#and ancient af

[janayuga]

Sorry bout the inactivity-

Anyways- have beach themed ancients 💕

(Pls ignore the style and quality inconsistency,, i havent drawn in a week or two)

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 192

Danny feels exhausted. His stupid ghost-puberty is annoying, and is affecting even his human form. Which wouldn’t be that bad, except for the fact that instead of having a simple elemental or obsession core, he happens to have a Space one. Technically the Space Core seeing as apparently he’s the newborn Ancient of Space. Or something. 

Urgh, he just wants to get some food from the dollar store down the street, not deal with whatever attempted mugging this is. He’s hangry, and just wants to get some food and curl back up in his mass of blankets back in his tiny apartment. 

So maybe he overreacted. He might have released his very careful hold on his less-than human traits that have been attempting to leak through the last several weeks. On the bright side, he, uh, isn’t hungry anymore and is now back in his nest of blankets. 

On the other hand, there is now a vigilante in his window. 

[chimeride]

Hecatoncheir (artiodactylamorphe), the 240th Known One.

[commandertartarsmoocher]

"Gay Is Okay 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇩🇪"

[treviso-nights]

in a shocking and completely predictable turn of events, felassan is actually the revolutionary solas thinks he is

[lifeaintsweet]

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[sarafangirlart]

I feel like Greek nicknames should be made with like… the Greek language in mind not just shorten the name with no rhyme or reason, for example don’t call Andromeda Andy (bc it comes from Andro which means man) but Meda, which could mean anything from mindful to protective to cunning.

So naming Eurydice fucking Riddy is stupid af, her name means Wide Justice, (Eury=Wide and Dice=Justice) it’s like nicknaming Muhammad as Moh when the actual nickname that’s actually used by Arabs is Hamoud/ Hamoody.

[skybristle]

rbs > likes

ATTACK 16 - Teeming Coves of Chiming Sea Anemones @moonsofmachinery & A Cherished Melody, from Riverbeds to Reefs [me]

[justaslytherclawgirl]

Remember when the laws of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black let it's disowned last male heir's half-blood godson inherit most of the family fortune, including their ancestral home, instead of the eldest great-great-grandchild of Phineas Nigellus Black, who was a woman?

Because I do and it makes my blood boil.

[calllynx]

And he got one too!

[moonyswarmsweaters]

The Tan x Burn Dynamic in Wolfstar and Jegulus is actually very important to me thanks

[amityandeir]

The first thing I see after coming home from work...

Insane

Stunning

Indescribable

Gorgeous

Admin is trying to kill me I think

[iamthepulta]

I think I'm slowly getting a picture of a narrative. This is tricky though. If I had uh- known what the fuck I was doing six months ago, I would've titled the presentation, "Alum mining, trade, and metallurgy from Bronze Age to Present" and called it a day.

The lax definition of alum's chemistry also makes it really hard to pin down. It ranges from hydrous to anhydrous (impure and pure) aluminum sulfate salt to aluminum clay. Civilizations until the Roman era just kind of pointed at white shit, called it alum, licked it to see if it was sour (not salt) and tossed it in the chemical vat.

There were also specific locales for the good shit. So instead of saying 'alunite', you'd say 'alum from the Hittites', or 'alum from Egypt'. One could be used for tanning, but the other was used for a fancy blue glaze (cobalt-clay). You could also produce alum from alunite, like on the isle of Lesbos (Sappho historical romance novel with alum when??)

But. Within all this. You have the Babylonians primarily using it as a tanning agent and wool-dyeing. The Egyptians used it as a glaze, for pottery, and medicinal/metallurgical uses. Apparently blue beads were making it all the way to China and Scandinavia at this time? The Romans took the metallurgical uses and cranked that up to 11. After the fall of Rome, the Arabs used alum for all the above and Germany was also using it metallurgically, but my research ends here right now.

In the present, alum is still used as a mordant (dyeing agent), but is more often used as a water treatment flocculant (filtering impurities). It's also more rigorously defined as either ammonium, potassium, or sodium hydrous aluminum sulfate. Whether we still mine it is unclear?? It doesn't seem to be the case: we mine aluminum, get aluminum oxide, which either goes to Iceland to be made into pure aluminum, or is sold separately and then added to Na2(SO4) to make alum.

It doesn't really pack the same punch I wanted it to with clothing though, because it's not really used for that. Chromium sulfate is now the primary mordant if you're doing chromium tanning, which is environmentally bad and kind of like nuking a hide to make it tan fast. I guess I can track down where the chromium is coming from, and how they make that.

This isn't even getting involved in plastic production, or rayon, or nylon, or the history of fast fashion and petroleum. I think the end line of this will have to be something vague and unspecific, like "disregarding the non-renewable resources that go into <I want to say artistic, but they're not artistic. The proper term is probably female-driven industries lol> fundamental human tools can lead us to overlook industries that have just as much impact - economically and socially - on geopolitics."

... I can already see the first question on that being, "what are some other non-renewable resources you think have been overlooked?" :') ahh, idk. I've been reading for 30hr. I'm going to go to sleep. I'll run away from the podium or smthg.

to do: I should reread Al-Razi with alum in mind... the translator is not Levey, so I have to chemically check all the names she gives minerals. But I distinctly remember alum coming up several times and tripping me up.

Also chromium sulfate manufacturing/mining; saving this chrome/ferric reference because I haven't seen them written altogether anywhere else.

[evilgirljesus]

Also why the fuck do I have to imagine Sisyphus happy fuck you I do what I want

[sarastuss]

me every time i am forced to open tumblr on my laptop :

[styona]

Nihil about Copia after he was nominated for two Grammys, did not get one