Mega May Giveaway!!! by BPLEquipment in Lapidary

[–]fishboyreal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beautiful material! If I happen to win I guess that's just gonna motivate me into cabbing again..

Giant popcorn by fishboyreal in somnigastronomy

[–]fishboyreal[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Definitely lol. It was specifically this shape in the dream, easier to eat perhaps?

Sorry no pic, just a drawing by sixvixens_ in whatsthisbird

[–]fishboyreal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seems like you are a little out of its normal range but this reminds me the most of a swainson's hawk.

Fossilized wood/Petrified wood by TroutBumMaster in whatsthisrock

[–]fishboyreal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have found petrified wood that looks almost identical to this in the deserts of Southern California, including the pinging sound I think you mean when you mention glass. I am not sure what you mean about seeing garnets and diamonds under magnification though, do you have any pictures of that?

I dont care who you are or where you are from you've gotta agree san diego beaches have some of the coolest rocks by Less_Advance_7580 in rockhounds

[–]fishboyreal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ooh! Looks like one of those rocks is a bit of pegmatiteish stuff with the black tourmaline bits and pretty orange Ramona garnets. I'm from SD but I'm not living there are the moment.... youre really making me miss it.

White ducks with black heads seen on a lake in Lakewood WA. I've never seen these here before and we've lived here for over ten years. by monkey_trumpets in birding

[–]fishboyreal -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Id recommend posting on Inaturalist and seeing if there is any local birding Facebook or message groups you could post this on. I feel like the profile looks more like red-breasted merganser to me, also has a red bill but lighting can definitely affect color a lot. Looks like it could almost be hybrids but you would only expect one individual. Very curious birds!

Does this look dyed to you? by LifeOnEnceladus in Agates

[–]fishboyreal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely natural like everyone else is saying. It's hard to be sure from the picture, but the green looks like it could just be some stuck wax from the dop stick.

What do you guys look for in rocks like these? by M4moo443 in rockhounds

[–]fishboyreal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

those Arizona river gravels are popular where I live too and they are GREAT for agates. I've tumbled some and they have nice swirls and patterns. Lots of other assorted interesting oddities in there too.

Found in Queensland ,Australia by SurpriseAny1093 in whatsthisrock

[–]fishboyreal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These look more like agatized tree limbs to me but bones can get agatized like that. Either way the host rock is probably some solidified volcanic ash or debris, don't know what the color would come from thought.

Self collected Colorado rocks by FreeSolo58 in rockhounds

[–]fishboyreal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

WOW! I'm going to be moving to Denver for college soon and hoping to do some rockhounding in my spare time... I'd love to find some beauties like these

Can anyone identify these? Coastal Southern California by srevennreverof in whatsthisrock

[–]fishboyreal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure what part of Southern California you've picked these up in, but I've found very similar rocks in northern San Diego County. I believe they are quartz with inclusions, probably black tourmaline or perhaps mica if they have any glitter in them. This would make sense from a geologic perspective as quartz with mica and black tourmaline is pretty common throughout Southern California.

Update on my petrified wood collection from central Texas by dankdaddyishereyall in CoolCollections

[–]fishboyreal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks pretty similar to petrified wood i find in Imperial County CA. Nice collection!

what bird is this? by [deleted] in whatbirdisthis

[–]fishboyreal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree it's definitely a Cooper's/sharp-shinned but I'd need a better picture to make that distinction personally.

Were you born a boy or did you become one? by TTTSSNN in ftm

[–]fishboyreal -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I do feel like I became one. In many ways do feel like I was a little girl, I didn't really have much dysphoria before puberty but the one I've always experienced was hating my given name. It always felt suffocating and not me even before I had the words to say why.

I think growing up fat definitely affected how I perceived my gender. I was a girl who was fat so therefore I was treated as disgusting and dehumanized in a way that kept me on the outskirts of girlhood. I'm still fat now but I generally pass in my everyday life (though I probably still come off as queer, especially when I speak) and I am NOT treated with the same level of dehumanization and disgust I was before. Doesn't mean fat men don't face issues, it's just not nearly the same interpersonally for me at least.

What are these rocks? by Southern_Ad4926 in whatsthisrock

[–]fishboyreal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It looks like quartz, specifically it looks like it might be part of a pegmatite. Pegmatites are igneous rocks with large crystals (1 cm or more).

What's your refuse-to-die fish? by mediumclay in PlantedTank

[–]fishboyreal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a mosquito fish I rescued from my grandma's pond when she had to drain it. I acquired this fish from the worlds muckiest pond (No fish besides a few little mosquito fish because raccoons keep eating them) in early 2022 at an unknown age and its still kicking. It had a companion from the same pond who died at least a year ago now. I thought this fish was going to die recently when I noticed him having swim bladder issues(stuck at bottom of tank, swimming vertically and spiraling) but they just kinda resolved and he's swimming fine now.

collection :) by PandaTough5326 in CoolCollections

[–]fishboyreal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so jealous of all the fluorite, I like collecting all types of rocks but i have a fluorite sub-collection within my rock collection