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Babel.

The M25 was not the first time Crowley decided to meddle in the public building sector.

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Thou art a scholar, speak to it, Horatio.

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Discworld-"What I Did On My Holidays"

Really wished this book was real, and it's all just a picture book on the events of "The Color of Magic" and "The Light Fantastic"

And hey!, it's my first time drawing Rincewind and Two-Flower! Let's go!!!!

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So I was having a conversation with a friend about old anime and in the middle of it she forgot the word "canonical" and she instead inflicted a spectacular new aesthetic and slew of mental images on me by saying the phrase "Biblically Accurate Ouran High School Host Club".

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I've discovered something cool.

Left: A 100+ year old medicine bottle that my parents dug up in their backyard when I was a kid. Their house is built where the old municipal dump was in the late 1800s, so there were lots of bottles like it buried in the dirt. Right: An ordinary wine glass from the 1990s. Both of these things have been sat on a shelf gathering dust for over a decade.

...Until recently, when I got my hands on a UV flashlight.

[Video description: The bottle and wine glass described above sit next to each other on a table, with the bottle on the left and glass on the right. They are lit from above by a normal incandescent bulb, though the bulb is out of shot. There is a plastic squeaking sound, and the light dims and turns off, leaving the screen dark. There is a click, and a UV flashlight turns on off screen, to the left. Under its light, the bottle glows yellow-green, and the wine glass glows blue. The light holds for a few seconds, then turns off with another click, leaving the screen dark until the video cuts out.]

They glow!!! (These two aren't the only ones either, just the ones with the brightest color.)

There are a lot of different things that can be mixed into glass to make it fluoresce under UV (including, perhaps most famously, uranium). After doing some research, I think I've pinned down these two.

The bottle has manganese, which was (ironically) used to remove the green tint from glass and make it colorless.

The wine glass has lead, which increases the reflectivity of glass to make it more sparkly (and can also leach off into your drink and give you lead poisoning. Whoops!)

As I'm sure you can tell I've been nerding out over this big time. I love when science is pretty :)

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evolution of the archivist

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humbly offer this jmart 🤲

edit: someone asked for an ID, so heres the one they wrote (plus some extra edits by me):

[ID: Digital Magnus Archives fanart of Jon and Martin kissing in an archive’s closet. Martin holds Jon, one hand on Jon’s neck and the other holding his waist, bending Jon backwards a bit. Jon has one hand cupping Martin's jaw/cheek and one on his chest. The closet is small and dim, but a single green lightbulb above them emits a starburst glow and casts them in green light. A little bit of light emits from the door through the shades down to the ground. End ID]

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The Angel and the Eye

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Passing this along because this knowledge is changing my life:

If you want to stop your periods with something more permanent than birth control meds, but not as invasive as a hysterectomy, there's a procedure called an ablation that removes the endometrial lining and stops the monthly bleeding. Apparently the recovery is like. 1 day. Only caveat is it makes pregnancy very dangerous so don't do it if you want kids.

I'm on cloud nine right now.

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knight strip tease. is that anything

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An easy rule for DMs to remember: If you don't want your players to adopt random NPCs and animals, don't feature any NPCs or animals. Based on a submission from @windmorrow Want me to doodle your D&D party? Commissions are open! Currently $20/character. Visit my page or send an e-mail to yourdndstories @ gmail, subject 'Doodles', for more information.

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color theory final

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Minor redesign

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some little tmas from a while back.. this is not an up to date jon design

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"Sorry Admiral, it's been a hard few days." [ADMIRAL STARTS PURRING]

There may come a day where I skip an opportunity to draw the Admiral and just draw the episode statement... but it is not this day.

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Watching the “you will excel at what you measure” trap devour basic moral practice in real time is fascinating in a terrible kind of way

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Chapter 14 of "Another Story (Not Our Own)" has been posted!