#and i got crystal and geode stuff

[thatweirdtranny]

it’s been days since i went to my first renaissance fair and i’m still obsessing over the cool shit i got there

[reddpenn]

I'm back from the rock show! Here are the Cool Rocks I got!

Let's start with the fossils this time.

This year I finally tracked down a Tully Monster, which is my state fossil! He's not a complete fossil, but you can see his eyestalk and the bottom of his proboscis very clearly.

A big chunk of dinosaur bone from Utah! Dino bone is easy to ID due to its distinct pattern, where agate and jasper have filled in the porous structure of the bone.

This is a coprolite, a piece of fossilized dinosaur poop! This one is from Madagascar.

This one is a stromatolite, a rock formation created by a colony of bacteria! Stromatolites are some of the oldest fossils on Earth. In fact, the microbes that make them were likely the very first lifeforms on the planet. And they're still around today, mostly unchanged from their ancient ancestors, and still making rock formations! This little stromatolite came from Madagascar.

A giant chunk of Turritella agate, which I won at the silent auction! Turritella agate is made of a bunch of fossilized snail shells all packed together and filled in with agate. (Despite the name, they're not actually Turritella snails, but rather Elimia tenera.) When cut and polished, it reveals beautiful organic patterns. This stuff comes from Wyoming.

That's all the fossils I brought home! Now on to the minerals!

I was very responsible and didn't come home with a million agates this year, but I couldn't resist this gorgeous rain flower agate! Hailing from Nanijing, China, these agates are naturally polished by the Yangtze River and have a unique, frosted finish.

Another cabochon for my cab collection! This is afghanite, a blue mineral that isn't related to the sodalite family, but likes to grow alongside it.

It fluoresces!

Vesuvianite, a mineral that gets its name because it was first discovered on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius! The dark crystals growing on its surface are garnets. This piece is showing off a great example of vesuvianite's crystal habit and terminations.

A huge zircon crystal! Zircon is the oldest mineral on planet Earth. There's a deposit in Australia which has been radiometric dated to be about 4.4 billion years old! Not this guy, though. This one is from Pakistan.

It fluoresces!

An AMAZING specimen of anatase! It's extremely rare for anatase crystals to grow this large. In fact, the only other anatase crystals I've seen in person had to be viewed under a microscope!

Here's the most expensive piece I came home with - a South African diamond! Can you believe I didn't have a diamond in my collection yet? That problem has been remedied.

It fluoresces!

And finally, my friends and I broke open a few geodes at the geode-cracking booth. I picked out some Trancas geodes from Mexico.

This locale produces weird, wavy, wormy crystals! These formations occur when quartz (in the form of chalcedony or hyalite) grows atop hair-thin, curly crystals of anhydrite.

They fluoresce!

And that was my haul from the rock show!

[punchspeedchunk]

ROCK TIME.

Went to a crystal and mineral expo today. Got some reasonably priced stuff, spent less than $100, and gave myself some geode enrichment.

I've never seen silicon in mineralised form and thought it was a cool piece to add to my collection, it was only $6.

One of those little middle fingers is for @dullgecko, they were also just $6 each. I also bought her the Nanosital for $17, which is a man-made colour-changing stone (Colour shifts depending on light source type), it's a nice azurite blue/amethyst purple shift, my phone camera doesn't do it justice. It's a raw piece because she does the lapidary, so she can make it into a cool shape :V

Also got a lovely flourite wand for $28 and 3 geodes for $20. The Geodes are the enrichment. The first one I smacked open with a pickaxe on the back step, underestimating how much they can explode, and created a fossicking exercise for myself (NGL it was kinda fun). The second Geode, which is in less pieces, was done in a tea-towel.

The third geode is a bitch I can't crack lol, might need to take it to a lapidary club and saw it open. Or buy a chisel and hammer it in. The heavier of my pickaxes didn't do shit to it, and I fucked up the tea towel pretty good trying lol.

Anyway, fun! And shinies! These geodes have really teeny super clear and super sparkly crystal clusters in them!

[changingplumbob]

Knightstone Household: Chapter 9, Part 10

CW: Low level sim spice - Guide to Content Warnings

Silas did not have a good school day. He didn’t want to explain what happened but he got a very sad moodlet. Luckily for him he’d already arranged to have his friends, and fellow aliens, Tyree and Ruth come over after school. It was too cold to do anything outside so the three took over the living room and started a video game battle.

Ruth: Important question, what are you two bringing for show and tell

Tyree: I found this cool leaf that looks like-

Ruth: Boring! As aliens we have to set the standard in cool stuff. Silas can you bring an alien

Silas: What? We’re aliens

Ruth: I meant from your mum’s collection of critters

Silas: Oh, maybe. She doesn’t really like people touching her science stuff

Ruth: You don’t have to ask her, just bring one

Tyree: Like you would steal from your mum’s

Ruth: I would if they had cool stuff for show and tell

Silas: Maybe I should just borrow a geode, Mummy has a bunch. I think she said the whole collection but she never got a collection plaque? I don’t know

Ruth ends up winning the game leaving the boys annoyed. She and Tyree head home while Silas takes a nap until his mum gets home.

Suzanna had a stressful workday and returns home with a bad headache. After waking up Silas she grabs her dinner, Adam votes they eat in the lounge in front of the TV tonight.

Suzanna: Good day?

Adam: I leveled up my guitar skill and Pollock and I sent a book off

Suzanna: That’s great!

Silas: Mummy... can I... have an alien?

Pollock: We aliens

Silas: I know. I mean one of the ones upstairs

Suzanna: Why? As like a pet?

Silas: Not exactly. I’d like to take one for show and tell. Please

Adam: I don’t think that’s a good idea, but your Mum and I will talk okay

Suzanna: You don’t want to take a crystal? We have plenty of those

Silas: Maybe. If I can’t have an alien

Adam and Suzanna worked in tandem that night getting their sons to bed. Adam read Pollock a story while Suzanna sprayed the monster under the bed for Silas. When they got upstairs they got in their sleepwear.

Suzanna: Why don’t you want him taking an alien

Adam: I don’t want us to be the local weirdos

Suzanna: But Adam you know the alien population ratio is high here, that’s why we came

Adam: I know. I just... we got so much unwanted attention as kids. I don’t want that for him

Suzanna: I know but he seems bright and he’s got friends

Adam: So I need to stop being so protective

Suzanna: I wouldn’t tell you that. But he should to be able to share something he’s excited about

Adam: Would any of them even survive a trip to school and back

Suzanna: The porcupine might. I can check with it tomorrow

Adam: For now would you get on the bed, I’ve missed you today. Let me show you how much

Suzanna: I think I’d rather convince you of my view

Adam: I like the sound of that

Suzanna: *giggles* Close your eyes

The next morning Silas can’t wait for his parents to get to the breakfast table. Bringing an alien was Ruth’s idea but he would like to be able to talk about one, his mum has found so many.

