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    Amber Rose, Apparently, and Batman: our tumllr usefnare
 IS now yov s
 Superhero name
 hat are your
rukathetransformer:

gaogaigar-the-king:

sharky857:
d-structive:

isa-ghost:

kikuthestrange:


epicfangirl01:


brynnicle:


kisstheashes:


anticoffeebeans:


rottenka:

gum-xx-drop:


stray-puppet:


illyriashade56:

amber-rose-neko-san:


shayhammowolf:

ninja-girl2846:


uwillbeefoundtonight:


shadowamongfireworks:

madly-handsome:


steg-o-sore-us:


bitchimnot-here:


internet-explorer-official:


slow-moving-mammal:


internet-explorer-official:


itssarcatsm:


omgbrekkerkaz:

girlnovels:


albarnesauthor:


lileyreyes:


little-euro-girl:


distance-does-not-matter:


scholarlypidgeot:

residinginpurgatory:


extraordinary-arbiter-bluebird:

saadoesthecatholic:

lawfulgoodness:
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE
me. still being catholic.


the superpower of setting conflict. aw yeah B) also, I happen to be a bird but that’s not really important

I’m… dead.


Apparently I’m smart. And I can fly. 

Distance doesn’t matter to me, so… teleporting? Flying? Idk


Uhhh. Maybe I can shrink, like Ant-Man? Idk


That’s my name… I have no powers. I am weak. 


I am the Author, Creater and Destroyer of Worlds!! I control the very fate of existence!!! 😈😏


Girl who can novel extensively and deeply about anything and everything apparently.


um… being perfect i suppose??? 

you will bow before my sarcastic werecat powers


Um…


You have the same power as me, @internet-explorer-official! You’re slow!


Buddies!!




stepping on ppl


I’m extremely good looking but only when i get angry


Its either invisibility
…..Or I use fireworks instead of smokebombs to get out of situations/make diversions/etc
Let’s hope I’m always outside in a large parking lot when i need to use my powers then

I’m good at finding things? But only at nighttime? 


Welp. This is quite obvious. 


LYCANTHROPY HELL YEAH

b-being part cat?? I guess??? 


Considering part of my name comes from an eldritch god, I’m pretty well off. Very strong, time manipulation powers, I’m all set. 

Oh..


Yall get gum drops bitches 


Rotten??? I’m a zomboy???

Antisepticeye and Coffee? XD


Uh…am I a phoenix?


I would freeze people on contact. I would also be perpetually cold, which is already true. :P


I would have the power of sonic scream and the ability to put people to sleep by my rapid, boring talk of fandoms.  


I’m so strange that I weird them out and they leave 


I can turn invisible and possess things

….You know, guys….I’m not sure I am a superhero.

OM NOM NOM ALL THE MOFOS! 3 *muffled “Jaws” theme playing in the distance*

My power is COURAGEAnd being a cyborg fused with a mecha lion fused with several machines to form the King of Braves. But also COURAGE.

…I’m caught up in giant alien robot drama.

Im a 2.7m high Super human clad in Futuristic juggernaut batman armor wearing a helmet with batwings. Heeeeelll yes maaa boi
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Amber Rose, Apparently, and Batman: our tumllr usefnare
 IS now yov s
 Superhero name
 hat are your
rukathetransformer:

gaogaigar-the-king:

sharky857:
d-structive:

isa-ghost:

kikuthestrange:


epicfangirl01:


brynnicle:


kisstheashes:


anticoffeebeans:


rottenka:

gum-xx-drop:


stray-puppet:


illyriashade56:

amber-rose-neko-san:


shayhammowolf:

ninja-girl2846:


uwillbeefoundtonight:


shadowamongfireworks:

madly-handsome:


steg-o-sore-us:


bitchimnot-here:


internet-explorer-official:


slow-moving-mammal:


internet-explorer-official:


itssarcatsm:


omgbrekkerkaz:

girlnovels:


albarnesauthor:


lileyreyes:


little-euro-girl:


distance-does-not-matter:


scholarlypidgeot:

residinginpurgatory:


extraordinary-arbiter-bluebird:

saadoesthecatholic:

lawfulgoodness:
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE
me. still being catholic.


the superpower of setting conflict. aw yeah B) also, I happen to be a bird but that’s not really important

I’m… dead.


