One Of The Details That Gets Lost In The Transition Of Manga-to-anime For Fullmetal Alchemist, Is The

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Unironically, vegans need to be advocating for more and better sheep, llama, and alpaca farms. Wool is one of the best fabrics we have in terms of versatility, longevity and most importantly, insulation. Even wet, it retains 80% of it’s insulation potential.

AND IT DOESN’T SHED MICROPLASTICS

For the folklore side of tumblr...

Folklore and fairy tales ask game!

1. Did you grow up with any fun folk beliefs/customs/superstitions?

2. What is one of your favourite romantic fairy tales?

3. What is one of your favourite non-romantic fairy tales?

4. Did you grow up hearing or reading folktales?

5. Did you have a favourite folktale as a kid?

6. Do you have a favourite book with folklore or folk/fairy tales?

7. What is one of your favourite folkloric creatures?

8. Is there a specific fairy tale you dislike?

9. Is there a particular culture's folklore you know most about?

10. Is there a particular culture's folklore you'd like to know more about?

11. Have a bit of folklore trivia you'd like to share?

12. Do you have any media about folklore to rec?

13. Do you have a folklore rant you're holding in? (Let It Out)

14. If you could change something about a specific fairy tale what would it be?

15. Got any burning folklore questions?

16. What's a folktale you used to love but grew out of?

17. Do you prefer fairy tales, fables, legends or myths?

18. Do you care about the distinction between literary fairy tales and folk fairy tales?

19. If you could own any object from folklore what would it be?

20. If you met a talking animal would you prefer it to be an enchanted human, a disguised spirit, or simply a gifted animal?

21. For the multi-linguals: do you like the term 'fairy tales' or do you prefer what they are called in your other language(s)?

i know hearing people on this website love to pass around those posts with links to free sign language lessons but you know you need to actually put effort into learning about Deaf culture, too, right?

flower asks

lily - if you could only see shades of one colour for the rest of your life, which colour would it be ?

primrose - if you could have a coffee with anyone in history, who would it be ?

camellia - tell a story you haven’t told in years

daffodil - if you could live in any city in the world, where would it be ?

iris - if you owned a shop, what would it sell ?

rose - if you could thank anyone in history, who would it be ?

heather - what are your favourite names ?

tulip - if you could live in any decade, which would it be ?

bluebell - talk about someone you think is beautiful

buttercup - talk about a song that has a lot of meaning to you

freesia - if you had to teach a school subject, what would it be ?

orchid - soft hair or shiny eyes ?

pansy - what’s the best gift you could recieve ?

petunia - if you could master any instrument, what would it be and why ?

sunflower - if you were to write a book, what would it be about ?

wisteria - if you could live with anyone, who would it be ?

alchemilla - talk about something that makes you happy when you’ve been sad

kalmia - what’s your favourite city in the world and why ?

tagetes - describe a person you would fall in love with

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I'd like to know why the minerals are hazardous!

YES I got someone to bite!

Okay, so, the two specific minerals I have in my collection that are hazardous are hazardous for different reasons.

First off, chromite.

Reason it is potentially hazardous: On its own, chromite isn’t necessarily dangerous.  It becomes dangerous when exposed to certain environmental conditions.  Under certain conditions, the chromium present in chromite changes from Cr(III) (trivalent chromium) to Cr(VI) (hexavalent chromium).  Hexavalent chromium is a known toxin and carcinogen.

Reason I still have it in my collection: You need very specific circumstances to transform the Cr(III) in chromite to Cr(VI).  Generally, those circumstances occur when chromite ore is being processed to produce chromium.  All my chromite does is chill in a jar all day.  There’s very little likelihood that my chromite has oxidized to form hexavalent chromium.

(Not to mention, despite some vigorous Google searching, I couldn’t find anything about chromite being hazardous, just that mining and processing it is hazardous, neither of which I am doing.)

My second mineral in the “Danger Jar” is uraninite, aka pitchblende.

Reason it is potentially hazardous: It’s a uranium ore, which makes it weakly radioactive.  Marie Curie (one of my role models) famously died as a result of exposure to radiation from pitchblende.

Reason I still have it in my collection: Marie Curie processed literal tons of pitchblende during her research.  I have a small specimen the size of my thumb.  Also, while it is radioactive, its form of radioactivity (alpha decay) makes the main concern internal exposure (breathing in particles, ingesting it), rather than external exposure (just being in close proximity to it).  Basically, it doesn’t give off much radiation anyways, and what little it does isn’t as hazardous as you might think.

(Not to mention, it was actually part of one of those mineral collection kits that you can like, just buy online or in a store.  Pretty sure that if it was seriously dangerous to my health, it wouldn’t be available for easy purchase.  Also, at undergrad I literally sat next to a cabinet that set off a Geiger counter because it had so much pitchblende in it, but the professors weren’t concerned at all.)

HOWEVER

Out of an abundance of caution, I keep my chromite and my pitchblende in a sealed container (as of this morning, a nice glass jar that used to house a Bath and Bodyworks candle) and store said jar not in my bedroom.  I’m 100% sure that my samples aren’t actually dangerous for me to have, but I like to take precautions anyways.  Blame my microbiology and chemistry background for that.

Bonus: I mentioned a few other minerals in the tags of my post about my Danger Jar.  Namely, cinnabar and orpiment.

Cinnabar is a beautiful red mineral that is also incredibly toxic because it’s mercury sulfide.

Orpiment is a beautiful orange-yellow mineral that is also incredibly toxic because it’s arsenic sulfide.

There are actually two other arsenic sulfide minerals that I would also like for my collection, in addition to orpiment.

Realgar

Arsenopyrite

All of these I have handled in mineralogy (I think...I can’t remember if I handled cinnabar or not).  And all the professor said was “Wash your hands before you eat, because these have mercury and arsenic in them.”

“People who didn’t live pre-Internet can’t grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I’ll never see it again.”

— Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No 1 (via elesheva)