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Timasomo 2025: The Showcase
Timasomo 2025 is now officially complete!
Over the next few days, participants will be posting their creations and efforts in this topic to showcase their work to the community.
Comments and feedback are both welcome and encouraged.
Let these creators know what an awesome job they've done!
Creators: In posting your showcase:
- Give your project a title, and use the
#markdown to make it stand out in the showcase thread! - Link to your project in whatever way works best for it.
- If you like, give a "creator statement" that contextualizes what your project is.
- Add anything else you consider relevant! The showcase is yours!
- If you need examples, take a look at last year’s showcase.
Also, I strongly encourage you to make your own topics showcasing your work in their respective tildes (e.g. ~life, ~tech, etc.). This showcase is only visible to those subscribed to ~creative.timasomo, but the wider Tildes audience will undoubtedly appreciate your efforts as well.
Community:
- Treat this thread like a walk through an art gallery or a museum where you get to see different works on display.
- Simple appreciations for the creators are not noise—they are valuable community support!
- Make sure any feedback you give is constructive and meant to help.
I finished my blog post!!! It was not a huge project, but without Timasomo I probably would have put it off for another 6 months so I feel this was an effective project and I'm happy with how it went, even if it only took me 1 afternoon.
Someone (I'm guessing a Tildes user?) also posted it to Hacker News which is pretty exciting and allowed me to say "author here" on HN for the first time ever. I got a couple texts from IRL friends saying "hey I saw you on HN" - and without those I wouldn't have even noticed I was posted there until days after - which was also super cool!
So an excellent month imo and I'm glad people have seemed to enjoy my post!!
I was not prepared for the final image showing how large the puzzle was. I knew 9000 pieces would be a big puzzle, and then you mentioned having to sit on it when working on completing it…but I was still surprised by the final size!
Part of it is that I am a very small person, but yes, it's gigantic.
I almost didn't include the last picture but I'm really glad I did!!
I thoroughly thank you for not only taking on this feat but specifically documenting your steps for others. It is so so annoying when you hit the fringe part of a hobby that no one else has documented while seeing several people online have clearly done the thing with no repro steps. This is going to help a lot of people! Good job!!!
That is precisely the experience I had when I arrived at the point of "time to put it on my wall haha" and I really hope my post does help a lot of people! Thanks for your lovely compliment!! ❤
I said this before but I want to reiterate it here: that puzzle is HUGE.
Not only is this an impressive project on its own, but the fact that you documented your process and gave tips means that this is going to help out other people trying to do the same thing.
I am genuinely impressed at your undertaking and am even more impressed at the results. I think if I tackled this it would have gone south and I would have given up completely, so I admire your persistence and ability to find a working solution.
Thank you so much @kfwyre! I really appreciate both this compliment and also how much you clearly care about every single timasomo participant's project, all of your messages in this thread are so lovely!! Thank you for putting timasomo together and in general just being a wonderful person!
Thats awesome, i did a 5000 piece puzzle in my puzzle making heydays and actually cut out a big backing board FIRST and built + glued in stages. Very exhausting, had to be VERY confident of each piece. Either way, i super appreciate this post. It was fun to read your journey. Congrats on the very cool piece.
oh shit that sounds TERRIFYING given ravensburger reuses the jig and you get identical pieces in all puzzles 3000+ pieces. I've had a mistake at the end of almost every puzzle I've done where I put the right-shaped piece in the wrong slot and then had to go back and locate that and finish the puzzle correctly.
I have no intention of ever gluing a puzzle, but was really interested in your writeup. Really well written
I'll be brief. This month, I wrote a little over fifty thousand words towards an
as-yet untitled work of full length genre fiction.
Here's the proof!, with a little sample included. The novel will follow two characters exploring a fantastical dream-city under the sea, both sent by the same woman for the same task, their sojourns separated by a gulf in history. The story of the first character, Poppy, is about two-thirds done, I think.
I won't post the whole thing here, but I will post my favourite chapter so far, which can nearly be understood on its own, and sees Poppy visiting a strange and inconsistent government building, while dealing with her suppressed memories struggling to resurface. Please bear in mind this is a rough draft, and therefore, the sample will disappear in thirty days, and also, secondarily, the quality might not be quite up to par. Feedback is allowed, but only if you're nice to me!
Scattered thoughts about the process: most of my writing in recent years has been either smut, scriptwriting, or critique. I found writing prose much harder than any of the three, due to a combination of rust and the fact that all the other modes are quite a bit more limited in scope and objectives. Yesterday, for the Backlog Burner event that's currently ongoing in ~games, I wrote a critique of the game Citizen Sleeper that was about 2500 words long in the space that it usually takes me to write, like, 800 words of readable first-draft prose, and it was probably better than anything I wrote through all of October. But I'm glad to be developing my skills as a writer nonetheless and will be glad to continue working on this draft for as long as it takes -- probably well over a year -- to finish and then revise it.
Many thanks to kfwyre for running the event, and I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else has made!
So, Evie, I knew you were excellent at games writing, but I had no idea you were ALSO excellent at fiction writing. This chapter was utterly lovely.
Your writing has a kinetic, almost melodic quality to it. Your sentences meander in all the right ways, with third-person narration that is so thoroughly personalized it feels like first-. Also, the chapter stands alone very well. I felt like I always knew enough to understand what was happening but never enough to have the full, complete picture (much like Poppy herself!).
Poppy even reminded me of a friend I had a long time ago who was a dramaturge. She had to study the historical context of plays in order to guide the director and actors. I got to see an incredibly grisly version of Titus Andronicus that she had quite the hand in.
It's clear you have a very strong vision for this story, and it's also clear from this chapter that you have the execution to match it. You've got SERIOUS writing chops.
Also, no joke, I full on laughed out loud at
Spoiler
The Undersecretary's stool joke! That was perfectly executed. It continued the chapter's through-line of, of all things, anti-homeless architecture, and it was out of character enough for the stuffy Undersecretary that it hit so, SO well. Genuinely a delight and a highlight for me.
Humor is tough in writing, but you nailed it there.
Fantastic work, Evie. If you ever publish the full story, I'll be
firstsecond in line after @rosco to buy a copy!It's very kind of you to say so! Very reassuring, too. I kind of forget when I'm working on this stuff that there's anything good about my prose, or that my dumb jokes are funny, which I guess is just the way of things.
