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fishymom-art · 1 year
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why take my adhd medication when I can draw Electric Illusion instead?
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justbusterkeaton · 6 months
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Magical Buster
Music: Strange Magic by Electric Light Orchestra
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front-facing-pokemon · 9 months
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apolocheesetpu · 4 months
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Team Luna ~ A 3v3 Indie Crossover Concept
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cursed-elo-images · 3 months
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This song is so perfect for those times in life where you’re going through tough times, are stressed out, angry at society, while also wanting to have fun, listen to great music and dance, and feel pretty all at the same time.
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cannedbluesblog · 11 months
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Keith & Jane Relf
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spirallingmoths · 1 year
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Redraw of that scene
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firstluvlatespring · 6 months
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walked so much, first time in a longgg time went to a bookstore and bought a book, i got roaming by jillian and mariko tamaki and the art is so pretty 😋 but was sooo tired that i went to bed at 7pm and now am up at 11:30 pm with depression on my mind
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dndtreasury · 1 year
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Taurus
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thisismyobsessionnow · 10 months
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if you get this answer with your top 5 music artists and send it to the last 7 people in your notifications <3
Oh, hi!
Top 5 right now or of all time? Who knows, I think I'll do a mix and I'm also going to skip both Joker Out and Måneskin, because that would be too boring! Let's get some other music recs in here instead!
Not in any particular order:
Electric Callboy Y'all, if you don't already know and listen to EC I don't know what to say. They recently released a cover of Everytime we touch and if you haven't heard it do yourself a favor and go listen to it right now.
An Abstract Illusion If you followed me back in August and September last year when they released their second album after 6 years of silence, you're probably still sick of me raving about them. But these guys are so good, I'm so proud of them and I'll never stop praising them. The genre? Don't let this scare you but here we go; Ambient and atmospheric progressive blackened melodic death metal, or something like that. I, personally, would put a lot of weight on the ambient and atmospheric parts, their music is an experience. The new album, Woe, is written as a 1 hour song divided into seven tracks and I'll listen to that as a form of meditation, I get completely lost in the music.
Sonata Arctica My power metal roots. I talked about my love for them in some tags the other day. They saved my life. Period. I would not be who I am today without them, they helped me open so many doors in my life. Listening to Tallulah still brings me right back to 14 year old me crying in English class when I first discovered them.
Avantasia More power metal created by the one and only Tobias Sammet, love of my life. It's a metal opera project with tons of guest singers and all albums are concept with stories running through them, it's just great. Honestly, they're pretty much the only band I kept up with even during my dark years of not listening to music. I share my love for this band with my dad and we've been travelling to different places around Europe to see them every time they've toured since 2010.
The Halo Effect Of course I had to put some classic Gothenburg melodic death metal in here! And I mean I say classic but this is a new band, the members are not new though, they are THE pioneers coming back together to create possibly the best melodeath that's been heard in many, many years. Incredible. Amazing. Showstopping. Can't wait for their next album.
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phlegmboymessiah · 1 year
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I just had the fright of my life (Scary)
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richhomiemorgan · 6 days
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lillybean730 · 7 months
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i like that crochet can't be easily replicated by machines like knitting can, it makes it feel more important that i can do it you know?
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harlltree · 8 months
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H - Hello You
A - Arabella
R - R U Mine?
L - Little Illusion Machine
L - Library Pictures
T - The Bad Thing
R - Riot Van
E - Evil Twin
E- Electricity
(Arctic Monkeys Vers ft. Miles Kane & The Death Ramps)
I tried to keep this very diverse with the albums but idkkkk
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heritageposts · 3 months
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Google-translated, posted October 8th
This piece Manoel wrote in 2020 should also be mandatory reading for all Western "leftists," especially now as the Western illusion of military invincibility is being shattered
[...] Another factor that is very common in the western left is to treat suffering and extreme poverty as elements of superiority. It is very common in Western leftist culture to support martyrs and suffering. Everyone today likes Salvador Allende. Why? Salvador Allende is a victim, a martyr. He was assassinated in Pinochet’s coup d’ etat.
And, on Western leftists support of Palestine (pre Al-Aqsa Flood — Manoel, writing in 2020, was clearly underestimating the military capabilities of the Gazan resistance)
Palestinians are a people who are deeply oppressed, in a situation of extreme poverty, that don’t have a national economy because they don’t have a national state. They don’t have an army or military or economic power. Therefore, Palestine is the total incarnation of the metaphor of David vs Goliath, except that this David doesn’t have a chance of beating Goliath in political and military conflict. Therefore, almost everyone in the international left likes Palestine. People become ecstatic looking at those images -- which I don’t think are very fantastic – of a child or teenager using a sling to launch a rock at a tank. Look, this is a clear example of heroism but it is also a symbol of barbarism. This is a people who do not have the capacity to defend themselves facing an imperialist colonial power that is armed to the teeth. They do not have an equal capacity of resistance, but this is romanticized. Western leftists like this situation of oppression, suffering and martyrdom.
If you're a Westerner, I think it's worth investigating to what extent this image Palestinians as 'defenseless' or 'defeated' (I've seen some of you talk about Palestine in the past tense) factors into your support of Palestine as it is now, under occupation.
Because there will be an after.
