So basically this has been running around in the back of my head, and going to fully explore it here today:
There seems to be a relative pattern with how gems look, at least thus far with the characters we know. First and foremost we have the tumbled gems like Lapis Lazuli, Peridot and Pearl. All of them are smooth and rounded in some way, just like the more common gems you would find in a store.
Lapis Lazuli, Peridot and Pearl are all non-combative gems, they seem to have less to do with fighting and more of their specialty. Lapis controls water, and seems to have no physical weapon. Peridot almost seems to have a control on magnetism and uses their floating fingers for most of their combat. They seem completely new to combat in general. Pearl’s lyrics:
Deep down you know
You weren't built for fighting
But that doesn't mean
You're not prepared to try
With that and the way she refers to herself as just a Pearl and other comments seems to denote a service class.
Then there are the cut gems, those that seem purposely cut like we tend to do with more valuable gems. These have their own categories, from triangle cut like sapphire’s gem, to square cut gems like ruby’s gem, to pentagon cut gems like Steven’s/Rose’s gem, to hexagon cut gem’s like amethyst’s gem and then the odd ball cut of Jasper’s being pyramid.
Sapphire, Ruby, Amethyst are all faceted and cut gems. They all have the similar shape of round with different amount of sides to the facet. So the respective shapes it makes in the center I will refer to. My first impression was that the number of sides denoted more power. Then I noted that Rose Quartz’s and Steven’s gem are a pentagon compared to Amethyst’s hexagon. Now I begin to wonder if its just different classes and positions for each different shape. Perhaps Diamond actually refers to the type of cut, or position rather then the actual type of gem.
Last we have only seen from corrupted and captured gems, natural and unnatural gem states. First and most obvious would be Centipeedle, and their strange gem form. Other gems captured have other unusual shapes and man-made shaped like Bismuth. The rest are mostly quartz points and natural formations of crystals.
Do corrupted gems take particular forms?
So, I think that there might be a type of ritual or coming of age thing for gems where they get cut/shaped. The idea of which honestly gave me chills at first, but I can’t fathom how gems would be grown but look exquisitely cut. Maybe corruption happened when grown gems where coming out of Kindergarden, before they go through the ceremony of getting cut.
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ok sorry to double reblog BUT I just looked him up and he does these fantastic videos where he breaks down HOW he actually mimics the other artists’ styles. Like for ed Sheeran, he explains how he brings his voice forward in the mouth, while Adam Levine sings in the back of the mouth, stuff like that. It’s SO COOL, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone actually break down how to do this sort of thing, as a skill, instead of just treating it like a neat trick they just happen to be good at.
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like they've already made it very clear by a) ghosting me for months and b) getting my colleagues to train their stupid new ai. like i only know about this because one of my colleagues tipped me off. i imagine they're waiting to get it working before they formally let me go and fuck that. i am literally drafting my resignation lmao
guys. there has been an update. my spy colleague has informed me that my ex-boss is backtracking. the ai was supposed to speed things up because apparently i was unavailable too often but it turns out that another colleague has been lying about me telling him i was unavailable. i have email receipts proving this never happened.
this colleague also has beef with me because his documents were always garbage and i came back with a million corrections and called him out for mass copy-pasting. so he was just skipping the editing and saying i said i couldn't do it. and i lost my job because of it.
shoutout to all the people reblogging the version of this before my rejection letter. and especially shoutout to those people saying they're happy for me and that there's justice on this earth. i regret to inform you that my version of justice means choosing violence.
Just to raise awareness at the situation in Canada right now to my non-Canadian followers: Toronto has been ranked as having the worst air quality in the world right now due to wildfires.
Toronto is not a wildfire-prone area. It is extremely close to the USA border, and the smog is currently affecting NY right now. There is literal chunks of debris in the air. The sky is orange, and the sun is nowhere to be seen.
Climate change and its effects are right outside your door. Data centres are the cause for the insane heat waves across the globe, and the increase in wildfires and other natural disasters.
You will watch recordings of the world burn around you, and only when you are behind the camera will you realize there is no going back.
Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.
Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.
2026 - Minecraft River
Had this as a sketch in my folder for maybe 4 years and finally did something with it. Some well needed practice for my Minecraft webcomic I'm planning this year.
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There's a different species of barnacle, Sacculina, that parasitizes crabs in a similar way to this. It has a very cursed lifecycle and I assume the crab is also having a weird time.
I just looked it up—it injects itself into the crab's body and replaces the crab's genitals with itself, grows roots into the crab's organs (including its brain), and controls the crab's behaviors so the crab will take care of the Sacculina larvae as a female crab would its own babies—if the crab is male, the Sacculina parasite will make the crab's body produce female hormones to basically change it to female.
This is so cool...how did this even develop? How did the parasite evolve to do that? How ancient would this relationship have to be for something so complex to form?
There are things in Animorphs I know in my heart to be true and I will argue with anyone including Katherine and Grant about it
Loren would wear Mom jeans yes even as a teenager
Cassie should have had a different hairstyle besides close cropped. It makes no sense to me for a black girl of her political persuasion and sensibilities to not have a lot of opinions about the natural hair movement in the 90s.
Marco's first crush was Jake. It's entirely one-sided and will never be fully unpacked, and Marco could deal with that. He could deal with Jake having a thing for Cassie too. But when Tobias started orbiting around Jake, that was a step too far. How dare Jake be friends with other boys. That's why he was such a jackass to him in the first few books.
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