stillsostrange

My beloved Sigrdrifa, Victory Blizzard, former holmgang champion and fighter of dogs, is doing very poorly. Her kidneys are giving out, and the vet is noncommittal about her prognosis. But she's only 12, and I love my cat, and fuck this terrible year, so I'm going to do what I can to let her come home and be happily cantankerous again, at least for a while.

Because I would like to pay off these vet bills while Siggy is still alive, I refer you to Still So Strange Studios. Everything there is still at last year's holiday discount price.

I've also purchased many beautiful necklaces from elisem over the years. Many of them have given me stories, but too many have been languishing in my jewelry box for years, not spreading delight in the world as they should. So with their maker's blessing, I'm now offering them to new homes. I purchased most of them on sale or through the Artist Challenge program, so I'm passing those savings on to you. (Also, silver has tarnished over the years. I'll polish them as best I can before I send them on, but they may never sparkle quite as bright.)

"Big Bad Frog Witch" (Recent photo) $90

"Doll With a Ghost In It". 153 inches long, and full of stories. (Recent photos) $130

"The Etiology of Angst In Angels, Volume II", sandcast glass, mother of pearl, glass, dyed shell, moonstone, aquamarine, mysterious recycled bead and spacers, sterling silver. About 52 inches long. (Recent photo) $90 SOLD!

"Somewhere In The Sky", glass, labradorite, picasso jasper, moss agate, various stones; someone described this as neo-Victorian mourning jewelry, which has a good bit of truth to it. (Current photos) $100

"Summer-Colored Where The Bones Shine Through" I don't have the original description of this. It's long, and full of things. I can measure it if anyone's interested. Current photos) $130 SOLD!

If you're interested, please email me at exoblivione AT gmail DOT com. I have PayPal and Google Wallet, or we can work something out. Shipping is $10 (including insurance) in the US and $15 for Canada. For overseas sales I'll calculate shipping as needed.

I don't have the original cards for most of these, but I'll recreate them to the best of my ability.

My jewelry not-a-Kickstarter is going remarkably well. It's nearly 90% funded with over a month to go*. I've placed my first supply order, and will do another next week. These purchases include PEARLS, because two of those have already been claimed. So if you want Savedra's pearls, jump on that last set quickly.

But with over a month left, I might as well make stretch goals or new perk options or whatnot? Any suggestions? Things you would like to see created or things you think would be good enticement for random passersby?


* Tell my baby sister not to do as I have done, and pay more attention to the fine print with these sorts of things. All credit card contributions will be tied up until the end of the campaign, so some orders must wait until the whole two months are up. Grumph.

My lack of LJing is venturing from slothful to truly sad. A large part of it is the absence of regular writing happening in Amandaland, which both leads to fewer metrics to post and a moderate case of bookless depression on my part. I don't enjoy bookless depression, and it's especially frustrating because the cure is obvious, but sometimes elusive.

Does anyone have any good writing memes, or feel like entering into a mutually assured destruction blogging pact? I need motivation, and small achievable goals. Otherwise my main source of content is going to become fitness posts, and I'm not sure those interest more than three people. (But if they do, let me know. I'll take what I can get.)

Does anyone know anything about cruiser yachts, specifically motor yachts?

So, a) over the past month I've become completely smitten with Avatar: The Last Airbender*, and b) I turned over the TV to the childer tonight with two-thirds of the series finale left to watch. This virtue pains me, and makes it hard to concentrate on the chapter I'm rewriting. I keep getting distracted by googling pictures of June and Mai. Not June/Mai yet, but this virtue can't last forever.

Think I could Kickstarter enough money to hire the animation team to make an adaptation of The Bone Palace? If not, I'll be reduced to begging for fanart of Mai, June, and Isyllt kicking ass in barfights and drinking tea**.



* It may come as no surprise that Uncle Iroh is my one true love. And yeah, I totally cried at the Mako tribute episode.

** THAT IS A HINT, people.

Is anyone on my f-list from, in, or familiar with the greater Vancouver area, and willing to answer weird or silly questions?

I am not cutting and running any time soon, but does someone have a Dreamwidth invitation I can use?

I am now stillsostrange on Dreamwidth as well, if anyone wants to add, follow, 'friend me, or whatever it is they do over there.

You guys are awesome. I have named all the previous things, based on your suggestions. (Emperor Nizam II; the Teeth of Heaven; the Silent Council [it's ironic--they're not very quiet]; and I'm using the k.)

Now for round 2, which takes us through Chapter 14, or halfway through the book.

1. One of Isyllt's aliases.

2. This world's analogue to the Romani, who are faux-Hebraic in origin.

3. The fortress/town where my not-the-Cathar heretics hang out.

4. A distributary of the River Ash, and the marsh it feeds into.

I'm trying to learn the Arabic word for beekeeper, and my Google-fu is failing me. I can convince the internets to translate the word for me, but not transliterate it. I tried doing so myself, but I'm weak when it comes to non-Latin alphabets.
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Can anyone transliterate مربي نحل

Is that even the right word?