Adam: Morning sport

Silas: Daddy did you decide

Suzanna: Your dad wants you to take an alien

Silas: REALLY

Adam: Hold on there are some ground rules. Don’t let anybody else touch it, keep it in your sight and listen to your Mum when she tells you all about it

Silas: Huh

Suzanna: If you want to take one we need to go over my notes first. Otherwise you won’t have anything to say other than what colour it is. Show and tell is Friday right? I should have some time after work tomorrow

Silas: Yes, thanks Mummy, thanks Daddy

He happily washes the breakfast dishes and gets ready for the bus.

Adam: Thanks for convincing me. Anytime you want to do that to me again-

Suzanna: Shh, he’ll hear you! Let him be young and innocent a while longer

Silas headed to the road to wait for the bus to come. Rather than just stand and freeze he decided to make some snow angels. Suzanna meanwhile headed to her garden to harvest and care for the plants. Slowly some were evolving into better plants under her care.

Arriving at work Suzanna was confronted by a grey sky and an angry Shelley.

Shelley: Thank the watcher you are here, I need to talk to you

Suzanna: What about

Shelley: When you had your vacation day-

Suzanna: My son was sick

Shelley: And as a mother of a Silas I sympathise but Faye did not

Suzanna: If you’re going to tell me she hates me I’m well aware

Shelley: Doesn’t that piss you off

Suzanna: It comes with the territory of being an alien

Shelley: She was lording it over me all day, barking orders, I have the same rank as her

Suzanna: I’ll talk to her about it

Shelley: I wouldn’t mind if you did more than just talk

Shelley stormed inside and Suzanna groaned. Personal management was her least favourite part of the job. She just wanted to be a scientist tinkering away but no, since she was “the best” she was expected to control the behaviour of others. She set about her usual morning tasks thinking hard, how could she talk to Faye without it becoming a full on confrontation?

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[smokbeast]

fun facts about lewis cause I’m going through it and these asks are keeping me sane

Lewis isn’t really a skeleton, rather he’s a fire demon. His skeletal appearance is his armored skin (almost like insectoid chitin ) but he has a real skeleton and organs and all underneath example below on his anatomy (cause ngnh yeah I’m insane)

The reason fire demons look like skeletons is because of an ancient folklore about their creator the goddess of the sun burning their skin off for trying to escape her unjust wrath, So now they’re all “deformed and hideous”. But they all think they’re pretty sexy hehe :)

fire demon insides are kinda like crystal flesh geodes. You hurt them and their flesh will be almost crystallized but soft somehow at the same time.

Lewis CANT swim, most fire demons can’t. It’ll snuff their core out and kill them slowly and painfully. So he prefers to stay away from water or rain (rain is fine but it’s not comfortable)

lewis is usually always very warm, not unbearably that you can’t touch him. But if you get him mad or he don’t like you, he will heat himself up to hurt ya (that’s only if your on his bad side, this is really hard to achieve, if you did, congrats your getting a third degree burn)

Fire demons have most of their magic in their tails and cores, lewis used to have a tail :)

Lewis is overall a player, but he’s actually quite respectful and prefers it to be mutual on both ends, he’s might be horny, but he’s not a scumbag. But he will steal your wallet and walk out of you after he’s done :)). Unfortunately he is a con artist and a bit of a manwhore, sowwy this is his job. BUT he’ll treat you like the biggest princess ever.

if he gets to know someone he likes, Lewis moves MUCH slower relationships wise and move wise. He like to savor the moments, make them count and be sure it’s genuine. He wants to treat you right and not rush anything

lewis used to date Craig:))))

lewis vents, claws and spines are A bit of a hazard. Sometimes you’ll notice they’re nubby cause he files his spikes and claw to not injure others. As of his vents, he’ll definitely warn you to be careful

lewey is pretty sturdy and strong, but magic wise he can’t quite do much. He tries to avoid using magic as it drains his energy immensely due to his “situation”. However he will flare up in flames given the chance if it’s for emergencies

Certain ways of how he steams up or smokes reveal how he feels. If he’s flaring fire, he’s a bit upset. If he’s flaring sparks you got him by surprise. Pink steam means he’s a bit nervous or flustered. GOD forbid you catch his whole head on fire, you’ll have to run :)

he’s actually decently fast despite his size, those legs of his can have him running for a damn long time, it’s scarier when he’s on all four, but you’ll never really see him do that ever, that’s like.. if he’s absolutely feral

last But not least, he’s self conscious about his tail! He tends to hide it. Always does, and sometimes it wags under his clothes when he’s a bit happy, his face will be stern or smiling tough but you see that stinky lil tail nub moving the fabric of his clothes behind him if you so happen to make his day heheheh

WAIT edit: one last thing. Cause this is important. I made Lewis inspired after cool undertale artists I saw on twitter! Especially mothipixie and others that I followed before bringing back my tumble, cause I saw how fun their art was and undertale. So I made him as a mock sans thing based off the cool underfell sanses I saw and then he became his own thing cause I truly don’t know allot about undertale xD now I’m learning more and having fun with the game and the aus tho so hehe if you wanna play with him or slap or undertale aus at him go ahead I love to see anything :D but yeah I just check out all those cool artists they’re really neat and honestly I prolly never gone back to tumble without getting inspired by them and undertale and fnaf stuff x)

[morninkim]

the gang's all here!!

now we're just missing team rocket 👀

inspired by kianamai's redesigns!!

design notes and lil musings under the cut!

Ash takes a lot from Pokespe in terms of his proportions (at least how the early chapters look in my head) and some cues from the newer movie designs bc i LOVE those, especially the one from Power of Us. So ya I also wanted to give him a big poofy jacket bc of i remember seeing an interpretation of Red's original sprite as a big jacket as well and i think it suits Ash a lot. The style was kinda early One Piece inspired at first, so there's just a big of Luffy in Ash's design, but I think it ended up more Digimon Adventure in the end lmaoo. The nose bandaid's to just elevate that rookie protagonist feel a lil bit + I spent way too long figuring out a new hat symbol lmaoo. He's also 11 in this world to match Red's age in RBY.

Pikachu I just wanted to draw him like Red's Pikachu in Special and give him the lighter coloured tummy from early artwork.

