Today's polish is a jelly sandwich. The base is a green-leaning dark teal and the topper is full of multicolored irridescent flakes and glitter. I think they paired together pretty well, although I definitely want to try this topper with other colors. This is Verdigris Jelly and Crystal Tokyo both from Cirque Colors.

5 Random Magic Potions

A flask filled with a watery amber medicine with amber and brass motes floating in it. When uncorked it smells of fish and rotting flesh. When drunk it makes the user much more charismatic. The flask holds enough for a single use.

A ceramic urn filled with a syrupy tan jelly with ashen flecks suspended in it. When uncorked it reeks of honey. When smeared on it causes muscles to wither. There is enough jelly for 2 uses.

A vial filled with an aqueous drab gel with beige and carnelian granules drifting in it. When opened it smells of dry grass and the sea. When rubbed on it negates the effect of any poison. There is enough gel for 3 uses.

A canteen filled with a thin jet ointment with verdigris powder suspended in it. When uncorked it reeks of fish. When rubbed on it allows one to understand beasts. The canteen holds enough for 2 uses.

An earthenware urn filled with a congealed topaz solution. When unstoppered it smells of ale and onions. When quaffed it negates the effect of any poison. There is enough solution for 2 uses.

medicines obtained from the mineral kingdom

Alum (alum is obtained from alum salts)

Arsenic

black Antimony

butter of Antimony

bromide of potassium

biniodid of mercury

carbolic acid

calomel

chlorate of potash

caustic potash

chloride of zinc

creolin

crude petroleum oil

hyposulfite of soda

iodide of potassium

lime (calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide)

Monsel's solution (an iron sulfate)

nitrate of silver

saltpetre or nitrate of potash

oxide of zinc

sulfuric acid

sulfate of copper

sulfate of iron

sulfate of zinc

sugar of lead (lead acetate)

salt or sodium chloride

Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) and Glauber's salts (sodium sulfate)

Brimstone (just pure sulfur)

Tartar emetic (antimony potassium tartrate)

vaseline (petroleum jelly)

verdigris (copper acetate salts)

("The Veterinary Science, 1907)

Colour Words

White: French beige,  Navajo white,  alabaster white,  albino white,  antique white,  arctic white,  argent white,  ashen white,  beige,  birch,  biscuit white,  bisque,  blanched almond,  blanched white,  bleached white,  blonde,  bone white,  buff,  camel,  canvas beige,  linen white,  marshmallow white,  milk white,  mocassin,  mother-of-pearl,  mushroom,  neutral white,  nude,  oatmeal white,  off-white,  old lace white,  opal,  paper white,  pearl white,  piano key white,  polar white,  porcelain,  powder white,  pure white,  raw cotton white,  coconut white,  contrast white,  cotton white,  cream,  diamond,  dove white,  ecru,  eggshell white,  flax,  flour white,  fog white,  frosted white,  ghost white,  goose white,  hemp,  ivory white,  lace white,  latte,  light tan,  lily white,  sandstone,  seashell white,  sheep white,  sheet white,  shell white,  shining star white,  silvery white,  smoky beige,  snow white,  solid white,  spotless white,  sugar white,  toothpaste white,  vanilla,  waxen white,  wedding white,  whey,  white,  white chocolate,  white smoke  Yellow: Chardonnay,  French fry yellow,  Titanium yellow,  amber,  banana yellow,  bleached blond,  blond,  buff,  bumblebee yellow,  butter yellow,  buttercup,  butternut squash yellow,  butterscotch,  cadmium yellow,  canary yellow,  champagne,  citrine,  corn yellow,  lemon peel,  lemon sherbet,  lemon yellow,  linen,  lion yellow,  maize,  marigold yellow,  mellow yellow,  metallic gold,  mimosa yellow,  mustard yellow,  ochre,  olive,  omelette yellow,  palamino,  papaya,  parakeet yellow,  pencil yellow,  cream,  custard yellow,  daffodil yellow,  dandelion,  duckling yellow,  egg yolk yellow,  electric yellow,  flax,  flesh tone,  gold,  gold yellow,  golden bronze,  golden yellow,  goldenrod,  highlighter yellow,  honey yellow,  lemon chiffon,  lemon drop,  pineapple yellow,  popcorn yellow,  raincoat yellow,  saffron,  school bus yellow,  squash yellow,  straw yellow,  sunflower yellow,  sunglow yellow,  sunset yellow,  sunshine yellow,  taxi cab yellow,  topaz,  vanilla,  wheat,  yellow,  yolk yellow  

