malformalady:

White ink tattoo. White tattoo pigment is pure titanium dioxide in a suspension of water and glycerin. It tends to have(on a microscopic scale) a larger particle size than that of other colors’ pigments. This lends to a little more difficulty in application for tattoos. It’s also the reason why white ink separates in the bottle before any of the other colors. tattoo ink is deposited in the layer of skin that’s below the layer that contains your natural pigment. As such, the more pigment a person has (the darker the skin) the harder it is to see the ink. Therefore, as the complexion gets darker, higher contrast colors (black, red, blue, green) show up better than lighter colors (white, yellow, gray). This is why lighter, more gradual colors show up more clearly on light (fair) skin.

malformalady:

The “Trovants” are stones or sandstone concretions that secrete cement and appear to grow by themselves. They consist of a stone core with an outer shell of sand believed to be the result of cementation that occurred millions of years ago. After heavy rain, small oval-shaped forms appear on the rocks, leading them to be dubbed “growing stones” by locals. Trovants are found in Romania

malformalady:

Gua Sha is a healing technique used in Asia by practitioners of Traditional Medicine. It involves cutaneous stimulation wherein the skin is pressured, in strokes, by a round-edged instrument; that results in the appearance of small red petechiae called ‘sha’.  Raising Sha removes blood stagnation considered pathogenic, promoting normal circulation and metabolic processes.

llieo:

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neon-casket:

bookofmirrors:

Most of you probably know this is one of the Angel’s from Hellboy. But did you know that this is actually a more accurate protrayel of what angels are apparently supposed to look like according to The Bible? Although, and correct me if I’m wrong, but from what I remember they had 6 wings, covered with eyes on the wings. And had two eyes on their face, but used 2 wings to cover their face at all times, because if a mortal ever saw their face they would die. Angels from the bible are fucking terrifying honestly. :P 

boring personal tidbit/rambling: When I was a kid I used compulsive behaviors to control my extreme anxiety. I was also raised Southern Pentecostal which focuses a lot on Old Testament scripture. We were told about what angels really looked like in Sunday School when I was 6 or so. The bible mentions multiple faces, being covered in eyeballs, constant singing, lion heads, etc. This spawned an extreme fear of angels and they became the butt of my anxieties (“If I open and close this door 10 times I won’t see an angel”). I use to pray to never see an angel, and I had recurring nightmares that my sister locked me in a room with cement angel statues that came to life and approached me while screaming. Then they would skin me and sacrifice me.

If you think about it, angels are kind of horrifying. Besides being described as beasts and monsters, they’re practically brainless drones. Heavenly angels are only one step removed from demons. The only difference is demons fell from heaven because they chose to follow Lucifer… who was an angel (angel of music and one of god’s favorites). So they are these eyeball covered animal mashed up monsters who were only created to worship for eternity (part of humanities creation was so that something would choose to love god, not just worship him because they were created to). Angels fall into a lot of new age and conspiracy beliefs too which my church believed and taught. We were taught that the supernatural realms went in the order of Heaven, Hell, then Earth. So when the angels fell from heaven with Lucifer, some fell through hell and landed on Earth. We were taught they intermarried with early humans and created giants (Goliath’s origins) and taught witch craft to women (make-up, sluttiness, etc.) Imagine learning all of that nonsense as a 5 year old kid.

I love it when people actually know Angels are not winged bishies that sparkle and love mankind. They’re abominations, they’re alien, they’re beyond us. They’re creatures that biology as we know it does not apply to. Often they do not love mankind, they love God and God alone.

Really, Neon Genesis Evangeleon had a better idea of what Angels should really look and behave like (mindlessly subservient and driven towards their goal) than any other work of fiction I’ve seen so far. Though I’ve heard some tidbits from Supernatural at least, which has angels taking on human form but describing just what they look like when they’re not wearing their skin.

The angel that visited Mary first said “Do not be afraid”

Supposedly, somewhere in a work of text, Christ is described as a gored sheep with many heads and many horns and maybe many nimbuses/halos as well.

The Abrahamic religions were fucking metal, man. 

