a CEO walks into his office “any messages?” he asks his assistant
“two anons want to know who tom petty is and one just says ‘post your ballsack’”
“got it. check my dashboard”
“that skeleton gif you like is back again”
he rubs his chin pensively “mm. reblog that”
mewttie asked:
are you gonna do any alchemy
cryptotheism answered:
Its weird, you can’t really “Do Alchemy” anymore. It’s like asking if you can balance someone’s humors.
I could check your horoscope and administer some ungents and leeches, but these days we know that you don’t have any humors to balance. I’m just giving you tea and leeches.
In the same sense, I could get myself a soxhlet extractor and start boiling some lead in acid, but these days we know that I’m not actually going to find any Prima Materia. I’m just sublimating the mercury out of some cinnabar, and contracting heavy metal poisoning.
time loop fans when the loop slightly changes
time loop fans when the loop changes slightly
time loop fans when the loop is slightly changed
time loop fans when the loop is changed slightly
smolbirbland asked:
cryptotheism answered:
Tbh by the 17th century alchemy was pretty intertwined with glassblowing. Most alchemy labs require highly specialized glass vessels, and alchemists are excellent at working with exotic materials, so glassblowers and alchemists had a close relationship. I don’t know much about the craft, but I bet you there was some 17th century Venetian glassblower who could make a glass crazy straw.
I think alchemists would have gone nuts for plastic. Especially colored plastic. The idea that you can turn oils into a physical substance would fit pretty well into 17th century alchemical hermeneutics.












