#macle

[thegentlemancollects]

[princess-of-the-corner]

I don't know RWBY but is PNIS a potential team name?

Ha!

So like. /technically/ in-universe all the names have to be either a color or make people think of a certian color. So like RWBY=Ruby, JNPR=Juniper.

ofc you can fuck with it if you want and as long as it makes a word it works.

Though if you want to have Team PNIS and keep with the color theme, maybe insist it's like "Team Pines" or something but everyone goes ??????

[alimajeedashoor]

Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 🩵

[xviruserrorx]

THADDEUS!!??

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Gold and macle ring, Champa (Vietnam), 7th-12th century AD

from Sothebys

[bala5]

Various Diamonds

sharp octahedrons, dodecahedrons, a triangular macle-twin, and several other twin habits including the extremely rare "Star of David" twins.

[distilled-prose]

March 2, 2023 Rui Galopim de Carvalho via LinkedIn

Crystal growth is a fascinating subject namely in understanding the so-called twins. Twins are symmetrical intergrowths of two or more crystals of the same species that grew in different crystallographically controlled directions according to certain rules (the so-called twin laws). The twinned portions are all in structural continuity and the bonding at their junction conforms to the crystal lattice directions on both sides of the direction change (meaning, the junction is a special direction). There are four types of twins: contact twins (sometimes known as macles), penetration twins, polysynthetic twins and cyclic twins and mineral collectors are quite fond of such well-developed specimens. In the depicted case, we’ve got a rare contact twin diamond specimen, a 18.79 ct bluish-green twinned crystal with its typical triangular shape and surface growth structures. These twined shapes are more commonly referred to in the diamond industry as a “macles”. Due to its size and beauty (at least in the eyes of a gemmology and mineralogy enthusiast), De Beers Group decided to set it in the rough, that is, without any cut nor polishing operations, in a signature necklace dubbed “Awakening Lotus”. Photos © De Beers

[eveningculottes]

About my rom-com zine "Watch Talk Love"／ラブコメZINE『Watch Talk Love』を発行しました

何かと「これくらいがちょうどいい」とか「頭空っぽにして楽しめる」とか言われがちなラブコメですが、未だに思いっきり有害な保守的規範を恥ずかしげもなく押し付けてくるようなものや、お決まりの型に沿って作れば何とかそれっぽくなるだろうと期待の低さに胡座をかいたものばっかりじゃないか、と違和感を持ち始めて数年。でも同時にそうした傾向に抗う作品も出てくるようになりました。

あまりメディアで取り上げられない作品も拾いながら、「これくらいでいい」などと言われずに同じテンションでラブコメの話がしたい。せっかくなら、それを記録に残したい。そう思って作ったのがこのZINEです。まっくるさんとまどりさんにお願いして、おしゃべりに付き合っていただき、さらに別途文章も書いていただきました。本当にありがとうございます！！

このZINEの売上から経費（印刷費・送料・書店EC手数料）を引いた残りは、CALL4を通じて「結婚の自由をすべての人に訴訟（同性婚訴訟）」に寄付します。私は男女の経済的格差を正当化する結婚制度には長期的にみて反対の立場ですが、まずは同性婚の実現が平等への第一歩だと思っています。結婚が究極の幸せかのように描かれるラブコメが減ることが大事なのと同様に、異性カップルと同じように結婚というオプションが当たり前にある中で結婚について悩んだり、結婚して幸せになったりまた悩んだりする同性カップルや、ノンバイナリーの人を含むカップルが描かれるラブコメがたくさん増えることも大事です。

寄付状況についてはこちらのサイトでご報告します。ある程度まとまった売上が上がり次第随時寄付します。

がんばって販売していきますので気長に見守っていただければ幸いです。

電子版(PDF)はSUZURIで、紙版はメルカリで購入いただけます。どちらも匿名購入ができます。本体価格は同じですが、送料の分電子版のほうが安くなっています。印刷費がないため一冊あたり寄付にまわる金額は電子版のほうが大きいですが、最初にある程度まとめて印刷をかけるのと、印刷を想定した作りになっているので紙版をご購入いただけるのも嬉しいです。追ってイベントや書店での販売もしていきます。

Watch Talk Love

2023年4月発行

A5 P40

Publisher: MN

Contributor: Madori, Macle

電子版（SUZURI）／紙版（メルカリ）※5/11-17頃発送予定

取り扱い書店: loneliness books（東京・新宿）／SUNNY BOY BOOKS（東京・学芸大学）／本屋lighthouse（千葉・幕張）／REBEL BOOKS（群馬・高崎）／ON READING（愛知・名古屋）／犬と街灯（大阪・豊中）／Calo Bookshop & Cafe（大阪）／

READAN DEAT（広島）／本と商い ある日、（沖縄・うるま）

目次　Index

➳配信時代のラブコメ事情＜英語圏版＞

　主な配信スルー／オリジナル作品年表

　相手と関係を構築していく“過程”が観たい / Netflixの青春ラブコメ代表作 / 大学進学問題 / 悪事の落とし前 / スマホ＝悪じゃない！/ アジア系スターが熱い！ / チーム対抗 / リスペクト？言い訳？ / クィア表象と恋愛至上主義 / Netflixのインクルージョン後退の懸念

　話しきれなかった最近のオススメ

　オリジナルサントラを聴く

➳高慢と偏見と対比

　ジェーン・オースティンの小説『高慢と偏見』(1813年)映像翻案作品20本(1940〜2022年)の特徴を比較

➳ラブコメについての読み物

➳ラブコメーターをつけてみよう

[thegentlemancollects]

[princess-of-the-corner]

yeah to get rwby team names for things i start out with all first names and got to that and was like Hm. Nope, don't like that

iirc there was a generator tool where you could plug in the character names I remember using it for the ML one.