I actually worked as a dramaturge on a couple productions as well, back in college. Did research for a production of Radium Girls -- the play about the women who got cancer making glowing watches for the Great War -- and a weird anachronistic production of Oedipus the King. I hadn't clocked that I was drawing on that experience for Poppy actually but in hindsight it probably should have been obvious.
Congrats, writing a novel is such an exiting accomplishment!!!
I love chapter 11, it feels surreal in all the right ways! It gave me a similar feeling to Mood Indigo. If you ever feel like sharing a link or letting us purchase a copy I'd love to read the whole thing!
I'm so buying this book if you ever publish it
Oh wow! This is so exciting to have completed! Congratulations!!!!
Ok, well this is a bit of a disappointing end - mostly because I didn't get the chance to glaze 2 of the final pieces - but it was a great learning experience!
No solution to the broken surfboard yet, but the main body came out of firing and I'd say I'm 50% happy. The final glaze came out a little patchy and it suck to the firing stand in one spot. But otherwise minimal cracking and all finger and toes came out! Still unsure how to paint a piece so it comes out looking as if it was dipped. This is the same glaze with the uniformity of the dipped approach. I did finally get my hands on some latex resist, so I'll be trying the dip technique for the leg. Which brings us to the leg. You can see what I was going for and how it will eventually slip together, however I ran out of time to glaze it. I'm still waiting on it's custom glaze stand to bisque fire. Once glazed and fired it should slot into the bottom hole of the statue nicely. So all in all, things came out ok and I think by the end of November we'll be there.
I was also able to finish two other pieces and got another to the bisque stage. The first is a combo of a similar figure - though only 8 inches tall instead of 24 inches - and his large elephant seal friend. I need to do some repairs on the elephant seal (all of the fins cracked off) and am waiting for a special ceramic sealer to arrive in the mail before glazing it so, similar to the leg, it remains unglazed. The second is a little pregnancy totem I made for my wife. It's supposed to be a rock we swim to in the bay (cormorant rock) with 2 little effigies - one of my wife and one of the baby in her belly. I made one for my friend about a year ago, though much more human looking, just a woman holding her belly. However I wanted to do something a little weirder and more in my style for this one. I've added 2 photos of the front and back so you can see how the glazes look in high and low lighting. There are about 4 types of glazes layered on the "rock" parts and I'm really happy with how that came out.
As I've typed this out I'm pretty happy with how things came out and very keen to get everything finished! I can't wait until I have the 3 piece man together and mounted on his board!
It's been great getting to see and listen to everything everyone's been working on. Thanks kfwyre for putting it on again and everyone else for participating!!!!
This is super cool, rosco! I love the color and the shine on the glaze. I also adore whatever the style is called that you're working in (if it has a name?) with the simple yet exaggerated yet eminently recognizable humanness in your figures.
Also that pregnancy totem is the most heartwarming thing I've seen in a while. So cute, and such a nice way to honor your wife. It radiates love.
Thanks kfwyre! I was really please about how the totem came out! It's funny, I feel pretty confident in the sculpting part now, but glazing is still so far beyond me. So I got really lucky with the totem!
No idea about style, it just came from doodles from when I was younger. I'm sure it's from somewhere and if anyone knows the style or similar artists I'd love to hear about them.
I remember reading in an update post that you had issues with the surf board cracking. Have you figured out a solution for that yet? Overall, the main sculpture is looking really nice. The patchiness of the glaze might be able to just become a stylistic decision if you hand paint the leg, so that the patchiness is uniform.
Thanks! I have an idea but am still not sure if it'll work but fingers crossed! I bought a bunch of plaster and am planning to make a mold. Those can be solid and then I can wrap the clay around it and let it dry uniformly. Once it's leather hard I can cut it off in halves and then combine the two parts together. Hopefully if the clay is more uniformly dry it'll prevent cracking. If that doesn't work, I used to make skateboards so I'll probably just make a wood one and fill the base with scrap metal for added weight.
And that's a great idea for the leg. It turns out I made 2 left feet - the one on the unglazed leg being the wrong way - so I will probably hand paint this one as I make another to try a full dip. Thanks for the encouragement and ideas!
I was making a fairly large (2.4x2.4m) set of built-in bookshelves, to replace some aging and saggy Ikea Billy units. I only had three weeks because half-term holidays happen in October so I need to be doing childcare. However, I did it!
It didn't go entirely smoothly but it did go pretty well. Build updates: one, two, three
Last week, after a few hours of shelving shelving shelving (my wife works in the library service, she greatly enjoyed this bit), we have a bookshelf mostly full of books. Bigger view
We also have much better access to the side of the bed, which is very helpful given how overbuilt that thing is (it was my 2024 timasomo project).
I am very pleased with how well the recessed shelf supports vanish once the shelves are full. My parents even asked how I managed to span 2.4m without the shelves sagging. We also have a dinosaur nook, which is nice. And there's even a tiny bit of space spare - note that the picture books along the bottom were not shelved on that wall originally, we've already got way more storage than before.
Now I just need to do the same with shelving the other two walls in that room, repaint the remaining visible bits of wall and it'll be done... at least for the next decade.
As always, hats off to @kfwyre for their enthusiasm, hard work and to everyone involved for their support of each other. It's so cool to see the things everyone gets up to. If this goes on long enough I'll redecorate my entire house... :)
Looks great! I really like the view of your book collection - mine are currently stored in boxes because we recently moved and didn't get around putting up a new shelf. Maybe I should have done that as a Timasomo project... It is just so nice to see ones literary history up on display!
What a sturdy looking set of shelves. Nicely done, and I'm glad the little dino has a home in the corner! :)
You never cease to impress, mat! Those shelves are excellent.
I honestly love shelving books, so that must have been an absolute treat for your wife. If you/her have any book recommendations from your impressive collection, let us know! I've got a small standalone bookshelf in my house, but a full wall like this is a dream.
Also, that room is now the perfect reading environment. Custom-made shelves, custom-made bed, natural light from behind when you lie on the bed and crack open a book, cozy lighting around the frame. It's the perfect place to curl up with a novel -- full of comfort and made with love.
