#it was only a half success
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always-a-slut-4-ghouls · 1 year ago
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I have this tea cup I made in highschool (it’s really cute and was designed more like those Japanese ones without a handle than it was those fancy English style with even more elements to them) but I never actually asked if the glaze we used was food safe (we all used the same glaze on those cups specifically because the teacher glazed those ones in particular and I don’t remember checking. I glazed and painted every other project but only one of them was something you would use for food and that thing broke a few years ago and was honestly more decorative) and this has haunted me ever since. It’s a super cute cup and I adore it, but I have no idea if I can use it for its intended purpose and while I could buy a lead testing kit I’m not sure how I would check for anything else that might have been in that glaze. I know the color used but not the brand, so that’s not really a help either. The teacher I had left the district after that year because our school district paid art teachers a shit wage and we rotated through them like elementary school kids needing new shoes every year. I’m not entirely sure how I would contact her, but even if I did track her down (something not entirely impossible from what I know about her life outside of teaching us for a year, I would feel slightly weird about it though, even though she was my favorite art teacher) but I highly doubt she would remember something like the glaze she used on one project her students made at a school she taught at for one year. I’m not sure what other testing kits I would need besides lead to confidently say it’s safe enough for my personal use, and it’s annoyed me for several years now.
#emma posts#it was peacock. peacock green I believe#and do you have any idea how many brands produce a peacock named glaze?#I could maybe narrow it down by looking for one that tended to be more forest green to dark blue#but that��s not really a great way to get a definitive answer#I also wish i could make more ceramic stuff right now! I’ve been hooked ever since yhat class#polymer clay sculpting isn’t quite the same (though better than nothing) and air dry clay often feels crumbly#neither of those could be used for cups and stuff#but even just making clay sculptures (my favorite) hits different with clay#I miss the smell and the feel and the way it worked#the closest I’ve gotten to the experience was digging up clay near my parents house and trying to fire it in the bonfire#it was only a half success#I tried to learn how ancient people made stone wear with raw clay and other materials added#but i just can’t seem to fire it the same way and it ends up slightly ashy on the surface from the soot#it’s also a bit more prone to cracking and I know I can’t expect the same as what it’s like working with the good stuff#and I know the clay on the farm is at least decent but not modern quality#also it doesn’t get fired all the way so if I get water on it it starts to dissolve a bit again#I should try to study ancient clay methods#it would be really fun to try to recreate some stuff in the area behind the lilacs#but it isn’t as good as modern clay#I’m getting really side tracked though#art problems#I wish I had an actual studio. I don’t see that happening any time soon though#my dream is to live on one of those houses in the woods north of town and have an art studio and room for more pets and gardens#i don’t think that’s ever gonna happen though#right now I’m just trying to figure out the local buses and stay in government housing#I can’t drive. I dropped out of college because of health problems. I’m living on disability and foodstamps. my health inssues make my#schedule and availability unreliable for a regular schedule#keeping up with the dishes is my worst enemy (aside from everything else)#i just don’t see myself doing much outside of my desk in the corner of my small living room any time soon
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bitchthefuck1 · 2 years ago
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At the end of the day, they're still just little kids making noise outside his office.
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blizardstar · 4 months ago
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Me when Ashton Greymoore is denied honorable and meaningful self-sacrifice, and now must face the reality that they MUST keep living after it’s All Over
#critical role#critical role spoilers#cr spoilers#ashton greymoore#bells hells#cr ashton#like#Tal and Ash were both so clearly ready#for Ashton to sacrifice themselves. and comparing that to Ashton’s backstory#to Ashton being left behind as a sacrifice. and becoming bitter(er) and lonely and denouncing ever growing close to someone again#to meeting letter. and learning from letters. and so much about telling letters not to self sacrifice.#but then letters does. and Ashton is ready to go to. he’s prepared to go out to save everyone#and he was so prepared for that to be where his story ends#but he doesn’t. and not through failure but through success#and now (though more trials still await) they must face the reality they must keep living after it all#and face the reality that they will not survive alone.#that they have come out the other side. alive but changed. but not in some miraculous way.#they are not healed. they did not go out protecting those they loved. and they are forced to contend#with the fact they will continue to walk this earth. as it is changed. but not miraculously fixed. but not sacrificed#and like. Ashton having to contend with the change. that the Thing is over. but they are not alone#they are alive. and have friends and a love. and a world familiar and new to love and learn#that they have a connection to but not an ancient force they are upholden to#that they and the earth will learn together#I’ll be honest only the first half of these tags was planned when I started typing about ash being forced to contend with having to live#having to live despite it all. that there’s no big change. no miracle. good or bad. but you must keep going. and how beautiful that is#for Ashton’s story and just in general for people who would resonate with him#but then like I remembered they’re gonna scare off the gods and so exandria is totally gonna change but like#consider my initial point and how beautiful it is#and how I managed to shoehorn it in to still make sense#babblestar
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fayzart136 · 5 months ago
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(Sometimes, the best way to express your appreciation for a piece of work is by doing some House of Leaves-shit. This posts features unreality, click the link if you are confused, intrigued or both.)
