#leper colony

[thethcministry]

[sweettoothnerd]

It’s hard, isn’t it? Describing a person in only words, when they can hold whole worlds in them.

[immmundus]

stamp seal of the leprosorium Beiderwies in Passau (Photo: Oberhausmuseum Passau)

[scotianostra]

On November 21st 1591 a group of Carmelite Friars (also known as White Friars) established a Lepers Hospital in a “sheltered spot called Greenside, near the northern skirts of the Calton Hill”

The Greyfriars or Franciscan church (of the Observant branch of the order) stood in the Grassmarket until it was destroyed by fire in 1845. The Whitefriars of Carmelites did not settle in Edinburgh until 1518. Their house of Greenside, near the Calton Hill, was transformed at the Dissolution into a lepers' hospital.

The 18th century  Maitlands History of Edinburgh, gives us a wee bit about the area;

"King James II. by his charter of the twentieth of his reign anno 1456 granted to the Edinburghers a spot of ground on the northeastern side of the Craigend gate, and eastern side of the pathway Leading to Leith whereon to hold Tilts and Tournaments at presents Called the Greenside, This piece of ground in the year 1520 was by the Common Council of Edinburgh with consent of the King and Archbishop of St. Andrews, granted to certain Carmelite Friars to erect a convent on which proved of no long duration. for John Robertson a merchant in Edinburgh, pursuant to a vow, on his receiving a signal mercy from god erected by a licence from the town council, on the Site of the Said Monastery an house or hospital for leprous persons to be under the direction & government of the Said Council who appointed a committee to Settle the Same who drew up certain very severe Constitutions to be observed by them, under no less a penalty than that of being hanged; and to shew they were in earnest ordered a gibbet to be erected at one end of the said hospital to enforce the observation of their Statutes."

When the Hospital was in existence the field in which it was situated was called 'The Hangman's Acre'. This name arose in consequence of a Gallows being placed at each corner of the building on which the keeper had the power without trial to hang any leper whom he found escaping The monastery was built in 1526. At the north end of Greenside Row is a pump which was formerly Rood Well of Greenside belonging to Friars.

Recently a project saw forensic artists digitally reconstruct faces from skulls found in a cemetery at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, including a woman with leprosy, who may have been a tailor, and a man who was likely a peasant.  So it seems the lepers may have only escaped the confnes of the leper colony in death.

Archaeologists initially excavated the cathedral's cemeteries in the 1980s and 1990s, ahead of a construction project and subsequent archaeological investigations. In all, the researchers found more than 100 burials dating from the 12th to the mid-16th centuries. The skeletons were then archived for future study.

The woman with leprosy, as seen in the pic, was likely between the ages of 35 and 40 when she died in the mid-15th to 16th century. The extent of her leprosy lesions suggests that she contracted the disease in adulthood. 

Greenside is now the home to the Omni Centre, housing bars and restaurants. Rockstar games also have their offices in another part of the complex leading up to Leith Street.

[paulpingminho]

[onlyhurtforaminute]

LEPER COLONY-THE SURGICAL UNDEADVORS

[themetalwanderlust]

Track Premiere: Rapture Addict - Leper Colony

Track Premiere: Rapture Addict – Leper Colony

Today we have the extreme pleasure of premiering a track from the upcoming self-titled release by Leper Colony, a death metal band featuring vocalist Marc Grewe (Morgoth), drummer Jon Skäre (Consumption), and the one and only Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Furnace, Those Who Bring the Torture, and over forty other bands actively releasing albums) on guitar and bass. Their sound is a hook-filled…

[loptrcoptr]

toooldforthis.jpg

[masterpieceofunderstatement]

[sweettoothnerd]

I understand, and I have not cried. I have shrunk inside, all my tears dry and stuck, like a nut lodged in my throat.

[tropical-fruit-mx]

they took down the full video of the airport for birds opening number and i'm so sad it's objectively so funny and i used to have it memorized and now i can't find it and i'm so pissed i might fukcing pay for the digital download on their site simply because i want to hear this tune so bad

[obsessive-compulsive-destroyer]

Not to be contrarian but I don't get the sense that The Thing "flinch[ed] away from the impossibility of intimacy in general", like it makes it p clear that the American research base's inhabitants have already (apparently comfortably) succumbed to that. Mariana Colín put it p succinctly, that they are less a team and more a group of individuals who have learned to live alone together, and that's before an alien ever comes into the picture. The incursion of the Thing is then a way to demonstrate how our revulsion towards infection and disease is simultaneously a part of the human condition and an impulse that motivates us to act inhumanely and dehumanize the afflicted (or, those who we think are or might be the afflicted).

I’m drawn to the concept of movies like The Thing but utterly uninterested in actually watching body horror stuff.

[bsd-bibliophile]

Nobody likes me, so I’ve made up my mind to go to work in a leper colony, since nobody likes lepers either. The best way for me to live is to cut off all ties with the world.

Oda Sakunosuke, “Six White Venus” from Stories of Osaka Life

[bonefall]

.. opinions on wind runner? i feel like im one of the only ones that genuinely hates her sometimes

If you feel like the only one who genuinely hates her, I think you need to look around more. Wind Runner is a very widely disliked character, because she's often used within the story as a small antagonist who "threatens" the authority of Tall Shadow. Gray Wing dislikes her. Thunder is openly cat-racist to her. She spends several books trying to break through the moor cats' xenophobia to join a group that came to HER LAND.