Thanks! When I've actually finished the room, I'll post a picture or two because there is way more shelving to build yet - I'm going to be at this until Christmas at least.. My wife has been working in book-adjacent jobs most of her adult life and we have accumulated a lot of books. Last estimate put it in the 2500 region, although we have got rid of some since then, but we have also got more. Luckily I mostly stopped buying print books about 20 years ago when I got my first ereader, otherwise we probably wouldn't have room for a bed in there!
If I could recommend only one book from that wall (picture books and non-genre fiction) it would be Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Ask me again when I've done the opposite wall which is where all the comics, sci-fi and children's literature lives. Or the back wall which is poetry and non-fiction.
Those recessed shelf supports do truly vanish. It seems like such a small subtle feature when building, but has created such a big impact on the final project. Great job
itsy bitsy fishy desktop game
I was supposed to just use this time to learn how to post a game on Steam, but I just watched a few videos about that and listed some resources for it. The process looks really tedious and complicated and the interface for actually uploading the game files is ugly and unintuitive. Then I procrastinated by continuing to work on the game. I made a very basic UI for controlling game audio volume, customizing the fish's appearance, and basic save/load functionalist. My favorite part is a "randomize fish appearance" button! There are 3 goldfish varieties, 9 different marking patterns (which can be combined in 2 layers), and 12+ possible colors for each layer (the base fish color layer + 2 pattern layers). I feel like I spent a lot of time just endlessly clicking this button and enjoying the random variety/pattern/color combos. 🐠🌈 I also spent a lot of time manually drawing each layer for each variety. (There are 6 growth stages so for each pattern I wanted to add I needed to draw it for each growth stage for each variety.)
Omg those are cute fish! I tried to follow the link to your itch.io page to see more, but I think both links in that post go to the YouTube playlist
Edit: I love your artwork for it, the fish are so cute! If you don’t mind me asking, what’s your art process? Digital or do you draw and then upload?
Thanks so much!!
Oohh thanks I have corrected the link -- https://mellowminx.itch.io/itsy-bitsy-fishy (but this is the initial game prototype, and only has one type of fish, no custom types/patterns/colors yet)
I used to draw with ink on paper then scan, but now my process is fully digital, I draw on my iPad. For this game's art I used Concepts app on iPad. It has an infinite canvas which I really like because I have a habit of drawing all my game assets on one giant canvas.
It was a slow, cozy Saturday morning for me. I downloaded your game and set it up while I was reading Tildes, responding to comments here, sipping my morning kombucha, petting my dog, chatting with my husband, etc.
Having it hanging out in the corner of my screen like, TRIPLED the coziness of the morning. I named my fish Freddi and would watch him swim around and feed him every so often. The Linux build runs perfectly, and I love that the fishbowl can sit on top of my current window, so Freddi is always visible and hanging out (he's sitting in front of Firefox right now as I type this).
Your art style is lovely. Great hand-drawn lines and coloring. The star and heart bubbles are super cute and a really nice touch! Also, the different fish appearances you showed off in your pillowfort post look great. I'm partial to my current Freddi, but I do love the idea of being able to open the app and get a random fish for that session.
I also like that there's no pressure built in. My first point of reference for something like this is Insaniquarium which is highly gamified and the fish die if you don't feed them. I like that, if I'm not feeding Freddi, he's just chilling and doing his own thing, hanging out by his castle, looking after himself. I don't need to worry about him, which adds to the coziness.
Thanks for making this and sharing this, feanne! I see you've got some other stuff on itch, so I'm going to check those out too (I just started Air Garden!).
EDIT: Okay, I unlocked the plant that creates bubbles, and now Air Garden is giving me Insaniquarium vibes (in a good way!).
I really appreciate you taking the time to play and then write down a detailed account of your experience of the game! So happy to know that it added to your cozy morning. Insaniquarium is a fave! I loved these desktop pet games as a kid and I'm glad to see that they seem to be trending again (and I'm happily joining the trend as a gamedev). I love that you named your fish. I have to think about some way to incorporate naming fish in the game even if it's just something basic like using it as the name of the save slot.
I don't want the fish in my game to die but I do want to gamify it a bit and have in-game currency somehow. The in-game currency will be used to unlock cosmetic options (like the different colors, patterns, fish types, hats, etc.). I might add some "maintenance"-type mechanics like the fishbowl occasionally getting dirty / the fish pooping and needing cleanup.
Thank you so much for checking out my work and glad you're trying Air Garden too!
I remember the air garden game you were working on-- really like the whole cozy/natural aesthetic vibe you have!
How did you go about making the tutorial? Was that done after the fact, or were you comfortable enough with the process to do it as you went along?
Thanks so much! I'm still hoping to finish Air Garden someday hehe.
I refactored and rebuilt this game a few times, and took detailed notes documenting my process each time. When I felt like the build was clean enough, I started over again and recorded the tutorial while frequently referring to my build notes. I took lots of takes and breaks; the resulting video was heavily trimmed to remove all my awkward pauses, mistakes, etc. I definitely feel like I do much cleaner builds when I'm building to teach because everything has to be super clear and well-documented. When I'm coding for myself I get over-excited just cobbling things together fast and usually end up with spaghetti code. (Not that my tutorial teaches excellent code, but it works clearly and it's probably not too bad.)
As others have already mentioned, your art style is really nice. It has a fun laid back cozy vibe, which matches your game well
Thank you so much for the kind words!
WHEW. It has been quite the dang sprint with 2 weeks abroad, illness, slicing my finger on a gosh dang potato peeler, birthday and holiday shenanigans... but we did it boiz and girlz, yeayuh.
My project was to throw together a song outline, with bonus points if I threw together a pre-vis (or pre-audio, I guess). I actually managed to make a janky mock-up of what it generally sounds like. Things to note before listening:
Riverbend (Pre-Vis)
I don't know shit about music really but I worked on musical theatre for years and you have a voice for it
Kind of an wild pull but this reminds me of the music from the Big Fish stage musical adaptation. It feels a bit like a song and then its reprise (with ~2:40 onward being the reprise). I thought you did some melodically interesting stuff in the back half and I liked the fugue? section with both the voices. And there's already some great imagery here already -- "lifeless crystal road" for example is just so evocative. Definitely worth developing further imo.
