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Odd question but I actually know very little about geology;
Does anyone have good resources where I can learn how places get iron in the soil? Like... how does that happen? How would you know if a place would be iron oxide-rich?
This is specifically about if BB!Cats have access to Ochre but I'm casting a wide net here
#They are based on an area that has a LOT of red sandstone#Some parts of the modeled region are iconic for their specific color of red sandstone#Is that because of iron oxide...?#I know iron makes stuff red#bone babble#Would that be related to being able to find a lot of ochre?#I know a little about a lot of things but only The Basics of geology#Like I know the three types of rock and what makes sandstone different from siltstone#And how fossilization works#Sending out an aquaman-style autism ray to call upon someone who has geology as a special interest in the audience
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Tiny little pitcher!
I have absolutely no idea what this is good for, tbh. One serving of milk for your tea, if your mug isn't too big? Using as a vase for very small flowers? Just decoration? idk! Would love to hear if anyone has any ideas -- I use small bowls a lot, but I'm curious what people might use tiny pitchers for, if anything!




Anyway I was on a kick of making tiny things last month, so I ended up making a bunch of little bowls and jugs in both white and black clay. Expect more posts with 'em!
#birch-shark-art pots#pottery#ceramics#tiny pots#the thing about this black clay is it stains everything and gets everywhere and it's SUCH a pain to clean up#and it's pretty new at the studio and so we don't have a lot of test tiles and it's often kinda guesswork how glazes will look on it#unless you do your own test tile (this is a good habit I never do) or can look at a friend's piece that you like the look of#but also it's fun to work with and sometimes the glaze results are weird but sometimes they're SO cool#this is the same glaze I use on the outside of my fossil pots and you can see how different it looks!#(test tiles are basically little clay shapes -- not necessarily tile-shaped but often -- that you make and glaze and fire ahead of time)#(so you can see how a given glaze or glaze combo will look on a given clay body)#(the trouble is I'm a freewheeling experimenter making things up as I go)#(I'm a bad example kids don't be like me)#(anyway for all the other clays my studio has there are a bunch of existing test tiles on the wall to examine!)
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Why do you hate Instagram is it because it's ran by Facebook because if so super fair
i mean. that’s definitely part of it but i really don’t like pic/video-dominated algorithmic media loll… shit rots your mind. i really prefer tumblr above any other social media at this point bc you can actually curate your own experience without worry. also there’s no shitty AI stuff yet god bless 🙏
#i use reddit and tumblr haha and even then i try to limit how much actual media i’m taking in#my reddit experience is purely fossils / plants / animals#i stay away from politics bc i will vote when i can and that’s essentially the most i can do atp#getting worked up over some headline won’t make the world better#it’s also why i’ve tried to keep this blog politics-free. i don’t want to engage in that in a space that isn’t meant to be negative#i know this makes me sound crazy lmfao#i’m also very much out of touch w all trends and i love it ❤️#except home design. i love green tile bathroom walls okay
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I feel like I need more content of TF One Megatron being unequivocally the youngest member of the Decepticons
Sure yes, in the angst/serious department because I eat that stuff up, but in this instance I mean more like in the funny department. Like, he’s casually making everyone else feel old and barely trying
Like talking about how a holofilm they remember going out to see was made before he was born, or he thinks they’re talking about a remake they didn’t even know existed. Or talking about video games and the High Guard not realizing how far the technology advanced, and so what they considered cutting edge mechanics is archaic to him. Or how their lingo or whatever you call it is painfully outdated and they have no clue what he’s even saying when he uses his. He’s defeating everyone here with the power of being from the youngest generation
I just think it’s really funny and I want to see more of it
Though also not just him making everyone else feel old, but also him just doing young person things in general. He’s <50 years old, he should be allowed to act like it
#I also have this thought of the other younger members of the High Guard despairing over this#because like they’re young for the High Guard but they’re also like 300-400 years old#and then comes this <50 year old making them feel like fossils#meaning they have now officially been lumped in with the other senior members as just “old”#to said senior members’ annoyance about being called such#but yeah no I need to see this capitalized more on#I know Transformers don’t age like humans do so I don’t know how old Megatron is supposed to be#in comparison to other Cybertronians and where they all fit relative to our human lifespans#but we do know he’s the youngest guy here#we can work with this#unfortunately I am painfully unaware of how young people operate#Hell I don’t even understand my own age group#so I don’t know exactly how to do it myself#I’m just saying I need more of it#transformers#transformers one#megatron#decepticons#high guard#random stuff
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You know, I was thinking about an idea I had then realized just how angsty it would be on one side and how much fluff it would be on the other and I'm curious about other people's ideas too ngl
So like, I was toying around with the idea of Shanon coming back to Gardenview and snatching up the loser lesbians and bringing them home with her to save from... Whatever happened. Shanon has no idea, she was never allowed to know, so she just has two VERY traumatized toons now. She'll know how to keep Shelly entertained and happy, she was ALWAYS with Shelly, but I highly doubt she'd know how to keep Vee in check at all.
