Anne Kirn

@houseofdarkly

Plush artist, puppet builder, Supervising Editor @ Jackbox Games, other stuff. I have approximate knowledge of many things. houseofdarkly.com

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Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· 7d

Augh. Awful. I've turned off everything I can, but even then, THIS shows up (it started with a recent Android update which I had to do as a security patch)

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· 13d

Hater Week seems like the perfect time to support @aftermath.site so I did an annual sub tonight. We can all be haters, for good! And as a proud owner of the hardback Myst prequel novel, I believe that, together, we can force them to do a video game book report

Hardback copy of Myst: The Book of Atrus, printed to look like a leatherbound old book, in brown with fake water marks and scratches, "metal" corners, and a fanciful crest in the middle.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· 18d

Recently (finally) picked up @liamwong.com 's After Dark photo book. I'll spare you bad photos of the images inside, but it's lovely to have a hard copy to just vibe with

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· 19d

Please witness the fishie from Lupin-- I mean @tabbiewolf.bluestripedboxers.com & @spotweld.bsky.social, who has been keeping me company while working and has not (yet) been yeeted in a moment of stress

Plush flounder, yellow with embroidered blue spots and fin details, and big cartoony eyes. Next to it is a big playing card style biz card, in red with white checks, and a smiling Lupin the 3rd head.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· 19d

Got the new Hallmark Cerritos ornament for uh Summerween. I expected it to be much smaller! It's close to being in scale with the metal Eaglemoss 1701-D (yes, it IS too brown). The sculpting is nicely done. (Apologies for the hand.)

Small model of the TNG era Enterprise from overhead, next to a slightly smaller and more cartoony looking Cerritos from Lower Decks. Both are on a space print pillowcase.

The model and ornament from the side, held up by a hand. The Cerritos is shorter and narrower, but they believably could be the same scale.

Just the Cerritos, tilted (hand still holding it by the saucer). The nacelles are sculpted and the paint is quite detailed, while keeping the cartoony look of the show.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· 23d

Look at her. She's at her limit, she's at the edge of something big

Fallen Labubu on a desk, pale brown fur with a knit blue 60s style dress with a white collar that won't lay flat. Her blond flip and bangs are messy, and even though she's smiling with traditional pointy teeth, her green, pupil-less eyes are seeing a different world.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· 24d

Great day for sickos who love background character concept art and closeups of lift control panels

Two giant art books, one The Art of Andor with Diego Luna looking cool posed with a scifi pistol on the cover, and one The Art of Star Trek: Lower Decks, with Mariner looking cool driving a vehicle at high speed and Boimler hanging on for dear life and screaming.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· 28d

Meanwhile, order from last night looking like a pitch for a Three Amigos reboot. They're all Steve Martin

Three handmade plush peanuts, each in straw hats. They have black eyes and a "hmm" face embroidered on, with little thin black arms raised. Next to them is a stack of muslin bags with "Junior's Fresh & Hot Boiled Peanuts" on them in red.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· Jul 10

They are gainfully employed (lot of lights off because it's a triple-digit day)

Black Keychron mechanical keyboard with swapped rainbow keycaps, gamer mouse, and way too many (9) Labubus from different releases, with the wigged ones in front, including one that looks like a Hitchock movie gal and a punk rock girl with a plaid skirt. Some of the others have glasses, hairbows or pink sequin Mickey ears.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· Jul 6

Ohhh it's snail time (order going out tomorrow)

Handmade plush snail perched atop a hot pink laptop like it's climbing up it. Off white snail with tiny black plastic eyes, chunky antennae that should technically be the eyes but this is cuter, and a smiling mouth munching on yarn moss. The shell is pastel space print. Lots of toy nonsense in the background.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· Jun 30

Picking up odd estate sale items and researching their history. This is how I have a hedgehog tile from England, a lucky bell from Japan, a lot of glass telephone line insulators, these Burmese birds that were a standard weight system. A joy to end up on sites built in 1997 about folks' passions

