#mellification

[crowthebadhunter]

when your friend dies to bees

[themightythornicus]

What if you locked me in a tomb and I ate nothing but honey until I died and then you mummified me in honey and 100 years later opened up my sarcophagus and ate my mellified body for medicinal purposes? 😳 haha just kidding😜…unless..?🤔

[sordidmorbid]

" all the nerves in my brain and the blood in my veins made of CANDY "

(candy - nelward)

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

The Mellification by Nat Buchbinder

goodreads

Holly is a young transgender vampire in an underground society that values patience as their principle virtue. But as Holly watches his community become more isolated and reluctant to act in the face of danger, he begins to question if it might be better to leave. THE MELLIFICATION begins with Holly’s request for a new name, a sacred rite of passage in his colony. Holly’s request is denied, and he is told by both his spiritual leader Hierophant Marlowe, and his lover Cain, that he must be more patient. But just outside the tranquil gates of Green Hill Cemetery— where these vampires make their home in elaborate hidden catacombs—hostile forces seek to wipe all vampires off the face of the Earth. Holly’s new goal is to escape this claustrophobic colony before it is too late.

Mod opinion: I haven't heard of this book before, but it sounds super interesting!

[bisexualmadney]

nick is so bitchy and unsubtle it's hilarious. i'm obsessed with him.

[indoraptorgirlwind]

Wesen Moodboards

Mellifer (Latin: Honey To Bear)

Mellifers are a communal race who live in small groups ruled by the Mellischwuler with the others acting as her "worker bees." In the Wesen society, they fulfill the role of clarions, sending warning calls within the creature world. Like real bees, Mellifers operate with a "hive mentality" and live in man-made, human sized "hives." They tend to build those "hives" in the attics of houses, where they harvest their own apitoxin (bee venom).

Under normal circumstance, Mellifers aren't aggressive unless they feel threatened. However, when they do sometimes go after someone with the intent to kill, they use coordinated strategies to disguise their attack. Hexenbiests are their sworn enemies, and Mellifers often kill them on sight. Mellifers also have a tendency to wear yellow or yellow and black patterned clothing, sometimes personalizing some of their belongings as well, such as cell phones, with that coloration.

Notables: Melissa Wincroft, Doug Shellow, Elliot Spinella, John Coleman

[radiojamming]

H.........Honey Mummy? what

mellification, babeyyyyy! you die of honey overdose (on purpose), someone sticks you in honey (on purpose), and about a century later you are now a medicinal treat (as in edible).

[goremannull]

Excerpt from ‘Mellification Eternal’

“But it is impossible to find just by looking deep inside yourself. As the soul is inter connected with the flesh of our body fogs the third eye. So to see the imprint of God we would need to separate the body from the soul. But this is hard to do to the self so we must capture the soul of another and then view it from there.

I believe that a method of doing this has already been discovered: the mellified man. An ancient Arabian process of mummification involving sacrifice. The only issue is this variation of the process focuses on the flesh not the soul. It cures damages to the body. But by adding the alchemical compound: [ILLEGIBLE] it focuses on the preservation of the soul. We can then use this solution to reach enlightenment."

Our founder, Aldous Henwick's founding thesis 1764.

These are the words that lead us to enlightenment. Two years later Aldous shed his mortal shell and became enlightened.

Our understanding of the mellication process dictates that you should add the chemicals to the honey before mummification for the best results. Though adding the chemicals post mellification the results will be less efficient and may prove toxic.

The process works as the chemicals in the honey change the crystallization process so that the structure changes to capture the soul instead of the flesh. The consumption of this substance will open the third eye because the soul in the honey will enter your mind and you can easily view it and it will reflect your own. Knowing what your own soul contains helps sharpen the third eye.

The modern mellified man does still involve the self sacrifice that the ancient variation did. Though instead of dying of malnutrition, we take a solution of the chemicals which places you in a deep near endless sleep. The mummification in the honey will then separate the soul from flesh killing the body but the soul will live on. We are certain that this process will help the sacrifice reach enlightenment too.

As for me I have been elected to stay behind to bring others to God for what can a religion become without a prophet. I hope in doing this I too will reach enlightenment.

