#bone preservation

[savetheearthstopshowering]

found this sweet little raccoon on my walk home from work. wondering if anyone can provide a yes or no answer if i should be able to process and clean his paw without removing the ligaments between fingers.. or if i should completely remove them and then glue it together again?

#cw dead animal #cw animal death #cw bones #bones #bone #vulture culture #taxidermy #bone preservation #decomposition #roadkill #osteology #skeleton #death #vulture core #halloween #skull #art #gore #witch #witchy #witchcraft #photo #text #mine #oddities #dead things #bone collecting #bone cleaning #nature #my post

[macawandmacabre]

Pre-wash, after wash and scrub, and post bleaching 🖤🦌 I love my little projects

#deer bones #bone preservation #macabre #weirdgirlshit #animal bones #vulture culture

[stealingyourbones]

Short DPXDC Prompts #1046

The Lazarus Pit’s water is unable to mix with ectoplasm. It’s like a lipid and water, or like two same poled magnets; They simply don’t combine. Jason is an undead man brought back fully by a Lazarus Pit. God knows what the two life sustaining liquids has done to him internally. (i'm imagining like an animal in formaldehyde that stays in solution for way too long and when you dissect it everything is already dissolved. Like the only thing inside its body that’s discernible is maybe a floating bit that could be a pancreas and some bits of intestine. No this isn’t from personal experience what do you mean.)

#dpxdc #danny phantom #bones prompts #tw gore #two dissection #that was quite the interesting anatomy class. the old teacher thought they would run out of funding and started stashing preserved- #-rats all throughout the classroom. I had a new teacher and they had to use all of the old rats before ordering new ones. it was bad.

[pratchettquotes]

Feeney thought about this on the ride home as his horse trotted gently toward the sunset. He wasn't a philosopher and couldn't even spell the word, but the voice of the goblin officer rang in his head. He thought, what would happen if goblins learned everything about humans and did everything the human way because they thought it was better than the goblin way? How long would it be before they were no longer goblins and left behind everything that was goblin, even their pots? The pots were lovely, he'd bought several for his mum. Goblins took pots seriously now, they sparkled, even at night, but what happens next? Will goblins really stop taking an interest in their pots and will humans learn the serious, valuable and difficult and almost magical skill of pot making? Or will goblins become, well, just another kind of human? And which would be better?

And then he thought, maybe a policeman should stop thinking about all this because, after all, there was no crime, nothing was wrong...and yet in a subtle way, there was. Something was being stolen from the world without anybody noticing or caring.

Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

#feeney upshot #of the chimney the bones #raising steam #discworld #terry pratchett #goblins #humans #the watch #culture #adaptation #assimilation #progress #traditions #change #imperialism #globalism #art #skills #cultural preservation #loss #introspection #philosophy #something stolen from the world #the goblin way #long quote

[chupacabracrafts]

Dayva, a lovely pet rat, was returned to her human today as a disarticulated skeleton * image taken & shared with permission

#animal bones #pet preservation #oddities #taxidermy #rodent #rat skull #vulture culture #macabre #memento mori

[bonefall]

which cats would you say are good references for bb clan gender roles? from what i parse bb goldenflower and mousefur seem to be ‘stereotypical’ mollies, and you’ve talked about dustpelt being gender non comforming as a molly-like tom.

For the ideal molly by Clan Culture standards, look no further than Speckletail. Her aggression, boldness, and dedication to her legacy at all costs are above and beyond the basic expectations of yaow-assigned warriors. Even her LEGENDARY death in defense of the camp in BB!TNP is part of that. It's hard to get more femme than Speckletail in the eyes of Clan cats!

She was a VERY traditional person. It's why her kittens are also all good examples of their genders. You clocked Golfy, but her sister Mistleclaw was also a good one (died young of plague). Lionheart is also a great example of a tom.

In fact most of the toms of that era are good examples. Lionheart, Whitestorm... and Tigerclaw most of all. Tigerclaw was perfect as far as toms are concerned.