Misty's the biggest departure obvs but I knew I wanted to give her a crop hoodie and take inspo from Kiana Khansmith's Misty and give her the wetsuit as an undersuit. Then the chunky shoes were carried over from Ash with big scrumpled socks bc I thought it made her look a lil more unkempt. The whole goal was the make her more scrappy looking and focus in on the whole "Tomyboyish Mermaid" thing from the games. Also combined her RBY hair with her GSC do by making it a half-up ponytail that I think is very cute. OH and her shoes are Cerulean Gym branded, bc I imagine in this world there's merch for each Gym that the leader wear, so the wet suit and hoodie would be branded too. The hoodie's just cropped above the logo and the wet suit's logo's covered by clothes. She's about 12, so a lil older than Ash and does not let him forget it.

For Psyduck, I wanted to make him a lil fluffier and ugly-duckling + incorporate the three lil sprout hairs he's got a lil more to suit the style. He also has a neck now, you just can't see it super well here. He's just a fluffy lil duck who hurt a lot. Poor lil guy :((

Brock was pretty straight forward, I kinda wanted to reference his Sygna Suit from Masters with pants and a tank top, but made the pants into cargo pants that can be unzipped into shorts (he's thinks its the coolest thing in the world. He wears hiking boots to go over rougher terrain as a Rock-type Leader and hunt for fossils bc I like that aspect of his game characterization so I carried it over here, and he wears an armband with Pewter Gym branding. His tiny lil facial hairs are all he can grow at the moment bc he's still like 15 as usual, but he thinks it makes him look ~Older, Maturer & More Sophisticated~ so refuses to shave it.

I wanted to incorporate a lil more Geode Dude into Geodude so I changed his colours a bit and added parts where the outer layers of the rock have kinda chipped away in battles to reveal the crystal underneath + added the eyebrows from Alolan Geodude. I imagine it's like, the more outer layer gets chipped away from a Geodude, the closer they get to evolution. I do not at all know what this world's Graveller or Golem would look like but I think I'd canonise the theory of Machoke and Graveller taking aspects of the other when traded and make them kinda like Karrablast and Shelmet in a way.

Broad plot strokes are just these guys would exist in a version of the indigo league w an expanded kanto dex to include all related mons + variants, so stuff like Electivire and Annihilape and Alolan Exeggcutor would exist in there without much fanfare of ~Woahhhh Newly Discovered Pokemon~. Regional variants would be found on the Sevii Islands. Maybe there'd be small type changes too idk. Like pure Rock Geodude that gain Ground on evolution bc Gravel-ler. idk who knows I'm just spitballin. Essentially just a lil more closely following the Game's story, I guess. Less wacky loose adaptation stuff from Indigo League. Not bc I don't like that stuff, just bc it's not what I'd do.

I figure like, there'd be an interlude short arc that takes place in the Sevii Islands just after the Vermillion Gym where Ash would catch a Galarian Farfetch'd and all forms of Paldean Tauros instead of like, 100 Kantonian Tauros, and be introduced to Legendary Pokemon through a quest to track down the Galarian Legendary birds (then find out others can be found back in Kanto). Naturally he'd use the PC system (maybe adapted as some kind of daycare or something, or maybe just a teleporter to Oak's lab like the main anime) and have a couple more than 6 team members to rotate out as needed. Also. Mega Evolution would be a factor bc I think it'd be cool, so Ash gets to Mega Evolve Charizard into Mega Charizard Y.

OH also just for funsies, I'd split the starters across the trio, so Ash gets Charmander, Misty gets Squirtle and Brock gets Bulbasaur.

Basically Ash would end up with more or less the same team from the original series, but with added Annihilape, Sirfetch'd, Paldean Tauros and Mega Charizard Y. I also think I'd add Dragonite from Journeys and make his Gengar the Haunter he befriended that would follow him in secret after helping him beat Sabrina and evolve in the Cinnabar Mansion + officially join his team there.

Squirtle would evolve into Wartortle with Misty and Bulbasaur would stay in the same stage with Brock like Ash's.

I'll come up with and probably draw everyone's main teams at some point later but. ya. that's my piece!

[gamerbearmira]

Diamond Mirabel au

Mirabel’s room & gift info: 

Ok so first things first, Mirabel can make diamonds, glass, geodes, gems, jewels, crystals, gold & pearls. 

Her room has all types of books that are written about diamonds, glass, geodes, gems, jewels, pearls, & crystals. Some are spiritual based and some are based on, obviously, different kinds. 

She also has books on all the different types of jewelry she can make, fashion wise.

Yes, all of the things listed are extremely rare in encanto so her gift is in high demand. 

Mirabel also discovered that she can make crystal/diamond/glass roses or flowers. So she can technically do what Isabela does, just differently. 

You want gold earrings? got it. You want a crystal crown? Got it. You want comfortable glass slippers like cinderella? Got it. You want a diamond ring? Got it. You want a personalized gold brush & mirror set? Got it. Any sort of antique vanity set? Got it. 

I do think diamond rings would kick off when some men or women would ask her for a diamond ring for wedding purposes. They would say something along the lines of “I want her/him/them to know she/he’s/their as special as a diamond” or something like that. 

She can also make different types of perfume bottles but that takes a little longer seeing as she has to draw them out before she can make them appear, same with crowns. 

So this is technically what I vision for her room; The “Mansion” Entrance

The room in front of the stairs is the jewelry room and the upper room behind the chandelier is Mirabel’s room. Next to that room (right side of the chandelier) is Antonio’s room, he can sleep there whenever he wants. Next to his room is Camilo’s, he and Mira are besties in this au because I said so. On the left of Mirabel’s room is Luisa's, she can come in whenever she wants. 

Her room is technically a house within a house. 

But let me make this clear, the entrance is NOT pink, it’s anything along the blue family spectrum. 

Her room is a mishmosh of the colors in her family. The walls are mostly blue but since the walls are also diamond they sometimes show off different colors such as green, yellow, purple, orange, red, etc. 

Inside the Jewelry room;

Instead of chairs and seats, imagine a more jewelry store look to it. If that makes sense. 

The stuff hanging off the walls are pearls and small crystals. On the left side and right side are necklaces, rings, earrings, bracelets, & chokers on display in glass cases. On the farther end in the middle are where crowns and glass shoes are sold. 

If you want anything in particular from her you're gonna have to leave a note in the notebox by the Jewelry store door or speak to her upfront. Either way you have to write down what you want because she has many requests. 

Her “mansion” also kind of serves as a mood ring almost, when she’s upset the mansion will be red, when she’s sad her room is a deep dark blue, when she's happy her room is a more brighter/pastel blue-ish color. 

But for some reason she never notices unless someone points it out. 

Also, as a villager, you don’t get to demand what you want and expect her to give it to you right then and there. She’s gonna hurt your feelings and toss you out. 

