#something to think about.

[reddpenn]

came for the art, stayed for the rocks(and the art)

i was wondering and figured youd be the blog to ask, do you know how/why alexandrite changes color like that? i know i could look it up quite easily but my brain is not wanting to cooperate today

This optical effect is called the Alexandrite Effect!

Alexandrite’s chemical structure contains a metal called chromium. The atoms of chromium in alexandrite absorb yellow light. So when light hits the stone, only green, blue, and red wavelengths get bounced back to our eyes. Cutting out all the yellow has some interesting optical results, because it completely separates green and red light, putting them on different teams and making them fight to the death.

Sunlight and fluorescent light contain a lot more blues and greens than reds. So in that lighting the stone is sending way more blue and green light to your eyes, which overpowers the small amount of red light and makes the stone appear blue-green. The opposite is true in incandescent light or candlelight. Those light sources contain way more red light, which overpowers the blues and greens and makes the stone look red! In a mix of both lights you might see both colors existing separately, depending on which angle each light source is hitting the stone.

Something cool to note is that this only works because of how photoreceptors are set up in the human eye. Humans with normal color vision have only got like three types of cone cells, so from our perspective removing the yellow light creates a pretty drastic change in how we perceive a color! Shrimps though? I don’t know what alexandrite looks like to shrimps.

#talkin' bout rocks #rock collecting #does alexandrite have shrimp colors? #something to think about.

[plexusuterovaginalis]

canonize women. make an effort to learn about great women and give them the respect and recognition they should have had all along.

how many times have you heard phrases like “he’s the mozart of coding” “he’s einstein-levels of brilliant” “he’s the new mark zuckerberg/elon musk/steve jobs/bill gates” “he was out of there faster than usain bolt” “focusing with bobby fischer-like intensity” “innovative like shakespeare” and so on and so on and so on?

how many exceptional men have become so easily recognized as brilliant that their names become symbols for greatness itself? how many exceptional women are ever even acknowledged, much less known widely enough to get the same treatment?

canonize women. mention exceptional women and act like it’s a travesty (because it is!) that their contributions aren’t known.

#radical feminism #radfems please touch #radfems please interact #terfs please touch #terfs please interact #terfsafe #radfem #i think that's all the attention-seeking tags i can think of #by canonize i don't mean in the catholic sense #i mean in the canon of greats sense #how many women are seen as giants in their field #how likely are you to come across them on a list that isn't specifically about women #something to think about. #another thing: think about the names of women you DO hear being used in this context #how do they differ from the many exceptional men mentioned in the same way?

[commsroom]

Would eiffel ever watch the labyrinth? He has expressed that he likes David Bowie's music, so would he watch the film for him?

he's definitely seen labyrinth! bowie aside, it's an 80s fantasy movie with a huge cult following, executive produced by george lucas. you don't need a justification for why eiffel would've seen labyrinth; i'd be more surprised if he hadn't.

#that's also an interesting question though like. what actors / musicians / etc. does eiffel like enough to actively follow #not just like 'oh hey yeah i like that guy' but for them to be an active selling point on a project #most of his favorite bands had their heyday when he was like. not even born yet. or else very young. he's probably got a thing about that #at the very least i'm sure eiffel's heroes growing up were media figures and i'm sure he's got celebrity crushes. #something to think about. #(thank you!!) #asks

[proosh]

someday I will be brave enough to write that milking fic

#did you guys know there is a dairy in France that sells horse milk. #something to think about.

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

#i love reading your examples! however next person to be like um actually this exists?? it’s on sight #i know it exists. i think it’s fun. that’s why i think more people should do it. #sometimes i think the confessional style loses impact because everything has to be excavated from the depths of the soul #and somehow. confessional writing seems to be going with the most disaffected bland sound possible. odd. #i love deeply personal songs! i love when songs sound like they mean something to the artist! #something something wider issue of mining trauma and being performatively vulnerable for quote unquote content #idk i don’t have the actual knowledge to write about this well there’s just something not landing for me recently #mine

[sheepydraws]

The secret Dungeon Meshi sauce that's getting people to eat better is that it's so non-judgmental. Senshi and the rest of the gang never talk about what not to eat besides things that taste bad and literal poison. They don't even talk about "health" that much besides the importance of a balanced diet. It's so much easier to eat well when you think of food simply as something your body needs, and that it's often worth the extra effort to make it taste good, especially when you understand how to connect "things your body needs" with "things that taste good"

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #idk I just think a lot about how no one talked about hot fatty pork was unhealthy #or even scolded Maricelle for wanting something they couldn't afford #Senshi just said 'you haven't been eating fat so your body needs some. let's make something rich and delicious!'

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

#dungeon meshi #falin touden #marcille donato #farcille #I always loved how chapter 27 ends with them both so bloody and 28 starts with them in the bath. #not just because of how iconic the bathtub moment is but because you know they had to scrap off so much gore first. #I think everyone in the party took a very long and methodical bath but Falin was basically *all* blood*. #Being covered in blood is one of those 'just girly things' that women deserve to stop being shamed about. #I just don't think Chilchuck is progressive enough. He probably made them take a bath first B*/ #Okay jestering aside I want to just highlight - #The magnitude of Marcille's joy at seeing her dearest friend again! Of holding her and sharing her presence in the same room! #Something about this reunion feels like a beautiful dream you are afraid of waking up from...

