#jarred specimen

[tenth-sentence]

She claimed to see Donald's hand floating in a jar next to other jars.

"The Church of Dead Girls" - Stephen Dobyns

[vamprisms]

'enjoyed by lesbians' is the highest honour you can bestow upon a male character

[sunnysanji]

kaveh hates your new blanket. what he hates even more is that he's the one that bought it for you.

he thought it would be amazing. you'd seen it in a shop and you couldn't stop talking about how soft it was, how thick it was and how the weight would be so comforting on you. one point that he particularly liked about this was that it would comfort you in his absences, allowing you to sleep when he's up late working on sketches and new proposals.

so, he bought it as a birthday gift and surprised you with it early. he even bought a larger size one that allows you both to use it when in bed together. you were ecstatic, and he was so excited that you loved your first (of many) birthday gifts.

however, he stopped being excited when you liked it a little too much.

"sweetheart let me in," kaveh lightly chides, shivering from the exposure of his bare torso to the sharp chill of your bedroom.

"i'm too comfy and it's cold, just use one of the other blankets," you argue into the plush of the blanket, concluding the argument by snuggling deeper into the pillows and the warm of the blanket. he hates that he feels his heart warm up at the sight and butterflies start to tickle in his stomach at the sight in front of him. he loves you so much.

"baby i want to touch you."

"i'm not in the mood, try again tomorrow night," you giggle into the pillow.

"oh my- you know that's not what i mean." he says, exasperated. kaveh had such a long day and the only thing he was looking forward to throughout his entire day was coming home to cuddle you and steal kisses before falling asleep in each other's grasp. he can't help but be frustrated that you're denying him the one pleasure he's able to find in his life. and he knows you're doing it just to tease him. "i missed you so much today, baby. did you not miss me too?"

"i saw you this morning," you refute. kaveh struggles to find the path between his mind and his tongue, ultimately failing and choosing to just let out something between a loud sigh and a strangled groan. he stomps to the linen closet outside the bedroom door and yanks out the old duvet that was on your shared bed before the new blanket showed up.

he throws himself down on his side of the bed and wraps the duvet tightly around himself, tossing himself to pointedly face away from you.

"i'm donating that fucking blanket the second you wake up tomorrow morning."

he receives no answer. he only feels the spot next to him dip and shift before he feels the warm skin of your hand slipping into his duvet, going to wrap around his waist. you pull more of the duvet around yourself and fully pull your boyfriend into your embrace. he turns around in your hold to return the embrace and he buries his fingers into your hair.

"i knew you wouldn't last long," his voice is significantly softer.

"whatever. you got really upset i thought you were going to start crying." you punctuate your sentence with a kiss against his adam's apple and then his jaw.

he scoffs at you, but contradicts this with a kiss to your forehead and then your warm cheek and finally your awaiting lips.

"i will cry next time. and i am donating that stupid thing tomorrow."

"i love you, kaveh," you whisper into his neck, grinning against his skin.

"i love you too, sweetheart." kaveh sighs.

[grumpytheunicorn]

CONTEXT WARNING

BLOOD AND SPECIMEN JARS

More for the vampire!AU with a cameo of Jayden from @gemini-forest

Leo would be a general doctor/surgeon (barber too) and primarily do late-night house calls or in-clinic visits for both lower and higher class. He has had to saw off many a leg and arm. Most of his patients leave feeling better, some leave feeling worse and some of them never leave at all.

He has centuries of experience and is consistently trying to be up-to-date with his medical research. Recently he recently started doing successful blood transfusions and already accepted germ theory! (AU takes place somewhere in the 1860s/70s)

[tiny-glued-things]

Some more natural history specimens (1:24 scale).

[bastardscience]

🧠/🫙/🧠

[gavinom123]

If with one click, and I can reset everything,

I want to be your favorite next

[emmaklee]

(via Imaginative Glass Specimens Are Suspended in Jars in Steffen Dam's Cabinets of Curiosities — Colossal)

[piosplayhouse]

I love Jiang Cheng but I don't rlly want to make him better or worse I kind of just want to put him in a jar an d watch him pickle for a while

[meatpope]

acute cornelius hickey brain derangement incoming. one thing that strikes me about hickey is how like. presumably he’s been through a lot of shit in his life. we know he’s a career criminal from victorian england, we can reasonably extrapolate that he’s spent a lot of his life in desperate poverty, and something about his personal circumstances was so dire that he was willing to murder a man and risk sneaking aboard a naval expedition through the fucking arctic, just to get away from it. and yet. despite all this, and despite his constant performance of cynical bullshit and casual cruelty, i do kind of get the impression that he still expects life to be… fair? maybe not to everybody else, but certainly to him, the main character of the universe. he thinks he’s been picked out for something special, and he thinks that if he suffers enough, struggles enough, fights hard enough, he’ll eventually get something in return. i mean, isn’t he more strong and clever and ruthless than anyone else? doesn’t he have a special connection with (billy gibson/the captain/goodsir/tuunbaq)? doesn’t he deserve to be rewarded? when everyone else is slipping into despair, he remains an optimist. surely after everything, it’s inevitable that things will go his way in the end.

[bokatan]

Started working on Kingsport Lighthouse to use as an ✨aesthetic✨ settlement for screenshots + art backgrounds, so here’s some WIP photos! This one is intended to be a home base for one of my OCs, but the outdoor layout + overall size isn’t quite what I was going for so I’m not sure if I’m using this location in her actual storyline or not. Either way, I’m keeping it for screenshots/art and purified water lmao

don’t mind the random bloodstain in the kitchen i can’t get rid of it and it’s kind of funny

[katarinanavane]

All my enamel pin designs are back in stock in my Etsy (link in bio) as of Jan 2023!

[rddykilowatt]

cross posting tf out of this cause he deserves all the love in the world!! 💢

crayon artists stick together!! 🫡🫡🫡

[nyxshadowhawk]

Exhibit by IrenHorrors

[forestshadow-wolf]

Not cod related

WHY WAS THE MANDOLORIAN SO AROACE CODED 🗣🗣🗣 AND WHY DID THEY FORCE THE ROMANCE IN THE SECOND AND THIRD SEASON!!!!!! I JUST WANT MY FUNKY SINGLE FATHER SPACE COWBOY AND SON (+co) ADVENTURES!! HE AIN'T WANNA FUCK ANYONE!!!! HE'S TOO BUSY GETTUNG CAUGHT IN FIGHTS!!

[tiny-glued-things]

Miniature glass sponge specimen in a cloche (1:24 scale)

(Venus' flower basket, Euplectella aspergillum)