Apparently I’m smart. And I can fly. 

Distance doesn’t matter to me, so… teleporting? Flying? Idk


Uhhh. Maybe I can shrink, like Ant-Man? Idk


That’s my name… I have no powers. I am weak. 


I am the Author, Creater and Destroyer of Worlds!! I control the very fate of existence!!! 😈😏


Girl who can novel extensively and deeply about anything and everything apparently.


um… being perfect i suppose??? 

you will bow before my sarcastic werecat powers


Um…


You have the same power as me, @internet-explorer-official! You’re slow!


Buddies!!




stepping on ppl


I’m extremely good looking but only when i get angry


Its either invisibility
…..Or I use fireworks instead of smokebombs to get out of situations/make diversions/etc
Let’s hope I’m always outside in a large parking lot when i need to use my powers then

I’m good at finding things? But only at nighttime? 


Welp. This is quite obvious. 


LYCANTHROPY HELL YEAH

b-being part cat?? I guess??? 


Considering part of my name comes from an eldritch god, I’m pretty well off. Very strong, time manipulation powers, I’m all set. 

Oh..


Yall get gum drops bitches 


Rotten??? I’m a zomboy???

Antisepticeye and Coffee? XD


Uh…am I a phoenix?


I would freeze people on contact. I would also be perpetually cold, which is already true. :P


I would have the power of sonic scream and the ability to put people to sleep by my rapid, boring talk of fandoms.  


I’m so strange that I weird them out and they leave 


I can turn invisible and possess things

….You know, guys….I’m not sure I am a superhero.

OM NOM NOM ALL THE MOFOS! 3 *muffled “Jaws” theme playing in the distance*

My power is COURAGEAnd being a cyborg fused with a mecha lion fused with several machines to form the King of Braves. But also COURAGE.

…I’m caught up in giant alien robot drama.

Im a 2.7m high Super human clad in Futuristic juggernaut batman armor wearing a helmet with batwings. Heeeeelll yes maaa boi
                
                

                
            

            
            
rukathetransformer:

gaogaigar-the-king:

sharky857:
d-structive:

isa-ghost:

kikuthestrange:


epicfangirl01:


brynnicle:


kisstheashes:...

            
            
        

    



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            




    Alive, Amazon, and Anaconda: Joie DeVEVO
 @donniemnemonic
 I HAVE FOUND GOD IN THE UNI BUY
 AND SELL GROUP

 uli Spark NZ令
 12:09 PM
 L @ 100%(.)チ
 Vic
 Deals
 53 mins
 "I've got a first date coming up with a cutie
 patootie babe and I don't know what to wear.
 I think I'll dress meek and demure. I don't
 want to make a statement"
 FUCKING WRONG
 FUCK THEM UP
 KILL THENM
 Size 15 rose gold gladiator stilettos for sale
 DESTORY HIM
 "Are you Gal Gadot? Are you an amazon?
 Why is that man worshipping your feet?"
 YES TO ALL THE ABOVE
 Shoes are for straight people who play
 couples tennis and get divorced
 0
 write a comment
 (GIF)
 Oo
 3

 post
 couples tennis and get divorced
 Rose gold gladiator stilettos are for invading
 Nazi Germany solo and walking out alive
 BURN THE REICHSTAG
 Bought from Asia so their "US size 15" is
 probably a real US size 13
 Too delicate for my blunt Nordic hooves so
 I'm selling them and buying boots to go
 TRAMPING IN THE WILDERNESS
 INVADE FIORDLAND
 FIND THE MOOSE
 Paid $115
 Looking for $80
 Will sell for $50 if you include a short fantasy
 fiction (min 500 words) about woman who
 can turn into a dragon or a colour illustration
 of a woman turning into a dragon.
 SURVIVE THE WINTER
 OWrite a comment...
 Oo
 3

 ost
 "These shoes are a bold choice for a first
 date, what if he thinks I'm a slut"
 BURN HIS FIELDS AND SALT THE LAND
 YOU ARE THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS
 YOU ARE THE WHORE OF BABYLON
 MESSAGE ME
 0 Write a comment GF)ⓞ >
 Oo
butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway:
somanyofthekids:
I just needed to make sure more people saw this.

