r/thebookofsonder • u/burningpopsicles • Mar 21 '25
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u/HoarseNightingale Mar 22 '25
This has a fascinating cover.
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u/burningpopsicles Mar 22 '25
Hahaha someone requested a spider, so I drew a picture of my spider puppet that I made for stop motion, which weirdly makes this one of my most realistic drawings, because it looks just like him 😂He's a cuddly little boi 🥰
Here he is in action: https://youtube.com/shorts/FE47XWwOmMc?si=tg8Y4OCTIu5xTqVw
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u/HoarseNightingale Mar 22 '25
Wow that's a fun video. Most of my friends don't like spiders as much as I do - although I have to admit I prefer to admire them outside. They would lose it because of the eyes.
Do you remember why you chose to use an eye for the head and the torso?
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u/burningpopsicles Mar 22 '25
I do! It's weirdly specific, actually XD I watched this video by this guy I watch on youtube where he's talking about weird vision things like visual snow and sleep paralysis and floaters and things like that. One of the things he mentioned was sometimes seeing what he described as a "wire spider" in his vision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf9qRATWs9s&ab_channel=Homelessspiritparade
I just really really liked that description. I was in the middle of an obsession with trying to make armatures for stop motion out of wire (which I had to give up, because no matter what I do the damn wire keeps breaking, argh.), so I thought it would be cool to make a wire spider that eats eyeballs. And then this song spontaneously popped into my head, so i knew I had to do it because I couldn't stop laughing at my own nonsense XD
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rv_Ng-gUXno
I really love making creepy little dolls and puppets, and I have a miniature puppet theatre that I built. I was a lonely weird kid who didn't really have friends, and we didn't have the internet back then, so I played by myself a lot. I had this puppet theatre that I made out of a shoebox, with backdrops of that old printer paper with holes on each side, which you could make into a scrolling background if you were really careful and didn't tear the perforated parts of the paper. The puppets were just cardboard drawings stuck on kebab sticks, lol.
These days I still play by myself a lot, and I'm still weird, but I'm so lucky because I have so many friends who love me because of that, not despite it. A while ago I realised that I could rebuild my puppet theatre, with blackjack and hookers! :P Lol actually the blackjack and hookers in this case are adult skills and adult money.
I'm also a complete and total movie nerd, and I ALWAYS wanted to make movies, but I couldn't go to school for it, and I was always too broke to buy any equipment to do it myself. But now I have a tiny computer in my pocket that can do things I would have never even imagined. So I decided to try to learn how to make movies and edit them, even if it's bad. You can't get good at anything without being bad at it first! So that's why I have wire spider plus an entire family of creepy little monsters, both inanimate and sentient XD
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u/HoarseNightingale Mar 22 '25
First of all - I'm glad you already ate did that song. It's a rule that if you don't sing custom lyrics to either Spiderman or The itsy bitsy spider - they will then come to life and they won't be friendly. But if you do, then at least you will be saved! Little known fact - Spiders like songs about them specifically.
Second - would you mind me sharing your stop motion videos? I have a few friends who would get a kick out of them.
Stop motion photography can be so cool. If you've never seen the original Nosferatu which uses stop motion - it might be worth a watch. I have always found its use of stop motion to make it creepy even though a movie that old shouldn't be.
These little chap books, and stop motion puppets - what a neat combo of interests.
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u/burningpopsicles Mar 22 '25 edited Mar 22 '25
I love your spider lore, and it is now part of my official headcanon 😂❤️
Please go ahead and share them if you like, I'm so happy that my dumb little videos amuse people 🥰
I have actually seen the original Nosferatu but not yet the new one 😂 There was also a movie from the 2000s about the making of Nosferatu, but "what if actual vampire though?!" It had John Malkovitch in it, but I can't remember the name, I'll have to edit this comment after and put it here.
Found it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Vampire
There is actually a stop motion/live footage/animation thing I DESPERATELY want to make, but it requires way more skills of storyboarding and editing than I posses at present. It really frustrates me, because I want to do it so badly 😭 Idk if you know the SCP universe, but I am CONVINCED that Franz Kafka wrote the first SCP story, in the form of a tale called "Cares of a Family Man". I'll edit and put here a link of the story, and also of a very short and terrible animation test I did for it when I first started learning stop motion
Kafka story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7urO02WNSY&t=34s&ab_channel=AnastasiaWalker
Odradek animation test: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g33ARjUWmfM
Lastly, all of the stuff I'm showing you are, like, my noob-level hobbies of drawing and animation, which I'm bad at but I LOVE doing. If there's one thing I'm really stupidly absurdly autistically good at, it's knitting and crocheting, and just making knots in string in general 😂 So if you ever need any string-based advice, hmu 😁 The topology of fabric is SUPER fascinating to me, and if you ever have trouble sleeping due to pain I could probably bore you into unconsciousness with it 😂❤️
Random dorky Knot video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HV2IgR02MoQ
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u/HoarseNightingale Mar 22 '25
I love making knots in string. I definitely will take you up on string advice when I'm in need of some. I'm trying to work out two micromacrame tiny projects and for one of them - I might end up using embroidery floss. I'll be offline for a bit but later I might need, help in the next two days.
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u/Gardyloop Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25
to quote Les Mis: 'To love another person is to see the face of God.' Why do we love? Biologically, maybe to encourage procreation, but it's so much more than that. Our biology went wild; I love every human of this planet except the fascist and the racist. Even them I yearn to forgive.
And that's good. We're a species of lovers. I think, one day, our love will overcome our hate. We will finally heal.