#glassmakers

[courtingwonder]

Guide To Glassmaking --- Source: "The Book"

[sergeantsporks]

Solved the “who can an immortal/unaging adolescent/teen morally date” problem by making my immortal/unaging teen aroace 😎

[charlesreeza]

Art Nouveau vase, enamel and gold painted glass, by Legras & Cie of St Denis, France, 1900

Baden State Museum at the Market, Karlsruhe, Germany

[finlaena]

"Through the Looking Glass"

aka "I broke my glasses while in customs on my way home from TennoCon and got crabby about it, so here's an artistic-y nude of Nihil to blow some steam off."

Sorry, y'all.

[roblogging]

my life actually is that one tumblr post about glassblowers and doctors because i did a course on glassblowing and artisan glass and now it's 5am and i'm collecting data for a stupid politics assignment

[harpe0wl]

Accidental Madame All's fanart made of glass

[fallowfield]

girl gelp i literally woke up thinking about dwarven anatomy and specifically about sand and beach dwarves..... i am so autistic about this....

[go-go-devil]

One of my all-time favorite songs, yet I can hardly find any others who know of this song or this album... or even this band for that matter. Hopefully my post can help spread the music of Bel Canto to all of you beautiful listeners on here ✨

(Recorded from my own 1990 vinyl pressing)

[sangfielle]

does anyone want to help me with coming up with adjectives and jobs for these assholes

[anotherwallyfan]

A silly little Au crossover with my au Glassmaker! Wally and Actor! Wally by @frillsand !!!

I would squish Actor Wally’s cute face, but I will give him space :3

[windienine]

vitally important data for me specifically: chuubo's marvelous wish-granting engine character popularity poll

justifications in the tags unnecessary but delightful

[sergeantsporks]

How/Why did your ocs become immortal? How long have they all been alive, and how do they feel about their immortality?

So, Caelan and Kore are both magicians. Magic in my universe automatically comes with a free immortality guarantee. With that being said! Kore was an alchemist looking for the secret to eternal life, and she discovered it. Her magic hadn't kicked in yet, so she wasn't immortal at the time, but when she took her own serum to test if it worked on humans, it IMMEDIATELY set off all her magic all at once. Along with turning her immortal and giving her access to magical power, the stress of all that magic hitting her at once turned some of her hair permanently white.

Sylvia, however, is the outlier of the two. She is a 100% bona-fide normal human with not a magical bone in her body. However, she ticked off an ancient sorceress who cursed her to immortality when she was roughly 30 (actual number 27, but that's very arbitrary)

Caelan Jr. and Sylvia were both born sometime in the 6th century AD, about 15 years apart from each other (Caelan's older in terms of years, but he's eternally 17)

Caelan's magic kicked in to save his life from disease. Sylvia's immortality, as earlier stated, came as a curse.

Kore was born much earlier, sometime a bit before Alexander the Great in Greece.

Caelan is pretty fond of his immortality. Teenagers tend to think they're unkillable, and in his case, that's true (he can still be cast into a state worse than death though, so. Be careful, dude)! He LOVES that he has enough time to try everything the world has to offer. The one thing he's not SUPER fond of is how he's stuck at 17, because adults tend to treat him like a kid. Which he is, but he's also a super responsible immortal being who raised a whole child, thank you very much

Kore has a more nuanced view on her immortality. On the one hand, she MADE her own immortality (sort of), so she's very proud of that feat. And being immortal gave her the chance to finish the other side of her work; figuring out how to take immortality away. With that being said, she was trapped in a tree for about 8 or 9 centuries, which was none too fun. And one of the reasons she was figuring out immortality was because she was sick of magicians/gods stepping all over mortals and she wanted a way to fight back and kill them. So for her, immortality and magic at large are both a boon and a very dangerous curse

Despite the fact that her immortality was cast as a curse, Sylvia's learned to see it as a good thing. For her, immortality gives her the chance to help people she otherwise couldn't help. She becomes a field medic during WW1 because she, unlike others, can survive the chlorine and mustard gas. Even if it wrecks her health for eternity, she thinks it's worth it to save lives. For the first century or so, though, she DESPISES her immortality, since it means all of her loved ones (sans Caelan) got old and died without her. She and Wolf had JUST cleared how they felt about each other, and now she can't be with him, and that tears her up for a long while. She always remains a little stuck in the past, mourning the loss of the life she would have had without the curse.

