#pierre-auguste cot

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Writing Notes: Realistic Injuries (pt. 3)

Hostile Environments

It’s not uncommon for your characters to find themselves stranded somewhere with less than ideal conditions.

Cold

There are the obvious risks of hypothermia and frostbite.

The time for these to set in can vary drastically with temperature and windchill.

In both cases, warming should be done slowly or risk blistering of the skin and other complications such as shock.

Like burns, frostbite is classified into degrees of severity:

First degree frostbite – Numbness and whitening of skin.

Second degree – Outer layer of skin frozen, blistering likely when warmed.

Third degree – Skin is white or blue and blotchy. Skin and the tissue beneath it is hard and cold.

Heat

Risk of heat exhaustion or heat stroke.

Heat exhaustion is caused by insufficient water and salt intake. It is easy to develop without realising it.

Heat stroke is more severe and often follows untreated heat exhaustion. It is extremely dangerous and can be fatal.

Symptoms of Heat Exhaustion

Headache

Dizziness, faintness

Confusion and irritability

Thirst

Fast and weak pulse and breathing

Clammy skin and cramps

Additional Symptoms of Heatstroke

Hot, dry, flushed skin

Sweating stops altogether

Nausea

Disorientation up to and including hallucinations

Abnormal blood pressure

Elevated temperature

Unconsciousness

Treatment focuses on lowering the body temperature and rehydrating the person as quickly as possible.

Oxygen Deprivation

Apart from the obvious – lack of oxygen is rather bad for you (6-8 minutes for permanent brain damage) – the reason for the lack can have side effects of its own.

For example smoke, chemical or water inhalation can do physical damage to the lungs making breathing difficult even when the person is removed to a safe place.

Exposure to Vacuum

In short, your major problems would be…

Oxygen deprivation

Exposure to extreme cold

Expansion of gases within the body – meaning that holding your breath would be a Big Mistake, but not one you’d live to regret for very long

In a sudden decompression there would also be the risk of decompression sickness (the bends) and of getting hit by flying debris during the decompression itself.

Assuming you survived the initial decompression you’d have about 10 seconds of consciousness to do something about it and about one and a half minutes to live.

Parts of the body exposed would suffer from swelling, frostbite, and interrupted circulation.

Leaky spaceships

50% atmospheric pressure is enough to have people suffering from hypoxia (oxygen deprivation).

15% and you more or less, may as well be in vacuum.

Source: Leia Fee (with additions by Susannah Shepherd) More: Part 1 ⚜ Part 2 ⚜ Word Lists (Sick) (Pain) ⚜ Drunkenness ⚜ Autopsy

[storyofmorewhoa]

Pierre-Auguste Cot's Springtime + Tangled by DreaDIllustrations

[venustapolis]

Ophelia (Pierre-Auguste Cot, 1870)

[voyage-of-venus]

Pierre-Auguste Cot, The Storm, 1880

When Cot exhibited this painting at the Salon of 1880, critics speculated about the source of the subject. Some proposed the French novel Paul and Virginie by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814), in which the teenage protagonists run for shelter in a rainstorm, using the heroine’s overskirt as an impromptu umbrella; others suggested the romance Daphnis and Chloe by the ancient Greek writer Longus. New York collector and Metropolitan Museum benefactor Catharine Lorillard Wolfe commissioned the work under the guidance of her cousin John Wolfe, one of Cot's principal patrons. Like the artist’s earlier Springtime, it was immensely popular and extensively reproduced. (Text from the Met)

[patrochillesvibes]

He smiled, and his face was like the sun.

Gorgeous 😍 print by the incredible @arcane-gold ❤️❤️❤️

Based on Springtime by Pierre-Auguste Cot for the Classics But Make It Gay collection. Check it out on Twitter. And check out their shop!!!

[beammeupplease]

Pierre-Auguste Cot,

[sunsetagain]

Wildlight Chronicles ending

inspired by Springtime by Pierre Auguste Cot 1873

[artssie]

L'Orage / The Storm (1880) by Pierre Auguste Cot

[toorumlk]

romione as the storm by pierre-auguste cot (1880) / the kiss by francesco hayez (1859)

[diioonysus]

women in art: ophelia

[eky-supernova]

Felt silly, happy spring (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

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[carameleong]

"our little secret spot"

Inspired by Pierre Auguste Cot's Springtime 🌱💚

[thelordfool]

The Storm

Its loneliness is a hunger

that wears on old gloves

palm-prints damp

from where grapevines weep

Based on another by Pierre Auguste Cot - Direct sequel to this painting

Coeur wasn't ready for the rain. Avery is ready for anything.

Play Scarlet Hollow pretty please <3

[voyage-of-venus]

Pierre-Auguste Cot, Springtime, 1873

[wytchisle]

Portrait of a Young Woman | 1869 Pierre Auguste Cot