Everyone supported Viet Nam when it was under attack, being destroyed and bombed for over 30 years. Viet Nam beat Japan in WW2, then had to fight France, and then had to fight the United States. It passed 30 straight years without being able to build a damn school or hospital because a bomb would drop, first from France and then the United States, and destroy it. When the country was finally able to beat all of the colonial and neocolonial powers and have the opportunity to start planning, to build highways, electrical systems, schools and universities without having bombs land on them the next day and destroy everything that was being done, the country was abandoned by the majority of the left. It lost its charm, it lost its enchantment. There is a fetish for defeat in the western left. It is an idea that defeat is something majestic.
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A Workshop for Creating Magical/ Fictional Crystals: A Guide from a Geologist
Hi folks, its me, here to talk about fictional writing again! Today I'm just tackling the idea of magical stones/mana stones by looking at existing minerals today and some neat properties that they have, and how you can apply these things to a fictional world. The goal is mainly to help you if you are stuck trying to come up with a unique magic system, or a unique identification/characteristic of your mineral.
First Things First: Mineral Shapes
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I am exhausted, petered out, down-right fatigued by seeing every mineral depicted with having the crystal structure of calcite and quartz. There are soooooo many cooler, more interesting crystal structures, don't you think you would stop and take a look at a perfect cube in nature? It is completely unsettling.
Second: Color
Color within minerals can either be really important, or not important at all! It is your choice to decide if color is going to be something that means something to your mineral. But what are some times when the color is important? Well.... there are some elements that are called chromophores, this classification just indicates that these elements, when present, will determine the color of whatever they are in. So, if you wanted to treat mana like a chromophore, you could say, "Oh everything that contains mana turns green!" This could mean that regardless of the mineral, if that mineral is a specific color, it means it contains mana. This concept is exciting because you can just stop here and use minerals that already exist! You can also use it as an indicator for a magical ore! Chromophores are typically metals, so if you are making a new metal weapon, making the ore of that metal a unique color would make a lot of sense!
However, your mineral can also just be every color of the rainbow like quartz and perhaps that's what makes identifying your mana stones elusive and create an illusion of scarcity that your character can solve.
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There are other things that can change the colors of minerals, like radiation damage, and electron exchange, but I think that is beyond what would be helpful! So lets talk about some unique color properties that happen in nature that seem magical in the first place! Maybe you don't need to design a mana stone, but you want a unique gemstone that only the royal family passes down or something (IDK).
The first one is the alexandrite effect! This is where a mineral can change color in natural light vs. incandescent light. (the mineral itself is not changing, but the lights contain different amounts of different colors that then get absorbed by the stone). Even if you don't use electricity in your fictional world, you could have the colors change in the presence of light magic. This could create fun misunderstandings about what the mineral is reacting to!
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Pleochroism
Pleochroism is something that most minerals have, it is frequently used to help identify minerals in thin sections, however minerals are usually not pleochroic enough for it to be visible to the naked eye! Pleochroism is just a fancy name to describe the change in how light is absorbed based on the angle of the mineral! So if you scroll up to the first image where I showed a lot of crystal shapes, most of them have angles where they are longer and shorter! This will effect the way light travels in the crystal. Tanzanite is a popular mineral that does this.
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Photochromism
This is when a mineral will change color (in a reversible way) when exposed to UV light (or sunlight), I am not going to go too into the details of why this is happening because it would require me to read some research papers and I just don't feel like it. The mineral that is best known for this is Hackmanite!
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Alright! These are all the really cool color effects that might inspire you or maybe not, but now I am going to talk about how you might find your minerals within a rock!
When I see a lot of magical caves/mines, typically I see them with some variation of a geode honestly, but most minerals are not found like that! Now I am sure most of you guys have seen a geode, so I will not really talk about those, but I will talk briefly about porphyroblasts which is when the mineral grows larger than the minerals around it, this happens in metamorphic minerals!
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sorry random stranger, but this is an image of garnets inside a finer-grained rock at gore mountain in New York!
Another way you might find minerals is in a pegmatite! This is when all minerals are really large! This is a formed from really slow crystalizing magma!
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But something else to think about is that your mineral might just be massive, it doesn't have to have distinct crystals, it may be similar to jadeite where small grains grow together which leaves it looking smooth and seamless! A note about all of these is that you would have to mine into the rock to find these, there would not be any natural caves in these rocks! Caves are only ever really formed in limestones and maybe marbles (rocks that react with acid).
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How can your characters identify these minerals?
Typically when you are out in the field you will look to see what type of rocks the minerals are found in (The overall texture of the rock will tell you how it formed). If you know how the rock formed, it will narrow down the amount of minerals you need to think about by quite a bit! Next, you are going to look closely at it and observe its crystal structure, does it have an obvious crystal? if so what is the general shape? If it is broken, how did it break? Did it fracture like glass or did it break along uniform planes. Some minerals have a thing called cleavage (breaks along planes of weakness). If a mineral exhibits this habit, it will again help narrow this down. Next we can look at color. Color can be misleading, because minerals like quartz can be any color imaginable, but minerals like olivine will always be green! The next thing your character can do is test for hardness, minerals all have a specific hardness that can help identify it as well.
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After you go through all of this, your mineral might have some special property! This could be magnetism, fluorescence, reactions to acid, or any of the color changing effects I mentioned above! Other than that, your character can take it back to a lab and do a number of things to identify it, but the most typical thing would be for them to make a thin section (very thin piece of the rock) and observe it under a cross polarized microscope!
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On that note folks! I hope this helped in some way in thinking of new magic mineral properties! I have other guides that explore some different fictional worldbuilding issues you might run into, but if you have any topics you would like me to cover please that I haven't mentioned already, let me know!
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