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homestucks version of 9/11 just happened i think

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Omg hii one of ur hnk posts actually inspired one of my hnk oc ezra(phenakite, he changed his name due to lore shenanigains) I implemented how they dont solve in acids as they have a very high sour tolerance (as in toxic waste levels of sour tolerance, gummies are their favourite food :]). But i also have my oc sodalite, I feel like i need more physical stuff to add to their character. idk do you have any facts abt the two gems i can probably implement somehow? Love ur work!

Hi!!! I'm sorry for the very late reply, but life decided to fuck shit up (as it does, smh) and also my main source of mineral info, Mindat, went down for days TT_TT but now it is back and so am I!

I'm so happy i could help you!! Thank you for your trust (and patience, I made you wait huh -_-''), let's try to find good infos!

I'll add also as many pics as possible because I noticed finding good mineral pics is becoming harder and harder, especially on g00gle images that has been FLOODED with AI slop and dr0pshipping fake plastic minerals sold as real...

I'll put all the infos under the cut as usual, since it will be LONG!

first of all, i want to explain the terminology i'll be using because it is difficult and boring.

Formula is the composition of the mineral.

Lustre is the way the mineral looks: it can be adamantine (shiny as diamond), vitreous, dull, earthy, greasy... they're all pretty self-explanatory

Mohs Hardness is a scale from 1 (softer minerals) to 10 (harder minerals) based on the scratch power. Taking your Lustrous as an example, your hardness 8 Phenakite would be able to scratch your hardness 5,5-6 Sodalite; however, the Mohs scale DOES NOT take into consideration how easily a mineral can break; it only measures the scratching power!

Tenacity does take into consideration how does a mineral react to a force. there's different types:

Brittle: the mineral breaks. Most minerals do that Sectile: it can be cut like butter instead of breaking in a trillion pieces; mostly very soft minerals with a low Mohs Scale Indext do that, as well as soft metals Tough: the mineral is badass and just doesn't break. Honestly, they're so few I can't even name you one... Ductile: the mineral can be stretched like a chewing-gum, but just as before, it's SO rare i dont know any mineral who does that... this is mostly a metal stuff

Cleavage: it may sound bad, but it's just the way the mineral breaks when hit! The real definition is "split along planes". THIS is the thing to look at to know if a mineral breaks easily or not. The planes along which the mineral break can be defined in a scale.

Perfect: the mineral WILL break very easily if hit on this plane, and will split in a perfect, smooth line. It could break the whole mineral in many pieces along all the other planes if the hit is good enough Distinct/GoodImperfect/FairPoor/IndistinctNone Observed: no cleavage and no defined planes. the crystal might just chip an angle without much repercussions to the whole mineral.

Specific Gravity is the weight of the mineral related to the weight of water, that is considered 1. The human body has a specific gravity very similiar to water, so also around 1. This means that if a humanoid Lustrous, if it was a human would weight 60kg, but the mineral of the Lustrous has a specific gravity of 3.3, to calculate the weight of the Lustrous you need to do 3.3 x 60 = 198kg! The "usual" mineral is between 2 and 3, but there's minerals that have a specific gravity as high as 7 or 8!! (This is not canon, but wouldnt it be cool if a Lustrous with a higher specific gravity was slower and less agile than a Lustrous with a very low specific gravity?)

Strunz-Mindat (2025) Classification is the way ALL minerals are categorized, based on their chemical formula and other physical properties. It is very important to unite minerals who are related to each other!

IMA–CNMNC Mineral Symbol: the official shortened name (called "symbol") for a mineral, decided by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA). Useful when you don't want to say the lenghty name of the mineral over and over!

Ok, i'm sorry for the premise. Now that all is explained, let's jump to your minerals!

Sodalite

Formula: Na4(Si3Al3)O12Cl (but in the grey variant, the Na can be partially substituted by K)

Lustre: either vitreous and transparent, or greasy and opaque.

Mohs Hardness: between 5,5 and 6 (the hardness depends specimen by specimen, so this is your decision to take based on what suits it best for the lore or the character!)

Tenacity: brittle

Cleavage: Poor/Indistinct

Specific Gravity: 2,3

Strunz-Mindat (2025) Classification: 9.FB.10: a Silicate (9) non-zeolite Tektosilicate (F), Tektosilicate with additional anions (B)

IMA–CNMNC Mineral Symbol: Sdl

Sodalite is a feldespathoid mineral, related to Nosean, Haüyne and Lazulite. Feldspathoids, like the similiar feldspaths, aren't really "friends" with quartzes; in fact, the minerals are never found together.