Orange:  amber,  apricot,  basketball  orange,  blood  orange,  bourbon,  burnt  orange,  butterfly  orange,  candlelight  orange,  candy  corn,  cantaloupe  orange,  carnelian,  carotene,  carrot  orange,  cheddar  orange,  cinnamon,  mango,  marigold  orange,  melon  orange,  neon  orange,  old  gold,  orange,  orange  juice,  orange  peel,  orange  sherbet,  orange  soda,  orange-red,  papaya,  peach,  persimmon,  pumpkin  orange,   copper  penny,  coral,  dark  orange,  dark  salmon,  dayglo  orange,  ember  orange,  fall  leaves  orange,  flame  orange,  ginger  orange,  gold,  golden  orange,  goldfish  orange,  ice  pop  orange,  light  orange,  light  salmon,   rust  orange,  safety  orange,  saffron,  salamander  orange,  starfish  orange,  sunrise  orange,  tabby,  tangelo,  tangerine,  tawny,  tiger  orange,  tiger  stripe  orange,  traffic  cone  orange,  yam  orange

Red: Bordeaux  red,  Indian  red,  alizarin  crimson,  amaranth,  apple  red,  auburn,  autumn  leaf  red,  barn  red,  beet  red,  blood  red,  blush,  bougainvillea,  bourbon,  brick  red,  bright  red,  burgundy,  burnt  sienna,  candy  apple  red,  cardinal  red,  carmine,  carnelian,  cerise,  cherry  red,  chestnut  red,  chili  pepper  red,  magenta,  magma  red,  maroon,  orange-red,  paprika,  pepperoni  red,  persimmon  red,  pink  red,  pomegranate  red,  poppy  red,  rabbit  eye  red,  radish  red,  rare  steak  red,  raspberry  red,  red,  red  apple,  red  berry,  red  carpet,  red  licorice,  red  lipstick,  red  nose,  red  pepper,  red  potato,  red  rose,  red  velvet,  claret,  copper,  coral  red,  crab  red,  cranberry  red,  crimson  red,  dark  cerise,  dark  red,  deep  pink,  devil  red,  faded  rose,  fire  engine  red,  fire  red,  fire  truck  red,  flame  red,  florid  red,  fruit  punch  red,  garnet  red,  geranium  red,  henna,  hibiscus  red,  hot  pink,  ketchup  red,  ladybug  red,  lipstick  red,  red  wine  vinegar,  redwood,  rosewood,  rouge,  ruby  red,  russet  red,  rust  red,  sangria  red,  scarlet,  sports  car  red,  stop  light  red,  stop  sign  red,  strawberry  red,  tawny  port  red,  tawny  red,  terra  cotta,  tomato  bisque,  tomato  red,  torch  red,  vermillion,  watermelon  flesh,  wine  red,  winter  apple  red

Pink: Pepto Bismal pink,   Persian rose,   amaranth,   apricot,   ash rose,   baby cheeks pink,   baby pink,   bacon pink,   ballerina pink,   ballet pink,   ballet slipper pink,   begonia,   blush pink,   bougainvillea,   bubblegum pink,   cameo,   carmine,   carnation pink,   cerise,   cherry blossom,   mulberry,   neon pink,   orchid,   pale pink,   pastel pink,   peach,   peach puff,   peony pink,   petunia pink,   pig pink,   pink,   pink Cadillac,   pink champagne,   pink cheeks,   pink diamond,   pink grapefruit,   pink lemonade,   pink sherbet,   polka dot pink,   powder pink,   conch pink,   coral pink,   cotton candy,   cranberry,   cupcake pink,   dayglo pink,   dusty rose,   eraser pink,   flamingo pink,   flesh,   flesh-colored,   fuchsia,   grapefruit pink,   hibiscus pink,   hot pink,   jellyfish pink,   lavender pink,   light plum,   lipstick pink,   magenta,   rose,   rose petal,   rose pink,   rose quartz,   rosy red,   ruby,   ruddy pink,   sand pink,   seashell pink,   shocking pink,   soft pink,   strawberry jam,   strawberry milkshake,   sunset pink,   tea rose,   thistle pink,   tongue pink,   tulip pink,   turnip pink,   worm pink

