Form doesn't always follow function
April 17, 2013 8:02 AM Subscribe
The Alternative Limb Project provides highly detailed prosthetics that either blend in with the body or stand out as unique pieces of art. The Project's custom prosthetic limbs — such as the flowered leg and the snake arm — are created by special-effects artist Sophie de Oliveira Barata (you can see her in her London studio here). Per the project's website, an alternative-style limb can help to "break down social barriers, delight the eye and provide an unusual talking point."
Whoa. Star Wars.
No clue how the "realistic" artificial limbs that they displayed actually look in real life, but they do a remarkable job of avoiding the uncanny valley in those photos.
posted by schmod at 8:25 AM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
No clue how the "realistic" artificial limbs that they displayed actually look in real life, but they do a remarkable job of avoiding the uncanny valley in those photos.
posted by schmod at 8:25 AM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Aside from the artistry, I had no idea prosthetic limbs could be made to look so realistic. Pretty amazing.
posted by orme at 8:25 AM on April 17, 2013
posted by orme at 8:25 AM on April 17, 2013
Pimp My Prosthetic.
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 8:26 AM on April 17, 2013
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 8:26 AM on April 17, 2013
One time I was in danger of losing an eye to an infection, and even as I sobbed in the hospital exam room a tiny part of my brain was going "I could totally be getting a cool glass eye collection out of this".
posted by showbiz_liz at 8:26 AM on April 17, 2013 [9 favorites]
posted by showbiz_liz at 8:26 AM on April 17, 2013 [9 favorites]
At some point in my life it is very likely I'll have to have my right eye removed. My friends have tried to convince me to get a low powered laser installed in the replacement.
Just what I need, something to make a thick 6'3 scowly fellow less approachable.
posted by edgeways at 8:34 AM on April 17, 2013 [5 favorites]
Just what I need, something to make a thick 6'3 scowly fellow less approachable.
posted by edgeways at 8:34 AM on April 17, 2013 [5 favorites]
Infinitely cool, but these must cost a fortune.
posted by Brocktoon at 8:35 AM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Brocktoon at 8:35 AM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
These are really cool, but they do seem like either a rich person's thing, or at least someone fortunate enough to be sponsored somehow. It's not as if the majority of folks needing a prosthetic is going to get much more than the standard three steps up from the wooden leg.
posted by edgeways at 8:40 AM on April 17, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by edgeways at 8:40 AM on April 17, 2013 [3 favorites]
I was hoping the snake arm would be, you know, an actual snake. As an arm.
posted by Zalzidrax at 8:42 AM on April 17, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by Zalzidrax at 8:42 AM on April 17, 2013 [4 favorites]
Most people can't afford bespoke tailoring from Savile Row. Most people buy their clothes off the rack.
But the people who can afford it look really awesome in their custom, hand-crafted, artisan duds. Artisans who got pay their bills with their talent and artistry making custom-shit for 1 person at a time.
No, that's not cheap, whether it's dinner jackets or prosthetic legs.
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 8:51 AM on April 17, 2013
But the people who can afford it look really awesome in their custom, hand-crafted, artisan duds. Artisans who got pay their bills with their talent and artistry making custom-shit for 1 person at a time.
No, that's not cheap, whether it's dinner jackets or prosthetic legs.
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 8:51 AM on April 17, 2013
I kind of like the idea of having the fancy leg you wear out for special occasions.
posted by figurant at 8:51 AM on April 17, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by figurant at 8:51 AM on April 17, 2013 [4 favorites]
Australian comedian Adam Hills had one of these made up for him while he was presenting The Last Leg during the London 2012 Paralympics. IIRC, he and British presenter Alex Brooker (who is also minus a leg) bet each another that their country would win the most medals, and the loser would have to wear a leg decorated with the others' flag. Adam (and Australia) lost.
posted by penguin pie at 8:57 AM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by penguin pie at 8:57 AM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Was anyone else reminded of Ahab's whalebone leg from Moby Dick? I never thought about it closely, but now I am picturing it with scrimshaw all over it.
