Stupid commercials.

[apocalypsos]

I hate diamonds. I'm not all that keen on other jewels, either, but I definitely hate diamonds. I can't tell the difference between this cut and that cut and this size and that size and WHATEVER, y'all, I hate diamonds. There's a reason I like a lot of the jewelry I see on Etsy, because they're about handmade art as opposed to just throwing diamonds at things and seeing if they stick. And let's not even get to where they come from.

And yet for all of that, I loathe jewelry commercials even more. No, damn it! Get me the vacuum instead! Do you know how many books a tennis bracelet could buy?!

EDIT: Speaking of things I hate, I hope I never see the trailer for Bride Wars again.

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I just realized that the three books I most want to work on next year all feature female leads. Heh. Well, if nothing else gets it out of my system, that'll do it. :)

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I am really seriously loving Caught Running and I can think of a handful of people I want to send it to, except I don't want to let it out of my sight when I'm done. They're so cute!

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I'm craving Cheetos right now and I have none. *pouts*

Comments

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Ohgod, Bride Wars.

"Because remember everybody, even if women act like they care about each other, as soon as a little problem comes up (especially one involving a wedding, The Most Important Day In Any Woman's Life) they'll turn on each other like the catty bitches we all know they are!!"

Diediediedie.

[3jane.livejournal.com]

I got to have a few adventures in diamond-land when my guy and I decided to declare engagement. The diamond solitaire ring is a terrifying item -- pricey (wildly overpriced and utterly un-resellable), cold, intensely commercial, and utterly anonymous. God know enough other jewelry I looked at (why is everyone in this town getting engaged this year?) was some kind of hideous cold-stone explosion.

I'd like to put a word in here for independent craftspeople working as jewelers and goldsmiths. In my hometown I know of three or four who can make phenomenal art out of fragments of metal and stone or glass.

[marag.livejournal.com]

For the record, my engagement ring is an emerald with some diamond chips. I find diamond rings boooooring. They're...clear. Why pay all that money for a clear stone?

I do like dark jewels like rubies, sapphires, and emeralds.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, those three are beautiful stones. And opals! Esp. black opals. *needs sparkly icons*

[gypsyjr.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOD I so know what you mean. Expensive, useless rocks = not the ONLY EXPRESSION OF TRUE LOVE. KthnxgethehelloffmyTV.

[azurelunatic]

I really like sparkly shiny diamonds, but there are a whole bunch of reasons that I want a synthetic, should I ever get engaged (again).

The first two times, I wound up with silver rings. The one was a pair of interlocking figures of nude women. The second ones were broad Celtic knotwork bands. They were both gorgeous.

[bluesteelstars.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the gimmick to get a Journey Diamond pendant, with 7 stones increasing in size to show how love grows, because that's totally how it works.

[musyc]

Ohgod, agreed. Any man who buys me a diamond ring without a lot of discussion on it is a man I know I should not marry because he hasn't learned a thing about me.

[paradoxymoron.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rasputina+diamond&search_type=&aq=f

YT's currently down, but...yeah. That might help the shiny compressed carbon hate.

[lallybroch.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Caught Running! Have you read their other books? Cuteness!

[fyrdrakken]

Funnily enough, I was pondering engagement rings in particular and jewelry as a general gift in another context a few hours ago, and came to the conclusion that the real value of jewelry as a gift is that it's giving the recipient the equivalent of a very small and portable source for emergency funds. Like that Doonesbury strip years ago where Congresswoman Lacey Davenport was pulling out a diamond brooch inherited from her mother, who "always used to carry it with her on trips in case the local currency collapsed." Or like those cultures in which right before the wedding the bride goes out with her relatives and spends the dowry on jewelry, because the jewelry is her personal property and hence a cushion against her husband cutting her loose and leaving her destitute (or being really stupid with the family's money and leaving them all up shit creek, whichever).

But, yeah. Diamonds are boring and I prefer colored stones.