Purple: Concord grape,   amethyst,   aubergine,   beet purple,   bilberry purple,   blackberry,   blackcurrant,   blue violet,   blueberry,   brandywine,   bruise purple,  byzantium,   cerise,   claret,   currant,   dahlia,   magenta,   mauve,   monster purple,   mulberry,   opal purple,   orchid purple,   pale plum,   pansy purple,   passionfruit purple,   pastel purple,   periwinkle,   plum,   prune,   purple,   purple cabbage,   purple jam,   dark raspberry,   dark violet,   eggplant purple,   fandango,   grape crush,   grape jam purple,   grape jelly purple,   grape purple,   heliotrope,   hyacinth,   inky purple,   iris purple,   juice purple,   lavender,   lavender blush,   lilac purple,   quartz,   raisin purple,   raspberry,   rhubarb purple,   royal purple,   thistle,   true purple,   turnip purple,   violet,   violet red,   wild berry purple,   wild grape,   wine,   wisteria

Blue: Caribbean blue,   Caribbean turquoise,   Dodger blue,   Pacific blue,   Prussian blue,   Tiffany blue,   alice blue,   aqua blue,   aquamarine,   azure blue,  baby blue,   blue belle,   blue ice,   blue jean blue,   blue-green,   blueberry,  bluebird blue,   bluebonnet blue,   cadet blue,   lapis lazuli,   light blue,  marine blue,   marlin blue,   midnight blue,   navy blue,   neon blue,   nighttime blue,   ocean blue,   pale blue,   pastel blue,   peacock blue,   police officer blue,   pool blue,   powder blue,   ribbon blue,   robin egg,   royal blue,   sapphire blue,   cobalt,   cornflower,   cyan,   dark blue,   dark slate blue,   deep sky blue,   denim blue,   dolphin blue,   electric blue,   frostbite blue,   glacial blue,   heather,   iceberg blue,   icy blue,   imperial blue,   indigo blue,   inky blue,  jay blue,   lake blue,   slate blue,   snowflake blue,   stained glass blue,   steel blue,   stone blue,   summer sky blue,   surf blue,   swimming pool,   teal blue,   true blue,   turquoise,   ultra blue,   ultramarine,   verdigris,   violet blue,   washed denim blue,   whale blue

Green: Granny Smith apple,   Kelly green,   Kermit green,   Persian green,   absinthe,   algae green,   alligator green,   apple green,   aqua,   army green,   artichoke green,   asparagus green,   avocado green,   bay leaf green,   bluegrass green,   boxwood green,   broccoli green,   cabbage green,   cactus green,   caterpillar green,   celery green,   chartreuse,   chive green,   chlorophyll green,   iceberg lettuce,   iguana green,   ivy green,   jade green,   jadestone,   jungle green,   kelp green,   key lime green,   leaf green,   leprechaun green,   lettuce green,   lichen green,   light cyan,   lime green,   lizard green,   melon rind green,   metallic mint,   mint green,   moss green,   myrtle green,   neon green,   olive drab,   olive green,   parrot green,   crocodile green,   cucumber green,   cyan,   cypress,   dark khaki green,   dark olive green,   dollar bill green,   drab olive,   eel green,   emerald green,   evergreen,   fern green,   forest green,   frog green,   grass green,   grasshopper green,   green,   green apple,   green olive,   green pepper,   green tea,   green-yellow,   holly,   honeydew green,   pea soup,   pear green,   pickle green,   pine green,   pistachio,   sage green,   sea green,   seafoam green,   seaweed green,   shamrock green,   spinach green,   spring bud green,   spring green,   sprout green,   spruce green,   summer grass,   swamp green,   tea green,   turtle green,   verdant,   verdigris,   wasabi green,   zucchini green

