#Druse

[geologyin-blog]

Druzy refers to a layer of tiny, sparkling crystals that form on the surface of a rock or mineral. These crystals can appear as a glittery, sugar-like coating and are often found inside geodes or on the surface of other gemstones.

[trendynewsnow]

The Vigilant Guardians of Hasbayya: Community Defense Amidst Conflict

The Vigilant Guardians of Hasbayya As dusk falls each evening, a palpable tension grips the air in Hasbayya, a town nestled in the shadow of the Lebanese-Israeli border. The distant thuds of artillery fire reverberate through the hills, serving as a grim reminder of the escalating conflict. In response, local scouts take to their positions, some settling into concealed vantage points on the…

[birchandblooms]

Beautiful Amethyst druse lamps. Each one is incredibly unique with how the clusters form and spill the energy out into your environment. Amethyst is a very popular and powerful stone with ancient history of use and may assist you in happiness, calming fear, emotional storms, courage, love, peace, addiction, dreams, helps with insomnia and nightmares. Just plug in this "stone of peace" and enjoy the beauty and power. Ranging from 5" - 7" tall with a 5" base. Sizes, shapes, coloring and inclusions will vary from lamp to lamp.

[mirabuy]

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[velthurvik]

Achat-Druse

Auf einer Mineralienbörse in Klingmühl/Niederlausitz fand sich im Jahr 2022 diese schöne Achat-Druse. Auf einer Mineralienbörse in Klingmühl/Niederlausitz fand sich im Jahr 2022 diese schöne Achat-Druse. Durch eindringen von vulkanischen Gasen in Lava-Hohlräume nach einem Vulkanausbruch vor 280 Millionen Jahren entstanden die schönen zonierten Achate. Längst sind die giftigen Gase und Dämpfe verflogen. Geblieben ist die Schönheit der auskristallisierten Hohlräume.

[sagescented]

Share your knowledge […] Most people take plants for granted, but no living thing would be alive without them. Lucky us- they are beautiful, and more [P] If you can touch just one person, help someone recognize the importance of botanical living things, that will be worth all our efforts.

From The Scentual Garden: Exploring the World of Botanical Fragrance, published 2019; Ken Druse (My Review Here) (My Ko-Fi Here)

[drewciferian]

Frankenstein and His Monster

Andrew Standridge

May 1st, 2024

Every night, I resign to solitude,

draw the curtains dark and the blinds to slits.

No curious eyes may interlude

the spark of new life—my sweet electric bliss.

I snap the rubber gloves onto my wrists

and splay this old body onto the table.

I raise my sharpened scalpel in one fist,

steady hand, to keep the vitals stable.

From this old shell, I carve a new body;

I cave in its chest and reshape the hips,

mold its skin like clay; on the other side, I copy.

It starts to smile, raising its new thinned lips.

The sunlight creeps in at last, to illuminate my nightly strife,

and commands my hand to awaken my new life.

This is one of the sonnets I wrote for my creative writing portfolio this semester. I wrote this to encapsulate the feeling of euphoria I experience as a trans man with being able to reinvent myself and take joy in my body after being over a year on hormone therapy. It is inspired by the likes of, of course, the novel "Frankenstein," by Mary Shelley, and the song "Weird Science," by Oingo Boingo, as well as my interest in cheesy sci-fi horror (which reminds me, I'm going to be posting some Re-Animator fanart sometime soon).

[mmwm]

LINK FEST: 1 AUGUST 2023

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.lslsl interview: lost, but not forgotten: plants we once loved, with ken druse (Margaret Roach/A Way to Garden). Read it or listen (1/2 hour audio). On Colorado blue spruces, red buckeye, corkscrew hazelnut (aka Harry Lauder’s walking stick),…

[crus-tulum]

Снова я на связи с камнями!!! Опять забазарю на ломаном английском потому что видимо так людям проще☹️

1. Pebble (russian: galka > galya) is the last of the genus of pebbles. But she is firmly convinced that her relatives are waiting her on the other side of the sea... Therefore, her main occupation is to run across the waves in the hope of reaching an oasis with them. Often stands in the water, wondering how to overcome an obstacle, so she doesn't make camouflage on legs. When she stops catching the wave, she falls to the bottom, from where she is pulled out by her partner Agatha and the head of the search party Metis.

2. Amethyst geode-2 or for short - Metis (aMETIStovaya) leads squads of fighters, but is more often involved in searching for and delivering them to the doctor. Refused to restore her face in order remind everyone of the risks of such work and to show that she is such a victim and everyone should be grateful for her. I associated it with Kyle 1706))

3. Agate geode-1 or just Agatha, pebble's partner and generally a good girl - she's friendly with everyone. It is considered one of the rare geodes, so many don't understand her choice of profession, but she enjoys running around and getting her friend from the depths of the sea. The hands aren't masked, the nails are manicured.

4. Well, and a bonus below is the anatomy of geodes and drusen. Geodes are hollow inside, which makes them quite fragile, but they are easier to restore - you can use both ordinary and precious stones. their palms and feet are completely filled, and growths are also observed in the area of ​​​​our heart, navel and brain.