This is a practice I had always assumed had died out ages ago (when I think of fancy prosthetics, I think of Tycho Brahe and his nose made of precious metals). Very cool.
posted by Hactar at 8:59 AM on April 17, 2013
This is a practice I had always assumed had died out ages ago (when I think of fancy prosthetics, I think of Tycho Brahe and his nose made of precious metals). Very cool.
posted by Hactar at 8:59 AM on April 17, 2013
I was disappointed that the snake arm wasn't a prosthesis that could move like a snake. There've been times I couldn't reach somewhere because my forearm, wrists and fingers were too long or the wrong shape. If I had to do without them, I can totally see an appendage that can move differently (with a little camera on the end, playing to my Google Glass!) would be more useful than a hook on a wooden stump.
posted by spacewrench at 9:22 AM on April 17, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by spacewrench at 9:22 AM on April 17, 2013 [2 favorites]
Removable muscle, hah! Solution to calf implants.
posted by puertosurf at 9:25 AM on April 17, 2013
posted by puertosurf at 9:25 AM on April 17, 2013
A perfect example of the uncanny valley in action. Despite the snake one, the weird crystal one, and the muscle and bone one, it's the floral one that gives me the creeping horrors.
posted by darksasami at 9:39 AM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by darksasami at 9:39 AM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
I know I sound like a broken record! See my other comments in this vein! I was never interested in being a Disabled Person On The Internet until I saw exactly how invisible/inaudible we are.
I have a prosthetic leg. I can JUST about get through an 8-hour day on it. Work PLUS moderate exercise leaves me completely whacked. Meaning I scratch the skin on my real leg, the stump, and it bleeds. It cost $10,000 in insurance reimbursements. Private pay would have cost more. It is ugly as sin. I cover it with the Danskin hose in ballet pink (oddly enough, skin-colored on me), which itself is a major strain because that is $14 a pair or some such.
I have since lost the insurance that paid for this leg. A new liner (attaching the prosthesis to my real leg) was $400 cash (insider price) and I am 90% sure the leg maker had pity on me and was giving me a deal. If I had bought the liner from the manufacturer, which I can't, it would likely have been closer to $1,000.
Far be it from me to discourage creative expression. If any visually oriented person. Wants to send me some more of that hose. They can find me pretty easily. Or hose in a cool pattern. Durable. If any of these artists. Want to put a PORTION of their materials cost toward my next liner (after 6 mos. it's already showing wear). I will make a blog about how progressive they are.
posted by skbw at 10:03 AM on April 17, 2013 [5 favorites]
I have a prosthetic leg. I can JUST about get through an 8-hour day on it. Work PLUS moderate exercise leaves me completely whacked. Meaning I scratch the skin on my real leg, the stump, and it bleeds. It cost $10,000 in insurance reimbursements. Private pay would have cost more. It is ugly as sin. I cover it with the Danskin hose in ballet pink (oddly enough, skin-colored on me), which itself is a major strain because that is $14 a pair or some such.
I have since lost the insurance that paid for this leg. A new liner (attaching the prosthesis to my real leg) was $400 cash (insider price) and I am 90% sure the leg maker had pity on me and was giving me a deal. If I had bought the liner from the manufacturer, which I can't, it would likely have been closer to $1,000.
Far be it from me to discourage creative expression. If any visually oriented person. Wants to send me some more of that hose. They can find me pretty easily. Or hose in a cool pattern. Durable. If any of these artists. Want to put a PORTION of their materials cost toward my next liner (after 6 mos. it's already showing wear). I will make a blog about how progressive they are.
posted by skbw at 10:03 AM on April 17, 2013 [5 favorites]
And I am a yuppie. In the United States of America. I cannot begin to speak. For my brothers and sisters who need legs in every other country of the world. As I have already ranted elsewhere here.