Aw danks :D I love Big Fish the movie, so I'll have to check out the musical at some point. Once I listen to a musical soundtrack, it manifests in my cranium and will not let go for months, so I gotta schedule when to introduce myself to OST's so I don't drive my partner up the wall humming it around the house. (shoutout Kpop Demon Hunters T_T) Thanks for listening!
Follow up notes on the Riverbend:
-Branching off that, starting with a more narrative/freeflow introduction similar to sections of Hadestown with Hermes might help pacing, as well as balancing the song to be more 50/50 with both voices.
I'm thirding the "nice voice" feedback. You sound like how I think I sound when I'm singing in the shower. XD
As a big musical fan, this has all the right vibes. It's got that iconic wordy, personal narrative style that's common in musical theater. It's got a memorable chorus, and it changes the standard pop-song structure to deliver something more complex. I feel like this could fit right in with Songs for a New World.
I love how you changed your voice for the two different perspectives and sang a duet with yourself! The fact that you can potentially arrange it to have a single vocalist duet with themselves live is genuinely such an interesting concept. I feel like it depends on the rest of the show, but the song could hit very differently depending on whether it's done with two vocalists or just one.
As the creator, you can of course see all the places you're not happy with it, but know that, from an outside perspective, I loved this and can't see anything wrong with it. Instead, I can see all the amazing ways it shines. You've got genuine talent. Thanks for sharing that with us!
I'm sure you belt a wicked Whitney Houston in the shower. ;) Thanks for listening and the compliments!
Really well done. I was expecting the production quality to be lower after hearing you talk about it, but honestly it is pretty solid. I would be interested in hearing a piano version if you get around to recording that.
We have some pretty drawn-out plans to get my childhood upright piano into the house at some point, and if that happens then I'll definitely get on that. 👍
You've got a really nice voice! The theatre background comes through. Having a contrast between young and old person is also a really solid concept to play with.
Out of curiosity, do you have a process for composing? Do you play around then transcribe? Work around some guides like the major/minor voice? Composition first?
If you go full fjord concept album can you sneak in This is Just a Tributary? Jack Black is probably between movies and I found out about his role in Laser Fart last month so I think you'd have a chance getting a cameo.
If you've ever gotten a song stuck in your head that you don't know all the words to, and then you go look up the lyrics because you're tired of humming the chorus and some verses with no real vocabulary behind them... that's basically my process, lol.
The following is more detail behind this process, but it is more longwinded than it is technical. :P
I usually have a good portion of a song in my head, complete with backing track and chorus singers and whatnot, pretty much immediately without noting anything down. The words, however, will range from incredibly crystal clear choruses to muddy incoherent concepts. It'll be around the time I get tired of the liminal space between the clear chorus/catchy verses that I'll pull out the guitar.
This particular song is a bit different because I've had it bopping around for over a decade in my head (think I first twinkled it out on piano briefly around sophmore year of college? Ah man, I feel old.). I didn't start actually song writing until about 2 years ago, and I had to learn guitar to start for some reason, so it was fairly dormant when I returned to it, which meant I didn't have clear lyrics in my head other than the chorus and I think "-and it's a looong waaay faaar from home, there's no one else I'd share this ride!" So the roughly 2-3 actual days to work on this had a lot more lyric-slapping than usual.
For when I'm actually writing-writing, I'm at my standing desk in front of the computer with a guitar. I'll strum out the chords I mentally have mapped out and sing the bits I know. When I naturally run out of confident material, I fall into this cycle:
Part 1:
*2. Read it again and ask myself if it's what the character/voice of the song wants to say, and then-
*3. Sing it outloud with guitar and see if it sounds good.
I then bounce the section between 2 and 3, which becomes a bit of a compromise: 'You can say your piece, character-in-song, but you have to sound good doing it!'
Rinse and repeat through all of the parts of the song. Song writing and playing has really just been for my own fulfillment, so I haven't really gotten a good workflow with recording and sharing with others. (besides this preview since the point was to share it :P) I've technically done it before, but I just get angry at recording setups and software and bleeeeeeh. So I've just been settling for jotting down the lyrics and basic chord progressions ftm in case I abandon the song and need a refresher later.
Hilariously, one of the river-based rhymes/vocab I was planning was between January and Estuary... There may be hope for 'This is just a Tributary' just yet...
A Hand-Forged Fireplace Set
My friend bought his house over five years ago, and despite using his fireplace every winter he has yet to acquire tools to make using it easier. Given that I (finally) picked up blacksmithing early this year, and I made a poker for another friend's backyard fire pit, I decided to make a set for my friend to use. There are two pieces in the set, a poker and tongs.
The Poker
This started as a 12" (30 cm) piece of 3/4" (~19 mm) round mild steel. I started so thick because I needed more material at the poker end so I could split it, similar to making forks. The first step here was to forge it square, resulting in roughly 5/8" (15 mm) square stock that was the same length as it started. This then got drawn out to a longer square bar that went from roughly 1/2" (12 mm) to 3/8" (9 mm). This is how I ended the first day of forging.
On the second day, I flattened the thick end to 1/2" x 1/4", then evened out the rest of the length to 3/8". Once I was happy with the thickness throughout, I flattened the handle end and looped it back on itself, creating something similar to a saber handguard. The working end got split in half with a hot-cut chisel before I refined the two points and bent one forward to create the classic poker hook shape. Finally, just to make the whole piece a bit fancier, I put a chamfer on the remaining length (think of a square cross-section with the corners missing) and put a twist in the middle. After a bit of polishing and sanding, this was the result.
I could have stopped there, but I decided that this needed one last touch. When you heat steel to the right temperatures, it will change color. You often see this in the form of purple or dark blue discoloration when the temper gets ruined from overheating a knife, but you can get a few other colors as well. I chose to bake the poker at 450° F until golden brown. Then I pulled it out and gave it a minute to cool before applying beeswax. When it cooled a bit more, I used a cloth to rub the wax in a bit more and remove any excess. This is the final coloration of the poker, and the end result is better than I had hoped for.
The Tongs
The tongs were a different challenge than the poker. While I needed more brute force to get the poker into shape, mainly while drawing out the material, the tongs took more finesse. I started with two pieces, one longer piece of 3/8" square stock and one shorter one of 1/2" square stock.