Druses are underdeveloped geodes in my AU; they are usually much smaller in size, but the degree of development may vary. they are born very rarely due to disorders. Their hairstyles are usually sharp and directed upwards. wear white dresses, study territories, keep all kinds of chronicles and archive. They consist more of stones than minerals, and are much less hollow than geodes, therefore less fragile. but it is still dangerous to take them on outings due to their growth and, again, violations.

something like this 👍 спасибо за внимание

@shiny-gem-ocs Ó╭╮Ò

[earhartsease]

we have a very emotionally complicated relationship with this very beautiful Yemeni silver necklace

it's well over 60 years old, we have no idea when our mum first got it and how old it was then, but she almost certainly bought it in southern Lebanon (why was it there? dunno - also we only have her word for it that it was Yemeni) possibly as far back as the early 50s when she was an intrepid gal in her 20s travelling around on her own

it's complicated because it's beautiful to look at and it also sounds beautiful (the coin things jingle when you move) and it reminds us of our mother - but also it reminds us of our mother, who although we have certain warm memories of her, also abused us and allowed others to do so in a big way

it's also complicated because we would love to wear it but on top of all the above, it's weirdly too femme-feeling (probably because of the mum association) for us, who are transgenderless and vaguely female, but we are still drawn to it

it's also complicated because we don't remember it ever being polished so it has at least 60 years of international patina on it and the big question is, do we clean and polish it?

anyway look at this lovely and complicated piece of our history (and geography) - as well as our mum, it connects us with parts of our early childhood spent in Israel (which was very eclectic, we had Druse and Egyptian friends, we weren't there as a family to be jewish but to be some fantasy of self-sufficient) before we personally vowed never to return, it somehow connects us with our slice of central asian jewish ancestry (even though obviously it's not central asian) we think perhaps it's because it's so profoundly uneuropean and a part of us has always felt very uneuropean

jingle jingle

[geologyin-blog]

Druzy refers to a layer of tiny, sparkling crystals that form on the surface of a rock or mineral. These crystals can appear as a glittery, sugar-like coating

[freshlybakedgarlic]

So, today i decided to show my crystal collection to the world! (it's not massive, but pretty big😄) I don't know how frequent the posts are gonna be. But i promise to show all of them! Cos i love them, and they are wonderful🥺 Let's start with one of my favorite ✨💜amethyst💜✨ First comes my first ever crystal that i bought. Lovely shades of purple and dark purple, perfectly fitting in the my palm~ Beautiful~ Second is a gift from a very dear friend, stunning dark tower. And last but not least, is a little druse-cluster? Yup, them. With all their purple beauty and inclusions. I made the bracelet from an old necklace, that my granny never wore. (i forgot another tiny pebble of amethyst, but i'll group him with other, smaller crystals) Anyway, LOTS of RAINBOWS. Very nice vibes from all of them. They help me sleep. It's much easier with them, when i'm stress out.

[friendswithclay]

A Druse family at their Mt. Carmel home in Haifa, c.1890s

[mirabuy]

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[probablyasocialecologist]

Enforcing categories of exclusion is key to the management of the Palestinian population. It realizes what Veracini calls “transfer by conceptual displacement,” one of the many forms of elimination. The Indigenous are “disappeared” through denying their indigeneity, and therefore their national rights, their claims to the country or even a history and culture of their own. Rather than enacting laws and policies that discriminate against “non-Jews,” it is enough to enact laws and policies that merely affirm Jewish rights and entitlements. Non-Jews are excluded by implication. Neither the Ottomans nor the British had ever found it necessary to offset “Arabs” with other exclusive categories, like “non-Jews.” After 1948, Zionists invented yet more categories of exclusion: “absentees,” “refugees,” Druse versus Arabs (depending on service in the Israel Defense Forces, IDF), Israeli citizens and real (Zionist) citizens. The most “Zionist” election ever took place in March 2020, where all the Jewish parties agreed to exclude the Joint Arab List from government because only “Zionist Jews” were acceptable political partners. Categories of inclusion play a complementary role. Although most ultra-orthodox Jews are anti-Zionist, do not recognize the secular state of Israel and refuse to serve in the army, as Jews they cannot be denied equal civil, political or economic rights or political legitimacy.

Jeff Halper, Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State  

[dapurinthos]

an underworld (under-temple) ADVENTURE moment aka me rubbing my hands together in utter glee at getting to write the sith shrine below the temple. no, not the shrine in the depths that everyone thinks was the sith temple that's been purified. the one below that. the one that's seeping darkness upward through coruscant.

The first thing to draw the eye is the fire. It flickers and glows in a circle atop what looks like a pedestal formed out of the bedrock. It looks like the beginning of a stalagmite, only the base remaining while the higher rock, and more, has been removed to create an imitation of a natural formation. Its top is too regular to be one, below that circle of red flame that does not touch its surface. Red is a normal fire colour. It’s the coldest part of a flame. But that red leans toward orange, which it turns into as the fire gets hotter. These flames are red in an unnatural way that only underlies the screaming from the object they circle: a cluster of kyber similar in form to the healing crystals kept under lock and key by the Circle of Jedi Healers but on a scale that far outpaces theirs. Its facets reflect the flames in such a way that it looks like something inside the crystal is dancing. The kyber is just as red and just as terrible as the soundless flames surrounding—containing? Trapping?—it. If it remains in the kyberite druse it was formed in, that lies below the surface of whatever the shorn rock holds in its basin. It shimmers as well, reflecting its companions liquidly. It’s all red. All blood. Not the kind most people are familiar with, venous blood that’s dark from losing oxygen, the kind that gets drawn out at you at the doctor’s. This is the red of the artery, bright and almost unreal, plastic-y, in its colour. A Sith’s kyber crystal is described as bloodshine for a reason. I stare at this one and swear that I can see it throbbing like a heart laid bare after being carved free. It kicks at something at the back of my mind, a rabbit’s foot thumping the ground in warning of something older and darker than anything that even Lene has seen in her explorations.

picking up the clone wars sketches for the unmade sith shrine arc, adding in lady covax's fortress on mustafar (which looks like it was inspired from those concept sketches), the wellspring of the force planet, & momin's cave (which i actually didn't look at until after deciding the 'wellspring' coming out of the ground like a scooped-out stalagmite).