Umeko's Desk of the Dead

A companion piece to facebook.com/deskofthedead and a place to put all of my anatomical based drawings and what I make with them

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Looking for a way to spend your Sunday afternoon? Why not read my very first e-book! Its a mini e-book about my first full year of being vegan, January's book is about eating out and cooking on a budget and lots lots more. Link to the book in the bio. #vegan #veganism #veganfood #ukvegan #edinburghvegan #veganfoodshare #whatveganseat #veganlife #vegansofinstagram #foodporn #veganfoodporn #yummy #food #plantbased #crueltyfree #healthy #wholefoods #nourish #eatclean #healthyeating #Edinburgh #budget #veganbooks #vegancake #vegancookbook #diary (at Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

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So the work party last night was a success. Really enjoyed it which I wasn't expecting however it does mean that I got home too late to make my lunches like I normally do and I completely forgot to plan in advance. Bugger. Up early throwing things together from the fridge. We've got (from the bottom) garlic cashew sauce, white cabbage, carrot, red pepper, cucumber and some sunflower seeds. Tired so it's going to be a long day bit and least I have this to look forward to at lunch time. #vegan #veganism #veganfood #ukvegan #edinburghvegan #veganfoodshare #whatveganseat #veganlife #vegansofinstagram #foodporn #veganfoodporn #yummy #food #plantbased #crueltyfree #healthy #wholefoods #nourish #eatclean #healthyeating #Edinburgh #salad #colourful #eattherainbow (at Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

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#latergram as tonight I'm out with work for a belated Christmas meal. The vegan menu is a secret only the venue knows so this could go either way. Here's last night's dinner, garlic and paprika roasted cauliflower steak with baby carrots, chickpeas, tomatoes, shallot and olives with a side of bulgar wheat cooked in stock with a preserved lemon. Yum. #vegan #veganism #veganfood #ukvegan #edinburghvegan #veganfoodshare #whatveganseat #veganlife #vegansofinstagram #foodporn #veganfoodporn #yummy #food #plantbased #crueltyfree #healthy #wholefoods #nourish #eatclean #healthyeating #Edinburgh #cauliflower #roast (at Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

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We've stocked up for Christmas with lots of new items too!

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Sunday Roast Stories

Joachim Kroll ate so many people in Germany that when he was caught, entrails were found in his waste-pipes. The man was mentally retarded and a beloved member of a small community in Northeast Germany. The children even knew him as "Uncle Joachim" because of all the candy and toys he had in his apartment. He was said to have actually believed that these children were his real nieces and nephews. One day, a neighbor was told not to use his upstairs toilet in a very nonchalant manner, "because it is blocked up with guts." And since this was a shared toilet, the man looked into repairing the toilet. The remains of a young girl who'd recently gone missing were found, and he was arrested and then was discovered to have had pieces of children in his refrigerator. The child, Marion, was a big fan of Kroll's candy collection. His victims were always sexually assaulted either pre or postmortem, and were always partially eaten. He killed 14 young women and firmly believed that young children had the best tasting human meat.

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Sunday Roast Stories

British man Peter Bryan had a craving for human flesh unparalleled to most on this list. Some are compulsions, some are fueled by hallucinations, but Peter Bryan's cannibalism made him an absolute animal. After being arrested for killing a woman with a hammer, Bryan was put into a low-support accommodation facility after his social worker recommended him on good behavior (which was the worst decision ever). When he was transferred to a psych ward, he eventually was let out of it, as people at the facility said he "did not present any major risks." First thing he did was go over to his friend, Brian Cherry's, with a hammer. It took 24 hits to the head with a hammer to kill Cherry. Peter Bryan was in the kitchen with blood all over him when a friend of Brian Cherry's came in to Peter Bryan saying simply, "Brian is dead." Brian Cherry had been dismembered and left on the floor. Much like a lot of these guys, Peter Bryan, the cannibal, stayed in the house and relaxed while police came to the scene. When they showed up, he was cooking up Brian Cherry's brain in a frying pan next to a tub of Clover butter. Brain tissue was found with hair and scalp on a plate nearby with a knife and fork. A lot of these guys are very serene when they're apprehended, which just goes to show how deep of a dementia these guys suffer from, and that people like this should probably not go unsupervised. Ever. Peter Bryan then, after being arrested for this crime, spent time around other people in another mental health facility, when he began beating a man to death while tying a ligature to his neck. If he hadn't been stopped, Bryan said, he would have eaten that man as well. When allowed to speak on why he had such a hunger for other people he would say "I want their souls."

