u/DoveMechanic

Yes, Homelander is clearly the season 5 version.

I've made about 1,000 beads in the past 6 weeks and that's all of the glassworking I've ever done. The pictures are some I made last night. These few were tests to see if I would like how they turned out. The purple glass was from a thrifted mass-produced blown glass vase. The blue swirl (I realize the swirling is not easy to see) is made from 104 rods. The green is Mexican Coke bottle glass.

I think I mostly do alright with these basic beads and I don't think they're too boring for me yet. But I would still like to find new ways to make my beads more visually appealing.

I am also open to suggestions about reasonably easy ways to turn broken glass into something rod-like without just stretching it out manually. I've been working with broken shards and keeping individual broken items in their own containers so no unwanted mixing of COEs happens. But that's still just the shards. They aren't very convenient to work with.

If anyone has other tips they would like to share with someone who isn't very advaned yet, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

It's established that when supes survive being hit by the "herogasm beam" they get depowered because the compound V is burned out of their blood. But it's also established that if they're using their powers at the time they will get stuck that way (e.g., Love Sausage and Termite). So a reasonable super-strategy would have been to have Harper steal the powers of Homelander and at least one other high-tier supe (but preferably as many as possible) and then have Kimiko depower her before her steal timer runs out. Then she effectively would be stuck with all of their powers forever since the steal timer running out is part of her powers.

There are so many funny ways he could have died. The possibilities are almost endless.

The Sun Goddess is their $70 size. In the second picture it's next to my original $25 size one (minus its 7 pups which I removed) from earlier this season for reference. I do think grabbing one massive SG will be good for me as I was going to wait to start trying grafting on the $25 one and I think the much larger one is ready. It's also nice that the $70 one had so many pups. (In this regard, the other 6 on the shelf were inadequate.) I need to decide now which of them to remove. There's a voice in my head saying it would be fun to leave them as a massive cluster. But this is probably a bad idea. With all of them, it's already too big for this pot and I'll need to move it for cold weather sometimes.

The other one was sold as a pachanoi for $40. At the same location I had originally seen some other San Pedro in the same size pots that I think were just PC. I had to look around more to find another section with San Pedro. I suspect this one might be huanocoensis. Whatever it is, it's fat.

I think the tallest of the larger size were maybe 10-12" tall. I'm guessing it's not actually worth it to pay $15 extra for the larger size ($40 vs the usual $25 for the somewhat smaller size)?

Also, sorry, the second picture was supposed to show that the cactus in the foreground was almost 2 of my hand tall. I just didn't get it all in the frame in that shot and didn't realize until I got home.

The mostly yellow one was below the soil line and had produced the largest one as a pup at its top. It seems to have produced the pup in favor of additional growth from the apical meristem. But the apical meristem of this one also appears to be crested (as it is elongated). If I can get it to grow from there, I might have a crested one.

The larger one (again, growing from the top of the yellowish one) might be showing signs of unpredictable branching. At the very least, it's done dichotomous branching at least once. So that one could also be really interesting if it continues the same growth habit.

Now I can barely even smell the rotting nicotine, tar, and weed smell that was on it. What am I going to do without all of that mojo?

/uj
I just finished cleaning this, replacing the caps, and upgrading the speaker to 10". I want a nice old P10R for it but they're a bit difficult to source in 4Ω. So that will need to come later.