What an incredibly beautiful woman.
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Redhead, 3/4 Irish + 1/4 Norse, vegan, rootless in an apathetic + uncaring world. Mixed-media artist, designer, book artist, writer, photographer, animal lover, misanthrope, avid reader, nihilist, tortured artist, amateur competitive embalmer. Razor-sharp wit; blessed with a dark + perverse sense of humour.
Things I find aesthetically pleasing: Thanatology, good hair, redheads (men + women), punk/black metal/depressive black metal/old goth/rockabilly/more (ask)...corsets, art, Indian culture + food, vintage photography, antiques, architecture, anatomy, history, urban decay, catacombs, historical clothing, insanity, linguistics, archives, museums, pathology, + anything else that stimulates my mind one way or another.
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Things I find aesthetically pleasing: Thanatology, good hair, redheads (men + women), punk/black metal/depressive black metal/old goth/rockabilly/more (ask)...corsets, art, Indian culture + food, vintage photography, antiques, architecture, anatomy, history, urban decay, catacombs, historical clothing, insanity, linguistics, archives, museums, pathology, + anything else that stimulates my mind one way or another.
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The Plague
I have always loved Arnold Böcklin’s allegorical depiction of of the nature of plague.
Top: Hand of a day-laborer who had been drowned 24 hours prior
Bottom: Hand of a drowned person submerged in running water for several weeksThe process of tissues decomposing and sloughing off in animals generally reaches its peak around three to four weeks, in a moderate climate. However, in running water, the washing away of the acids from the liquefied fats and proteins, and the lack of insect activity, can often significantly retard or alter the decomposition.
Because of this, it can often take several extra weeks for tissues submerged in running water to separate from the body, and when they do separate, they don’t so much slough off when their substrate is consumed, but “slip” off, often in large sheets. The dermis of the hand is well-connected to itself, but less well-connected to its substrate, and as such is often subject to a phenomenon called “gloving” - where the skin slips off in, you guessed it, a “glove”.
Atlas of Legal Medicine. Dr. Eduard von Hofmann, 1898.
Caricatures of Death Personified
From a pre-Revolutionary magazine, first published in Russia in 1906. Illustrations by Boris Kustodiev.
Personifications of death included depictions of the devastating 1906 drought and ensuing famine, and the ravages of cholera, in the midst of revolutionary uprisings in Moscow.
(via biomedicalephemera)
Suicide by hanging, with an old rope wound five times about the neck.
The lack of cyanosis (blue skin - generally caused by lack of oxygen) and the marked ecchymoses from the rope lead the forensic pathologist to conclude that this man hanged himself, or was hanged while still alive.
For a prolonged period during the 1800s and early 1900s, strangulation and staging a hanging was a crime not unheard of, and a fairly popular tactic for disguising a murder. If the decedent was dead prior to hanging, the ecchymoses (ruptured blood vessels) would not have formed as they did, and if he was strangled manually, significant cyanosis would appear prior to death. Because there is a lack of cyanosis and a presence of imprints from the rope, one can conclude that he was alive when he was hanged. Though it does not completely rule out murder, this conclusion would likely lead to a finding of “suicide” on the death certificate, barring suspicion of forced hanging.
Atlas of Legal Medicine. Dr. Eduard von Hofmann, 1898.
Thornback ray (Raja clavata) and thornback ray skeleton
Like sharks, rays and skates have fully cartilaginous skeletons, which provide a stable structure but more flexibility than bone. You can see that, much like fish, rays have defined, er, rays, in their fins. The difference is that while fish tend to have a few unconnected rays and a
taughttaut tissue between them, the Rajiforms (skates and rays) have many, many rays, which are all connected perpendicularly by collagen. The body is then formed around these rays, which propel the Rajiforms forward in an undulating (wave-like) motion.A history of the fishes of the British Islands. Jonathan Couch, 1863.
Stigmata, my ass. You can SEE the fucking fingerprints where someone dabbed “blood” under the statue’s eyes…still, they ARE a determined bunch of hypocrites.
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New series and new print AatP [Alice and the Pirates]: Elisabeth [Sissi]
We’ll start accepting the reservation at 17:00 on December 21th.
Oooh, I like this.
I would marry or be in a relationship with both of them (they’re so beautiful)…and as their genes are identical, it wouldn’t matter which fathered children- technically both would be the father + the uncle. (I’m not suggesting that *they* would touch each other sexually…no way. But rather, that they would share me). Then again, it’s hard enough to find just one person in the world anymore. To find two that were game for it? High improbability rate. VERY high.
“Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.
[NOTE: I *never* hide my flaws. I feel it’s best to air one’s dirty laundry up front if you are truly interested in pursuing a relationship with someone. And I wholeheartedly accept the others faults, flaws, and quirks- I never try to change a person. But no matter how fervently they SAY they accept me…deep down, they do not. And eventually, it rises to the surface and they realize it- and they leave me. Hypocrites all.]”
— Marc Hack (via seeking-home)
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