Excerpt from the diary of Aldous Henwick

6th October 1766 : I have got it. The honey of enlightenment, the food of the Gods. While it is impure by using my alchemical skills I can make it show me God. I have ⁸obtained two months' supply. it may have cost a small fortune but it will all be worth it.

8th October 1766: Two days I have been taking it. I have experienced no effects. The taste though the taste it is curious. The mouth is filled with good and evil. The glorious taste of honey is vilified by the flesh of the poor soul that sullied this honey. Nevertheless I shall persist, no one ever said gaining enlightenment would be painless.

13th October 1766: Oh joy! Only one week in and the treatment is working. I'm thinking on a higher plane. My third eye must be opening.

18th October 1766: My eyes have now adjusted to my enlightened mind. I now see what lesser ones can't. I saw my late great uncle at breakfast today, and made a servant fetch him some food. Despite his objection that no-one else was at the table. I do also believe that I saw an angle. It did not say a thing but its look told me all I needed to know.

19th October 1766: I have discovered these ghastly figures that lurk within my abode. I can't believe that I could not see them before and now I'm disgusted that I could even live in the same house as those beasts. They are so strange, they take a human shape but are pure black and all of them are in some way deformed. One I saw with an extremely stretched and twisted next . Another had one elongated arm and one swollen bulbous arm. Yet another had two heads which were horrifically fused together. I've only seen them at the end of corridors in my home. I pray I'm never near them.

25th October 1766: one of those horrid beasts charged me, in my own home! I heard it rambling and crying. When I went towards it. It charged me. I can't even forget those terrible seconds out of my head. How I wish I couldn't see clearly? Those cursed bloodstained eyes. Worse still its jaws, its jaws. They were like Satan's very own. They were crooked, some chipped but all rotten and razor sharp. I pray for my protection.

31st October 1766: The beasts hound me. I've had to lock myself in my bed chamber. They charge me in the corridors and hunt me in my home. Even still they taunt me from the other side of my door. The beasts scream my name. Even in this stronghold if I look away from the corners I risk inviting those wretches in. Is this a test or a punishment from God? I will try to hold on but I fear I may not reach the end.

2nd November 1766: Am I a fool or Am I a martyr. Either way I shall see God. [More is written but it's illegible].

Newspaper excerpt titled dated 1766:

The Curious Death of Aldous Henwick

On the 6th of November local aristocrat Aldous Henwick was found dead in his bed chamber under exceedingly strange circumstances. Firstly, he seemed to have died of malnutrition despite their being in his own well stocked manor. When servants were questioned about this, one replied,"He had locked himself in his quarters with no food nor drink except that damn honey for five days straight. Any time I check on him, he would scream back to leave him in peace."

That conveniently brings me to the second point Henwick seemed to have frequently been consuming honey which when inspected further contained some amounts of a toxic chemical, another possible cause of death.

My third point, a coroner inspecting the body claimed to have seen claw marks all across the body. Though all called to check didn't claim to see any. This however is most likely the hallucinations of an old feeble mind.

The most interesting point I have seen is the will. Which amongst other details emphasizes that 'Aldous Henwick should be mummified in honey.' This ludicrous demand has stumped the undertakers. Though if it is to go through it has been estimated that shall bring Henwick's estate into bankruptcy.

[extemporary-picrews]

Link

[snowshinobi]

sipping strawberry-sage kombucha thinkin this ... is what blond cranberries would taste like

[sleepnoises]

stickers that the postal system willing i will have at this year's San Francisco Zine Fest, Sunday September 1 at City View at the Metreon (tabling with the astonishing @mellific!)

i will also have tiny little ceramic guys, a few block printed bandanas, and a delicate smattering of Zines

[transgenderswagcompetitions]

Okay! So I don't have an official bracket yet, but I finally got every character written down and determined who will be automatically going on to Round 1 and who will have to compete in preliminaries. Everyone automatically moving on to Round 1 had more than 1 submission, while everyone in the preliminaries only had 1 submission.

I will put together an official bracket tomorrow, but here's the list of competitors!

