#Oval turquoise ring

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The Unique Origin Of Larimar Jewelry

Any individual who possesses Larimar adornments might want to know how the gems is being made. Indeed, it is essential to comprehend that the decoration comes from a stone called Larimar consequently the name Larimar jewellery. Larimar rock is just being tracked down in the Dominican Republic, a country in the Caribbean.

The stone has a blue tinge making it very one of a kind in contrast with different rocks. Dominican Republic is popular for the mining of this uncommon stone.

The sort of gems made from this rock is normally profoundly respected. Most decorations from this rock is typically set in silver however there are additionally different tones. White is viewed as the least in quality. There are additionally green and different decorations that come in red spots. One can thusly buy a grade contingent upon their monetary capacity to do as such.

The decoration comes in various structures going from studs to pendants just to specify however a couple. Gems made from this rock ought to be in capable hands by their proprietors in light of tinge. The stones shading happens because of oxidation. The oxidation happens when normal light strikes the blue variety on the stone when it is on a white surface. This decorations should hence not be put on any white surface.

In the Dominican conservative, the adornments produced using this rock isn't however expensive as they may be in different nations. This is on the grounds that the stones are seen as effectively because of the reality they are privately mined. As a matter of fact, the decoration is hand tailored along the roads of the urban communities of Dominican Republic making them promptly accessible to anybody in the country who is keen on trimmings.

This isn't the situation when the it gets to other country. Whenever they are traded to different nations like the US, Joined Realm, Germany and different nations, they are sold out at extreme costs. Generally just the number of inhabitants in the rich can bear the cost of this sort of adornments abroad.

This is an intriguing sort of rock and consequently decorations made from this rock is likewise respected interesting. The main different rocks that are practically identical to this sort of rock are maybe pearl, gold, and the preferences. It isn't exactly clear on how individuals in the Dominican Republic get to mine the stones, obviously there are guidelines that have been set to guarantee that the stone isn't over taken advantage of to the point that it will become non-existent. The public authority has placed in measures with guarantee the guidelines are complied to.

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birthday

Party planning with a dash of angst. An excerpt from this 1992 one-shot, Edward POV.

Telepathy had its uses. I was carrying a stack of boxes piled more than a foot above my head as I followed Alice around the living room, but looking through her eyes made it easy enough.

"I still don't understand why we're doing this," I said, mumbling into the cardboard mashed against my face.

Alice plucked another string of lights out of the top box wobbling above me. "Because it's been far too long since this family had a party. Two inches closer, please."

"No, it hasn't. You threw Carlisle that Doctor of the Year thing back in November."

"Exactly! And what better reason to celebrate than our mother's birthday?"

I snorted into the cardboard. "If you haven't noticed, birthdays aren't particularly meaningful around here." I sighed as the world went black again. "Alice, would you please keep your eyes open so I can see?"

"Hold on." The blackness swirled into color as she focused on a new vision. The colors gave way to a frothy swirl of white, polka-dotted by the glaring brightness of electric light. "Tulle!" Alice gasped, jumping off the ladder and landing in the hallway at a run. "Come on, help me find it! I know Rosalie packed it when we moved, it might be in that big trunk with the Christmas garlands..."

I shook my head and set the boxes down. When Alice got like this, it was best to just follow orders and keep your head down. Her visions were going a mile a minute by the time I met her in the attic. Tulle and twinkle lights, deep orange roses clustered in each corner of the ceiling—

"Good luck getting those in February," I put in, only to be shushed.

They'd go perfectly with the wrapping paper, and they must be available somewhere, otherwise I wouldn't have seen it, thank you very much.

"Hold on, what wrapping paper?" I asked. "We're doing presents?"

She rolled her eyes and threw open the nearest steamer trunk. "It's a birthday party, Edward."

"What are you giving her?"

"I've had my eye on this darling pea coat that's just right for her. Emmett's out picking flowers, Rosalie already wrapped hers—oil paints and three new canvases—hmm, maybe the canvases should be from Jasper..."

I stood up, nearly bumping my head on one of the rafters. "Why does everybody know about this but me?"

"Because you never come up for air when you're at the piano these days. It's not my fault you're a lazy telepath."

"What should I give her?"

Alice began pulling a length of sheer white cloth out of the trunk. "Ah, here it is!"

"Just tell me, Alice. What am I giving Esme?"

"Jewelry again. Only not that hideous turquoise brooch, if you please."

