Posts made by Crawfish

@meg it was SO GOOD.

@meg Not as good as dirty talk on the dance floor.

@sunny How do I make the images smaller though?! X_X

OKAY these are the last ones for a while. A created ruby pendant with a tiny little Ethopian jelly opal briolette; the latter is tiny because they are expensive and stupid fragile. Sterling silver. Also I'm sorry these images are so huge. I don't now how to put them behind a cut

@sunny I'll try to snap a picture of the lady wearing them tomorrow.

@surreality OMG thank you for letting me know! I was reading 'natural' and I'm like, holding them in my hands, wondering if they're cast lead glass or something. They're dense and heavy, the edges on them rounded like they've been polished, but if they've been exposed to enough heat, that's a possibility on how those edges have been worn down, if they weren't also tumbled. Yay! Today I learned! Also, thank you for your kind words, my stuff ranges all over the place, these were meant to be earthy, rough-and-tumble, post-apocalyptical-fantasy-world type pieces. I just hope the author approves, these were a nice challenge; making custom-fit silver settings for crystals is -always- interesting.

Sometimes I get to make cool stuff based on someone's writing. This set is based on an event that happens in a friend's novel, a woman and her lover escape to a city who's magical lights are run on blue crystals. She smashes a lantern and takes the crystal shards, having both fashioned in to single earring for her and a pendant for him.

These were made in trade in exchange for services, the other earring is extra as the hooks themselves can be used on other charms. I couldn't just give her ONE extra earring hook with nothing on it? All of it is sterling silver, the crystals are blue aura quartz which I'm not completely convinced are any kind of natural, and the little gem on the extra earring is a blue moonstone.

I hate diamonds. I really hate diamonds. Any other stone, or moissanite, I'll do it, especially the latter.

This is my first time setting a created diamond. It's gorgeous, I feel better about using it, but its a present for my stepmother and I'm super excited about it and can't post it on my normal media.

SHINY, no?

When people follow along with my potentially serious, definitely life-changing (for the character) scene and let me make it hilarious and come with me on the hilarity.

WHAT.

@deathbird The Drawer of Lost Things.

SquishyfacemcGiggles!

Ah, Tapestries. Yeah. I used to sandbox there a thousand years ago (2001 to 2015? Off and on?) PM if you wanna trade names, see if we knew each other. Welcome back! Some good games around here!

This is good timing, I'm spending the whole day with my in-laws. These will work great.

I wake up and I'm Josie. Does that count?

@zombiegenesis My kids asked to watch it, it popped up on Netflix. I braced myself for the worst. I was happily surprised, I EVEN GOT THE REFERENCES, it was so great. And the music, totally well timed and spot on. I was impressed. And sad about the snowballing angst that probably gave it a bad rep.

I don't care what anyone says. The 2017 Power Rangers Movie was GREAT, and the soundtrack was BANGERANG. GRR.

Is this the right thread for this

@tinuviel Deets. Also that's a good way to play it off: "hahahahahahaguys I'm just being ironic"

@buttercup As far as the hobby and explaining it to someone, I recently had to do this to my therapist (don't laugh) as a basis for explaining relationships in my past that had effected me and where I am now. Using the comparison to correspondence through letters when that was one of the only ways to communicate long-distance, and how people developed feelings through that medium, she understood the concept very quickly, and our conversations on the topic flow pretty easily; she gets it. I was actually pretty nervous going in to that conversation, but I was encourage by friends that the only way I could get better was to tell her the truth, and not alter or shift it around to put myself in a better (saner?) light.

It was great advice, I don't regret that.

As for time and relationships from MUing, the hobby can be a foundation for many, many overlapping interests, particularly in storytelling. Branching out from that can generally be successful, you can pull it into real life and into a real life relationship with effort and consideration, but the success varies. Thinking about what is more important, the story or the relationship (the real one) can also impact where things go. That sounds strange, but I've seen it happen.

As far as time? I spend a lot of time waiting for things in my day to day, and a lot of time idling online while I go about my business, so to that I say it's about balance and not getting obsessed, just like any other interest or hobby, and if you're dwelling on it and your time in it is affecting your life negatively, you need to assess what you want from the hobby and if you can manage it in a healthy way. Otherwise, shit falls apart and that's no good for you or your family or your friends or even the other people who play the game.

All my opinion, based on observations and experience. My perspective is definitely not the only one.

@botulism said in Horror MUX:

@seraphim73 Not sure? I made 54. That's a lot. I'm sure there will be turnover, too.

@sincerely There will be logs, yeah. May work something out for watching, too.

YAAAAAY!