I want those fucking shoes man

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Alive, Amazon, and Anaconda: Joie DeVEVO
 @donniemnemonic
 I HAVE FOUND GOD IN THE UNI BUY
 AND SELL GROUP

 uli Spark NZ令
 12:09 PM
 L @ 100%(.)チ
 Vic
 Deals
 53 mins
 "I've got a first date coming up with a cutie
 patootie babe and I don't know what to wear.
 I think I'll dress meek and demure. I don't
 want to make a statement"
 FUCKING WRONG
 FUCK THEM UP
 KILL THENM
 Size 15 rose gold gladiator stilettos for sale
 DESTORY HIM
 "Are you Gal Gadot? Are you an amazon?
 Why is that man worshipping your feet?"
 YES TO ALL THE ABOVE
 Shoes are for straight people who play
 couples tennis and get divorced
 0
 write a comment
 (GIF)
 Oo
 3

 post
 couples tennis and get divorced
 Rose gold gladiator stilettos are for invading
 Nazi Germany solo and walking out alive
 BURN THE REICHSTAG
 Bought from Asia so their "US size 15" is
 probably a real US size 13
 Too delicate for my blunt Nordic hooves so
 I'm selling them and buying boots to go
 TRAMPING IN THE WILDERNESS
 INVADE FIORDLAND
 FIND THE MOOSE
 Paid $115
 Looking for $80
 Will sell for $50 if you include a short fantasy
 fiction (min 500 words) about woman who
 can turn into a dragon or a colour illustration
 of a woman turning into a dragon.
 SURVIVE THE WINTER
 OWrite a comment...
 Oo
 3

 ost
 "These shoes are a bold choice for a first
 date, what if he thinks I'm a slut"
 BURN HIS FIELDS AND SALT THE LAND
 YOU ARE THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS
 YOU ARE THE WHORE OF BABYLON
 MESSAGE ME
 0 Write a comment GF)ⓞ >
 Oo
butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway:
somanyofthekids:
I just needed to make sure more people saw this.

I want those fucking shoes man

                
            

            
            
butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway:
somanyofthekids:
I just needed to make sure more people saw this.

I want those fucking shoes man


            
            
        

    



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    


    

        
        
    




                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            




    Tumblr, Blog, and Http: sixpenceee:This rose has a mutation (phyllody) which causes it to grow leaves where the petals should be. More interesting posts here.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Tumblr, Blog, and Http: sixpenceee:This rose has a mutation (phyllody) which causes it to grow leaves where the petals should be. More interesting posts here.
                
            

            
            
sixpenceee:This rose has a mutation (phyllody) which causes it to grow leaves where the petals should be. More interesting posts here.

            
            
        

    



        

            
                
                    
                    


    

        
        
    




