drumlincountry reblogged
my father found these deer dead with their antlers tangled together in a field and i will literally never stop thinking about them
#death cw#corpses ce#uhm every time i see this piece i think of these deer as they were when they died#as limp bodies. Before rigor mortis set in.#how ungainly they were. Ragdoll bodies.#like I haven't ever had to manoever a deer corpse but i've heard first hand accounts and its difficult!#two corpses intertwined? That's heavy! And awkward! That's a two person load.#they were presumably facing each other. Who had to carry their - Soft? Were they soft? - bodies?? Were they warm?#Did they die struggling or were they shot by someone they couldn't see. Too weak from fighting each other to escape. Did they die at the sa#Time? Or did one have to carry the soft ragdoll weight of the other. On his antlers. Until he died too. And someone picked up 2 limp bodies#Someone had to carefully carry and secure them without dislodging the lock that they died in#unless they did dislodge it?#did they untangle them and then retangle them. What if this isn't the tangle that killed them. Someone recreated the entwining.#yeah i am always struck by the fact that their antlers locked as they faced each other#and human hands took the flexible bodies either side of the lock and arranged them side by side instead. So we could see.#you could read a lot into that#a lot about deer but more about people#art#animals#slime chunks#maybe