Until it was known what he'd done to Redtail, his grace and passivity to his Clan was admired. His contributions to Clan arguments were level-headed and measured, unlike the ferocity with which he leveraged against outsiders. He was a wonderful mate to Golfy and a beloved father to Swiftpaw and Lynxkit.

Some folks ask me about Thistleclaw specifically because he's so aggressive, but he's also a decent example of a ssuf-gender cat! Defending BORDERS violently is expected, being xenophobic in the way he is was what was expected. The constant arguing with authority (Bluestar, Redtail) was not-- but his friends would say that's just THEIR problem. After all, whaddaboutsnowfur.

(Whitestorm also has opinions. But he's too mild and passive to enter this discussion.)

I feel like Oakheart is also a REALLY good example, especially after the Forget-me-nots sadly drift apart. Incredible dad, surrounded by friends, fantastic fighter. I imagine it makes it ESPECIALLY hard whenever he has to fight Bluestar because this is incredibly attractive.

(I kinda want Oakheart to accidentally take one of her lives, because they're in the middle of a battle over Sunningrocks and they're suddenly drawn into a battle SO intense and SO passionate that the entire world around them becomes a blur. And then he launches her into orbit and she falls into the swollen river. OOPS. SORRY!!!! Goddamn himbo)

Gib, or meewa-gender, is definitely the most broad. It's about wisdom, foresight, and blessedness by StarClan. There are cats who are assigned meewa at birth, but most discover it in their kithoods.

Duckfur for example has always been sharp as a tack, and when xeir eye started to drift, that was taken as a bit of a sign. They sort of "grew into it" in adulthood, after Mistystar assumed power over RiverClan and suddenly xey were being rewarded for foresight.

Blackstar is actually a FANTASTIC example, with how his lives were given one at a time and he started thinking about the future of his Clan with his bog project. Assigned meewa at birth because of his extra toe, it kinda "went away" as his kithood wasn't consistent with the gender, and now it's back.

Wisdom, intelligence, and foresight are kind of "loose" so the matching third gender is loose as well, if that makes sense.

#I want to give Duckfur a bigger role because xey cemented in my mind as a blorbo #Also xeir story is just interesting to me #Sib-in-law of Sedgecreek who partially is using his connection to her for ambitious purposes #But ALSO because xeir sister's ideas were dangerous and Duckfur knows it now. #Guy who doesn't believe strongly in anything but self-preservation becoming a staunch ally of the regime change because it's safer #But I haven't picked xeir role yet. Maybe head of hunting so I can toss xem into the Ripwater story #Clan culture #Better bones au

[identifyaselk]

There, propped up on reinforced flooring and strung up like a marionette on spider silk, sat their bone-white beloved. A bubbling emotion ripples into a smile on their face. Even now, centuries later, he still waits (for them). 

Yes, his blood-red eyes are long gone; one of the first organs to rot and decay, replaced by paltry candles. But as Lamb gathers the makeshift cushion and blanket they've brought with them, and settles down among the ivy they once watered with their tears, a deep sense of home falls upon them. If they listen closely enough, in the quiet dripping of damp within the domain, they could still hear him breathing in their sleep. 

Eternity sure is a long time to wait for someone.

(side for this one)

#cult of the lamb #cotl #cotl fanart #narilamb #cotl narinder #but as bone daddy #i now have a strange knowledge of taxidermy and bone preservation #still dunno what to call this au

[the-final-sif]

Just to be clear, because I'm seeing some misinfo going around about the oceangate stuff, it's not particular weird or an indication of failure for the controls of the submersible to be an xbox controller/other game controller.

It might sound odd to people who've never done any of this stuff, but legitimately xbox controllers fucking rock for being used to control stuff. It's significantly more accessible and user friendly for a large majority of people, and it absolutely makes sense to use them in certain contexts. It can actually massively improve safety because of the ease of use, and the fact you can have 10 full replacements in a cupboard that can get swapped in if anything goes wrong. It makes the controls really simple for people, and honestly it's a generally a solid design choice.

