#victorian science

[sarielsnowings]

SPIKE ZINE Piece🌹💥✨

I’m finally allowed to share my full piece for the SPIKE ZINE project!

I’m so happy with this piece and so glad I could give my OC Nathaniel (a.k.a the Botanist) a well deserved full illustration.

Anyway, if you’re curious, you can read more about the project on my previous post about it right here:

But TL;DR: it’s a charity zine with the work of 70+ artists around the world to support LGBTQIA+ rights, and you should donate while you still can and get yourself some incredible art for less than $6! Buy it here.

Their socials: SPIKE ZINE Instagram // SPIKE ZINE twitter

[diana-andraste]

Anonymous (and very peculiar) photograph, c. 1900

[descendinight]

医生Lophēlē 🏥

[mayasynth]

My beautiful unhinged daughter, Mary Elizabeth Frankenstein <3 I know this was not at all how the scene actually went, but humour me

(Pssssst everyone please read Our Hideous Progeny, pleaseee 🙏)

[cha-mij]

**Mary Shelly's thoughts while pegging her husband as her husband bones Byron....probably**

"hmm.. I wonder what would happen if I combined Abernathy's "life principle" hypothesis, Galvanism, and Hesiod's Theogony "

[prettyinaccurate]

hes doing SCIENCE

[silly-stimboards]

Edward Hyde Stimboard!

-> themes of green science stuff and academia

x x x | x x | x x x

[its-stimsca]

Hi could I please get a SCP-1867 (Lord Blackwood) stimboard? (if you can’t for some reason it’s Chill)

YES!!! He’s so awesome love this guy

🐌 🗺️ 🐌 / 🗺️ 🐌 🗺️ / 🐌 🗺️ 🐌

[labyrinthofstreams]

"Group of young women performing atmospheric pressure experiments while studying science in school, Washington, D.C."

Photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1899.

[vanalex]

Artwork by: Iren Horrors

[explore-blog]

Your Voice Is a Garden – the stunning sound visualizations ("Voice-Figures") of Victorian singer and inventor Margaret Watts Hughes, the first woman to present a scientific instrument of her own design at the Royal Society.

[technicallyclassyperfection]

Via print:

[victusinveritas]

A Victorian thrill seeker enjoying the volcanic gas on the island of Vulcano, just off the coast of Sicily.

View more photographs by the pioneering volcanologist Tempest Anderson here: https://buff.ly/2Kei1GV

[fashionsfromhistory]

Bridesmaid’s Dress

1883

Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences

[descendinight]

cms - Aysel for @/jimengxi (twitter)

[immediatebreakfast]

Even when I know what is Renfield's plan for the kitten in his food chain, on top of being aware of the hypocrisy of worrying about what Renfield would do with the kitten, and the sparrows despite that he already has done his experiment with the spiders and the flies... I still feel conflicted about it thanks to Seward's ableist behavior in this entry.

It's very clear what is the kind of fate that awaits both the sparrows, and the possible kitten in the hands of Renfield. An unethical fate which is going to be far bloodier than the spiders, and the flies if the mentioned little animal enters the picture... And yet my brain sympathizes with this old man who has to crawl on the floor to appease to Seward's scientific doctor - observed subject patient power dynamic just so he can request a small animal.

Moreover, Seward even mentions that he really doesn't care about the possible consequences that this request could have for either Renfield, the sparrows, or the kitten as long he can observe the "development" of this experiment.

I was not unprepared for this request... but I did not care that his pretty family of tame sparrows should be wiped out in the same manner as the flies and the spiders

Although Renfield is presented in the narrative as a classical stereotype of an "insane and lost" man who is framed as more dangerous with his devious personality, he can still be framed in a more pitiful light. Moreso when we read how Seward demeans him in the sessions that are supposed to help Renfield get better. It's not a lack of care, but a care that comes with an ulterior motive that comes with the cost of your standing as a human in the eyes of an institution backed by victorian society.

The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac. I shall test him with his present craving and see how it will work out; then I shall know more.

Renfield may have cards in his pockets, and be an expert in how to manipulate Seward, but their dynamic will always favor the man who has the power to simply write this down in a official medical paper, and bare you from ever returning to society again, no matter how much you prove that you are "fit" as a human being.