#lamella

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Charged Drops Don't Splash

When a droplet falls on a surface, it spreads itself horizontally into a thin lamella. Sometimes -- depending on factors like viscosity, impact speed, and air pressure -- that drop splashes, breaking up along its edge into myriad smaller droplets. But a new study finds that a small electrical charge is enough to suppress a drop's splash. (Image and research credit: F. Yu et al.; via APS News) Read the full article

[witchydragoness]

Lamella 2025

[prairiefirewitch]

Poor Antonius; not only were you cursed by some ancient Roman, but they gave you a big bulbous bald head and weasely little arms.

This is what delights me today, when not much else has. This is a lead curse tablet (lamella) found at the Baths of Diocletian. Thousands of these tablets have been found across the Mediterranean and even Britain from the Roman period. They’re one of a small category of tangible evidence that magic was widely practiced.

[greekromangods]

Lamella Orphica

Greek; Mid-4th century BC

Greece (Place Created)

Gold

The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Faced with the thought of a bleak existence in the Underworld, some individuals in the ancient Mediterranean sought to improve their lot while they were alive. Virtuous behavior might not be sufficient, and one way to obtain a happier afterlife was thought to be through initiation into mystery cults associated with Orpheus and Dionysos. Self-styled preachers offered followers transformative experiences that mainstream practice could not provide. Their rites were shrouded in secrecy and remain little understood today, but one of the most intriguing sources of information are the so-called Orphic tablets, such as this one. Named by modern scholars after the mythical poet Orpheus, these are inscriptions written on thin sheets of gold. They were deposited in graves, and usually bear a short text proclaiming the deceased’s special status and providing guidance for his or her journey into the Underworld. On this example, the text takes the form of a dialogue between the dead initiate and a spring in the Underworld:

(Initiate): I am parched with thirst and perishing! (Spring): Then come drink of me, the Ever-Flowing Spring. On the right there is a bright cypress. Who are you? Where are you from? (Initiate): I am the son of Earth and Starry Heaven. But my race is heavenly. (Translation by Roy Kotansky (2017)).

ΔΙΨΑΙΑΥΟΣΕΓΩΚΑΠΟΛΛΥΜΑΙ ΑΛΛΑΠΙΕΜΟΥΚΡΑΝΑΣΑΙΕΙΡΟΩ ΕΠΙΔΕΞΙΑΛΕΥΚΗΚΥΠΑΡΙΣΣΟΣ ΤΙΣΔΕΣΙΠΩΔΕΣΙΓΑΣΥΙΟΣΕΙΜΙ ΚΑΙΟΥΡΑΝΟΥΑΣΤΕΡΟΕΝΤΟΣ ΑΥΤΑΡΕΜΟΙΓΕΝΟΣΟΥΡΑΝΙΟΝ

[superretroheart]

A new character design I've been kicking around for the last few days. Her original design was intended to be based more around toxins (her name was inspired by researching mushrooms), but settled in to a theme of plants and earth. Her design has some deliberate similarities to Sashara.

[koopaspiderofdarkness]

My friend @laughy-lappys-blog encouraged me to make a zodiacsona and despite the fact a scale was probably one of the hardest things to work with I like the sona I made very much!

Here is her bio: My zodiacsona! A gullible libra with a fascination with ghosts. She's very trustworthy and loves to protect others. She was born from the stars.

[polistini]

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[schizografia]

Ogni volta che si rompono le membrane dell’uovo da cui uscirà il feto in via di diventare un neonato, immaginate per un momento che si involi qualcosa che si possa fare sia con un uovo che con un uomo, e cioè l’hommelette, o la lamella.

La lamella è una cosa extrapiatta, che si sposta come l’ameba. Soltanto è un po’ più complicata. Ma passa dappertutto. E dato che è una cosa - e vi dirò subito perché, che ha rapporto con ciò che l’essere sessuato perde nella sessualità, è, come l’ameba in rapporto agli esseri sessuati, immortale. Perché sopravvive a ogni divisione, perché sussiste a ogni intervento scissiparo. E corre.

Ebbene, non è rassicurante! Supponete soltanto che venga a posarvisi sul viso intanto che dormite tranquillamente...

Non vedo bene come potremmo non entrare in lotta con un essere capace di simili proprietà. Ma non sarebbe una lotta molto comoda. Questa lamella, questo organo che ha la caratteristica di non esistere, ma che è nondimeno un organo - potrei darvi maggiori sviluppi sul suo posto zoologico - è la libido.

È la libido in quanto puro istinto di vita, di vita immortale, di vita irreprimibile, di vita che non ha bisogno di alcun organo, di vita semplificata e indistruttibile. È appunto ciò che è sottratto all’essere vivente, in quanto sottomesso al ciclo della riproduzione sessuata. Ecco di cosa sono rappresentanti, le sue figure.

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