More astrological than thou

One of my normally quiescent mailing lists has been fairly chatty of late, with people who keep saying daft things that I feel an urge to poke holes in with a sharp stick.

One of the things that provoked a breaking out of the sharp stick was someone who was basically arguing in favor of subvert-the-dominant-paradigm lifestyle polyamory and ragging on people who don't do enough to undo social conditioning or what have you.

As I said to the gang: It occurs to me that by denying the necessity of iconoclasm in a fringe subculture, I'm being a terrifically perverse stereotypical Aquarius. (Unpacked slightly: The fashion is iconoclasm, so I won't.)

Though to continue with the astrology, a bit of backhanded perversity is probably in the books, given that my ascendant is Scorpio.

Beadery.

I had this idea that I've been working on, and it was eating up enough memory that even my text processing was getting glitchy. So I had to do it, and teinedreugan and I went to Beadworks and got supplies for it today. (We also went to Sears and bought a new stove. Yay stove! Probably more on that later.)

Anyway. The thing isn't done (as you can see from the picture by the way the wires aren't cut off and crimped) because some of my little orange beads refused to be threaded through by both halves of the wire. After some discussion with elisem (courtesy gwynyth) about the health and sanity of trying to drill larger holes in the beads, I've decided that I'll go back to Beadworks at some point and pick up some more that will thread, and redo the last 2/7ths of it. But I wanted to see what it'd look like done (and how long it would be), so I finished it off. Also this means that my second crimp bead won't run away from me and hide.

Primary materials: frosted glass, turquoise, and oyster shell. Design partially inspired by this piece and partly by a discussion of prayer beads on KOL.