The World in Deeper Inspection

The concept/inspiration blog of the webcomic The World in Deeper Inspection, manned by Reimena Yee. History, art, fashion, cryptids, and the macabre.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

cr: 百变花央

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I’m out here buying tshirts and pants like a chump while some people are just wearing the world’s best rectangles

[mysticorset]

Pre-manufacturing cultures will really be like, here is the most elegant and gorgeous outfit you can imagine, and it’s achieved entirely with rectangles, ropes, and pins.

Over and over again, across the world, in cultures that never even knew of each others’ existences. Just, rectangles, knots, and pins. And I love that for them.

[reimenaashelyee]

The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya 10th Anniversary by Reimena Yee

The 10th anniversary webcomic rerun of the Eisner-nominated graphic novel duology.

10 years ago, I launched THE CARPET MERCHANT OF KONSTANTINIYYA, and it changed my life forever.

To celebrate, the 10th Anniversary Edition of my very first completed webcomic will begin February 18, 2026 - updating every Wednesday and Saturday.

The prologue is up on the site right now!! The webcomic rerun will contain remastered pages, retrospective commentary and a transcript.

Please go give a read!! Thank you for your support!

(Long-time followers, please click the Read More)

YALL CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW LONG IT'S BEEN????

I remember the first time I posted TCM on this Tumblr blog. Things were so different back then. I was so different then too lol.

I'm so excited to share this webcomic again. Not just to relive the memory, but to honour my appreciation and gratitude for the community and opportunity this creative work has blessed me with. You guys were among the very first people to read and support TCM (and The World in Deeper Inspection)... I will never forget that!! < 33 I probably won't be posting the rerun updates on Tumblr unless it's a milestone. If you want to follow the rerun, please subscribe via RSS (copy and paste this link into your RSS reader).

[vimbry-moved]

got chased by a skeleton but when they caught me they just gave me a kiss and hug. turns out it was an xoskeleton.

[vimbry-moved]

this one's a big hit with the ghosts

[elexecution]

its awesome theres a vampire on sesame street because you need to introduce children to the concept as early as possible

[vamplire]

a vampire on halloween after an indulgent meal walking amongst trick or treaters drenched in blood when someone compliments their costume causing the vampire to sigh & mumble to themself “no i’m just like this”

[vampires-official]

official vampire post

[vampire-freak-approved]

vampire freak approved

[vamplire]

thanks i’ll be here all night

[diamondguls]

yippieeee~ ahahaha~ yaaaaaaaaay~!⋆｡°✩

[stjohnstarling]

If you’re ever feeling lonely, visit the haunted cemetery. We’ve got: fun ghoul friend, hot Dracula, echoing tombs, vengeful spirits who cannot rest until they've fulfilled their purpose, unidentifiable noises, and Phil.

[vampiregf-deactivated20260316]

do you think about vampires. have you thought about vampires. will you think about vampires. when will you think about vampires

[neenarchive]

vampire who’s married to an archaeologist voice: my love, stop trying to carbon date me

[neenarchive]

*at the museum* my love, why is my cursed amulet in this display case

[irrational-dreamer]

Ok, my archaeometrist ass has something to say!

First, an archaeologist wouldn’t carbon date something. It’s not his job. This kind of analysis belongs to the archaeometrist, thank you very much!

Next, using carbon dating on a vampire raise really interesting questions. Because, you see, you can only carbon date completely dead things. Basically, the body absorb Carbon 14 while it’s alive, and after death, this radioactive element slowly decompose (half of it every 5730 years). When you measure how much is left, you can know how long ago the person/plant/whatever died. Going back to the vampire. Officially, vampires are dead. But they feed on human blood, living humans. I’m not sure of the logistic of carbon 14 linking itself to a body, but I think it would false the result. The good news is, as vampire can talk, they would be able to confirm or not. Meaning that we would be able to create a template and see if drinking blood reset your quantity of carbon 14, or if you can still get the age of death of the vampire by removing whatever carbon 14 they ingest through blood. But I think it would depend of how much blood they had ingested since their passing, and a lot of other variables.

The other question is: how dead is a vampire? Do they still breathe? How do they interact with their environment? Would that be enough to keep their carbon 14 at “normal” level? If so, they would be considered alive by this dating technique. Wouldn’t that be an emotional journey for our poor vampire?

I’m actually really invested in this.

[neenarchive]

*dropping a garlic-free lasagne on the counter top* my love, we’ve talked about inviting archaeometrists to our dinner parties

[charonnyxtides]

Bram Stoker wrote Mina Harker phenomenally then everyone else has been trying to "fix her" and falling flat on their face tripping over their own clown shoes

[redacted-metallum]

Fop surgery. It's like top surgery but it turns you into a Victorian dandy. Is that anything

[deathandmysticism]

The Dying Ladies Last Farewell, 1672-96

[doctorfreak]

this is absolutely sending me

[peerieweirdo]

What a way to find out that you’re a vampire

[1st-1]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Jack O’Lantern Facts!

Jack O’Lanterns are an Irish tradition and were originally carved from turnips.

They were meant to ward off malevolent spirits, and keep them away from the home.

The name jack-o’-lantern was originally another name for will-o’-the-wisp, the atmospheric ghost lights that appear over bogs, swamps, and marshes. 

The lights are a natural chemical reaction, and figure largely in English folklore.

They’re tied to the Irish legend of STINGY JACK, a deceitful drunkard who tricked the Devil out of claiming his soul. After his death, both heaven and hell refused him entry. The devil gave him an ember of hellfire, which Jack carries in a turnip lantern as his soul wanders for all eternity. Travelers must beware of encountering his spirit–and the telltale glow of the hellfire–at night.

Irish immigrants carried the tradition to the U.S., where pumpkins, already a symbol of the harvest season, were used instead. (And were also easier to carve.) 

(the turnips were freakier tbh)

[vintageeveryday]

The inhabitants of Venzone, Italy with their ancient mummy relatives in 1950 by Jack Birns for LIFE magazine. It was believed that so many people died from the Black Death that they couldn’t fit all the bodies in the cemetery and simply decided to live with their remains. Read more of the story here…

[spacetrashpile]

y'know what would be super fun to do for halloween/october... watch one movie adaptation of dracula for each day in october and then rank them all at the end of the month

[spacetrashpile]

alright, this is my current list, though i am open to change if anyone has thoughts about different films i should swap in and what film i should swap them out for, or if i can't find a way to watch any of these films in the next month. i am also currently planning to watch these in release order, though i may put them all in a randomizer instead come october.

i am planning to rank each film out of 10 on two scales: 1. how much did i enjoy it and 2. is it actually a good dracula adaptation.

The Death of Dracula (1921)

Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror (1922)

Dracula (1931) (the Bela Lugosi one)

Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Drakula Istanbul'da (1953)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)

Jonathan (1969/1970) (I found conflicting reports of when this one is from)

Count Dracula (1970)

Blacula (1972)

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

Jess Franco's Count Dracula (1973)

Andy Warhol's Dracula/Blood for Dracula (1974)

Evil of Dracula (1974)

Dan Curtis' Dracula (1974)

Deafula (1975)

Count Dracula (1977)

Dracula (1979)

Love at First Bite (1979)

Mama Dracula (1980)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

Dracula 2000 (2000)

Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary (2002)

Van Helsing (2004)

Blade: Trinity (2004)

Dracula 3000 (2004)

Elvira's Movie Macabre: The Satanic Rights of Dracula (2010)

Bram Stoker's Van Helsing (2021)

Renfield (2023)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)