#Jelly Opal

[admiramethyst]

I asked my classmates to name some gemstones... here they are!

Info under the cut :)

Lemurian Quartz (he/she) (hardess 7)

Born 2553 BP // Taken 1858 BP

A dedicated patroller who enjoys spending his free time weaving fabric. She chooses not to wear powder.

Labradorite (he/they/it) (hardness 6.5)

Born 453 BP // Taken 458 BP

A beautifully iridescent gem who was captured by the Lunarians on his first patrol. Most of the gems don't remember him too well.

Aquamarine (he/they) (hardness 8)

Born 3427 BP // Taken 765 BP

A hardworking fighter. Aquamarine formed with inclusions of saltwater that he could control. This also gave him some limited control over seawater, allowing the gems to study the ecosystem of the beaches near the shore.

Pigeon's Blood Ruby (he/him) (hardness 9)

Born 1646 BP // Taken 241 BP

An eccentric and overzealous fighter who applied his powder in striped patterns. Nicknamed 'Pigeon', the red gem was eventually taken by the Lunarians when trying to fight off a sunspot singlehandedly.

Jelly Opal (any pronouns) (hardness 6)

Born 5265 BP // Taken 3023 BP

A beautifully iridescent gem who loves plants and insects. Their job at the School was to educate the young gems on how to work with a partner, despite having no partner themselves.

Star Garnet (any pronouns) (hardness 7)

Born 6769 BP // Taken 3546 BP

A show-off fighter with excellent swordsmanship skills. When not on patrol, Star enjoyed collecting plants and creating dyes.

[dyxtd21]

Jelly Opal aesthetic moodboard!!

Jelly Opal:

Jelly Opal resembles a Longma from Chinese mythology, lacking wings and carrying a satchel on its back. Its gemstone, a drop-cut, rests upon its forehead. Communicating through scrolls retrieved from its satchel, Jelly Opal lacks verbal speech. Its body, adorned in a translucent, clear white with blue and green iridescence, identifies itself as a messenger.

[larushaudio]

In love with this new piece, some noir brass stampings and a jelly opal with endless dimensions make an awesome drop necklace.

[rouge-raccoon]

Art trade done for a pal over on Twitter pumalovesdragons , had fun drawing em !

[clnclm]

[tetrachrxmacy]

[another more recent one! couldnt figure out what to do on the other side so i just did its silhouette >u< her hair is REALLY fun]

[chrisabins]

i tried some mooncat polishes bc i’m financially irresponsible and it was a great choice bc these are HOT

[muslimintp-1999-girl]

Friendly reminder that this is how Belly was looking at Jere while she was in a relationship with Conrad :

[sorathecookie]

Cookie Run OC Fact of the Day

The members of the Vanillian Vocalists are all singers. The instrumental tracks are provided by special Wafflebots built by Strawberry Crepe Cookie.

Here's a list of the members of the band(all are OCs, some don't have designs as of yet):

-Raspberry Frosting Cookie

-Blueberry Frosting Cookie

-Blue Ring Octopus Cookie

-Aqua Opal Cookie

-Blue Cheshire Cookie

-Strawberry Yogurt Cookie

-Gooseberry Parfait Cookie

-Sapphire Jellyfish Cookie

-Jelly Crepe Cookie

[burningpeanutzonkvoid]

Cola Cookie and friends

[pavlovianfuckery]

finally at the halfway point! this gradient is so much fun. now I just need to make another one just like it and I should have a cardigan shortly after that, in theory anyway 😅

[reddpenn]

Now that I'm back from the gem and mineral show, here are all the Cool Rocks I came home with!

A cute little coral fossil! He looks like a cauliflower.

A Keokuk geode! These geode beds aren't far from where I live, and it's always fun to have local specimens.

Phosphosiderite! This purple stone comes from Chile. It's so soft that it has to be stabilized with resin before it's cut. This one is a cross section of a botryoidial formation!

Speaking of botryoidial, this Hematite! Botryoidial means it has a bubbly shape kind of like a bunch of grapes. The faces of the bubbles on this pieces are super shiny and metallic.

Dendritic chalcedony, from Turkey! It's a white chalcedony full of dendrites - branching formations of manganese that look kind of like trees!

