Finally got round to making a proper reference page for my OC Ayva. She’s probably the oldest OC I actually still draw, and she tends to be more or less a mascot for me online.
Well, I committed to the thing. I bought the sibling capsule vending machine to @nonasuch ’s, after almost a month of waffling about it. The goal is to have a cross between a wunderkammer and an automat. Black light. Potentially cursed toy surprises… “toy” being a flexible term.
If any of this sounds cool to you, and you’d like to help with set-up costs, donations are appreciated! Paypal.me/strangehours with whatever works. (I lost my income source for this month, so I’m left to pull it together by bits and pieces instead of all at once.) <3
A cursed object vending machine possibly the most absurd thing I’ve done for my business yet, but I’m fairly certain that the ability to release serotonin is the real selling point here.
so excited to see how yours turns out! and very glad to have more weird vending machines in the world
Ooh, sweet! As if I need more reasons to order patches and pins … all of these potential objects look amazing, like things to work into pieces of jewelry and spell foci.
Can I just…like…pay you to ship me one of each?
@deliriumcrow - Etsy only offers up yea so much potential cursed-object-toy-surprises in bulk lots, but it’s a good starting point for a mood board. The minerals choices are curated to my own tastes I must admit, but it’s not complete. My list of an ideal mix has more of a mudlarking vibe to it, or maybe a really good cache of things a crow has been hoarding. (Weirdly, if you make a blind box fancy enough, people will want one just to know what’s inside.)
@daemonvatis - I’d have to do a cost estimate of how many eggs would be feasible to stuff in a box before it’d be worth it to pay for shipping? (I have not ordered eggs yet, see previous “I have to pull it together in bits & pieces.”) If you’re in the US, I will have the Cursed Object vending machine at my Oddities & Curiosities Expo gigs this year. Probably easier to seek it out in person if that’s available to you. Strange Hours Atelier will be at the following:
Oddities & Curiosities Expo Charlotte, NC | Feb 26th
Well, I committed to the thing. I bought the sibling capsule vending machine to @nonasuch ’s, after almost a month of waffling about it. The goal is to have a cross between a wunderkammer and an automat. Black light. Potentially cursed toy surprises… “toy” being a flexible term.
If any of this sounds cool to you, and you’d like to help with set-up costs, donations are appreciated! Paypal.me/strangehours with whatever works. (I lost my income source for this month, so I’m left to pull it together by bits and pieces instead of all at once.) <3
A cursed object vending machine possibly the most absurd thing I’ve done for my business yet, but I’m fairly certain that the ability to release serotonin is the real selling point here.
so excited to see how yours turns out! and very glad to have more weird vending machines in the world
Ooh, sweet! As if I need more reasons to order patches and pins … all of these potential objects look amazing, like things to work into pieces of jewelry and spell foci.
Can I just…like…pay you to ship me one of each?
@deliriumcrow - Etsy only offers up yea so much potential cursed-object-toy-surprises in bulk lots, but it’s a good starting point for a mood board. The minerals choices are curated to my own tastes I must admit, but it’s not complete. My list of an ideal mix has more of a mudlarking vibe to it, or maybe a really good cache of things a crow has been hoarding. (Weirdly, if you make a blind box fancy enough, people will want one just to know what’s inside.)
@daemonvatis - I’d have to do a cost estimate of how many eggs would be feasible to stuff in a box before it’d be worth it to pay for shipping? (I have not ordered eggs yet, see previous “I have to pull it together in bits & pieces.”) If you’re in the US, I will have the Cursed Object vending machine at my Oddities & Curiosities Expo gigs this year. Probably easier to seek it out in person if that’s available to you. Strange Hours Atelier will be at the following:
Oddities & Curiosities Expo Charlotte, NC | Feb 26th
What an adorable coat she thought, lifting the black garment from the clothing rack and inspecting its feather like surface. With this outfit she could dress up like a crow for Halloween. She took the coat to the front of the store and quickly paid for it, then rushed to her car with a bounce in her step.
She got home soon after that, having enjoyed her quick car ride home listening to the radio. She was humming some catchy tune as she walked inside her apartment.
“Oh yeah, gotta see how this coat looks! I didn’t even try it on…” In her excitement she hadn’t even seen if it fit. As she put it over her shoulders and tried to get her hands through the arm holes she started to frown. It didn’t seem like she could managed to get her hands through it, for some reason it didn’t fit.
After a few minuets of flailing around she gave up and went to take the coat off, but she found she couldn’t grip anything with the feathery material over her arms. She was starting to feel itchy too, as if the skin of her legs was being irritated and her feet were very dry and scratchy.
“Great I’m stuck in this stupid cot, that doesn’t even fit, and I’m having an allergic reaction.” She tried once more to dislodge the coat, flapping her arms up and down, without any feeling in her hands. It looked like she had wings, and did feathers fall of the coat and onto her legs? She looked down…. no… no those feathers were coming out of her leg.
She watched in shock as her legs started to quickly become covered in feathers, and anything below the knee started to become scaly. In a quick and unpleasant pop, she felt her legs shift into a digitigrade stance and she let out a caw of fear.
She tried to run to her bedroom, wanting to escape the coat, but she only made it part way up the stairs before nearly falling. Her new legs would take some getting used to and she had no hands for grabbing the railing. Her body was setup like some sort of… crow harpy.
“This CAAAAWWWWn’t be real, this CAAAAWWWWn’t be happening…” She slumped down onto the steps, sitting on her feathered butt. “I’d better not start laying eggs.” She grumpily flapped her arms at her sides and was surprised when she lifted off the ground a little. “Did I just…” She hopped down the stairs to the middle of the room and started flapping in earnest.
Her large breasts jiggled and bounced heavily, and she wished she was wearing a thicker bra under her dress. She doubted she would be able to get a bra on now, but at least she could fly. She could FLY! She was heavily beating her wings and maintaining a ungraceful floating motion four feet off the ground. It wasn’t much right now, but at least being half bird had one advantage…