Vee would probably quickly spiral into a mental crisis about it too, as now everything has been destroyed in her eyes. Nobody remembers her gameshows because they ended years ago, nobody remembers her because Gardenview closed years ago, nobody's interested in learning about her as she's outdated technology to them now. She'd be alone, only able to quiz Shelly now, but she's heard all her questions and knows all the answers by now. She'd probably start self isolating because she just doesn't know what to do with herself, lashing out at Shanon because she genuinely doesn't understand why people aren't fans of her anymore and wants to blame someone except herself. She would be such a wreck and probably have major beef with any new technology Shanon brings home because it replaced her in her mind. Vee is now just... Vee. She's not a celebrity any more, she's not loved by anyone except the toon handler who took her in and her now popular dinosaur girlfriend, and she would not have a clue what to do about it.
Shelly would most likely have the opposite problem, she looks like a living toon just wandering around like she's a common sight to see - of course people would notice! Kids would ask her about fossils and she'd happily tell them all about what she is and their minds would be blown by how much she knows, she'd probably be asked to play by kids who think she looks really neat and be dragged to the sandbox to 'fossil hunt' whenever Shanon takes them to the park. Shanon very much would hide plastic fossils in there too just to see Shelly smile, like she used to before her museum shut down. She'd be such an interesting sight to see that she'd get stared at, often asked what she actually is, and probably would be the talk of the town for a while. Eventually everyone would know that Shelly is just there to have fun, don't bother her too much, but at first everyone would be so shocked by a living breathing toon they'd swarm the poor thing! I'm sure Shelly would be just a little irritated by the constant unwarranted attention and stares, but so happy she's no longer forgotten.
Their roles would reverse is what I'm getting at here. It gives so much Vee angst to work with and Shelly comfort... I am brainrotting over this idea if that's not obvious
#kai rambles#quite a lot#bonus points if Vee starts like self sabotaging on accident because she's trying too hard to get comfort#like scratching paint off her body because she used to love when Shelly would give her scritches but does it too hard on accident#or pulling her antennae too hard that they break off and Shanon comes home from work to see her leaking ichor everywhere#I might seriously make this an au I just have so many ideas of the kinds of shenanigans that would happen-#with Shanon snatching up her goblins and trying to teach them how to exist outside of Gardenview without them both exploding or something#god the thought of Shelly being the one trying to include Vee in everything just hit me#Shelly would absolutely try to make people pay attention to Vee again and drag her into fossil hunting with her but Vee would always find a#reason not to do it; like lying about how sand would scratch up her monitor horribly or saying that a kid has water on them when they don't#but in reality Vee just doesn't believe she's worth it anymore and thinks everyone just tolerates her for Shelly's sake#and Shelly is slowly coming to terms with the fact that her robot gf has severe depression and can't do much to help#ghghghgh more angst#kais original post#shellevision#so many thoughts#so little time to write#I'll probably add more later I'm so brainrotting over this so much#Caretaker Shanon au#THE POST THE AU WAS MADE IN LES GO HAH#FINALLY FOUND IT AGAIN#gonna try to tag the rest of em now blegh
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TOUHOU 20, 東方錦上京 〜 Fossilized Wonders, HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED




Link to announcement
The main characters this time will be Reimu and Marisa. The demo is set to release on May 5th 2025, and the full game will be released in August
#touhou project#touhou#東方Project#touhou 20#fossilized wonders#IM SO EXCITED#the new system revolves around some kind of magic stones??? curious to see how it works#less than a month until the demo guys!!!!!
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Random Stranger: what's coral like?? Like what goes into that job? How do coral...like...work?
Me, haunted: I know you're starting out enthusiastic but I also know that experience tells me that your eyes are likely to glaze over halfway past my "ok so they ARE animals, and also photosynthesize, and also build big rocky skeleton-ish structures" starting point. I'm likely to lose you as I explain clonal colonies or during the explanation of symbiosis.
