body, its segments blooming out of each other like a flower or an ear of corn, with its tongue sticking out.
a heraldic-looking turtle-shelled beast with a short proboscis, long scaled neck, vaguely equine scaled limbs ending in spurs and fins, and a long, flowing, curly tail. You can also see an abstract squid-like creaturehas a mammalian head reminiscent of a cat, guinea pig, or capybara, ringed around the neck with some kind of frill, plate, or gills. Its forelimbs are stumpy and hooved, and the rest of its compact, potato-like body is that of a fish with trailing tail fins. You can also see a bit of some furry or vine-covered little creature, sitting like a small cat or dog, with huge blank round eyes, and four horns, one of which has sprouted into an antler-like shape.

Despite the image descriptions referencing various plants and animals, all of these beasts are meant to be a bit abstract and difficult to read out as a specific creature or amalgam of creatures. They're just a pack of wierdoes!

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Feb. 14th, 2023 04:41 pm
While I wait just a bit longer to make absolutely certain the Danish Oil-Alkyd Oil Paint stain on Garbage Guitar is cured before I slap a coat of polyurethane on there, I turn to a different project: headphones.

I have a sensory processing disorder, and headphones that are at least noise isolating are a prerequisite for me existing in the world, but my current earmuff style pair is starting to fail in ways I can't fix without dropping more cash than the whole headset is worth on a new set of drivers. My Fancy Headphones, meanwhile, are neither sufficiently noise-blocking for out-of-the-house use, nor something I feel comfortable taking out of the house due to the fanciness. If those get lost or stolen I cannot afford to replace them.

So I'm taking a three dollar two-pack of earmuffs, the drivers + part of the hardware for an old pair of extremely broken headphones, and an audio cord that was still good except for the connectors, and making my own frankenphones. But because I'm me, I have dramatically overcomplicated things.

Thus, The Beafts:

mostly a long tapering lizard-like head, with a long mouth full of crabeater seal and shark teeth and a feathered crest, and a little curl at the back. It is sculpted onto the arm that connects the cups to the headband, and has a flanged nut and cross-head bolt for an eye.has a kind of squashed bun or river rock body shape, giant flat teeth, boarlike tusks, a crest that might be a mane or might be the dorsal fin of a fish, four little "legs" that might be fins, a curly tail, and a speckled pattern textured into its side. It is sculpted onto the arm that connects the cups to the headband, and has a flanged nut and cross-head bolt for an eye.
has a beak and a vaguely birdlike head, but fleshy, with a blowhole, and a long knotted-up snake or eel body ending in a lobate fish tail. Same deal, flanged nut, etc.
There are more Beafts on one of the headphone cups (and you can see them on my pillowfort actually) but I need to get going for a bit so I'll put those in their own post later.

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