If a person can't afford a Savile Row suit. They buy from Marshall's. If a person can't afford a Savile Row leg. They still have to go to Bergdorf. "Let them go to Bergdorf!" is not a good rejoinder here. This isn't a bespoke suit. That is a terrible analogy. This is a white-collar worker who can't get through the day. Even after spending the fat chip at Bergdorf. Let's not talk about manual labor.
posted by skbw at 10:08 AM on April 17, 2013 [3 favorites]
If a person can't afford a Savile Row suit. They buy from Marshall's. If a person can't afford a Savile Row leg. They still have to go to Bergdorf. "Let them go to Bergdorf!" is not a good rejoinder here. This isn't a bespoke suit. That is a terrible analogy. This is a white-collar worker who can't get through the day. Even after spending the fat chip at Bergdorf. Let's not talk about manual labor.
posted by skbw at 10:08 AM on April 17, 2013 [3 favorites]
The images in this post are lovely. They remind me of Aimee Mullins.
Aimee Mullins: Changing my legs - and my mindset
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 10:21 AM on April 17, 2013
Aimee Mullins: Changing my legs - and my mindset
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 10:21 AM on April 17, 2013
skbw, you might like a recent TED talk about (relatively) low cost all-terrain wheelchairs I saw recently.
posted by Glinn at 10:40 AM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Glinn at 10:40 AM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Coming soon: new Deus Ex DLC! Incapacitate your opponents with sheer envy for your limbs that look like porcelain vases!
posted by Phatty Lumpkin at 10:56 AM on April 17, 2013
posted by Phatty Lumpkin at 10:56 AM on April 17, 2013
Lovely. But wow. I have these shoes (in another color). Indoors, I can walk in them mostly fine, if I pay attention on stairs and when flooring transitions to carpet. But I'm afraid to wear them outside anymore after taking a major fall when crossing a street that needed repaving. I can't even imagine wearing them if you only have muscles in one calf (let alone one calf and one thigh). Then again, I am the biggest klutz imaginable, so it's entirely possible that most people who have to deal with prosthetics can already dance circles around me, regardless of footwear.
posted by Mchelly at 1:12 PM on April 17, 2013
posted by Mchelly at 1:12 PM on April 17, 2013
Murr-ma enables a lower leg amputee to seamlessly transition from running on sand to swimming in the ocean.
posted by homunculus at 3:19 PM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by homunculus at 3:19 PM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
I'm not saying I would cut off my leg just for a chance at some of these... but it'd definitely be a 'silver lining' kind of deal.
I've always wanted to amputate my limbs and replace them with better cyborg ones.
There's a Ray Bradbury story where a boring man becomes a bohemian darling by replacing his limbs and eyes with elaborate creations by artists like Dali.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 4:05 PM on April 17, 2013
I've always wanted to amputate my limbs and replace them with better cyborg ones.
There's a Ray Bradbury story where a boring man becomes a bohemian darling by replacing his limbs and eyes with elaborate creations by artists like Dali.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 4:05 PM on April 17, 2013
I assume we'll all do this voluntarily with prosthetics and genetic engineering in the future. The human form needs improvement.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 4:08 PM on April 17, 2013
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 4:08 PM on April 17, 2013
I assume we'll all do this voluntarily with prosthetics and genetic engineering in the future. The human form needs improvement.
Notably, more pockets.
posted by rifflesby at 4:36 PM on April 17, 2013 [6 favorites]
Notably, more pockets.
posted by rifflesby at 4:36 PM on April 17, 2013 [6 favorites]
I think it would be really cool to have a negative space artificial leg. Just empty space with a foot at the end you could still control and move around in.
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 7:19 PM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 7:19 PM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
And I am a yuppie. In the United States of America. I cannot begin to speak. For my brothers and sisters who need legs in every other country of the world.
This is really confusing to someone from a country with a taxpayer funded health system. 'Socialised' medicine. It sounds like you believe the 'America has the best health care in the world' line.
I'm so sorry for your situation, skbw. It sounds horrendous. Prosthetics, repairs and replacements are covered here, at least.
posted by Catch at 3:28 AM on April 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Not hardly. I do not believe America has the best healthcare in the world. But I know that I am in a tiny rich minority, even without health insurance. I should have said I can't bear to think about the leg situation in "less developed countries WITHOUT NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE filled with many people for whom Danskin ballet pink is not the best skin color match." I was pissed and should have been more specific to spell out the all-too-obvious distinctions here.
