#prong setting

[fernyfarms]

It's not the cleanest wrap I've ever done (or the most stable), but I'll call it a good first attempt at a wire-wrapped prong setting. It'll ultimately be a pendant, I think, but I wanted to practice first, and rings are relatively quick.

[huiyitan]

Stone Setting Tool Making, Making Prong Setting Tool from Setting Bur

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy very belated birthday.. I hope you had much time celebrating by digging for tubers : )

I'M DIGGING FOR TUBERS! AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME!

[lovestory]

Keep getting distracted at work because WOW…. She’s simply everything

[19orionis]

I fucking love thrifting/vintage shopping while butch I swear all my favorite pieces that aren't band shirts are from either local places or Literally Goodwill

[brocantevintage]

[melaecrit]

[yourcoffeeguru]

Vintage CORO Stamped Aurora Rhinestones Clip On Earrings Prong-set Faceted || SWtradepost - ebay

[liquidstar]

WOW I FINALLY FINISHED THIS SET. There were a lot of things I wanted to get right for them so I took some extra time but hopefully it was worth it! The guild for this set is Cobalt Heart- a guild with focus on maritime missions, lead by (of course) guildmaster Neptune. There was no other planet I could've picked for his namesake lol. They're the guild I jokingly call the most jockish, but some moreso than others. I really do hope I did all the characters justice, but if you wanna know more about the individual members, it's under the cut as usual!

Name: Neptune

Name Origin: The planet named for the god of the ocean

Pronouns: He/him

Age: 52

Guild rank: Guildmaster

Weapon: Trident

Ethos (Power): Ocean wave (Control over water- stronger with sea water)

Flaw power is based on: Originally based on his overly relaxed go-with-the-flow nature, but since becoming a father and guildmaster he's matured, and his power grew from simple wave control to more powerful control over the ocean's water. Waves aren't always peaceful, but he's become someone who understands their power and the responsibility needed for it.

Notes: If it's unclear, the marks on his chest are meant to be top surgery tattoos, but in cool wave shapes!

Name: Triton

Name Origin: Neptune's moon, aptly named for his son

Pronouns: He/they

Age: 24

Guild rank: 4 star

Weapon: Twin sai

Ethos (Power): Ocean breath (Underwater breathing as well as other aquatic adaptions)

Flaw power is based on: His ardent wanderlust, especially in regards to the ocean. They literally cannot leave it alone despite any possible better reasoning, which is when it becomes a problem.

Notes: Was his other parent a mermaid or did they just do the fish thing on their own? The world may never know.

Name: Otrera

Name Origin: A trojan asteroid named after the queen of the Amazons

Pronouns: She/her

Age: 32

Guild rank: 5 star

Weapon: Brass knickles

Ethos (Power): Preflexes (Hightened reflexes)

Flaw power is based on: Her overly-guarded and cagey nature.

Notes: But her brass knuckles are pink so its quirky when she knocks your teeth out.

Name: Naos

Name Origin: A star whose name means "ship"

Pronouns: He/him

Age: 21

Guild rank: 3 star

Weapon: Modified crutches

Ethos (Power): Helm (He can change the direction of inanimate objects. It's not limited to projectiles, he can change the direction of objects while they're in someone's hand too.)

Flaw power is based on: His avoidant tenancies, especially where more serious responsibility is concerned.

Notes: Honestly? Joined the guild to boost his playboy status.

Name: Aitne

Name Origin: One of Jupiter's moons, named after the personification of Mount Etna, a stratovolcano

Pronouns: They/them

Age: 27

Guild rank: 4 star

Weapon: Spiked gauntlets and armor

Ethos (Power): Molten Core (Lava manipulation)

Flaw power is based on: Their brash and destructive nature.

Notes: Likes all their food to be charred.

Name: Ariel

Name Origin: A moon or Uranus, named after an air spirit!

Pronouns: She/her

Age: 16

Guild rank: 2 star

Weapon: Baton

Ethos (Power): Harmony (Perfect balance on anything)

Flaw power is based on: Her own difficulty maintaining emotional balance under stress

Notes: She's a gymnast! And even though I didn't make the character named "Ariel" a mermaid, you can still see a scale pattern in her leotard!

Name: Maru

Name Origin: A white dwarf whose name means "Sky." It's orbited by the planet Ahra.

Pronouns: She/her

Age: 18

Guild rank: 3 star

Weapon: Claymore sword

Ethos (Power): Sky walking (She is capable of interacting with air as if it were a tangible object, creating leverage for herself to walk and balance on as if it were solid)

Flaw power is based on: Her somewhat vain tendency to place herself above others

Notes: Complete and utterly confident she's the cooler twin

Name: Ahra

Name Origin: A exoplanet whose name means "Ocean." It orbits the star Maru.

Pronouns: She/her

Age: 18

Guild rank: 3 star

Weapon: Claymore sword

Ethos (Power): Wave riding (Creation and control of tidal waves to ride on, as if she was surfing them with no board. But she does have to be on them.)

Flaw power is based on: Her arrogance and recklessness

Notes: Completely and utterly convinced she's the cooler twin.

Name: Pipoltr/Pip

Name Origin: A star named for "a bright and beautiful butterfly."

Pronouns: Whatever really?

Age: 8

Guild rank: 1 star

Weapon: Giant lollipop

Ethos (Power): None yet!

Flaw power is based on: N/A. This doesn't mean they're flawless, but until their power develops they're really just here to go on fun little adventures.

Notes: This child hangs around with sailors all day long. The words they know....

[stochastiz]

so we all know:

venus ♀ = woman mars ♂ = man

and there are lots of (both 'official' and unofficial) trans and nonbinary/ambiguous options out there:

⚧, ⚥, ⚨ , ☿, and many many others that don't have unicode representations

but i just came across an agender symbol that i really like:

null/empty set ∅ = agender

∅, called a null or empty set, is a mathematical symbol that denotes a set that contains no elements (∅ = { })

i do not contain the values of the gender binary

[mrs-trophy-wife]

[arctic-hands]

Life Tip: never throw anything out bc one day you're going to need an extra pair of wired earphones even if only one side is working but you cleaned out your junk drawer and threw them away 😡

[daughterofsarenrae]

Tfw ur house doesnt have heating so u have to dress up in ur renfest chemise & dress & cloak bc its the warmest thing u have

[cowvboyenema]

[jrueships]

ja trying so hard to be '# hood' and now everyone's talking about wanting to dom him ummm i know this is karma but this was not the expected kinda irony i saw coming 😭

[astrophysicistnotastronaut]

headcanon htuesday

After the second war, chocolate frogs cards were made about every single person who died in the battle of Hogwarts, and students would try and collect the ones from their house to pin up on the wall in their common room. This eventually gets so popular that they expand it to just everyone who died in the wars (not death eaters ofc), including a special muggle series, and people could write in to get their dead relatives on a card (bc soo many ppl died, the chocolate frog company wouldn’t know them all). So yeah this makes me infinitely happy?