A cabochon for my cab collection! This one is made from a material sometimes called "ajooba jasper." The pattern is actually a cross section of a bunch of colorfully jasperized bivalve fossils!

Speaking of jasper, this one is Blue Mountain jasper, from Oregon! The circles in this stone are what’s known as an “egg pattern,” and jaspers which have them (Blue Mountain, Imperial jasper, and a few others) are collectively known as “fine jaspers,” the most valuable jaspers in the world.

Hyalite opal! This stuff forms water-clear spheres that look like jelly.

It fluoresces bright green under UV light!

Now to show off this year's haul of awesome agates!

Dryhead agate, from the Bighorn Mountains in Montana! This agate is named after the many bison skulls found in the area. A weird shaped guy with awesome red and orange bands.

Bou Lili agate, from Morocco! I like the name of this one. Soft banding and very subtle, muted colors. I've heard that this locale can produce peachy colors too.

Bear Canyon agate, from the Pryor Mountains in Montana! Agates from this locale have very stark black and white banding.

Red Fox agate, from Argentina! Sometimes this material is also called "crater agate" because the area it comes from is near the crater of an ancient volcano.

A Blue Sky thunderegg, from New Mexico! Thundereggs from this locale often have this two pointed, saucer-like shape.

It fluoresces really brightly!

Dulcote agate, from England! The bands of this agate are full of calcite, which gives them a strange, distinct texture.

Malawi agate, from Malawi! See all the cracks in it? Almost all Malawi agates have them. Frequent earthquakes due to the East African Rift cause these agates to crack and fracture.

Paint Rock agate, from Paint Rock Valley in Alabama! This agate is very rarely banded, and usually just contains swirls of red and yellow color.

A big, unpolished slab of Montana agate! This agate is known for its clear banding and black lines and spots, which are caused by manganese dendrites.

It's best viewed with some light behind it!

A smaller piece with really amazing dendrites!

Here it is backlit!

Fighting Blood agate, from Hebei Provence in China! This locale is known for its super saturated reds and yellows. This piece has purple amethyst crystals growing inside! They didn't photograph well; they are much more purple in person.

A really weird Fighting Blood agate! This one lacks the bright colors typical of this locale, but makes up for it with that super cool spiderweb pattern!

And finally, as is tradition, I came home with some Ethiopian opals! Here are the five I got this year.

And that's everything I got at the show!

[vilhelios]

— I THINK I LOVED YOU IN ANOTHER LIFE .

( WHERE I WAS THE SEA, & YOU WERE THE SHORE . ) ; general fluffy romantic headcanons for rafayel / qi yu from love and deepspace <3

CW: not beta read, general rafayel story/lore spoilers, may be slightly ooc, tooth-rotting fluff, very slight angst !!!

— RAFAYEL is a terribly sweet, loyal, and affectionate lover. sometimes, you think he is something like a lovesick puppy—always ready to greet you at the door with a warm hug when you return from a mission, always eagerly awaiting your phone calls and texts. always at your side. when he calls you darling and holds you close, burrows his head into the crook of your neck, you can't help but feel like your being has been warmed by a pleasant summer sunbeam.

despite this, sometimes he feels like he's drifting somewhere far away from you. a receeding ocean tide, sea foam dissolving from your fingertips as you dip your hands in the waves. he's somewhere you don't understand, when he looks into your eyes and searches for an iteration of you in the reflected image of his own eyes—perhaps he is 800 years away, a lifetime and more. and yet, when you gingerly cup his face in your palms, feel him lean into your touch, you know he returns to you.

— RAFAYEL'S art studio is admittedly, a mess. there are days where you'll enter that room spotless and leave with splatters of some new shade of red and his beloved blues all over your clothes and skin. some days, this happens purely on accident—a trip right into a canvas here, a palm pressed onto wet paint there—and on others, rafayel seems to delight in using you as a canvas.

— when RAFAYEL kisses you (in that gentle fashion, where he cups your cheek like if he doesn't you'll slip like seafoam from his hold), those soft lips of his taste of cherries and grapes and strawberries. and perhaps that best encapsulates what loving rafayel is like, this sweetest red, red, red: the way his cheeks and ears flush when you press a kiss to his cheek; the colour of his eyes when the morning's rose-gold sunlight hits the pink in them just right; the bleeding, beating heart he offers to your awaiting hands. eventually, he pulls away to let the both of you breathe, and when he presses his forehead against yours, glances at you with that charming smile of his, you're enveloped in warm crimson all over again.

