Wayfarer, Wings-of-Light 🌈🔮​ @Kyresti@vulpine.club

If I end a toot in :p, it means I'm speaking in jest, whether it be sarcastic or just plain silly.

I feel like I should pin this, I've had people miss it and mistake me for angry before. :x

Howdy. Nice to a see an influx of friends. I've been depressed so let's break it into pieces this time

Furry since 2000, otherkin since 2002, known dragon since 2015, former attempted pro artist, still dabble when I feel like it.

Androgynous, genderfucky as all getup, AMAB, devout transhumanist, technophile, science lover, caucasian ashamed of whiteness.

Post-GRS, complications, difficult healing physically and especially emotionally, genuinely not sure if regret, anti-gatekeeping, Andrea Long Chu is a douchebag, ask me anything.

Spiritually pandeist/pantheist, childe of Coyote and Tiamat (yes that's as scary as it sounds), takes 'not taking it too seriously' WAY too seriously :p

Occasionally lewd, occasionally kink, aro/pan, nipples take he/him pronouns.

Tries to be sass, usually a bit more upbeat, friendly, lovey little cuddlebug

So yea. Howdy. 💙

Ok... I'm used to seeing fash/douche accusations and cancellation calls, but...

In the form of a showcased artpiece on mediBang's gallery? What in the actual fuck?

Does this happen on FA submissions too?

*: mediBang is the literally the paint software I use o_o'

Looking up how to write cover letter because I've never had to do it before, and like...

Every. Single. Fucking. Thing. about any of the advice I'm looking up here absolutely REEKS of "I have all the cross-class expertise and enthusiasm you could ever want. I'll make you happy. Call me."

And it's like fuck! If that's how you get a job why don't I just start walking the fucking streets? Occupational risks I know but it pays better. >_>

Holy shit like I just realized the perfect way to describe what I mean when I call myself a 'creation elemental'!

So there's this RPG called Eclipse Phase, where you can upload your consciousness into multiple bodies and effectively hot-swap species and such if you can afford them.

There's a type of creature called an infomorph. Basically a sapient AI, not tied to any specific machine, and through that you get things like 'living' ships, security systems, etc.

I'm kind of like that. I don't have a true form, because my identity is pretty literally just my personality.

I know it's the nature of the industry I'm in (which, by the way, fuck customer service of any flavor), but...

It's really kinda bullshit I get Easter off by default and not Beltane.

Not everyone worships Christ. Not everyone worships Moloch.

(And yes, I AM describing anything that picked up hallmark holiday traits as Moloch worship. God bless the almighty sale, right?)

And now we get to the morning after.

I was able to just about half-fill it by hand, which, given I was going for a canid nose, didn't turn out too bad. ^^ You know, aside from being disjointed. I'm... actually starting to get halfway decent with the modeling workflow, at least as far as basics go :3

Turns out I really rather like the texture of unsanded 3D prints on a softer material, though perhaps not on something like a sex toy (Well ok, there's exceptions but I'd rather not get into that on a public toot). But you know what it would feel really good on?

The wrist part of a mousepad. Got the right kind of 'grip'.

Barring additional weird shit, I think I'm ready to start making production molds. We'll see.

Went ahead and tried anyway. Glad I did, we'll see how this turns out in the morning.

I thought I made the sprue reasonably big, but even NV10 is viscous and cures quickly enough that I can't do this well without proper tools.

Right now I'm thinking in terms of large volume syringes, as it DOES flow, just not quickly enough to work without help. I tried with a squeeze bottle once, but the nozzle was too small and squeezing it out was awkward. Being able to apply that force in one solid direction should be enough, I think. So now I've gotta deal with a pretty literal, albeit crude, injection mold. :p

And doing it this way revealed I might even want a 2nd hole for air displacement so injections don't bubble up my silicone, and so it doesn't plug up the sprue and wind up stopping me from filling the mold proper.

Ok that's... a funky lesson learned. When making a mold that's only symmetrical on 1 axis, making two copies of the same half nets you something that fits them reflected across one of the other two pretty much no matter what.

I'm suddenly glad these fucking things are so cheap to make! And also that I was casting a shitty practice piece to begin with

Tempted to do a frankenpour to see how it behaves rather than try to remember the settings I used and remake a proper 2nd half, though I'd also effectively be working with 2 disjointed half-sprues that I'm not sure are big enough to take silicone as they are now.

Mainly I don't want my printer screaming at me for the next 3 hours over something I'm not going to put into serious production.

Project failures make good teachers.

If I end a toot in :p, it means I'm speaking in jest, whether it be sarcastic or just plain silly.

I feel like I should pin this, I've had people miss it and mistake me for angry before. :x

Biggest limitation I think I'm running into with the home 3D printing is once you get it seriously up and running? The speed.

With any luck my needs to use this will be scarce enough that I'm not getting bottlenecked by that.

I will say, a year post-GRS, once the nerves have had a chance to remap, and doing this stone-cold sober, wearables do feel quite a bit different.

