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Two and a half years after her supposed death, Chiaki Nanami awakens from a coma into a twisted and unfamiliar world. Her friends have kickstarted the apocalypse, destroying everything - even their own bodies and minds - as they chase the glorious high of Despair.

As their class rep, it’s Chiaki’s duty to stop them. Her plan is simple. One by one, she’s going to confront the Remnants of Despair. And she’s going to save them, or die trying.

Chapter nine of Towa City Remnant is up! Or if you’re new to the Honorary Remnant AU, you can start at the beginning!

#danganronpa #sdr2 #ultra despair girls #chiaki nanami #nagito komaeda #monaca towa #makoto naegi #kyoko kirigiri #kyosuke munakata #chisa yukizome #juzo sakakura #fanfiction #yeah we went on a six month hiatus and then posted two chapters in the same week don't worry about it #this scene was actually supposed to be part of chapter eight #but it made the chapter way too long so we cut the whole thing in half

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Important debate my friend and I are having:

#death note #legally blonde

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Two and a half years after her supposed death, Chiaki Nanami awakens from a coma into a twisted and unfamiliar world. Her friends have kickstarted the apocalypse, destroying everything - even their own bodies and minds - as they chase the glorious high of Despair.

As their class rep, it’s Chiaki’s duty to stop them. Her plan is simple. One by one, she’s going to confront the Remnants of Despair. And she’s going to save them, or die trying.

Chapter eight of Towa City Remnant is up! Or if you’re new to the Honorary Remnant AU, you can start at the beginning!

#danganronpa #sdr2 #Chiaki Nanami #Nagito Komaeda #Monaca Towa #Honorary Remnant #honorary remnant au #towa city remnant #fanfiction

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#danganronpa #ndrv3 #shuichi saihara #kaede akamatsu #tsumugi shirogane #welcome to mountport #game changer #flashing #(more like fast moving camera pans but i'll tw for it just in case)

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UPDATE: I HAVE FAILED TO NOT BUY THE ROCKS

A thumbnail specimen of amethyst from Mondo, Tanzania. Mondo amethyst features tons of cool iron inclusions , such as the thin black needles of goethite inside this one. The color is also phenomenal - in some places this piece is so dark purple that it almost looks blue!

A polished slab of Lake Superior Agate! (Surely I can find room to squeeze it onto my agate shelf somewhere...) This piece is awesome because it has PARALLAX!

See that flickering effect in the banding? That's parallax! It happens when an agate has very very thin layers of alternating opaque and translucent banding. We're seeing the bands cast shadows on each other!

Morganite beryl! This specimen is displaying a bunch of etching. Etching happens when certain acids or chemicals in the environment disrupt the crystal's growth, leading to all sorts of weird shapes. It also contains yellow pockets of clay that were trapped inside of it during its formation!

Tourmaline!! This piece is from Himalaya Tourmaline Mine, in California. This is an old stock specimen; Himalaya Mine hasn't produced crystals this large and perfectly shaped in a very long time. This piece features some beautiful tricoloration: pink, then white, then green (and wow, maybe more pink at the very top?) and best of all, a perfect three sided prism with a perfect termination.

I mean, look at that! That barely looks real, that's the platonic ideal of tourmaline's crystal habit.

Here's a cool fossil! These are two species of crinoid: scytalocrinus disparilis on the left, and halysiocrinus tunicatus on the right. Also called "Sea Lillies," these aquatic animals look like flowers growing out of the ocean floor. They're related to starfish!

Crinoid fossils are common throughout the American Midwest (these fellows came from the Edwardsville formation in Indiana) but they rarely look like this because their upper tentacles seldom fossilize. Usually it's just their stems, which can be found all over the place as little disks that look like beads or washers. Some people mistakenly call them "indian beads." They can also be found all over my house because I'll collect them out of the dirt and then forget I have them in my pockets. Anyway, it's very rare to see intact specimens like this!

Here's the best piece I got: tsavorite garnet! Tsavorite is known for its brilliant green color, which can be caused by impurities of chromium or vanadium. This piece came from Tanzania.

It's also the ONLY garnet species that fluoresces! Here it is under one of my UV lights. Isn't that incredible?!

And we're just... not gonna talk about the Rock Budget!!

