1. Crocoite: Slim jims enjoying a nice bubble bath.
Image via Wikimedia 2. Malachite: What we have here is the embodiment of the overreaching entitlement of Nice Guys. Somewhere, there is a man in a fedora who does not age. But every year, the mountain of dicks grows. and it yearns. oh, it yearns.
Image via Wikimedia 3. Realgar on calcite: This is the rose from Beauty and the Beast. Stop trying to trick us, rocks.
Image via Wikimedia 4. Bismuth: This is clearly the throne of a Crystal King, who maybe has an overly excitable interior decorator.
Image via Wikimedia 5. Azurite: Portal to an ’80s prog rock cover.
Image via Wikimedia 6. Sulfur crystals: This is how you make Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Image via Flickr 7. Citrine: Sun god dildo.
Image via Wikimedia 8. Danburite quartz: Furry sun god dildo.
Image via Wikimedia 9. Tourmaline: Amazon review: Looks like candy. Is not candy. 0/10, would not eat again
Image via Wikimedia 10. Opal fossil: Dragon egg.
Image via Wikimedia 11. Pyrite: Robot poop.
Image via Wikimedia 12. Black Lightning Opals: What Loki needs to destroy the world. Don’t give it to him.
Image via Imgur 13. Scolecite: At least part Tribble.
Image via Wikimedia 14. Amethyst geode: A portal leading into the vast vacuum of Space.
Image via Flickr 15. Pyrite, again: Here we have the earliest ancestor of the rock-’em sock-’em robot.
Image via Wikimedia 16. Crystal opal: Dammit, another new party drug? I can’t keep up with them. I’m too old for this shit.
Image via Wikimedia Jacqueline Steiger is an actor, filmmaker, linguist, and writer who very deliberately put an Oxford comma there. She cares immensely about nerd culture and activism. She will read anything you give her and eat absolutely anything with melted cheese on it.