This is gorgeous. I really like how the texture changes almost imperceptibly in the eye bit to form a facsimile of iris striation. All radial-fractal and whatnot.

Thanks for that! :)

I also kinda like how chaotic the crystal looks. Almost like a caricature of bismuth, or something. Like, "squares? three-dimensional parallelograms? Rhombic Picasso superstructures? Fuck that, I'ma' grow unpredictably into whatever shape I damn well may or may not please. Chaos up in this bitch."

*Purrs*

You're awesome, you know that?

On occasion. I have no objective way to discern this with real clarity, because I'm me, but I think I thought of a pretty lovely metaphor for my brief moments of coolness in meatspace.
Imagine driving down a long highway in the U.S. adjacent to one of our many gorgeous deciduous forests. Thousands of trees, tall and thin, placed seemingly randomly by the hand of deities unknown. As your long drive turns monotonous, you look out your window to stave off road hypnosis. At one point, things line up just right, and you see in the distance through these trees, an unbroken line of guttering lanterns. In an eyeblink, they are gone. One stretch of highway, meters thick perhaps, has availed you for a brief moment to a synchronicity that shone so perfectly through chaos devoid of any discernible design, a look at a tiny spark of designed inspiration and purpose. Only a moment to admire it, and as such a priceless moment. It doesn't matter who put the lanterns there and set them to burn. It doesn't matter if you'll ever see them again. It matters that you were afforded a glimpse at a Sight, a Question, a Light, an Answer.
I kinda think it's that way for everyone. We all get occasional glimpses at ourselves and each other in the magnificence of our design and our nature unifying. Brief, precious moments of raw clarity.

That makes some sense except my logic brain says that you could stop the car and go back, figure out where that flame's coming from and what's going on there. If it was a fleeting hallucination, all the more fascinating, but I always want to figure that stuff out. :) Or you can spend the rest of the time thinking about it until the next one comes around and you get that view again. Real human experiences are few and far between; it's kind of a neat concept that maybe that's what we're chasing in our day-to-day.

I dunno; I'm gonna go make fursuits. :) Talk to you soon.

I think I just discovered that notes be damned, I can still spend a whole morning typing to you. Shouldn't, I guess, lest I pollute your page with my transient craziness.
Not an unnerving discovery, all in all.

Shouldn't only because if we do that, we might literally rot in our seats for lack of exercise as it's that enthralling, it really is. And we've still gotta burn, so we have to stop typing eventually. For brief moments, at least.

This is really good~ I have tried to draw crystals like this and failed so bad I used a candle to burn it. :3

Aw man, I don't think I've ever gone that far. :D

Haha, it was not a very good day for me... A lot of failed drawings suffered.