Jasper came home soon afterward to relieve me from decor duty. I retreated to my room to pick out the jewelry. I wouldn't be able to do this much longer, shelling out Elizabeth Masen's heirlooms to my mother and sisters; there wasn't much left. Besides the turquoise brooch, there was a pearl necklace in need of repair, the oval engagement ring, a bracelet with a little emerald flower charm, a few gaudy rings that would probably never be fashionable again, and a tangled pair of necklaces.

I sat down on my leather couch and carefully began to pick at the knotted necklaces, studiously ignoring the shining diamond heart wedged in the corner of the jewelry box beneath them. It wouldn't do to get wrapped up in that again.

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Ghostly from TADC -- free crochet pattern

Ravelry link to free PDF here

Ok listen, I know they only appeared for a minute in one episode but I love their shape and their face! I made two immediately, and I made a pattern in case anyone else is interested.

Pattern below the cut:

You will need:

- less than 50g/160m of DK* yarn in two colours: turquoise/green and white

- a 3.5mm* crochet hook

*Sizes can be changed if you want. This will affect the amount of yarn used and the resulting amigurumi size.

- stuffing

- a darning needle to sew and hide ends

- pins

- scissors (unless you like snapping your yarn)

- stitch marker / scrap yarn to mark the round start

Stitch key (US terminology)

sc: single crochet

inc: increase

dec: invisible decrease

hdc: half-double crochet

ss: slip stitch

Finish off: slip stitch into the next stitch, cut your yarn, and pull the loop until the end comes through

Head

1. 6sc into a magic ring [6]

2. 6inc [12]

3. (sc, inc) x6 [18]

4. (sc, inc, sc) x6 [24]

5. (3sc, inc) x6 [30]

6-9. 30sc (4 rounds) [30]

10. (3sc, dec) x6 [24]

11. 24sc [24]

12. (sc, dec, sc) x6 [18]

13. 18sc [18]

Stuff the head. Keep stuffing as you go.

14. (sc, dec) x6 [12]

15. 12sc [12]

16. 4sc, 4dec [8]

17. 4sc, 2dec [6]

18. 4sc, dec [5]

Finish off. Thread the tail through each front loop, and pull to cinch the hole closed.

Body

Some stitches are slip stitches (ss). These must be kept loose, so you can go into them again without trouble.

1. 7sc into a magic ring [7]

2. 7inc [14]

3. (sc, inc) x7 [21]

4. (3sc, inc, 3sc) x3 [24]

5. (7sc, inc) x3 [27]

6. 27sc [27]

7. 27sc [27]

8. (7sc, dec) x3 [24]

9. 3sc, 8ss, 4sc, 8hdc, sc [24]

10. 4sc, dec, 2sc, dec, 5sc, 8hdc, sc [22]

11. 5sc, dec, 6sc, 8hdc, sc [21]

12. 3sc, 6ss, 4sc, 8hdc [21]

13. 3sc, dec, 2sc, dec, 4sc, 8hdc [19]

14. 2sc, 6ss, 2sc, 9hdc [19]

Stuff as you go.

15. (2sc, dec) x2, 3sc, dec, 3hdc, dec, sc [15]

16. sc, 6ss, 2dec, 2hdc, dec [12]

17. (2sc, dec) x3 [9]

18. 9sc [9]

19. (sc, dec) x3 [6]

20. 6sc [6]

21. 4sc, dec [5]

Poke some stuffing into the tip and finish off. Use the tail to cinch the end shut.

Sew the head to the body (see below).

Align the head to the body, like the pic on the right, with the head angled. Use pins to mark the corners of where you want to sew the piece. It's easier to attach a circle when you treat it like a square.

Eyes (x2)

1. (turquoise/green) 7sc into a magic ring [7]

Slip stitch into the first sc with white yarn.

2. (white) 7inc [14]

Slip stitch and finish off. Pin the eyes high on the face, about 4 stitches apart.

If you want an open mouth, first mark a diamond shape, roughly covering the starting magic ring. Using that as a guide, embroider on a round/oval solid white segment using a fill stitch (below).

To embroider this, repeatedly add vertical lines that are longer at the centre until you get a solid-looking circle/oval. You can then optionally sew around it with a couple of large lines to define the edge.

UWU mouth pieces (x2)

Make in your turquoise/green yarn.