[crimsontippedflower]

dossier

basics ( image )

NAME: Màiri Macleod

ALIAS: N/A

AGE: 469 ( August 17th, 1554 )

GENDER: Female

SPECIES: Human, witch

NATIONALITY: Scottish

OCCUPATION: outcast / forest witch / wise woman

physical ( image )

EYES: Green

HAIR: Ginger, long & thick, often with some form of braiding

HEIGHT: 5'2

BUILD: Very slim, petite, elegant, graceful

SKIN: Very fair

CLOTHING: era-dependant

FACECLAIM: Ruth Connell

mental ( image )

ALIGNMENT: neutral good

POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES: affectionate, appreciative, calm, cautious, centered, charming, courteous, curious, diplomatic, discreet, easygoing, empathetic, friendly, generous, gentle, hospitable, independent, intelligent, introverted, kind, loyal, nurturing, observant, passionate, patient, private, quirky, sensible, sentimental, sweet, thrifty, whimsical, wholesome.

NEGATIVE ATTRIBUTES: antisocial, anxious, defensive, evasive, inhibited, insecure, needy, nervous, paranoid, self-destructive, shy, superstitious, suspicious, timid, uncommunicative, withdrawn.

LIKES: nature, magic, animals, tranquility

DISLIKES: exposure, new people, crowds, cruelty

abilities ( image )

WITCHCRAFT

spell casting, spell creation, conversion, healing, astral projection, supernatural perception, casting and removing hexes / curses / enchantments / wards, summoning

IMMORTALITY

will not die of natural causes, but could be susceptible to fatal injury.

MULTILINGUALISM

first language is scots, but she also speaks scottish gaelic, some english, and some latin.

WEAKNESSES

iron / higher beings / meek & shy / unlucky

biography ( image )

màiri grew up in dunbar, scotland, to a family in which magic ran in the blood. the gift usually only presented itself in the females of the bloodline, so while it's a macleod gene, her father was barren, magic-wise. his sister - màiri's aunt elspeth - however, was not, and nor was elspeth's granddaughter, geillis. they weren't poor, nor were they particularly wealthy. as far as possible, they tried to remain inconspicuous. the gifted women of the family - elspeth, màiri, and geillis - were raised with absolute secrecy and discretion ingrained into them. they were to use their gifts, but they were to use them wisely and without drawing any attention to themselves. 

be this as it may, the family were still somewhat shunned by the larger society. people didn't exactly hate them, but they were generally considered to be strange, no-good, queer. màiri's father developed some resentment towards his only daughter after some time, since she represented everything that was "wrong" about the family. he wasn't abusive, but he was emotionally neglectful. her mother was a maidservant and was rarely at home, so màiri was often left to her own devices as a young girl. with nothing else to do, she honed her craft. and talented she was. 

given her talents, she began work as an assistant to a local doctor - not a nurse, just an assistant - and she'd work a little secret magic now and then to aid recovery and fix up minor ills. she was never discovered, and people at least began to somewhat respect her. she continued with this work up until she left dunbar.

by the time màiri was 32, both of her parents had died. she was around 36 when she met a man who promised her the world. he'd been training as a doctor with her employer, and he'd taken a shine to her. she thought this was the great love affair of her life; he wanted her, he was going to take her away from here and give her everything she'd ever dreamed of. she never outright told him that she was a witch, but he knew, and she knew he knew. but, unusually, he didn't seem to mind. if anything, he thought her talents impressive and her skill unrivalled, and he saw potential in her. he saw that she could do things normal people couldn't do, and he thought that was good. 

màiri was totally prepared to up and run off with him at the drop of a hat, but then the panic started. people became more and more paranoid about witches in the area, and the macleod/duncan women were frightened. màiri's lover abandoned her, tossed her out like she was nothing - he knew she was a witch, and he didn't want to be associated with her with this rising tension going on. she was absolutely heartbroken. 

after a conversation with her aunt, màiri realised that she had very limited options. elspeth had heard people mentioning her name, talking about this woman that worked for the doctor and who was almost supernaturally good at helping people. it was a ticking time bomb before someone publicly accused her, and she didn't want to face that. besides, she couldn't bare to go to work every day and see the man who broke her heart. so she ran. she said goodbye to her aunt and her cousin (geillis, her first cousin once removed), and she left. 

the following year, geillis was accused of and arrested for witchcraft. she was brutally tortured, but refused to name any other witches. eventually, though, she broke, and she disclosed names. but she never named elspeth, and she never named màiri. shortly after this, geillis tried to retract her confession, but this was not accepted and she was executed.

(while màiri and elspeth are completely my own creation, geillis duncan was a real person who was accused of witchcraft, arrested, tortured and eventually executed on december 4th, 1591. the scottish government officially pardoned all those wrongfully accused of and executed for witchcraft - including geillis duncan - on march 8th, 2022).

[mylifecrumbs]

Mahiwaga

Nung ikaw ay matagpuan

Mundo ko ay lumiwanag

Ikaw ang dasal

Sa tuwing dadalaw sa simbahan

Kaya nung ika’y natagpuan

Pipiliin ka sa araw araw

Hinihiling sa Ama

Makasama ka habangbuhay

Ngiti mong nakakadala ng ligaya

Tuwa ko sa bawat oras na kasama ka

Mahiwaga ang pagmamahal mo,

Sayo lamang naramdaman

— MACL 5/21/21

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Gold and macle stone ring, Champa (Vietnam), 7th-12th century

from Sotheby's

[wineworldnews]

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