some rowdy lads at the barnes and noble talking about dnd tonight. they were chatting about dice and saying one of their buddies had spent some absurd amount of money on dice. "like at least $40"
i looked over at my husband, and the fucking GLEE in his eyes almost vaporized me on the spot. those boys can never know i readily spent $40 on a single d20 that looks like its made out of baked beans.
Lemme tell you about a horse. And Sherlock Holmes.
As you know, I'm a big fan of the 1984 Granada Sherlock Holmes series and I've watched it through a couple of times now. But I'm also a horse person, and so naturally, I took note of the horses used for filming. They obviously had a limited pool of horses to use so many of them appear and reappear throughout the series. But one horse caught my eye. She was a beautiful chunky little chestnut mare (I think) and she was EVERYWHERE. Right through from season one until The Master Blackmailer, which I believe was her final appearance, there are very few episodes where her face doesn't appear. And when I say she was everywhere I really do mean it. She appeared so often and in so many places that it became a joke between @lyracalmuse and I that she was the mastermind behind every crime Holmes investigated, because there was no reason for her to be present at so many otherwise.
So she gained the nickname, Mareiarty, the Marengo of Crime.
For some reason I couldn't get her out of my head. I wanted to make her so badly. So now I am.
Here's the picture I'm using for the reference for her pose. I picked it because I like the bunched up energy and want to try and capture it. My reference document for her is over 70 pages long, all screencaps from the show where she appears. She's kind of taken over my brain, I can only assume with malicious intent.
These are old pics, but I just love them so much and it's thematic for the occasion.
The pictured one is my beta prototype and is one meter long, but I still need to work on editing the joints so it's easier to assemble & disassemble so that I can make my final dragon for myself that will be 2x size with a length of two meters.
So many bjd projects and such limited time & mental capacity. 😔
Autumn Tangle :: Custom set of character dice for an eladrin ranger in her autumn form, whose character design includes tangled vines that feature prominently in her magic use