The longer piece was simpler: I didn't have to draw it out, I just flattened and curved a handle like I did for the poker, curved the other end, and punched a hole for a rivet. I did flatten out the tong end a little bit, but most of the material actually went untouched.
The shorter piece was more technical. I picked an end and split it in half lengthwise for the last 8" (20 cm), giving me a fork with two 1/4" x 1/2" prongs. This took a while, as I could only make half a pass at a time before the steel got cool enough that I worried about blunting my chisel, so I'd have to put it back in the forge to re-heat. After roughly 2 hours of work, I finally got through, and I was able to treat it like an odd version of the long piece. I did draw out the remaining length so it was 3/8" square with a similar starting length as the other piece, but I miscalculated and didn't have enough material to make a whole guard-style handle like the other side. The forked end also had to be curved (easy) and punched (hard), and then the pieces bent specifically so they'd only separate after the point where the rivet joined both pieces of the tongs. One rivet later (which is way harder than it should be), I had successfully made a pair of log pickup tongs for my friend!
I didn't take pictures during the tong process, but I took plenty at the end. Here's the tongs while shut, here's them open, and here's them open with my hand for scale.
The tongs are still unfinished, they need to be sanded/polished and waxed before I'm ready to wrap and gift them. However, given the challenge of making them and the lack of time (I only got three days at the forge this month, so roughly 12 hours of work time), I'm proud of the result.
As said earlier: A Hand-Forged Fireplace Set.
The colouration of the poker turned out really well. The mix of the orange with that very dark blue is a great combination. Overall, really nice fireplace set and I am impressed with your forging skills
Thanks! Admittedly, mild steel tools like these are far easier to make, I don't have to worry about the steel cracking from a fast quench or ruining a good heat treatment with a bad temper job. Realistically, most people could do this kind of work with four things: a hot enough fire, something hard to place the metal on, something to hit the metal with, and a bucket of water. I recommend that everyone who is interested give it a try!
That said, I'm not trying to devalue your compliment. Thank you for your appreciation, it does mean a lot!
While anyone could easily hypothetically do it, you actually did it!
Bespoke fire equipment! And not only that, but you made it as a gift for your friend! This is so thoughtful. My husband and I have a fire pit in our backyard, but our stuff is the sort of mass-produced stuff you can get at the local big box hardware store. This is SO much cooler (and will probably last a lot longer). If I had those tongs, I would find reasons to use them all the time (hmmm, this laundry needs to move from the floor to the basket.. XD).
Let us know how the gifting goes!
I'm actually concerned about the tongs - the bolster on the rivets didn't spread as much as I would have liked, so it's relatively thin steel holding the whole thing together. It's the most likely failure point, which would mean re-doing the whole set from scratch again. I can certainly do that with lessons learned from the failure, but right now my only real recourse would be to use thicker stock and draw out the portions that can be thinner.
I did it! I sewed my Chilton, and it looked awesome, and as usual, I was the goth one out at work with my costume.
The total for Timasomo of hexagons was 672! I still have more scraps and hexies to glue together, but I think I'm really enjoying how relaxing this process it. I'm pretty sure I will end up with a nice, large piece of fabric out of these!
link to my work
I love any outfit that's accessorized with a dog! 😆 Seriously though, it looks great! I love the angular flap across the front.
Also, your hair color is 🔥! So good. Fantastic ombre.
Additionally: SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY TWO hexagons? That's a genuinely unbelievable output. I had to look up English Paper Piecing when you mentioned it in another comment, as it was new to me, and I love the idea. Hexagons are the bestagons, after all.
Do you have a plan for them?
I still don't have a plan for them. I might just make a dress out of them, since that's trendy at the moment? To make dresses out of patchwork and piecework?
Or maybe I'll make a quilt. I still don't know what I want to make from them lol. Mr tired keeps asking me what I'm going to do with them too 😂.
Thank you for the kind compliments! As it turns out, chitons are difficult to replicate when you're trying to sew the pieces together.
That's impressive! kfwyre narrowly resolved my ignorance on what the EPP project was... before that I was leaning towards there being some sort of Hecate/hex theme.
Very cool hair, and good taste with the dog familiar!
Thank you so much!! The dog familiar was luck, since dogs are Hecate's sacred animal (things you learn researching your Halloween costume).
English Paper Piecing is really relaxing at the making the pieces part. I assume the stitching them together part will be very stressful lol.
hi is me, the thing that did some "sewing"
I slept like horrible so this text will be a handful, but here we go
So my original goal was to create Patches. I wanted to hand embroider them and also learn the basics of sewing. And I think I achieved that goal yay :3.
I bought some jeans patches that you can iron on somewhere (they are 6x8 cm).
Most likely there are better options like normal fabric and an embroidery hoop. I ordered a hoop like a week ago and it has still not arrived.
In order of the stuff that I created:
I started with the Anarchy Patch
The Eye
Partial Shark
I also applied this patch to my leather jacket. It looks quite goofy and makes me very happy.
Whole Shark -- top right
I gave this shark to a person that also liked sharks.
Trans Flag
Partial Shark
Leather bag fixing not embroidery :)
Side Quest -- My School Project
On some other note I had a school project and I saw on the internet that people sew into their polaroids and stuff. And I really wanted to try that. I only had a few days to come up with an Idea and so I photographed cracks in walls and on the street. And sew in some thread. The whole concept I personally believe kinda sucks and could be a lot better. But it was developed in an extremely short time.
I actually really like that "Gash" project. It's a very evocative concept to me and the execution is simple and competent enough not to detract from the piece. The colors are very striking too, and the brick red really guides the eye. Not everything has to be some groundbreaking (hah) masterpiece! Cool to see your progress with the patches too.
I completely agree with you and @kfwyre regarding Gash. I was probably the 2nd person (aside from Faye) to ever see that project, and I genuinely loved the idea and its execution, plus the feelings it intends to evoke. It's leaning kind of minimalistic, sure, but I think it's genuinely a cool artistic project regardless of whether it was developed a short time before the project's deadline, and the minimalism doesn't detract from the piece - it adds to it, if anything.
I love these! The partial shark you put on your jacket is my favorite.
