I wanted to find a source to cite, but the commonness of "fire" and "coal" make that a task more trouble than it would be worth. I also might be using a term that is not universal.
When a fire burns with a lot of oxygen, it burns big, hot, and wild. When that kind of fire is soothed by allowing it to burn for a while, but with regular, small feedings of fresh wood, it calms down, becoming a slow, steady burn. That kind of fire is hotter than the wild flames. (I'm mean only bonfire/fireplace type fires. Wildfire and chemical fires -- like housefires -- are different beasts.) It becomes a fire of coals with flames that are blue, purple or invisible. Then if you stop feeding it, it continues to burn without flame while still producing a lot of heat. That is what I mean by coaling. It's quiet and steady. It's very hard to put out. It jumps back into flame easily with the introduction of fresh fuel. It's what I think hearth fires were like in the days when homes were heated with fire. It the kind of fire that you can think is safe to sleep next to.
Not a tame lion, but not the man-eater that the quiz makers depict.
i tried to do this, and it just kept throwing images at me, never coming to any conclusions. either i have no lustsign, or it was trying to use cookies.
It gives you five pages or so that are identical except for the bar of images at the bottom. Pick an image, get a new set, rinse & repeat until it spits out the result.
That, or your lust sign is something terribly mysterious, defying capture.
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Date: 2006-12-22 12:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-22 12:53 am (UTC)When a fire burns with a lot of oxygen, it burns big, hot, and wild. When that kind of fire is soothed by allowing it to burn for a while, but with regular, small feedings of fresh wood, it calms down, becoming a slow, steady burn. That kind of fire is hotter than the wild flames. (I'm mean only bonfire/fireplace type fires. Wildfire and chemical fires -- like housefires -- are different beasts.) It becomes a fire of coals with flames that are blue, purple or invisible. Then if you stop feeding it, it continues to burn without flame while still producing a lot of heat. That is what I mean by coaling. It's quiet and steady. It's very hard to put out. It jumps back into flame easily with the introduction of fresh fuel. It's what I think hearth fires were like in the days when homes were heated with fire. It the kind of fire that you can think is safe to sleep next to.
Not a tame lion, but not the man-eater that the quiz makers depict.
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Date: 2006-12-22 01:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-22 01:37 am (UTC)That, or your lust sign is something terribly mysterious, defying capture.
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Date: 2006-12-22 01:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-22 02:08 am (UTC)