"there." rafayel smiles, leans back to admire the flamulla he'd painted on your cheek and the pout that graces your lips. "a cute flamulla for the cutie that keeps distracting me."

"you weren't even painting anything when i came in!" you scoff, dabbing the paintbrush he'd given you into the paint upon the palette. while he painted moon jellies, flamulla, and blowfish on your skin, you'd busied yourself with painting seashells on his. some of the clamshells are too close together, the venus combs look a little too spiky, and some conches don't look quite right. when he looks like he's about to chuckle at the sight of them, you poke him with the other end of your brush; "hmph. you're just a meanie."

"how rude!" he feigns, hand to his heart. "this is how you treat me for making you look like one of my most precious paintings?"

— you notice, eventually, that RAFAYEL always gifts you red jewelry (if not pearls, of course). the little treasures glint in the sunlight; rings with a ruby or red spinel centerpiece, a necklace with a red coral pendant, fire opal earrings... they're beautiful and never gaudy, as to be expected from a man with an eye for aesthetics, but it still perplexes you.

you ask him why, while he helps you put on his most recently gifted necklace as you two get ready to attend his aunt's opera show. your painter answers with a thoughtful hum, deft fingers clasping the necklace for you: "red disappears the fastest in the deep sea, so i never got to see it much." rafayel presses a kiss to your cheek, then, before settling his chin on the crook of your neck. "what better way to appreciate a colour i missed out on for so long than seeing it on you, darling?"

— RAFAYEL'S smug and haughty countenance seems to crumble at the mere press of your lips against his skin, little pecks gracing each beauty mark. the first kiss is placed on his cheek, a little ways away from his eye, his head cradled in your palms; you feel how he heats up beneath your touch, a light blush dusting across his cheeks and a bright vermillion burning at the tips of his ears. the second is placed on his chest, your lips and gentle, roaming hands sparking the rapid thrumming of his heart.

— RAFAYEL sees you in everything. in the morning sunlight that filters into his kitchen, in the cherry blossoms that land on his hair, in the sea breeze that rushes past him as he walks along the shore. the mundane of daily life has become filled with so many traces of you that he cannot see them as anything other than beautiful. there's a piece of you in every one of his paintings now, a streak of your favourite colour intertwined with his reds and blues. he made the pigment himself, of course, extracted the colours he needed from your favourite things.

THE LOVERS ; Rafayel (20XX) ; Oil on canvas

This painting consists of only two colours, and depicts the view of a simple shoreline, with waves lapping at the shore. Although simple in essence, the two paints were handmade (as is the norm for pieces by Rafayel) with pigments extracted from materials that represented himself and his beloved. Upon closer inspection, one may notice the difference in brushstrokes between colours—where they start to blend, so do the strokes, perhaps one hand guiding the other. As per the words of the painter himself, this artwork is meant to represent a "marriage and a transfiguration; the way two souls are forever intertwined and changed by love."

a/n : pretty privilege is real because rafayel acts a lot like marius but i like him infinitely more than i do lu jinghe 😭👍 my love/obsession for this pretty little fish has made me rise from the grave of uni work and writer's block... please fill his tag i need to satisfy this itch in my brain that he gives me <\3 might write some more for him + him as abysswalker <3 (p.s. that final hc is perhaps the cutest thing i thought to do)

[elodieunderglass]

Mad Spring - sour gummies, you feral little goblin. Tangfastics. Airheads. Sour Patch Kids. Like High Summer, you choose fruit-flavored gummy sweets, but you pick ones coated in Pain Sugar. It isn’t enough to just get sugar: you’re chasing a different Sensory Experience (TM) than the rest. And that’s great.

Warm Spring - white chocolate, ruby chocolate, pastel mint drops, cotton candy, bubblegum. Marshmallows. Sweet, creamy, usually pastel. You have no particular objection to floral tastes like lavender and rose. You may be able to appreciate Turkish Delight.