Brown: October brown,   acorn brown,   auburn,   autumn leaf,   barbecue sauce brown,   bark brown,   bay,   bear brown,   beetle brown,   biscuit brown,   branch brown,   brick brown,   bronze,   brown,   brown sugar,   brunette,   burnt sienna,  burnt umber,   butterscotch brow,   cafe au lait,   camel brown,   cappuccino brown,   caramel brown,   cardboard brown,   chestnut brown, kangaroo brown,   khaki,   leather,   lion brown,   liver brown,   mahogany,   maple brown,   maple sugar brown,   maroon,   meatball brown,   milk chocolate,   mink,   mocha brown,   mud brown,   nougat,   nude,   nut brown,   nut brown ale,   nutmeg,   oak brown,   pancake brown,   peanut butter brown,   potato brown,   pretzel brown,   raisin brown,   cinnamon brown,   cocoa,   cocoa brown,   coffee bean brown,   coffee brown,   coffee stain brown,   copper,   dark chocolate brown,   dark citrine,   deer brown,   desert sand,   dirt,   doeskin,   dun,   earth brown,   earth yellow,   earthenware brown,   fallow,   fawn brown,   football brown,   fox brown,   freckle brown,   ginger brown,   golden brown,   hazel brown,  rich earth,  roan,   root beer brown,   rosewood,   ruddy brown,   russet brown,   rust,  saddle brown,   sand,   sandy brown,   sea lion brown,   semi-sweet chocolate,   sepia,   sienna,   sorrel,   steak brown,   tan,   tan brown,   tan-nude,   tawny,   toast brown,   tumbleweed,   tweed brown,   walnut brown,   wheat,

Gray/Grey: argent silver,   ash gray,   battleship gray,   cadet gray,   charcoal gray,   chrome,   cloud gray,   cloudy day gray,   concrete gray,   cool gray,   cool grey,   dim gray,   dolphin gray,   dove gray,   overcast gray,   owl gray,   oyster gray,   pewter,   pigeon gray,   platinum,   rainy day gray,   rhinoceros gray,   river rock,   salt and pepper gray,   sardine gray,   seal gray,   shark gray,   silver,   elephant gray,   fog gray,   grandma gray,   granite gray,   gray,   grey,   gunmetal gray,   haze gray,   hippopotamus gray,   iron gray,   koala gray,   metal gray,   mist gray,   moon gray,   smoke gray,   soot gray,   steel gray,   stone gray,   storm gray,   stormy sea gray,   taupe gray,   thunder cloud gray,   warm gray,   wed sidewalk gray,   wool gray,   zinc gray

Black: Mars black,   black,   black cat,   black coffee,   black licorice,   black pearl,   black pepper,   black tar,   blackboard black,   blackout,   blue-black,   bow tie black,   kettle black,   kohl black,   licorice black,   mascara black,   mica,  midnight black,   molasses black,   night sky black,   ninja black,   obsidian,   onyx,   outer space black,   caviar black,   chalkboard black,   charcoal black,   coal black,   ebony black,   eclipse black,   eyelash black,   fig,   gothic black,   hearse black,   ink black,   jet black,   piano key black,   pitch black,   pupil black,  raven black,   sable black,   shadow black,   smoky black,   sooty black,   spade black,   spider black,   tar black,   tarmac black

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Sidney - Coursework Piece

It was on a humid afternoon in the last days of June Sidney ate the whale. Not the entire animal – he was a small man – but enough to get an idea of the whale’s quiddity. When the hot metal dish arrived with the pile of dense mammal he threw the tongues of muscle between his teeth and chewed. The mighty dice of eraser rubber, congealed in an opaque glue tasted only vaguely marine. Sidney for a moment was reminded of his late mother, seen from the gap in the serving-hatch, pushing out a cube of gelatin from her refrigerated mold in the kitchenette. “Jell-o thrice a week keeps the nails firm and the teeth white!,” she’d titter, before shoving the jelly tray into the back of the fridge and tipping a Virginia Slim between her disappearing lips. 

