#Bismuth crystals

[m00nb04rd5]

Yui Nanase/Cure Masterpiece (Go Princess Precure) (Project Link Up, Precure Unity Linkage)

Btw, this art was done by me :)

[szaalek-czaje]

I made these!!!! They may not be the best crystals ever created but i love them (mainly because I made them)

Bismut my beloved <3

Man made crystals are so cool it’s so sad everyone who likes rocks is out for blood if you post man made crystals. I love you opalite I love you lab created opal I love you bismuth I love you HTA citrine I love you goldstone

[not-kat]

here's one more steven universe throwback

[thismaybekleo]

The gang's all here! I LOVE THEM SM PLS

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

Then all those years of building - were they worth anything? Yes - they're just hoping you don't realize it.

Rebecca Sugar going in for the kill with some sketches out of absolutely nowhere. Here's my best attempt at getting an okay-ish image out of a blurry vertical phone recording of a screen. Original video was posted on the official rebeccasugar account on TikTok - a big thank you to @jeejyboard for bringing it to my attention.

[brosetv]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards

[minijenn]

Magic and Mystery Meet Again... in Universe Falls

WE ARE SO BACK BABES! SO EXCITED THAT NEW UF'S COVER IS DONE! Honestly it was so much fun to work on this, to get my head back into thise world with these characters. Now that this is done, I feel like I'm finally ready to push on with the fic and get it off the ground for ya'll.

For those of you not in the know... Universe Falls is a crossover between Gravity Falls and Steven Universe, where the events of both shows happen concurrently. Originally posted back in 2015, new UF is a ground-up rewrite/reboot/revival, condensed down quite a bit with a heavier emphasis on original content and improved writing. You can check the fic out right over here!

[corven03]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVEN UNIVERSE ! I should post here more often

[garnets-stargeode2000]

[the-crystal-blog-2]

I spy:

Amethyst

Black tourmaline

Bismuth

Smoky quartz

Pyrite

Fluorite

Citrine

Herkimer diamond

Clear quartz

Quartz geode

Druzy quartz

Not sure what some of the rest are.

Gem babes over at @theritualritual. Name the minerals you spy! ///////

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[leidensygdom]

My official goodbye to Yxala (my tiefling/drow paladin/warlock), now that her campaign ended after three years! I wanted to do a drawing featuring her new look (she's got crystal and bismuth veins on her now~). It is also filled with the little symbols and reminiscences to her loved ones and other campaign stuff (Can you spot all the little references?

This picture took absolutely forever- (these flowers and braids are handdrawn), so support here would be incredibly appreciated!!

[crowroboros]

A Really Cool Detail About Might Crystals in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

The first time I encountered a Might Crystal was maybe ~an hour into the game. I think I found it in a chest or something in Suthorn Forest and the first thing that I thought was "Huh...that looks kind of like bismuth." But, as I was so early on in the story that I didn't know much about what the Might Crystals were, I didn't think much more of it.

Well here I am with 46 additional hours worth of playtime in Echoes of Wisdom, and I'm here to say that there is a very cool reason that Might Crystals resemble bismuth crystals!

Before we get into bismuth, I need to talk about what is going on in Echoes of Wisdom. This WILL contain mid-to-late game spoilers, so do be warned.

Long before Creation there was nothing more than a void—a vast empty oblivion. Occasionally, bits of matter would spark to life in this nothingness. Nothing substantial, just small clumps of reality managing to form only for a moment. Only a moment, for anything that managed to flicker to life was devoured by the one who dwelt within this void:

Null.

Null is the main antagonist of Echoes of Wisdom. It is an ancient, incomprehensible lifeform that thrives in the absoluteness of zero. Nothingness personified.

Seeing the way these sparks of existence were so quickly extinguished, the three Golden Goddesses—Din, the Goddess of Power; Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom; and Farore, the Goddess of Courage—descended from the heavens and forced Creation. Together, the three built the world itself and everything that makes up reality with Null imprisoned and contained at its center.

The Golden Goddess then departed back to the heavens, leaving behind the Triforce, the Secret Stones (though they aren't relevant for this, just thought I'd throw them in since we know they were created around this time), and the Tris. The Triforce and the Tris served as the glue keeping reality together; the Tris specifically being created to maintain the structure of the world, as even though Null was imprisoned that didn't stop it from consuming and returning the world to nothingness.

From the point of Creation onward, Null and the Tris were locked in a delicate balancing act of destruction and recreation. Null ate away at the world, creating rifts that tore through reality. And in turn, the Tris constantly patched up these rifts, quickly restoring what was lost.

This return to nothingness is a major part of the themes of Echoes of Wisdom, and why Might Crystals likely were inspired by bismuth.

Might Crystals—as well as the energy they produce—are some of the only things capable of withstanding Null and the void. When everything else is lost, these crystals remain. But what does this have to do with Bismuth?

Well visually both Might Crystals and Bismuth share the iconic stairstep spiral growth structure, but the main reason I believe bismuth to be the inspiration for the Might Crystals is the Bismuth-209 isotope.

Bismuth was previously thought to be the heaviest stable element, with only one stable isotope (Bismuth-209). I say previously because in 2003, a research team at the IAS (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, a research institute in France) came to the realization that the Bismuth-209 isotope is actually undergoing alpha decay at an incredibly slow rate. How slow? Well it was determined that Bismuth-209 has a half life of approximately...

2.01x10^19 years. Or about 20,100,000,000,000,000,000 years (20 quintillion if you don't know/don't want to count out the zeroes).

For reference, that is billions of years longer than the current estimated age of the universe.

It is because of this inconceivably long half-life that it is said that bismuth will be among the last elements to disintegrate. And it is that bit of information that I believe inspired Might Crystals. If you need to come up with a crystal that can withstand nothingness itself and outlive matter in a void that consumes endlessly, what better choice to base it off of than the element that decays so slow that we used to think that it was stable?

I just thought that it was a cool detail. This is a bit different from my other Zelda posts—as this isn't me talking about the lore and story, but rather me talking about a possible irl inspiration for something in the series—but I thought this was really cool and I wanted to share my thoughts.

[steelthroat]

Guys.

Cybertron, but the surface and the buildings are shaped like bismuth crystals...

Look at how pretty it is please!!!!!

[telomeke]

Also this one grown to Stray Kids is especially insane–

[rosenotactuallyquartz]

i was looking at the halloween sketch & i noticed something absolutely heartbreaking about garnet and rose

sometimes garnet’s grief is overlooked because she’s always trying to stay stable & strong. just as fusions depend on a stable bond, garnet keeps it together so that she can keep the crystal gems together. she’s very loving & she’s also the type of person who tries to hold it together because she wants to protect steven, because she cares deeply about pearl & amethyst.

that’s why the episode title now we’re only falling apart is important. i’ve written before about how garnet felt like her world had turned upside down after the reveal. her grief was already painful enough, she was already putting on a brave face. after this reveal she could no longer keep it together, literally & figuratively.

but really, you can see the pain she’s experiencing from losing rose long before now we’re only falling apart. in older pictures from when rose was alive, garnet laughs often and has this big, carefree, genuine smile that we see less of after rose’s death. she loves pearl, amethyst, and steven to pieces; they mean everything to her… & so did rose. her grief may be quiet because she tries not to fall apart & she doesn’t want others to notice it, but little details like this reveal her pain.

[not-kat]

been thinking about steven universe lately