“Who do I look like, Isabela? Get out of my room AND my house AND casita” 

And her parents will make it clear that you will not step foot into the madrigal house again, you’ll be lucky if you get an arepa if you're hurt. 

Also, no one has a say over her gift. Mira works when she wants. Her gift isn’t that taxing, Pedro made sure of that, but if she’s tired, she’s not gonna work. Plain and simple.

Forgot to mention, nothing she creates that seems fragile isn’t fragile at all. Anything she makes will last for a very long time. 

Her bathroom:

and lastly. her bedroom:

just think of her bed in the middle of all the crystals, with pearls and diamonds dangling down above her. I was going to add a dining room, but she eats downstairs in casita with everybody else. 

And yes, she still does sew and plans on opening her own jewelry & boutique store when she’s old enough to.

in the next lil tidbit I'll talk about her relationship with the family, mainly her and Isabela.

Bye I was so confused until I read further. I da was like “that’s an apartment ⁉️”. But anyway. So rad. Very big room, almost too big. Like idfk feel scared asf 💀 but she’s not always alone, so that works too. Shoutout to Camilo for being friends. I also love au’s where they’re also best friends. They’re so cool. Also Luisa and Antonio being her biggest support RAHHHHHHH 🦅🦅🦅

He thinks it’s the funniest thing to say “It smells like poor in here.”

[colekinnie-4life]

Part two of my rant cause I’m not done yet

I’m gonna take a hiatus from talking about the show however, and turn to the movie for a minute

I know, everyone hates the movie

But I don’t care and you can express your opinions towards it here 👉🏼🗑️

Anyways, the whole “being pushed to the side” thing isn’t just a Cole problem, this time, it’s everyone’s problem

All of them except for green bean are planks of wood with basic personalities written on them

Kai- loud

Nya- badass

Jay- shy

Zane- robot

Cole- music

Cole has the least amount of lines in the movie. I counted. He has 45 lines of his own, then a few extra with the other ninja

I like him in the movie too. Not more than og Cole obviously but the movie version is kind of relatable to me because of the whole music thing (I’m obsessed with music)

The song in the end credits says he’s “sarcastic”, but he has no sarcastic lines that I can remember throughout the whole movie

The only mildly sarcastic line I can think of is

“All I know is we really need a ninja master. And you are not a ninja master.”

And that’s not even sarcasm

Anyways, that’s about it for the movie since he does literally nothing

He does way more in the video game version of the movie, but I’m not gonna count that since it’s apparently not canon (booo)

Ok, now time for season 11

HALLELUJAH HE DOES SOMETHING!!

AND WITH KAI SOMETIMES!

Y’all probably know I love lava. It’s so stinking cute and I would be infinitely happy if they turned canon

I mean I think the writers are leaning more towards geode becoming canon, which I am totally not against, I think they’re also super adorable (and I’m not being sarcastic)

For season 11 he doesn’t do much in the fire chapter besides get a new vehicle (with Kai~)

But holy shit, in the ice chapter? He gets lots of stuff to do!

He has the cute-ass interaction with Kai during Fire Maker (insert squealing here)

He loses the travelers tea

He has the dream where everyone hates him

He goes out to find the travelers tree

And he becomes a dad again, this time to Krag

Then he finds out Zane is the ice emperor and he does nothing again :(

To be fair no one does anything besides Lloyd and Zane in this part of the season but oh well

Next season

Prime Empire

Hmmm…

Well he just does whatever the other ninjas do until he blows up

(With Kai~)

Season 13

HALLELUJAH HE GETS A SEASON INSTEAD OF A BADLY MADE 40 MINUTE SPECIAL THATS BASICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO WATCH IN ENGLISH (I watched it on Tubi, you’re welcome)

So I’m not gonna say all the stuff he does this time, but he gets the most amount of attention because- it’s his season

Just go watch Tom Critic’s review of MOTM on YouTube, even though he calls it overrated it’s still a good review and it says everything I need to say

The Island

He’s hungry throughout the whole thing and that’s it :(

But he does trap ronin in a corner

(With Kai~)

Seabound…

Once again, lord have mercy

He does legit nothing and has like 4 lines

To be fair this was the season after Kirby Morrow passed away (rest in peace) so I can respect that

He does do some stuff in that one episode based in ninjago (with Kai~)

Anyways yeah. He gives Queen Vania the fake amulet thingy and that’s it

:(

Season 15, he’s the one who finally gets everyone together. Then a whole lot of nothing happens to him specifically, he’s just doing what everyone else is doing

Until he (and Kai~) get into a car crash and he acts all loopy in save haven (greatest episode of crystallized for obvious reasons)

Then he powers up, takes care of Vangelis through the dumbest “defeat” of all time, then turns into a crystal zombie for 2 seconds and loses his powers

Ughhhhh not again…

They keep losing their powers and it’s getting annoying

Anyways, dragon’s rising

Just a note that this will have MASSIVE spoilers for part two of season two. You have been warned

Anyways, he’s not reintroduced until season 1 part 2

And like clockwork, he has adopted children again!

And he got himself a boyfriend in Geo

Like I said I’m a hardcore lava shipper. But hey, Cole has two hands, and both ships are adorable in their own ways, so I’m a multi shipper

Anyways, he’s in one episode then dips when he starts chasing after Wu’s ghost

Ughhh

Next season he actually kinda does stuff. He just goes along with Zane to find the sorceress or whatever they were doing (kinda forgot- haven’t watched part 1 in a while)

But hey, their duo is always awesome

Part 2 (once again MASSIVE SPOILERS)

He gets kicked off the tournament as soon as he fights off his opponent :(

But hey at least he isn’t shoved into a Chinese sweatshop like last time

Then he follows Wu’s ghost again and finds the new monastery

Then he finds the elemental mech and uses that to help Arin, then he just hangs out in that while fighting the bad guys

Then he- does nothing once again :(

And that’s where we end!