Then, when Moth Flight is old enough to be a relevant character in Forest Divided, Wind Runner is turned into Yet Another mean mom the very moment Moth displays ADHD. She's contrasted to her mate Gorse Fur, who is a Soft And Good Dad, and ultimately MASSIVELY punished with the harrowing events of Moth Flight's Vision (even though, for most of that book, she's completely right.)

Ask yourself why they're especially harsh on WIND RUNNER for being mean to her child, in the arc with Tom the Fucking Wifebeater and his redemption death, plus Thunder being forced to stop being mad at his abuser Clear Sky, please.

To me, Wind Runner is an intense, ambitious woman who's demonized for it in a way that men just aren't. She's subject to several misogynistic trends within WC, plus a huge helping of xenophobia that goes absolutely unexamined. If DOTC cared at all about women, it would have treated her with the nuance she deserves.

Wind Runner is treated with nearly endless suspicion by Gray Wing through books 1 - 3, while he's bending over backwards to suck Clear Sky's toes.

Her wanting to join the group that came TO HER HOME and being a bit pushy about it earns a stronger reaction from Gray Wing than Clear Sky murdering people.

She's pressured into changing her name "to fit in," and it's still not enough. She wanted to join the group so bad she changed her name, at the request of the Mountain Cats, for a chance of being better accepted

This came after she'd already saved Jagged Peak's life when a burrow collapsed on him. She's plenty trustworthy.

She keeps doing shit to try and prove herself to this group of assholes. Remember Bumble being dragged back to her domestic abuser? Gray Wing interprets this as a power struggle, when WIND RUNNER WAS NOT EVEN PART OF THE GROUP AT THE TIME.

From Wind Runner's POV, she did something that the Moor cats wanted done. It was fucking evil. It was committing violence against another member of the out-group the cats see her as.

But who actually has the power here? Tall Shadow does.

Gray Wing said it himself that she could have come up with some excuse for Bumble to stay, and she didn't. In fact, any cat could have spoken up. No one did.

and still. STILL. Wind Runner gets nothing. Her reward is Gray Wing surmising that actually, her doing their sick dirtywork was a political move.

It's more consistent as a motivation with how Wind Runner wants to join their group. The thing she's been doing.

She only actually gets to join the group after Thunder starts publicly hurling slurs at her for suggesting they need to be ready for Clear Sky to attack them. "What do you know about peace? Last time I was here you were NOTHING BUT A ROGUE WITH A ROGUE'S NAME"

Gray Wing even starts purring when she gives birth, because her ambition goes away briefly and she "stops bossing everyone around." this is treated like a sweet thing. god forbid women retain their personalities when they have kids

She loses her first premature child to a seizure and Gray Wing starts proselytizing his religion to her. "Maybe it's a good thing your weakest child died because Jesus has them now" I want to beat him with a hammer

When her second child gets sick, Clear Sky has a bright idea that involves killing it. I refer to this as his "reverse leper colony" suggestion. He only develops a sense of humanity towards the sick when his brother's pregnant wife is in danger. Wind Runner and her kitten barely seem to clock as people to him.

It's only after her SECOND baby succumbs to a horrible, painful death that she decides the moor cats are assholes, and she goes to start her own group. It's LONG overdue. I was extremely excited to see it.

Now. Listen.

I've been treated just like Moth Flight before. I've practically heard the scolding in Book 6 Chapter 3 verbatim. I'm not downplaying anything about Wind Runner being harsh to her; being yelled at like that never fixed the problem.

What I'm saying is that this is the SAME arc that summons the hollowed-out ghost of Storm to coo that Clear Sky "never drove anyone away" with his abusive behavior and gives Tom the Wifebeater a heroic redemption death.

So why is the scolding from Wind Runner treated as unambiguously harsh? What's the difference between her and them?

Why is it that outside of this little bubble of the community, you can get buried in a flood of people crying about how "Clear Sky made Summisteaks Butt he thought it was the right thing :((( He feels bad about shoving Thunder's face in a weeping, pus-filled wound and trying to kill him :((((" but Wind Runner is mean about Moth Flight not catching a rabbit and she should be skinned alive

Why is WIND RUNNER held responsible for the death of Clear Sky's child in Moth Flight's Vision, WHEN IT WAS COMPLETELY HIS OWN FAULT??

So, why should I hate her? Because she's mean to the idiot protagonists? Because she's Yet Another Bad Mom whose actions ARE treated as Bad in the story, in the arc famous for openly weeping whenever someone's mad at their abusive dad?? When she has this whole horrific, unexamined story about how incredibly bigoted The Settlers are towards her and the extremes she goes to in order to please them?

I'm glad she's mean, actually. She should have been even meaner. I think she should have a gun

[exeggcute]

interesting links roundup #4

reading

A language of beautiful impurity

The Boeing Nosedive

California’s $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage Sees No Job Loss, Slight Price Hikes

Don’t build your castle in other people’s kingdoms

Inside the $621 Million Legal Battle for the ‘Soul of the Internet’

My Mother’s Envy Will Outlive Us Both

On 17th century "cocaine"

Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster

Stunning photos of a vast e-waste dumping ground — and those who make a living off it

The Time I Built an ROV to Solve Missing Person Cases

Warren Hern, America’s Abortion Doctor

What Google’s U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies Means for Chrome Privacy

Where Did You Go, Ms. Pac-Man?

tools/reference

The Anglish Times

Falling Fruit

Grad school calculator

other

Abandoned mines cover the West

Bop Spotter

Wikipedia: Leper colony money