[the-mushroom-faerie]

Mythbusters have 3 categories of myths

the general public doesnt know how physics works

the general public doesnt know how lying works

oh crap this ones real

#mythbusters #whats that one quote #individuals are smart people are stupid #something along those lines #but i hear some of these myths and i know from the start that its gonna be busted #because anyone who stops and thinks about the science for 2 minutes will know it SOUNDS improbable

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

#i think about this story sometimes like yeah I'm proud of them for that too actually. good job baby brothers #they're not babies anymore of course they're turning 20 next year which is crazy #but they're still the type of people who'd do something if they saw something of this sort happen for sure #respectful of women and everyone else too. they're good guys #I'm glad I ended up with them living in my house against my will for like 14 years #anyway i have no idea where i was for all this but my best guess is probably a friends house given the time period #i was always at my besties house lol #i hope she's doing well too actually. haven't spoken in forever... #bestie from greek elementary school... if you're out there... let's get muffins and fanta at the bakery across the street again someday 💜☮️

[vivi266]

#love how this is actually about something but it's so broadly applicable i dont want to actually make that specificity clearer #original text: oh you think you're soooo fucking smart. with your fucking convoluted pretentious sentences #anyways the sticker is also extremely relevant and i'm tired of this post being popular

[baristabomb]

...weird amount of dunmeshi fans have been saying being a caretaker in a relationship is the worst thing ever..marcille must want to killl everyone soo bad because doing things for people suuuucks sooo muchh

it's an act of love, not just a job i promise. we all want someone who's willing to take care of us in some way, just like how senshi shows care for others by cooking for them :'|

#marcille donato #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #laios touden #falin touden #chilchuck tims #izutsumi #delicious in dungeon #this is also about kabru and mithrun stop focusing so hard on how it was ‘forced upon’ kabru as if it’s the most evil thing in the world #they took care of EACH OTHER during that time and mithrun wasn’t doing nothing #people are so weird about him and reduce mithrun down to his disability as if he isn’t CAPTAIN for a reason #it’s sooo insane #try thinking about how their time together serves the themes of the story rather than a biased interpretation #of all the things that happen in this manga people focus on the weirdest things to apply to real life #people try to construe is as something evil with evil intent as if it’s not there to benefit the THEMES of the story #woah a huge...heron? just landed on a tree i've been staring at it for like 10 minutes its pretty #dungeon meshi spoilers

[markodragic]

I dont think anything on this earth tickles me so hard as how busted white people look in the yakuza franchise

its so dhsjdjfjxjfjgk

#something about stephen spining is also uniquely funny. i think its the eyes #honestly its good tho. after playing games where the devs cant seem to accurately depict any features EXCEPT white ones yakuza is an oasis #of a handful of really really ugly white npcs #rgg #yakuza #ryu ga gotoku

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Uncaring

#original art #schoolwork #comic #cartoon #bugs tw #house centipede #goes for other bugs and animals too tbh #snake's art #Maybe it's ironic that I think everything has something pleasing about it if you look hard enough #For house centipedes it's their silly little faces

[theproblemsofdonhi]

Big Luffy finds a weird looking cat.

#no but honestly what was lucci thinking picking up this fight???? #like... did he thought all that shit about luffy in the papers was fake news or something????? #is he stupid? #one piece #one piece luffy #monkey d luffy #rob lucci #gear 5th #gear 5 luffy #sun god nika #nika #my art #drawing

[protoctist]

i know ryoko kui is a real one because she wrote 97+ chapters of a manga about fantasy ecosystems and food chains and not once did she write the phrase "survival of the fittest" (it's a bad phrase) (it's a social darwinist phrase even) (hated amongst biologists) (doesn't make sense) (darwin didn't use it) (coined by an business major) (one of the worst phrases in pop science) (no good)

#i think the closest she comes to this is when kabru says something about the weak being eaten but he also thinks all monsters should die #so i don't think he's like the voice of reason when it comes to ecosystems and evo bio NOT a kabru diss just saying #i think eat or be eaten is fine. it's like migrate adapt or die. i think it's fine and not the same as survival of the fittest #dungeon meshi #ETA: i was wrong darwin did use the phrase after it was coined. doesn't matter phrase still sux

[soaked-doors]

when it rains, it pours

#reading through post war stuff with my head in my hands #it’s getting me rly bad guys. It’s getting me rly bad #anyways you ever think about luzo being so in tune w/ eo that even strange cosmic forces pick up and reflect their emotions #something something zoro couldnt be there for his captain when he needed him the most and spent two years in penance without the sun #roronoa zoro #one piece #monkey d. luffy #one piece fanart #zoro #luffy #my art #luzo #zolu