1. 4sc into a magic ring [4]

2. 3inc, 2ss [7]

The second slip stitch does go beyond the end of the row. Finish off.

Attach the uwu segments side-by-side with the slip stitch sides touching each other.

Sew the uwu pieces slightly covering the mouth. :3

After that, sew on the eyes if you haven't already. The bottoms of the eyes should be just below the top of the lip.

Arms (x2)

1. 5sc into a magic ring [5]

2. 5sc [5]

3. 4sc, inc [6]

4. 6sc [6]

5. 5sc, inc [7]

6. 7sc [7]

7. 7sc [7]

8. 7sc [7]

9. 6sc, inc [8]

10. 8sc [8]

Stuff the arm lightly. Fold the open part so your current stitch is at one corner. Push your hook through both sides and 4sc across the top to shut it.

Attach the arms at the sides, between the two rows just below where the head connects.

You should now be done!

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Extravagant Bead Necklace from Neolithic Child’s Grave Reassembled

An elaborate necklace of thousands of beads discovered in a child’s grave in the Neolithic village of Ba’ja, southern Jordan, has been reassembled bead by bead five years after it was unearthed. It is the most elaborate adornment ever found at a Neolithic site, and is a unique testament to the funerary practices of the elite in this prehistoric farming and livestock-raising community.

Located not far from the Nabatean rock-cut city of Petra, Ba’ja was occupied between around 7,400 and 6,800 B.C. It is densely packed with multi-layered stone dwellings that are believed to have been homes and stores for family units. While the deceased were usually buried elsewhere, some of the dead were buried in individual, double or collective graves underneath the structures.

In the summer of 2018, a stone-lined cist grave was found underneath the floor of a stone house. It contained the skeletal remains of a child about eight years old buried in fetal position. While the sex could not be conclusively determined, the shape of the chin suggests the child was female. The archaeological team named her Jamila (meaning “beautiful” in Arabic).

The skeleton was in a very poor state of preservation with bones missing and severely damaged by thousands of years and the heavy weight of the layers above the grave. Excavation revealed concentrations of beads of various materials and sizes mostly grouped around the child’s chest and neck. An astonishing 2,500 beads — flat beads, cylindrical beads, disc beads, tubular shell beads — were ultimately unearthed. Most of them were made of sandstone, but there were also turquoise, shell and amber beads from Lebanon that are the oldest ever discovered.

The bead concentrations were distributed between two large pendants: a mother-of-pearl ring carved from a large single pearl oyster shell with multiple perforations and a double-perforated oval hematite pendant. The mother-of-pearl is particularly spectacular, and cannot have been local. It was likely an import from the Red Sea more than 700 miles away.

Some of the beads were found still aligned in several rows on the left side (the child was positioned on her left side and gravity did the rest) but many were scattered. Repeated patterns and combinations of bead type and color in the surviving rows indicate the beads cannot have been scattered over the body, but it was not clear whether they were originally part of a necklace, a decorated garment, chest piece or something else entirely.

The grave was documented in painstaking detail, and the concentrations and surviving rows made it possible for researchers to reconstruct the original configuration. The entire assemblage was loaned to research laboratories in Germany and France for cleaning, consolidation, restoration and analysis.

The result of the reconstruction is nothing short of spectacular, 12 inches wide at the widest point and 12 inches long at its longest. The most plausible arrangement for all those beads and pendants turned out to be ten rows, seven connected to each side of the mother-of-pearl ring and 3 separated from it.

The reconstructed necklace (with black foam placeholders for the beads that are too fragile to be integrated) is now on display at the Museum of Petra.

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DCA Info Part 65: Dorm Leader 3rd Edition Redesigns (Part 1)

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Much like their Dorm Fairy companions, the girls also got redesigned! The reason being is that Phoenix felt she was making them look to simple. So she chose to once again redesign them, only this time, designing them to cater more to their preferences and personalities, as well as matching the aesthetics of each Disney Princesses' respective movies.

🍎 Evonie Apfel

Now resembling a soldier, Evonie's hair is now in a wavy low ponytail offering her much more mobility when she's fencing.

Her ensemble now consists of a pale yellow tunic with a sweetheart bodice and gold trim worn underneath a blue vest with gold trim, a pair of red gem buttons on each side of the vest each attached to a pair of gold toggles, red transparent floral printed bishop sleeves, and a small cleavage cutout. For footwear, Evonie wears a pair of black heeled shoes with gold circular buckles and blue cuffs with similar looking buckles, she's also shown wearing red socks.