Oceangate's Titan isn't even the first company to do this, the idea most likely came from the US navy doing the exact same thing in 2017/2018 for submarines because they realized it was way easier for everyone:

Turns out that game controllers are just really easy to access, use, and sometimes keeping things simple is the best idea. Wow. Who'd have guessed the thing made to make things easy to control would make things easy to control.

We currently don't know what happened to the Titan sub, we don't know why things went wrong, if it was a freak accident or if it was bad practices or bad safety standards. Hopefully people get found and then we're able to find out. It may be caused by poor submersible design, but some of y'all are out here acting like you're suddenly submarine engineers because something sounds silly to you. Let's maybe wait until we have actual information on the situation in order to assign blame.

#oceangate #honestly I don't even really have a bone to pick with oceangate in general #they're the ones who scanned and freely released all the data on the titanic in a pretty cool act of historic preservation #there's some older stuff about safety issues but it's all from prior to the sub's final design and it's actual testing and approval #so we don't know what the cause is until they can actually find the sub #idk seeing people rush to make this fit the narrative that they want just feels like #eh

[crittermakingthings]

Here's one of my more nature themed projects I did recently! Just a tiny pine display box (i think from dollar tree? actually found it at a thrift store but it has a dollar tree tag lol). I don't have any before pictures of it (blasphemy). I got a hold of wood stain last year and have been having at it with a lot of cheap wood stuff laying around

Used to hold my moth collection but it has since outgrown it! So I stained it with wood stain + hot glued moss all over and decided to use it to display my more fragile specimen's that didn't have a place yet!

(Inside: dragonfly, dried shelf fungi, twin pine seed, bird skull, white lined sphinx moth (if I'm not mistaken), butterfly I forgot to identify, cicada.

On top: porcupine quills and a chicken bone.

Porcupine quills were a gift, everything else I found and saved. Actually my brother found the moth and saved it for me.)

It does have a protective casing on the front, but I took it off for the picture because of the glare.

#tw dead animal #tw taxidermy #I'm still uncertain that what i do counts as taxidermy as that implies preservation far better than i have the skills and tools for but eh #vulture culture #corvidcore #gremlincore #goblincore #tw bones #naturecore #nature #crowcore #honestly if you have a better system on how i should tag stuff like this pls send help lmao #i have list track of the -cores #i don't think i ever had a clue to begin with #also tw too if i missed a tw lemme know pls #moths #bugs #critter made something

[whatlovelybones-if]

I'm on my knees!! Thank u so much for letting me play as a murder-happy protagonist for once, I'm finally living my true crime dreams. One question, will there be any love triangle routes here? I can't help but think the drama will be extra scrumptious here

thank you, dear bonnie! i exist to present a door of escapism for all you dexter/hannibal/true crime fans out there 🫶🏻

to answer your question: yes, i do have a love triangle route plan and suffice to say that it’s gonna be juicy asf 🤭

at first, i planned to make it between J and sebas but upon reflection, i think sebas will have too little self-confidence to even try pursuing MC when he finds out his opponent is their borderline insane childhood best friend. the real deal will be J vs the detective because J isn’t about to lose to a two-penny hotshot detective and the detective will have too much fun rising to the challenge of making the MC choose them.

do i think it’s going to become an angsty little emotional shit show as everyone gets too involved and hearts break one by one? yes, but i will never turn down a challenge to make my characters suffer as much as possible 😈

#asks #poor sebas #he’s already gone through hell and i can’t put him through the wringer again by involving him in a LT 😭 #and vivienne has enough self-preservation to know that making an enemy of someone who carries multiple knives on them is not a good idea #oh i’m going to enjoy putting kaufmann through heartaches when they realise they’re in love after all 🤭 #meanwhile J is thinking of thirty different ways to dispose of them 💀 #what lovely bones #bonnie nonnie #ro: j park #ro: t kaufmann #ro: vivienne malhotra #ro: sebastián navarro #interactive fiction

[anchovy]

I’m glad the appreciation for skulls and other vulture culture aspects are starting to catch more people’s attention, but it sucks because it’s just turned into people bulk buying skulls off dropshipping websites and then reselling them at double the price at an art/craft show. It just feels wrong.