Well, at least with these seasons he, for the majority, got something to do. Sure he ends up mostly just going with what everyone else is doing but he does get his own thing to do sometimes

So these seasons were much better at giving him something to do :)

Anyways- there’s not much else for me to say besides give Cole more to do in season 3 whenever that comes out, and make Geode canon please they’re so cute

I mean I would be happier with lava but-

Ok bye

[tanzytechgem]

okok here's some of my slugcat stuff!!! a bit of a read but i got silly

aerial slugcats [name pending]

wings are their own gene, every aerial slugcat has it, save for the unique cases where they aren't born with them. there are traits that slugcats with a recessive wing gene can have if they do not show wings, such as;

feathers on their body

feather streamers

tail feathers

carnivorous slugcats

despite their name, carnivorous slugcats are not actually slugcats - instead an iterator-created species to serve as messengers. while they do appear as slugcats and can interbreed with them, they are a seperate species. they are made for much longer journeys and combat [some more than others] in case they need to travel far.

cavern slugcats

slugcats that naturally evolved to live in deep caves and tunnels, with the ability to dig through certain types of rock. they are leathery unlike other slugcats, and have scales down their back and on other parts of their body.

there is a 89% chance of a cavern slugcat sporting the bioluminescence gene visibly; it is on occasion used for communication, but most tend to make sounds by tapping on rocks.

certain cavern slugcats have a quill gene, which causes quills to grow on them

certain colonies of cavern slugcats sport a membrane wing gene, where their wings are alike a bat's instead of being feathered. this is also its own gene, and can co-exist and mix with a feathered wing gene

geode slugcats

geode slugcats are an engineered species of slugcat, using the cavern slugcats as a base. they have crystals growing on them, which is its own gene.

when not sporting crystals, a slugcat carrying a recessive crystal gene will 96% of the time sport some sort of iridescence or glittery and/or metallic fur

unstable gene

the unstable gene is an iterator-created phenomenon. it is caused by an iterator messing around a bit too much with a slugcat's genome due to how malleable slugcat genome is, and usually, will not show, instead being recessive. when an unstable gene carrier has offstring, the unstable gene will usually attach itself to a specific thing, such as colors or a wing gene, and make it look unusual. a winged slugpup with a visible unstable gene can end up with multiple sets of wings in extreme cases, or displaced wings, such as on the tail, arms or head in mild cases. when an unstable gene affects colors, it can cause them to be extremely vibrant and splotchy. this depends on the individual, and seems random.

FREE RAMBLES IN MY INBOX!!

hi hi hi this is all so good

THE CAVERN SCUGS WITH THE BIOLUMINESCENCE MADE ME THINK OF SEAWINGS

look at this chunky guy,,, big claws,,, squishy….

[reddpenn]

Now that I'm back from the gem and mineral show, here are all the Cool Rocks I came home with!

A cute little coral fossil! He looks like a cauliflower.

A Keokuk geode! These geode beds aren't far from where I live, and it's always fun to have local specimens.

Phosphosiderite! This purple stone comes from Chile. It's so soft that it has to be stabilized with resin before it's cut. This one is a cross section of a botryoidial formation!

Speaking of botryoidial, this Hematite! Botryoidial means it has a bubbly shape kind of like a bunch of grapes. The faces of the bubbles on this pieces are super shiny and metallic.

Dendritic chalcedony, from Turkey! It's a white chalcedony full of dendrites - branching formations of manganese that look kind of like trees!

A cabochon for my cab collection! This one is made from a material sometimes called "ajooba jasper." The pattern is actually a cross section of a bunch of colorfully jasperized bivalve fossils!

Speaking of jasper, this one is Blue Mountain jasper, from Oregon! The circles in this stone are what’s known as an “egg pattern,” and jaspers which have them (Blue Mountain, Imperial jasper, and a few others) are collectively known as “fine jaspers,” the most valuable jaspers in the world.

Hyalite opal! This stuff forms water-clear spheres that look like jelly.

It fluoresces bright green under UV light!

Now to show off this year's haul of awesome agates!

Dryhead agate, from the Bighorn Mountains in Montana! This agate is named after the many bison skulls found in the area. A weird shaped guy with awesome red and orange bands.

Bou Lili agate, from Morocco! I like the name of this one. Soft banding and very subtle, muted colors. I've heard that this locale can produce peachy colors too.

Bear Canyon agate, from the Pryor Mountains in Montana! Agates from this locale have very stark black and white banding.

Red Fox agate, from Argentina! Sometimes this material is also called "crater agate" because the area it comes from is near the crater of an ancient volcano.

A Blue Sky thunderegg, from New Mexico! Thundereggs from this locale often have this two pointed, saucer-like shape.

It fluoresces really brightly!

Dulcote agate, from England! The bands of this agate are full of calcite, which gives them a strange, distinct texture.

Malawi agate, from Malawi! See all the cracks in it? Almost all Malawi agates have them. Frequent earthquakes due to the East African Rift cause these agates to crack and fracture.

Paint Rock agate, from Paint Rock Valley in Alabama! This agate is very rarely banded, and usually just contains swirls of red and yellow color.

A big, unpolished slab of Montana agate! This agate is known for its clear banding and black lines and spots, which are caused by manganese dendrites.

It's best viewed with some light behind it!

A smaller piece with really amazing dendrites!

Here it is backlit!

Fighting Blood agate, from Hebei Provence in China! This locale is known for its super saturated reds and yellows. This piece has purple amethyst crystals growing inside! They didn't photograph well; they are much more purple in person.

A really weird Fighting Blood agate! This one lacks the bright colors typical of this locale, but makes up for it with that super cool spiderweb pattern!

And finally, as is tradition, I came home with some Ethiopian opals! Here are the five I got this year.

And that's everything I got at the show!

[saltminerising]

i know this is just my personal aesthetics, but i'm finding that literally all of the ancient fest genes have ended up looking like the exact opposite of what i hoped for and dang, that sucks for me. mistral - i hoped for feathers, got floaty mist (expected I guess but still) trickmurk - hoped for glowshrooms with some goop maybe, got gravity defying slime... thing... (looks interesting but also what) crystalline - wanted floaty snowflakes, got icicles (as an ice member, extra bitter about that. i really dont like the icicles) rockbreaker - imagined cool colorful crystals on the dragon like gembond or shardflank but prettier and shinier, got floating geodes (?????) riot - assumed it would be some diseased looking spikes, maybe with some slime (ultimately not that far off but plague is my least favorite aesthetic so this is the one i wouldnt have cared for much either way) starfall - expected a runic pattern on the dragon's hide along with some alien-y details, got strange floating swirly rune things instead (still kinda neat but cmon. missed opportunity) flameforger - wanted floating fiery wisps like the apparel (what we got was pretty expected though and still looks fine) thundercrack - my idea probably was too out there but I really wanted some type of metal plating power armor looking stuff (what we got was very predictable also) brightshine - since this was the first one I had no idea how they were gonna go about the designs but I saw that post with the mockup of a light halo on ancients in the form of a gene and i wish it'd been that instead of... whatever the hell it is that we got (seriously the frill on the head is cool but those weird sticker sparkles are Not It) sorry that this is long lol I'm honestly curious to know if the rest of the genes are gonna also follow this trend for me. so far it really is a shame because I was so hoping to rescue some of my gen1s with these genes but it's just not working out

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[leohtttbriar]