I am both aware and glad that prosthetics, repairs, and replacements are covered in countries with socialized medicine.
This does nothing to lessen my irritation. It makes me sick when "awareness" of disabilities is spread through this kind of wretchedly excessive display. If you look at such a leg and your only reaction is "Cool!" You are not more aware of ordinary people's lives. You are less aware.
Come home with me at the end of the day, let me take off my leg, take a look at the dried blood and other nasty-ass marks it leaves on the liner, and by God, a lot fewer people would say, "oh, soon we'll evolve to this level, so I, too, will have this kind of skin breakdown." That's not solidarity. It's something else.
As an antidote. Here's one of a couple different projects to make a low-cost knee joint. I haven't been following it because I have my flesh-and-blood knee joint.
I think of my dad working on my leg, when I was a kid, with an Allen wrench in his hand, doing this and trying that. Now say you're a dad in a PLACE WITH NO NATIONAL HEALTH CARE or EXTRA MONEY. An excess leg in the wrong size for your kid comes (miraculously) into your possession. Don't you run down to the local mechanic and have him work it over? Don't you have him work it over again after he outgrows it? Bunch of layers of wood laid down on the foot? (I had those, too.) New socket made out of God knows what?
But there's no scrap leg to work on for the vast majority of dads (or moms) in poor countries. Would you still put down money for a designer leg? This isn't a suit of clothes.
posted by skbw at 5:19 AM on April 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
I am both aware and glad that prosthetics, repairs, and replacements are covered in countries with socialized medicine.
This does nothing to lessen my irritation. It makes me sick when "awareness" of disabilities is spread through this kind of wretchedly excessive display. If you look at such a leg and your only reaction is "Cool!" You are not more aware of ordinary people's lives. You are less aware.
Come home with me at the end of the day, let me take off my leg, take a look at the dried blood and other nasty-ass marks it leaves on the liner, and by God, a lot fewer people would say, "oh, soon we'll evolve to this level, so I, too, will have this kind of skin breakdown." That's not solidarity. It's something else.
As an antidote. Here's one of a couple different projects to make a low-cost knee joint. I haven't been following it because I have my flesh-and-blood knee joint.
I think of my dad working on my leg, when I was a kid, with an Allen wrench in his hand, doing this and trying that. Now say you're a dad in a PLACE WITH NO NATIONAL HEALTH CARE or EXTRA MONEY. An excess leg in the wrong size for your kid comes (miraculously) into your possession. Don't you run down to the local mechanic and have him work it over? Don't you have him work it over again after he outgrows it? Bunch of layers of wood laid down on the foot? (I had those, too.) New socket made out of God knows what?
But there's no scrap leg to work on for the vast majority of dads (or moms) in poor countries. Would you still put down money for a designer leg? This isn't a suit of clothes.
posted by skbw at 5:19 AM on April 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
For no reason at all, I think that the producers of the anticipated Blade Runner sequel ought to meet with Ms. Barata and get some ideas about the expanded Post-Human universe. I imagine that more than snakes will be available as artificial familiars -- why not make those pseudo-pets extensions of their owners?
I know it's a little beyond the scope of the original film, but why the heck, not?
posted by vhsiv at 7:48 AM on April 18, 2013
I know it's a little beyond the scope of the original film, but why the heck, not?
posted by vhsiv at 7:48 AM on April 18, 2013
My best friend had cancer and had a large chunk of her leg removed. They've found a weird spot on one of her bones and she has to have a biopsy today. She spotted this site earlier in the week and has been feeling half guilty, half excited about the possibility of having such a leg if the worst happens.
She's a painter and I'm crafty and we have an entire studio building of woodworkers, glassmakers and ceramics people around us. We'd just DIY.
(Black humor. But hey, think good thoughts for her today, please).
posted by bitter-girl.com at 8:04 AM on April 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
She's a painter and I'm crafty and we have an entire studio building of woodworkers, glassmakers and ceramics people around us. We'd just DIY.
