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A RARE FABERGÉ JEWELLED CITRINE MODEL OF A MOUSE, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900

Look I know this is a scientific publication but you don’t understand— we need to include milk and cookies in the photo. We have to. Otherwise the science suffers

#holyfuckingshit #nature is amazing #also they HAD TO #of course they did #you cant let science suffer #cookie monster stone

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Amethyst, Hematite

Goboboseb Mts, Brandberg Area, Erongo Region, Namibia

mistomaxo

the creature

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Something something [dirty joke]

#such creature #also just a beauty unto himself #your daily rock pic

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Fossil sink

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kinda want this ngl

#fossils

Storytelling time!

As you may have gathered by now, I like stones. It's pretty much been a lifelong thing I inherited from my weirdo family, with varying degrees of obsession over periods of time.

For context, I originate from a small Eastern European country, so English is not my first language. In fact, it's not even my first foreign language, as I've only started learning English in 10th grade, which is quite late, even by my native country's standards.

Anyway, while in earlier stages of learning, at a point I came across the term "precious stones" in some piece of literature. The sentence was describing someone's travel "souvenirs", as in, "his halls were decked in the bounty of his explorations: gold, ivory and sparkling, precious stones", or some such. And to this day, I remember it, because I found the idea of the character liking sparkly stones so much that he would display them in his golden castle both endearing, and extremely relatable.

Fast forward to my confused disappointment, when I learnt about the existence of "semi-precious stones", and realised that the term "precious" merely implied the rare quality of the stones in question, not OC's emotional relationship to them.

Well, sparkle-supremacist rich collectors aside, I still think every stone is precious.

The End

#personal #storytelling time #precious stones