Sidney pulled the back of his coat loose from his underwear, imagining its close imitation to a tailcoat’s gradual taper. He pushed the plate away and watched the old night porter, like a prop in The Copper House’s slimy walls of verdigris,  blot cubes of whale onto squares of mint tissue. He did it with the strange, exhausted mechanical swing of a poor man: forking and poking at the meat and sliding it into the hole of his wizened face. Sidney stashed a wad of notes beneath the salt pig and slid out the back of the eatery.

 Out on the street, the people jeered when Sidney passed. His shoes were falling off and the pieces of whale now sloshed around his gouty body, squirming in a weeks marinade of liquor and gluttony. There were moths living in Sidney’s bedroom, and now they had made a home for themselves in the sutures of his clothes. He felt their small wings wince as he stumbled about the pavement. He had acquired a squiffy tick: a scratch at both armpits and a claw through his chest hair. It did not make him feel pretty. To beguile some more time Sidney sat in an Italian place, one with a gaudy neon sign, displaying sad triangles of pepperoni in the window. He watched them being peeled off the sheet of plaid paper, leaving behind perfect shadows of grease. The skinny Turk behind the marble, slid on the lino, flipping and twirling a tea-towel and shoveling the pizza into the oven to be baked to tastelessness. 

Sidney sat there for two hours, quaffing down an Aperol and muddling through a plastic cup of gray olives. Everyone had a lime bobbing in their glass. The sliced green fruits jumped. Sidney thought the floor might be heaving. 

Did the floor heave? 

He looked out the window and only the clouds moved. 

The people were too busy eating slim sausage stew to see what Sidney saw so he ditched the place, angry about the moths, leaving the table wet and a thicker pile of notes stuck to the PVC tablecloth.

  Sidney was walking in the gutter again and the jeers were getting louder. Old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet ‘dirty’, Sidney thought. It was an anxiety he identified in many of his old friends, particularly those of ample proportions. With their puffed out flanks hauled into cords and the hair of an ugly duckling, getting a leg over was a damp and timid venture. Albert would often say the town made him want to die. Most times Sidney felt the same. 

Nonetheless, they cheersed to the sad folk! Cheersed to wine lips and poor sex! Cheersed to vengeance and big mistakes! 

Sidney had taken a seat on the curb where he thought about his big mistakes. Whilst being construed as a wispily-haired toilet hanger-abouter did not flatter Sidney’s ego, it did not falter his commitment to Tuesday night dabbling. You see Sidney McBrady took pride in his thirst for the dirt; A vast and haughty nonagenarian who only answered to the sobriquet ‘Duchesse’, he wore his heels high and his skirts short. Without last night’s imbroglio, that had left him a gray shade of yellow, he’d have nothing to tickle the ear holes of the girls at the bar. He had been the simpering badger sat up on a bar stool, looking for an udder to suckle — a night straw — but in the heavily sun-shined street of Wednesday morning, McBrady was a superhero in waiting.

  Sidney pressed his toes into the liver-spotted insoles of his kitten heels and hauled himself up with the tender aid of a lamppost. He staggered past the Tesco, another that had appeared, assembled quick as a flat-pack and snaked itself around the new build in an L-shape. It had the office boys huffing, bumping crotches, waiting to pay for their BLTs in the L-shaped queue. The place sold horrid stuff, Sidney never understood why those supermarkets were always so busy. He had bought a ridiculous ready-meal in there a few Tuesdays back. The measly bits of chicken that floated in the orange sauce were square, comically square! As if the whole bird had been sliced through a quadrat. 

Sidney had wandered around in there that morning and bumped into Eliza, the Superstore’s bouncer. His black face had lit up with teeth like a hundred Hollywood bulbs when he started towards Sidney, his fatness bold and pleasing, packed into security gear. He had been what had felt like an ill-suited face for the nightclub’s front - a Deptford born, Bible man. On his first weeks trial, Sidney remembered how Eliza had stuck close to the doors, walkie-talkie clamped to his cheek, his short stature lost in the high-heeled crowds. Tuesday’s trans-scene: the night’s pavement alight with wigs, the girl-boys, the question-mark people and the freaks, the pierced and tatted, shaven and tonguing, Sidney had thought Eliza was a man overboard a slippery, shiny boat. Though within a short succession of club nights, Eliza won the adoration of the people and Sidney’s came first.

