#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.

[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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[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

[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

[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

[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  

[anonymous-witness777]

[Image ID: a digital drawing of a dark gray dragon with green crystals bursting out of its body; its scaly, glimmering body is covered in openings packed with the translucent vivid green crystals, mostly druse crystals with some large enantiomorphic crystals jutting out. Its tail is divided into 4 segments, and cross-sections of a geode can be seen in the cuts. Its mouth is half-closed with small curved teeth, some crystals on its head look like horns, and its eye is large and fishlike with green swirling within it. The background is an abstract mass of mostly-green fire, with some rainbow colors and chromatic aberration mixed in. /end ID]

Xenolithic Drake

elemental type: Mushroom

other names: Crystal Green Salamander

habitat: fossorial

range: the Deeps, emerging occasionally into the Hollows

rhythm: cathemeral

temperament: intense, fey

lifespan: ~2.54 billion yrs

length: 2-3 ft

wings: none

weight: 200-300 lbs

Dragon I made for my cousin for Christmas! A species based around mantle xenoliths. Part of my faery elements universe!

[macchiiattos]

it is done. i had enough currency after my 1000 pulls to buy druses

[stress-test-interfaith-dialogue]

Meet Stress Test Editors John K. Roth and Carol Rittner!

John K. Roth

The Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College, where he taught for more than forty years and was the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights). He is a Protestant Christian with Presbyterian and Methodist ties. Long friendships with Elie Wiesel and Richard Rubenstein, Eva Fleischner, and Franklin Littell impressed on Roth how deeply the Christian tradition has been implicated in antisemitism and the Holocaust.

In books such as The Failures of Ethics (2015), Sources of Holocaust Insight (2020), and Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy (2023), Roth looks for ways in which Christians and Jews can work together to resist anti-democratic authoritarianism and to defend human rights. Against long odds, he remains hopeful that a two-state resolution, which he has long supported, can be found for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Hamas-Israel War

Carol Rittner R.S.M.

Dr. Rittner is the author, editor or co-editor of numerous essays and books about the Holocaust and Christian-Jewish relations, including Memory Offended: The Auschwitz Convent Controversy (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1991); What’s the “Good News” After Auschwitz? (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001), Pius XII and the Holocaust (London and New York: University of Leicester Press/Continuum Publishers, 2002); No Going Back:Letters to Pope Benedict XVI on the Holocaust, Christian-Jewish Relations and the State of Israel (Laxton, UK: Quill Press, 2009); The Holocaust and Nostra Aetate: Toward A Greater Understanding (Greensburg, PA: Seton Hill University Press, 2017); and The Holocaust and the Christian World, 2nd ed. (Mahwah, NJ: A Stimulus Book, Paulist Press, 2019). She is the co-editor, with John K. Roth, of the forthcoming book Stress Test: The Hamas-Israel War and Christian-Jewish Relations (iPub Global, 2025).

Her international engagement further demonstrates Dr. Rittner’s commitment to fostering interfaith understanding and peace. Between 1985 and 2010, she led numerous groups of Christians to Israel, facilitating meetings with Israeli Jews, Muslims, Druse, and Christians. These visits also included interactions with Palestinians in Bethlehem, providing a platform for learning about and discussing the ongoing obstacles and possibilities for peace in the region.

She is the recipient of four Honorary Doctorates from Misericordia University, Dallas, PA (1990), King’s College, Wilkes Barre, PA (1999), Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ (2002), and The College of St. Mary, Omaha, NB (2011). In 2022, the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA, honored Dr. Rittner with the Nostra Aetate Award, which “acknowledges distinguished work in the field of Jewish-Catholic relations and, in particular, recognizes scholarship that enhanced interfaith understanding.”

[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).

[psychologeek]

If I have any Muslim or Druse followers who celebrate Eid al-Adha (Holiday of sacrifice, i think it the translation.)

عيد سعيد, كل عام وأنتم بألف خير

Happy Eid, and Eid Mubarak.