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i’m really only a casual viewer of 9-1-1, but a primetime television show making fan-favourite evan “buck” buckley canonically queer?? what a huge win!!! younger, newly bi me would’ve given anything for the fan-favourite character to be queer!!! a big congrats to all the bi!buck truthers out there (myself included) !!!!

#911 abc #911 spoilers #evan buckley #eddie diaz #911 show #911 s7 spoilers #bi!buck

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star wars meme: [3/5] movies  ≡ the empire strikes back

Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father. He told me enough. He told me you killed him. No. I am your father.

#star wars #the empire strikes back

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they call me james holden because i am drinking too much coffee and coping very poorly

#the expanse has been my new thing #i am so very weak and too bisexual for this show #everyone is so pretty and i am so gay #but also #james holden is me #the expanse #james holden

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What a year this week has been.

#first post of 2024 #this year needs to be better #i need this year to be better

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i am just so so so empty after the loki season 2 finale.

#loki season 2 #loki laufeyson #mobius m mobius #mobius #loki series

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I think it’s time for us to all collectively return to the library. Get a card, go to a club meeting, volunteer on an off day, rent some equipment. You don’t even have to read a book. But since the digital world is rapidly becoming a subscription-only hellscape requiring a criminal amount of private personal information to use even CASUALLY, the library has become our last safe haven to just exist with information present and not have our labour or information exploited for money.

#yes yes a thousand times yes #from your local library worker #me myself and i

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The “self-harm” warning at the top of the screen for Heartstopper season 2 really just broke my heart. I’ve read the graphic novels, I know the plot, that just hit harder than I was expecting it to.

#heartstopper #heartstopper spoilers #heartstopper season 2 #heartstopper season 2 spoilers #nick and charlie #charlie spring #nick nelson #alice oseman

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LIZZO!?!? AND JACK BLACK!?!?!? fuck me this mandalorian episode is already spectacular

edit: CHRISTOPHER LLOYD!?!?!

#the mandalorian spoilers #the mandalorian chapter 22

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Hey, could you maybe tell us about Labradorite? I checked wiki but I don't understand half the words there. I'm not a giant rock fan, but I like cool rocks and Labradorite looks really cool. Sorry to bother you!

Okay, so, Labradorite.  Labradorite is complicated and sciencey, as all good rocks are.  I’ll see if I can explain it in a way that makes any sense!  (Once again, I’m not a scientist!  Correct me if I’m wrong!)

Most minerals, when they’re bright and pretty and colorful, look like that because while they were forming some impurities got mixed into them - usually metals like iron, copper, or titanium.  Without any impurities, these rocks would naturally be colorless.  We call these guys allochromatic (other-colored).

Other gemstones are certain colors because those elements are an important part of how they formed.  They’re not impurities that got mixed in, they’re actually part of the gemstone.  Their natural color IS the color you’re seeing.  We call them idiochromatic (inherently colored).

But labradorite doesn’t get its color from either of those things.  Labradorite is special.  It’s part of a third group: pseudochromatic (false colored).  These rocks aren’t colorful at all, but they LOOK that way when light passes through them.

See, labradorite is actually just… grey.  From most angles, it looks like this:

You have to look at labradorite from a pretty specific angle to get those flashy colors, so when we cut it into cabochons for jewelry, or just polish up big pieces of it, we’re careful to do so at the most flattering angle, the angle that shows the most schiller, or “those cool glowy colors.”

Why just the one angle?  It’s all about labradorite’s crystal structure, and how it’s formed.

Labradorite is a rock that cooled down really slowly.  Because of that, it’s made of lots of very very thin layers of crystal, stacked on top of each other and all pretty much aligned in the same direction.  These are alternating layers of albite (mostly sodium), and orthoclase (mostly potassium), which solidify at very slightly different temperatures.  Labradorite is a rock that cooled in just the right way for a thin layer of albite to form, then a thin layer of orthoclase, then another thin layer of albite, and so on.

When light hits labradorite at the perfect angle to pass through a bunch of these layers, you get the schiller effect.  Basically, a little bit of the light gets bounced off the first layer and back to your eyes.  The rest of the light passes through to the second layer, and a little bit gets bounced back to your eyes again, and so on.  Every time more light gets sent back to you, it’s a little out of sync, and this makes it look like a different color.

(This is a very simplified way of explaining this.)

If these layers were all perfectly the same size, you’d get a uniform color, like the blue in moonstone.  But in labradorite, these layers might be different widths in different places, so different parts of the stone will reflect back wildly different colors!  We call this effect labradorescence to differentiate it from the uniform colored adularescence found in moonstone and some opals.

Depending on where it’s found in the world, labradorite can reflect all sorts of different colors!

But whatever color it is, Labradorite will always be the Best and Coolest Rock.

#labradorite is my favourite rock #me myself and i #cool rocks and stuff #geology tag #?? #do i have a geology tag??? #i do now

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Going off of the “come on, Reginald” in “this band is back” and a tag on my most recent reblog, you cannot tell me that the boys (plus Julie) don’t call each other by their full names as a joke and out of love. I want Luke going “we get it Alexander” after Alex goes on a Willie tangent, or Reggie saying, in like a cute mocking tone “oh Lucas your eyes are so pretty” after Luke and Julie get lost in their own world. I want Julie yelling “Reginald!” After reggie makes a kissy face or teases her about Luke. I want the full names being used to make someone laugh. I want one of the boys to call Julie “Juliana” or something to make her laugh when she’s missing her mom. I want to Julie (and Alex and Reggie) making up a song using words that rhyme with Lucas to try and cheer him up after he visits his parents again. I want the love and the comradery that comes with inside jokes surrounding full names.

#i love my human and her little ghost family #once again I am reblogging my own posts !!! #julie and the phantoms #jatp #julie molina #luke patterson #reggie peters #alex mercer #jatp headcanons #jatp hc

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The fact that Luke says “I have something that’ll cheer you up” means that “this band is back” was a recurring thing for the boys and they probably started doing it when the fighting got bad at reggies house and wanted to take his mind off of things or just to cheer him up and I have so many emotions

#I’m rewatching jatp and reblogging all my own posts #don’t mind me #julie and the phantoms #jatp #luke patterson #reggie peters #alex mercer #jatp headcanons #jatp hc #i love my ghosts

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Hello please reblog this if you’re okay with people sending you random asks to get to know you better

#please please please #ask me things #ask me stuff

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hades ii??????? you’re telling me the best game i’ve ever played is getting a sequel???? you’re telling me i get to play as melinoe???? do we get to see zag as a big brother???? do they love each other??? i cannot fucking wait

#hades game #hades ii #supergiant games

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Do you hear the ticking, Goncharov?

#god i haven’t thought of this movie in years #i always love it when it trends again #goncharov #unreality #tw unreality

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Rick I am 23 years old. I cannot deal with anymore pain. Let me rest please

#the sun and the star #and the chalice of the gods???? #I’m tired #let me rest #please #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #the chalice of the gods

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local public library fandom

#as someone who works at the local public library #yes #me myself and i

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i was 15 when blood of olympus came out, and i sobbed my way through that book. now 8 years later, finding out that i’m going to get percy and annabeth and grover back?? that’s all i ever wanted.

#pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #the chalice of the gods #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood