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Tweak says, "I love my child."

Elsa ☠☠☠☠ing Bloodstone (elliebloodstone) wrote in thedisplaced,
@ 2017-11-22 14:55:00

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!network post, amadeus cho / hulk (616), bucky barnes / winter soldier (ph), ellie phimister (movies), elsa bloodstone (616)

Going through some of my father's apothecary chests to pick one for my next blog post I've found today's "the past was total bollocks" item - a bottle of chocolate covered strychnine tablets. Delicious.

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	spoilers_ 2017-11-22 08:39 am UTC (link)
	Likely not used for pest control, I'm assuming. At least in the traditional sense of the word. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	elliebloodstone 2017-11-22 08:43 am UTC (link)
	Daily dose for digestive issues, 1mg. Lethal dose for an adult, 30mg, and half that for a child. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	teenagewarhead 2017-11-22 01:37 pm UTC (link)
	I've only ever heard the word "strychnine" in a Tori Amos song. What is it? (Reply to this) (Thread)

elliebloodstone
2017-11-22 07:24 pm UTC (link)

Rat poison. It tastes too fucking bitter to really be useful for murder, which is a damn good thing because it would be terribly effective otherwise. After about twenty minutes of a lethal dose your muscles start seizing up and you go into convulsions that get worse and worse until your backbone is arched backwards, your toes and fingers clench up, and eventually you suffocate either from paralysis or sheer exhaustion. Takes about three hours.

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	teenagewarhead 2017-11-22 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	Holy fucking shit that's hardcore. Do you think the chocolate masks the bitterness? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elliebloodstone 2017-11-22 08:14 pm UTC (link)
	Enough to get it down at least. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	teenagewarhead 2017-11-23 12:01 am UTC (link)
	That's wicked. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	itschotime 2017-11-22 01:48 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, yes, chocolate covered poison for when regular poison just won't do. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	elliebloodstone 2017-11-22 07:24 pm UTC (link)
	How else are you going to get the children to eat it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	itschotime 2017-11-22 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	Tell them it's for adults only and leave it on a conveniently low shelf? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elliebloodstone 2017-11-22 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	The label says it's medicine, so I suppose they did exactly fucking that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	itschotime 2017-11-22 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe one day we'll achieve Star Trek level medicine and regrow kidneys with a pill. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elliebloodstone 2017-11-22 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	Or injections to place organ cells that will grow full-size. Like sea monkeys. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	itschotime 2017-11-22 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	It'd be a step up from drugs for everything and anything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elliebloodstone 2017-11-23 12:20 am UTC (link)
	It would probably remove most of the risk of infection in surgical cuts too. No need for antibiotics. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	itschotime 2017-11-23 12:34 am UTC (link)
	Science continually marches on. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	whatthebucky 2017-11-23 12:06 am UTC (link)
	I can't believe someone would do that to perfectly good chocolate. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	elliebloodstone 2017-11-23 12:17 am UTC (link)
	It was the nineteenth century, I wouldn't be surprised if the chocolate wasn't any bloody good to start with. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	whatthebucky 2017-11-23 12:42 am UTC (link)
	You came from the past? Or are you older than you look? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elliebloodstone 2017-11-23 12:55 am UTC (link)
	My father was a ten thousand year old monster hunter kept alive by a mystical gem embedded in his chest until some cult tried to cut it out and ended up killing everyone involved. He's got a lot of old shit. Most of it's in different places. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	whatthebucky 2017-11-24 02:43 pm UTC (link)
	Well, that's an unique background. Did you end up taking up his mantle? Or is that too intrusive to ask? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elliebloodstone 2017-11-24 06:39 pm UTC (link)
	I'm less hardline than him. I only go after the actively dangerous ones. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	whatthebucky 2017-11-24 06:46 pm UTC (link)
	That seems a lot more fair. (Reply to this) (Parent)