                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            




    Braids, Crying, and Empire: aethersea:
 teamstopfightingassholes
 feitanswife:
 stlin:
 ella-raene:
 systlin:
 beautifultoastdream:
 stlin:
 GUYS THEY FIGURED OUT THE ROMAN CONCRETE RECIPE
 THAT MAKES IT IMMUNE TO SEAWATER
 http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mystery-of
 2000-year-old-roman-concrete-solved-by-scientists/ar
 BBDO5V
 I KNOW RIGHT?!???
 I can't help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual
 documents saying "it was done with this and this", and some old rich
 white guys looked at it and went "oh mirth, the ancients were so silly
 They probably wrote this basic stuff down and the actual builders had
 Secret Techniques we need to Discover
 For a long time, archeologists didn't know how greek women did their
 high-piled braids and hair. There was a word that translated to
 "needle" in the descriptions. They went, "seems like we'll never
 know." Then a hairdresser took a fucking needle (big needle) and did
 the fucking thing you do with needles, which is sew - and by sewing the
 braids into place, she replicated ancient styles.
 The Egyptians had diagrams of construction steps for their pyramids.
 Archeologists went "oooh, ancient primitive people, how they do
 this?" LITERALLY MYTHBUSTERS OR THE OLD DISCOVERY CHANNEL
 or someone went "what if we did the thing the pictures said they did"
 AND GUESS FUCKING WHAT. GUESS FUCKING WHAT
 Also that thing with native Americans saying squirrels taught therm
 how to get sap for maple syrup, and colonizers going "that's a myth
 swea
 Sincerely, if the scientists had to do actual analysis like spectroscopy or
 whatever, kudos, and no flame. But swear to god, if all these years,
 we've had the recipes and there was just this fuckin institutional bias
 against just TRYING THE THING THEY SAID WOULD WORK, HELLFIRE
 AND DEMENTIA
 In this case, it was more they had roman writings saying what went into it
 but figured there was some secret because when they followed roman
 recipes it never turned out quite right.
 Because the sources left by Romans always just said to mix with water
 Because, if you were a Roman??? Obviouslyyou knew that you used
 seawater for cement. Duh. That's so obvious that they never really
 bothered specifying that you use seawater to mix it, because it wasn't
 necessary, everyone knew that.
 But then the empire fell, other empires rose and fell, time passed, and by
 the time we were trying to reconstruct the formula the 'mix the dry
 ingredients with seawater' trick had been forgotten, until chemical
 analysis finally figured it out again.
 It's sort of like the land of Punt, a ally of Egypt that's mentioned all the
 time, but we don't actually know where it was located. Because it isn't
 written down anywhere. Why would they write it down? It's Punt.
 Everyone knew where Punt was back then. It'd be ridiculous to waste the
 ink and space to specify where it was, every child knows about Punt.
 3000 years later and we have no damned clue where it was, simply because
 at the time it was so blindingly obvious that it was never written down.
 So moral of storv is be specific
 I was thinking it was stupid that they didn't specify seawater but then I had the
 thought that we don't specify
 to use chicken eggs in baking because DUH so we
 write eggs
 2000 years in the future people are going to be making scrambled fish eggs and
 crying be the ancient recipes make no sense
I wonder what bits of todays common knowledge will be lost to time
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Braids, Crying, and Empire: aethersea:
 teamstopfightingassholes
 feitanswife:
 stlin:
 ella-raene:
 systlin:
 beautifultoastdream:
 stlin:
 GUYS THEY FIGURED OUT THE ROMAN CONCRETE RECIPE
 THAT MAKES IT IMMUNE TO SEAWATER
 http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mystery-of
 2000-year-old-roman-concrete-solved-by-scientists/ar
 BBDO5V
 I KNOW RIGHT?!???
 I can't help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual
 documents saying "it was done with this and this", and some old rich
 white guys looked at it and went "oh mirth, the ancients were so silly
 They probably wrote this basic stuff down and the actual builders had
 Secret Techniques we need to Discover
 For a long time, archeologists didn't know how greek women did their
 high-piled braids and hair. There was a word that translated to
 "needle" in the descriptions. They went, "seems like we'll never
 know." Then a hairdresser took a fucking needle (big needle) and did
 the fucking thing you do with needles, which is sew - and by sewing the
 braids into place, she replicated ancient styles.
 The Egyptians had diagrams of construction steps for their pyramids.
 Archeologists went "oooh, ancient primitive people, how they do
 this?" LITERALLY MYTHBUSTERS OR THE OLD DISCOVERY CHANNEL
 or someone went "what if we did the thing the pictures said they did"
 AND GUESS FUCKING WHAT. GUESS FUCKING WHAT
 Also that thing with native Americans saying squirrels taught therm
 how to get sap for maple syrup, and colonizers going "that's a myth
 swea
 Sincerely, if the scientists had to do actual analysis like spectroscopy or
 whatever, kudos, and no flame. But swear to god, if all these years,
 we've had the recipes and there was just this fuckin institutional bias
 against just TRYING THE THING THEY SAID WOULD WORK, HELLFIRE
 AND DEMENTIA
 In this case, it was more they had roman writings saying what went into it
 but figured there was some secret because when they followed roman
 recipes it never turned out quite right.
 Because the sources left by Romans always just said to mix with water
 Because, if you were a Roman??? Obviouslyyou knew that you used
 seawater for cement. Duh. That's so obvious that they never really
 bothered specifying that you use seawater to mix it, because it wasn't
 necessary, everyone knew that.
 But then the empire fell, other empires rose and fell, time passed, and by
 the time we were trying to reconstruct the formula the 'mix the dry
 ingredients with seawater' trick had been forgotten, until chemical
 analysis finally figured it out again.
 It's sort of like the land of Punt, a ally of Egypt that's mentioned all the
 time, but we don't actually know where it was located. Because it isn't
 written down anywhere. Why would they write it down? It's Punt.
 Everyone knew where Punt was back then. It'd be ridiculous to waste the
 ink and space to specify where it was, every child knows about Punt.
 3000 years later and we have no damned clue where it was, simply because
 at the time it was so blindingly obvious that it was never written down.
 So moral of storv is be specific
 I was thinking it was stupid that they didn't specify seawater but then I had the
 thought that we don't specify
 to use chicken eggs in baking because DUH so we
 write eggs
 2000 years in the future people are going to be making scrambled fish eggs and
 crying be the ancient recipes make no sense
I wonder what bits of todays common knowledge will be lost to time
                