Now I'm a bit of a unique case here since my clit was modeled and rewired pretty similarly to the glans it was cut out from, but putting in my prototype?

It literally felt like my junk was piloting a dick-mech. XD

The contact point's indented to be map to my clit 1:1 and stroke it with the thrusts, but without focusing on any sort of phantom mapping that sensation's... exactly as it says on the tin. It feels good for sure, but as someone who was accustomed to an orifice's texture it's oddly confusing? Not for everyone though, it IS kinda hard on my junk.

The insert makes it feel more phallic to me because of the throbbing and having part of it hooked inside me like muscle/tendon, but it's still a very clear sensation of foreign material. The taper wasn't as gentle as it is on a feeldoe either, which results in a feel oddly like my cunt being tugged on (in almost a 'this shouldn't be physically possible...?' sort of way)

Far as prosthetics go I think I've made the genital equivalent of a peg-leg, which is fine. But I've got a ways to go if I want something more realistic.

Still serves me decently. :>

At this point I'm trying to noodle my way through modeling styles, parametric and additive alike. The former for machinery if it comes to it, the latter for more organic shapes, both for casting of various materials.

And finally it's dawning on me one of the things that's made Blender a colossal PITA to for me pick up, at least until recently.

So what you have is a *fuckton* of hotkeys, shortcuts and commands that do a lot of often very powerful things, on top of a unique art form that can only fully be explored by *doing*. It's surprisingly fluid once you get the hang of it but initially feels like using GIMP to do something that's... not quite clay modeling, not quite sculpting, and almost as temperamental as programming.

Now I wonder how far I can take this. :3

Wow... ok so I'm trying to figure out basic bar/coin casting for possible pet-projects and TIL the precious metal varieties on the market go up to 1 kilo for gold coins, and up to 10 for other materials/composites.

...IMO, at that point you don't have money; you have a discus. o_o

Ya know, I'm wondering now... if we tore down capitalism, or _at least_ had the right mix of UBI, subsidized basic needs (housing, food, medicine, utilities, etc.)...

What would that do for the sciences? If you could just hole yourself up in academia without worrying about debt spiraling, or tinker as you pleased, or even, dare I say...

Could collaborate without the same motive to patent and/or copyright new tech and product as means to become financially self-sufficient? That open-sourcing everything became that much more appealing?

Now, take a human. He doesn't have the same doctoring cred but he IS a perfectly good nurse. This one can feed an entire room with a few bread scraps and walk on water as if it were grass.

Truth is I'm rather more hesitant to roll with RN Jesus. His treatments are a veritable dice throw and he has a bit of a messiah complex.

Take a machine intelligence. Program it as a nurse, train it to the extent where it's fully qualified even to act as a physician in some respects. Give it a gender-ambiguous chassis but no fluid conversational skills.

Now you have an AI Enby NP NPC. :3

Called it. In fact this is almost too mild. If there's any one thing I miss about the southwest it's that people -get it- when I say I can handle spicy. XD

"How spicy you want, 0-5 stars?"

Me, thinking: I don't want to go heavy on it today, better make it 5.

Now, I think my challenges for the near-term are thus:

1. Get this slapdash fucking appartus (read: *literally* a *fucking* apparatus :p ) together, see if I like the feel, and well... see if my lovers like the feel with the rest of a Kyresti attached.

2. Switch gears entirely, get good with modeling (freestyle or parametric, honestly prolly a mix of both), figure out what'll take to get good consistent molds with PLA (Read: My little printer, steppers are magic)

3. Figure out how I'm going to handle multi-part molds from here on in. The seams are still an issue and in particular, the 30A hardness is *incredibly* thick and viscous! I'm not injecting that into much of anything without some capital-H horsepower the likes of which my wrist muscles just can't cough up.

The rest is going to be I think predominantly fine-tuning. How thick a core, whether to use other harnesses, etc, but that'll get easier the more data points I have to work with.

It's easy enough now, for sure. But I want to be comfortable in all this, because eventually I want to start adding things like cumtubes and erectilable knots to the mix too.

Ok. After 3 fucking tries (the last of which required 2 pours to fill), I got the handle-end of my toy cast. It's not pretty, it's not bareback-safe, but I can at least plonk it in once I've got this together and do some, shall we say, field testing.

For feeldoe-alikes, a higher shore hardness is absolutely necessary to hold the weight of the shaft up I think, unless you want to go the boxer and/or strap-on route... or make something with a *rigid* (read: plastic or even metal) core. That might still even be necessary, given I tried with 10A (About equal to a Bad Dragon "medium") the first time and dude does your dick hang loooooooooooow!

On the bright side I'm getting some good solid clitoral contact/friction this time, which... as someone with sensation-specific post-GRS hangups, is a GOOD hecking thing!

Definitely not using silicone-on-silicone for molding again, though. The cast is functional, but looks like crap, and every time I miss even a little a spot with the mold release it *damages* it, like, irreparably if I'm going perfectionist.

On the bright side, I got the same exercise as I normally used to jacking off... just having to pry the damn thing loose. XD

Yip. Arf arf awooooooo~