blondebrainpower

    4th century CE Roman amber pins, found in 2020 at the feet of an individual who was buried in a large sarcophagus at a necropolis in the French city of Autun.

    jeanjauthor

    These are stunning pins, crafted with exquisite attention to detail and symmetry…but what’s even more clever about them is the material they are made out of.

    Amber is ever so slightly “sticky” as a surface (which makes sense, since it’s age-hardened sap / resin).  It can be polished until it’s virtuall glass-smooth, but when tucked into hair, or into the fibers of a woven garment, it will have just a tiny bit more friction, causing them to have that much more of a chance to remain in place.  As a material for securing things, they are slightly better than metal and bone, if not quite as good as wood (which has a great deal of microscopic texture for hair, etc, to catch on and cling to).

    Most forms of amber are very clouded from inclusions when it was still sap, and fractal from the pressures it underwent as it hardened over the aeons.  To be able to find pieces as large and clear as these are makes them all the more rare.  Unlike metal or bone (and somewhat like wood) these pins would feel warmer to the touch, and be more comfortable and comforting for the owner, while being less fragile than wood.  And lastly, amber does have a faint scent as it warms up, making them a natural perfume source.

    These are not cheap throwaway objects, folks.  These are indeed treasured posessions, just as much for their functionality & multi-use offerings as for their rarity and beauty.

    imwritesometimes

    staff fucking up reblog chains and changing it so if you click a URL on your dashboard it no longer takes you directly to that post on OP's blog has been like dropping a nuke on the functionality of this website and makes me want to throw handfuls of cat turds at them

    imwritesometimes

    ~cLiCk tHe EmPtY sPaCE afTeR thEir URL tO Go tO tHaT pArtiCulAr pOSt~ like motherFUCKER half the time there IS NO SPACE cause the URL is long and there are all the goddamn check marks you conned everyone into buying I WILL KILL YOU

    staff fucking up reblog chains and changing it so if you click a URL on your dashboard it no longer takes you directly to that post on OP's blog has been like dropping a nuke on the functionality of this website and makes me want to throw handfuls of cat turds at them

    what I still don't understand abt that stupid chat w/characters instead of read fic post is like? why would I want to do that? at all? I'm not trying to befriend these fictional blorbos. I don't want to sit down and talk blorbo through his crush for blorbo 2. I want to read scenes and stories containing blorbos that expand on their original story and add to it. I don't want to talk to them. I still want to watch them just in my minds eye while I read how the fuck could anyone conflate the two?

    Get rid of the new photo viewer. Put the tags button back where it goes. Get rid of the bubble around the notes. Stop stealing content from queer users while simultaneously flagging queer content. Do something about the porn bots. Fix the issue with pictures overlaying video previews. Stop giving us ads that loudly auto-play even when auto-playing videos is turned off in our settings. Let us permanently disable tumblr live. Quit making this website worse.