COVID-19 Priestess Aztec Screaming Whistle

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This printed BEAUTIFULLY for me at 120% scale, but unfortunately the necklace loops kind of get in the way of actually blowing on it. D'OH!! Which is unfortunate, because I love how they add to the look. I'll try printing one at 220% scale, and see if it's still a problem, after my printer is freed up again. (Currently printing something else, which will take 18 hours!! O___O) Until then, I'd recommend 150% as a minimum scale. Totally your call, of course. :) https://youtu.be/YRarPIU2e6g ____________________________________________ I just wanted to print and play with Jinkai's extremely cool Aztec Death-Whistle, but under the present world circumstances, I'm in no mood for authenticity regarding anything related to RL human torture and ritual sacrifice. TT^TT TOO real, too modern.... Then, I had a weird idea: remix it to take away or at least change its contextual seriousness-----with appropriately dark sarcasm. >:) I 'don't appreciate' attempts to terrorize the "free" world, so maybe now I can just blow this whistle whenever I'm politically cued to panic over the Wuhan Coronavirus like a sheeple getting poked with a shock rod. By any other physical means, I just wouldn't have the Fs in me to give a convincing performance of a terrorized scream. I'm not at all saying that the COVID19 virus isn't real-----but the political opportunism by maximizing public sh**s-lost around the world is ALSO totally real.... My cavalier, 'gonna resolve this like an icecube like it happens every day and I'm sick of it' attitude is probably just a Gryffindor thing. I'm terrible. ;-P But, you know what, people who can out-stare the proverbial Abyss provide a necessary counterbalance to public terror. If we don't, then terror reigns unchecked.... "Courage is the foremost of virtues for upon it all others depend." ----some amazing fortune cookie that my brother once got. LoL "Courage is fear that has said its prayers." ----no flippin' clue who said it first, but they were right. Courage isn't a simple absence of fear; it is the mastering of it, partly through preparedness. Faced with a fearless beast verses a courageous one-----the courageous one is the more dangerous, because it is powerfully cognizant of its actions AND others'. >:) IMO, fear is a waste of precious personal energy. I simply can't be bothered with it-----except that everyones' socially and verbally abusive expectation of me to show some terrorized reverence for the virtually-arcane descendance of this tiny, Lovecraftian god-of-destruction is getting REEEAAALLY annoying. No, I Will. Not. Kneel. Not to the proverbial King Xerxes, conglomerating world governments promising public protection in exchange for public obedience, and not to La Corona, Mother Nature's or Gaia's sweeping sword------in the modernized (yet as old as the Aztecs, and older!) religious sense. Hence the priestess iconography: my dark sarcasm expressed in the representation of a screaming god-queen of psychosis. >:) Mother Nature can go stick her 'sweeping sword' up her own arse. O__O ___________________ In a separate post, I'll upload a normal, non-Coronavirus version, for you historical purists out there. Because Scampbell's 3D-scan of a a real Aztec sculpture really is artistically lovely. :) This dark-sarcasm version was just ready to go first, because I'm rusty at 3D-modeling/modding, and so my creative workflow is a 'magical' quantum mess. "If a cluttered desktop is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desktop a sign?" (Slightly altered Einstein quote.) .....I will refrain from supplying a real answer; that would be TOO dark, even for me. O___O