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GRAFFITI FORDITE
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A buddy of mine inspired me to draw a beach episode lineup of a few of my guys!
What they would do at the beach below...
Molly would swim and sun herself
Heliotrope suns himself, but if provoked, he will attack back in the water. Totally not playing because he's a serious man, obviously.
Amata doesn't plan or dress for going into the water until the water guns come out...
Pinku is an excellent swimmer and suns herself once she's exhausted
Dazey is here to sit in the sun with a good book
Detroit would swim if he could, but settles for some playing around in the sand instead
Hansa is the one who brought out the water guns and also plays with sand
Pigeon volunteers to be buried in the sand by Hansa. After gaining some confidence, he suns... covered in sand
Ivy would swim and show off in the sun
Helly will become homicidal if she gets wet, so she stays far from the water and reads in the shade
#molly mandrake#heliotrope#amata gemoule#pinku usagi#dazey do#detroit agate#hansa geoluhread#pigeon wing#ivy#helly faer#beach episode
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I made this for Art Fight but it only occurred to me now that I could also post it here. Behold: Aggie. The details of their upper torso are kind of obscured here, but it felt weird having them shirtless when Art Fight requires that humans’ torsos be clothed or censored.
Other info I forgot to put in the image: they’re 5′9″, agender, and vaguely pan-ace.
As is common for Prometheans they have electrical superpowers, able to both absorb electricity, which heals them, and emit it back out again to charge devices (while it’s possible to zap people as an attack they have not learned how to do that). Due to having been a car in a previous life they can use their body as a battering ram, leap superhuman distances with a running start, and shine light out of their eyes like headlights, and their knowledge of driving is superb.
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[ image description: finished, colored reference sheet of Aggie, Cam's humanoid robot Promethean character. the biggest text says Detroit Agate "Aggie", and text next to it says "Unfleshed Ferrum" and "they/them".
They have fluffy chin-length wavy dark blue hair with lots of short spiky bits sticking out, and are wearing a sleeveless white crop top that says HUMAN BAND across the chest and pale blue booty shorts. they are smiling slightly and have long eyelashes. their face, ears, hands, and joints are metallic silver, the rest of their arms and legs and the plates covering the top and sides of their torso are shiny blue, and their stomach is black with many fold lines. they have round wheel-like shoulders.
arrows pointing to various parts of their body say:
(to their hair) length and texture consistent, exact style is not (but usually keeps center bangs and cowlick where hair parts)
No pupils, eyes glow white like headlight bulbs
dish-like ears
Flexible polymer face, not hard metal, just reflective silver in colour (no seams)
think Zenyatta from Overwatch wrt shoulder construction reference
usually wears more clothes, but has nothing to cover up in robot form
(to their abdominal area) plates slide over each other
lower legs don't change when in illusory human form - appears to be wearing them as boots (cannot tuck pantlegs in) or prosthetics
The aforementioned Illusory Human Form is inset as a bust, with an arrow pointing to it and a footnote saying "It's a Promethean thing." Human-Aggie is making the same expression but facing the opposite direction, has a slightly different hairstyle, and is wearing a grey T-shirt that says "Bigfoot University Class of '06". They have arrows pointing out bits as well:
very pale irises
hair still blue
thrifted shirt ]
#camdraw#detroit 'car friend' agate#promethean the created#faerie fire#i have no illusions about the legibility of my handwriting in a shrunk down image
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Chapter 5 is up I hope you all enjoy. It’s short again but kinda hot hehe.
(And no you all cannot escape without more random information you didn’t need. At least this time it’s shiny?)
Wouldn’t be Detroit without Motor City Agate.
I don’t own rights to this image. I apologize. Go look the stuff up and support the people who work with it etc. It is my favorite kind of beautiful trash.
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la Fordite - des pierres en couches de peinture
Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/la-fordite-des-pierres-en-couches-de-peinture/
la Fordite - des pierres en couches de peinture
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Gemuary 2024 Day 31: Fordite
This last one isn't even actually a stone at all! Back in the day, the way cars used to be painted in factories left mounds of multilayered dried paint on the walls. This paint, cut and polished, is sometimes used in jewelry under "Detroit Agate" or "Fordite"!
I hope you've enjoyed this year's Gemuary challenge! Which one was your favorite?
#my art#creature design#monster design#illustration#lineless illustration#slime monster#slime#car#gemuary#gemuary 2024#monsters
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Rune set made of Fordite / Detroit agate [ScaleSolutions]
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Buying Crystals - Common Fakes
Part 5 of 7 in a guide for buying crystals. Read the rest here!
We are finally at the wholly fake crystals! These crystals are either dupes of real ones, real crystals passed off as other crystals, or man-made crystals without a natural analogue. I'm excited to get into this because once you know what to look for, its hard to be scammed.
