The Lizard Point jewellery set. This set features a large pendant hewn from the rocks at Lizard Point in Cornwall, UK. Lizard Point is a unique geological feature in Cornwall because the whole peninsula is formed from serpentine semi precious gemstone rather than common rocks! The cliffs, rocks beneath the soil, and the pebbles on the beach are all multicoloured reptilian patterned serpentine stone. The stone’s colour is a mix of forest green, white, dark brown, deep red, and black. The visitor centre is surrounded by local artisans’ shops making and selling jewellery, ornaments, housewares, and other decorative objects made of polished Lizard Point serpentine stone.
My necklace’s colours are drawn from the natural landscape around Lizard Point. The blue and white is the sea and sky, the green is the wildflower meadows on the clifftops, and the diverse earth tones the rocks below. The earrings are actually another stone called “camouflage jasper”. It’s a lovely memento of this beautiful place.
Materials and techniques: Bead stringing on polymer thread, beadwoven holder for the centrepiece, wire wrapping for the earrings, glass seed beads, labradorite round beads, dyed freshwater pearls, white freshwater pearls, glass faceted crystals, camouflage jasper beads, swarovski crystals, steel findings, Lizard Point serpentine centrepiece
alright so during into the spider-verse's introduction to peter b. parker, we see his wedding, and he stomps on the wine glass right? this is a jewish wedding tradition, which makes this version of peter parker jewish (further confirmed in interviews -- however, i believe this is enough by itself). it's a nice nod to the jewish roots of the character.
we get to see a bunch of peter parkers throughout the spider-verse films, and none of them have any explicit religious associations like peter b. parker. except for one!
here we have gwen stacy's peter parker and aunt may, from earth-65, saying grace over a meal. from my understanding, this is generally a christian practice -- in judaism, we prefer to say short prayers before eating, and save the long, in-depth ones for afterwards. so to me, this was a clear example of the character being coded as christian. i was a little disappointed that they didn't make peter parker jewish here too, but since across the spider-verse discusses variants and the differences between instances of the same person between different universes, i interpreted this as a continued commentary on peter parker's ethnicity -- although he was initially jewish-coded and one of his two creators, stan lee, is jewish, this is often erased, especially in more modern interpretations of the character.
and then i remembered that this peter parker also literally turns into the lizard.
I am on vacation and off-grid so just a picture this week. It is a night time view from the cottage we stayed at in 2017 on the Lizard in Cornwall. If you have withdrawal symptoms from this blog then follow the links to find out why you need a vacation too!
Gone walking posted on April 19th, 2017.
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no plot twist more exhilarating than in the most recent 8bbc when they realized the lizard sidekick was actually an anthropomorphic jacked lizard and the second most exhilarating plot twist was when Brian Murphy realized they accidentally skipped the entire beginning of the book