Warpless Midlife Mario, round 01
Seems my midlife crisis has manifested in a desire to beat the original SUPER MARIO BROS without using a warp zone by the time I hit 50. I'm 44 now, so I've got a bit of runway. Other than the "no warping" rule, I'm also - since I'm playing it on my little NES mini (pork chop Nintendo, as I fondly call it) in The Shed and with it, the option of saving and walking away - instituting a single-playthrough rule: once I start, I don't stop until I die or win, just like those long evenings of perpetual failure that ended 20 years later with a (warped) victory and subsequent blackout drunken revelry. So, in that spirit, round one:
metal_0062 :: doris, the festive piranha
Continuing my trend these past few weeks of things that start as wreathes becoming something… else, Doris. A Santa hat from hell, a rabid Cheep-Cheep, my Christmas piranha. Plan is for her to be a fixture on the side of the house and get apposite accoutrements for each holiday. Will update this post accordingly.
Update_20251123: Doris in her Christmas regalia.
metal_0061
Started as a wreath, became a lamp, finished as a planter with a philodendron in a 3D-printed pot I designed and spent too many brain cells trying to figure out how to get it to float like that. Worth it.