  Sidney was gyrating to the music of yesternight, slipping on and off the pavement. The red and yellow acrylic shopfronts, each bespangled with Pakistani hieroglyph and a stink of kebab and broiled onions made him think of Christmas. Homebound, he eyed the dregs of the early morning crawl about Peckham Rye, burdened with bags and homeless troubles. He wasn’t afraid to look at them anymore - Not now that he knew he certainly wasn’t one of them. 

He reached the last of the Common’s shops and clattered up a fire-escape, dodging the potted plants strung on chains from the iron boughs. Sidney jumped in through the third window, limboing the frame and landing in somebody’s kitchen.

4 Random Magic Potions

A drinking horn filled with a gooey ivory philter with bone granules drifting in it. When unstoppered it smells of burnt hair and rancid food. When consumed it increases strength. The drinking horn holds enough for a single use.

An earthenware jug filled with a slimy copper jelly with aquamarine and gold grit drifting in it. When opened it smells of onions. When applied it causes one to levitate briefly. The earthenware jug holds enough for a single use.

An ampoule filled with a thin taupe unction with buff flecks dispersed in it. When uncorked it smells of ash and the ocean. When rubbed on it causes extreme panic. There is enough unction for a single use.

An amphora filled with a curdled verdigris salve with ashen flakes suspended in it. When unstoppered it smells of burning hair. When applied it transforms the user into an animal of their choice. There is enough salve for a single use.

4 Random Magic Potions

A drinking horn filled with a coagulated sapphire jelly. When unstoppered it smells of salt water. When applied it heals wounds. There is enough jelly for a single use.

A flask filled with a gelatinous emerald tonic with verdigris dust floating in it. When uncorked it reeks of honey and damp soil. When imbibed it causes immediate unconsciousness. The flask holds enough for 3 uses.

A canteen filled with a mucilaginous yellow balm with onyx and brass grains dispersed in it. When unstoppered it reeks of the ocean and sweat. When smeared on it turns the subject to stone. There is enough balm for a single use.

A ceramic urn filled with a gooey platinum poultice. When uncorked it smells of burning meat and sulfur. When smeared on it causes one to levitate for a moment. The ceramic urn holds enough for 2 uses.

5 Random Magic Potions

A leather waterskin filled with a watery cinnamon philter. When opened it reeks of rot and onions. When imbibed it triggers a fit of sobbing. The leather waterskin holds enough for a single use.

A glass jar filled with a thick buff jelly with drab motes floating in it. When uncorked it reeks of onions. When smeared on it transforms the user into an animal of their choice. There is enough jelly for 3 uses.

A ceramic crock filled with a coagulated green oil with verdigris and crimson dust floating in it. When opened it reeks of smoke and dust. When consumed it negates the effect of any poison. The ceramic crock holds enough for 2 uses.

A flask filled with an aqueous opal serum. When opened it reeks of smoke and rotting fish. When smeared on it confers the ability to see in darkness. There is enough serum for a single use.

A waterskin filled with a clotted silver mixture with cyan and amethyst speckles floating in it. When unstoppered it smells of onions. When quaffed it robs the subject of all intelligence. There is enough mixture for a single use.

5 Random Magic Potions

An amphora filled with a slimy caramel potion. When opened it reeks of rancid food. When swallowed it dissolves flesh. The amphora holds enough for 3 uses.

A ceramic urn filled with a stiff golden solution with ashen and charcoal granules dispersed in it. When unstoppered it reeks of strong tea. When consumed it makes the user much more charismatic. The ceramic urn holds enough for 3 uses.

A ceramic crock filled with a clotted vermillion gel with magenta crumbs drifting in it. When opened it smells of rotting flesh and rot. When rubbed on it restores sight to the blind. The ceramic crock holds enough for 3 uses.

A glass jar filled with a thick gold jelly with vermillion and pearl flakes drifting in it. When uncorked it reeks of seawater and ash. When rubbed on it negates the effect of any poison. There is enough jelly for 3 uses.

An earthenware urn filled with a congealed verdigris unguent with garnet speckles suspended in it. When uncorked it reeks of seawater. When rubbed on it causes muscles to wither. The earthenware urn holds enough for 3 uses.