#I feel there’s a huge difference between scavenging and preserving the bones/fur/ect that would otherwise go to waste is cool #but when it just turns into another thing you order in large bulks and you don’t even KNOW where the bodies are sourced it just sucks #vulture culture #I keep going to craft shows and seeing skulls and being like oh!!! where did you find these!! #and they’re just like oh I order them off aliexpress :)) #come on man.

[ftl-faster-than-life]

It boggles my mind that there's people who are determined to hate Barry and Clark.

#those characters specifically are pretty solidly genuinely good people who are just trying really hard #and don't have a spiteful bone or an ounce of self preservation between them #not rebloggable sorry I'm not trying to fight randoms on the Internet because my mutual has a follower who hates puppies or w/e

[capricornbones]

Dog Vs. Coyote

#vulture culture #vultureculture #just vulture things #animal skull #skull #skulls #skull collecting #vulture culture art #skull and bones #osteology #roadkill #bones #dead things #oddities #photography #preservation #aesthetic #coyote #coyote skull #dog skull #canis latrans #eastern coyote #comparison #still life study #still life photography #my photography #skull cleaning #skull art #taxidermy #bone cleaning

[parameddic]

here is the question, the question is "would your muse consciously decide to let go of someone (a stranger)'s hand, if that someone slipped over the edge of a building/cliff/etc, and if they did not let go, they'd both go over the edge together?" would you muse let go if the options were 'we both die' or 'just one'. that's the question

#controversial: #in the heat of the moment and without time to find any alternatives and rapidly cascading toward the edge and #with only milliseconds to spare and with so much apology and so much guilt. tk would let go #(controversial: Tommy would actively Order him to let go ''that's an order'' style because she would want to protect him #from having to make that decision himself. he loves his captain. he would make it himself if he had to.) #but i do think there is space for self-preservation and in fact Demand for self-preservation in the role and TK is willing to die #trying to save someone and he is happy to and Would stay in a burning bus to give cpr to a woman underwater #he is very no holds barred. but there is a difference between 'backup has to be on the way' or 'just a little longer' and #the acute 'there is no time' and he cannot Buy time and he is not Strong enough and the options really are A or B #in that scenario. and that is a very bare bones scenario. in most versions of this scenario he would hold out and find an alternative #PS pls don't. pls no 'my muse flatly rejects the premise' answers #that's nice but ksjdflksj it rejects the premise of my question and my question. Is Entirely The Premise

[chupacabracrafts]

Reunited with her owner recently, here's Delta the Cat!

Delta was memorialized as a disarticulated skeleton. Her little old lady jaw bones exhibit a touch of deformity, possibly osteomyelitis, which prevented me from gluing both halves back together. Even so, she made a lovely preservation for her human family

#bones #cat skull #bone cleaning #maceration #specimen #oddities #pet preservation #memento mori #macabre #dark art #vulture culture #skulls #occult #death

[kebriones]

I think they should let me near those bones i will be completely normal i will just look at them briefly in a normal fashion *kicks necromancy for dummies book under my bed*

#yes this is about the potentially Alcibiades bones #i know they're keeping them in a drawer somewhere in those nice storage rooms with all the drawers where they keep the good stuff in museums #I told you i can't stop thinking about it #WHY HASN'T ANYONE STUFIED THEM A LITTLE BIT #studied #at least to see if it's a man or woman maybe? maybe the age? maybe sometimes dna is preserved in teeth #okay head me out what if once i get my degree i go into archaeology and then i get permission to get my little rat paws all over the