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Some Gemology Vocabulary

for your next poem/story (pt. 2)

Gemology—the scientific study of gemstones

Clarity - The grading of a gemstone is based on the presence or absence of inclusions. The fewer inclusions, the better a gemstone’s clarity grade.

Crown - Located above the girdle or at the top of a cut stone, the crown faces up and is in plain view when the gem is arranged in a setting.

Culet - The bottom quadrant or point on a stone with a pavilion that ends in a single point; a bottom facet cut parallel to the girdle on a stone with an otherwise pointed bottom, initially intended to prevent chipping.

Diaphaneity - The general term to describe the transmittance of light through an object. The 3 typical classifications are transparency, translucency, and opacity.

Diffusion treatment - A treatment used to alter the color of a gemstone (mostly sapphires).

Dispersion - The separation of white light into the component colors of the visible spectrum.

Facet - A flat surface on a stone or other media.

Girdle - The line created where the crown and pavilion facets meet, or the series of facets that separate the crown and pavilion facets.

Pavilion - The part of the stone below the girdle, otherwise the bottom portion of the stone.

Sectile - Capable of being cut as into slices or shavings.

Table - A facet on the crown, usually parallel to the girdle. In cases when the girdle isn't a straight line, the table is typically at 90° to the stone's center axis.

Tavernier rule - A method of gemvalue calculation. Price increases by the square of weight of stones. Now obsolete.

Veinstone - Any mineral other than metal which occurs in a vein (i.e., a crack, crevice, or fissure, filled, or practically filled, with mineral matter).

Wisps - Whitish wisp-like fractures resembling thin wind-blown clouds. Occur in some synthetic emerald but never in the genuine.

Youstone - An old English term for jade.

Sources: 1 2 3 More: Word Lists

More: On Gemology

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start ID. Write your stories any way you have to frame it to get it out, any time you can get it done. Use any trick. I want to know what it was that you looked at unflinchingly, even if you did not know what you were seeing at the time. If nothing else works, start by writing that story for me. Imagine me. I was born to die. I know that. If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year-old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant. end ID.

Dorothy Allison, from Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature, 1994

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the funniest thing in the entire pirates of the caribbean series is definitely that one scene in At World’s End where they have parlay but davy jones is part of it, and rather than have him stand in the shallows or something they get a big bucket of water and have in stand on it on shore

who thought of that idea? who thought “put davy jones in a bucket of water” and had the guts to suggest it aloud? and then who went “hey that sounds like a great idea!”

at some point someone told davy jones their idea was for him to stand in a bucket of water and he agreed to it

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Who says that magical girls can't work remotely

oc belongs to @kianamaiart

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Ororon I made tonight 🦇

( He is so pretty… I am now filled with unwanted boykisser thoughts)

He is so 2010 and I love him for that ✨

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This artist hand-embroiders canvas "notebooks."

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Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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Uploaded some wrote dialogues I wrote a while ago onto AO3

“And So A Suit Fantastical I’ll Don”

Rated G, 318 words. Fischl & Venti feat. Oz

Additional Tags: Fluff, Fischl Being Fischl, Venti understands Fischl, and plays along to her role-play, Flustered Fischl, Fischl-centric, Dramatic Irony, Names, avoiding problems, informal script form, Dialogue-Only

Summary

Fischl: Ah, Master Venti! Windborne Bard and writer of countless ballads ancient, are thou in need of mine assistant?

Oz: Mein Fräulein means—

Venti: Not quite assistance, but I’m just curious, Prinzessin der Verurteilung, Sovereign of Immernachtreich, Fischl von Luftschloss Narfidort—

Fischl: Y-Yes?

Venti: Whence found thee the jewel of inspiration for thy holy title of darkness, O Prinzessin?

Fischl, Venti, and Oz talk about names, identity, and elements.

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“Define ‘Friend’”

Rated G, 174 words. Shenhe & Traveler & Paimon

Additional Tags: informal script form, Dialogue-Only, Interlude Chapter Act I: The Crane Returns on the Wind, No Plot/Plotless, Inspired by the end scene in “Seagaze Sunset”, Traveler Can Be Read as Kong | Aether or Ying | Lumine, Fluff, bittersweet fluffShenhe makes friends

Summary

Shenhe: People often revere me like they would an Adeptus. It’s understandable why they would do so based on how I present, but… Mortal ties, they feel distant.

Paimon: Shenhe…

Traveler: I understand.

Paimon: Eh?

Shenhe, Traveler, and Paimon reflect on their adventure in finding the Sunset Vermilionite during the Archon Quest interlude.

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peep the fit

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hoping to make progress on my oc projects this year

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court of crows

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大葱馅的咸粽要来试试看吗

🌿🍃～端午节安康～🍃🌿

摸了粽子miku一起过节～

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じめんタイプ🏜️✨