And to be clear, if you value any of these, either as collector's items or as spiritual tools, that's perfectly fine. My issue is when people try to pass off crystals (or not-crystals!) as something they're not.
Real Crystals Sold As Fakes
Howlite - A very common dupe for turquoise. Real turquoise is very expensive, so cheap turquoise is likely to be dyed howlite. This may also be called turquenite. Acetone removes dyes.¹ ⁶
Malachite - Genuine malachite is green to dark green (never stark black), the colours fade together softly, without uniform patterns, and often with circular patterning. Conversely, fake malachite, often made of resin, may have black, hard lines, and uniform patterning normally without circular patterns.²
Clear quartz - Clear quartz is often faked using glass. Real clear quarts will have some kind of inclusion, even if they’re not visible to the eye, and will NEVER have bubbles in it.³
Obsidian - There are many types of natural glass, such as obsidian and moldavite. Real obsidian is opaque, dense, and its colours range from black to brown. Many fake obsidians promise vibrant colours impossible for real obsidian to form as.⁴
Moldavite - Moldavite is incredibly rare due to not only being found in one location, but being exclusively formed by meteorite activity. Real moldavite will be mossy-coloured, while fakes may tend towards light green. White moldavite is not real; it is typically calcite.⁵⁻⁶
Moissanite - Natural moissanite is incredibly rare. Most on the market will be synthetics.⁶
Citrine - Citrine is heated amethyst, but most citrine on the market will be artificially heated and sold as natural. Natural citrine has a colour ranging from olive to lemonade, and will never be found on a geode. A telltale sign of artificial citrine is any sign of a parent geode, especially a bright white colour on the bottom of the crystal, as well as the crystal’s colour generally looking “crispy” or bright orange.⁹
Prasiolite - Green quartz is incredibly rare in nature, and thus, most found on the market will be heat treated amethyst of certain localities. Typically, natural prasiolite is light, translucent green, while darker varieties are treated.¹¹
Geodes - Geodes are typically made of quartz, but less commonly calcite, dolomite, aragonite, akerite, hematite, magnetitie, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite.¹² Anything else is either incredibly rare or nonexistent. Many geodes may be dyed, modified, or sold as crystals they are not.¹³
Man-Made Crystals Without Natural Analogues
Glass (artificial) - There are many types of glass that are sold as natural crystals, such as goldstone (erroneously marketed as sunstone) and opalite (opal imitation, erroneously marketed as moonstone).¹⁰
Smelt quartz - Also known as cherry, blueberry, etc. quartz, are made of dyed glass.⁶
Slag - Slag is the byproduct of smelting. Names of commonly sold slags are: Fordite/Detroit agate, Sieber agate, andara crystal, rosarita, leklai, Frankfort green, and Leland blue.⁶⁻⁸
Cermikite - Also called alum crystal, these are commonly made in “grow your own crystal” kits. They are made of potassium aluminium sulphate.⁶
Chalcanthite - Synthetic crystal made of copper sulphate. Natural chalcanthite is incredibly rare and grows as fibrous crystals. This is a toxic crystal.⁶
Lopezite - Synthetic made of potassium dichomate. This is a toxic crystal.⁶
Cubic zirconia - Diamond imitation made of zirconium dioxide.⁶
Further Reading
I cannot list all possible fakes and dupes. However, I can point to a few sites.
Crystals Rock
The Vug
Mineral Expert
If you need more specific advice, I'd say to simply search "how to tell if [crystal] is real/fake."
In the next part, we are discussing the root of why we need to be so careful when it comes to buying crystals: capitalism.
Sources
"How to Spot Fake Crystals", Crystals Rock.
"Fake of Real Malachite?", The Citrine Circle.
"How to Tell If Your Clear Quartz is Fake", Manifest and Flow.
"Real Vs Fake Obsidian Stone", How to Find Rocks.
"Real Vs Fake Malachite: How to Tell Moldavite Is Real", Truly Experiences.
"Toxic Crystals, Fakes, and Forgeries", Solstice Stones.
"Leland Blue Stones", Leelanau.
"Rosarita Stone History", TFD Jewellery.
"(Real vs Fake Citrine) How To Tell If You Have Real Citrine", Rock Seeker.
"'Fake' Crystals — Opalite, Goldstone, and More.", Marble Crow Blog.
"Prasiolite", The Quartz Page.
"Geode", Britannica.
"Are There Fake Geodes? (How To Spot Man-Made Geodes)", Rock Seeker.
