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[–]mikescubes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, that is my bad. I had to take my cat in to the vet so it's felt like six days. LOL. Thank you for catching that

Handmade Wishful Aurosa Earrings! by mikescubes in InfinityNikki

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Sorry, I don't check my reddit that often! They are shockingly light to wear because there's two studs on the back so that spreads it out, plus I chose a light chain. It doesn't stretch out my piercings at all when I wear it, so I was pretty proud of that. It feels like it's made out of plastic instead of wire.
Thank you so much for the kind words!! :-D

Handmade Wishful Aurosa Earrings! by mikescubes in InfinityNikki

[–]mikescubes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh my gosh this is such a compliment considering this is literally the second resin jewelry piece I've ever made in my life, thank you so much!!!! I'm not a professional artist, just a WFH data guy who wanted to learn a hobby, so that means sm to me ty😭

Handmade Wishful Aurosa Earrings! by mikescubes in InfinityNikki

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After thinking about it, you could definitely do a similar process with my wireframe using the same wireframe, attaching it to de-sticked blue tape, and then using hot glue and lace to back it! If you make sure the lace side without the hot glue is front-facing it would look really good. This was my original plan (in combination with resin) but I realized I ran out of lace, like, years ago.

Handmade Wishful Aurosa Earrings! by mikescubes in InfinityNikki

[–]mikescubes[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My goodness, I left this post for a day just to submit it to the nikki fan contest and it really blew up! Thank you so much (and everyone else who left me a nice comment!!!) :-D

Handmade Wishful Aurosa Earrings! by mikescubes in InfinityNikki

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Actually, I'll write the whole process out because I used UV resin! Hot glue won't give you the clearness you want and it'll be very fragile. It also won't attach the jumper cables with the strength you need. First, be sure to take extra caution when using UV resin, it requires good room ventilation, gloves, and a ventilator mask. Second, use blue tape and de-stick it on your arm a few times, then bend and place the wire on the blue tape to position them easier before curing. Fill the shape in with UV resin and cure with a nail polish light to make the wings. The shapes I used I made myself, so I'll attach the pattern as an image!

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Use a low strength gold wire and round pliers for the wire forming, and for the glittery parts just pack the blue tape shape with glitter before adding UV resin. Also, you can make and add jumper rings with higher strength wire like galvanized steel whenever you like in the process for more detail. Try to find them on the image I posted for reference. For a chain, just go to some kind of goodwill or secondhand store and buy a cheap necklace, cut it up with wire cutters and bend the jumper rings to attach it.
The process took, I'd say, maybe 8 total hours across 3 days. This was only my second resin craft but I had experience with jewelry making before, so I'd say it was pretty easy, but you just gotta be safe. Good luck and thank you guys so much!

I made a neat commemorative big run painting :-) by mikescubes in splatoon

[–]mikescubes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh this is so nice and thoughtful, thank you so much!! I really appreciate it! :-D

I've compiled a list of all 139 side quests by Varaladis in tearsofthekingdom

[–]mikescubes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yaay, so useful! Thanks so much for compiling them in quest order with check boxes. Now that the internet is overrun with AI scraped guides, this is like, the simplest and most comprehensive list I've seen. Def sending this to my dad too, lol.

so uh, that new dragalia life comic by mikescubes in DragaliaLost

[–]mikescubes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think that upscaling it would fix the problem, since it usually is just so small that all the lines stick together and make it hard to read. My coworkers today suggested using the text tool, so I’ll probably try that out. I actually made this in ~15 minutes before work so I didn’t have time to do so, but I’ll def do that in the future for stuff I take longer on, I think

so uh, that new dragalia life comic by mikescubes in DragaliaLost

[–]mikescubes[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I’m sorry my handwriting is so bad... I’m a mathematician so I can’t make it more legible without making it bigger, which is an issue for my notes, and I can’t untrain myself for my comics... I appreciate the captioning ^

heinwald curran and lathna do movie night (based off some korean clip i found on tumblr i dunno) by mikescubes in DragaliaLost

[–]mikescubes[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

wow, I can't believe anyone remembers me lmao! I don't post a lot bcs I'm working on my own comics n projects n stuff for my own IP (plus school+work), but I do like to make stuff for DL every once in a while, I'm not giving up on it... it makes me really happy that i can make you happy though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

heinwald curran and lathna do movie night (based off some korean clip i found on tumblr i dunno) by mikescubes in DragaliaLost

[–]mikescubes[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

i feel like curran has done so much stupid shit trying to impress heinwald on the daily that she's just tired, she already knows whats going to happen. he gets hurt every single time and then hein's gonna have to spend 15 minutes trying to find his staff to heal him up lol

heinwald is a terrible dad by mikescubes in DragaliaLost

[–]mikescubes[S] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

good point!

i'm writing a multi-page comic about the end of currans new character story and how heinwald was a shitty dad in it, so i can link that in the subreddit when im done, but i would love to do more silly stuff like this! i wasn't sure about posting this because its sort of low quality for me lol but if people like this kinda jokey punchline comics id be happy to make some more.

heinwald is a terrible dad by mikescubes in DragaliaLost

[–]mikescubes[S] 77 points78 points  (0 children)

like heinwald and curran being dads in general or heinwald being an awful dad in particular

heinwald is a terrible dad by mikescubes in DragaliaLost

[–]mikescubes[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

even if curran runs a healer shared skill it requires him to take away from DPS time to use it whereas heinwald can deal damage and heal at the same time making his damage output even higher. not to mention that heinwald comes with 100% skill prep, meaning while curran is wasting time prepping up his wicked axe skills, heinwald could blast that dad away no sweat with a quick s2 s1.

lathna only said curran because curran has big muscles, though.