cræftas and oðre þingas

They pulled two (red) but holy shit she's missing a lot (blue)

I made a really neat (imo anyway) trinket dish that looks like a bird wing, since a folded wing is a really nice cup-shape for a trinket dish, and I already want to make more, but when I went to glaze it I ran into a bit of a dilemma: the undersides of most bird wings are really boring.

Since I had started making this particular one while looking at a European roller, I went with that with underglaze, and we'll see how it went later this week.

Anyway, the easy solution to all birds except rollers having bland feathers under their wings is to just refer to what the top of the wings looks like. But my brain sees the shape of the thing and stubbornly insists that you cannot put the convex coloring on a concave shape, it'd look like you turned the poor bird's wing inside out

So I'm at a stalemate, which brings us to poll

LOOK AT THIS MAGNIFICENT GOTH-ASS SHIT

EGADDDDDDD

THE IRON-COPPER SOLUTION USED TO DYE THE PAGES WAS SO CORROSIVE THAT THERE ARE VERY FEW SURVIVING EXAMPLES

THESE BOOKS WERE LITERALLY TOO METAL TO LIVE

I sacrificed myself to save you. I didn't plan to survive. I burnt all the bridges. I intended to break your heart with my death, but that would be all right, because I wouldn't be around to see you. I pretended that you'll mourn me for a while and move on. I convinced myself I was going down in the blaze of glory. That my deed was appreciated. That everything was going to be all right afterwards, and I didn't need to be there to see it.

I made a really neat (imo anyway) trinket dish that looks like a bird wing, since a folded wing is a really nice cup-shape for a trinket dish, and I already want to make more, but when I went to glaze it I ran into a bit of a dilemma: the undersides of most bird wings are really boring.

Since I had started making this particular one while looking at a European roller, I went with that with underglaze, and we'll see how it went later this week.

Anyway, the easy solution to all birds except rollers having bland feathers under their wings is to just refer to what the top of the wings looks like. But my brain sees the shape of the thing and stubbornly insists that you cannot put the convex coloring on a concave shape, it'd look like you turned the poor bird's wing inside out

So I'm at a stalemate, which brings us to poll

You are stuck as a soldier in this historical war

(this is a magical universe where people who wouldn't usually be able to fight would. so you can all suffer.)