#self post#crystals#crystal buying guide#||#witchcraft#witchcraft 101#witch#witch 101#baby witch#beginner witch#crystal#crystal witch#witch tips#witch basics#witch101#witchblr#witches of tumblr#magic#magick#crystal healing
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original | simplified
forditic: a gender related to fordite (also called detroit agate, motor agate, or motor city agate)
day10 of @epikulupu’s 1k coining event, ‘synthetic’! i used some of the most common car colors, with the first flag being made up of some random shapes that i outlined with the other colors to mimic what fordite looks like and the second flag being a very simplfied, icon-friendly version of that. the term is ‘fordit’ from ‘fordite’ + ‘ic’!
flag id: the left flag has a large blob-like shape in the center, a small oval angled softly down towards the blob near the top left, a small circle near the middle right, a smaller circle near the bottom left, and a much smaller oval angled sharply down towards the blob near the top right. each shape is near-black. the shapes are all outlined with thick lines in this order from inner to outer: grey, white, dark faded blue, faded red, and golden yellow.
the right flag has large, bumpy, near-black stripe in the center, made up of overlapping longways ovals. it is outlined on both sides with thick lines in this order from inner to outer: grey, white, dark faded blue, faded red, and golden yellow. end id.
banner id: a 1500x150 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting’ in large white text in the center. end id.
dni link
#epikulupu's 1k coining event#forditic#my flags#my terms#new flag#new term#mogai flag#mogai term#mogai
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Old things make good jewellery, be they antique watch fobs, chips of Mayan ruins, or gemstones forged through the eons. Not everything old is ancient, however. The website Colossal recently ran a piece on Fordite, otherwise known as Detroit agate, a brightly coloured, prehistoric seeming, rock-like remnant of the city's auto industry. Before robots, all of Detroit's cars were spray painted by hand, and some of that paint inevitably dripped onto the metal racks that carried cars from the paint shop into the kiln, where it baked alongside newly minted Corvairs and Coronets. The paint accumulated in layers over time- mostly black and brown in the drab 1940s, more colourfully in the spectral Sixties. Today, in the age of tidy automation, Fordite can be cut and polished, and set in sterling silver- a relic, like the tomb at Chernobyl, of a place that went extinct before its time.
archive.boston.com
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Gem refs I need to start on/finish
Just a little post for myself, as a reminder, since I would like to eventually get these all done... at some point. Somewhat. (I will be going through and updating this with links as each ref gets finished)
Lazz (lapis lazuli)
Silver Zircon
Cat's Eye
Purple Agate
Jet
Malachite
Green Turquoise and Robin Blue Turquoise
Diamond character (and her Pearl) that I haven't posted about yet heheh
Lower priority:
Aquamarine (Lazz's superior, don't have a more unique name for her yet)
Pink Sapphire
Fordite/Detroit Agate (need to redesign her a little)
Onyx (also needing a redesign I think)
Jasper and Lapis (Malachite's components; don't have a more unique name for them yet, but I was thinking "Jazz" and "Lazy," maybe?)
Flat-top/Cone-idot (Perry's old superior; might also do the rest of her old Peridot crew)
Hackmanite and Sodalite
Halite
Various different Gem fusions (mostly the ones between Lilac Pearl, Plum Spinel, and Turquoise)
Characters I've had in mind but have yet to be realized/designed:
Carnelian and Midnight Pearl (Dragon Breath Opal's components)
Jet and Ivory (Onyx's components)
Various Diamond characters (and their own courts)
A couple other Apophyllites
Green and Robin Blue Turquoise's former superiors (Emerald and Melanite)
Apricot Agate (she's got a design but I just don't know what to do with her)
A handful of adopts I have yet to figure out
Original Gem-types I would like to draw better refs for:
Hackmanites
Sodalites
Halites
Turquoises
Pyrites
Selenites
Cat's Eyes
Jets
Ivories
Characters that, at the time of this post, already have a suitable ref sheet:
Lilac Pearl - Plum Spinel - Turquoise - Perry - Runt - Briar - Dragon's Breath Opal - Apophyllite - Fuchsia Diamond (and her Pearl) - Fuchsia Zircon - Fuchsia Spinel
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Vintage polished Playground Fordite from Oregon
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Truck stuff
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I think Aggie's favourite blorbo would be Nick Zerhakker from Skin Horse, because of his whole being a helicopter but also a dude thing. They'd get seriously envious when he develops the ability to be a helicopter and a dude simultaneously, having only managed a one-way transformation from vehicle shape to dude shape themself. That's the dream. (I don't remember if he'd acquired that ability by 2017, the year that I imagine the entire campaign so far taking place in against the express wishes of the GM because it started then and has been a few months IC, but if not they've got something to look forward to.)
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To practice the Buddha way is not to let our minds wander, but to become one with what we’re doing. This is called zanmai (or samadhi) and shikan (or “just doing”).
Eating rice isn’t preparation for shitting; shitting isn’t preparation for making manure. And yet these days people think that high school is preparation for college and college is preparation for a good job.
― Kosho Uchiyama Roshi | Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
Image: Fordite or “Detroit Agate”.
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Fordite Detroit Agate Baguette Pendant Jewelry
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