#dr moreau

[thecrappyportalmaster]

Me: I don’t like it when characters fall into troupes, it’s just boring when it’s not done right!

Mad/Immoral Scientist character: *exists*

Me:

#shitpost #mad scientist #dr krankcase #dr flug #tf2 medic #pop fizz #glados #dr hare #binary bard #jonathan crane #otto octavius #dr frankenstein #the invisible man #dr doofenshmirtz #dr wondertainment #engineer tf2 #dr Jekyll #dr moreau #jervis tetch #the riddler #junkrat #kowalski #i could keep going

[abybweisse]

Blood Work (p1), Elitism, transmutation, and religious fear

⚠️ long post ⚠️

So, I now have a copy of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, by Holly Tucker. It's a reference for Yana-san, as she mentioned it in her old tuna.be blog around the start of the blue arc.

I see in the list of important people a mention of the real Dr. Moreau, and there's a later chapter about chimeras... so I know I'll be talking about that some, over this series of posts.

It's important here, too, because when researchers were first attempting blood transfusions in the 17th century, people were terrified about receiving blood from animals, like sheep and cattle. They thought that animal blood would transmute humans into human-animal hybrids. Even in the 20th century, some white people were terrified of receiving blood from black people, because they thought the blood could effect the race of their future children or grandchildren. Nonsense, of course, but they didn't understand.

17th century blood transfusions were generally performed by taking blood from a lamb or a calf. The barbers/physicians/researchers had no clue about blood types. Jean-Baptiste Denis successfully transfused blood from a lamb into a teenage patient. Then he made several successful attempts at transfusing from a calf to a "madman". The guy later died, and Denis was blamed. Turns out some doctors who didn't want him to succeed had actually poisoned that second subject with arsenic.

It wasn't even a matter of those physicians wanting his experiments to fail while theirs worked; no, they simply didn't want blood transfusions to become a practice. They were afraid of transmutation from animal blood, and they were afraid of what animal-to-human blood transfusions would reveal about humanity -- that we are truly just animals, too. The trial against Denis ended research into blood transfusions for about 150 years.

Blood types were still unknown in the late 18th century, when a physician wanted to attempt to revive George Washington's largely exsanguinated corpse with a transfusion of lamb's blood. FYI, he died on a December 14th, just like Prince Albert. His family refused the offer only because they feared sullying his body with animal blood, and they insisted his body must be left untainted and wholly together for him to be properly received into heaven. Such was the continued lack of understanding. Yana-san might have given Undertaker the idea to use blood transfusions in conjunction with other techniques for the reanimating and revival process from the account of what that physician wanted to do to Washington.

When blood transfusion research was in full swing, in the 19th century, they were starting to piece together the idea of blood groups, but they still didn't quite know about things like universal whole blood donor and universal whole blood recipient. There was a strong elitist element to this, so they generally thought like could only be compatible with like. They also still saw non-human blood as inferior, even if it might be compatible. The best compatibility was expected between twins and then between close relatives.

I have a feeling that Yana-san has played around with this bias, which would explain why real Ciel is only receiving AB (Sirius) blood, Canopus B, Vega O, and Polaris A. All those people at Sphere Music Hall are led to believe they are being treated as equals, when they are in fact being split up into a caste system where some "stars" are of a higher magnitude than others. And, at times, Blavat Sky and others have made it clear they see some blood types as being less worthy than others. By extension, some people are treated as less worthy. Blavat seems to realize that Sirius can receive blood from other blood types, because he gives "leftovers" of Vega and Polaris blood to the Sirius renal patients. It's possible that real Ciel doesn't know he can have any type of whole blood, but I suspect he knows and simply doesn't think anything else is good enough for him.

I'd also like to mention Snake and Finny here, since we know Finny was injected with something to increase his strength and other traits. Then we see Snake with various attributes that are associated with snakes. In either case (or both) we could be dealing with transmutation. It's not realistic in our world, but it might very well be possible in theirs. Each of them might have been injected with chemical cocktails derived from other animals: Snake from snakes and Finny from perhaps a few completely different species.

We now know Snake wasn't born a snake and turned into a human, but there's nothing to say he wasn't born human and "adulterated" with snake traits. There's also the weird story the freak show attendant claims: human mother and snake father. Maybe not an actual snake as his father but more like his mother being injected with snake blood or something... and that producing a hybrid child. Again, not what we'd consider possible, but the Kuroverse plays by different rules.