Sodalite has a decent hardness and a good resistance to breaking, and is very light-weight; it is not toxic, it doesn't melt in the water, but it reacts to acids. It is very stable and for all these properties (and also for its beauty!) it is commonly used as a gemstone.

Sodalite is fluorescent! Bright red-orange under SW UV light and blue, white, pink, red, yellow under LW UV light.

The most "common" depiction of Sodalite is vitreous and a deep beautiful blue:

Or a dull, opaque blue crust:

But it can be as easily transparent and colourless:

Afghani Sodalite can be grey:

Or many other colours!

Sodalite has a variety called Hackmanite. It comes in colours between pink and bluish-purple and has a peculiar optic property called tenebrescence: it is a kind of reversible photochromism (or: changing colour when exposed to the sunlight). When Hackmanite is exposed to the light its colour fades, but worry not, its not forever! If stored in the dark, it can go back to its original deep colour. When broken (or exposed to UV light) exhibits a deep purple-red colour, but i think (i'm not sure here, the sources are not clear, im sorry) it is also reversable.

And some examples of its tenebrescence:

I yapped a lot, and i don't think i can fit also Phenakite in here, whoops! I hope I helped, and if you (or anyone reading this) has any question or needs more infos, i'm always ready to give more! Sorry for the bad english, it is not my first language.

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also, for the record: I DONT USE AI FOR MY RESEARCHES. And neither should you!! Whether they're historical (like for my AZ drawing) or scientific (like for Houseki no Kuni), I searched myself for all my sources, I suffered and searched for days and months and found the best sources I could, and I enjoyed the process.

My geological sources, specifically, are: Mindat (the BEST site for mineral infos and photos), books from the local libraries, the (few free ones 🙄😒) scientific and peer-reviewed papers, and the books I've bought from geology conferences and festivals I've been to irl.

For historical references, I use university-grade books from local libraries, peer-reviewed papers (there are more free ones than the geology ones!), and sources from museums.

Please, please, don't use AI for your resources. AI doesn't know what's a good reference and source and what's not; AI will even make up shit! Please, enjoy the voyage of the research instead of laying on that bag of smelly trash that's AI chatbots. Do your research, be the best person you can be!

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hewwo, I'm back to help people to make Houseki no Kuni OCs. I used to do it a few years ago (with the tag #hnk oc help ) and now I'm willing to do it again 💪

So if you want me to explain better a mineral to you, find a mineral with certain properties for your OC creation etc, my 1nb0x is open 👍

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baby Begalone with a cute all-ages appropriate outfit :) don't worry about it :)

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the feldspar brothers; sunstone and moonstone

close-ups

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yeehaw

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lo chiamavano lenzetta

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they're playing pokemon :)

("playing pokemon" means Genesio plays and yaps about how bad the last games look and how difficult the competitive battles are, while Riccetto just enjoys the colorful funny monsters on the screen)

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episode 1 and its already peak (gif by me)

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I had a more "spicy" old man AZ drawing to post, but now with the xitter bitching about adult content + tumblr being so strict it flagged one of my drawings of a cis guy without a shirt on, i guess i can't post it ever. blame it on those asshole t/e/rf/s 😁👌 god fucking dammit 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

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I'm not in the right mind to be taking care of a yakuza. But... "I could hang out with you for a bit longer," I thought to myself.

(Let's go karaoke!, ep. 1)

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the old King of Kalos

young AZ in a 3000 years old Bronze Age-inspired attire! List of referenced i used under the cut

I adapted the tattoos to look more "pokemon-inspired", and the bracelet has pink crystals in it as a reference to Anistar city's sundial :)

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Mi girano le ciribiricoccole (fanfic edition)

Ho inventato questa teoria chiamata "teoria del serpente scrauso che si morde la coda" e riguarda gli scrittori di fanfiction, specialmente (o quasi esclusivamente) nel fandom internazionale.

(dico così perché nel giro italiano questa cosa non l'ho vista, semmai il contrario, il che è positivo. W l'Italia pasta pizza ponte sullo stretto)

Cmq dicevo. Il Serpente Scrauso che si Morde la Coda (o Uroboro Scrauso) è il concetto che gli autori di fanfiction leggono solo fantiction, scritte a loro volta da autori che leggono solo fanfiction, a loro volta scritte da autori che leggono solo fic scritte da etc etc. Questo porta ad un impoverimento degli stilemi narrativi, una ripetizione ossessiva di sempre i soliti plot twist, sempre le stesse frasi ripetute all'infinito e già sentite troppe volte, sempre gli stessi tropi, e persino un appiattimento dei personaggi, a qualsiasi fandom appartengano.

