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One of my hobbies is writing songs for fake musicals. This is the demo track for "Say It Out Loud" from On This Island of Mutual Killing, a fanmade Danganronpa musical that doesn't actually exist, but that hasn't stopped me from writing a bunch of songs for it. Look, here's another song from the same musical!
Yes, this incredibly short scene from chapter four deserved an entire musical number. It's my musical, I do what I want.
Lyrics under the cut!
Important debate my friend and I are having:
Two and a half years after her supposed death, Chiaki Nanami awakens from a coma into a twisted and unfamiliar world. Her friends have kickstarted the apocalypse, destroying everything - even their own bodies and minds - as they chase the glorious high of Despair.
As their class rep, it’s Chiaki’s duty to stop them. Her plan is simple. One by one, she’s going to confront the Remnants of Despair. And she’s going to save them, or die trying.
Chapter eight of Towa City Remnant is up! Or if you’re new to the Honorary Remnant AU, you can start at the beginning!
Gonna go look at Cool Rocks! Maybe not buy them. Rock budget's running a bit low. (This is wulfenite and roselite's fault.)
UPDATE: I HAVE FAILED TO NOT BUY THE ROCKS
A thumbnail specimen of amethyst from Mondo, Tanzania. Mondo amethyst features tons of cool iron inclusions , such as the thin black needles of goethite inside this one. The color is also phenomenal - in some places this piece is so dark purple that it almost looks blue!
A polished slab of Lake Superior Agate! (Surely I can find room to squeeze it onto my agate shelf somewhere...) This piece is awesome because it has PARALLAX!
See that flickering effect in the banding? That's parallax! It happens when an agate has very very thin layers of alternating opaque and translucent banding. We're seeing the bands cast shadows on each other!
Morganite beryl! This specimen is displaying a bunch of etching. Etching happens when certain acids or chemicals in the environment disrupt the crystal's growth, leading to all sorts of weird shapes. It also contains yellow pockets of clay that were trapped inside of it during its formation!
Tourmaline!! This piece is from Himalaya Tourmaline Mine, in California. This is an old stock specimen; Himalaya Mine hasn't produced crystals this large and perfectly shaped in a very long time. This piece features some beautiful tricoloration: pink, then white, then green (and wow, maybe more pink at the very top?) and best of all, a perfect three sided prism with a perfect termination.
I mean, look at that! That barely looks real, that's the platonic ideal of tourmaline's crystal habit.
Here's a cool fossil! These are two species of crinoid: scytalocrinus disparilis on the left, and halysiocrinus tunicatus on the right. Also called "Sea Lillies," these aquatic animals look like flowers growing out of the ocean floor. They're related to starfish!
Crinoid fossils are common throughout the American Midwest (these fellows came from the Edwardsville formation in Indiana) but they rarely look like this because their upper tentacles seldom fossilize. Usually it's just their stems, which can be found all over the place as little disks that look like beads or washers. Some people mistakenly call them "indian beads." They can also be found all over my house because I'll collect them out of the dirt and then forget I have them in my pockets. Anyway, it's very rare to see intact specimens like this!
Here's the best piece I got: tsavorite garnet! Tsavorite is known for its brilliant green color, which can be caused by impurities of chromium or vanadium. This piece came from Tanzania.
It's also the ONLY garnet species that fluoresces! Here it is under one of my UV lights. Isn't that incredible?!
And we're just... not gonna talk about the Rock Budget!!
Gonna go look at Cool Rocks! Maybe not buy them. Rock budget's running a bit low. (This is wulfenite and roselite's fault.)
hi!! just wanted to pop by n say that i love your danganronpa musical songs :) is there anything more from it in the works? 👀👀
Thank you so much!!! I know it’s a very niche intersection of interests, so I don’t expect them to get a lot of attention. But I am really proud of them!
I’ve actually written a bunch of songs for all three Danganronpa games. (In my mind, I’ve been calling their respective musicals “High School Musical of Mutual Killing,” “On This Island of Mutual Killing,” and “Mutual Killing: The Space Opera”.) Writing them is the fun part; the part that takes forever is making the accompaniment music and recording myself singing them, so I haven’t done that yet for most of them. But I do plan to post more of them eventually!