Source for all images: videography of Marissa Marcel
-------- Sources for the poem: Wikipedia articles used: Sculpture, Carving, Public art, Stone sculpture, Pottery, Glossary of Pottery terms, Resist, Pygmalion (mythology), Galatea (Mythology), Agalmatophilia, History of the nude in art, Nude (art), Book of Genesis, Clay, Clay Tablet. Songs: The Doll People by Sofia Isella, The Moon Will Sing by The Crane Wives, Catharsis by AlicebanD and Metaphor by The Crane Wives. --------------
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fealtyslut · 4 months ago
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let's all think about roman literally on his knees at gerri’s feet, begging to be saved. but you can’t be saved from Logan, that’s the whole point, he is a planet of a person he’s a black hole he is every decision already made. gerri tries to get him to see this — there’s no way out, no move they could possibly make against him, because Logan. always. wins. maybe if roman could give her one reason to fight for him, but there aren’t any. it’s pointless. it has nothing to do with roman, really, and everything to do with the harsh reality that Logan is the center of their universe. but all that nuance is completely lost on roman, because in that room he is seven years old again and always. and when she asks how it serves her interests, what she is saying is show me a way out, but what he hears is that she doesn't care about him. and maybe she never did.
#that was their real relationship shattering moment imo. can’t come back from that one if you never ever talk about it again#succession#romangerri#to be so clear: she cares. she cares so much it makes her look stupid. but she Is her job and that is her priority#but ALso when she says how does it serve my interests. we could also count him as one of her interests.#and how would it serve either of them if she gets fucking decapitated and frozen out and left to die. how could she do ANYTHING from there.#like yes i do think that she is also saying the plain text version of it - how does this benefit me personally. because it sure doesn't#but the power of the unconscious unspoken 'what benefits me includes you' whoooo now that. is crazymaking#if half of your two-person team just got financially and professionally obliterated. i probably would not follow him off that cliff#i think i would probably say wow your son is craaazy i totally support everything you're doing from a business angle.#even if it's a terrible interpersonal move and you WILL die alone.#like she could be (almost) completely honest and still keep his trust and her position. and then he's dead and who's next?#Gerri has a better understanding of Logan's impending death than maybe anybody. ESPECIALLY Logan. easy hill to die on because it is textual#she also doesn't grieve him at all and there are many reasons for that! but i think mostly it's that she saw it coming#only girlie besides tom who understood the concept of succession but like for real#okay done typing now#sp#i love my freakies okay leave me alone
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hell0mega · 1 year ago
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the most insane thing this year to me is that Tears of the Kingdom came out and was the only thing anyone could talk about and play for months. it was an engineering marvel and made all of us try to figure out how the fuck the programmers did it all. we made giant mechs and could fly across the map. you could glue shit together and hit stuff with it. the goat man was sexy. the world was huge and had three whole layers and a hundred hours of gameplay easy. it was slated to be regarded as one of the best games of all time and sold 18.5 million copies.
and it wasn't game of the year. it barely won anything. and all because of that cunty vampire.
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dreamerinsilico · 2 months ago
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Finally.