Righty-o, I used to be something of a freak when it came to angelogy back in middle/high school, I guess you can chalk it up to that ol’ eighth grader syndrome but angels are split into different ranks with their appearance becoming more alien and bizzare the higher up you go. From bottom to top we have…

The Third Sphere:

Angels: Basic messengers to humankind.

Archangels: Superiors to angels. There seems to be a differentiation between archangels and “Archangels” who are senior named angels that can belong to a different rank, i.e Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, etc.

Principalities/Rulers: They wear crowns or wield scepters. They oversee groups of people and inspire things like art and science.

Second Sphere:

Powers/Authorities: Warrior angels, they oversee the distribution of power among the rulers of man.

Virtues: They oversee the movement of the cosmos. 

Dominions: The angels who are Lords among angels and preside over nations. They look much like the everyday thought of angels but orbs of light above their heads. 

First Sphere: 

Thrones/Orphanim: Living symbols of justice and authority. They appear as a beryl-coloured wheel-within-a-wheel, their rims covered with hundreds of eyes.

Cherubim: Cherubim have four faces: one of each a man, an ox, a lion, and an eagle. They have four conjoined wings covered with eyes, a lion’s body figure, and they have ox’s feet. They guard the way to the Tree of Life and God’s Throne.

Seraphim: The caretakers of God’s Throne. The name Seraphim means “the burning ones.” The Seraphim have six wings. Two wings cover their face, two cover their body, and two cover their feet.

So glad I saved this Megami Tensei diagram: [x]

catbountry:

shandrydan:

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illustratedjai:

mapsrfun:

If you could dig a hole straight through the earth, chances are you will come out in an ocean.  

…the fuck is that tiny splotch in the middle of Alberta??? where the fuck does that come out???? Like that is a tiny ass fuckin splotch. the fuck

I feel like I’ve been waiting for this map my whole life.

I…yes.

So if you really want to dig a hole to China, bring in Chile or Argentina is your best bet.

… I’m mad now, all those cartoons lied to me.

oldmanyellsatcloud:

did-you-kno:

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Plot hook? Sounds like one.

eaweatherfield:

In the late 1880s, the body of a 16-year-old girl was pulled from the Seine. She was apparently a suicide, as her body showed no marks of violence, but her beauty and her enigmatic smile led a Paris pathologist to order a plaster death mask of her face.

In the romantic atmosphere of fin de siècle Europe, the girl’s face became an ideal of feminine beauty. The protagonist of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1910 novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge writes, “The mouleur, whose shop I pass every day, has hung two plaster masks beside his door. [One is] the face of the young drowned woman, which they took a cast of in the morgue, because it was beautiful, because it smiled, because it smiled so deceptively, as if it knew.”

Ironically, in 1958 the anonymous girl’s features were used to model the first-aid mannequin Rescue Annie, on which thousands of students have practiced CPR. Though the girl’s identity remains a mystery, her face, it’s said, has become “the most kissed face of all time.”

rhamphotheca:

Preformationism

… a philosophical theory of heredity, claimed that either the egg or the sperm (exactly which was a contentious issue) contained complete preformed individuals called “animalcules”. Development was therefore a matter of enlarging this into a fully formed being. The term homunculus was later used in the discussion of conception and birth.

Nicolas Hartsoeker “discovered” animalcules in the semen of humans and other animals. This was the beginning of spermists’ theory, who held the belief that the sperm was in fact a “little man” that was placed inside a woman for growth into a child. This seemed to them to neatly explain many of the mysteries of conception. It was later pointed out that if the sperm was a homunculus, identical in all but size to an adult, then the homunculus may have sperm of its own.

This led to a reductio ad absurdum with a chain of homunculi “all the way down”. This was not necessarily considered by spermists a fatal objection however, as it neatly explained how it was that “in Adam” all had sinned: the whole of humanity was already contained in his loins. The spermists’ theory also failed to explain why children tend to resemble their mothers as well as their fathers, though some spermists believed that the growing homunculus assimilated maternal characteristics from the womb environment in which they grew.

(read more: Wikipedia)