Weird in nature

[ldtrycrafts]

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Laura's Giving Page

Thanks for visiting my fundraising page. I’m going to be completing 100 skips every day in June to help raise money for Cancer Research UK.

[mellifexfarm]

[drawloverlala]

Falling Down 🌠

[ldtrycrafts]

The beautiful colours of autumn

[bamsara]

all of the doodles from the last art stream

[ldtrycrafts]

Moss, moss, sphagnum moss!!

All the beautiful colours of this fantastic plant.

Did you know it was used as wound dressing in World War 1? Due to its absorbant nature, being reasonably sterile and the ability to reduce the pH levels around wounds, it helped to increase healing.

[tlirsgender]

Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon

[tlirsgender]

It’s carbon it’s pretty and it didn’t involve slave labor what’s not to love??? Hi I’m having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I’m right

[tlirsgender]

There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don’t have the time to unpack all that

[val-ritz]

not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself “man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce”

[fuckyeahmineralogy]

We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.

[thegreenpea]

another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond’s 2.419 and here is the difference 

and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less

[rubixpsyche]

Also it’s just cool to think of some mad scientist lookin person doing shit against the law of the universe and making pretty gems for you. Like cmon. This shouldnt be allowed probably. But humans really be like on gOD i want some shiny an just started MAKIN em

[zathechaosgod]

for years people wanted alchemy, well now we have alchemy and we’re making gemstones out of it and suddenly “it doesn’t count” anymore

[ldtrycrafts]

Who loves frogs! I certainly do.

Here in Scotland, and uk wide, the common frog comes in many different colours and patterns. These four are just a small group of colours I'm collecting pictures of for a project.

[ldtrycrafts]

Trying out a slightly new paw pattern (my own pattern) with fun fur to see how it looks before moving to the high-quality furs.

[dopescissorscashwagon]

GN, on this first Eve of 2024!

Ireland

📸 by James A. Truett @jamesatruett

[ldtrycrafts]

Big beautiful mushroom.

This mushroom is known as 'the goblet'.

Enjoy 😄

[makrustic]

Moments in time, preserved through sentiments Twitter | Ko-Fi | Patreon

[24985uhjnetfoiuswhiejnklmpfos0]

fuck it 10 pm post we like to party

[ihni]

BEHOLD! This year's gingerbread creation: Ginger the Octopus!

I bought a pepakura pattern from Papercraftfreakshop on Etsy (link here) and used that as a base, even though I had to adapt it a bit due to me making it in ... well, gingerbread.

The whole thing is 100% edible, and made out of gingerbread, icing (or is it called frosting?) and small chocolate candies only.

It has taken me ... AGES. Approximately about 30-40 hours? (just baking the pieces, one by one, took 15 hours over a weekend) But worth it. Look at her. She's so pretty.

(For progess shots and exclamation of regret, see here)

[mini-moss]

Botanist’s Window 🌱

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[same-side]

Do you have favorite reed900 fics?

I went through literally 89 pages of ao3 results because i dont remember anything:

The Four Times… and Five Times Nines Tried… by theShipDen @theshipden (6k, 4+1)

A Thousand Flowers by Cato_Universe (4k, 5+1)

Any of (@sarcasticasides) errantwheat’s fics are witty and fun

Both of (@tristinai) tristinai’s series are incredibly nuanced and well written and have me thinking about them for days afterwards, but heed the tags because they’re dark.

Instruction Manual not Included by Limchi @liminalityyy (133k slow burn)

Fucking Androids by Skalidra (62k slowburn)

Biting Down by Sleepyboy (23k slowburn)

Charon by Vapewraith (154k casefic)

Perspective by Panderrynrose (33k reverse)

Pedal to the Metal by idiopathology (10k reverse)

Rumour Mill Churn and What Could Be by connorssock @connorssock (5k whump)

Join the Dots by Weakspots (8k angsty smut)

Kill Me Slow by readitson (24k smut)

Holy Unity by Helasdottir (2k fluff)

Skin Deep by ImogenGotDrunk @imogengotdrunk (3k fluff)

[marionette-j2x]

"Soar high! My dear sweet child."