Notices by Nora Reed (nora@blob.love), page 2

hey um if you need something to focus on rather than this shit, "Worlds of Exile and Illusion", a compilation of the first 3 books in Ursula Le Guin's Hainish Cycle, just came out in a new audio version today

don't go throwing people whose votes are suppressed under the bus because they live in the south. christ.

i put a bunch of labels on my husband's desk for him to prepare and they were in a neat little accordion stack and when i let go of them the stack exploded. it was a pretty good physical comedy moment but maybe you had to be there

my favorite part of the sponsored holiday gift program is imagining people looking at themselves in the mirror and feeling nice about how they look with their new shiny. my second favorite part is seeing the usernames of people who are participating on the giver or receiver side

i don't want to out anybody for privacy reasons or spoil any surprises but it tickles me every time i can send a nice gift to someone named like bonglord69 because of a sponsorship from lilfurryfuck. i made those up but that's the spirit

i think i can do a trans jewelry grants program in a similar way to how people do community copies on itchio and in the same spirit

is everyone in the lighthouse cooking in shifts or something though. there's a ton of crates of food just around

anyway i did a personal quest that involved grocery shopping and it was much better than any previous bioware grocery shopping quests. im looking at you, andromeda

in origins you find a bunch of food in redwall castle but it's either curing meat hanging up or various breads and fish and the like put directly on tables without plates

it has never been clear to me how the fuck food works in thedas

you only know this if you side with the templars in inquisition but you can go through their entire fortress and the only food you find is sheaves of wheat and pumpkins. usually there's just not any food around at all. the only people who i was satisfied were getting a balanced diet in the previous 3 games are the avvar

in what circumstance are you only eating preserved food for months at a time in dragon age. they can't be going on long sea voyages without resupply can they? there's not other continents. there's just thedas and the qunari island

it's very interesting that the dragon age world knows about scurvy. when exactly does that come up

i don't want to put this in the main thread but you don't need to follow me to get stuff in the giveaway if you don't want to and if you do follow me i will probably be alternating between us politics despair and dragon age jubilation for at least a month and a half. i do post process kiln pics tho

NEW THREAD FOR JEWELRY GIFTS FOR TRANS PEOPLE THING.

Hi everyone. I'm Nora. I'm a jeweler. I want to give trans people who wouldn't normally get anything for the holidays this year something nice that I made, by giving them gift cards to my shop. If that's you, read on. (Please also share this.)

my philosophy on jewelry is that anyone can wear anything they want but i think for 2025 i will try to figure out how to make more masculine jewelry

a lot of masculine jewelry really sucks so it'll be a fun challenge

i do already do jewelry that's generally worn by men (I'm out of bolos but do make them when I have time and I do cufflinks) but it's just societal convention that associates collared shirts with masculinity

i am not sure how to do masculinity in fused glass but i can start with color

i don't want any of my jewelry to feel like it's limited to a specific gender or presentation but i think people masculine of center deserve better accessories than they get from fucking "manly rings"