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medicinal leech therapy
illustration for a collection of fables ("cyrillusfabeln") by ulrich von pottenstein, vienna, c. 1457
source: Munich, BSB, Cgm 340, fol. 90v
tell me about your favorite oc(s)? :•D <3
WELL... my top two right now are my tabletop ocs, argyris and captain lazarus.
argyris is a half-elf necromancer and researcher, he’s my character in our current campaign, which is a homebrew set in the industrial revolution, kind of. it’s called mirror’s edge and it’s FANTASTIC. captain lazarus is a military brat contracter and captain of the osiris, the vessel that serves as the hub for the next campaign, a sci-fi exploration thing called the horizon contingency.
argyris’s character arc deals w scientific exploration focused on the manipulation and advancement of living organisms, and the ethics surrounding that. he wasn’t ever a villain proper but i call his arc a redemption arc regardless, because i wasn’t planning from the start to have him stray from his research. but he does because like, a similar branch of research is key to the campaign’s story and after coming across it being used to manufacture and manipulate people (something he never did but his work was heading towards nonetheless), and seeing the after effects firsthand, he decides that it isn’t morally worth it, and throws out his own work. so i call his arc a redemption arc.
i want to talk about captain lazarus but i can’t yet because some of the other players follow me here and i don’t want to spoil them. but i love them dearly.
on the side i have a handful of other ocs i work with on and off. athanasius (thanos) and mihail, a pair of researchers working up in the mountains of northern greece on regenerative technology in the 1920s. faust, a self-named thief and gondolier in venice in the 1630s or so. along w/ some others they’re my primary ocs, though they don’t have fixed narratives - they’re mostly for art.
on the topic of actual narratives though, i have two projects i’m working on at the moment. the first deals with the presence of a growing anomaly centered around the south pole, and a government research team that studies it and the effects it has on the environment and the crew as it expands. it’s a psychological-existential horror thing. the second is about a scientist who goes missing, not from the physical life they lead but like, reality as a whole. it’s focused around identity (self vs externally defined) and the idea of balance amidst the universe’s trend towards entropy. ideally i’d like to finish the project as an archival site of various mediums (webpages, photographs, blog posts, maps, receipts, post-it notes, etc.) that tie the story together. but that’s a bit of a ways off for now.
sorry this got kind of long-winded but it was a good excuse to talk about some of this other stuff, thank you a lot for the question, miles!
my medicinal leech, julian!
1st photo- right after i got him
2nd photo- right after his first feeding
rest- today!
he's gotten very big. a small leech from leech.com, love my little guy!
when leeches walk they r just giving ur hands little kisses and i think thats neat
hmfnfggghhhnhnnnnnhmhmhmmfhshhfjffghLEECH
when and why did you first read the island of doctor moreau? what do you enjoy the most about it? :•D
right so you know how when you’re gay and you like to read as a kid you maybe seek out gay books? i did that but i also really enjoyed the mad scientist character archetype so i sought out a lot of books about mad scientists too. i still do but it’s not book-specific now just media in general. anyway moreau book was a find on one of those searches. so i think i was like fourteen or something.
the characters and the base concept are the best part! and by characters i mean everybody but prendick. coming back so much of the book actually sucks because wells can’t write and prendick isn’t a good viewpoint character, i don’t think. my absolute ideal rewrite of the novel would have m’ling as the lead, and the narrative would focus more on what it means to be a person. but back to characters, the lead trio (in the text it’s really a duo i just enjoy m’ling) are genuinely interesting and the best writing in the book all surrounds either moreau, or moreau and montgomery as a pair. also montgomery’s gay like, canonically in terms of coding. so that’s something. analysis of the text becomes a lot more interesting when you take that into account. but i’m getting off track.
moreau, montgomery, and m’ling are all genuinely interesting characters and they’re the highlight of the book for me along w/ moreau’s experimentation and the proposed methodology behind it.