Midsummer - tropical fruits: chewy and slightly creamy in pastel colors. Starburst/Opal Fruit, Creamsicles/Solero. Maoam strips. Cream sodas. Skittles, despite being jewel-toned, are in this season. Coconut and pineapple flavors go here. Also the home of chalky-type sweets like Love Hearts/candy hearts, smarties (usa) and You may be also able to appreciate Turkish Delight.

High Summer - Gummy bears and chewy, jellyish, jammy, gummy, springy in bright jewel tones. Gummy worms and jelly snakes, jelly babies, jelly beans, Haribo. Clearer and gummier than Midsummer.

Autumn Night - darker and more complex sweetness, often including an element of burning or alcohol, or another challenge. Cherry cordials, marzipan, champagne truffles. Also home of burnt-sugar tastes: maple candy, bonfire toffee, candy corn. Also home of matcha; red liquorice; red bean paste. When people bring you sweets from other countries, they’ll choose unusual local delicacies. You almost certainly were fascinated as a kid by lollipops at the science museum sold with real bugs in them.

Autumn Salt - peanut butter and peanut brittle, salted caramel, toffee, butterscotch. Toffee popcorn, Reese’s Peanut Butter cups, Snickers, Daim. If nobody has any nuts, you’ll choose chocolate with nuts, crisp or crunch over other things. Sweet just isn’t enough.

Winter Spice - herbal, spicy and medicinal sweets, usually hard old-fashioned sweets. Red-hots, burning cinnamon, chilli - eucalyptus, root beer, menthol; sarsaparilla. Hard candy, generally: old fashioned ‘boiled sweets,’ things that look gorgeous in glass jars. Parma violets. Fisherman’s Friends. You’re the only person who would eat a gingerbread house after decorating it. You’re also possibly a ghost, or used to be a Mad Spring. It’s also about the SENSATION.

Midwinter - dark black Licorice. Salty? Sweet? saltlakrids? Allsorts? Australian? You might like other things too, but when your loved ones are in another country, they go to the licorice aisle and get you the weirdest local variant they can find.

Long Winter - true chocolate, basic chocolate stuff: M&Ms. Dairy Milk. Hershey’s Kiss. But also home of fudgy tastes and sugar-on-sugar in a long slow sauce. Marshmallow, Handmade fudge, Phish Food ice cream.

Cool Winter - naturally, the homebase of minty tastes. peppermint wheels, York’s Peppermint Patties, After Eights. Also orange - chocolate orange - and, oddly, pixie sticks/sherbet and other sweet things that involve eating simple flavored sugar.

[moonstonexgallery]

GEM MERMAID JUMPSCARE!!!

Crimson Coral Cookie

Scars all over

Short hair (Because why not XD)

Armor, and a corset

Shark like mermaid tail lmao

Bandages from previous fights

Aquamarine Cookie

I gave her flowers because it fits

Made her hair look a lot like Sea Fairy's

Aaay gave her a pretty mermaid tail :3

Her gemstone is on her choker

Gold Citrine Cookie

Made her chubby

Golden pearls!~ ✨

Silky shawl!!!

Citrine necklace : o!!

Her hair is more golden lmao

Mystic Opal Cookie

Galactic look inspired by the Song of the Night Sea story

Golden rings on her hair

F a n g s : )

Lil curls on her fins (idk it fits with the aesthetic lmao)

Frilled Jellyfish Cookie

I gave her braids

She has freckles (LOL WHY NOT-)

Gave her gloves (pretty fitting choice lmao)

Flowy vest lol

Her gemstones probably a moonstone (make sense since she's a moon jelly XD)

White Pearl Cookie (Before her corruption)

POC BABYYYYYYYYYYYY!~

I gave her my own interpretation of her dress, and i stylized her staff

Probably pretty in pink

I kinda gave her a choker XD

Black Pearl Cookie (After corruption)

She has tear streaks (I got inspired by @cosmicwhoreo's BP design btw)

Her pretty dress like cape is torn

OH SHIT GOTHIC MERMAID TAIL-

She has extra fins now

D-Did her staff become a fork Q_Q?? /j

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[allaboutrings]

Edwardian 14k Gold and Platinum Jelly Opal and Diamond Halo Ring