Does this unit have a soul?

I had a vision

A necklace inspired by Ilmater. Oh if only I had the means to make this.

Oh wait a minute. I have free will.

I'm currently in the process of making this a reality!

I was really picky with the beads I wanted to use so I bought like, three of these from Walmart

bought myself some tools like jewelry pliers and eye pins and head pins and painstakingly strung them together with my amateur hands

beads are done. now all that's left is the amulet part.

it's a little rough looking, but hopefully will look better once it's fully dried, sanded, and painted. Then, I'm gonna coat it in resin, string it with the beads and attach a chain and BOOM. Handmade Ilmater necklace just for me bc I have not seen ANY good merch for Ilmatari stuff. So, god, I have to do Everything around here.

it gets better

Yarrow and Feverfew

'X-Men '97' by Mike McGee.

Officially licensed 18" x 24" giclee prints, in numbered Regular editions of 100 for $45 each; and a Foil Variant edition of 50 for $60 each.

British Captain Peter Easton (1750 - after 1620) was the terror of Newfoundland and was already known as an arch-pirate by the fishermen who stayed in the area in 1610. The pirates of that time considered Newfoundland an excellent place to equip and supply their ships. In addition to the abundance of food, drink and supplies during the fishing season, the 20,000 or so fishermen who manned the boats were an invaluable source of new recruits who were persuaded to join the pirates either by the promise of wealth or armed forces. Law and order did not exist in the rough fishing camps, which meant that a strong pirate could plunder and pillage at will without fear of reprisals from civil or military forces.

This was also the case when Easton raided Harbour Grace in 1612 and stole five ships, 100 weapons and other items worth ten thousand pounds. He also ‘recruited’ another 500 crewmen and took various prisoners, including Sir Richard Whitbourne, who at the time was busy losing his considerable fortune in the effort to colonise the island. Whitebourne, however, proved to be unlike any prisoner Easton had ever encountered, and so denigrated the pirate’s life during his eleven weeks’ imprisonment that Easton finally relented, as he asked him to return to England “to some of his friends and beg them to become humble petitioners to the King for his pardon”.

Whitbourne was more the happy and renounced the pirate’s offer to make him rich. Easton decided to take his time in returning to England to give Whitbourne the opportunity to pardon Easton.

What he then learned was that Easton had already been pardoned in 1612, but that he could not be found. This pardon had been issued to chase Easton out of the area because he was disrupting trade there.

Easton decided to use this waiting time wisely by going to the Azores and intercepting a Spanish treasure fleet. With his 14 ships now loaded with booty, he cruised off the coast of Barbary waiting for news of his pardon. When he finally decided that the pardon thing wasn’t working out, he sailed to another pirate favourite, Villefranche. He brought his booty ashore (estimated at two million in gold), bought himself a magnificent palace and lived out the rest of his life in wealth and luxury, the first of many rich people to retire on the Côte d'Azur.