Spiral growth pattern in a Vietnamese pink sapphire.
Occasionally, we find a gem inclusion that uncovers the crystal structure and growth pattern of the host gem. These spirals start at an inhomogeneity in the lattice, such as an enclosed crystal or twinning plane. Each twist in the spiral records another stage of growth in the crystal, revealing the pattern in which the atoms organised themselves during crystallisation.
TODAY IN HISTORY: Soviet cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov prepare to blast off on the Apollo-Soyuz mission, July 15, 1975.
I really love this dress by kawaiigoods ٩(๑❛ワ❛๑)و The seashells bring out my mermaid heart and the fabric is soo soft ~
gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun is a treasure,
if i don’t reblog this assume im dead
THE NEXT 3:30 MINUTES AFTER PRESSING PLAY WILL BE THE BEST 3:30 MINUTES OF YOUR DAY.
If anyone asks you what fanfiction is—just show them this video.
While sick in bed I kept thinking, or rather my brain kept thinking with or without my input, about the sheer overwhelming volume of fiction human beings have produced, like the number of myths, legends, novels, comics, games, movies, plays, original characters and even dreams and imaginary friends felt so vast and all encompassing that it seemed to dwarf all of our other achievements as a species and the sheer immensity and pointlessness of it all felt almost terrifying until suddenly my foggy mind was like “whoa, whoa, wait, WAIT A MINUTE….THAT’S WHAT WE ARE!!!!!! WE’RE THE STORYTELLER PLANET, THAT’S OUR THING IN THE UNIVERSE!”
So that turned into all these scenarios where for whatever reason most other sentience races could have technological power beyond our comprehension but still no knack for concocting even rudimentary child-level fiction and are so easily entertained by any shit we can make up that it’s basically our superpower
Humans end up paying their way across the galaxy just making things up as they go along and even our worst most garbage pieces of media become an almost priceless commodity.
You’re cornered by a tentareaver from the bloodstar or
whatever and she’s all “SO, EARTHBEAST…TELL ME ONE OF THESE FAMOUS FICSHUNS OF YOURS AND I’LL CONSIDER SPARING YOUR LIFE”
*sigh*…okay, once upon a time there was a tentareaver…
“WAS SHE OF THE FLESHRENDER CASTE????”
….Yes, the most beautiful fleshrender in her whole clusterhive.
“TEE HEE”
#humans confirmed for space bards
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY
Only, lots of humans go, “My stories are all crap. You just don’t understand.”
And their nonhuman friends go, “No I don’t. Your stories are mindblowing. How can you just come up with these things?”
“They’re just drabbles and junk!”
“Awesome drabbles and junk…?”
“No.”
“Yes.”
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On the other hand, the “super-awesome-amazing” writing that humans are referring to as “actual writing/stories” are restricted materials for non-humans because they can be dangerous to the unprepared minds.
Memetic logic bombs.
Published human fiction must go through a vetting committee before they are pronounced “safe” for non-human consumption.
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