I know you called the trans flag “messy” but I think that’s an asset in this case? While I love all of our pride flags, I’ve always thought the straight lines and neat shapes can be a little to rigid and uniform for identities that are often chaotic and, well, not straight. Your stitching captures that perfectly! It gives the flag a nice edge — handcrafted and punky.
As for where to put it, maybe next to the shark on your jacket? This will have the upside of nearly every trans person and many queer people thinking that’s Blåhaj on your arm. 😁
Also, like @Evie, I found Gash to be quite resonant. I think there’s a lot of surface area for interpretation in such a minimalistic piece, which is something that’s hard to pull off in art.
I agree with the 'messy' being a perk. Gives it a punk vibe which I enjoy. Any of these patches being 'messy' is honestly just refreshing that it wasn't made by a machine, frankly. This is something I would have traded around in school if I knew about it then! (especially since my jeans were ripped to shreds at the time).
These are so fun! This is also such a good way to practice with a needle. Are you going to do more embroidery or move to other types of needlework (like the bag) after?
I only did the bag because it was broken. I will do more of the fixing if things come up and just try my best. But I doubt that I will seek out repairing stuff.
I also really like the embroidery just as keeping my hands busy or keeping my mind occupied for a bit. It's somewhat a really relaxing type of work where I can easily watch something and embroider something.
Also I have already started on a new patch. A little tiger. I started with a theater class, and my plan is to give each tutor a little patch out of appreciation.
Altough I would like to sew together a blahaj and kinda make my own with different fabrics and what not.
But I don't know when I will get around to it.
Really nice patches. I am impressed that in your first attempt you went with heavier fabrics, and they still turned out well. Good work. The partial sharks are quite nice, and the eye on the one with the Bayeux stitch is really clean.
OMG! Your work is amazing! What an awesome output for a month. I'm so proud of you <3.
https://crossdressing-garbage.neocities.org/
it's a comic (if it can be called that) about me discovering that I like to wear women's clothes and how that isn't very easy or normal as a man(?). I am not really an artist or writer, so it's ugly and probably hard to read (not just because I can't write, but also because I can't write -- my hand writing sucks, I am sorry, hope it is still readable). It's definitely the cringiest thing I ever put on the internet.
If there will be any interest I'll post more "pages" over time, I have about 8 more in various stages of unfinished-ness
Skirts are comfy as fuck and should not be arbitrarily limited to ~ half the population. I'm glad you're doing something that makes you happy. <3
This was fantastic. Honest, introspective, vulnerable.
The white on black monochrome and the images' sketchy qualities convey anxiety and depression really well. This took me back to a time when I was figuring out my own queer identity, and I was full of fraught uncertainty and worry.
Also, I liked the composition on a lot of the pages. I like how, in the one about hating your facial hair, the mirror slowly gets lower over the course of the page, ending with the barely visible face. Very striking. Also the "treetops" page is haunting.
It can be hard to ask questions we don't know the answers to, but finding out those answers can be life-changing. I wish you the best as you explore your feelings. I think it takes a lot of courage to do so, and it takes even more courage to share those experiences so intimately like you have with us here.
The writing is still readable. Thank you for sharing your story. I liked the part about taking a walk in the forest.
Wow, this was really visceral. The art style, of course; it feels raw and laid open. I really liked the layout on pg.6, and the redactions too. The -- what is it, decreased detail and saturation? on pg.9, really centers you and your experience in a way that feels really freeing and soft in contrast. It's a really vulnerable piece, so thank you for sharing -- I can relate a little bit -- being trans, I recognize some of the sort of volatile anxieties and self-criticism that I had when I was just beginning my transition. Exploring how you present yourself, whatever your identity is, can feel really precarious when society clings so tightly to its norms. But you learn a lot about yourself when exploring, and ultimately I think you'll come out the other side freer and happier. At least, I did. Would love to see more, whenever you're ready to post it :)
Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it! (same for faye_luna, em-dash and Paul26, and anyone else who read it, thank you!)
I wonder, do you think it'd be ok if I made a thread for this in ~creative and post there when I post new pages in the future?
yes yes yes yes yes yes pls do •⩊•
Doubt anyone wouldn't be fine with it
love ur style feels like am illegally snooping in someone's notebook.
I really wish it would be easier and more accepted for people to just do what they want.
Also great idea to upload it on a website like you Basil are a genius!!!!!
This is obviously a super idealized thought experiment, but I think everyone should get the chance to wear a dress/skirt at some point. I got to wear a couple things like that in college, and even as a cis man there is a perspective to be learned from wearing more feminized clothing. If it doesn't specifically appeal to you and your personal image, it's still great to have the experience of what women typically wear and how that feels.
Thanks for the comic! It's incredibly raw and open about you experiences, and it's appreciated!
So I have finally finished the finishing touches, so can finally share my project (I had my SD card for my raspberry pi break, which delayed my writeup).
Making my Audio Player portable
It is worth noting that my project is a continuation of a project I have been working on all year, but during Timasomo I did a push to get all the necessary things done to make it portable, and be able to take it places besides my house.
The overview of my project is I forked a previous existing project that created a Spotify frontend that replicated old iPods, including using a clickwheel for navigation. It uses a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W as the main device. I iterated on this project, by using more off the shelf parts, rather than salvaging used iPod parts. I also wanted it to be easily repairable, so I used heated inserts for assembly rather than glue, and used a standardized replaceable battery (an 18650) so that the battery cell can be replaced once it degrades. This required sourcing my own parts, and adapting the code to use the different hardware that I was using. This was all done before Timasomo, and I had it all working. Here is a picture from the summer, with it working, but not having a case yet. Here is another picture from September of the old case, note the janky power switch on the right that did not fit in the case, plus not pictured is that the case was bulging, which started causing issues.
So, to get my project truly portable, there were a few main tasks I wanted to achieve this month. The first was to code a way to add new WiFi networks, using a clickwheel as an input. I was able to achieve that, and in the process also created a few more pages with utility functions to help development. Here is a picture of the WiFi input screen (in the new case). The second main task I had to achieve was to redesign the case, to fix issues with V2 (as mentioned and pictured above). This was relatively a simple revision, where I just had to tweak various mounting points. I also did a few little tweaks from what I learned using the old case for a few months, like putting a slight recess in for the switches. My friend who has been printing the case for me also upgraded from a Crealty Ender V3 to a Bambu printer, and his print quality has gone drastically up, so that was a nice added bonus. The new case has come out really nice. Also, I intentionally laid out my parts in the top and bottom, so that it can easily separate via micro USB ports (anyone who has repaired a laptop with that annoying ribbon cable connecting the parts would understand the benefit of this). Internal picture for you nerds (red PCB is my DAC, blue PCB with the kapton tape is the screen, black PCB that is hard to see is the battery charging controller). Picture showing the main screen. Picture showing the now playing screen.