I would have loved to see Jadzia central episodes after she got together with Worf, and ones that's didn't focus on their relationship only. There was so much more to her before and then it seemed like being very immersed in everything Klingon was one of her very few traits.

yes--I absolutely agree. probably not the first to say it. she becomes this quirky, hot sidekick/girlfriend in season 5. how they wrote worf and dax getting together was cute and "screwball comedy" but they sort of tried to keep up that energy but not as successfully (screwball banter is cute only when both parties are getting jabs in equally, and dax seems to just smile like worf is being cute when he accuses her being ridiculous all the time)(like i said, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't)(it's just when it doesn't, worf comes across as annoying and dax comes off as Not a person). she's around quite a bit, offering her quips and support and playing her role in other people's journey's...

but episodes that are about her and depend on some issue she has within herself are not present after the romance. not like "rejoined" or the episode where she's being accused of murder bc of curzon. of course, of the episodes that are about her in previous seasons, all of them except "rejoined," arguably, are about her struggling with some past self. while i think the character can go beyond that simple sci-fi-what-if design (like, for example, i think spock goes beyond the alien-conceit in most of the spock-centric episodes), i found myself missing even that watching everything after she and worf get together. if they had even drawn out that romance and showed her genuinely trying to get worf's attention for more than one or two episodes, that would've been more interesting then what ended up happening.

i also sort of get that ds9 isn't so much the "new world" part of star trek as the "new civilization"---that is, it's mostly focused on ongoing diplomacy and war plots with the same handful of richly made-up peoples. but they managed in previous seasons to still write episodes about discovery and scientific work. in season 5, scientific work all seems to be focused on julian, due to the exigency of his role, rather than dax, or both of them. like, within the typical star trek roles to play, the science officer drives the fun discovery and new-weird-stuff plots. instead of episodes about any of that in season 5, though, there's a lot of quark and odo and sisko and julian and worf all juggling their various definitions of identity. (miraculously, dax never seems to waver in that regard. with kira, it's debateable.) which. fine. it was all interesting.

i do think that the show still manages to show dax as someone particular and complex--the writing just doesn't genuinely explore any of it after writing the worf/dax relationship. the moments she does have in episodes not about her are for the most part very good and very interesting and she provides context and wisdom and motive in the way her role dictates. but the fact that i think her character is so fascinating and has so many rich options for sci-fi storytelling only makes the absence of stories focused or driven by her all the more frustrating to me. there's only so many episodes about odo's feelings i can retain interest in.

maybe give jadzia a planet to explore with a bunch of geode formations that emit a protein that causes mutations within biological creatures to cease which somehow causes changelings to crystallize while the protein is in their system and jadzia has to fight on behalf of the planet to just exist so it's not turned into a super-weapon against the dominion and this turns into a struggle with basically her and julian against everyone (they're the most idealistic) and causes real tension between kira and dax for the first time ever and sisko has to say something about how life is sacred and resources are sacred and one has to choose and then dax does something that can't be taken back and the creatures give her a small geode/collection-of-geode-creatures in thanks and she carries it around like she carries all her past-selves.

(which would then justify the way worf constantly seems to characterize her as impulsive and impractical or whatever. bc she did this one dramatic thing that no one can now forget about her. and she just takes it bc she would do it again. and the audience just doesn't know who to agree with.)(but that would make her person with deep conviction and interiority and some perhaps truly un-likeable traits. instead of the hot, smirky-quirky jester that gets men 18-24 to tune the fuck in once a week.)

[strangermask]

Thinking about ninjago fusions of the main four elements

Like making up lore for it kinda think

Some of the elements are mostly based on ship names such as:

Lava - Lava

Plasma - Plasma

Bruise/Geode - Crystal

For the others, I have these for now and might change in the future

Techno - Cloud(?)/Weather(?)

Opposite - Temperature(?)

Glacier - Land(?)

Rn, I’m thinking of when the fusion elements of the main four are created, they got their own version of golden weapons. Not sure if they would still be gold or a different kind of metal, but definitely better made than the golden weapons (personal hc that FSM focused too much on the power of the golden weapons and less on the weapon stability. Blacksmith stuff).

The fusion weapons, with help of a blacksmith and a sorcerer, ended up with two forms. There is, of course, the weapon form. And then there is the everyday object form called “hidden form”

Rn, I have ideas for the only confirmed fusion elements of what their weapons are

Plasma - Lantern/Kyoketsu-Shoge

Lava - Vase/Tsukubō

Crystal - ???/Kusarigama

Once I get everything figured out, I might make separate posts for each element

I am open to suggestions if y’all have any

[nfumbewalk]

Crystals, Herbs, Rants

I've always loved crystals. The fascination started as a kid when we visited the coast a few times a year. The old seashore shop was full of glass fishing floats, life saving appartuses, storm worn wood, jewelry (mood rings!!) & lots of toys but mainly LOTS of crystals! Geodes of amethyst & quartz, huge slabs of Obsidian - green & black, like what I have, but much smaller. It is Seaside, Ore. Greatest place on the North coast (Astoria too!).

The Ore. coast should be more known for crystal shops. There's a great one closer to me now in Yachats, Ore. (Said: Yah-hawts) Obvious Native Americans did own this place. 😉Like our Willamette, said Will-am-met, which translates to "valley of sickness." Lovely! Sorry, ADD brain is jumbled.

Back to crystals n shit! They are essential to my work. I don't wave them and get a magic breeze with a "Aahhhh." Nope, get to know me, I'm extremely practical. My crystals are clean, but never, ever saged - because I despise sage & I think that it's an anathema to everything, every energy out there. I would rather go find dry pine needles in the desert and use those. And what's the deal with Dragon's Blood atop of sage? Nightmare of odor! Smoke & mess, no thanks.

I've written books on herbalism (long out of print) and I'm very knowledgeable about plants, resins, oils, tinctures, even marijuana & making hemp oil (known commercially as RSO) for medicine. I did not get ANY of my knowledge from the internet & I find some seriously messed up herbal correspondences online. I got my information from books, but old ones, like Culpeper, Grieve, Agrippa as well as a couple good Witchcraft sources like Sybil Leek & L. Huebner, neither of them being "white" light. Paul Huson is much known & borrowed from for ppl online. Trust me, his stuff does not compare. I also have other Witchcraft books predating 1960 that help me tremendously. Where did I get these?

