#candle science

[crypticcandlewax]

[sprigglebearstudios]

They turned out so cute!!!! I wanted to see if I could make Gelatinous Cube soap, and I’m so happy with my first attempt!

At my kiddo’s suggestion I gave them a little cute face inspired by Lauren Walsh’s son, Woubble!

[lilacsmothership]

fumi redesign! what do you think? ✨

[triflesandparsnips]

Accidentally started rereading Northanger Abbey, and was sudden reminded all over again that Jane Austen is, in fact, fucking hilarious.

NA is her parody/satire of Gothic novels at the time, and she starts the book by choosing violence-- she describes the "tragedy" of the main character, Catherine Morland, a girl Determined to be a Heroine even though ALL ODDS are against her: she has a sane father who doesn't lock up his daughters, a healthy mother who didn't die in childbirth, no preternatural talent for music or drawing through which to reveal her Deepest Soul, and-- most shockingly of all-- absolutely zero love interests for whom she can wander the hills mourning their starcrossed fates until she wastes away from the sheer Sentimentality of it all.

But don't worry! She's got this FIGURED OUT. She KNOWS why she has not yet found her TRUE LOVE:

There was not one lord in the neighbourhood; no—not even a baronet. There was not one family among their acquaintance who had reared and supported a boy accidentally found at their door—not one young man whose origin was unknown. Her father had no ward, and the squire of the parish no children.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

(SPOILER: She is introduced to a mysterious young man who lives in an ABBEY, which everyone knows means he has a DEEPLY MYSTERIOUS SECRET PAST and is maybe a TRAGIC HERO or even a ROMANTIC MONSTER and either way this is IT this is Catherine's TIME TO SHINE she is going to get a good grade in DOOMED LOVE, a thing that is normal to want and--)

(...meanwhile Henry Tilney-- an ordinary guy who never expected "get cast as the Hero in some Grand Gothic Romance" to show up on his bingo card-- starts wondering when exactly he started finding Catherine's attempts to locate bloody daggers in his linen closet charming.)

[studist]

I've to write two papers by the end of the month...

[mjlegacy]

40 Years Ago, the events of a famous detention took place…

[djadecutie]

You get some more doodles hehe (I was reading "My dear detective" on wattpad during these So the doodles are at least partly influenced by it.)

[monica-teresa-bordignon]

Natural History Museum - Venice, Italy

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Brian Aldiss - Billion Year Spree - Corgi Books - 1975

[tabswrites]

Worldbuilding in 5 Tag

Tagged by @mysticstarlightduck here!

Gently tagging: @pheita @pandoras-comment-box @avrablake @acertainmoshke @space-writes @sarahlizziewrites @mister-writes and an open tag

Rules: post 3-5 images of a place in your world and tell us a bit about it!

Ohhhh yeah, you know I have to talk about my pretty purple forest!! These are some of the images I’ve used previously to help me write some scenes in ToL:

The Forest of Eternity

A magical place that exists parallel to the Ancestral Forest just outside the city of Rothar. This is where the majority of Tomb of Light takes place.

Literally everything is purple except for the water (which appears purple because of the river substrate). Plants, dirt, trees, you name it—make it purple. Only the creatures come in varied hues

It is a dying realm that was once home to many diverse species, but now is only home to a select few that you can read about here

The forest has a very sweet and fragrant smell similar to berries and vanilla

Some of the plants, like fey berries, possess magical qualities such as clairvoyance, and some like feuille de mort show signs of sentience.

Eternity is absolutely covered in silver and gemstones, specifically a mysterious pale purple stone that has been seen in weapons and architecture alike, as well as a secret third purpose.

If you would like to learn more about Eternity, check out my world-building notes here, shoot me an ask, or check out Tomb of Light 💜

[consult-sherlockholmes]

Can you tell us more about your new case?

I cannot tell you much about it yet, just that I am currently in the United States and that it's connected to the solar eclipse yesterday. But if you are bored and want to read about a case in the meantime, I have a case here with quite compelling evidence and a good investigation.

[luxe-pauvre]

Pseudoscience differs from erroneous science. Science thrives on errors, cutting them away one by one. False conclusions are drawn all the time, but they are drawn tentatively. Hypotheses are framed so they are capable of being disproved. A succession of alternative hypotheses is confronted by experiment and observation. Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding. Proprietary feelings are of course offended when a scientific hypothesis is disproved, but such disproofs are recognised as central to the scientific enterprise. Pseudoscience is just the opposite. Hypotheses are often framed precisely so they are invulnerable to any experiment that offers a prospect of disproof, so even in principle they cannot be invalidated. Practitioners are defensive and wary. Sceptical scrutiny is opposed. When the pseudoscientific hypothesis fails to catch fire with scientists, conspiracies to suppress it are deduced. [...] Perhaps the sharpest distinction between science and pseudo-science is that science has a far keener appreciation of human imperfections and fallibility than does pseudoscience (or ‘inerrant’ revelation). If we resolutely refuse to acknowledge where we are liable to fall into error, then we can confidently expect that error  - even serious error, profound mistakes - will be our companion forever. But if we are capable of a little courageous self-assessment, whatever rueful reflections they may engender, our chances improve enormously. If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

[catmint1]

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

[lilacsmothership]

smokin sands 💜🐺🐱🏜✨

it's a cool spring morning in the Salamanca desert when Sage and Ponderosa break out the smokes at the midway of Osa's inspection hike, shaded by a bushy tree sprouted by the massive nutrient pipeline. beneath their warm chatter, quiet desert air emphasizes the low rumble of fluid surging down the mesas and pulsing thrum of powerful pumps, toward another "pump oasis" nestled in a distant valley beneath Parsawan's planetary companions and the badlands beyond.

artfight for sage, the loveliest yote!

[nando161mando]

"'To make a contented slave,' [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, 'it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.'

This is why the slaveholders must control what slaves hear and see and think. This is why reading and critical thinking are dangerous, indeed subversive, in an unjust society."

— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

[let-me-eat-cake]

Did you know that candles can explode?

Things I learned about candles and candle holders yesterday:

Water only makes candle fire worse because of the candle wax

Glass candle holders cannot handle extreme changes in temperature so if you....I dunno, pour cold water on a glass candle holder that's gotten so hot the flames have almost reached the overhead light fixtures...the glass candle holder is going to explode

Candle wax is extremely hard to get out of cloth

Unintentional science experiments are the most terrifying science experiments.