Retrograde Waters
This is a personal blog that serves as a miscellaneous collection of things I find cute, cool, interesting, and enraging.
I know that all people are equal and deserve the same rights and respect, and I welcome everyone of all and any race, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, romantic orientation, age, ability, anything else I may have forgotten (let me know!) and any combination or absence thereof. I do NOT welcome discrimination and bigotry. If *I* say or do anything that is offensive or insensitive, please tell me! I try to consider everyone/different perspectives and experiences when speaking, but I could always make a mistake, and educating myself is a constant process: I will be grateful rather than offended to have small-mindedness on my part pointed out. It's the only way I'll know to correct it.
Thank you and have a nice day!
(Blog NSFW: strong language, various topics of discussion, and occasional images of anatomy and/or nudity.)
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The Birdcage(1996) is always in my movie playlist.
No, you don’t understand how much I love this movie....
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Concept to Final Design
YES YES YESSSS
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For posterity, a list of some incredible women who got the short end of HBO’s stick.
Do NOT get me started on Jeyne...
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shine bright like a...
My cat started doing this to wake me up.
oh hell no
that is not a cat that is a jungle creature
Is that a muthafucking hybrid Savannah cat!!?!!?!?! OMG. I want one. PLEASEEEE!! OmGGG. Look at itttt!!!!
YESSSSSSSSS SAVANNAHS
That’s no hybrid Savannah, that’s a plain and pure serval.
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Lightning Ridge Black Opal - Twin Galaxy Gem Stones
Aside from Grey and White, Black Opal is the most precious and is at least 50 times more rare than diamond, yet these beautiful gems are also much more fragile than diamond.
The brilliant colors within the gems are iridescent, meaning that they will change color or flash as you rotate them. Deep down within the opal are silica spheres arranged in arrays and both the size and organized arrangement of the spheres will determine the color produced. The Twin Galaxy Stones will flash like lightning as you rotate them, hence the name Lightning Ridge in Australia.
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Street stone by Alexis Persani
Photography Retouching
Photos: Léo Caillard ©
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Snow melts and flash freezes into an icy downhill river. A bunch of snowbanks in Russia began to melt, then it got cold again quickly, flash-freezing into the icy river you see here.
IT LOOKS LIKE THE WORLD IS USING LO-REZ TEXTURES IN A WINTER ZONE
You could probably recaption that as a Skyrim screenshot and people would believe you for just that reason.
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The Largest Cut Piece of Aquamarine in the World
At 14 inches tall, the aquamarine obelisk known as the Dom Pedro is pure light. Like a cool oasis on the horizon, the cut gem stands as a pale blue beacon. It is the largest cut piece of aquamarine in the world and, after journeying from miners in Brazil to dealers in Germany and collectors in the States, the Dom Pedro, named for Brazil’s first two emperors, is now the newest addition to the Natural History Museum’s gem collection. Joining other noteworthy stones, including the much-loved Hope Diamond, the obelisk is a one-of-a-kind, according to the museum’s curator of gems and minerals Jeff Post. - Continue reading at Smithsonian.com.
Photo: Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural history
Ed note: Here is where you can see some of the world’s most famous diamonds.
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the fuck
Each ball weighs differently, causing each one to bounce to a specific height, and when precisely placed in the dust pans and thrown down… 2013
MATH.
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Dancing Dead Leaves by Yunfan Tan
Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight? Batman has, but surely the fallen leaves that have given their lives annually for a few thousand millennia know that feel as well, though Yunfan believes that need not be a saddening sacrifice: looping the withering process and turning it into an endless dance, the leaves’ way of saying this isn’t goodbye… just we’ll do this again next year.
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He’s so smart he taps the other one to make him look
“Dude! Dude, watch this! I’m gonna eat it!”
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