a lot of the comments on that stained glass post are really funny because they assume the horse was like, a serious attempt and not me going "ok I've never used these tools before, I'm going in with no plan and just fucking up half sqft of glass while i learn how the cutter and pliers work" and then assembling the resulting shards into something vaguely resembling a horse to get the rest of the process down in my pre research fuck around and find out phase of learning a new skill.
Also the soldering looks like shit because the articles i found in the 20 minutes i was buying the stuff to start all said "flux makes the soldering better" in really vague terms without actually like, explaining that it lowers the flow point of the solder and makes the copper foil more receptive to it. so i assumed it wasn't necessary and was just used for vague betterness reasons and didn't buy any until a few days later when I started properly researching how to do things and found out it's actual job and that it's absolutely vital to the process.
So the solder isn't actually fully bound to the tape on the horse and is just like, melted overtop it following the lines of the tape. there's a distinct oval shape where the sides of the bead are up and off the tape instead of the domed shape it's actually supposed to be.
I also hadn't bought a grinder at that point bc I'm cheap and wanted to find one lightly used on ebay and also i wanted to wait for my pay check so I'd have a Little extra wiggle room with the whole shebang before i dropped 70 bucks on a tool i might not enjoy using too much.
which is to say, the whale is the first actual attempt and not the horse.
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My homework for tonight: double-check the etymology of the name "Sibyl", cuz according to an initial search it used to refer to oracles
and I think it would be really funny to still inflict Visions And Omens on my Silly Big Weapon Guy. Literary predeterminate naming let's goooooooo
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you know i have like what 5 younger cousins and they cant all draw (although i think like 2 can) but they like making up stories and they r all very creative which i thought was kinda weird bc .
they r all very similar in that sense but also its not really weird bc i mean they are cousins so it makes sense that they are similar, but considering not all of them talk to each other, they somehow rubbed off on each other
so one day i was talking to one of them and then we started talking abt The Past and my cousin started reciting some of the stories i told him over Nearly like 2 decades ago which i Do Not Remember (when i was a kid i had a very active imagination, i would make up stories every day and tell my younger cousins bc i was in charge of taking care of them and uhh it got them to be quiet for a while💀)
and one thing led to another and then i realized that i may have been the cause of their overactive imaginations now .
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