            

            
            
I wonder what bits of todays common knowledge will be lost to time

            
            
        

    



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    


    

        
        
    




                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            




    Baseball, Books, and Christmas: What?
enterprising-gentleman:
the-fandoms-are-cool:

fantasticbeastmovie:

the-fandoms-are-cool:

can we please talk about this

# 1998 is a hard year for jackie # even working two jobs money is tight # (especially with rose’s gymnastic lessons # but rose loves them and jackie will sell her own kidneys to ensure she can keep attending) # and christmas is just around the corner # she looks over her books and feels ill: # she simply can’t afford to get rose any proper gift this year # and it breaks her heart # because rose is so excited # she loves christmas # keeps saying how she hopes it’ll snow this year # proper like # and christmas eve jackie is up late # worrying and hating how disappointed rose is gonna be come morning # when she wakes up to see the floor is almost empty beneath the tree # and that’s when there’s a knock at the door # she opens it # (with a baseball bat at the ready - it’s late on the estate after all) # and there’s no one there # just a red child-sized bike # with a note attached # ‘she’s gonna be fantastic’ it reads in messy loopy handwriting # ‘merry christmas’ # and normally she’d be worried about weirdos and stalkers but tonight # tonight it’s christmas eve and jackie tyler knows when not to look a gift horse in the mouth # so she hauls it inside quiet as she can # and the next morning when she’s awoken by the sound of rose crashing her new bike # into the hallway mirror # shrieking in delight the entire time # she takes a moment to say a silent thank you (via)

and now I’m crying

#oh my god#what if he just got that idea like right then#and said it to her#and then went and did it#and since their timelines aren’t parallel there’s no paradox (x)