Oh, and in the meantime you could listen to Hey or Weightless, which are songs from "Plus Ultra Musical," a hypothetical Boku no Hero Academia musical!
Have you ever considered putting My Roommate Is An Apparition on webtoons? I would like to be able to read the whole thing without having to scroll for ages.
If you want to see additional art, and some fanart and fanfiction that people have made for it as well, my blog also has a my roommate is an apparition tag!
I'm glad you enjoy it, but I have a full time job, and no interest in cranking out a webtoon!
What is your favorite cool rock to say?
My favorite mineral name is dididumortierite! You pronounce it like dee-dee-doo-MOY-tee-yur-ite. It is the mineral that gives rose quartz its pink color!
You can't see it with the naked eye, but this rose quartz is actually packed with millions of microscopic pink fibers! Those fibers are dididumortierite. If the fibers happen to align in roughly the same direction, you can get a star or cat's eye effect!
A persons fanfic tells you a lot about them, i , a fanfic writer, realize in terror
new ask game: give me an extremely specific assumption you have about me based off of my fanfic. go.
Spider plant report: After sulking listlessly all winter like a starving victorian child, Charlotte has suddenly realized it is spring, and she's getting very green and perky about it.
Been teaching myself how to use the Blender video editor!
Here is a video in which I ramble for a while about fadenquartz!
I’m back from my rock show! I got some Cool Rocks!
First, the agates.
Another Turkish stick agate to join my collection! I can't get enough of this stuff. These form as pseudomorphs of selenite. A bunch of criss-crossing selenite crystals grow inside an empty pocket in the rock, and then the space around them fills in with agate. Eventually, the selenite crystals dissolve, and the hollows they leave behind are also filled with agate, preserving a record of their shapes!
Bonus! This pair has a nice green fluorescence.
Here is another Turkish agate. (Almost all of today's agates are from Turkey; Turkey produces some beautiful agate specimens.) This one has a really interesting pattern to its banding.
I actually picked this one out for its fluorescence, which is a stunning bright green.
Also from Turkey! Growing inside a super cool crust of volcanic rhyolite, this agate is called sagenite. Sagenite agate has a fibrous appearance because it is a pseudomorph of a fibrous zeolite mineral.
The last two from Turkey: a pretty red specimen with a sparkly central vug, and a weirdo with squiggles of yellow. What’s going on with that guy?
This one is from China! The red and orange agates from this locale are called "Fighting Blood" agate. I already have a Fighting Blood in my collection, but I thought this one was neat because its vug is full of amethyst!
Here are some things which are not agate!
This one is a lead mineral called plumbogummite! Specifically, these crystals are a pseudomorph of another lead mineral called pyromorphite. Over time, the lime green pyromorphite crystals were slowly replaced by the tealy plumbogummite. In a few of the broken crystals, you can still see a green pyromorphite core!
Hyalite opal! This rock has been on my bucket list, I am so excited. This form of opal is known for its water-clear, jelly-like globule formations. Though typically a colorless mineral, this specimen is tinted yellow due to iron staining. It’s also a mineral famous for its bright fluorescence… but this specimen’s glow is utterly unimpressive. :c I will be on the lookout for a more glowy specimen at future shows. Honestly, I’m just happy to finally own some at all!
This year, I also got some high-end mineral specimens! Take a look at these beauties.
Roselite! This rare, toxic mineral is full of arsenic. If I ate it I would probably die! Roselite’s deep red color comes from the cobalt in its chemical structure, and makes it highly sought after by collectors. This specimen is showing off a well defined lenticular crystal habit! Again, I cannot overstress how rare this stuff is. I spent… an inadvisable amount of money on it.
Oh, the best and most sparkly boy. This is wulfenite! I have wanted a piece in my collection for so long, and I’ve been waiting for just the right specimen to come along. It's a lead mineral, and it forms the coolest square, tabular crystals! This mineral is extremely brittle, which makes large, intact crystals of it very hard to find. But check out the huge tabular crystal on the right side of this specimen, it’s bigger than my thumbnail!!
And finally, I could not resist buying something silly.
This is Tully. He's a plush Tully Monster, which is my state fossil!
Gonna get Cool Rocks!!!!!!