Two small brass bird-like animals, duck-adjacent, each with a tail that curves upwards and a curling feather ridge on their heads. They look very old and worn.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· Jun 29

This is my current one, a lot of the height is the hat so I don't need anything that big... but I do need something functional like a real one. It's about 7.25"

Desk full of toys and Labubus, focus on a blue tiny trashcan that looks like a cartoon guy with open mouth and little hat and just one green googly eye because the stickers fell off.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· Jun 28

Would anyone like to see some juvenile red-shouldered hawks (pretty sure?), even though I didn't get one shoving its sibling with a claw

Two juvenile hawks, the bird and not a sports team no matter what autocorrect tries to do, on the grass. They look mostly like adults, largely dark brown with elaborate beige mottling and white-crescent feather edges, and bright yellow feet. One is looking at camera with one foot on a nut or rock. The other is looking away.

Same hawks but now the other one is looking at camera, while the second regards its prize nut. They look ever so slightly fluffier and more awkward than adults.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· Jun 22

This Pocket Lint technically qualifies as Taskmaster S21 fanart

Plush Pocket Lint, a fuzzy, messy ball with darker felt eyes circles with black plastic pupils. It has a small embroidered smile and looks a bit shy.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· Jun 21

Can I interest anyone in the program guide for Anime Central 2001 (their 4th, I believe), when it was at the Sheraton by the racetrack

Acen 2001 book cover, full color glossy with anime art by Kia Asamiya of like three robot maids with big eyes, I do not recall if they were from a specific manga he did.

Schedule for Friday and Saturday, grid overlay of anime images that are hard to see but maybe Card Captor Sakura. Highlights: cel painting workshop, web design workshop, a fan parody dubbing workshop, an ADV Films panel, one on Megatokyo, and a dance.

Two quite small exhibit hall floor plans, fewer than 50 total vendors. Media Blasters and ADV the notable long gone ones, also Kinokuniya, Anime Palace, and House of Anime. Asylum Anime and Manga Entertainment, which I believe became Manga Corps and is also long gone. RIP.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· Jun 19

Time to share the stroke awareness acronym again, everyone should know this. People may also exhibit confusion, making it harder to diagnose some of these, and not everyone has them all. Time is incredibly important; if you suspect a stroke, get them to a hospital immediately.

Acronym BE FAST: Balance loss, Eye (vision) changes, Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulty, Time to call 911.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· Jun 13

Plush orders from the last week, genuinely don't remember making the starfish last Saturday but it still got done. May they travel safely and arrive just when they're needed

Plush starfish on a desk mat, made from blue minky fabric with little bumps and long pile pink fuzzy fabric sticking out from underneath. It has big plastic dome black eyes, an embroidered smile, and embroidered pink blush.

Big chaotic furry ball plush tumbleweed in long beige faux fur, with big black eyes and smile and barely visible arms. Next to it, much smaller gray smiling pebble plush, with a bit of green moss.

Plush paintbrush, with a brown and gray handle, brown top with an embroidered smiling face and dome eyes, and the top of the brush shape in multicolored rainbow blobs as if dipped in multiple paints. It has raised little pipe cleaner arms.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· Jun 4

Hey what's the weirdest track name in your music library? Pretty confident this is mine (off "i" by Buffalo Daughter)

Discogs track listing for: Robot Sings (as if he were Frank Sinatra with a half-boiled egg and the salt shaker on a breakfast table)

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· Jun 3

Running through every struggle meal I can think of may look sad, but a) sometimes it's a homemade Adult Lunchable night b) I got two "Sugarbee" apples at Hmart in Orlando and they were excellent

Dinner plate with a bowl of shelled pistachios, two sticks of string cheese, three thick cheddar slices, haphazard tiny Triscuits, and large red apple slices with peanut butter on them.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· May 29