[technorot]

— damn, nihil's fight is just as I remembered it (detergatory)

[jeeyonshim]

my love must be a kind of blindness

i can’t see anyone but you

[harlanglass]

Flamework Fun this Summer!

Explore glass. How it is made. How to do it yourself. Imagine! You, glass, summer time. This summer.

Indeed, indulge your curiosity. Play with hot glass. Make glass beads! Do it with a torch. Engage in this 3500 year old art form. Beginners and experimenters welcome and wanted!

Check out my 2024 glass Beadmaking flamework workshop at Feather River Art Camp this June 1 to June 8.

Sleepover adult art camp

Tent cabin accommodations

3 meals of delicious camp fare a day

Click below

[cassynite]

I'm so late to this, and you probably already got most, but how about 🍋, 🌠(probably Crow?), and 💙 for Sparrow?

I didn't get any of these!! Thank you SO MUCH for these questions, it helped me discover something new about Sparrow :)

🍋 Does your OC act petty and jealous easily? What sort of things make them feel like this and do they experience guilt for getting so worked up? How do they deal with these emotions when they get them? If your OC doesn’t feel like this often, why not?

So regarding relationships: Sparrow absolutely experiences jealousy, though it stems from insecurity and how easily it happens tends to depend on how insecure she is in a relationship. It tends to be directed internally, less "what is that other person doing my partner" and more "what am I doing wrong that my partner needs to find it in someone else." It leads to her withdrawing and she rarely acts out because of it; if she does, it would be because she interpreted the actions that made her jealous as a deliberate attack, and would focus her anger either on herself or bring it up to her partner rather than involve the other person. When it comes to non-relationship jealousy...Sparrow can get envious of others, certainly, but she rarely if ever acts on it. People who show confidence and ease in their own skin, people who have happy families or strong friend groups, all of these can inspire a sickening envy. But like with relationships, Sparrow keeps it deeply internal, and would never act on those feelings.

🌠 Who was your OC’s first friend? Do they remember them or are they still friends now? Talk about some of the people your OC has lost contact with over the years. Do they have any regrets about losing these people and would they revist them if they could?

You got it in one--Crow was her very first friend! Her relationship to him is clarified in that idealized childhood, the platonic ideal she'll never obtain again--even when she finds out he's alive and finds him again. He was definitely THE most important person in the world to her for most of her life, even after she lost him. I think besides that, though, she definitely had other friends, children her age that she played with in Dehrukani. Not a lot, mind you, and she didn't see them all the time--she and Crow lived outside of a smaller village on the cliffsides and she didn't have a lot of opportunity to see others beyond Crow's work--but there were children who let her join in on their games whenever she did visit the village. Sparrow no longer remembers their names or their faces, but she still cherishes them as an indication that at one point she was able to make friends easily. I also think that Sparrow was close with another adult--there was a glassblower that lived in the village that Sparrow would watch whenever she was able to go to the town. Saelid was a busy elven woman and Sparrow didn't know her terribly well, but she would always answer Sparrow's questions on the craft, and Sparrow was fascinated with the process.

💙 What did your OC want to be when they grew up and why? Did they have any lifelong dreams or ambitions they never got to work on or are they currently working to achieve this dream? Has their life taken a very unexpected turn and put all these plans on hold for a while or have they given up on any dreams?

Ha I should have brought up the glassblower here! While her earliest desire was to do exactly what her brother does and become an artificer and engineer, her talent never really grew in that area. However, she loved the process of making glass, and her brother had ideas on how to supplement it with magic--the plan was that when she turned twelve she'd actually go into an apprenticeship with Saelid to learn the craft. She had dreams of bigger things than the sculptures Saelid focused on--she wanted to help create buildings with glass that would not break, mixing magic and the process in a way that her brother does with his larger-scale creations. Of course, her capture and enslavement destroyed those plans. She lost a lot of her former interests in the name of fitting into the role of Lady Evaethi when called for, and while she still has a passing interest in architecture and its foundations she doesn't remember a lot of what she'd learned as a child. If she'd never been captured, she would have become a great glassmaker.