A side project for this month was to finish knitting the pair of socks I gifted my friend for printing my case for me. I was finished the first sock, but only part way done the ankle of the second sock. I managed to finish them almost by the end of the month (finished Nov 2nd). They turned out nicely.
I will probably do a longer dedicated writeup on this project on tildes in the coming weeks. It has been a fantastic project, and I have greatly enjoyed having a dedicated music player.
Edit: I forgot to mention, one of the benefits of this device is due to my USB DAC/amp, it can comfortably drive higher impedance headphones. This means my AKGs that I found doesn't sound good with a phone, I can use comfortably in a portable setup. However, due to noisy USB power on RPis, low impedance headphones like my IEMs detect that noise.
That's so clean at the end! Electronics is one of those things that I always want to do more with, but I always scare myself away from the basics for some reason. I've managed a few basic projects involving button inputs, but nothing groundbreaking or truly interesting. I'll be looking forward to your more in-depth writeup when it's ready!
Thank you. I have been wanting to do more electronics work (did a cable tester a year or so ago which was fun), so this project scratched that itch for me. Most of the electronics was relatively straightforward, as it was just soldering cables between various components. I had to make cables like micro USB on both ends, but otherwise it was relatively straightforward.
This is taking me back to my favorite MP3 players from way back when! I was never an iPod guy myself, but I still have a powerful fondness for my beloved Rio Carbon despite not having used it in well over a decade.
The fact that you’re able to pull music from Spotify rather than having to transfer over files manually really does make your project the MP3 players of the future, while giving it a clickwheel is a lovely throwback to the past. Also, I feel like having a device that only plays music is a good thing in our current “screens are bad for your mental health” reckoning.
Outstanding work. Honestly, if the build is easy and replicable enough, I could see you setting up a shop and selling those. I think there’s probably a small market for something exactly like that. Not pressuring you to do so in the slightest, but looking at your pictures activated that “ooh, new tech, I WANT” reflex in me. (I’m safe from giving in to the impulse though — I use Apple Music 😆).
Oh, and I love the color by the way! The green looks so good.
I did have an iPod, so this has been nostalgic for me. I am also realizing for some things, the simplicity of the UI and clicwheel navigation is such a satisfying experience.
This has been one of my favourite features. I do plan at some point to do a longer post on my experience of dedicated devices. For audio, it has been really nice, since with music streaming, I feel like there is a lack of doing dedicated listens to music. Before having this device, I found myself starting to listen to an album on my phone or computer, not having enough stimulation so I browse the internet as well, then I realize I have not paid attention to the last couple of songs. Having such a striped down music player means I just slow down and listen to music, and it has been so nice.
A few flaws with that approach. 1. Loading the software is a very manual and involved process by the end user (requires Spotify login done ahead of time), so it would not be able to be configured by a non-techie end user. 2. There are various bugs still in the code, which makes it harder to ethically sell. 3. The DAC that I use is no longer in production. With those caveats listed out, it would be easy for someone to replicate it themselves, and I do plan on getting my Github repo cleaned up more so that it better lists my hardware I am using, and provide the STL files for the case.
So the green was kind of chosen by happenstance. The UI of the original code I was using used green (to match Spotify's branding) and so I just picked the only green filament my friend had. I would love to redesign the case so that the bottom black portion is walnut, and the top green part is brass, but I do not have the resources to execute that, so that will probably stay as a pipe dream
I have uploaded last STL model file for my Open PC stand. There is kinda everything written on the Printables, so I will make it shorter here.
I wanted my PC on my table, like Open benchtable, which looks really great but also costs quite some money. And then I thought "You have 3D printer, why not print something like that?" Next few days I spent on Printables looking on various models and weighing their pros and cons to no avail - I didn't find single one that would be just for me, some were too big to fit, some had aluminium bars as part of construction, some were meant for watercooling, some for mITX, some for ATX (me having mATX) and so on...
So I went on a main quest to design my own. And here it is.
Known issues - no dust filtering, no watercooling (or rather no mounts for radiators), may not hold really big GPUs well. The dust is part of it being open, nothing to do about it, really - at least disassembly of the PC for cleaning is kinda easy or you can take the whole thing outside and use compressed air or blower to get rid of the dust. Watercooling is impossible to make since I don't have any watercooling parts at hand to measure and test - but you can make your own parts for it if you want. Heavy GPUs could be kinda mitigated, but the PCI bracket is made to fit next to motherboard IO ports if the GPU is in the first slot (think mITX), which limits the dimensions and thus strength of the printed bracket. I could make the bracket wider (thus stronger) but it may not be compatible with each motherboard. Since I don't have heavy GPU, I don't have means to test it and hence why I didn't make even stronger bracket.
This looks really cool — like something you’d see in a futuristic sci-fi movie.
Now, is dust buildup going to be an actual issue with it? I can see how it being open means it’ll get more than it would in a case, but I can also see how it would be much easier to keep clean. It seems like you could do more frequent maintenance dustings which would be super easy given that you don’t have the hassle of removing the case (or trying to get in all those tiny nooks and crannies between components).
Also, with regards to heat, would this be easier to cool? I know you said water cooling isn’t an option, but does it get any benefit from being out in the open? Could you just point a regular house fan at it to cool it off?
Sorry for barraging you with questions, but this is such a fascinating concept to me. I also love the ease with which you could replace components if needed. I currently have a PC hooked up to my TV that is in such a small case that replacing anything would be nearly impossible (I don’t think I’d be able to get everything back in if I took anything out). This, meanwhile, seems so easily serviceable.
Great project, Pavouk. And I love that you uploaded the files so that other people can do their own builds too. Very thoughtful.
I had my PC in HTPC Lian-Li PC-C37B case, which was in a front open TV stand around 30cm above ground. It got dusty as hell, if I was doing maintenance as I should, I would be disconnecting everything each 3 monhts. The case was kinda easy to work in, but it has low clearance in the TV stand and getting to the cables was real PIA.