Rock show today!

Gonna go look at Cool Rocks! Maybe not buy them. Rock budget's running a bit low. (This is wulfenite and roselite's fault.)

#rock collecting #red pen has cool rocks #look at my cool rocks #gif warning

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Rock show today!

Gonna go look at Cool Rocks! Maybe not buy them. Rock budget's running a bit low. (This is wulfenite and roselite's fault.)

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hi!! just wanted to pop by n say that i love your danganronpa musical songs :) is there anything more from it in the works? 👀👀

Soul Friend, Soul Brother / Say It Out Loud

Thank you so much!!! I know it’s a very niche intersection of interests, so I don’t expect them to get a lot of attention. But I am really proud of them!

I’ve actually written a bunch of songs for all three Danganronpa games. (In my mind, I’ve been calling their respective musicals “High School Musical of Mutual Killing,” “On This Island of Mutual Killing,” and “Mutual Killing: The Space Opera”.) Writing them is the fun part; the part that takes forever is making the accompaniment music and recording myself singing them, so I haven’t done that yet for most of them. But I do plan to post more of them eventually!

Oh, and in the meantime you could listen to Hey or Weightless, which are songs from "Plus Ultra Musical," a hypothetical Boku no Hero Academia musical!

#red pen writes musicals #danganronpa

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Have you ever considered putting My Roommate Is An Apparition on webtoons? I would like to be able to read the whole thing without having to scroll for ages.

The main comic has two parts.

If you want to see additional art, and some fanart and fanfiction that people have made for it as well, my blog also has a my roommate is an apparition tag!

I'm glad you enjoy it, but I have a full time job, and no interest in cranking out a webtoon!

#my roommate is an apparition

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What is your favorite cool rock to say?

My favorite mineral name is dididumortierite! You pronounce it like dee-dee-doo-MOY-tee-yur-ite. It is the mineral that gives rose quartz its pink color!

You can't see it with the naked eye, but this rose quartz is actually packed with millions of microscopic pink fibers! Those fibers are dididumortierite. If the fibers happen to align in roughly the same direction, you can get a star or cat's eye effect!

#talkin' bout rocks #rock collecting #red pen has cool rocks #dididumortierite #rose quartz

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A persons fanfic tells you a lot about them, i , a fanfic writer, realize in terror

#there's something wrong with mikan tsumiki #honorary remnant #seven feet of empty floor #guys' night out #look man i know what i'm about #(not updating) #(not updating is apparently what i'm about)

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Spider plant report: After sulking listlessly all winter like a starving victorian child, Charlotte has suddenly realized it is spring, and she's getting very green and perky about it.

#i love this houseplant so much she's my baby #i'm a little infamous for my skills at Not Keeping Plants Alive #but my girl charlotte the spider plant has been a TROOPER #you did it char you survived the winter!!! #so proud of how Not Dead she is #she's just a baby currently but i hope someday i can get her to propagate some little spiders

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Been teaching myself how to use the Blender video editor!

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#danganronpa #makoto naegi #sayaka maizono #kiyotaka ishimaru #npmd #nerdy prudes must die

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sketchbook akane

#danganronpa #akane owari #sdr2 #art tag i guess #more copics practice #nothing like getting halfway through a project before realizing you don't have the right markers for a character's color scheme #welp it is what it is

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Here is a video in which I ramble for a while about fadenquartz!

Video transcript: I have right here a gorgeous piece of what’s called fadenquartz. It’s a type of quartz. It usually grows in these very platy formations. And it’s called fadenquartz because “faden” is the German word for “thread,” and fadenquartz always has a white thread running through the center of it. Do you see it there, running right through the middle of that big long crystal?

And how this stuff forms is pretty incredible. It forms in very very narrow fissures in the rock, and it forms in areas that have a lot of geological movement. And so geological stresses and pressures will break open those fissures, and they’ll widen very slightly. And so you get a quartz crystal growing in those fissures that will be broken in half as that fissure opens up.

And so it starts to heal itself. Quartz crystals that are broken, their broken ends grow much faster than the rest of the crystal, and so it will very quickly heal itself. But it heals itself so quickly that a lot of microscopic little bubbles of liquid and gas will be trapped inside of it as it heals. It doesn’t start as this big thing, it starts as just a little tiny quartz crystal, about the width of that line.