(Black humor. But hey, think good thoughts for her today, please).
posted by bitter-girl.com at 8:04 AM on April 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
For no reason at all, I think that the producers of the anticipated Blade Runner sequel ought to meet with Ms. Barata and get some ideas about the expanded Post-Human universe. I imagine that more than snakes will be available as artificial familiars -- why not make those pseudo-pets extensions of their owners?
Because the last time they combined prosthetics and Blade Runner it didn't work out so well.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 4:06 PM on April 18, 2013
Because the last time they combined prosthetics and Blade Runner it didn't work out so well.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 4:06 PM on April 18, 2013
Skbw, do mind me asking what kind of work you do, and why you have to wear a prosthetic? You're comments were great, and now I'm damned curious.
posted by Brocktoon at 7:27 PM on April 18, 2013
posted by Brocktoon at 7:27 PM on April 18, 2013
No problem, Brocktoon. I've got to be a little cagey re: my job, because my leg doesn't matter for what I'm doing now, but I'm (trying to) switch to a line of work where it does matter. I used to work in social services. Not related to disabilities. Sometimes there were a lot of home visits, walking up and down, and I guess on a bad day I'm on my feet about that much.
I was born like this, which is, I imagine, part of the reason why I'm so darn wrathful on this topic. I'm 35, and in my lifetime, amputees have gone from all but invisible, even accounting for Vietnam, to household words. Mostly because of new wars and new technology. I would also add something about increased survival rates for diabetic amputees, perhaps, but the diabetic amputees do not generally fit the heroic newspaper mold.
More visibility is good, right? Probably. I know there are inequities in almost every square inch of life in rich countries. If people with successful bypasses were suddenly getting huge tattoos over the heart area, and wearing clothes to showcase the same, and non-heart patients were saying how beautiful this was, how they would almost be willing to have a heart attack for such a tattoo, I would be pissed, too, but (fortunately) this hasn't become the vogue.
With a lot of the have-nots...no decent housing, barely any food, no medical care, infant mortality...a person can usually still get up and work. If people didn't get up and produce despite it all, there wouldn't BE a third world. But without a leg (or a wheelchair, etc.), a person can't even work. Much less work on a farm or haul water. That is why, along with my obvious personal connection, this seems just a little bit more immoral than average. (Even with a cleft lip...I have one of those too...if you can't get it repaired, you may be ostracized, your job prospects may be limited, but you can still get behind the plow, so to speak.)
(Though I would never, ever compare my problems to survival-level problems, this inability to work was brought home to me quite well a couple of years ago, when I spent seven months totally devoid of a leg thanks to yet another insurance problem. This is not someone on the other side of the world...this is me, a person who could be at any one of your meetups.)
Artwork such as this. I'd say it's not too far removed from amputee porn. And I like porn, so this is no insult. If that's what you're into, then go ahead and enjoy. Nothing wrong with getting off. But don't think for a second that watching amputee porn teaches you anything about disabled people or their bodies or their lives. To know about that, you've got to fuck an actual disabled person, and maybe even go for dinner before. Do that very thing. And then comment on a CNET photo essay.
And the producers of same should take THEIR production costs and send that to Haiti, too.
posted by skbw at 11:54 PM on April 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
I was born like this, which is, I imagine, part of the reason why I'm so darn wrathful on this topic. I'm 35, and in my lifetime, amputees have gone from all but invisible, even accounting for Vietnam, to household words. Mostly because of new wars and new technology. I would also add something about increased survival rates for diabetic amputees, perhaps, but the diabetic amputees do not generally fit the heroic newspaper mold.
More visibility is good, right? Probably. I know there are inequities in almost every square inch of life in rich countries. If people with successful bypasses were suddenly getting huge tattoos over the heart area, and wearing clothes to showcase the same, and non-heart patients were saying how beautiful this was, how they would almost be willing to have a heart attack for such a tattoo, I would be pissed, too, but (fortunately) this hasn't become the vogue.