The characters automatically going on to Round 1 are:

Alex Fierro from Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard (4 submissions)

Shi Qingxuan from Heaven Official's Blessing (2 submissions)

Cheery Littlebottom from Discworld (2 submissions)

Nimona from Nimona (2 submissions)

Elle Argent from Heartstopper (2 submissions)

Eolo from The Raven Tower (2 submissions)

Anthony J. Crowley from Good Omens (2 submissions)

Kade West from Wayward Children (2 submissions)

Kel Brezon from Machineries of Empire (2 submissions)

The characters that will be competing in the Preliminaries are:

Rafe from Viscera

Rafe from The House of Whispers

Ash from DIE

Ash from Girl Haven

Jerico Soberanis from The Toll

Nadir from The Thirty Names of Night

Holly from The Mellification

Petrichor from Saga

Kazuhito "Kirito" Kirigaya from Sword Art Online

Aster Vanissen from Witch Boy

Sherlock Holmes from Sherlock Holmes

Vess from Invisible Kingdom

Tonkee Innovator Dibars from The Broken Earth Trilogy

Ben Van Brunt from Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

Shuos Zehun from Machineries of Empire

Villy from Basil and Oregano

Valentine Weis from World Running Down

Howl Pendragon from Howl's Moving Castle

Hero from Something's Not Right

Dominic Seneschal from Terra Ignota

Firestar from Warriors

Enjolras from Les Miserables

Beatrice from Umineko no Naku Koro Ni

Axolotl from Wings of Fire

Isa from Transmuted

Inspector Javert from Les Miserables

Addy from Basil and Oregano

June Egbert from Homestuck

Alto from Your Mind is a Terrible Thing

David from Dark Currents

Monique from The Worm and His Kings

Viola Carroll from A Lady for a Duke

Will Avery from Names for the Dawn

Qven-and-Reet from Translation State

Syd from The Heartbreak Bakery

Claire/Claude from Baker Thief

Cersei Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire

Will Treaty from Ranger's Apprentice

Starflight from Wings of Fire

Yadriel from Cemetery Boys

Zila from Aurora Cycle

Kaladin Stormblessed from The Stormlight Archive

AR/Lil Hal from Homestuck

Zoe from Sleepless Domain

Sera from Angela: Queen of Hel

Max Owen from Magical Boy

Jonathan Harker from Dracula

Diana Wrayburn from The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Abraham Van Helsing from Dracula

Never from Skulduggery Pleasant

Benji/Benjamin from Hell Followed With Us

Brick from Warriors

Sidra from Wayfarers

Sascha Vykos from Vampire: The Masquerade

Penfield from Future Feeling

Sallot Leon from Mask of Shadows

Ieshwi from The Stormlight Archive

Vriska Serket from Homestuck

Orlando from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Spencer Harris from The Passing Playbook

Jane Crocker from Homestuck

Lupe from Four Leaf

Trina Goldberg-Oneka from The Seep

Cassandra Igarashi from The Wicked + The Divine

Aya Burnstein from Dancing in the Devils Auditorium

Lucus from High Class Homos

Merlin from The Left Handed Booksellers of London

Nightheart from Warriors

Sol from Dead Collections

Max from Magical Boy

Artemis Fowl from Artemis Fowl

Teo from The Sunbearer Duology

Wanda from The Sandman

Tal Smithson from Time to Orbit: Unknown

Petey the Cat from Dog Man

Captain Artemisia Blastside from Piratica

Rosa from Threads That Bind

Alter Boi from House of Whispers

Wegg from Be Kind, My Neighbor

Loki from Loki: Agent of Asgard

Scorn from Emergent Properties

Alanna of Trebond from The Song of the Lionness

Marcia Overstrand from Septimus Heap

Sage from Strawberry Seafoam

Jules from The Chromatic Fantasy

Peter Parker from The Amazing Spider-Man

Razia Khan from Stealing Thunder

Dipper Pines from the Gravity Falls comics

Mel from Something's Not Right

Hero Shackleby from American Hippo

Kino from Kino's Journey

The Marquis de Carabas from Neverwhere

River Runson from The Melting Queen

Jonathan Morgan from All the White Spaces

Leigh Hunter from Grey Dawn

Xada from LoveBot

Ienaga Kano from Golden Kamuy

Viola/Cesario from Twelfth Night

Silas Bell from The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Let me know if I accidentally have a character on this list twice! Also let me know if you see anything misspelled or under the wrong book or series. Basically, let me know if I've screwed up lol

Thank you all for your continued patience!

