#it could have been brilliant

[sunflowerius]

every so often i remember Nora started aftg in the mindset of it being a manga and then i have to spend the next 2-3 business weeks mourning what could have been the Greatest sport manga to ever exist

[crazy-fangirl2524]

Kandrew is doomed as soon as Andrew choked Kevin the same way Kevjean is doomed as soon as Kevin left Jean behind

[crocswithoutsocks]

I found out there was an anteater LPS so obviously the only logical thing to do was go and buy one immediately and make it into Flint. My phone hates me so pictures are bad but look!!!!! That's a little guy!!!!!

[sysig]

Growing closer than expected (Patreon)

[gemwing1988]

A concept art of Spyro diving and exploring underwater with some kind of special ability it would seem.

It’s too bad they didn’t add in that sort of feature similar to the classic games. Guess the developers might have found it a bit complicated and are unable to figure out how either Spyro or Cynder would be able to explore underwater without drowning given the trilogy was made to be more serious? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Still an interesting concept art though. 😅

[bethanyactually]

an incomplete list of clues in the Black Door episodes pointing to the fact that something was wrong 🚩🔎🚨

Ace flatly refusing to look at or engage with Nancy

Ace not wanting to help Nancy

Ace not caring if a mystery got solved

after an argument, Nancy being the one who walks away first

[hastalavistabyebye]

It's called : Freefall by Rainbow Kitten Surprise is inherently a Fox's song, I know that. But the lines "Anyway, you say you're too busy saving everybody else to save yourself/And you don't want no help, oh well/That's the story to tell" keep making me think of Ponds.

[normalbrothers]

and there'd be a shaft of light and then we'd both know ... and then, you and me, we'd both know it was nearly done

[gayhoediaz]

calling it now - buck and eddie’s season 6 story will end with them (or them and chris, but i think just them, to drive the point home) on eddie’s couch. maybe we’ll have some more hints that they have both figured It™ out by then. but there’s no confession (direct or third party) and no kiss (that’s for season 7) just a quiet, soft and understated moment that simultaneously manages to be incredibly loud.

which is what 9-1-1 does best.

[mister-eames]

@inception30daychallenge day 5: your favourite line in the movie:

It's absolutely impossible to choose one, so I'll go with the one that always makes me smile:

[tohakumaru]

10 it could have been a brilliant career

from then on the journey falls into pace, easy as habits, grave as rains. the nomad, led by its own beak and an unwavering understanding that all things passes, resolutely strides on while the landcapes around it gradually plateaus: mountain ranges slowly diminish, sand turns into glass into blurred edges where the sky and the ground knows not themselves from each other.

and then, the nomad steps off the face of the earth, and onto the sky.

it holds itself a bit more carefully, watching its step as if walking on a thin line. here is an invisible maze of stair cases, only one is homeward and all others nowhere-bound. yet the bird-thing is assured, beak twitching, it knows the smell of home when the scent catches, and it won't let go, never have, never will. impossible nomad climbing impossible stairs.

imperceptibly, one of them resounds with a hollow thud; and a few further steps are met with the creak of a door opened without knocking. the nomad pushes it wide to reveal a pocket of space that vaguely resembles a low-ceiling living-room. two windows with yellowed lace curtains hang open. on the tiled floor squares of honey-coloured lights dance in secret harmony. a much larger third window towards the back of the room is tightly shut, behind cream-coloured iron bars, plastered over with a large world map fraying at the edges.

the nomad gingerly steps into the room and looks around. it takes a few deep breaths and stretches its limbs, before pulling out a small knife. with as much gentleness as precision it cuts off a piece of its woollen undercoat, drops the soft fabric onto the floor and fluffs it into the shape of a pillow. then, it gently lays out the corpse-and-moth bundle on top, arranges the pieces neatly, and covers them halfway with what's left of the burning blanket. it sits down and stays very, very still, for a short while.

here lies the dead poet, murdered in earnest, loved in all honesty.

when the impossible nomad leaves, the door silently clicks. the sky is still dark but under the heavens, something feels like day is breaking.

[maliciousalice]

Hear me out (or don't... it's fine I'm just venting and mean) yeah um I don't believe Chakotay was saved in Prod*gy s2.

