Five Goblins Pottery

[fivegoblins]

So, it's been a crazy few months, which is why my poor Tumblr has languished. I did my first renaissance fair, my first Viking Festival, and about to do my first blockbuster LARP. I have been trying to get out midweek kilns and I still ran out of Gotland cups at the Faire.

I'm carving dragon lanterns for Drachenfest US and I really wanted to share this one in process.

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It came out of the kiln and I am so in love. I will make more of these, because everyone needs a star to wish on sometimes.

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This lantern is currently in the kiln for its first firing. I will hopefully have a fully glazed and finished version of it to post by like Saturday, but I am impatient and posting it now in a WIP state because I can and none of you can stop me. Mwah-hahahaha.

Also I am really excited about it. It means that whoever owns it will always have a star to wish on.

[fivegoblins]

So, I promise that I make things other than mugs with mushrooms and snails on them but y'all just really love them. This is the mug where I forgot to leave a place for the handle -- what do you think of my placement??

[tojustforart]

Wild how the queer community has been fighting tooth and nail for generations to have some semblance of inclusion and just the desire to not be beaten, arrested, or killed for existing.

Then there is less than 10 years of policies put in place to help us start being treated more humanely and the Conservative party is like “Actually we rather you die again” openly and proudly.

Wild how allowing ppl to live has made them so angry and more open about their fascism.

Meanwhile half of the younger queers online are too preoccupied with terminology and gatekeeping fandom engagement while our country actively works to eradicate the community honing social media to propagate propaganda.

[tojustforart]

It is going to sound mean and im not gonna sugarcoat it:

Telling other lgbtqia members that using the term “queer” is problematic and bad is more aligned with conservative’s views of hiding and destroying queerness. When you get that gatekeeping towards your own community you are making it easier to break us apart.

[fivegoblins]

I was a young bisexual woman in the mid 90's, and there were serious discussions via zines and Usenet and in LGBT spaces about whether or not the word "queer" could be reclaimed and if it should be. I was very against "queer" back in the day because it had never been anything but a word to hurt me. Thirty years on I now use queer happily, and one of my primary takeaways from living through that time is that words don't matter as much as solidarity. Go ahead and spend three hours on Tumblr debating whether or not people inside our community should use specific words, but if someone from outside the LGBTQIA+ community comes for any of us, we must link arms and defend each other so we can go back to arguing semiotics later. Don't accept people dropping out of the block because they got theirs (looking at you, gay Republicans), keep solidarity for as long as it takes for all of us to be safe.

[fivegoblins]

Lanterns in my drying room dreaming of the fires to come.

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Fsck me, I finished carving this mug before I realized I hadn't left a good place for the handle. Do I make it a tumbler or cover something up? What can be covered? Arrrrgh!

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The sun finally came out!! Today allowed me to get some pictures of these mugs before they go off to their new home. I like to shoot my wares in strong sunlight whenever I can, because I feel like my glazes are more photographable that way. Our eyes are so much more sensitive to nuance than even the best camera, and indoor light is so flat. Just look at how luscious the individual shots are. 😍😍

[fivegoblins]

I have been playing around with altering forms lately, and I love this trio of tumblers (tumblrs?). At 4oz, 6oz, and 10oz I think they're a perfect set of sizes for drinks (alcoholic or non-). I'm definitely going to make a few more sets of these.

For my ceramics nerds, are y'all interested in knowing what glazes/bodies I am using? I love it when people say what glaze they use, but I don't know if I am a weirdo like that.

[nymla]

Once upon a time I coiled a few garnskålar aka yarn bowls. Coiling is very relaxing and I highly recommend it. 🌿 Two of them are available at nymla.se/shop :}

[fivegoblins]

I always stand in utter awe of coil handbuilders. My coils are lumpy, uneven, and honestly trash -- it's only on the wheel that clay sings for me. These yarn bowls are a whole chorus.

[swoopyswish]

i love when random tumblr users find my blog and go through it liking and reblogging everything in a frenzy, it feels like i’ve been cultivating a nice backyard with a lovely birdbath and feeder and i’ve glanced out the window to see a bird going absolutely wild with it

[terrifiedtwinning]

I love getting a hundred notes from one person, like, hello friend thank you for appreciating my collection, enjoy your stay

[fivegoblins]

Not only is this a super awesome warm fuzzy, but for any artists you reblog it can mean the difference between us making a living and us having to go get another job and be able to make less art. The best thing you can do for artists and independent makers of all stripes is to reblog and share the work of ours that you like -- and we'll be forever grateful.

[fivegoblins]

I love mushrooms and snails and I am happiest when it's snails wandering through mushrooms.

I am deep in throwing for my upcoming spring/early summer shows -- I hope to have another kiln ready to fire next week (these are all from the explosion kiln). One of the hardest things for me to get settled in to is how my workflow is a weird mix of hurry up and wait. Once a piece is thrown, handled, and decorated it can take a week (or more!) of slow drying before I can load a bisque kiln. Slow drying means less cracking so I have these weird rituals of 'cover with plastic, but not TOO covered but also not TOO much airflow'. Some day I will end up with a drying room that is just a series of boxes with carefully controlled humidities that I move wares through. 😂

[filthyprotozoan]

one thing about orpheus and eurydice is you guys are all like “i’m different i wouldnt turn to look at her” because you are all familiar with the story of orpheus and eurydice. but orpheus wasnt familiar with the story because he was in it lol.

[filthyprotozoan]

“i wouldn’t look back bc logically if she’s not there it wouldnt help to look and if she is there looking back would cause me to lose her” cool so has love never made you stupid and insane

[filthyprotozoan]

another thing thats interesting is i think most people assume its a walk of reasonably short length that you have to resist looking back. but we dont know how long that walk was. its out of the underworld, time could work very differently. could be days. could be months. could you walk for months without looking back to see if your love is okay? i dont think you could

[filthyprotozoan]

exactly. like oh you’re not going to look back? have you never lost a love? there is so much looking back.

[filthyprotozoan]

like. you are not too smart for tragedy. when your time comes you will not reason your way out of grief.

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[Image ID: “#the thing that cheese me off about this attitude is that it’s that thing of treating metaphors like people #like orpheus was some dude who did a thing instead of a character who is serving as a metaphor for grief #which is to say that the grieving can’t help but look back upon the people they love #and feel like they’re losing them again every time” /End ID]

[fivegoblins]

I have never been able to resist a goblin.

[fivegoblins]

I am feeling very alchemical these days -- time to make some alchemist's jars! Thinking about labelling them (Dragon's Tears, Mermaid Voices, Phoenix Down, etc) -- what do y'all think? Leave them plain and "classy" or whimsical and goblin-y?

[fivegoblins]

Mushroom feast kit! I plan to explore simply carved, natural elements like mushrooms and grasses and simple flowers in a collection over the next year. I y'all enjoy seeing them as much as I enjoy making them.

[anexperimentallife]

I know Elon Musk gets a lot of hate, but--and I say this sincerely--I don't think he gets nearly enough. If we work together, we can make sure he's hated even more.

[fivegoblins]

If we all try really hard I think we can get there.