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I want to write an action movie about some older retired government agent who’s married and settled down. He’s started to let his guard down. And that’s when the past comes back to haunt him.

They come for him while he’s home alone and he’s resisting their interrogation techniques, refusing to betray whatever or whoever they’re after. Except then his teenage daughter comes home early.

And the baddies send one of their henchmen out there to deal with her. And RetiredActionDad is all “Don’t you touch her! I’ll kill you! Rar!” But the baddies just laugh.

Except they realize, after a little while has passed, that the one guy never came back from dealing with the daughter.

And then go outside and find the missing baddie floating face down in the pool.

The rest of the movie is the teenage girl calling in favors and running around following the baddies to save her RetiredActionDad.

So Taken, but in reverse.

It should be called The Liability.  

I would watch the hell out of this.

And then in the sequel, the daughter has joined the FBI, following in her dad’s footsteps. But the brother of the villain from the first one wants revenge. So he kidnaps her mother. She and her dad head abroad to find mom in the villain’s secret lair…while mom has already escaped has been busy hiding in the air vents and stabbing goons with knitting needles. Turns out she was a Russian spy who defected and married her government handler forty years ago, and can handle herself. 

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duh.

It’s that time of year again. Pumpkin spice dominates all food flavors. Netflix is finally getting around to adding more horror classics. Facebook invites to Halloween parties have been rolling in. Now for the big question: what is your costume going to be?

Fear not! We’ve got you covered with some makeup tutorials that we hope will inspire and add spice to your costume plans, and this first one will have you in stitches! (I refuse to apologize for that joke.)

What You Need:

• Red creme makeup *or* red eyeshadow
• (Optional) Black eyeshadow
• Brown eyeshadow *or* bronzing powder
• White creme makeup *or* white eyeshadow
• Black liquid eyeliner
• Thin tipped brushes
• Eyeshadow blending brush
• A steady hand

The look I’m about to outline can be achieved with a few different tools and methods. That means it’s easy to find supplies and that you may even have most, if not all, of the things you need without making a special shopping trip!

The first step is to go ahead and lay down any foundation makeup you would normally wear. Put on your primer, concealer and foundation, then dust it all with a setting powder. It will be nearly impossible to add these things after you get started.

Next, decide where you want your stitches to be. I really love the look of them running from temple to jaw line, but you can place them anywhere you’d like. After you’ve made up your mind, draw a dotted line in red where you want the stitches to be. You can use either a red creme makeup, like I did, or a red eyeshadow.

Personally, I thought the red I used was a little bright, so I went back over the dashes with a touch of black eyeshadow to deepen their tone.

After you have the dashes in place, you are going to take a small brush and draw in what will look like parenthesis around each one using either your brown eyeshadow or bronzer. This is to help give the look a 3D effect.

Don’t worry if they look a little weird because after you’ve drawn them in, as you will be using your eyeshadow blending brush to carefully feather out the edges to give it a softer, shadowy look. Take care not to run the brush through the red, or you’ll risk smudging.

Next, you will want to take your white creme or eyeshadow and lightly fill in the gaps between the red and the brown shadow. If you find a pure white shade is going to be too light on your skin, you can alternately use a little bit of concealer in a shade or two lighter than your natural tone. This is going to increase the 3D look.

Now comes the real fun! It’s time to add the stitches. Take your liquid eyeliner and carefully draw in your stitches. They should ideally fall between your red dashes. I like to have a lot of variety and direction on mine, but you can also draw them in a more uniform manner if you prefer.

The last step is to again take your brown eyeshadow or bronzer and lightly add a line of it under the stitches and in little dots where the “thread” would be going into your skin. I recommend adding the brown under the stitches as light is more likely to be casting down on your face. This step will reinforce the 3D look.

Here’s where you are absolutely free to stop and dash out to your party, but I want to show you a few ways to take this to a more advanced level.

Let’s say a mad doctor was, in fact, stitching you together. Chances are good he’s not going to have all of the same bits to work with, so maybe he has to use some flesh scraps from a more necrotic “donor”. For this I applied some basic beauty makeup to one side of my face.

Then for the upper quarter of the other side I took some green eyeshadows along with contour makeup and started layering them on to give a more ghoulish look.

From there, you can apply your stitches exactly the same way as listed above. I also took an extra step and added a touch of white creme over the center of the stitches to make them pop out a little more. You can also swap in a silver creme makeup if you want to look stapled together.

This really is a versatile makeup technique that can serve a lot of purposes. With a little modification, I was even able to use it to create a look based off of Data in Star Trek: First Contact. And speaking of contacts, adding a contrasting color into one eye really ups the bizarre, disjointed nature of the look.

We would love to see how you apply this look as well as hear other tutorial requests for the future. In the meantime, stitch ‘em tight!

Feature Image Credit: Universal Studios

that’ll do, pig. 

Huh. So apparently what I like to do when stoned is doodle stuff from the Rogue Trader game…

Rough sketched everything and then began filling in details right to left but lost steam after a couple of hours…

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The Witch’s Son by ~Auroaronkitten

I like this a lot.

You always see things like the witch’s daughter. This is more interesting to me, since it’s rarely done!