[mackmp3]

listening to american idiot album again and girl tf was i doing not being born in 2004 i should have been at the clubbbb

how it feels FOR REALLLLLLL

[magpie-trove]

Teen me watching Star Trek TOS The Empath having my world shook

[just-here-with-my-thoughts]

Pleochroism in gem quality zoisite var. tanzanite

Apparently we're doing this...

*my pictures, not my crystal

Ever wondered why the colour of some gemstones seems to shift as you view them from different angles? Perhaps are you were looking at a pleochroic gemstone!

Pleochroism is a body colour effect seen in transparent to translucent, optically anisotropic* crystalline material caused by differential absorption of the polarised light rays following different paths through the gemstone, and causing a change to perceived body colour when the stone is viewed from different directions.

...Okay, but what does that mean?

Pleochroism means 'many coloured'. When light passes through a crystal, it is sometimes split into two rays - each ray takes a slightly different path, and because it encounters different atoms within the crystal structure, it is modified to a different colour.

When both different coloured rays of light exit the crystal, your eye resolves them as a single colour. Clever, right? :D

The four photos above are of the same crystal. The top photos show the crystal from two different angles - one looks distinctly more purplish than the other, right? That is eye-visible pleochroism!

Even gems that show pleochroism don't always show it strongly enough to see with the naked eye. But this tanzanite crystal does.

The bottom photos show the same crystals viewed through a type of polarising filter called a dichroscope. The dichroscope is made of polarising film where each half lets through only one of the rays of coloured light - meaning you can see each of the two colours at the same time, one in each half of the filter!

But wait!- I hear you cry. Why are there THREE different colours??

Hmm well this is getting into a deeper discussion of crystal habits and their optical behaviours, so for now let's say that depending on the symmetry of the crystal, an optically anisotropic* stone can show two or three colours - but only ever two in one direction! You have to turn the crystal to see the third colour.

If a stone shows two colours we say it is dichroic, if it shows three it is trichroic. This is the maximum number of colours you will see.

When you view the tanzanite crystal in the position in the left photo, the light rays being transmitted are blue and reddish-purple. Your eyes resolve this to show a purpley-blue colour. Neat!

But in the position from the right photo, it's transmitting blue and yellow. Wild! The yellow ray dilutes some of the intensity of the blue, so the colour you see is a weaker blue tone.

The photo I'm missing from my set is the crystal viewed from top-down, which would then show a purple and yellow split through the dichroscope!

So turning the stone, or moving your head position relative to the position of the stone, really does change its colour, because you are perceiving a different set of coloured light rays being transmitted through the stone!

When fashioning a rough crystal, a lapidary (that's a stone cutter) would to orient the crystal so the best colour is face-up - ie. when you look at the finished polished stone, you will see the most attractive balance of colour. What is considered ideal varies with the stone - you might cut a very dark crystal to show its lighter colour, or a pale one to show the most intense colour it is able to!

Fun additional fact - tanzanite can be heated to improve its colour. It does this by removing the yellow element entirely, meaning you will see intense bluey-purple tones from all angles! The wonders of stone treatments!

*Edit I am misleading you by saying you will see bluey-purple in all directions... in two directions (as tanzanite is a biaxial gemstone) you will find an optic axis, which is a direction of optical isotropy in an otherwise optically anisotropic* gemstone. So in this direction, you will only have a single transmitted ray of light, not two!

*I use the phrase optically anisotropic a couple of times and it's hard to explain without a whole separate citizen lecture on crystallography, but the quick summary is that it means a crystal in which light behaves differently as it travels in different directions - such as the differential absorption resulting in different colours in pleochroism! This is as opposed to an optically isotropic crystal, where light behaves the same way in all directions of travel.

And that is a recited-from-memory summary of pleochroism! :D (please don't tell me off if I got any of it wrong I didn't go upstairs to check my notes ;_;) (I mean I didn't get any of it wrong but my quoted definition probably wasn't word perfect ^^;)

@royallykt thank you so much for your interest i hope you enjoyed learning about all this :)

[ivyithink]

behold the fools!

separately: some of the smartest (if not actually THE smartest) people in the room

together: share one rusty dusty braincell that they stubbornly refuse to actually use