#youre gonna ask me how coral reproduction works and youre gonna see me disassociate#went through this hurdle again recently at a local rock club#luckily a rock club is already full of kinda nerds so i got them back in by telling them the skeleton is aragonite#subject came up bc they all clocked that I was REAL GOOD at spotting what was and wasnt a likely coral fossil
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#a fossilized boat???#that's not how this works that not how any of this works#ffs sake Turkey#I expect some level of nationalistic nonsense from you but this is a bridge too far#the American university involved is a christian school#so just terrible scholarship all around#pseudoarchaeology
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sigh i love the weekend, i dont have to go to work and have my coworker nag in my ear about the time he met captain america and how "steve rogers will always be the REAL cap"
#its ironic he works at a museum hes practically a fossil#he's always yapping about how the CIA probably hired the winter soldier too#marvel irl posting#marvel#marvel irl#mcu#thunderbolts
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(I say this entirely jokingly obviously)
Germany is known for its high quality cars, and multiple German car companies started during the Nazi regime. Henry Ford was basically a Nazi and Ford makes decent cars. The disastrous cybertruck is about the only evidence Elon Musk has to claim he isn't a Nazi because he seems to be the only one that doesn't know how to make cars.
#again this is a joke#making fun of tesla's ability to make cars at the same time as making fun of musk's politics#also i mean the other teslas started off fine but sounds like they've had sketchy updates#but also i'm biased bc i'm not a fan of electric vehicles#listen i'm all for clean energy & all but those lithium batteries are a serious problem#that & all we do is plug them into outlets prob powered by fossil fuels. plus how much fossil fuels are used to build the car? & evs aren't#affordable at all. & yeah sure ppl try to say “well it's less expensive in the long run bc you don't buy gas” which is prob true but it's#such a high cost up front that most ppl can't afford it. & for anyone that travels long distances it doesnt work. & before any of you folks#say that would be fixed by public transportation i doubt it would in my case. no one's building a train to my grandparents town of 250 ppl#so yeah i just am not a fan of evs. i think as of rn they arent a viable means of helping the environment & a good chunk of the popluation#doesnt have access either due to the cost or bc it wouldnt work well in some rural areas
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Day 3 - "Alola"
My prompt for Day 3 is Alola (Pokemon region) and Neuvillette (Genshin Impact!) I definitely was going to draw the Exeggutor but the bloomfes grind is currently kicking my ass and I didn't feel like it lmao. I don't really know what direction I was taking for this guy, but I can't say im displeased. And I didn't mean to have two genshin characters in Pokemon regions one after the other but the wheel rules me. Tomorrow will be quite different!
#inktober 2024#inktober#neuvillette#neuvillette genshin#genshin impact#pokemon alola#lore time: he's still a dragon! love pokemon trainers that aren't fully human!#also he does battle with a team but he doesn't use pokeballs because he's a fossil and doesn't get how they work lol
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Every time I think I'm over this look, I happen upon it again and collapse anew.
Just the unprecedented levels of slay. Unreal.
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I'd pay so much money to hear you give a lesson on paleontolgy. Whenever you write about you seem so formal and passionate ✨️
this is sooooo sweet but i guarantee you don’t want this bc the first lesson would be on terminology and the geologic timeline, some of the most boring but fundamental shit 😭😭
or, hear me out—that but my feeder is stuffing me more and more. the lesson keeps getting interrupted by sips of weight gain shake and many belly rubs
#‘boring’ is relative btw#i hate how and why words work but i love the geologic timeline#i love how life has developed throughout all of it#and i love how a deeper understanding of that span of time truly changes your worldview#i see things as their path through time#idk if that makes sense but i see an oak tree and am just happy to know they’ve been around for like 40 million years#and i LOVE knowing what formations and areas fossils come from#one goal of mine is to have a piece of live oak fossil wood from the willis formation of southeast texas#it’d take some work to identify but god. i am willing#talk#ask
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listen i asked those freaks on reddit and they dont know. What is my fossil pleaseeee tumblr users help me please please god x I found it in helmsdale scotland.... it is quite tiny.

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Something something among us reference
#this is one of the naturally generating fossils in the overworld in Minecraft#which fun fact. theres overworld ones in the desert and swamp#underground#this one is a head/skull#it looks like an among us#i thought it was neat. idk. im working on something and noticed it#im gonna probably get back to that now#this might also be a hint as to what im working on#idk how long it will take ive realised as ive worked on it today that its a bigger project than i thought#and i went into this expecting it to be decently big#anyway#i wont spoil what it is lol#im gonna get back to it probably. or maybe draw. idk.#minecraft#delete later#randy rambles too much
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Y'know, it might make sense to actually post things on here instead of just mindlessly scroll through my feed as if the occasional like is gonna redirect people to my ko-fi or whatever.
#stegosaurus#skeleton#fossil#paleontology#paleoart#paleo#steve#dono#dino#doodle#my art#idk how tags work#buy me a kofi
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