Violent Violet

I'm not really sure what this blog is about anymore. Good luck!

[alex-a23]

Donate to Alex Needs a New (to her) Car., organized by Alexa O'Brien

With Vet bills, House bills and Car repair bills it's been difficult to save up for a new… Alexa O'Brien needs your support for Alex Needs a

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[alex-a23]

Wait Senpai, I just wanted you to notice me.

[bevsi]

into the unknown 

[taxidermychrist-deactivated2025]

*covered in blood & in visible distress* i just need to write a list

[surprise-adoption]

Bottle rocket under ice

[overtheunderpass]

rad 

[edwardspoonhands]

I’m pretty sure that the reason the ice fractured into six slices is the same reason snowflakes are often six sided and it has to do with the shape of a molecule of water and I just think that’s so freaking cool.

[opulene-archive]

How would it even stay lit though?

[orangejuiceaholic-deactivated20]

!!!!! it IS actually because of the structure of water molecules! Water molecules are fuckin weird, as are lots of other liquid substance molecules, because theyre shaped like fuckin HEXAGONS! hexagons are those weird, six-sided shapes that re very sturdy, but they dont tend to sit very well when stacked together. thats why, when you fill up a glass of water to its full capacity, it can go OVER the brim a little and not spill over. It’s also why water beads.

anyway, so since water is essentially made up of a gazillion little hexagons, it tends to gather into larger hexagons as it shapes together. this is not visible unless the water is in a solid form, aka ice. when the water is split, it tends to crack around the established hexagons. that bottle rocket exploded in the PERFECT place to show this phenomenon and its geeking me out.

ALSO! the bottle rocket stays lit because the fuse was definitely waterproof and made with magnesium and an oxidizer of some sort. this means that they will burn underwater because they dont need the oxygen from the air to stay lit. thats so fucking weird isnt it. im tipsy and its the 4th of july. sorry for the science haha

[inside-us-only-stars]

Don’t you dare apologize for science

[kyraneko]

Reblogging for science, explosions, and cool hexagons!

[tanadrin]

I hope there’s an afterlife so that whoever made this pot 2,000 years ago can brag that their cookware is so good it’s still usable literally millennia later. Something about this object being lost for centuries and then rediscovered, and being put (successfully) to its original purpose again is so pleasing to me.

[cryptotheism]

Some Uzbek digging a canal: “Oh fuck yes a free pot. This rules.”

[sifu-kisu]

[thisismyideaofhumor]

I always wondered why the Western Zodiac and the Chinese Zodiac were both called zodiacs if one was associated w astronomy and the other w time in general. Like what defines a zodiac that the word is only used to describe these two things? Looking up the word “zodiac” in the dictionary didnt help bc it only talked about the western one.

Well, I decided to look up the etymology for zodiac and it turns out it comes from the Greek for “circle of little animals.” I love humans

[okayneat]

was unwilling to accept this outright so i checked etymonline and, truly:

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[hipstercanada]

Behold, a zodiac!

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[alex-a23]

[sifu-kisu]

[itscolossal]

Delightful Nighttime Landscapes Nestle into Stacked Wooden Boxes in Allison May Kiphuth’s Dioramas

[jklinesblog-deactivated20220719]

[sparkledragons]

I see a lot of folks confused about step one in the tags and to explain: what they're doing is just a color wash. Typically it's done with a color opposite on the color wheel to the primary color in a piece (though can be other tones for various reasons). It helps to make the final colors pop a lot more than they would if painted directly on a white canvas as the wash will show up in tiny spaces between the paint/in thinner areas and create contrast.

[mindhost]

Dutch longsword fencer Tosca Beuming

Photographed by Martin Philippo and Andress Kools

[stinkykatie]

[odessa-edmundson]

Wanna see the Narnia party?

[odessa-edmundson]

[odessa-edmundson]

[odessa-edmundson]

Annnd here's the process of making the wardrobe. 😊

We started out with a very old, flimsy, ugly, beat up wardrobe. Please excuse the mess

My sister (the artistic one) painted the inside to look like the original illustration of Mr. Tumnus and Lucy.

She measured to figure out what size/where she wanted each design to be on the front and then sketched them onto the doors.

She then used a 2 part wood epoxy to make the "carved" designs and applied them directly onto the doors. (She said the epoxy needed a lot of oomph to make it stick to the wood and she had to let portions of each design set a little before she could add more epoxy around it. Otherwise it was not sticking nicely.)

After the epoxy designs were on she then used bamboo to make the "frames" around each design. These ended up being perfect because they had some give to them and so were able to follow the warped curves of the wardrobe. They were wood glued into place and dumbells sat on top to make sure they dried in place. She added more epoxy to fill in where the frames met the designs.

We sanded the wood a bit and used Minwax gel stain in (i think) mahogany to paint/stain it. Most of it just needed 1 coat of stain, but the bamboo "frames" were still a little light so they -and any missed spots- got some touch ups/ a second coat.

And TA-DA! A Narnia wardrobe! 😍🥰

[alex-a23]

[volgograd-aikido]

Aikido

[poetbudo]

Plot twist.

[shinchido]

You can really see the wind getting knocked out of him because of the hiza geri.