A.L. Blackmer Co. advertisement, originally published in “The China, Glass & Pottery Review”.
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starting out as a crazy crystal lady looking to get more crystals can someone give me recommendations/tips please I have:
-opalite
-amythist
-quartz
-rose quartz
-strawberry quartz
-carnelian
-red adventurine
any help is appreciated!
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also been thinking about intern!dogen lately as part of a little later intern group of chloe, benny, crystal, clem, and milka. the main theme with them initially was they were the former tender brains during raz’s tenure at camp, but i think dogen and milka would make for fun additions to their group. a collective thought would absolutely run between them when benny shows up for training because how the hell did he ever get accepted…(some other thoughts under the cut!)
[[MORE]]with crystal, her private training with the deluginists led to her being promised a spot in the intern program. she was so excited! she couldn’t wait to connect with her old friends again, and she made sure to tell clem right away! with the confidence she’s gained from the deluginists, she’s something of a popular girl at school, but more in the sense that everyone knows she’s nice, somehow way better at sports, a good dancer, and she can lift a car with her tk hands with ease. (she isn’t close with them tho, so too deep with the deluginists and their rhetoric to properly bond, which is why she is so excited to see her old camp friends!)
well, clem…never really had much of an interest in the intern program! he was disillusioned by the psychonauts after a bit. he never connected with the counselors, seeing that they were unable to help him and crystal in basic ways like dealing with the bullies, etc. but when he hears crystal is in, he’s suddenly *very* interested in going. he wants to see her again, first and foremost, since their in-person get-togethers are pretty far and few. imo, his parents eventually divorce, but he lives with his dad, who makes the income. he later discovered a talent for lacrosse, so that finally “earned” his dad’s respect - a feeling he greatly dislikes because he knows his dad’s “respect” is highly conditional. his dad is also against clem going the intern program, but clem decides “fuck it” and goes for it with an application. the main issue is that his luck is awful, so he missed the period, but reversing that luck, i like to think sasha would come through for him and get him a spot by approving clem on the spot. clem might not be as advanced as his peers, but sasha sees he has talents that can be cultivated with proper tutelage. (i think sasha also feels like he’d want to connect more his former psi cadets, especially in a facility where he can really help teach them.) more importantly, clem is just psyched to spend a summer with crystal again and vice versa! (even if…something seems a bit. off. like her rampant psychic improvement. and how she keeps staring at the psychic seven mural.)
chloe’s a shoe-in for the program. she’s got advanced telepathy, but her issues still include insisting she’s an alien. she doesn’t connect much with her interns peers outside of benny and milka, benny being that he’s a friend of bobby’s and milka in that they were already chill. she was selected to attend right away when she graduated from camp and passed everything with flying colors. she’s very interested in any science or tech program, so she dives into her work - tho, when it hits that she isn’t an alien, and feels that people “played along,” her work slips.
milka’s still invisible, and she can stay invisible for a whole fortnight. even some of the best agents don’t know she’s present. she decided to go to the intern program after a bad fight with her mom, who kept demanding she leave. with how milka resembles her dad, and that appearance makes her mother cry, i feel milka would eventually want a break from all of that. she’s not connected with her dad nor does she want to know him if he hurt her mother this bad. she has issues with her appearance, so she tries to stay invisible whenever she can, but she’s still pretty bold and blunt and a bit of a prankster with an equal sense of justice when it comes to standing up to her friends like chloe. tho, she can also feel like something is…off with crystal when crystal begins to find her without much effort. her mentor would probably be sam!
benny…how…how did he get in…huh…it’s a weird thought that has come across the minds of every intern. no one knows why he’s here. even bobby was stunned when he was just expecting to see chloe again. but. there’s benny. in his fideleo glory. i’ll be real - i think benny comes from a decently wealthy family and paid his way in. he thinks the intern program would look snazzy on his resume! his parents just adore him, too, their little man who can do no wrong! and he’s making his way in the world, how sweet! he still has a chip on his shoulder, but he will absolutely defer to anyone stronger than him and higher on the chain for a chance to climb the ladder. bobby is pretty done with his shit by the end of the first day lol, so benny drops the act (mostly) to keep hanging out with him (and subsequently chloe) (but he’s also the one most honest with chloe about how she’s not an alien, and when she tells him she appreciated his honesty, he does not know how to take that lol. he feels like he should apologize. maybe. he should definitely apologize to crystal and clem and milka and dogen, buuut he doesn’t.)
and dogen! i think he gives himself a year or two to get ready. he’s nine in camp, so with crystal joining at sixteen, i think he does, too. he’s gotten his blastokinesis under more control. He might not be as close as he is with his fellow interns, but he has raz and lili! he’s glad he can spend more time with them…even if they seem to be going through their own stuff. relationship drama, growing up, pressure in general, he sees it’s weighing down on them and tries to be a support for both of them (even tho he’s definitely been their soundboard like “dogen, tell raz-” “dogen, don’t tell me anything because i’m RIGHT here and can hear lili” and dogen feels the blastokinetic energy swell lol). i think sasha also gets him in for some experiments to better help him concentrate his blastokinesis.
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Selections from the C. Dorflinger & Sons archive of pattern line drawings, reproduced by the American Cut Glass Association.
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I got to go to the Waterford Crystal shop today and I’d like to think that they made these because some other equally high quality crystal producer like Swarovski said “haha I bet you can’t make a crystal saxophone” and then Waterford Crystal said “wanna bet I’ll make a sax and a violin and a gramophone”
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An Audio Excerpt From Beautiful
I’ve been experimenting with various programs, trying to figure out what works and doesn’t work for me.Here is a short video clip and audio excerpt from Beautiful, book five of the Crystal Crux Book Series.To set the scene, the dragon Ophis has gathered unto himself four of the five Bellerophon Crystals and needs one more to complete the structure he is attempting to build. He can’t infiltrate…
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Crystal(Aka Lizzie) got her love of witch magic and zen stuff from her grandmother. She passed away when Crystal was young and left her a book as a reminder to never lose that love of magic.
