If you're in the need for some kind of magical artifact of magic for your setting, consider Fresnel Lenses which are used in lighthouses:

These things are Alive.

Fun fact:

They used to float (and some still do) on a bed of MERCURY.

It's a means of reducing friction during rotation, and one of the lighthouse keepers' jobs used to be cleaning and straining impurities from the mercury.

So yeah that probably did contribute to erratic behavior more than a few times.

Daily Mirror, England, January 23, 1923 Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.

I forget who originally said it, but there’s a quote about “Great science fiction isn’t predicting the automobile, it’s predicting the traffic jam”

Hold on i need to ask my friend Claudia, who is a college student and edits wikipedia something real quick...

THIS IS MY FRIEND CLAUDIA

Meet me at the hollow log

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this saying since seeing this

😩🤲💛💛💛 please send help I can't stop drawing them

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And they never went boating again.

when Pud is in a particularly clingy mood, she likes to press her face against my face so hard that it makes my eye go squinty. this is not a flattering picture of either of us, but that's okay. love is often unflattering.

happy mother's day from bildad the shuhite

Sound on. It's truly a masterpiece.

test

edit: DO NOT VOTE BASED ON THE VIBES OF THE FLUIDS 😭

i think about this a hundred times a day