#putrefaction

[punkiefart]

@overdramatics 5 year old crust pants

These are the coolest pair I've ever seen, I've got to watch them change so much

[gothicseverance]

Putrefaction; accelerated; waxen.

—The Gothic Novel, 1790–1830

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[forensicfield]

https://forensicfield.blog/what-is-putrefaction/

[homebrewstims]

Magnum Opus: Nigredo (part #2 of real-life alchemy series)

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[stromuprisahat]

... a putrefying body is simply one in which the soft tissues are turning slowly to liquid. The speed of this process of course depends on temperature. In the UK, bodies will usually start to putrefy around three or four days after death and this will be visible to the naked eye quickly. I showed a picture of a body and, with the pointer, drew the officers’ attention to one small area of green discolouration just on the right side of the lower abdomen. ... Our guts are full of bacteria, which are vital for digestion. Now, in death, those bacteria break out of the bowel and into the abdominal cavity and then the blood vessels. The process starts at this certain point on the abdomen, near the appendix, because the abdominal wall is very close to the intestine here. Putrefaction can begin elsewhere, but only with good reason: for example, if a body is lying across a heating pipe, or part of it is in direct sunlight. Wherever it begins, by the time the green blotch is visible on the skin, then the bacteria are running riot inside the body. The blood vessels provide easy channels for the bacteria to spread, causing the haemoglobin there to decompose. Visible result: the extraordinary and beautiful fern-like pattern of the veins closest to the surface becomes clearly etched on the skin as though tattooed in brown. It is often evident on the arms and thighs. ... But, like every death process, this rather beautiful stage is temporary. Gradually the pattern is lost as the skin blisters into red and brown fluid. As the blisters burst, the skin sloughs off. One waste product of all this bacterial activity is gas, and so now the body begins to swell. First the genitals become bloated, followed by the face, abdomen and breasts. Then eyes and tongue protrude as bloody liquid is forced up from the lungs, leaking from nose and mouth. The face, with its popping eyes and tongue, has a look of amazement. ... Swelling bodies at this stage of decomposition become so dark that anyone finding one can wrongly assume a skinny Caucasian was in life an overweight black man. Flies have a role to play in putrefaction by feasting and laying their eggs, which turn into maggots with voracious appetites. Animals, domestic and wild, may also make an important contribution to bodily breakdown (outside there are rats and foxes and inside … well, yes, a starving dog which finds itself locked in the house after a death will probably eat its owner to survive). Within about a week of death – depending as usual on the weather and micro-environment – body cavities will burst and tissues will start to liquefy. Within about a month, the soft tissues are all liquid and these will drain off into the ground. The usual order of decomposition is first the intestines, stomach, liver, blood and heart. Then the lungs and air passages. Next the brain, then the kidneys and bladder. Finally the muscles. The prostate, the uterus, the tendons and the ligaments are relatively resistant to putrefaction and may not break down for months to leave the skeleton stripped.

Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain’s Top Forensic Pathologist Unnatural Causes (Dr. Richard Shepherd)

[thethcministry]

[epprbcu]

The Dawn Machine, The Halved, Salt, and Vita have been removed from front. Saint (Unidentified iteration) and I are all that remain. I will abscond now. This shameful display is over. Goodbye.

[queeringhope]

The face of instability, madness, violence, villainy, lies, criminality, chaos, and mayhem, caked in the makeup and haloed by the hair-dye of a murderous circus clown who preys without mercy on those who believe in his fun and games before discarding these victims in the crawl space of oblivion.

[written-nature]

The habits and physiology of the housefly combine to make it an insidious vehicle of bacterial transmission. The housefly can reproduce in almost any decaying organic matter, but its preferred breeding matrix is feces. The female can smell an opportune place with her antennae, and she will lay eggs in the warm and moist environment provided by almost any putrefying medium.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[tenth-sentence]

The medical doctrines of Hippocrates and Galen provided a scientific rationale: putrefaction, decay, and stench polluted the atmosphere and might permeate the human body, causing disease.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[limsketch]

-Secreto, 2024.

La obra de Gabriela Sacco, Bocanada # 9 mas especificamente, me remite a un grito desesperado, tanto por la apertura casi total de la boca como por los tintes dramáticos de los colores en la impresión.

El primer pensamiento que se me cruza es un amor lejano, del cual nunca pude hablar, del cual nunca pasó y nunca pasará. Me hubiese gustado gritarlo al mundo, que todos lo sepan, y que nadie se escandalice. Pero eso nunca iba a pasar, no podía decirle a mi amiga que me gustaba, lo consideraba inclusive un pensamiento utópico. Por mucho tiempo me estanque en ese pensamiento, distrayendome con otras personas, mientras me pudria por dentro.

Está de más decir que nunca se lo dije, y lo dejé empolvado en el fondo de mis recuerdos.

Los labios que hice remiten a esa putrefacción, más bien como una metáfora al cansancio y al desgaste emocional. Y por supuesto los dientes también tienen tintes de deterioro, como descuidado por falta de atención.

La lengua por otro lado parece invitarnos a tomar lo que está sobre ella, como si se tratase de una última voluntad. Y si lx espectadorx es lo suficientemente curiosx como valiente para abrirlo, encontrará una frase fragmentada que le remita a mi secreto, o tal vez a un secreto de un amigx, de un conocidx, de un familiar, o de si mismx.

Esta obra fue un proyecto para la facu, y creo que es la primera vez que quede contenta con el resultado (satisfecha nunca, soy demasiado perfeccionista lamentablemente jaja).

Obra de Graciela Sacco, Bocanada #9:

[vocabulary-polls]

propaganda: it's just kind of a banger idk

putrefaction

noun: the process of decay or rotting in a body or other organic matter.

Example Sentence: The breeze shifted and we caught the stench of putrefaction.

My favorite example:

Who can boast of being better off than I? Virginia. Tennessee. Georgia. Alabama Monstrous putrefaction of revolts stymied, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, Aime Cesaire

This is definitely a word where I feel most people could intuit the definition based on the related verb form "putrefy."

[deancasforcutie]

The Winchesters' underlying plot and unreliable narration of Dean as the new restless spirit, the new angry god (interference from on high) leeching trauma brainworms onto his parents' love story as he can find no happy ending without his beloved (his partner in apotheosis) in it

[labyrinth-walls-tiny-worm]

[liddell-fish]

I don't know what it is.

About death

About rot

About decomposition

I want to feel it.

I want to feel the mushrooms as they feed on my liquefied organs

I want to feel the maggots squirm in the places animals have eaten away.

I want to feel my body returning to the earth where it belongs.

I don't want to simulate rotting by laying in bed.

I want to rot, I want to decompose, I want these horrid organs to cease their movements under my skin and muscle. I want it so bad