Evonie accessorizes with a gold circlet with a red diamond jewel, a gold brooch with a red diamond on the center of her vest collar, black gloves worn underneath a pair of blue fingerless gloves with gold trim and a pair of pale yellow lace gloves underneath, a brown belt with a circular buckle and a gold crown ring with a red jewel on her right index finger.

👠 Ella Glaciel

With a more professional ensemble due to representing her family's brand, Ella wears an ensemble that appears to take inspiration from Cinderella's servant uniform. The shoes were made and gifted to her by her father to serve as a memento of him when she enrolled. Like he's with her in spirit, he's thinking about her, and/or the shoes serve as a reminder of how he cherishes her dearly.

Ella's hair is now a lighter pink shade and she is shown wearing muted blue eyeshadow. The ensemble Ella wears consists of a white puff sleeve top with the sleeves having a silver outline, muted blue cuffs and muted dark blue ruffle. The top is worn underneath a muted pale blue dress with the upper part having the center portion a darker color, and a pair of white gem buttons on each side of the center attached to a pair of silver toggles. At the dress' waist, there is a pocket with the opening of it having muted navy blue trim and silver outline and a circular white gem attached to muted dark blue ribbon. The dress' skirt has a thin silver trim, muted blue trim and muted dark blue ruffle trim. For footwear, Ella wears a pair of muted blue heeled loafers with silver details and dark blue bows alongside white leggings with thin lines.

Ella accessorizes with silver three pointed tiara with a white oval gem worn behind a muted navy blue hair bow, a pair of pearl earrings, a muted navy blue cross tie with a silver brooch with three silver flowers and pale blue gems on the bottom and blue bird wings on each side with a light blue gem with a feather outline in the center, and a silver crown ring with a white jewel on her right index finger.

🐰 Allison Liddel

Allison's new ensemble was made to be the polar opposite of her twin Maddison, as well as being made for active movement since she's constantly moving. Allison's hair is also a softer color than prior and has turquoise eyeshadow.

The ensemble consists of a white top with puff sleeves that include turquoise and gold cuffs. The top is worn underneath a muted turquoise mismatched jumper with suspenders and gold rectangular buckles and trim. For footwear, Allison sports a pair of black boots with gold rectangular buckles with white leggings.

Allison accessorizes with a black ribbon headband with a crown shaped charm in the center, a gold clock brooch with a turquoise and purple gradient, a pair of black waistbands and most notably a chain on her suspenders with charms shaped like a purple mushroom, a white rose with red paint and an orange cat attached to a a turquoise cookie brooch with the words "EAT ME" in pink and a gold key with card suit shapes and the bit resembling an eaten cookie.

🌹 Briar Auroria

Briar's new ensemble was made to inline her with Aurora's Briar Rose persona, with the ensemble's color palette being more muted to make her resemble more of a young woman. The sash was gifted to her by Yolanda as a congratulatory gift. As a tribute to her friend, Briar commissioned her uniform to complement the sash. Her golden blonde hair is also slightly darker and she has magenta eyeshadow.

Briar's ensemble consists of a white-pinkish tinted blouse worn underneath a muted brownish purple sweetheart bodice with muted gold trim and a muted mauve pink skirt. For footwear, Briar wears a pair of flat sharp black shoes with gold buckles alongside grayish purple leggings.

Briar accessorizes with a muted gold five pointed tiara, a rectangular gold brooch with a magenta gem embedded inside on her bodice, a muted fuchsia shawl with magenta gems with muted gold tassels on each side, each of which connected by a pale gold chain, a brownish purple sash with brown trim, diamond designs and the gem in the center matching the brooch, and a muted gold crown ring with a magenta jewel on her right index finger.

🐠 Cerule Oceana

Cerule's ensemble looks more sporty and less cluttered than her previous ensembles. Most notably, Cerule's hair features three ahoges and the rest of her hair is in a twist ponytail as an homage to her mermaid heritage. She also wears purple eyeshadow.

Cerule wears a turquoise sleeveless one piece sailor suit with the center being an off white color, has eight purple gem buttons and silver trimming. For footwear, Cerule sports a pair of turquoise boots with silver soles and transparent turquoise cuffs that resemble mermaid fins.

