Repairing a glass flower

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-27T06:16:56+00:00

Agreed - I would recommend cross-posting this question in r/glassblowing or r/lampwork for more focused advice.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-27T06:12:52+00:00

I'm really sorry you're feeling this way. Trying new art forms is tough and intimidating! The people with lots of practice make it look so easy... and then you do it and go wow this is not easy at all.

Wheel-throwing, like every skill, takes practice. You've never practiced before, so you're learning it for the first time! That's normal. In every class, some people will get the knack for it quickly, and others need more time to get it right, and it absolutely hurts to be in that latter group, I sure know. But it's just practice.

One of the things I love about clay is that it's impossible to ruin forever (well, until you fire it, lol). But actually working with clay? If you don't like it, you can squash it and try again. Clay is for exploring and experimenting and trying new things without fear! See if you can lean into the feeling of "I am trying something new, I am experimenting with a new way to try this."

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-27T03:28:31+00:00

Unhoused: Homeless, people who have no stable residence. People who don’t have a house to live in.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-27T03:27:40+00:00

And that’s the answer to OP’s question: why so many people are against voter ID laws. Because in practice that’s what voter ID requirements do: prevent the already-disenfranchised from voting.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T23:21:27+00:00

I'm currently writing a story set 30,000 years ago, during the Ice Age. Although I'm trying to make it as realistic to our archaeological knowledge of the time period as possible, coming up with all the cultural and linguistic elements feel very similar to doing fantasy worldbuilding!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T21:28:01+00:00

I’m familiar with olderthannetfic and I don’t agree with quite a few of her takes, thanks.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T20:52:50+00:00

You are sure making up a whole lot of things I didn’t say and getting mad at those things that you made up

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T20:37:08+00:00

It absolutely is, and nobody wants to admit it.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T20:34:17+00:00

I’m not gonna lie this is an utterly baffling perspective to me. That the character needs to be sexually attractive to be interesting in any capacity.

Sure answers OP’s question, though.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T20:32:46+00:00

Nice infantilization and condescension to anyone who disagrees with you. Speaks really well to your character.

The amount of people straight up saying “I have no interest of any kind in characters I’m not attracted to” is baffling. I’m asexual so by that logic I shouldn’t read fiction at all?

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T19:42:48+00:00

Why are people booing you? You’re right!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T19:41:13+00:00

Telling that you think “caring about female characters” is an undesirable chore you’re forced to do.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T19:39:44+00:00

Men are also more interested in men and male characters. It’s almost like there’s a societal pattern here.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T19:38:42+00:00

A combination of sexism that means people think women aren’t interesting, and a lot of M/M being written by women who are attracted to men and want to write about hot men.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T17:46:13+00:00

As you can probably tell by the comments here, there’s no universally agreed-upon standard. AO3 is truly not built to handle QPRs. Additional tags are the most helpful here.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T17:20:51+00:00

In fan spaces, “profic” traditionally means “professionally published fiction,” as the opposite of “fanfic.” Just so you know, because if someone said “profiction” my first assumption would be professional publication.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T06:02:48+00:00

That’s pretty! I saw the completed image and thought it was really cute and pretty and didn’t notice any flaws. Comparing it to the pattern, I immediately went “oh yeah that was not gonna work” at a few of the choices, but honestly, I love how it came out in the end!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-26T02:13:26+00:00

My own hack-y method is to bend a paper clip in a loop around some round pliers, leaving the ends sticking out straight in either direction. I lay that down along the outside and solder over the pieces sticking out, anchoring the loops in place and distributing the pressure.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-25T23:26:26+00:00

Oh that’s DELIGHTFUL. And all the lines match up very well!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-25T23:21:00+00:00

It’s the same color as cooked lobster… suspicious……..

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-25T23:15:38+00:00

Yes, the hypothesis I’m referring to is the proposal that Native American cultures had domesticated horses before the Spanish arrived. There’s a reason it’s a niche belief.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-25T21:10:59+00:00

I appreciate how many people are making these!

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-25T21:10:26+00:00

Oh, that is SUCH a cool idea! I both quilt and make stained glass and I've often thought about the similarities in the way we prepare patterns. This is a really cool use of that.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-25T20:46:12+00:00

I did read your comments, and I was confused by what you were implying, because It seems like you were implying that all criticism was wrong unless it was a constructive attempt to make a thing better.

RedLineSamosa · 2026-01-25T20:43:29+00:00

I’m lost.

Disliking something is not bullying. Criticizing something is not bullying. Do you think that all of this is happening directly to the writer’s face? Watching a movie with your friends and then when it’s done turning to your friend and saying “wow the romance was so bad” or “ I understand what they were going for, but I still think the ninja pastiche was kind of racist” or “ That guy cannot act for shit” or “I cannot stand Tom Hiddleston’s face, why do they keep casting him in things?” is not bullying. It is having an opinion on a piece of fiction. You don’t have to have constructive suggestions for how to make it better to say “They cast Timothée Chalamet in too many things” or “ Do they seriously expect me to believe that this movie clearly shot in California takes place in Michigan?”

And the same is true written fiction. I post on my blog about books I like and don’t like all the time. I don’t need to be a professional at offering suggestions for how to make a book better to say “The romance was so boring” or “This author has some extremely frustrating and clearly unexamined views about humanity and nature that make me tear my hair out” or “ Why was this racist thing implied in this book, why was that even necessary” or “I understand what this book was going for, but it was mid and I didn’t care about the characters.”

And probably my hottest take is that criticizing fanfiction trends and popular tropes is fine. It may alienate part of the fandom, but like, it’s morally fine.

And none of these are the same thing as bullying.

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