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Baseball, Books, and Christmas: What?
enterprising-gentleman:
the-fandoms-are-cool:

fantasticbeastmovie:

the-fandoms-are-cool:

can we please talk about this

# 1998 is a hard year for jackie # even working two jobs money is tight # (especially with rose’s gymnastic lessons # but rose loves them and jackie will sell her own kidneys to ensure she can keep attending) # and christmas is just around the corner # she looks over her books and feels ill: # she simply can’t afford to get rose any proper gift this year # and it breaks her heart # because rose is so excited # she loves christmas # keeps saying how she hopes it’ll snow this year # proper like # and christmas eve jackie is up late # worrying and hating how disappointed rose is gonna be come morning # when she wakes up to see the floor is almost empty beneath the tree # and that’s when there’s a knock at the door # she opens it # (with a baseball bat at the ready - it’s late on the estate after all) # and there’s no one there # just a red child-sized bike # with a note attached # ‘she’s gonna be fantastic’ it reads in messy loopy handwriting # ‘merry christmas’ # and normally she’d be worried about weirdos and stalkers but tonight # tonight it’s christmas eve and jackie tyler knows when not to look a gift horse in the mouth # so she hauls it inside quiet as she can # and the next morning when she’s awoken by the sound of rose crashing her new bike # into the hallway mirror # shrieking in delight the entire time # she takes a moment to say a silent thank you (via)

and now I’m crying

#oh my god#what if he just got that idea like right then#and said it to her#and then went and did it#and since their timelines aren’t parallel there’s no paradox (x)

                
                

                
            

            
            
enterprising-gentleman:
the-fandoms-are-cool:

fantasticbeastmovie:

the-fandoms-are-cool:

can we please talk about this

# 1998 is a hard ...

            
            
        

    



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            




    Apparently, Bodies , and Books: :Doctor Sohna
 le vononr
 Quis non doberctjche egihey
 an anges tiabwngt
 artar Eucß
 nasmeen langen Sc
 u
 hurmit deutar figrasmanthian.und georaucl
fvckthisreality:
zacharielaughingalonewithsalad:

cellarspider:

twinkletwinkleyoulittlefuck:

purrsianstuck:

During the Bubonic Plague, doctors wore these bird-like masks to avoid becoming sick. They would fill the beaks with spices and rose petals, so they wouldn’t have to smell the rotting bodies.
A theory during the Bubonic Plague was that the plague was caused by evil spirits. To scare the spirits away, the masks were intentionally designed to be creepy.

Mission fucking accomplished

Okay so I love this but it doesn’t cover the half of why the design is awesome and actually borders on making sense.
It wasn’t just that they didn’t want to smell the infected and dead, they thought it was crucial to protecting themselves. They had no way of knowing about what actually caused the plague, and so one of the other theories was that the smell of the infected all by itself was evil and could transmit the plague. So not only would they fill their masks with aromatic herbs and flowers, they would also burn fires in public areas, so that the smell of the smoke would “clear the air”. This all related to the miasma theory of contagion, which was one of the major theories out there until the 19th century. And it makes sense, in a way. Plague victims smelled awful, and there’s a general correlation between horrible septic smells and getting horribly sick if you’re around what causes them for too long.
You can see now that we’ve got two different theories as to what caused the plague that were worked into the design. That’s because the whole thing was an attempt by the doctors to cover as many bases as they could think of, and we’re still not done.
The glass eyepieces. They were either darkened or red, not something you generally want to have to contend with when examining patients. But the plague might be spread by eye contact via the evil eye, so best to ward that off too.
The illustration shows a doctor holding a stick. This was an examination tool, that helped the doctors keep some distance between themselves and the infected. They already had gloves on, but the extra level of separation was apparently deemed necessary. You could even take a pulse with it. Or keep people the fuck away from you, which was apparently a documented use.
Finally, the robe. It’s not just to look fancy, the cloth was waxed, as were all of the rest of their clothes. What’s one of the properties of wax? Water-based fluids aren’t absorbed by it. This was the closest you could get to a sterile, fully protecting garment back then. Because at least one person along the line was smart enough to think “Gee, I’d really rather not have the stuff coming out of those weeping sores anywhere on my person”.
So between all of these there’s a real sense that a lot of real thought was put into making sure the doctors were protected, even if they couldn’t exactly be sure from what. They worked with what information they had. And frankly, it’s a great design given what was available! You limit exposure to aspirated liquids, limit exposure to contaminated liquids already present, you limit contact with the infected. You also don’t give fleas any really good place to hop onto. That’s actually useful.
Beyond that, there were contracts the doctors would sign before they even got near a patient. They were to be under quarantine themselves, they wouldn’t treat patients without a custodian monitoring them and helping when something had to be physically contacted, and they would not treat non-plague patients for the duration. There was an actual system in place by the time the plague doctors really became a thing to make sure they didn’t infect anyone either.
These guys were the product of the scientific process at work, and the scientific process made a bitchin’ proto-hazmat suit. And containment protocols!