With a lot of the have-nots...no decent housing, barely any food, no medical care, infant mortality...a person can usually still get up and work. If people didn't get up and produce despite it all, there wouldn't BE a third world. But without a leg (or a wheelchair, etc.), a person can't even work. Much less work on a farm or haul water. That is why, along with my obvious personal connection, this seems just a little bit more immoral than average. (Even with a cleft lip...I have one of those too...if you can't get it repaired, you may be ostracized, your job prospects may be limited, but you can still get behind the plow, so to speak.)
(Though I would never, ever compare my problems to survival-level problems, this inability to work was brought home to me quite well a couple of years ago, when I spent seven months totally devoid of a leg thanks to yet another insurance problem. This is not someone on the other side of the world...this is me, a person who could be at any one of your meetups.)
Artwork such as this. I'd say it's not too far removed from amputee porn. And I like porn, so this is no insult. If that's what you're into, then go ahead and enjoy. Nothing wrong with getting off. But don't think for a second that watching amputee porn teaches you anything about disabled people or their bodies or their lives. To know about that, you've got to fuck an actual disabled person, and maybe even go for dinner before. Do that very thing. And then comment on a CNET photo essay.
And the producers of same should take THEIR production costs and send that to Haiti, too.
posted by skbw at 11:54 PM on April 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Bionic hand fits young woman perfectly, but does it suit her?
posted by homunculus at 5:46 PM on April 21, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by homunculus at 5:46 PM on April 21, 2013 [1 favorite]
Here's the thing...I myself have 2 fingers + thumb on my left hand, for which I am very grateful, but my right has only about 3 mm more per finger than hers does. I am here to tell you that she can 100%, no question, type, write, cook, etc. with her current two thumbs. I have personally done this when my "good" hand was out of commission. I'm going to quote her dad, straight out of the article:
I'm not saying that taking this approach makes her and her family bad people. God forbid! I am just saying that I, personally, have lived a totally different experience that does not get any media attention and so is concealed from most people who don't KNOW an average disabled person. For this reason I am determined to offer some counterpoint.
posted by skbw at 8:55 AM on April 22, 2013 [1 favorite]
Insurance covers 80 percent of the iLimb Digits, which costs around $80,000. That's on top of Tisa's new silicone slip-on feet, worth $20,000 each.And Tina herself:
After a fundraiser rummage sale at the day care, she still owes around $24,000. But there's a payment plan. And her parents set up a Facebook page where friends and strangers post encouragement, donate money.
Her dad wonders if the financial burden of the bionic hand is worth it. A left hand device won't be considered until that's clear. If the bionic hand's too hard or awkward to use, will it collect dust on her nightstand? "She's good without it. She's so independent," he said once in the doctor's office. "She does it all on her own."
"I learned how to do everything again without my fingers and, honestly, I've gotten good at it," Tisa said. "But don't get me wrong. I'm grateful for the hand. Right now, I just can't say how much I'll use it."Parenthetically. I ALSO am missing most of my toes on my flesh-and-blood foot. I am not going to comment on a $20,000 slip-on foot cover thing, except to say that is 2 whole prostheses for me, as I said above. Let's not talk about Haiti. My parents taught me that my toes were called Big Toe, Pinky Toe...and Middle Toe.
I'm not saying that taking this approach makes her and her family bad people. God forbid! I am just saying that I, personally, have lived a totally different experience that does not get any media attention and so is concealed from most people who don't KNOW an average disabled person. For this reason I am determined to offer some counterpoint.
posted by skbw at 8:55 AM on April 22, 2013 [1 favorite]
Puppy gets new artificial limb after losing foot in coyote attack
posted by homunculus at 10:50 AM on April 24, 2013
posted by homunculus at 10:50 AM on April 24, 2013
Photos: Watch a teen control his prosthetic hand with an iPhone app
posted by homunculus at 12:53 AM on April 25, 2013
posted by homunculus at 12:53 AM on April 25, 2013
New artificial skin is as sensitive as human fingertips
posted by homunculus at 4:30 PM on April 27, 2013
posted by homunculus at 4:30 PM on April 27, 2013
This dog has four prosthetic legs and oh my god my heart just imploded
posted by homunculus at 8:03 PM on May 2, 2013
posted by homunculus at 8:03 PM on May 2, 2013
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