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Feral Druid artifact challenge skin. Ghost of the Pridemother. Based on World of Warcraft Body length: with tail 40 cm Handmade poseable Art Doll.

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Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind In this darkness which you know you cannot fight

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Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair from The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

“I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.” “But you built me dreams instead.”

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Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) “The Black Sea at Night” (1879) Romanticism

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Annoyance at Disturbance ….

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She likes whiskey with her water She starts dancing when the stars come out She ain't your typical preacher's daughter She'll leave you dreamin' yeah ain't no doubt

There's a little bit of devil in her angel eyes She's a little bit of heaven with a wild side Got a rebel heart a country mile wide There's a little bit of devil in her angel eyes A little bit of devil in her angel eyes

#strange magic #spread the lofe #bog king

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That moment when you consider a $300 impulse buy of an 8 ft. plastic T-Rex skeleton, while  questioning the relevance of creatures from the Cretaceous Period to Halloween.  I don’t know if this “stretch of reason” is why I _would_ or _would not_ buy it.

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Bristol, UK.

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can you tell me why there are squares in rocks? what are those little cubes doing?

They are extremely well formed crystals of the mineral pyrite. Pyrite’s molecular structure is actually cubic - If you picture a cube, Iron atoms are at 4 corners of the cube and they alternate with sulfur atoms at other corners of the cube. When it grows into open space, it can grow into extremely well formed shapes like that. 

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Not Enough

In love with your ghost, at war with my mistakes. To say that I’m sorry is a bandage on a dead man, a drop in the ocean, and a forgotten relic.

#sorry #cant take it back

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Moon

Layla Quiniver’s boots crunched the dead leaves underfoot, on the forest floor. During the day, this ground was a colorful canvas of fall colors. But her exceptional night-vision could only recognize one hue: red. This only aided her mounting fret and, in her haste, she tripped on a stray bramble. Layla was a state-champion swimmer and long distance runner, but she was slightly put out that they had gotten held up earlier when Landon got pulled over for speeding, again. She usually wasn’t THIS clumsy.

Landon’s explosive reflexes caught his sister by the arm and punctually put her upright again to continue walking, all in the blink of an eye. They both knew that the need for haste was great.

The wind was blowing and it was only getting harder by the minute. The siblings both knew, without a word, that the cloud cover could quickly disappear. The Star was still a ways ahead, and this was the reason for their haste.

Landon and Layla had been told that they had Romanian blood from their mother’s side, and Layla often thought that she could pass for a Roma girl. She had a smooth tan complexion and thick raven hair that fell down her shoulders in gentle waves. Here face was soft, yet she had the look of fierce determination and focus. Landon was the catcher for the baseball team, with broad shoulders and a medium build. His hair was cut with his sport in mind to minimize interference with a helmet, but the beginning of waves could be seen in the longest parts. He had the same skin and hair color as his sister, however his face was all hard lines and squared angles.

A small opening in the clouds revealed a furiously bright full moon. For less than a second, the two were illuminated by a beam of light. They both shivered violently, but seemed to quickly regain any lost composure and continued onward, even faster.

The most distinctive feature that the siblings shared was a striking set of slivery blue eyes that they inherited from that long-lost, nameless Romanian ancestor, or so they’d been told. It didn’t matter to them as much where they got that specific trait from.

Landon’s escaped sigh was barely audible, but Layla heard it and understood his relief: they had reached the Star. The Star was not much more than a clearing surrounded by fat oak trees, so named because of it’s shape. It was not large, however they picked it for it’s remoteness and a rabbit hole that was perfect for hiding things they didn’t… and couldn’t take with them. As soon as they cleared the trees, they immediately went to opposite sides of the clearing and undressed.

Their haste paid off, because no sooner had Layla waded up her jeans and stuffed them in the hole, that the cloud cover broke, as if it was waiting impatiently for the siblings.

As the moonlight washed over them, the shivering began again, despite that the night was warm, even for early October. This time however, it didn’t stop, but grew stronger and stronger. As the gust of wind that had uncovered the moon died away, it seemed as though Landon’s skin had begun to ripple as the surface of a pond, but… no. It must have been a trick of the moonlight and fierce shivering.

However the ripples grew in number and in size, as he crouched down as though in terrible pain, and his sister doing the same afterward, disappearing from sight. That was when the bad part came. Landon stopped shivering, however his skin seemed to shift away from his body in odd ways, going back and forth in jerky movements until it settled, in some places inches from where his body should have been. At the same time, a terrible sound began to build, like the grinding of so many bones. It came from where Landon was crouched and the place where Layla had fallen. Whimpers came from both the young man and his sister. The shifting took on a more vigorous pace, and the shape of Landon started to look less and less like Landon.

His legs started to take on a more crouched posture, and his backbone becoming more pronounced. Fingers that were dug into the ground, lost their length, but grew claws instead. The whimpering that sounded painfully human began to sound like a whine that one might hear from the scratching at the door. Suddenly, black fur covered the odd shape on the ground and the shifting began to become harder to follow in the moonlight. For several moments, ripples went up and down the shape that was so much bigger than Landon until it was so very quite. Not a sound came from either side of the clearing.