Cerule accessorizes with a pearl headband with each strap attached to a yellow seashell above her ear with the left one having a silver teardrop brooch with a purple gem embedded inside, a light brown choker attached to a silver hoop charm which is attached to a yellow seashell with three pearls on top, a violet scarf, a pair of pearl bracelets over brown waistbands, a brown belt with a yellow seashell satchel, a turquoise transparent wrap that resembles a mermaid's tail fin and a silver crown ring with a purple jewel on her right index finger.

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hey chat im gonna be serious for a moment so tw for suicide

yesterday morning i got horrible news. my childhood friend Zaia, aka Grey, died on monday.

like most, i havent been taking this well, and i wanted to make a post just to talk about them for a bit.

i met Grey when i was in 4th grade, i was a loud, annoying, and very erratic kid. i was struggling with my medications and by proxy struggling socially. i didnt have many real friends except for 3, my friends Betty, Elliot, and Grey.

I remember at Elliot's birthday party that year me and Grey played 7 seconds in heaven in a random closet at Elliot's grandma's house. That was a weird night, but it was also my first ever kiss.

On my 11th birthday when we were in 5th grade, I was at Grey's house. I randomly mentioned it was my birthday and they freaked out because I hadn't told them sooner. They dug around in their closet and pulled out a jewelry box, saying "just pick one, it'll be your birthday present". i picked a metal ring, it had a leaf and flower design with a probably fake opal and an equally as fake looking oval turquoise. im wearing it right now, and i have been ever since they gave it to me.

i didnt go to middle school nor high school with Grey, i had started going to a different school because i had a really bad relationship with the other's in my elementary school class. Elliot and Betty had moved districts, but the person i was gonna missed the most was Grey.

we saw each other from time to time, we lived a block away from each other after all. id see them randomly at the bus stop or at the store, and id smile and talk about our lives sometimes. i liked seeing a familiar face every once in a while, even if we never expected to bump into each other.

ill never bump into them again.

ill never have a little chat with them again.

ill never see them again.

one of my best friends when i was a kid is now gone.

the memories i had with them are now only shared as just that, a memory.

not a shared memory with them, but a memory with a mourning group of family and friends. old and new.

im really gonna miss them

rest in peace, grey

theres one more star in the sky, but one more empty hole in our hearts 🕊️

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my great great grandfather was a silversmith, so I have a few precious pieces from him: a simple silver ring with a single oval piece of red coral that he made specially for me when I was born; a barrel clasp silver necklace with small beads of turquoise, and a single matching bracelet for a child's wrist that obviously no longer fits.

And now I've inherited this amazing work of art. He had always been very close with the Navajo artisans near him, and this is from one of them. I'm going to try to find a stamp on the back and see if I can track down the artist. How cool would it be to be able to get more pieces from the same hands that made this, more than 70 years ago?

I am really happy to be building my coral jewelry collection. It's so unique... I see people wear turquoise a lot, which I love, but almost never coral. Now I have MANY sets of coral earrings and I can't wait to get more pieces. Maybe another bracelet, or a hair piece. :)

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here have some of the "human ocs i never post about" (some info about them under the cut :3)

[ID: digital drawings of six human characters in a simple lineless style. 1. a very tall, thin man with very pale skin, straight gray hair, and pale blue eyes. his hair is short on the sides and slightly longer and messy on top, and he has 5'oclock shadow. he has thick eyebrows and a scar on his cheek and nose. he is wearing oval-shaped glasses, and a black priest's cassock with a white collar. he is standing with one hand raised, and has a neutral expression. 2. a tall, broad-shouldered man with tan skin and straight black hair. his hair is medium length and is parted on his right. he is wearing black sunglasses and a black suit. he has a neutral expression. 3. a mid-height, thin person with brown skin, straight black hair, and brown eyes. they have no notable bust. their hair is short and spiky. they are wearing black eye makeup, and have several ear piercings, including dangly cross earrings. they are wearing a black spiked collar, a black off-the-shoulder batwing sweater, a gray rosary worn like a necklace, a black belt with D-rings all around it, black pants with lace-up sides, and black platform boots with buckles on the sides. they have one hand on their hip and have their mouth pushed to one side. 4. a small thin girl with fair skin, straight blond hair, and hazel eyes. her hair is shoulder-length, and is parted in the middle and otherwise unstyled. she has freckles on her cheeks and nose, and her front teeth stick out. she is wearing a brownish backwards baseball cap, an oversized dull green shirt that is half tucked in, a brown belt, oversized brownish pants, and faded red sneakers. she has one fist raised and she is smiling. 5. a tall, stocky woman with fair skin, straight light brown hair, and light brown eyes. she has a small bust. her hair is tied in a pony tail, except for a few strands on her forehead. she is wearing a white shirt with red sleeves, black athletic shorts, and red and turquoise running shoes. she has one hand on her hip and the other arm is raised in a flex, and she is smiling. 6. a short, fat woman with dark tan skin, curled brown hair, and dark brown eyes. she has a moderate bust. her hair is parted on her left, and is straight on top but is styled into fluffy curls farther down, so that her hair looks shoulder-length. she is wearing oversized glasses, gold clips in her hair, a patterned orange tie-front cropped button-up, a darker orange skirt, a belt with a large gold buckle, white knee-high socks, and orange and brown platform heels. she is holding an orange purse in one hand, and she is smiling. /end ID]

ok so these characters are supposed to be in a kind of paranormal horror story but it's kinda turned more into an action-comedy with a mystery background =_= i'll try and bring it back but we'll see

for the characters! we have: father killian, who is the worst priest ever. sucks at christian doctrine but what he IS good at is building illegal and ethically dubious custom weaponry and fighting vampires and demons and werewolves with it. the vatican hates him. agent john smith, who works for the government and that is pretty much his entire personality. he's not married to his work; he IS his work. doesn't consider himself a person but rather an extension of the united states government and its interests. rajani, who is goth and likes to cause problems and be difficult. will NOT just give you a straight answer to the damn question. figure it out. 🖕 darby, who is an 11-year-old tomboy who hangs out in a group of troublemaker boys whose hobbies include kicking cans and owning slingshots. her parents wanted her to be some sort of high-class socialite but they instead got an androgynous delinquent who only wears clothes 3 sizes too big for her. wyn, who is a jock. stereotypically strong but not the brightest. she's got a good heart tho. her full name is wynifred but she goes by wyn because it sounds like win and that is what she likes to do. sherla, who is an amateur sleuth and likes to dress like it's the 1970s. she wants to find The Truth and Proof and all that. her current job is babysitting but ideally she'll make her way into something like investigative journalism. people underestimate her because she's fat and feminine, but she is capable of doing hard work and getting her hands dirty.

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Tisja's scribbling 3

-> For just a moment, the elf – certain of her safety – closed her eyelids and sighed audibly. "Ah, the misery of the Iradi: constantly trying to appear like us, but, by Galikir, damn bad at it," her contact noted with a mischievous grin. Tisja-Vilaniv tilted her head and wanted to know the reason for this assumption: "What do you mean?"

The woman sat down at the table in the middle of the room opposite Tisja-Vilaniv. She put her feet up, held her mug in her left hand and said: "You think that with that expressionless face of yours you won"t attract attention, but that"s what makes you particularly conspicuous. It"s only by luck that most people are not interested in anything but their house and home – maybe the wenches two streets over, but apart from that..."

Tisja-Vilaniv threw back the hood, tucked a rebellious strand of her snow-white hair behind her right ear and put down the clay cup. With delicate movements, she loosened the fibula above her breastbone before she took off the cloak, which she then placed folded on a chest of drawers by the door. "You misjudge our actions, dear lady.

You are right that your simple folk don"t care about us. However, we don"t care about them either. Our goal is not to get lost in the crowd, but to avoid giving our enemies clues through our facial expressions. Among the Vilasar and especially the Ilaniv, the slightest movement is already analysed. We are aware that we attract attention, but amateurish attempts at assimilation are even more dramatic," the elf explained, now much more relaxed, as she sat down at the table. At the same time, the human put the mug aside, only to take a pipe out of a bag and start to fill it.

For the first time, the elf took a closer look at her counterpart. The oval face of the red-haired human woman with the bright green eyes was still grinning broadly. Freckles adorned her crooked nose and silver rings her right ear. Despite the recent popularity of cosmetics in the realm, such as lip blue, cheek colour or shadows for the eyelids, she did not wear any such frills.

She was of slender, tall stature and wore light, turquoise-coloured leather clothes with dark metal decorations. The dark green cloth scarf that wrapped her neck also blended in with this colour scheme. She was armed with a rapier that was attached to a belt at her hip. "Interesting, but may I ask you something?" Tisja-Vilaniv nodded before she smelled her wine. With an inward sigh at the apparently inferior quality, she took a sip and then drank to conceal her displeasure.

