MarshmallowMistress

"...I myself am strange and unusual."

[unpretty]

i bought an echo and a wifi lightbulb just so i could say “computer, turn off the light” instead of getting out from under the covers to flip the switch

[unpretty]

problem found: my husband keeps yelling for the echo to play certain songs before he enters the bedroom so he can have entrance music appropriate to his mood

[vaspider]

this sounds like the opposite of a problem

[floralls]

Lilac by Dominika Brudny

[fleurjardin]

[luvmaze-bts]

ahh how cute!

[nirvanasoul785]

[fruitsaladchewits-deactivated20]

[hanae-ichihara]

☆ 10 Colorful Eyes by: Hanakumamii ☆

↪ Day 10: Black  |  Nozaki Umetarou 「 野崎 梅太郎 」 Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun ↩

[danielodowd-deactivated20170124]

[peonyandbee]

danielodowd: Eyes Wide Open

[orphic-mysteries]

Osaka & Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, Japan | instagram

[unpretty]

i bought an echo and a wifi lightbulb just so i could say “computer, turn off the light” instead of getting out from under the covers to flip the switch

[unpretty]

problem found: my husband keeps yelling for the echo to play certain songs before he enters the bedroom so he can have entrance music appropriate to his mood

[vaspider]

this sounds like the opposite of a problem

[theveryworstthing]

the fight is harder each year.

[theveryworstthing]

gotta keep going because nothing ever stops.

[theveryworstthing]

you deserve to be new and whole.

[dorites-deactivated20241117]

Just found out neanderthal passed on the DNA for depression and now we know why they stayed in caves and painted horses all fuckin day 

[bobo543732]

Reblog if you’re a depressed neanderthal who stays in their cave and paints horses all fuckin day

[tanuki-kimono]

Youkai lovers assemble! Those kitsune and bakeneko hanhaba obi (by Piyoca) are so neat!

They have many well thought designs, from colorful butterflies wings and phoenix feathers:

To dreamy moon over clouds and dragon!

[driflloon]

julia zhong by po wai

[n-or-way]

[iheart-stonefield]

[stimmy-fae]

💧 Mystery of Prince Rupert’s Drop 💧 

Basically, a Rupert Drop is the result of dripping molten glass into water. Its tip is nigh-indestructible, but any sort of disturbance to its long tail causes it to shatter into millions of tiny shards.

(I’ll try to explain the next bit as best I can, but I’m not going to do a very job, so bear with me.) Basically, the reason why is that when the drop is cooling off so quickly in the water, it creates tension in the tip that sort of makes it pull in on itself and that makes it very resistant to distress. However, the way the tension is aligned makes it so it gets weaker as it goes farther along the tail, thus making it more susceptible to distress. When the tension is interrupted and torn apart, it makes everything else fall apart, too, so the tension holding everything together just sort of lets go of everything. It’s kind of similar to a balloon, I guess. 

(Maybe someone like @stem-stims can explain this better?)

[stem-stims]

That’s a nice explanation.

The head of the drop is so strong it can withstand a blow from a hammer with ease, but the slightest pressure put on the tail will cause the whole thing to shatter completely. The surface of this drop is under highly compressive stress, and the inside is under high tension. What’s the difference? The exterior has a lot of force, from itself essentially, compacting it together. The interior is “tight”, to put it in a more understandable wording, because of how the droplet formed when cooled and because of the stress the exterior puts on it, I believe. 

Since the drop is in high tension, internally and externally, this puts it at a very highly unstable equilibrium (it’s together, yeah, but this can be disturbed very easily). The tail is the weak point.  Applying enough pressure on the tail (which granted, isn’t much) destroys the equilibrium by subjecting the drop to all that stress that’s been waiting to be set free, and the whole thing shatters.

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