Seconds later, a black wolf trotted from the other side of the clearing. It was much bigger than any natural wolf had the right to be. As a matter of fact, it’s size was more comparable to a pony than to any member of the canine family, much less a teenage girl. The wolf’s blue silvery eyes hovered on the gigantic furry mass. Landon was larger than Layla, so the shift took a heavier toll on the wolf and the human. It gently padded over to the other wolf and nudged it with it’s snout. A non-threating growl responded, and the mass visibly took a fortifying sigh. Slowly standing, the mass shook off the leaves in it’s coat. What had once been Landon Quiniver now stood on four legs, but was almost as tall. It was almost identical to the first wolf, except that it was quite a bit larger.

The wolves took one long glance at each other. This moment was the most human that they would be until the full moon disappeared. The larger wolf shook itself again and raised it’s head to let loose a chilling howl. The smaller joined him and the harmony that they created made it seem as though the air itself had goosebumps. The forest was entirely silent.

Abruptly, the litter-mates ended the howl and leapt from the Star with remarkable speed, leaving nothing behind them but the smell of a wet dog.

#werewolf #moon #halloween #shapeshifter

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Finding Darkness In The Light: How Vera Rubin Changed The Universe

“Instead, the speeds rose rapidly, but then leveled off. As you moved farther away from a galaxy’s core, the stars’ rotation speeds didn’t drop, but rather leveled off to a constant value. The rotation curves, unexpectedly, were flat. Rubin’s work began in the Andromeda galaxy, our closest large, galactic neighbor, but quickly was extended to dozens of galaxies, which all showed the same effects. Today, that number is in the thousands, and our multiwavelength, advanced surveys have shown that it can’t be missing atoms, ions, plasmas, gas, dust, planets or asteroids that account for the mass. Either something is screwy with the laws of gravity on galactic (and larger) scales, or there’s some type of unseen mass in the Universe.”

When you look at a galaxy in the night sky, it’s easy to imagine that it’s just a system of masses like our Solar System, except on a larger scale. Instead of a single, central mass, you have many stars responsible for the galaxy’s gravitational pull. The stars revolving around the galactic center feel the tug from all the other stars and orbit accordingly, with the inner stars orbiting quickly and the outermost ones – the ones most distant from the gravitational sources – orbiting more slowly, just like the planets. At least, that’s what you’d expect. But when the techniques and the technologies for measuring this finally came to fruition, the result was a colossal surprise: the stars in a galaxy didn’t determine the galaxy’s mass or rotation properties. In fact, if you went out and measured the gas, dust, plasma, planets and everything else we can observe in the galaxy, they don’t explain it either. Something unseen and invisible was influencing the way galaxies behave.

On Sunday night, Vera Rubin passed away at age 88. Here was her most titanic, Universe-changing contribution to the enterprise of science.

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Richard Dawkins

Something came from nothing?

  What's this?

  Am I supposed to believe also that from something nothing comes?

  Golly, tell me about the rabbits George....

Number one:

Einstein once said that only a fool would claim

 to know the absolute --- since we still have to do

 research we cannot  claim to know EVERYTHING

Number two:

Science has not even to be able to solve the

 mysteries  of the simplest atom: the hydrogen atom

 So how can it claim to know the immense

mysteries and design of the universe?

Number three:

It is claimed that there is only one in a ten

 trillion chance that the universe was not CAUSED

Number four:

Visual proof for the existence of God is uneccessary:

 Almost  EVERYTHING we KNOW is unseen

 Consider this: if one were to require visual evidence

 for God's existence it would be quite impossible;

 they are asking the most powerful being in all

 existence to unveil Himself in compact form: they

 would be incinerated

Number five:

There are three forms of knowledge: perception,

 reason, and intellect. The ultimate design of

 the universe can only be grasped by the

 intellect. Science only uses perception

 and reason to deduct facts about the

 material world. Physics cannot claim

 to know the ultimate origin of life ITSELF

 for this is the field of metaphysics.

Number six:

We are only some 300 generations removed

from the Stone-Age; we are only beginning to

understand the origin and nature of our existence.

Being the world that the state that is in ---- science

is too slow with its turtle pace to solve our most

difficult problems; morality and ethics ---- which is

infinitely more important than science since there

will be no science if we destroy the earth.

Since we live in a temporal plane, in which

all things have a beginning and an end,

everything is contingent upon something

else for its existence; if we were to trace

the origins of this process we must arrive

to something unlike the contingent, for it can

only be something un-contingent which

began everything; else chance would be

the cause of life as know it, yet chance

requires two or more things for it to

happen at all. Only God could fulfill

the origins of this process we call life.

Considering Richard Dawkins is not entirely

 basing his hypothesis on hard fact, and that

 he seems not very good with odds, it is

 likely he would make a terrible poker player.

Want to play some poker Richard?

I'M all in.....

#physics #philosophy #theology