Mr.Crow

TELL ME WHY WITH YOUR FIRST MESSAGE

Fucking excuses me

We can't have this shit happen getting closer to a HUMAN GRAVE because some fucking children with adult bodies got upset over some fake elf in a mediocre movie ts is fucking pathetic

Put the power line in the pile of rocks this disgraceful example of the human race misattributes to something of value Dobby the house elf no matter how beloved he is just a character which is not something inherently valuable the way a human is

a big part of what makes us human is our evaluation of our brothers and sisters that anyone is worth something merely for the fact that they are human and that gives them value

"In the end, he said, “we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby’s grave”.

The Bronze Age remains include urns associated with human burial."

to risk disruption of a human grave for a forgery of life surely this must be a joke that we humans have fallen so far below even a imaginary beast we made and killed for entertainment for such a truly inconsequential Life to take the stage over a human's is to spit in the eye of all the people that spend their whole lives working hard to see tomorrow in a world where living to the next day could be seen as a luxury

This is an afront to the very Foundation of humanity that carried us to today The safeguarding of entertainment should never take place over history, and learning and it especially should never take place over the life of another being much less, one that is our equal tho far more likely our better.

oh god, I'm sitting next to explosive barrels.

The easiest thing I ended up making was a little name tag I stamped a friend's name into as a gift for them. The hardest thing I ended up making is a bit of a toss up. I made what is to me, rather complicated bracelet. I also made a chain and a box with a hinge and latch. And for reference, the box was only difficult because it was super fucking tiny, like so small I kept losing the parts of it and having to remake them because I couldn't fucking see them without my glasses. It came out pretty well, though. I'd say it's about 3 tablespoons of usable space. It seals pretty tightly, and the latch is strong enough that you can't shake it open. You need to unclip it.My mother recently went on a road trip to Morro Bay. This is quite different from the hellscape desert we live in. She brought back a chunk of a shell that I affixed to the lid with some metal tabs. I did my best to stamp an ocean-y texture around it. I've got nothing but compliments on it, so that's fun.

Oh yeah, something that these classes have made me realize is that I am fucking awful about taking pictures. I keep making all this cool shit and then don't take any pictures until it's either done and at my house, or someone happens to message me about it while I'm working on it. So, I keep talking to people about these wonderful things that I'm making and asking them what they want me to make, and I'm like, just trust me, bro. I'm doing cool shit, which, I guess, that's what I'm doing here, because I don't have any fucking photos. I'll post what I have, but it's not much.

Oh yeah, the jewelry teacher also really likes me because I am a huge fan of rivets. The first project we did was a cutout of our state that we were supposed to do an overlay on. I kind of knew what I was doing already. Like I said, I've been wanting to do this for years, so I've done an amount of research into it, I won't specify what amount.

But for my project, I ended up doing like a 4-layer pendant and I used some of our silver solder to silver-plate a few of the features by boiling out the tin under the acetylene torch. And half of it was held together by rivets that she did not give any instruction on and I did quite poorly, but just well enough to hold the thing together.So, anyways, yeah, me and her were fast friends.

And she's been doing this for a while and had the college learning experience. So it's really interesting hearing some of her stories. Apparently for a long while they're this class used actual silver for decades and decades. It's rather recent that they switched to copper. But they would just drive out to mining towns and order the silver wholesale. Which I kind of love the idea of but also I don't know how many mining towns are left that refine precious metals on site. She talks a lot about how her education was very different than the way she is teaching us. Our classroom is pretty small and while it has enough tools to get us by, we are definitely missing a lot of the niceties that a more modern college would have, and she is not shy to talk about that. Another thing is that we only have access to the equipment during class, unless we take our own tools home. We don't have any time to practice outside of class the way she did. Her education focused a lot more on the practical skill sides of things than the try to have fun with it way she is doing the class. With how she is teaching it, it is very much a, you need to make this and it has to have these four things and outside of that do whatever the fuck you want. The way she was taught was , make this thing and this thing exactly. You will get points off for everything that is different between yours and the original. So, it's a lot of fun hearing how her education shaped the decisions she's making with our class.

She is also very talented. She has been doing it for decades so it makes sense, but she can cut out, stamp, form, solder, clean up and finish a piece in about a quarter of the time it takes us to. And a lot of that is just she is not having to think about the steps as much, she already knows what to do, but it feels kind of like magic because I am on the other end of the classroom. I will walk by to get a drink and see her cutting a fresh sheet of copper, get back to my desk, come up three hours later, and she is almost done with a pendant and it is wildly impressive.

Another thing I really like about her is that she is a big advocate for jewelry being practical and durable. To prove her point, she brought out some 100% silver rings that were made some point in the 90s. I can't remember when she told us, like a month ago. But she pointed out how on this ring, putting aside bezels, the lowest gauge for the silver was 18. And then she brought out a newer silver ring that used 22-gauge silver for a lot of the decorative elements and talked about how, while yes, it's cheaper and easier to work with sometimes, it's a lot more fragile and won't last as long if worn daily. And I fucking love that shit. It's always pissed me off, especially in my own jewelry, when something is like impossible to clean or has a million and one edges so it catches on every damn thing. It's one of the reasons I'm so picky with what I wear. I like to keep my jewelry nice, and if I can't keep it nice, I'm not going to wear it, so it stays nice.

Another thing that makes me incredibly happy is that the only thing I've seen set in a non-bezel are stones at least the size of the final knuckle on my pinky. I get irrationally upset about tiny stones on rings being held in with prongs instead of a bezel. Logically, I know it's fine, but in my head, I'm going, that hook is going to catch on a jacket or scarf, and that stone is going to be lost forever.And that's just not a problem if you bezel-set things. There's nothing to get caught, unless you're using a fancy bezel. But even then, it's 30 prongs versus 4. I think the 30 prongs is a lot more durable, and in my opinion, it's much prettier. I love seeing jewelry that mix's the metal and stone, rather than just using the metal to show off the stone.

I just got 500 ft of chain

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Also the beast keeps attacking