Hunting old book stores & thrift stores because my town is a freaking *haven* for witchcraft, but not quite my style, so I've always been solitary. I'm much too misanthropic to have any relationship with anyone in person. Online? Sure, just beware of my barbs, though I'm not even close to being a Scorpio. 😅

I'm not claiming to know much, just a lot of little details about certain things & I'm shady on other things. I know what I paid attention to. All goety - good. High magic - mostly, a lot I fudge because I hate Crowley's, Mathers, Regardie's....etc, mumbo jumbo. I won't make an effort and I won't even remember the LBRP! Why? Hated the ritual & all the goddamn vibration. I don't vibrate in my practice, except when I have to - really loud banishment rituals, usually of lesser known demons and amped up strong spirits. Ppl who've known me a long time can attest to my hatred of "ceremonial" magic. Just because ppl call it 'high magic' doesn't make it superior to 'low' magic, or goety.

Some are suited to certain types of magic, everyone has a niche somewhere. The niche can be found quickly, or in my case, it can take 20 years. Never knew that working with muertos would be the my path. Yes, Orisa, and they are equal. Equal I say? Well - I'm NOT in a Orisa religion. I agree with some, but not a lot. I completely disagree with initiations being forced. And they ARE forced. Sorry.

Yeah, pay for this, pay for that. Bollocks. No cash for enlightenment!! I know exactly where the money goes & it's not needed. People raise & board animals for sacrifice. Non-initiates can cook food. Setting up ceremony is not that hard. They want money for fancier soperas & temple goodies. I can understand paying for time, but it doesn't need to cost thousands of dollars.

I told my dad (R.I.P.) about Palo & the prices. His head spun. He said no matter what, religion has nothing to do with money. Man does. Man wants money, he wants the sucker to be culled. - Welcome to one of my lessons of The Con: In's & Out's. Taught by Frank Thorp, best dad ever! I don't con often, but if I ever do, I was taught by the best. That's one thing my brother never got from him. My older brother is kinda dead-to-me because of his "Fake Antifa/Communist" ways. Dude, he's 53 years old. Grow the fuck up. I live with this crap. I'm in a college town. Sucks!

More rants? I just sound old cos I am. Middle-aged & strange. And I have a very interesting present & past full of happy, sad, spooky, synchronicity-laden stories. Hope to blog here. Let's hope for more follows!

[audioaujom]

Sam and Sebastian Explore the Mines

Stardew Hub, < prev, next >

I know I write with these two a lot but I think they’re silly lil best friends and making them make questionable choices makes my heart happy. This time they explore a little deeper into the mines than they can handle, so whump and comfort ensues. Enjoy!

Word Count: 2043

Chapter TWs: Mild Blood and Injury, Violence

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“You sure this is a good idea?” Sebastian asked cautiously, staring at the mine’s entrance with an incredibly eager Sam by his side.

“Totally!” Sam answered immediately, not nearly as hesitant as his friend as he excitedly bounced between his feet. “The farmer said they cleared out most of the higher levels of all the bad stuff, and as long as we watch our backs it's safe.”

Sebastian frowned, his stomach tangled into nervous knots. “That's what the swords are for?” 

“They gave me some tips!” Sam cheered affirmatively, unstrapping both weapons from his back and holding one—a sharp blade made of dark glittering stone—out towards Sebastian. “Here's yours.”

“Oh.” Taking the sword gratefully, Sebastian tested its balance in his hands before sarcastically remarking, “I feel so safe.”

“Watch this.” Sam ignored the comment, holding his own blade out and spinning it by the handle, before starting to randomly slash it through the air.

“Stop playing with that!” Sebastian scolded, strapping his sword to his hip for easy access.

“Sorry, sorry. I’m good now.” Sheepish, Sam put his sword away as well, before looking to Sebastian hopefully. “Anyway, you ready?”

“I guess.” Sebastian sighed, still nervous but feeling a little better as he followed Sam through the entrance and towards a small, rickety elevator on the far wall. “I have always wanted to see what was down here.”

“Then off we go!” 

Despite Sebastian’s many objections, they took the elevator down to the tenth floor, getting off with flashlights in hand. Somehow, natural light still filtered in, wet spots on the stone glittering in the low light as the two carefully hunted around to see what they could find. Sam carried the only pickaxe, using it to smash open rocks that got in their way and uncover hidden ladders that led down to floors below.

It was on the eleventh or twelfth level after Sam had managed to kill a strange crab creature that they finally seemed to be finding interesting things, Sebastian kneeling down behind a cluster of stones as a flash of white crystal caught his eye.

“Whoa, quartz.” He commented aloud, using the edge of his sword to knock a section loose so he could slip it into the bag he’d prepared for their adventure. “There really is a lot of cool stuff down here.”

“Told ya!” Sam cheered from nearby, Sebastian looking up as he heard Sam break another large rock. “Awesome! I think I found a geode!”

“Yeah. I saw the farmer carting stuff like that to Clint’s last week.” Sebastian commented as he jogged over to Sam, admiring the spherical rock in his friend’s hands. “Maybe if you take it to him he could help you crack it open.”

“So cool!” Sam was bouncing again, so excited he could barely contain himself as Sebastian watched with a smile. “This is so awesome. This is so cool. I’m so glad you came down with me.”

“Yeah, me too.” 

After storing away their respective new items and finding the next ladder, it was no trouble at all for them to clear several more levels—grabbing crystals, gems, and ores as they made their way down. They encountered a few bugs, another crab, and one slime creature that the two managed to fend off, neither of them realizing quite how deep they’d gone until they hit level 30—a completely empty floor save for the elevator and a ladder leading all the way back up to the top.

“Hey, um, I think we should stop here.” Sebastian suggested awkwardly, glancing down the other ladder hole that led into complete darkness below. The tangled mess of nerves in his stomach that had gone away was back, the hairs on the back of his neck standing up.

Something down there was bad news.

“C’mon, we haven’t run into any real trouble so far.” Sam didn’t seem to share any of Sebastian’s concerns, pickaxe up on one shoulder and one foot already on the top rung. “What harm could a few more levels do?” 

“It’s getting late…” Sebastian tried, checking his phone for the time and realizing they were deep enough underground that they no longer had any service. “Besides, we’re so far down… if something really happens, we’re on our own.”

Sam deflated, eyes going wide to plead, “But… Please?” 

Sebastian hesitated, before finally caving with an anxious, “Fine. But only a few more. To the next elevator level. Then we’re going home, okay?”

“Yes!! Okay, awesome, sounds good!” Sam grinned widely, quickly disappearing down the ladder happily. “Down we go!”

Sebastian waited until Sam called up that it was safe to go down the ladder, a chill creeping up his back from the way the light from the hole seemed to be immediately sucked away by the darkness surrounding them. 

He pulled his flashlight out as soon as he hit the bottom, his beam roaming around the darkened stone walls as Sam walked around with a wide smile. “Oh man, is that iron?” 

