#posts of mine

[ahalfa-person]

trent reznor getting aggravated with a poorly manufactured Ikea furniture kit: trying to save my shelf but my shelf keeps slipping away

[cinnamonhorchata]

It's bad to kill. Guns kill. And you don't have to be a gun. You are what you choose to be. You choose. Choose.

[sapphicfrost]

I'd heard some halfhearted testimonies about the ffxiv community being less toxic and elitist than the WoW one, with the caveat that gatekeeping is just as tight on raids. Listening in on sprout radio (NN) and some streamers, it's WILD to me how nice and lenient people are?

I'd fully accepted that as long as I am a sprout, I'll only be allowed into the easiest levels of content possible. Then I hear fellow sprouts discussing running extreme raids (the ffxiv analogue to heroics, I assume). Around the same time, a streamer's friend suggests another friend join their Savage, and they go "Welllll... idk, she doesn't know her rotations yet so I want to make her run some extremes first."

Mind-blowing to me as a WoW player. What do you mean you're considering letting people who don't even know their rotations into RAIDS?! In WoW having mastered your class barely qualifies you for Normal raids (you have to get lucky with that alone), let alone higher difficulties.

I realise the latter case is one of said player having Connections, but even when I raided in Shadowlands I was basically an impostor brought along To Be Nice when my friend's guild let me into Heroic raids after weeks of comfortably beating raiders' dps in mythic dungeons.

It's a different world altogether...

[musicnhealthstuff]

It Returns.

I decided I didn't like the black plastic veneer on the headstock. So I sanded it off. I also added another lil' wing thing and turned that broken corner into a purposeful shape!

I custom made my own pickguard out of a box I got for next to nothing at goodwill. I'll be using wood from that thing for a while!

On the other hand I think I may not make wooden pickup rings again, or if I do, I'll choose my woods more carefully.

This is cut from the same piece as the pickguard, the only difference is that I stained it. But it was such a pain to work with!

It cracked around Every Single Screw-hole! I think it's as much glue as wood at this point!

I'm sure you've already noticed the fretboard stickers. This is the third set of these that I've installed and I'm pretty impressed!

I feel like the roman numerals give it a sort of 'old grandfather clock' vibe that fits with the rest of the piece.

And of course, the elephant in the room.

DR Neon strings. Obviously I put the glowing green strings on the Mad Science guitar!

But I REALLY thought I would have more time before paint loss became an issue! I've had these on here for Three Days. The paint is already peeling off of the unwound strings. Wow.

The treble strings also sound oddly weak, I feel like a lot of concessions were made to get these to work at all. And they still don't work well.

On the other hand, the wound strings sound geat! They have a sort of punch and attack that I find is often lacking in the lower register. I'm probably gonna replace the treble strings and keep the basses. I can see why the sell so many more bass sets.

I also replaced the stock bridge with a resonator tailpiece and a Gretsch space control bridge. Just because it looks the part.

I may use this style of bridge again in future because it was the least fussy part of this whole project!

That brass bit is a serial number plate that I hand stamped! Not that it's terribly legible on camera.

That slightly odd looking matte spot is where I had to re route the ground wire to the tailpiece.

So, there it is Hellsite!

More (hopefully better) Girl Genius Guitar!

[thegirlbehindthegasmask]

Big Eden (2000) + letterboxd reviews

[guttingknife]

sorry for wanting to dissect you is it comforting to know the desire comes from love

[colourmehargrove]

Dacre being a gentleman because ladies first:

(x);(x)