Holy details, wow. WOW.

wow

this is literally one of my favourite drawings ever

I could spend hours looking at all the tiny details in this piece of art

Love love love love love

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This immediately made me think of Jack from the book @ink-splotch wrote

Aw! Yeah Jack brewing in the back room of the infirmary…

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Wait wait wait, why don’t I have THIS book?!?
Those spinning kicks… I need this so bad… so bad…

YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKE, GURL, NO LIE.

First of all: let’s talk about what kind of drinking everyone does.

Olivia and Viola drink incredibly artistic mixed drinks, whatever’s the newest thing, and get really handsy every single goddamn time. Not just with each other, Olivia wanders around the bar and drapes herself over the shoulders of others in their group–not strangers, obviously, she clams up with strangers and goes icy cold–and she breathes heavily on their cheeks, often leaving deep red lipstick prints on everyone’s cheeks. Viola gets cocky, starts manspreading, and sometimes stares across the bar so very possessively that Olivia has to smirk and settle back on her lap.

Celia and Rosalind drink whiskey and have loud, hand-wavy arguments about things. All the things. Often about the whiskey, who won the darts game, and whether reality is a function of our perception or not.

Lady Macbeth and Ophelia get along SCARILY well. Lady M orders the drinks and is teaching Ophelia how to be a connoisseur of the best wines. They’re working on Shiraz at the moment. Ophelia would take notes but guessed early on that it was better to just absorb everything she can. She loves the attention and Lady M loves the way Ophelia takes orders.

Cleopatra wrestles someone. Happens every time. That, or she dances on the bar. She tends to have a bottle of something–hell if she knows what–all to herself and she waves it wildly as she dances.

Beatrice is always holding someone’s hair in the bathroom. Juliet, often. That girl just can’t hold her tequila and she’s always so sure she can. Hermione and Paulina are always waiting for her afterward and they pat her on the back and tell her she’s so nice. Hero is outside arguing with Claudio on her phone.

The ladies from Loves Labors Lost are meanwhile engaged in an elaborate prank that involves a school mascot, the mayor’s Ferrari, and a parrot. They all have a bottle of champagne. The Queen has two.

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Constellation print and map kimonos

*History major heavy breathing*

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I think zaflikescreepydolls might dig these.

I feel like Suko needs one of these…

For years, cosplayers have been using thermoplastics to create amazing armor and props. With a heat gun and some patience, you can design just about anything. The most common of these textiles is Worbla, which is malleable when heated. When it cools, you end up with a hard surface that can be painted. However, it’s not without some flaws. Worbla has a rough surface that needs to be sanded down and primed with multiple coats of wood glue to make it smooth and if you’re not careful, overheating it can cause irreparable bubbles. Also, it only came in tan.

Photo credit: Emily Chesley

But no more! Worbla has unveiled an exciting new thermoplastic called “Worbla’s Black-Art” that will revolutionize cosplay construction. Simply being black can be a huge time-saver, but the new material also offers a number of additional improvements over the original. Black-Art is more flexible, reaches malleability more quickly at 195 degrees Fahrenheit, has a smoother surface, bonds easily with other thermoplastics, and is easier to sculpt. Black-Art is designed specifically for artists and crafters.

Photo credit: Erza – Cosplay

I can’t explain just how excited I am for this (maybe because I’m really caffeinated). The thing is, I’m a novice cosplayer who has only used Worbla once to help my friend make her Lady Thor chestplate.  It was incredibly slow to shape. Black-Art’s flexibility will speed up the molding process, plus, the smoother surface will also cut down on the amount of sanding and priming required. Being black, you can even leave it unpainted. Do you get how amazing that is?!  You. Don’t. Have. To. Paint. It.

Erza – Cosplay released this video showing Black-Art in action to make the bracer pictured above. You can see how she easily sculpts and bonds the plastic together. To see more Black-Art in action, check out Kamui Cosplay‘s video below where she tests it out by remaking one of her breastplates:

Black-Art isn’t available just yet, but it will be soon. You’ll be able to purchase it through Worbla.com and pretty much anywhere else Worbla’s products are sold. Don’t expect this to be any less expensive–however, being able to re-mold scraps more smoothly means less throwing away your dollars.

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Feature Image Credit: Erza – Cosplay

I read somewhere recently that LOL is not used as much as it was a few years ago. If young folks are saying “ha ha” instead, they are totes rad in my book. Groovy, even. Just like LOL, a ha ha can lighten the mood enough that you can say anything in a text. This is the latest comic from Reza Farazmand at Poorly Drawn Lines.

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Dee from Rat Queens Cosplay by Janel McClain

Michelle Sleeper makes props and armour for cosplay projects. When she was introduced to Laura, a left arm transradial amputee, they got together to do something awesome.

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The Augmented Reality Sandbox 

The Augmented Reality Sandbox (orginally developed by researchers at UC Davis) lets users sculpt mountains, canyons and rivers, then fill them with water or even create erupting volcanoes. This version of the device at UCLA was built by Gary Glesener using off-the-shelf parts and good ol’ playground sand.

Any shape made in the sandbox is detected by an Xbox Kinect sensor and processed with open source software. It is then projected as a color-coded contour map onto the sand.

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Can’t get enough of this. Augmented reality is just ridiculous. These are the types of engaging technological applications we should have integrated into schools for hands-on science engagement to learn about geology, geophysics, and planetary science!