OpalStoat

Geology Major, Doodler Extraordinaire, Costume-Crafter. Black Desert Online [NA]

[geostoat]

Are you dead? i just found your BDO screenshots and i must say your characters are THE BEST and most original designs i've seen EVER. They are truly inspiring.

Hello!

I can't see the time stamp on this, but hopefully this reaches you.

No, I am not dead. Thank you for your compliments regarding Vekahza and her gemstone aspects.

I started using this website less and less after 2016. When Yahoo purchased tumblr and several of my posts were incorrectly flagged, I lost interest in sharing anything on this platform.

I log into BDO on occasion to take screenshots of Vek but little else.

My creative efforts with her as a character have moved off BDO and onto something greater.

[theinturnetexplorer]

[pixll-sparks-deactivated2021111]

Listen everyone just cause your in a scientific field doesn’t make you smart enough to not make mistakes in the field

[becausenothingtodo]

@opalstoat

[silvaris]

Krimmler Wasserfälle by Sarah Brigadoi

[insincere-engineer]

idk if y’all americans and that know this, but in Australia instead of snow at christmas we get these lil shiny bugs everywhere and they’re attracted to the christmas lights and we call them christmas beetles

and despite being australian they don’t bite or anything they just crawl around on your hand and it’s such a good and pure feeling and yeah

[cryoverkiltmilk]

‘despite being australian’

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“We know what your thinking but this does not want to kill you”

[geostoat]

There is a good chance I will be moving to Pillowfort after the New Year. It sounds a bit refreshing with better content/privacy control settings. I was never able to achieve any goals I set for myself using Tumblr, which I’ve been using since 2012. My 2013 New Year Resolution was to make it to 100 followers. That never happened (for multiple reasons). Now its almost 2019, and I've only collected about 120.  Pillowfort’s potential for creating character sheets and profiles for creative networking and role-playing seems spiffy. A good platform for circulating costuming tutorials and guides, the works.

[geostoat]

Tumblr Staff managed to flag the following on my blog so far:

• A reblogged photo set of deer. • A character in a bikini, no nipples present. • A reblogged post of super heroines drawn to support breast cancer awareness, no nipples visible. Staff, you’re so jacked. Good thing I never had much of a platform here to begin with.

[geostoat]

S M O K Y  Q U A R T Z “I am the will of the earth. Of rock and stone. I am Alderaak.”

Vekahza Alderaak, the High Geomancer [NA]

[sixpenceee]

Gorgeous skull creations by Heather Demarest.

[a1-b2c3-deactivated20230114]

why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like… 

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species

[wearethesparkk]

I KNOW!! I did a report on filming locations in Star Wars last year and just made a list of places that looked so surreal they could make a convincing other planet. You covered some on my list but if I could just add a couple more:

Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar

Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)

Chocolate Hills, Philippines

Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland

So many missed opportunities with cool ass things on Earth, Lucasfilms smh…

[memcjo]

Earth is effing amazing!

[isnerdy-deactivated20190101]

Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina

Lake Retba, Senegal

Tepui, Venezuela

Tianzi Mountains, China

[bunjywunjy]

these would make amazing Star Wars planets OR fantasy material:

Tsingy du Bemaraha, Madagascar again (but a different part)

(those are razor-sharp, if you were wondering. very little of this area has been explored because YIKES)

Lake Natron, Tanzania

(looks cool, but is alkaline enough to Kill Your Shit)

Lake Baikal, Russia

(the deepest lake in the world, seriously)

and I’ll wrap it up with Son Doong Cave, Vietnam, the largest cave in the entire world.

it puts anything Dagobah has to offer to absolute shame:

(seriously, the largest chamber is 660 feet high. you could jam a fucking skyscraper in there and still lose it) 

anyway I really like caves thanks for coming to my ted talk

[writinginthetwilight]

😍😍😍

[geostoat]

Hey Opalstoat I saw your post about the Catfishing of one Aerith. Thank you for that post. That scenario is so similar to stuff happening to a few people I know in BDO .

You are so welcome. Sorry if this ask is late, I can't find a time stamp. As far as I know, there is a possibility Aerith/Liz is playing BDO. My friend Luke was contacted by her and she complained to him about the catfish post I submitted. She tried to claim they never agreed to meet, and then he sent her ALL of his skype receipts on the topic.You are welcome to further PM me or ask me for additional info if needed regarding players on BDO who are displaying catfish-like behavior. I have heard of a few and I like to be aware of who to avoid and keep them away from my guild.

[lzbros]

“I think I smell a barbecue!” Glad to have seen the art behind the games and am inspired to push forward! Was more into the Legend of series but now I better appreciate the whole franchise.

I like to see myself as this little purple dragon looking up to his art idols like this animated tribute for #SpyroReignitedTrilogy #Spyro

BG is a paintover of the game bg by Luke and animation by Zach, Music from original composer Stewart Copeland

[qissus-deactivated20191119]

My twin buddies are so talented ❤

[duboisdraws]

My favourite part of Castlevania are the sweet fight scenes. I can’t make anything that crazy but I had fun making a little something.

[geostoat]

Aspect of Red Banded Jasper Vekahza Alderaak, the High Geomancer [NA] Outfit is for fun only. The character would never wear this into combat.

[earthstory]

Underwater volcano creates huge floating islands of rock

(republished from TheConversation here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/q2no6qn)

A team of scientists from the UK, the US, Australia and New Zealand have modelled the fate of a huge floating raft of volcanic rocks that formed in 2012 during a submarine eruption of a Pacific volcano. Described in this month’s edition of Nature Communications, they show how satellite images of the floating-rock raft’s passage across the Pacific can be used to test models of ocean circulation. Their results could be used to forecast the dispersal of future pumice (volcanic rock) islands, and protect shipping from the hazards they pose.

Keep reading

[malmalforever]

At first I was 😱 but then I was 🤤

[malmalforever]

At first I was 😱 but then I was 🤤

[bijoux-et-mineraux]

Dioptase on Calcite matrix - Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia