Evil Sorcerer Nails

Y’know how the Evil Sorcerer *always* has those really weird claw like nails? I wanted to see if normal people could do that.

Turns out, I can, but I’m also not normal people.

Having nails like

is really annoying and sometimes dangerous. The first thing is that it takes some serious obsessing with a nailfile for a week or three to get pointy nails. I managed to keep all my nails except the thumbnail from breaking during this (the thumbnail was already broken when I started). Having pointy nails is somewhat like having really long fake nails, only with points on the end so it’s really hard to pick things up. Otoh, the points are small enough to be used as screwdrivers on my clarinet. They’re dangerous because they’re pointy and really really REALLY sharp. Like, I’ve sustained small puncture wounds during this experiment (and tetra hates the whole concept (sorry! it was for SCIENCE, I swear!)).

Here’s a couple other views, one of the damage to my thumbnail (which is kind of hard to see because it’s grown out a bit and been filed a lot) and the other is just kind of neat.

…yeps

Motherly Instincts Gone Awry

I wonder how the joints in a jointed stuffed animal work?

This is the bear. A perfectly innocent and terribly cute bear.