“I have a really bad feeling about this, Sam.” Sebastian shook his head, refusing to look around the ominous floor. “We should head back.”

“But we just got here!” Sam whined, his pout barely visible as he stood at the far reaches of Sebastian’s light. “Just a little more exploring? Please? I promise we’ll leave if something happens.”

“Okay, fine, but… let’s hurry.” Sebastian hesitantly agreed, cursing every time he jumped as water dropped to the floor or cold air gusted in from some crack in the walls.

His nervousness ended up paying off as he ran ahead to stop Sam, hearing what sounded like rocks crumbling and scraping together from up ahead.

“Wait, hold on a minute.”

Sam instantly stopped at the warning, listening for the noise as Sebastian gestured for him to do so. The two stood stock still in the not quite silence for a long moment, before they raised their flashlights at the same time to aim straight into the glinting eyes of a monster.

A loose conglomerate of stone was shambling towards them, misshapen glowing holes for eyes between the barely held-together stones locked onto the boys as its approximations of legs carried it forward. 

“Oh shit! What the fuck is that?!” Sam exclaimed, stumbling back in surprise as a moss-covered arm reached out for him. 

“Sam, look out!” Sebastian backed away, getting his sword out as he noticed it preparing to launch itself forward at his friend. Sam heard him but only continued trying to back away, not quite moving fast enough to avoid the monster as it collided with him, hard. “Sam!”

Sam fell backwards onto the floor of the cave, the monster on top of him as they skidded a little. Sebastian instantly ran over to them, sword out as he swung for the monster and Sam tried to push it off him. A return swipe from the monster’s weirdly sharp rock claws snagged onto Sebastian’s leg, him doing his best to ignore the pain as he cut the monster clean in two with a few more slashes.

In an instant everything was over, Sebastian awkwardly crumpled on the floor next to Sam, both of them bleeding as they frantically tried to catch their breath.

“You okay?” Sebastian asked after a moment, putting his sword away and trying to get to his feet.

“Are you?” Sam asked in return, Sebastian rolling his eyes as he then helped Sam up by slinging his arm over his shoulders.

“Whatever.” Sebastian half-walked/half-dragged Sam back to the ladder, letting his friend go first just in case he lost his balance. “We’re both breathing, so that’s enough for now.”

The two made it up the ladder rather slowly, then collapsing into the elevator that took them back up to the first floor. It wasn’t much of a struggle to get back outside, using each other for support.

“You're an idiot.” Sebastian chastised as soon as the two were out of the mines, Sam leaning more and more on him by the minute. His head was bleeding pretty badly, along with several scratches up his arms and on his chest.

“Yup. That’s me!” Sam exclaimed happily, his feet catching on each other as he tripped and nearly fell over.

“You must've hit your head harder than I thought.” Sebastian groaned, barely managing to keep them both upright. “That’s not a compliment, Sam.”

“Mhm. Sounds good.” Sam nodded, now looking as if he was about to drift off to sleep.

“Oh boy.” Sebastian sighed heavily, elbowing Sam lightly to try and keep him awake as they walked. 

The trek down the hill to Sebastian’s house was thankfully short, though it took them several minutes longer than usual to finally burst through the front door—where they took a very confused Robin at the front desk by surprise.

“Hey, mom, we need—!” 

“Oh god!” Robin ran out to greet them, hands nervously flitting in the air around both of them. “I'll go get the med kit, you lie him down on the couch.”  She instructed, running out of the room with a yelled, “Maru!”

“Yeah? What’s—?” Maru’s head poked out into the hall as Sebastian helped Sam to the living room, setting him down on the couch before then collapsing into a nearby chair. “Oh man, what did you idiots do now?”

Sebastian rolled his eyes, relieved to be off his feet but not quite taking his attention off of a delirious Sam. “Yes, we’re dumb. Save the scolding for after.” 

“Don't let him fall asleep until we can assess the damage to his head.” Maru told Sebastian, running out to go get her own supplies.

“Got it.” 

The two women came back together pretty quickly, Maru kneeling beside Sam as Robin came over to Sebastian.

“Here.” Robin opened her much smaller kit and looked at Sebastian expectantly. “Now let me see your leg.”

“Mom, I’m fine, it’s Sam who—” Sebastian tried to protest, only for Robin to gently shush him and push his tattered pant leg up out of the way.

“Isn’t going anywhere.” She smiled gently, digging through the med kit and grabbing a rag to start cleaning off his leg. “You're hurt too, and Maru can handle Sam. Just let me do this.”

“...okay.” 

Half an hour later had Sebastian’s leg bandaged up good as new and Sam peacefully—and safely—sleeping on the living room’s couch, Maru back in her room while Robin and Sebastian sat nearby and talked in hushed tones so as not to wake the sleeping boy.

“What were you two thinking?” Robin demanded, worry cutting the edge of anger to her voice.

“We just… went a little too deep. Lost track of where we were and the time.” Sebastian explained evasively, not wanting to seem like Sam was at fault for what had happened to them both. “Sorry.”

“I’m not mad.” She sighed, grabbing Sebastian’s hands and squeezing them. “Really, I just… what if something worse had happened? Did you tell anyone you were going down there?”

Sebastian thought for a minute, watching Robin’s face fall the longer he took to answer. “I think Sam told the farmer what we were doing.” 

“That’s a relief, actually, considering how often they’re down there.” There was some relief in the breath she let out, but that didn’t stop her from continuing to scold, “But that doesn’t mean what you did was safe.”

“I know, mom.”

“I know you know.” She squeezed his hands again before letting go to rub at her face. “And I know you know I have to say it. I was just so worried when I saw you boys come in here all bloody…”

“Sorry.” Sebastian apologized, reaching forward to pull her hands from her face with an apologetic smile. “It won’t happen again.”

“Yeah, it will.” Robin smiled fondly back at him, shaking her head. “And as long as you boys can make it here, I’ll be here to patch you up every time. Just be more careful next time.”

“...yeah, we will.” Sebastian settled back into the chair he was sitting in, Robin carefully setting a blanket over him so he didn’t have to get up. “Thanks.”

“For now just get some rest. I’ll wake you in the morning for breakfast.”

[pumpkinisworking]

1:00 started writing, im working on the final draft of chapter 18 so its ready to go out tomorrow

1:35 finished final draft of chapter 18 so I’m taking a 25 minute break and then working on the rd of chapter 19

2:40 lunch

3:10 I’m writing again

7:00 closed my laptop

Finished

Final draft of chapter 18

Worked on rd of chapter 19

Notes

I’m back from visiting my mom, which was great btw

We visited a few caves and I got some souvenirs (crystals, a geode and some jewelry) and some cool stuff from my grandpa :D my mom also got me some more paint