[cryptid-on-a-string]

not so unpopular opinion but spirit phone is one of the WEAKEST lemon demon albums. yeah it has excellent sound quality and u can see how neil have improved as an artist compared to older albums (this is why it's so good received by most critics), i won't lie, but it critically lacks that charm of, for example, clown circus, lfthcs, httjb, damn skippy and as well as his deporitaz/trapezoid era music. sp lacks that quirkness. i can see how neil wanted to focus on more serious topics (which his older works also had, like in dinosaurchestra and some songs from httjb too!) and i can't shame him for it. it's just doesn't work properly with spirit phone. it needs some more silly stuff too!! sp needs more meaningless, weird and obscure (do y'all even remember mold en mono?) lyrics and calling cabinet man peak of ld's weirdness is a blatant spit in the face. sprit phone is just soulless, lacking individuality of older lemon demon, for what it was so beloved.

While I somewhat agree that spirit phone has come to be overplayed and too focused-on by now, I definitely don’t think it is weak, uncreative, or anything close to soulless at all. It just happened to be the one album that became the most popular one. (I blame tiktok personally, but it could be a number of other factors, I might be biased bc I just hate tiktok and I am quick to blame it for stuff idk)

Sure, it dabbles with more serious tones than many of his other songs, but personally I think that just makes it more special in a way, and it’s fun to see Neil’s songwriting skills evolve over time, since the album took quite a few years to make. I can see where you’re coming from, saying how it needs more silly stuff like all the previous albums, however that might take away from what makes Spirit Phone so much different from all of Neil’s other works. It’s what makes SP an original and creative addition to the discography, so to say.

Spirit Phone taking itself more seriously is what makes it so outstanding, because Neil hadn’t yet done anything quite like it before.

As for the content of the songs themselves, I can kind of see what you’re getting at when you say the older albums have a little more strange content, but I still think Spirit Phone hold up pretty well in the creativity department! It’s got ghosts, (a recurring motif, with the repeating white/noise ghost sound effects sprinkled in between some of the songs), eldritch beings, corpse mellification, a death/rebirth storyline, and general unexplained mysteries, all tied together through abundant synths and overall 80’s aura to it all. All the songs still pull through nicely with their unusual motifs and intriguing narratives. Although the amount of Lemon Demon’s trademark wackiness isn’t quite as condensed in this album as the others, (with more serious tracks such as As Your Father, I Earn My Life, and Spiral of Ants), there is definitely still enough of it to make it fit in the previous albums, and enough serious content to make it stand out from the rest!

Don’t get me wrong, the other Lemon Demon albums are quite amazing and dear to me too! (Damn Skippy stands out as one of my favorites myself) but I also acknowledge how much care and thought was put into the originality of Spirit Phone. Sure, it might have come to be overplayed and memed to death by the internet after all these years, but it is still deserving of praise and genuine appreciation. I personally think it has earned its title as one of the most beloved Lemon Demon albums.

[wonderfulcinderella]

Tell me again about Aleko and him being buried in honey and how they couldn’t find his tomb? And Caesar ?

Oh boy I'm SO glad you asked! Buckle up 'cause it's gonna be a wiiiiiild ride. First things first, what do we know?

Aleko, better known as Alexander the Great, died on June 10th 323 BC (or so). His body was laid in a gold sarcophagus that was filled with honey.

Ptolemy I. buried Aleko in Memphis in Egypt; after the tomb in Alexandria was finished, Alekos body was transfered to Alexandria. Ptolemy IV. replaced Alekos tomb with a new one, and Ptolemy X. replaced Alekos sarcophagus with a glass one.

Caesar, Augustus, Septimus Severus and Caracalla have verifiably visited the grave.

Knowledge of the actual location of Alekos burial site has been lost since around the 5th century AD - and until today.

In chinese medicine, the (alleged) mellification is mentioned, after which a deceased person was preserved in honey. After about a century, the body is said to have transformed into some kind of confection that is said to have had a healing effect.

Ground egyptian mummies were proven to have been swallowed as medicine (mumia) in europe.

So, long story short: I'm not saying Caesar ate (parts of) Alexander the Great, but maybe Caesar ate (parts of) Alexander the Great.