Nella mia testa funziona un po' come l'incesto ripetuto per generazioni e generazioni: non ci sono mai apporti esterni (essi siano geni da estranei o nel caso delle ff, leggersi altro oltre alle fanfiction), la roba (geni o stili narrativi chicchessia) che gira è sempre quella, e come un gioco del telefono (scrauso anch'esso) va via via impoverendosi, peggiorando, diventa la norma, la media qualitativa si abbassa.

Unito inoltre al "ma io scrivo gratis!!! Non voglio critiche!!! Non voglio consigli!! Lo faccio solo per divertimento!!! Se non hai nessun complimento da farmi allora non commentare nemmeno!!!!" eh allora ciao. Ciaone, persino.

L'Uroboro Scauso si mangia sempre più coda, e nessuno vede lo stramaledetto problema perché sono tutti indaffarati a mangiarsi la propria coda.

Diversi mesi fa sul Sito Maledetto (Xitter) si era scatenato un putiferio riguardo qualcuno che aveva detto, forse in modo un po' troppo aggressivo, di leggere libri invece di fanfiction. Signora mia, si immagini il disastro nei Qrt; gente INDYNNYATA che strillava che ci sono tante fanfic PIÙMMEJO di libri pubblicati tradizionalmente etc. Ok. Ma io penso che quella persona AVESSE RAGIONE.

Sì, io penso che per rompere il loop maledetto dell'Uroboro Scauso e sviluppare una scrittura più elevata (vorrei agguantarla cit.) vi sia il bisogno di leggere tanto, leggere vecchi libri e romanzi definiti "classici", studiare, impegnarsi...

E una risposta può essere: "Eh ma io mica mi ci voglio impegnare! Io voglio solo scrivere così tanto per!" Ok. Fallo. E chittisincula sorella mia. Però poi non piangere se poi fai CACARE a scrivere e ci sono altre dodici fyccine uguali alla tua 😝😝😝

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cmq la cosa che mi fa incazzare di Ragazzi di Vita è che potevo iniziarlo MESI prima se mi fosse stato presentato meglio!!

(rant qua sotto)

Minchia, se mi dicevano che il Begalone era lì lì per rifilare un bocchino sul tram ad Alduccio, o che il Lenzetta si grinda sul culo di suo fratello maggiore mentre dorme (somno dubcon brocon? 😳), signora mia io RdV me lo leggevo ALL'ISTANTE!! Ma SENZA ESITAZIONI!!

Tutti te lo descrivono come un libro triste e raccapricciante e drammatico e serioso. E non è vero!!!! FALSE ADVERTISING!!!!!

(cioè, È triste e drammatico perché dio solo sa quanto Pier Paolo ci ha goduto ad ammazzare tipo 1/4 dell'intero cast, ma questo non è il punto.)

RdV, a grandi linee (e se hai il cervello a purè per colpa dell'internet come ce l'ho io) la tua classica fic m/m di AO3 col tag DD;DNE, il tuo bel classicone yaoi con age-gap brocon e più ne ha più ne metta! Design fenomenali!! Ship (principalmente yaoi ma l'het puoi trovarlo se ti impegni) fantastiche!! Tropi magici!!

E invece ho esitato perché mi avevano dato la convinzione che è noioso, è pesante, è roba che ti fanno leggere a scuola, che due palle, non c'è niente di buono... Andate affanculo!!! Mannaggia a voi e a me che vi ho creduto!!! 🖕🖕🖕

Ora bon, torno a scrivere un'ulteriore fanfiction di Ragazzi di Vita . Sono quasi a 300k parole di fanfiction che scrivo su sto libro. Credo di avere un serio problema... o il cazzo troppo grosso e le palle troppo pesanti, dipende come la si vede

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a redraw of an old drawing… these italian gays are taking all my time smh

the comparison with the old version

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love when stories inflict unspeakable horrors onto a person for no real reason. its not karma. its not payback. its not a lesson. its not your fault. no ones even out to get you in particular. youre not the chosen one or special or anything. it just sorta happened and you were there. sorry man