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Burt Lancaster as Ole ‘Swede’ Anderson

Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins

The Killers (1946)

Here’s an awesome little piece of history:

Archaeologists in the Burnt City have discovered what appears to be an ancient prosthetic eye. What makes this discovery exceptionally awesome is the striking description of how the owner and her false eye would have appeared while she was still alive and blinking:

[The eye] has a hemispherical form and a diameter of just over 2.5 cm (1 inch). It consists of very light material, probably bitumen paste. The surface of the artificial eye is covered with a thin layer of gold, engraved with a central circle (representing the iris) and gold lines patterned like sun rays. The female remains found with the artificial eye was 1.82 m tall (6 feet), much taller than ordinary women of her time. On both sides of the eye are drilled tiny holes, through which a golden thread could hold the eyeball in place. Since microscopic research has shown that the eye socket showed clear imprints of the golden thread, the eyeball must have been worn during her lifetime. The woman’s skeleton has been dated to between 2900 and 2800 BCE.

So she was an extraordinarily tall woman walking around wearing an engraved golden eye patterned with rays like a tiny sun. What an awesome sight that must have been.

[via TYWKIWDBI]

knottybear

Wow.

followthebirds

SOMEONE DRAW HER PLEASE

beecher-arts

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!

writing-prompt-s

Cthulhu, as an eldritch being, sees humans as humans see insects; which is to say, harmless but inexplicably terrifying.

mothmansbignaturals

#cthulhu chasing humanity around with a shoe while crying

glitterandgrit

#cthulhu gently picks up humans with a piece of paper and puts them outside the sea #a great deal of evolution ensues

saltwraith

alchemy ingredients! i’ve been stress-playing a lot of skyrim while waiting for job callbacks 👌

movedto-claudiobravos

dialnfornoir

Nosferatu (1922)

irmavep11

david-bowie47-blog

Clark and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, 1934

zzdigital

What if someone got bitten by a vampire, but didn’t realize it. So then they go around and keep misidentifying all the symptoms, like

“Dude, you haven’t gone outside in a while.” “Yeah, last time I went out I got this wicked sunburn.”

“Are you still up?” “Yeah, I started bing watching this show on Netflix.”

“Dude, I’m seriously craving something right now.” “Like what?” “I dunno. Pizza rolls?”

adriofthedead

“Why is it that you never come into my house unless I invite you?” “Um, it’s called ‘being polite’…?”

paulichu

“I tried cooking with garlic the other night and got this serious burn on my hand. I think I’m allergic, but all I’m getting on Google is vampire bullshit.”

samarajournal

“Dude can a mirror like… stop working or something?”

espeoradar

“Dude, why do you keep posting pictures of the floor?” “…Those are meant to be selfies, I guess my camera must be broken.”

“Dude, I am all for you expressing your religious beliefs, but could you not wear your crucifix when I’m around? It really bugs me for some reason.”

recondite-room

“Have you ever noticed how cute bats are? like really noticed? sweet lil balls of fluff with wings man.”

nickthepigeon

“I want to sleep in a coffin…ya kno, for like… aesthetic”

therightprometheanfire

“What’s with your thing about necks lately?”

“MUST YOU KINKSHAME ME IN MY OWN HOME”

grrlhood

MYTHOLOGY EDITS | vampires

a vampire is a being from folklore who subsists by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. in european folklore, vampires were undead beings that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive. vampires wore shrouds and were usually reported as bloated in appearance, and ruddy, purplish, or of dark countenance; these characteristics were often attributed to the recent drinking of blood. indeed, blood was often seen seeping from the mouth and nose when one was seen in its shroud or coffin and its left eye was often open.