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Sunday Roast Stories

In what is one of the most heartless, horrible crimes ever to have been performed, Tsutomu Miyazaki, known as "The Otaku Murderer" (Otaku, meaning a "love of anime and general Japanese culture," but in this case, just someone obsessed with young girls) or "The Little Girl Murderer," or "Dracula," killed four little girls between the ages of four and seven. He drank their blood and had sex with their dead bodies. The man's premature birth left him with deformed hands, which were fused directly to his wrists; this supposedly led him to live in a world of fantasy and comic books, which somehow then led to him turning to child pornography for thrills. He was apparently influenced by the Guinea Pig series of horror films, one of which was used to model one of his murders. Much like Albert Fish, he would send letters to his victims' families, often detailing exactly what he did to them, and often included the burned ashes of the children's bones. The way he was finally caught is amazing because while he was trying to sexually assault a young girl with a zoom lens, he was caught by her father, who went to town on the guy until Miyazaki ran away. Miyazaki eventually came back for his car, which he had misparked, and was caught by police. His father committed suicide, and Miyazaki was hanged in June of 2008.

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Sunday Roast Stories

Matej Curko was not a good person. He had a wife and kids, sure, but he also managed to not only become a cannibal, but he used the Internet to lure in his victims. This happened in Slovakia. Over the Internet, Curko would trick his victims into meeting with him, then he would (as some people on this list inexplicably do) convince them to a suicide and cannibalism pact or he would just kidnap them, kill them, and then eat them. He kept an extensive "Fridge of Horrors" that included the bodies of two women who had disappeared the previous year. During a sting operation that was (sadly) not televised, an agent was made to meet up with him for some suicide and food, and when he pulled out a gun and started shooting at officers, the worst snipers in the world shot him five times and he still lived. He was apprehended, but died later that day in the hospital. He was also later linked to the disappearance of 30 Italian women. His wife, stood by him and denied his crimes up to the very end (at which point she still denied them).

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Sunday Roast Stories

Yoo Young-chul, a South Korean gentleman, was a firm believer in the philosophy that "Women shouldn't be sluts, and the rich should know what they've done...," which were his motives for killing and eating people. Like a lot of people on this list, he had a history of mutilating animals. He murdered 21 people between 2003 and 2004. Yoo burned three of them and mutilated the rest, eating some of their livers raw. He killed most of his victims with a hammer, which seems to be a pattern in these kinds of crimes. The real reason he seemed to gravitate towards killing prostitutes, though, was that one dumped him after he tried to have a romantic relationship with her. He pretty much stuck to them from there on out until he was finally caught in July of 2004.

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Sunday Roast Stories

In Miami, Florida, on Saturday May 26th 2012, 31-year old Rudy Eugene ripped off his clothes and began attacking a homeless man who didn't even look that delicious in broad daylight, by tearing away at the homeless man's face with his teeth. Apparently Eugene was on the drug commonly known as "Bath Salts," which in recent years, has caused some of the most uniquely insane and bizarre crimes to hit the news. The victim, Ronald Poppo (age 65), was just an innocent person in the way of Eugene's Bath Salts-filled rage. Bath salts are described as synthetic cocaine which, according to doctors, feels like Meth, Cocaine and PCP combined. The drug is said to cause body temperature to rise to such a degree that people rip off their clothes and become extremely aggressive, most of the time in a stage of "extreme delirium." People have been known to use their jaws for violence and "become extremely strong." When the surveillance footage of the attack was released, it showed Eugene jumping onto the homeless man, who was sleeping at the time, stripping him of his own clothes (as Eugene was already naked), then starting to eat the homeless man's face off. One of the most disturbing things about the attack is not only how long it took (about 20 minutes of this kind of torture), a car slowed down to look at what they were seeing then drove off and probably, understandably, started boarding up their windows and conserving ammo for the on-coming zombie apocalypse. A media frenzy followed during which a lot of popular websites took the opportunity to declare the zombie apocalypse, even though this clearly proves that we can definitely handle it when it comes. These gruesome pictures which you really, really should not look at if you have a weak stomach or while eating or at all if you hate even the slightest amount of blood show that Eugene ate the man's face off all the way down to his beard. The man's face, nose, one eye, forehead and mouth are missing.

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Sundar Roast Stories

On April 9th of 2002, Big Lurch and his friend, Thomas Moore, spent the night smoking PCP, which they blame for Big Lurch's actions during the next 24 hours. Big Lurch had been using PCP for the pain caused by a car accident where a drunk driver hit him years before. But this one night, it really just got away from him. According to interviews, the last thing he remembers is that he had to kill the devil before the world ended. This is most likely what led to his episode. Big Lurch murdered Tynisha Ysais (his roommate at the time), and consumed parts of her body. Tooth marks were found on her face and lungs, which were completely torn from her chest cavity. When Singleton was finally arrested, he was naked, covered in blood and standing in the middle of the street yelling at the sky. Human flesh was found in his stomach after he was arrested and was sentenced to life in prison.

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