One other aspect I want to touch on in this post: Othello's and Grelle's fears regarding the very nature of human souls and existence. This is a form of religious fear, not too different from what George Washington's family feared. His family feared he wouldn't be accepted into heaven, while these two reapers fear humans might no longer even need souls, and that heaven may no longer matter to them. What would that mean for the existence of reapers, when their supposed salvation requires them to keep collecting souls?

Well, I'll probably talk about bias and fear again, as well as these other issues, but I'll stop here... for now.

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #blood work #blood transfusion #blood type #research #medical advancements #reference material #books #holly tucker #yana toboso #ciel phantomhive #real ciel #dr moreau #chimeras #othello #grell sutcliff #grelle sutcliff #observation #feb 20 2024 #long post #long reads #part one #part 1

[mrhyde-mrseek]

CLASSIC LIT MEN RANKED FROM LEAST TO MOST DATABLE (As Decided By A Lesbian)

•DRACULA - crusty old creep, absolutely horrid, ruined the lives of at least eight people, turned one of said people into a vampire and nearly turned another, Hollywood likes to ship him with Mina for reasons that I don’t understand because he ALMOST TURNED HER INTO A VAMPIRE THAT HER FRIENDS AND HUSBAND WOULD HAVE HAD TO KILL.

•DR. MOREAU - it’s been a hot minute since I last read the book, but the fact that he performs vivisections on wild animals to turn them into humans is fucked up on SO many levels.

•ERIK - murderer, stalker, would probably combust if shown any semblance of actual affection.

•CREATURE - made to be pretty but Victor fucked that up somehow, killed 3 people out of revenge, would also combust if shown any sort of real love.

•GRIFFIN - canonically buff & smart, but he’s also an egomaniac & self-admitted ass (there is textual evidence for that latter point) with a god complex who plotted a reign of terror so . . . maybe not the best choice.

•THE TELL-TALE HEART NARRATOR - yeah, he doesn’t need romance. He needs psychological help. Desperately. If murdering an old man because his glass eye creeped you out, hiding his body in the floor, then hallucinating his heart beating during a police interrogation isn’t a red flag, then I don’t know what is.

•JEKYLL/HYDE - on one hand, he’s a middle-aged chemist who represses every desire he has; on the other hand, he’s an Uncanny Valley-flavored criminal who beat a man to death with a cane, so you can’t really win with this one.

•ICHABOD CRANE - he’s not a bad person, and he is well-educated, he’s just less interested in an actual, committed romantic relationship and more interested in the money he’ll inherit from it.

•SHERLOCK HOLMES - he’s in the middle because I actually don’t think he’d make a bad boyfriend—he’d just be oblivious to the efforts of anyone who tried to make a move on him.

•VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN - like Griffin, he also has a god complex, but this twink somehow managed to make Robert Walton fall head-over-heels in love with him two seconds of seeing him freezing to death in the Arctic, so there has to be SOMETHING there.

•THE TIME TRAVELLER - he seems like a really sweet, passionate guy. He’d definitely ramble to you about his time machine. My only qualm is that we hardly see him interact with people (at least, people in this stage of evolution).

•JOHN WATSON - he’s kind, he’s supportive, he’s a badass, he’s canonically good-looking and charming (a feature that Holmes uses to their advantage multiple times in the stories), and he’s a doctor. He’s perfect.

#gothic literature #gothic lit #classic literature #classic lit #dracula #count dracula #the phantom of the opera #erik poto #the island of doctor moreau #dr moreau #the creature #adam frankenstein #frankenstein or the modern prometheus #frankenstein #the invisible man #griffin the invisible man #the tell tale heart #the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde #dr jekyll and mr hyde #dr jekyll #mr hyde #jekyll and hyde #the legend of sleepy hollow #ichabod crane #sherlock holmes #acd sherlock holmes #acd watson #victor frankenstein #the time machine #the time traveller

[incorrectclandestinelaboratories]

Moreau: "Anything is legal if I'm the only one here to make the laws!"

