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You move into the house next door to him when you’re five. The delivery men are unpacking the truck when Petunia unlatches Marmalade’s cage and she bolts under the fence into the next door neighbour’s yard. You run after her, jumping the fence and landing in a heap in front of a boy with wild eyes and a shock of dark hair. He looks like he just stuck his hand in an electric socket, peering at you through a pair of rectangular glasses. ‘Who are you?’ he asks you, and you jump to your feet in front of him, sticking out your and saying, ‘Hi, I’m Lily, and I’m looking for my cat. Have you seen her?’ He’s looking at you like he can’t quite believe you’re real when you hear a yowl, and Marmalade scrambles out of the hydrangea bush, rag-taggling with a bounding labrador retriever puppy. ‘Damnit,’ you swear, because you heard it on TV and thought it sounded cool, blowing hair out of your face. The boy is still looking at you weirdly, and you scrunch up your nose, like you do when you’re concentrating, and throw yourself on top of Marmalade, bundling the squirming cat up into your arms. The boy grabs the dog, who starts licking his face enthusiastically. ‘I’m James,’ he says, looking up at you, ‘and you’ve got a twig in your hair.’ You reach up and come away with bits of bracken and sycamore leaves. ’Thanks for your help,’ you tell him, turning and vaulting over the fence with Marmalade in your arms, leaving James behind.
aaaaaand at least one of them was dyed with an arsenic compound
one of these days i’m gonna have to write a thing about arsenic dyes
Oh arsenic pigments. So very very very deadly.
If anyone who paints has ever wondered why you can only get “emerald green hue” when most other pricier pigments (like cadmium red and cobalt blue and such) are gettable as hue and in real form? it’s cos the pigment called “emerald green” was a copper acetoarsenite (please let me have spelled that right lololol) and thus…yeah. It isn’t stable, which meant that when it was used as a clothing dye or wallpaper ink (which it was, widely, until about 1900 or so–it was cheap to produce), it eventually made people in close proximity to it rrrrrrrrreal deceased.
This is why I am really careful at my job with maps that have bright green pigment remaining. Usually greens in that family react badly with the print ink of the map and like…Italy falls out of the page because it was green. But sometimes there is remaining paint and I have to be cautious. (See also: bright orange that might be mercury/cinnabar related, white that might have lead in it…) I’m not in any danger, no more so than I was at any given time at art college, but I do err on the side of caution. Because just SOME PIGMENTS MAN.
Anyway if you wrote a post about arsenic pigments I would read the heck out of it and be very appreciative :D
I’ve seen lots of reblogs and gotten several asks saying “these dresses would kill you.” Here ya go.
I sometimes wish I could of lived in the era where these dresses were worn
