Heads up! Now Bookface has finished, new handmade earth pigments paints and sets are up in my store! I'm super proud of them, especially the green earths set 💚🪨🖌️
Horrible fact of the day: Chevron just released a new boat fuel that WILL give you cancer.
Not "might", not "could", WILL. It has a cancer ratio of 1.3:1, as in, in a group of 10 people, 10 would contract CANCER.
(Edit: apparently some articles are now saying 1.4:1, and some are saying a little under that. Either way, the consensus seems to be anywhere between a 95-100+% of contracting cancer, with some expectations of this fuel not even needing a full lifetime of exposure for you to get Cancer.)
The EPA's safety limit is 1:1,000,000 as in 1 in a million people get cancer.
The EPA approved it anyways. I am not joking. The EPA approved a boat fuel that has a near 100% chance of giving someone cancer. It has such a good chance of giving someone cancer that if you DIDN'T get cancer YOU WOULD BE AN OUTLIER.
Fuck the oil industries.
Edit: If you find this (rightfully) horrifying, have you considered industrial sabotage? /hj
This isn't something we can vote away. This isn't something the rich are gonna apologize and make a 10 minute apology video for this. They don't care if you starve or wither in hospitals or get blown up in their wars.
If you don't know where to get started:
If you already know what to do, then it's time to do it. Participate in mutual aid, raise awareness in real life as well as online, participate in or train in self defense and emergency medical training classes.
aemond: my uncle is a challenge i welcome, if he dares face me—
everyone, literally everyone, team green enthusiast and haters, team black enthusiast and haters, rhaenyra stans and antis, aegon stans and antis, alicent stans and antis, daemon stans and antis, team neutrals, team ‘I like pretty people and want to fuck them all’, team ‘yall are missing the point’, helaena lovers, and AEMONDWIVES AND HATERS:
This is my first test of volkonskoite, a green earth pigment also known as Russisch-grün/Russian green because it was first discovered in the Ural mountains in Russia. I was given an old German container of this pigment by one of my @bookfacearts friends. The manufacturer doesn't exist anymore so I couldn't contact them, but a little research suggests volkonskoite is very stable. I've tested it out today to work out how much binder it takes, & made some small pans to share.
The final colour is a dusky blue green. It's unlike any other green earth I've tried, although it feels a bit like some celadonite paint I tried from another maker in texture. The colour is a little bluer than celadonite though. It's beautiful 💚
The tiny ⅛-pan bioplastic pans came from Tiny Watercolors (@tinywatercolorart on Instagram)
The pieces of paper at the beginning say:
- Volkonskoite PG23 aka russisch-grün is a green earth
- 5g to ?ml binder? Binder = gum arabic, veg glycerin, honey, clove & tea tree oil
- I'm wearing a mask btw, don't redecorate ur lungs
I'm making the full video into a walkthrough, so they will pop up slower then!