And then the geological stresses will snap it apart again! And it’ll heal again, and it’ll get a little bit longer. And it’ll snap it apart again, and heal again, and get a little bit longer. And over time you’re gonna have your two walls on either side of this fissure with just this narrow thread of quartz running from one side to the other, that has grown between them as it snapped apart and healed.

And once you have that - it just starts as that thread, that’s that sort of milky white color because of the bubbles of liquid and gas - once you have that, then more quartz crystals can grow off of that thread. So now you have normal quartz growth happening off of that already existing thread, stretching from one side to the other of that fissure. So that’s where all these platy crystals come from. They just grow off of that thread.

But these are called fadenquartz because they always have that thread that is the initial line of growth running through them. It’s kinda like scar tissue in there, from when it’s broken and rehealed and broken and rehealed. Just very cool, very beautiful pieces that it forms.

#red pen has cool rocks #rock collecting #look at my cool rocks #fadenquartz #faden quartz

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sketchbook kokichi

#danganronpa #ndrv3 #kokichi oma #art tag i guess #my plan is to keep playing with copic markers until i've filled up this sketchbook #and by then presumably I will be good at copic markers

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I’m back from my rock show! I got some Cool Rocks!

First, the agates.

Another Turkish stick agate to join my collection! I can't get enough of this stuff. These form as pseudomorphs of selenite. A bunch of criss-crossing selenite crystals grow inside an empty pocket in the rock, and then the space around them fills in with agate. Eventually, the selenite crystals dissolve, and the hollows they leave behind are also filled with agate, preserving a record of their shapes!

Bonus! This pair has a nice green fluorescence.

Here is another Turkish agate. (Almost all of today's agates are from Turkey; Turkey produces some beautiful agate specimens.) This one has a really interesting pattern to its banding.

I actually picked this one out for its fluorescence, which is a stunning bright green.

Also from Turkey! Growing inside a super cool crust of volcanic rhyolite, this agate is called sagenite. Sagenite agate has a fibrous appearance because it is a pseudomorph of a fibrous zeolite mineral.

The last two from Turkey: a pretty red specimen with a sparkly central vug, and a weirdo with squiggles of yellow. What’s going on with that guy?

This one is from China! The red and orange agates from this locale are called "Fighting Blood" agate. I already have a Fighting Blood in my collection, but I thought this one was neat because its vug is full of amethyst!

Here are some things which are not agate!

This one is a lead mineral called plumbogummite! Specifically, these crystals are a pseudomorph of another lead mineral called pyromorphite. Over time, the lime green pyromorphite crystals were slowly replaced by the tealy plumbogummite. In a few of the broken crystals, you can still see a green pyromorphite core!

Hyalite opal! This rock has been on my bucket list, I am so excited. This form of opal is known for its water-clear, jelly-like globule formations. Though typically a colorless mineral, this specimen is tinted yellow due to iron staining. It’s also a mineral famous for its bright fluorescence… but this specimen’s glow is utterly unimpressive. :c I will be on the lookout for a more glowy specimen at future shows. Honestly, I’m just happy to finally own some at all!

This year, I also got some high-end mineral specimens! Take a look at these beauties.

Roselite! This rare, toxic mineral is full of arsenic. If I ate it I would probably die! Roselite’s deep red color comes from the cobalt in its chemical structure, and makes it highly sought after by collectors. This specimen is showing off a well defined lenticular crystal habit! Again, I cannot overstress how rare this stuff is. I spent… an inadvisable amount of money on it.

Oh, the best and most sparkly boy. This is wulfenite! I have wanted a piece in my collection for so long, and I’ve been waiting for just the right specimen to come along. It's a lead mineral, and it forms the coolest square, tabular crystals! This mineral is extremely brittle, which makes large, intact crystals of it very hard to find. But check out the huge tabular crystal on the right side of this specimen, it’s bigger than my thumbnail!!

And finally, I could not resist buying something silly.

This is Tully. He's a plush Tully Monster, which is my state fossil!

#red pen has cool rocks #rock collecting #look at my cool rocks

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Rock show tomorrow!!!

Gonna get Cool Rocks!!!!!!

#rock collecting #red pen has cool rocks