" What are you doing here in Kuskar?"

"As you can probably imagine, I can"t tell you. I would be a poor agent of the elven people if I were to present our missions to everyone."

The woman at the other end of the table shrugged, grinning as she lit her pipe. "It was worth a try. You know what they say about a woman"s vice," she commented on her pathetic attempt. With her mug in her right hand, Tisja-Vilaniv tried to steer the conversation towards her itinerary: "How do you plan to take me to my homeland?"

"Not at all… I was only ordered to take you as far as Kisbil. Elves are not persecuted there, and you should be able to make it to Vilangar on your own. But to get you there, I"ve organised a ship to take us southeast by sea."

"Is the ship"s crew trustworthy?"

"Nothing of the sort – just crooks – but that"s exactly what makes them perfect for us. Their contempt for the authorities is much greater than their dislike of your people. They would only end up on the rope themselves as a reward for capturing you."

"I see…"

"Don"t worry, elf. Shoko will take care of you."

Tisja-Vilaniv eyed the woman coldly. She spoke in a calm voice, "Is that your name?"

»At least the name you will learn from me – Shoko Kili-Vara, at your service."

"You are of low nobility?«

Shoko blew a cloud of pipe smoke towards the ceiling before answering, “Seems so.” “Then it would only be fair to tell you my name as well,” replied the elf, to which the woman at the other end of the table waved a hand, saying, "Not necessary… For the duration of our cooperation, you are Elizja Kili-Nira – my half-sister from a simple background. Apparently our father was a wild boar that could hardly be tamed. How did I earn the trust to know your name? From what I"ve heard, you elves are reluctant to reveal your names…" "My trust in you is only borrowed, because the only reason I"m open with you is the trust Ilkana has in you. He trusts you and with that you have mine. That"s why I want you to know my name, Shoko. Consider it a symbol of my faith in the judgement of our mutual friend. My name is Ilaniv Alanadol Tisja-Vilaniv," the elf explained calmly and without any sign of derision. Shoko whistled appreciatively before musing, "The new spring Tisja of the Ilaniv tribe and daughter of Alana…"

"I"m glad to know that you are familiar with the speech of the streams."

"You have to appreciate a beautiful name, and that"s difficult if you don"t know what it means," explained her contact person, before continuing, "In return, I can tell you who I"m taking you to Kisbil for – you know: because of our mutual friend. I"m an Acryl." "A nameless one… Is it true that you are born without a name?" Tisja-Vilaniv wanted to know in a fit of curiosity. The woman shook her head in reply: “That"s an old wives tale. Everyone has a name. I merely discarded it in the service of the true empress and in the fight against the Usurper." "Thank you for that explanation, honourable Akril Shoko. I appreciate the trust you place in me," the elf remarked with a rare, honest smile, before her face changed back to that cold mask.

"Now that that"s been settled, we should probably retire. I"ve rented rooms under our names, and we should probably go to the harbour together tomorrow morning. Otherwise, we"ll meet there after sunrise. Any questions?«

Tisja-Vilaniv shook her head, drank the revolting wine down, and excused herself, for she longed for some sleep. <-

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Zooble's design in my TADC AU (Beyond the Circus Grounds)

A bit of backstory for them(they use they/them in this AU): They were originally a Gloink robot(robots created by "The Ring Master"(Caine) that are in service to protect anyone living in the circus grounds, as well as killing or capturing anyone outside it) who was fixed up by Jax after they spared his life and let him escape. The reason why Zooble had to be fixed is because the other Gloinks destroyed them after finding out they let Jax go.

Zooble has the ability to extend their limbs, use that turquoise oval thing on their chest as a removable throwable weapon (inspired by the disks from the TRON franchise), as well as the large mechanical crab claw to defend themself if anyone gets too close. They are very loyal to Jax and the others and is willing to sacrifice themself to protect any of them if necessary.

I didn't change too much of their design bc I felt like it fit the whole "made up of a bunch of random metal scraps and parts put together to make one robot" idea pretty well. also, they fall apart often/easily

(Side note: I know I was supposed to post a ref sheet for my Pomni design for the same AU, but I was already working on this, so I decided to post it first lol)

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Large Oval Stone Green Turquoise Ring, Navajo Sterling Silver Rings, Native American Vintage Artisan Jewelry for Women