Selkie 1773
Feb08
on February 8, 2023
at 6:38 pm
“Teeth and Scales” is a Sarnothi divine epithet. Gonna have to talk to whoever is taking Eel God’s name in vain around impressionable auditory pits.
(Sorry for extra-late lateness today, fell asleep after errands again. :/ )
Sometimes I think about doing the image-based swear censors again, but there's also something funny about the simplicity of a black box.
My brother did that. Made a fist-shaped hole in the plasterboard. Boy, was my mother mad when he moved out and she peeled that poster off the wall…it’s a good thing she never found the other one.
Selkie’s translating Sarnothi invective and combining with English ones! So proud!
She would make a good localizer for Sarnothi to English material XD
I’ve been there. I remember when my siblings and I hung a giant flag on the wall because it was the only thing we could find big enough to hide all the holes.
Everyone’s talking about the holes they put in their walls when they were kids. [OLD MAN MODE ACTIVATED] When I was growing up, the interior walls were plaster and chicken wire. Anything that could even crack, much less make a hole in those walls would have shook the foundations.
Aye, the houses in my location are “Wimpey No-Fines” construction, so even the interior walls are concrete.
(Turns to window)
Get of my lawn you dang kids!
OFF my lawn… sounds like I’m asking them to sample my turf in medieval English…
Plaster will certainly crack, although your finger bones might crack first if you punch the walls. A few swings with a hammer and you’ll have nearly bare chickenwire and a view through to the center of the wall. Getting through the chickenwire would take a different tool. Of course, it’s reparable by just spreading more plaster on the wire, then repainting or patching the wallpaper. Where skill is required is in getting the new plaster smooth so it doesn’t show through the paint or wallpaper.
But what I remember from old construction was plaster and lath (small wooden slats). It was about as strong as plasterboard. Fall against either one headlong, and you might have both a concussion and a head-sized hole clear through. To repair that, glue new lath across the back of the hole, then plaster.
To repair such a hole in plasterboard, glue lath or something across the back, cut a piece of plasterboard a little bigger than the hole and enlarge the hole to fit, then glue it in and cover the joints with plaster. This might not need as much skill.
why do i have the impression that there is a mixed human swear in there….
To be fair she has the right idea. A guy got drunk at a party and decided to grab a mace that was on a fireplace mantle and knock a hole in the wall.
This was fixed with a sheet of printer paper and some drywall paste. Just don’t lean on that spot.