Item: Ring of Level Checking; the wearer may place their hand on any surface to determine what angle it sits at, or on a creature to determine what level it is.
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#jewellery #puns #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Hey, I had a few questions about this as I was planning on getting it as a gift for a friend. I was wondering if it was a solid or adjustable band and how well it’d fit on a 6in wrist if you knew? Thank you if you get to this
It’s solid, you would need tools to adjust its size. It does not bend easily. I don’t know how big my wrist is but it’s pretty dang skinny. It’d probably be fine?
Both to @psych-is-the-name and to @vaspider – you’ve had your bracelets for 2-3 months now, would you mind telling me if the print is still intact (especially if you’ve worn it a lot)? I’m thinking of getting the bracelet, but not if the print is bad quality.
I have had mine for about 3 months now and it’s still in a perfect condition even with me banging it against metal machines in work all the time. The fact that it’s a solid piece of metal however doesn’t stop you from reshaping it a little. And yes, it takes aome serious effort, but i had squished mine using my hands alone to fit me better. It’s actually kind of funny how small that gap is now yet i can still put it on and off with ease.
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#what a world we live in #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #(sort of) #jewellery #Ea nasir #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
The last of my Renaming Day gifts to arrive (well, other than the paperwork itself) – a tritium pendant, radioactive enough to be a light source but not enough to present any harm to me
Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon
There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don’t have the time to unpack all that
not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself “man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce”
another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond’s 2.419 and here is the difference
and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less
Also it’s just cool to think of some mad scientist lookin person doing shit against the law of the universe and making pretty gems for you. Like cmon. This shouldnt be allowed probably. But humans really be like on gOD i want some shiny an just started MAKIN em
for years people wanted alchemy, well now we have alchemy and we’re making gemstones out of it and suddenly “it doesn’t count” anymore
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#…there’s something interesting here about the clash between gems-as-decorative-shinies and gems-as-store-of-value #if you were wearing jewellery because it was beautiful then increased availability is an improvement #but if you were wearing jewellery to display wealth‚ and jewellery becomes cheap‚ then it ceases to fulfil its function #more sympathetically‚ if you used to take comfort in the idea that if you ever hit financial rock bottom #–(and‚ especially‚ if you were ever cut off from access to the local financial system)– #you’d be able to get by through pawning your jewellery‚ and jewellery becomes cheap‚ you’ve lost that safety net #(a safety net your ancestors and/or past selves paid good money for‚ money now wasted) #((a few months back I had my mom help me go through the jewellery I’ve accumulated as gifts over the decades #and figure out which ones are valuable and which ones are costume)) #((I store the valuable ones separately from the others so that I can grab the container and run)) #((because silver is a better trade good than steel even if they’re equally shiny)) #((the world is full of stories of refugees who got the starting funds for a new life by selling the jewellery they wore when they escaped)) #I know a whole lot of people place a whole lot more value on decoration than I do #so I expect cheap gemstones are still *net* good #but I see the downsides here #tag rambles #jewellery #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #adventures in human capitalism #proud citizen of The Future #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #death tw? #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what
controversial personal finance opinion: if you have enough wealth you should own some physical gold
financialized gold has most of the downside of real gold and also none of its special upside, so not that
gold does not, as a rule, gain in value, and it’s vulnerable to theft, but it also does not, as a rule, lose in value, and also the rest of your assets are vulnerable to theft too. gold might have a higher risk but diversification is still valuable
in the event you lose access to your financials and have to leave – maybe not likely, but not impossible, apparently something like 1% of humans in 2021 are or have been refugees – gold jewelry particularly is both portable enough you can take it and universally recognized as valuable enough you can trade it. just don’t get it in your teeth
*Is* this controversial, even in the broad form stated here?
I kind of figured that there was broad agreement that there exists *some* level of wealth at which diversification into gold is worth pursuing (for the reasons you give), but that different people’s estimates of what that wealth level is vary by orders of magnitude, and some people would put enough forms of philanthropy above gold on the to-do list that in practice no one would ever reach the gold stage given our world’s current amount of philanthropic fruit to be picked.
(I’m not sure where I would place the threshold: I think it’s probably somewhere feasible to reach, but far enough beyond where I am now that it’s not urgent for me to figure out the specifics.)
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#probably I should obtain a clearer sense of which pieces of our current jewellery collection are costume and which are valuable #and know how to grab the valuable ones quickly #seems like a good short-term action #reply via reblog #adventures in human capitalism #jewellery #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers
Item: Necklace of Faces; each frame is a screen that connects to the Land of the Dead, through which the spirits are able to see and hear what is going on in the mortal world. Most necklaces just have the one screen, usually a loved one or important person, but there’s no reason to limit. This person might be showing their life to their extended family, or maybe they were hired by the survivors of some awful killer or catastrophe to extract revenge on behalf of the victims.
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#story ideas I will never write #death tw #art #jewellery #scopophobia
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