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Art by Jo Rioux

#art

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everything reminds me of her (d&d character from now-defunct campaign)

#westlie faire

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studying landscape photos from unsplash, roughly half an hour per panel.

#art

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When your partner has a praise kink but you're Montessori trained so you know that praise is an ineffective way to encourage development and it's much more productive to acknowledge their effort so that they learn to effectively give themselves feedback so they can develop a healthy intrinsic motivation instead of deriving their self worth from labels put on them by other people .... "baby it's amazing how much you could last today compared to last week"

#/snort

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#Mix of Prefer to Write and Love to Read. I flipflop

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Me: I read too much about chemistry and now I'm too tired to move but neurons are still firing.

My brain: Would you like some Yuri in this trying time?

#the ship that is not #I have like four days but thats terrifying because i have an essay and two homeworks due before the first #its another flotation essay too although it shouldnt be as hard as the first one. feels much more constrained anyway. #I described how diesel was used in flotation today to a geologist and i was kind of surprised how well I did. #Its funny and dumb though; when you talk to me irl I'm like a stick that must be poked unless youre talking to me #about my research interests and then you cannot physically shut me up and then I sink back into silence. And I see the question marks above #people's heads and i mentally apologize. I am a terrible conversationalist and i like the quiet and there is an element rotating in my head #at all times #Today it was aluminum

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“The Dawn Machine”

“The Dawn Machine’s roots extend here, into a luminous, impossible space. You breathe gold. You think light.”

Been on a Fallen London/Sunless Sea kick lately, so here is the Dawn Machine

n The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Sun The Su

#a milf! :D #fl lore #fallen london

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Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

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Some “scary” animals would like you to have a better day. 

#art #positivity 2024

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It is really really really really really interesting to read these old chemistry guides with a knowledge of geology. By functionally ignoring the words and focusing on the reactions that are happening, you can piece together the real minerals despite the translators' struggles for the right word.

Like here, "Zungufr" is clearly "red ????". The translators (there were two translations before this one) likely didn't have a knowledge of mineralogy. From the rest of the text, I'm fairly certain Copper acetate is either Copper Acetate or Copper Nitrate, to be added with (NH)4Cl and Malachite (Hydrated Copper Carbonate). However, the end result via the translator is Cinnabar - which is a theoretically reasonable guess. Natural cinnabar is red, and so is arsenic sulfide. However, there's literally no As or Hg in this equation, which means that the result is the red Copper Oxide mineral, CuO. Cuprite.

Likewise, you have "The Calcination of Lapis Lazuli", which I thought was interesting in the first place, because in the beginning of the text, Al-Razi describes all the reagents. (21) The translator decided to stick with Lapis Lazuli, although seemingly aware that Azurite and Lapis Lazuli are not even close to the same mineral.

However, when you look at the minerals in 21, something doesn't add up. I was already suspicious of the Lapis Lazuli description, but something was clearly wrong in 21. Neither Lapis nor Hematite have copper, or are "oily/vitreous" minerals. Plus, they already described "Iron Oxides" above this point. Which makes it much more likely that "Lapis Lazuli" actually means Azurite, and Hematite is actually describing Sphalerite, (Zn,Fe)S, and Al-Razi prefers the Fe-rich Sphalerite.

This was also supported by his description of several "zinc ore" minerals, but I couldn't find a good description of sphalerite among them. Then I realized that what Al-Razi was really describing were different variations of Zinc Oxides, and separating out Zinc Sulfides.

Talc does NOT glitter. And there's no reason to differentiate "sea-talc" and "mountain-talc". But there would be if you knew there were Fe-Micas and Mg-Micas! (Or even just the straight Al-Mica.)

But to be clear, this is not the fault of the translators!! The fact they got close enough I can recognize the errors and described the mineral well enough I can recognize these reactions are a blessing in and of itself.

#archeometallurgy #archeochemistry #mineralogy #I'm having so much fun. I've been reading all day and it's killing me but I'm so excited. And this is important!!! #'so and so described X mineral in 1549' No they fucking didn't. I just read how to amalgum Au out of arsenopyrite from 900AD!!! #They might've called it yellow marcasite but they knew what they were doing. #Anyway I still haven't gotten to the part with Copper Smelting which is theoretically the only part I care about. xDDD #Hey did you know Cyprus was exporting sulfuric acid from Roman-era AMD?????? #It's just a pity that some people will look at that Lapis reaction and think that Al-Razi didn't know what he was talking about. #No he DEFINITELY did.

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Fr I really love Neil Banging Out the Tunes Day.

Like, that rat is definitely not with us anymore but he did one funny thing years ago and a bunch of internet people still remember and love him! And lots of my rats are not with us anymore and you know what? They also did funny things (or sweet things or even just very dramatic things)!

It just gives me hope that in a couple of decades' time I'll still be telling people about those little things even after I forget the smell of their fur or the feel of their kisses or the weight of cuddling them.

#<3 #letty

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#geology #f

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'mr fires is such a popular character - it has so many oc ship fics written about it' well almost 90% of those were written by 3 people so-

#fl lore #the fandom lore runs deep lol

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S.686 - RESTRICT Act

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#about me