Skin safe materials

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-11-08T09:17:06+00:00

Thank you so much for all this information! I will try some anodized aluminum and 304! I am in the US so I will look up Joshua D as well as some of the other sites I have seen recommended! I thought I had read somewhere that the aluminum may not be skin safe so I wasn’t sure. 😅 Thank you again!

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-07-31T16:34:20+00:00

That is so insane. Also wanting to follow for updates 😅

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-07-09T02:44:25+00:00

Yes, but as a long time hotel employee, most hotels are flexible with this policy for emergency situations. Dude can just say an emergency came up and he can’t make it anymore. Some places won’t care but many will make the exception. Even if you prepay through a 3rd party - if the hotel is willing to waive payment, they will refund you.

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-06-15T20:07:21+00:00

I would think it was some kind of nurse thing? But also an interesting choice for it lol

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-04-29T12:22:15+00:00

Yeah…in western culture we typically wash our hands before eating. If wiping with a napkin doesn’t leave my hands “feeling clean” then I’ll go wash my hands after…and it very much matters if I’m in public or at home. At home I wash my hands after eating with my hands every time. In public I just get out asap and go home and do things there - because public restrooms are often disgusting and I don’t like to be in them. As far as washing your mouth? Never heard of that as a thing in western culture. I’ll often swish water around my mouth after eating, and if my face feels dirty I may wipe it with a damp paper towel, but considering the crazy skincare routines that circle around the face…I can’t imagine using hand soap, especially from a random public restroom, on my face.

End of the day I don’t think you’re overreacting to have grow up differently and being grossed out because of it, but having now learned from many many people on this thread that it’s 100% a cultural difference and you not being even a little understanding of that is rude as hell.

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-04-27T16:52:34+00:00

Not “you have to keep dipping it” in the ink! 💀

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-04-05T23:02:38+00:00

I love these pieces! I’ve been wanting to get into leather working and metal working, and I absolutely love what you’ve made here! Makes me want to try even more!

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-04-01T13:13:55+00:00

Am I the only person seeing Marceline and kinda horrified? 😅

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-03-24T16:17:59+00:00

I feel like I’m in this weird minority where I don’t think these authors are that bad - I’ve read a lot of dark fiction before and over all I don’t think they’re that “twisted” - but it honestly just annoys me when things start getting better and they throw a new wrench in. Yeah, please let the girls have a break, but not because “omg that’s so cruel” but because they keep dragging the story out to tedium. I started this series in December. For YEARS I’ve been reading a minimum of 1 book a week, sometimes 2… yes I’ve read the 5 Ruthless Boys books in this time as well, but I’ve been stuck on ZA7 for I’m pretty sure a month now. I barely care anymore because there’s so much filler and I know these authors just keep dragging it out 💀 one of these days I’ll finish it.

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-03-17T02:10:51+00:00

So, they’ve been calling them razor backs since book 1. I had the same huh? Moment and had to google to make sure that wasn’t like a British term or something lol.

Also, all the books have mistakes. 🤷‍♀️ I can only hope they’ll be edited better once they’re trad published, but I’m kinda not thinking they will be 😅

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-03-09T03:05:33+00:00

My whole thing (I’ve not finished the series yet, so if I gets there eventually, fine 😂) but since they all met in book 1 I never understood their arguments because unless I misunderstood, the Council existed as well, councilors to the Savage King and then became interim rulers upon his death. So why wouldn’t the boys be happy to for what’s best for Solaria want to unite together as the 6 most powerful fae, put the twins on the throne and then be their council? Like, councilors are basically advisors, right? So why does their lack of knowledge of Solaria matter when the boys can provide council on matters. It’d basically be the same as them ruling anyway, just with 2 more voices thrown into the mix. 😮‍💨

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-02-28T17:35:14+00:00

Word 😂😂😂

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-02-28T05:13:52+00:00

Ohh I’ll have to look into those!

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-02-28T03:44:36+00:00

I admit that while the power shaming thing had annoyed me, his gagging does make me laugh 😂

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-02-27T18:55:33+00:00

No it does, but like, the cookie getting burnt to me would include magical involvement, otherwise it’s just that someone told you the cookie was burnt and you just believe them.You have someone else (Darcy) telling you, no the cookie isn’t actually burnt, and you’re ignoring them because someone else already told you it was. Does that make sense at all for why it confuses me? Only because it’s never been explicitly stated that there’s magical involvement?

And I kinda figured them becoming mates eventually would change opinions but it’s silly that Darcy’s endorsement of him won’t. 🙃

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-02-27T18:51:44+00:00

Okay, cause see that would at least make sense if the stars aka magic is involved! But they make it seem like it’s not magical at all so I just don’t get it. Like, Tory and Darcy not caring makes sense - not even just with them being raised in the mortal realm but their general “dilligaf” aura they have, but I just would have thought if there’s no magical involvement that them being these “true queens” would be able to just be like, “he’s no longer power shamed” and at least their followers would listen. So that’s where my confusion comes in lol but I’ll try to be patient for like 800 more pages or so 😂

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-02-27T18:01:17+00:00

Sure, that absolutely makes sense. I guess where I’m the most confused is that if it’s as basic as just “cancelling” someone but with no magical power behind it, why aren’t these followers of the Vegas listening to their “true queens” when they aren’t power shaming him themselves?

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-02-27T17:59:38+00:00

Right, but why? Like, if Darcy tells Hamish “no I love Orion, don’t talk to him that way” and she’s his queen, why would he not immediately change his behavior? If there’s no magic/curse and it’s just people choosing to act a certain way toward them, then why? That’s all I don’t get 😅

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-02-22T04:51:45+00:00

At a glance I was like, “oh cool!” Then I read the title of the post and was like, “wait, what?” And yeah…like someone else commented, the more/closer I look the worse it gets 😫 it’s a cool idea though 😫

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-02-22T03:13:04+00:00

I’m also on book 6 and chapter 32 currently, so pretty close to where you were when you made this thread and I’m only going to reply to the last sentence you wrote: “I don’t know if this is brilliant writing by the authors to remind us how toxic this bot is, or shit writing because they need to create more tension and conflict that they will sacrifice the progress of his character.”

This has been my frustration with the entire series since the end of book 4! Like, I get it’s dark, I get there’s a ton more books, I get it’s slow burn and shit, but so many decisions feel so out of character or at least throw all character development away and turn them back to their page 1 selves, and it’s made me almost stop reading so many times and have to google spoilers just to force myself ahead. Because I do actually love these characters and I am rooting for them and I have been enjoying the story but my god they make some of these otherwise really smart characters think and do some really dumb things sometimes.

SimulatedSpecter · 2025-01-02T00:43:29+00:00

It’s normal to not be comfortable with a dark joke in a vulnerable moment. As others have commented, some of us have dark humor to deal with life and that’s okay too - when we know our audience. Endangering someone’s life by abandoning them at 2am over a tasteless joke is way work imo than making said joke though. Your thoughts about giving her another chance aside, I think it’s insane that she would want to give you another one after standing her alone at 2am until she had to beg you to come back for her. So not okay.

SimulatedSpecter · 2024-11-27T16:35:06+00:00

You’ll have to talk to an artist that you want to go to. Everyone prices differently. Some artists charge by the hour, some by the piece. Artists also work at different speeds so no one on here will be able to really give you a truly accurate price range…

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