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. 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!!) Until then, I'd recommend 150% as a minimum scale. Totally your call, of course. 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. 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. 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 everyone's 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. 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 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.