[v-ersacrum]

Philippe de Champaigne, Dead Christ (details), 17th century

[your-sin-will-find-you-out]

[metamorphesque]

musings on august        

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[your-sin-will-find-you-out]

[xanaxfarts]

Victorian Mourning Jewelry

Often containing hair, teeth, and other physical remains of the dead, these pieces peaked in popularity in the Victorian era. Mourning jewelry is one of earliest sartorial expressions of the gothic romanticism which has defined many famed modern designers, from Alexander McQueen to Ann Demeulemeester to Lieve Van Gorp. The genre is made up of broaches, necklaces, rings, and other adornments meant to celebrate loved ones who had passed away. However, the pieces from that period rather simply served to underscore the concept of "memento mori" ("remember you will die")

[yeoldenews]

I am completely enamored with this stock illustration for missing greyhounds they used in the early-19th century Hull Advertiser.

Just an absolutely flawless little beastie.

(source: The Hull Advertiser, January 25, 1806.)

[yeoldenews]

I found him a friend.

(source: The Newcastle Courant, December 20, 1760.)

[ceescedasticity]

Were greyhounds particularly prone to getting lost or did they have other illustrations for other types of dog? —I suppose the greyhounds could run away faster.

[ymfingsteadilyon]

In addition to what @yetanotherknitter said about the breed's nyooming tendencies, I wonder if straight-up theft might also have been a factor. Dogracing involved quite a lot of money after all, both in buying the specially bred dogs themselves and gambling on them.

[yeoldenews]

Both nyoom-iness and theft were definitely factors as to why so many greyhounds went missing (there was an Act of Parliament passed in 1770 specifically to combat rampant dog theft).

But also keep in mind that in the 18th/early 19th centuries greyhounds were still primarily used as hunting dogs. Sending a bunch of high energy dogs out into the woods to chase/retrieve prey is a pretty reliable way for one of them to end up lost.

Another important factor is greyhounds were usually purebred, trained and therefore expensive. It makes sense that people would be more willing to shell out the cash for a newspaper advertisement when looking for a pricey skilled hunting dog.

And yes, there were absolutely stock images for other breeds, I'm just biased toward the goofy-looking ones.

[road0flife]

[cryptonature]

Do you ever look at a sparrow and think, "that bird is really wasting her potential?"

No. That thought would clang against the simple dignity we sense in nature, the dignity of a living thing inhabiting a life.

You are that sparrow. You are the branch she rests upon.

You embody that same dignity.

[bnmxfld]

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

Holly Black / The Darkest Part of the Forest

[your-sin-will-find-you-out]

I need to stop fantasizing about figuring out the life I have and start running away to some other life.

[your-sin-will-find-you-out]

[your-sin-will-find-you-out]

[makingsenseofwhathappened]

hi. just a reminder

your anger is not ugly your fury's not too loud

something that should’ve been safe wasn't but you had to smile through it like the curves were the shape of healing.

of course you’re mad and on fire. that heat kept you going.

it's what kept you alive.

love, someone who knows your spark isn't the problem

[llovemeplease]

You'll go fight a war, I'll go missin'

I've warned you, for me, it's not that hard

─── ⋆⋅ ♰ ⋅⋆ ───

[bogleech]

Most entoprocts are immobile colonial animals but the group loxosomella are mobile individuals and some of them like loxosomella bifida walk around with 2 feets

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

I am so disappointed the loxosomella page on Wikipedia is a) four sentences long, b) the only page for any genus in the family, and c) the closest thing to any mention of loxosomella bifida anywhere on English Wikipedia despite d) not mentioning a single species.

Please tell us more about this microblorbo, Mr. Bogleech

[bogleech]

@revretch checked too, and this species, seemingly the only one ever discovered with the two little feets, was found and written about just once by a guy in Japan who went on to be the only guy studying them at all. His reports are cited a few places but are nowhere online :(

[carl0pacad3m1cs]

[bebs-art-gallery]

Dear Desolation by Eliran Kantor † Love of the Wolf by Hélène Cixous

[kameneva]

love, buried three times

@kameneva