Realtors won't tell you this, but when staging a home, it's very important to have a prominent octopus pedestal. The kitchen is a great spot

A basement kitchen, long row of cabinets and a sink, some dishes and such around, beige walls and tan tile floor everyone seems to get in bulk. About 9" in front of the cabinet, a dark brown, traditional pedestal side table with a large yellow stuffed toy octopus occupying the entire top, big eyes facing forwards.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· May 28

This was great, saw something I will to look into! Are you familiar with the Palaset series by Ristomatti Ratia? Mine are, uh, not so modular as I only found two so far, but very cool. They're still made, but not the same. The OG stack with pegs to hold them together.

Vintage ad for Palaset, a series of stacking cubes with modular inserts like drawers in two widths. Shown here in ivory and brown.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· May 28

Anyway a computer can't make plushies, so here's some recent ones I never remembered to post

Round extremely fluffy tumbleweed plush, made from long wavy faux fur. It has two big black dome eyes and an embroidered smile, with ivory pipe cleaner arms/hands, one folded inwards over its "chest" and the other sticking straight out like it's blowing in the wind.

Hand holding a plush microphone, with a blue band on its head, felt open mouth smile, and raised pile cleaner arms. It looks excited and has embroidered "Fhine" and "SXY2" logos, glass and metal "buttons" around a bright green "screen." Labubus in the background.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· May 24

Today on "K-drama fashion": this existential hat, which I actually kind of want

Yumi in season 3 of Yumi's cells, wearing an unstructured black baseball cap with "I'm here" embroidered in small white letters.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· May 24

How do these guys clamber out of the trash can every few months to complain about Bluesky being a "bubble"? They're just telling on themselves, they're bad at posting and think being "excluded" is any time they're not being centered

Tweet by birdsrightsactivist from Aug 16 2013, 12.2k RTs and 14.3k likes: "I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?"

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· May 21

I'm eligible for the soft launch, but aside from getting back down, since I almost blacked out on Mine Train due to vertigo issues, sadly it is for me. I'll have to go when the Føød Truck is open and otherwise live vicariously.

Entrance arch to Rock n Roller Coaster, with an upside-down car mounted on the head of a guitar. The vintage convertible style vehicle is painted in psychedelic colors.

New entrance to the coaster behind a wall of temp hedges. The huge electric guitar has been repainted in bright psychedelic rainbow waves of color, "featuring the Muppets" added. Big poster of the Electric Mayhem riding in a coaster vehicle, done like a concert poster, on the wall.

Just over the top of temp hedges, a shuttered blue and white striped food truck with top banners reading "Føød by Swedish Chef."

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· May 20

so glad I paid a ton of money to fix this (this is not outside, it's 93 out there to be fair)

Indoor temp/humidity monitor, showing 50% humidity and 80.4 F, which is does say is in the dead center of its "comfort gauge" but not sure how. Not sufficiently Wet I guess, just Half Wet.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· May 19

This one is for the amusement of the Disney Parks weirdos (it is official). I'm not even a real diehard but it sparked joy

Rectangular small throw pillow on white, with "por favor mantengase alejado de las puertas," the Spanish announcement from the Disney Parks monorail, embroidered in large black letters. Stylized monorail in white and blue above and below it, and a rainbow border of more monorails just showing.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· May 18

Not in the best headspace but that just means this $9 gachapon that's meant to go on bike handlebars is really paying off in mental health benefits

Rode mic arm in front of a monitor, with a cute chubby blue and white toy budgie attached to it.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· May 16

It, uh, doesn't seem that hidden actually

Roadside lawn sign reading: NOT open to public, hidden speakeasy 21+ only, text "access" to (number), RSVP for password. It's all quite obvious and not hidden at all.

Anne Kirn@houseofdarkly· May 16

I met this fellow on the way out of EPCOT today and had to get a photo. He hand-cut all of this (not 3D-printed), it goes all the way around. So cool. Nice dude also!