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sesamenom · 2 years ago
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co-high kings galadriel & celeborn
since elrond doesn't want the kingship, galadriel & celeborn are the eldest in middle-earth of the lines of Olwe and Elmo respectively. olwe is older but hes the king of the teleri not specifically doriath sindar so there might be some dispute between which line the sindarin high kingship jumps to, but they very conveniently happen to already be married and so can skip all that and just be twice the headache for sauron
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goneatlas · 3 months ago
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TURN YOUR WOLF'S EAR TO ME NOW okay you're listening? i made a jirv playlist. wait where are you going did you hear me i said—
(*rambling about the playlist in tags)
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rosetheocto · 1 month ago
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Can you draw Shrimp and Sharc-chan doing something together pls :>
I just kinda want to see your designs for both of them lol
…does Sharc-Chan being Shrimp’s biggest hater count as them doing something together? /silly
Sharc, honey, behavior like this is why Captain Afraid (most likely) broke up with you 😭
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also here’s an extra Shrimp doodle for @freakinflipflop :3
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#sorry if I mischaracterized Sharc-Chan in this x_x#(not like she had much character from the few times we’ve seen her through the years)#but Sharc canonically being Shrimp’s number 1 hater is so funny to me. girl that is a child get over yourself lmfao#at least Shrimp WAS in S2/ACNH (she’ll be around 19 when Tomodachi drops in 2026)#I imagine that Sharc and Shrimp are cousins so Sharc’s hatred with her is more personal#it already kinda IS in ACNH but like. that’s just cuz of 4th wall related stuff and like. Sharc doesn’t have it out for C!Fail or Dan really#she seems to only be going for them cuz that’s the easiest way to get Shrimp ‘out of her spotlight’#basically what i’m saying is: there’s gotta be more to Sharc’s reasoning for being a hater then ‘‘we’re similar species and she’s more#successful than I am grrrr’’ <- i hc Sharc to be half human half shark which is why she looks like that#I have more thoughts on Sharc-Chan and her relationship with Shrimp but I should save that for another post I think lmao#ANYWAY SHRIMP IS COOL AS HELL AND DESERVES TO BE HAPPY RAAAHHH#SHOUTOUTS TO SHRIMP FR‼️‼️‼️#I’ll admit I got a bit lazy with the shrimp doodle at the end but I still hope you like it!#I’m definitely gonna draw her more in the future lol#she’s fun to draw :0#never draw side profiles guys worst mistake of my life /hj#ask the octo#failtopia#failboat#failboat miitopia#rose’s super epic and cool art#failtopia shrimp#shrimp gill#sharc-chan#shrimp failboat#shrimp failboat miitopia#failboat miitopia shrimp#shrimp failtopia#failboat shrimp
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bookwyrminspiration · 10 months ago
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You’re definitely also fin
I did once try to make rainbow fire in my backyard for an assignment in hs after my teacher specifically told me not to because it was "too dangerous" or something equally ridiculous...
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fortune-maiden · 9 months ago
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Sometimes I still can’t help thinking about how Pei Xiu’s revised backstory makes him feel similar to HX (kind talented young man with abysmal luck working his hardest to save his family and things getting worse at every turn. And his family was already dead for years before he found out.)
(And of course the Shi Wudu parallel is still there, sacrificing others to save your loved one)
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can't believe an actual duck had to literally play cupid for lishu and single-dad basen the mother of jofu
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heroes-fading · 28 days ago
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just handwrote a 18 chapter sketch of the Kanthony political AU it's so joever for me
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rimouskis · 8 months ago
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the reality is I need to get the hell off of pinterest, because my apartment is lovely and uniquely put together and everyone who enters it compliments it on its decor (yes, yes I am going to hype up my humble, small apartment) and YET I look up after scrolling The Feed and immediately think "I need to change absolutely everything"
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helielune · 6 months ago
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powder keg (full under the cut)
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#wip success story!!#for a bit there i expected it to be a wip failure but i think we turned it around boys#arcane#arcane jinx#isn't it kinda cool how vi and powder don't. have last names. do vander or silco have last names#this thing has 49 layers and 1 of them is completely unrelated#approximately 8 of them are lineart#so it took 40 layers to color this.......#most of them are hidden too it's cuz i am so indecisive and afraid of messing stuff up so i just duplicate the layers and keep going#this is not a great art philosophy but it is what it is#eyestrain#my eyes got fucking STRAINED while working on this#but i love bright colors </3#the evidence of duplicating layers is in one of my shading layers called Layer5-1-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-1 or something like that#i went into overdrive lowkey bc i was like this Has to be finished before arc 3 (uhh very mild act 3/trailer spoilers to follow ig)#bc i Know her look changes and god knows i was NOT gonna erase those braids i painstakingly outlined (over a year ago)#it's the principle of the thing. i basically redrew half of it anyways but only because i could not stand it if i did not#i was already feeling like euhhhhhhhhhh abt the whole composition bc when i originally drew it it was kinda half based#around her league personality#so working on it now felt like it was just. Quite ooc for our current moment in the canon timeline#well. whatever. i think she looks cool enough. character notwithstanding. i just hope she is happy after saturday </3#jinx#jinx league of legends#felt like i should tag that on bc the personality thing lol.... lol#i just went through the jinx tag and reblogged a whole stream of super sentimental and super angsty jinx stuff#and now i am posting what i post best. moderately cool poses and mildly affective expressions :)#my art
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