#incorrect mad scientist quotes #mad scientist #incorect quote #incorrect quotes #incorrectclandestinelaboratories #dr moreau #the island of dr moreau #the island of doctor moreau #moreau

[swdefcult]

dr moreau by kevin o'neill

#kevin o'neill #dr moreau #the league of extraordinary gentlemen #alan moore #comic panels #comics

[rbluepie]

Several attempts for creating reference sheets

#I also generated some color palletes #That was the moment I realized how deep I am stuck with black #yeah... #anyways #frankenstein or the modern prometheus #the island of doctor moreau #the invisible man #strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #oh yeah I missed Hyde here since he's not much different from Jekyll #frankenstein #victor frankenstein #dr moreau #dr griffin #how I wish they had full names #henry jekyll #jekyll and hyde #character reference sheet #character design #gothic literature #classic literature

[science-of-co-habitation]

EPISODE 1 - FIRST INTRODUCTION

#the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #the island of dr moreau #dr lanyon #dr moreau #webcomic #gothic literature #gothic lit

[anotherscrappile]

Classic Literature County Coroner Elections

Context:

(Thank you @severedfeetpics @the-gay-prometheus & @a-model-of-propriety)

You can vote here for any of these candidates (or write in your own candidate). Please vote only once. I plan to close the poll on Halloween. Have fun voting & may the best candidate win!

#victor frankenstein #henry jekyll #dr moreau #the invisible man #herbert west #abraham van helsing #dracula #frankenstein’s creature #sir percy blakeney #the cask of amontillado #that’s enough tags i think #ford speaks #not art #classic literature county coroner

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Lately I've been considering a spin on morally dubious women from Greek epics, where Medea plays a role akin to Captain Nemo (foreign political exile with a grudge against the political Powers That Be and incredible expertise in sciences no mere mortal can begin to fathom) while Circe is more Dr. Moreau (sadistic researcher who experiments with castaways on her island)

@tabby-shieldmaiden, @headspace-hotel, @loki-zen: the post about expanding roles for female characters, as promised

#gender #gender roles #female representation #tropes #mythology #greek mythology #circe #medea #20000 leagues under the sea #twenty thousand leagues under the sea #captain nemo #jules verne #the island of dr moreau #the island of dr. moreau #the island of doctor moreau #dr moreau #dr. moreau #doctor moreau #h. g. wells #h g wells #h.g. wells #hg wells

[dross-the-fish]

Breakroom sketch of Moreau's mermaid.

She's still a work in progress.

The first of the sketches of Dr. Moreau's beastfolk

#tw:blood #body horror #dr moreau

[cowboylovin]

Manuel’s freak doctor oc #15347251 coming right up, yes he’s a CS(2019) oc

#my art #my oc #cs oc #carmen sandiego oc #dr moreau #small painting I did of him teehee #cs #carmen sandiego

[tantok]

Not super happy by how this turned out but WHATEVERRRR

Anyways do y’all think Victor would hate being around Dr. Moreau’s creations. Because I do

#my art #dr frankenstein #dr. frankenstein #frankenstein #victor frankenstein #dr moreau #dr. moreau #the island of doctor moreau #gothic literature #gothic lit art #gothic horror #body horror #just in case

[tacodestroyeravenger]

Me at 16 reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: oh no I’m liking the dilemma of the morally questionable doctor

Me at 17 reading Frankenstein: oh no I’m liking the dilemma of the morally questionable doctor

Me at 18 reading Dracula: oh no I’m liking the dilemma of the morally questionable doctor

Me at 24 into the first few chapters of The Island of Dr. Moreau: *nervous sweating*

#haha yeah they are all not great people but like listen hear me out #you don’t understand your honor #that is my emotional support morally questionable doctor #and when I say morally questionable I mean absolutely making the wrong decisions all of the time without fail #henry jekyll #victor frankenstein #john seward #dr moreau #dr jekyll and mr hyde #frankenstein #dracula #the island of doctor moreau #all good books though if you haven’t read them and got to say I’m enjoying the island of Dr Moreau so far so… #but like I kinda know the premise and I’m far enough in to go like ‘is that man glueing animal parts on people?’ #but whatever my track record isn’t great so #dracula daily

[incorrectclandestinelaboratories]

Moreau, getting mauled to death: "What the hell? Who unionised my beasts?"

#incorrectclandestinelaboratories #incorrect mad scientist quotes #mad scientist #incorect quote #incorrect quotes #dr moreau #the island of dr moreau #the island of doctor moreau #moreau

[sandwichhour]

💃 moreau….. this concept enamors me she needs this power

go meemaw go!!!

#dr moreau #the island of dr moreau #gothic lit #ladies book club

[professionalmoreauhater]

i hate having the memory of a senile old man but it makes rereading books almost comedic at times

like how tf did i forget that Moreau casually stabs his own thigh to prove a point?

#the island of dr moreau #dr moreau #montgomery #edward prendick #like calm down man #hes just too edgy for us