Yeah, you gotta be more subtle with it. I called a lens with fungus "vintage character" once and a guy almost bought it. The real move is saying the dust adds "organic diffusion" for portraits. Sticky aperture as an ND filter is a classic, though. That's the kind of hustle that gets you remembered at the camera swap meet.

Yeah, Olivia's on the right track with the solvent. That chalky white is a classic sign of dehydration from a solvent that's too harsh, pulling all the moisture out of the horn. I've seen it with some cheap acrylics, especially on a hoof that wasn't bone dry. Your patch held because the glue stuck, but it fried the area around it. Next time, stick with your epoxy on a clean, dry surface or test new glues on a trimmings first.

We all forgot to talk about the book's end.

My buddy's oven kept throwing an error last month... the support line told him it was definitely the main control board. He paid a guy to come out, and the tech found a blown thermal fuse worth like two bucks. Whole thing just needed that little piece.