ok so, in my senior year of high school, i was taking an advanced construction technology class, but because of covid, it was extremely limited, to the point of one of the assignments being “do something that involves one of these trades/skills” and on that list was stone working. i had recently acquired a dremel, and gotten a little practice engraving letters, and figured that i could finally make a runestone or a monolith type thing. the reason i chose do specifically make it about the Fitness Gram Pacer Test was because at the time i was watching a lot of Overly Sarcastic Productions videos, and one of them (the quetzalcoatl one i think) mentioned how nobody would carve a monolith describing the Fitness Gram Pacer Test. i took this as a challenge, and also thought it would be very funny thing to do, and a great use of covid time. so about a week later, i had learnt elder fuþark, acquired a 26x26x2” slab of sandstone (approx 52 lbs.), freehanded a design based on a few different real world runestones, and carved out all the runes to describe the trial of Pæsjir, ringing serpent of endurance, a giant snake that serpentines across a 20m field in pursuit of the test taker, ringing a bell each time it turns around, and progressively increasing in speed until the participant either escapes, or is swallowed, sending the beast into a state of lethargy until another sacrifice must be provided. and then i spent the next week and a half painting it. it currently leans against the back of my parents’ house to get free weathering, and also because my parents don’t want it inside.
also have been kicking around the idea of maybe doing custom carvings…
@comicaurora OSPRed is on tumblr by the way! I think they’d want to see this lol
