#scheeles green

[occultopossum]

Was in call watching a show with some friends and got a fun idea for a character design from something said. "Girl your body is a cage'

So far thoughts I have for her is a very Lich-y artificer and built this new mechanism to live far beyond her years and use trapped spirits for fuel :)

[blondebrainpowered]

Peacock wallpaper possibly containing arsenic, by Walter Crane

Cut Panel of The Peacock Garden, 1889

Designer: Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915

Printer: Jeffrey & Co., London, England, active 1836 – 1935

Source

It wasn't until the late 1860s that doctors connected illnesses with the presence of luminous green paper on the walls. One of the most common sources of arsenic in wallpaper was a green pigment called Scheele's green. It was used in fabric and paint (even for toys). It was relatively cheap to produce and produced a beautiful colour.

Public awareness about the dangers of Scheele’s green, especially for children, made people seek safer wallpaper options towards the end of the nineteenth century.

[technicolorgalaxy]

im sure someone has already pointed this out before but this is scheele’s green, a pigment made from arsenic:

and this is Nepeta Leijon (whose Trollian, btw, is arsenicCatnip)

Now they probably aren’t the exact same color, i dont really have the resources to do a whole color match right now, but… just look at it. I mean???

[cinnamonmagazines]

Let's talk about Scheele's green- a toxic beauty.

[letterstomonkey]

Bones

She speaks with her bones, for that’s all the girl knows

Cause who else could she blame for this life she once chose?

Louder she grows with all roads taken lower,

Shroud her fist throws, curating foreclosure;

Draining my blood to consecrate the decline

Of you from my life, so I’ll drown in the line

I drew on your supine face out of wine

For when I needed you, but you needed a spine.

A floral facade dawning freshly cut fables,

Invisible fences gild our dinner tables–

Can muddled mirages roped off in memoriam

Outlive my personified, truth-rusted decorum?

If you re-write my monologue, I print your postmortem.

You scream with Scheele’s green, and I proudly adorn them

But your words, once absorbed, crucify this Victorian. 

[its-all-down-hill]

[pierrotsoup]

PARIS GREEN PARIS GREEN PARIS GREEN PARIS GREEN god I love her so 💚💚

[geradredskittle666blog]

A question, for writing reasons, you know that green dye that victorians used that contained arsenic?

Specifically, how did that kill them?

What dosage would have been given each time a book cover was touched?

Or a green clothing item worn?

Or say, time spent in a green wall papered room?

Would the arsenic have built up in the body, or was it expelled via waste?

Symptoms, as a funtion of amount in the body and time?

Treatments?

How hard would it be to aquire items made with this dye in modern times, or to aquire materials and make the dye?

Anything else interesting.

Disclaimer: not planning a murder in the real world. Just a fictional murder.

Feel free to tag anyone you think might be able to help!