reblogging for the sweet history lesson

Reblogging because of the History lesson and because the masks, the masks are cool

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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zacharielaughingalonewithsalad:

cellarspider:

twinkletwinkleyoulittlefuck:

purrsianstuck:

During the Bubonic Plague, doctors wore these bird-like masks to avoid becoming sick. They would fill the beaks with spices and rose petals, so they wouldn’t have to smell the rotting bodies.
A theory during the Bubonic Plague was that the plague was caused by evil spirits. To scare the spirits away, the masks were intentionally designed to be creepy.

Mission fucking accomplished

Okay so I love this but it doesn’t cover the half of why the design is awesome and actually borders on making sense.
It wasn’t just that they didn’t want to smell the infected and dead, they thought it was crucial to protecting themselves. They had no way of knowing about what actually caused the plague, and so one of the other theories was that the smell of the infected all by itself was evil and could transmit the plague. So not only would they fill their masks with aromatic herbs and flowers, they would also burn fires in public areas, so that the smell of the smoke would “clear the air”. This all related to the miasma theory of contagion, which was one of the major theories out there until the 19th century. And it makes sense, in a way. Plague victims smelled awful, and there’s a general correlation between horrible septic smells and getting horribly sick if you’re around what causes them for too long.
You can see now that we’ve got two different theories as to what caused the plague that were worked into the design. That’s because the whole thing was an attempt by the doctors to cover as many bases as they could think of, and we’re still not done.
The glass eyepieces. They were either darkened or red, not something you generally want to have to contend with when examining patients. But the plague might be spread by eye contact via the evil eye, so best to ward that off too.
The illustration shows a doctor holding a stick. This was an examination tool, that helped the doctors keep some distance between themselves and the infected. They already had gloves on, but the extra level of separation was apparently deemed necessary. You could even take a pulse with it. Or keep people the fuck away from you, which was apparently a documented use.
Finally, the robe. It’s not just to look fancy, the cloth was waxed, as were all of the rest of their clothes. What’s one of the properties of wax? Water-based fluids aren’t absorbed by it. This was the closest you could get to a sterile, fully protecting garment back then. Because at least one person along the line was smart enough to think “Gee, I’d really rather not have the stuff coming out of those weeping sores anywhere on my person”.
So between all of these there’s a real sense that a lot of real thought was put into making sure the doctors were protected, even if they couldn’t exactly be sure from what. They worked with what information they had. And frankly, it’s a great design given what was available! You limit exposure to aspirated liquids, limit exposure to contaminated liquids already present, you limit contact with the infected. You also don’t give fleas any really good place to hop onto. That’s actually useful.
Beyond that, there were contracts the doctors would sign before they even got near a patient. They were to be under quarantine themselves, they wouldn’t treat patients without a custodian monitoring them and helping when something had to be physically contacted, and they would not treat non-plague patients for the duration. There was an actual system in place by the time the plague doctors really became a thing to make sure they didn’t infect anyone either.
These guys were the product of the scientific process at work, and the scientific process made a bitchin’ proto-hazmat suit. And containment protocols!

reblogging for the sweet history lesson

Reblogging because of the History lesson and because the masks, the masks are cool

                
            

            
            
fvckthisreality:
zacharielaughingalonewithsalad:

cellarspider:

twinkletwinkleyoulittlefuck:

purrsianstuck:

During the Bubonic Plague, do...