[indoraptorgirlwind]

AVENGERS GRIMM AU

Woged avengers drawings

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Based on this idea

T'Challa. Balam

Stephen Strange. Zauberbiest

James Rhodes. Dämonfeuer

Hope Van Dyne. Mellifer

Didn't put Carol because i got so frustrated with her face and just couldn't draw it properly.

[radiojamming]

PLEASE tell us more about mummy types, i know ice is your fave so feel free to go ham on that but all of them are so interesting to me

drives up in my cozy coupe that has MUMMY MOBILE written in sharpie on the side (ALSO PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN LOOKING THESE UP; SOME OF THEM LOOK VERY GNARLY)

ICE/PERMAFROST - If you've followed me for a little while, you probably know more about these than the average fella! These are your Beechey Island Trio, your Ötzi the Iceman. Ice keeps bacteria from turning the body into a smorgabord, thus keeping these people fresh (and fluid-filled) for hundreds to thousands of years. And maybe some day down the line, some nerd finds you and thinks you're beautiful and never shuts up about you.

THE BOG - It's Tumblr. You all know about The Bog. Bog bodies are essentially turned into leather purses by the tannins and the anaerobic qualities of The Bog, sometimes effectively snapshotting their causes of death (usually something violent). Special shoutouts to fan favorites like Tollund Man, Lindow Man/Pete Marsh, Yde Girl, Grauballe Man, and Windeby I. And Hozier, probably.

HOT, DRY DESERT AIR - Think the Atacama Desert, the Mummies of Guanajuato, or your pre-embalming times Egyptians. In fact, it was the natural qualities of desert air that probably tipped the Ancient Egyptians off to the fun and fabulousness of preservation. You dry out to potato chip crispness but lose all the wet bits. Also Anubis is probably repping you.

ARID, COLD MOUNTAIN AIR - Same idea as the desert as far as lack of humidity, but better for your skin. Mountaintop mummies are some of the best preserved in the whole world. La Doncella is a fantastic example, as are the rest of the Children of Llullaillaco or the Cherchen Man and Siberian Ice Maiden. Sometimes this was done on purpose (hi bog bodies), but sometimes people just go up to high altitudes, die, and stay there forever.

HONEY/MELLIFICATION - This one doesn't fit the bill of spontaneous mummification, which is what I study. Honey mummies are made on purpose, allegedly by feeding someone honey until they're dead, and then dunking them in a coffin full of honey for them to steep like tea for the next century or so, then digging them up and making medicine/snacks out of them. Lots of alleged's, but still pretty cool if you're into idk becoming one with the slime.

SALT - Human jerky! Salt does to you what it does to all the other edible meats, of which you're just another brand. Salt sucks all the moisture out and keeps you nice, fresh, and flavorful forever and ever. The Saltmen of Iran are Thee Pinnacle of this type of preservation. Bonus is that you get weirdly sparkly when you're salted like a slug.

SAPONIFICATION - You become soap. Actually, if you want to get technical, you turn into what's called corpse wax (which is a surprisingly badass name for turning into a human candle) or adipocere. Mrs. Ellenbogen of the Mütter Museum is probably the best example of this, but it also happens to, uh, cave divers. Which is another great reason not to go cave diving.

PRISTINE AIR OF A SACRED BUILDING - Catacomb mummies! Incorruptible saints! Sokushinbutsu! If you're stuck in a religious house of worship and it just so happens to have its own little ecosystem (usually pretty dry, probably full of resinous incense), there's a non-zero chance that you'll get preserved very similarly to the mountain mummies. Getting stuck in a crystal casket doesn't hurt either. (Disclaimer: this is semi-anthropogenic for those keeping score at home. Some of these mummies are preserved this way on purpose.)

TAR PITS - Like the bog, but hotter, stickier, and smellier. Go in the tar, have no oxygen causing you to fall apart, turn into another leather bag time capsule. This more often happens to animals like those in the La Brea Tar Pits than people. At least that we know of.

WEIRD, AS OF YET UNKNOWN MEANS - Can we say for sure that there was only one reason why Lady Dai/Xin Zhui's stayed so preserved for so long? What about the other wet mummies? What about ones people find in trees? Or whatever the hell was going on with Elmer McCurdy? Maybe it's not unknown, but it doesn't fit the bill of typical mummies, or there are so many factors at play leading to preservation that we can't just call it by one category.