This PC stand make this much easier. But I also fear even more frequent to clean. Especially leading edges on (GPU) fan blades are getting dusty quite fast as the dust falls on them and they keep to be on the whole time (which is like 10-12 hours a day for me). Dust build-up on them seems you have to at least blow on them once a month. The heatsink seems ok though.
I use Scythe Shuriken 4 on CPU and I have my fan oriented backwards = it sucks through the heatsink instead of blowing into it. This makes CPU run at 60 Celsius under full load (i5-4690 with 84W real TDP). The fan is Noctua NF-F12 running at 500 rpm (no typo, five hundred). I don't know how it would perform with normal facing fan, but this temperature is very ok for the circumstances. At idle, while writing this comment, it sits at 28 Celsius. Being in the open certainly helps with cooling.
The heat of other components was brought up here on Tildes. RAM (DDR3) isn't even warm on touch, my motherboard doesn't even have heatsink on VRM (MOSFETs) and they are not getting hot. The "southbridge" (or what is it called nowadays) heatsink is only a bit warm on touch. My setup doesn't have any problem running on this stand. I don't have more power hungry components though, so I can imagine it may have problems with some configurations.
The PC also is very serviceable, as you can easily reach all the components. The same goes for getting rid of the dust - you just disconnect everything and take it outside and use compressor or blower, you don't even have to go deeper like unmounting cooler or getting out your GPU.
I'm still thinking about additional cooling. I imagine there could be 8 or 12cm fan angled on the lower side of the stand blowing across the motherboard (from the edge across VRMs, RAM towards back of the GPU). I even have an idea on how to mount it but it may need changes to the main and end structure thus reprinting those. We'll see how it goes.
It was my intention from the start to share the files. I'm FOSS kind of guy, I take from the system thus I want to return back in some way and as I'm not a programmer, I have to do it other ways. This (and other models) is my contribution. I don't want to keep them for myself, that would be a lot of lost time on designing and printing it, and I don't want to sell it, because I guess not many people would buy it and there are other great models for free printing out there anyway. I will polish the FCstd (FreeCAD) file of the Open PC stand and upload it to Printables soon (in a few days, this month surely) so that others can modify it as they see fit. This is part of my open mind approach.
I also had another PC case (closed this time) in my mind, fully modular, fully printed. But it got suspended by me to likely not ever seeing the light of day. It was not practical and the design still has many flaws. It would have been like a frame covered with tiles of various sizes depending on how big you needed it and where you wanted your cooling (fans) to be. It would have been highly customizable using various colors on tiles. But as I said - many flaws in design to solve and I don't see it being practical in the end. Here's a sneak peek on how it would look and be screwed together.
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Also, for those posting their work in the showcase, I strongly encourage you to also make your own topics showcasing your work in their respective tildes (e.g. ~life, ~tech, etc.). This showcase is only visible to those subscribed to ~creative.timasomo, but the wider Tildes audience will undoubtedly appreciate your efforts as well.
Please mark this comment as noise so that the projects can be the feature of the showcase.
I ended up not making anything substantive - I played some music for the first couple of weeks and made some progress towards getting a half decent "fresh on the floor" recording setup and fiddling with Audacity... and then I got an upper respiratory and ear infection. I'm still not in shape to sing or record. Ah well, maybe next time.
ps I marked your comment as noise, and since mine is meta-noise as well, nested it underneath.
No worries, aphoenix. I didn't finish my writing either. Spent a good amount of time getting scattered thoughts out of my head, but I never got that flash of inspiration to clean them up and see them through to final products.
I still believe there's value in an attempt, even if it doesn't finalize like we want it to.
Well, it's done, ish- the calculator works, but I really didn't get around to finishing the case. So, here's the deal - you can look at the code on my GitHub (https://github.com/1612elphi/pigs) and once I finish the case I will make a seperate post. Maybe even film a video, why not.
Sorry for the disappointment, but, yknow. Life gets in the way.
No worries! The previews you've had up to this point have been AMAZING. I've loved following your work, and I love the idea of an "opinionated" calculator, custom-made exactly the way you want it.
Take all the time you need.
Not disappointing at all! I like how much character you put into the description on the github page, and I look forward to a video demonstration if you decide to make one at some point!
Excited for seeing the separate post later on. I quite liked the style that the earlier mockups you shared had, so looking forward to seeing the final project
I made some progress on workshop setup. Not 100% done, but not nothing.
It's in a three-room building, with one big room in the middle (which we think used to be a garage, used for some sort of shady car repair business) and two smaller rooms on either side. I'm using one of the smaller rooms as my office, and "the workshop" is the remainder of the building.
The big room is our main workspace for my electronics stuff and my partner's sewing stuff. I hung French cleats and power strips everywhere, poured a bunch of self-leveling concrete (badly), installed carpet, and built a long workbench on one wall for electronics work (my partner wants a bunch of movable tables instead). My main 3D printer is now enclosed under my electronics workbench, to the relief of all my friends who have been yelling at me for years to stop breathing ABS fumes.
My woodworking tools have been moved into the other small room. It's separated by a curtain in the doorway (there's no door installed there and I decided it wasn't worth the effort to add one) and has dust collection stuff set up. I've started building the rest of our shop furniture there. I also painted that room's floor with a paint made for garage floors, which I've already scratched off in several places, but still looks better than the heavily stained concrete under it.
This does mean the main workshop is filled with boxes again, because that was also the storage room for all the stuff we haven't unpacked yet since moving (mostly workshop stuff, since we've had nowhere to put it). So we haven't been able to do much in there yet. Soon, though.
The idea of making a space (or S P A C E for those that remember it) is such a cool interpretation.
I'm glad you've been able to make things your own, and I'm also glad you're no longer breathing fumes! My allergies seize up just thinking about that. XD
Seems like a really nice configuration for the space. Is there any concerns with dust coming from the woodshop into the other area or does the curtain prevent most of the dust?
So far the curtain seems to be doing fine as it is. I have also installed magnets along the edges of the doorway for extra assurance, but I have not yet attached matching metal bits to the curtain because gestures at the stack of boxes of my partner's sewing stuff.