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August 08, 2003

Freaks Sketchbook WIP - Christian and Charity, the United Twins.

Finished this just now; first rough for the first image.

Christian is the male. Charity is the dwarfish female protruding from his side. They're twins. Take a minute and harken back to high school biology, and you'll pretty much figure it out for yourself why they qualify as impossible.

Their clothing is roughly mid-1850s, referenced from photographs in the online archives of the Library of Congress. Charity's bad case of "midget face" was copped from Lavinia Warren, famous circus midget and bride of General Tom Thumb, another midget of note.

Fun facts, now: Charity's what they call a parasitic twin. Carnies called them "one-and-a-halfs," and they usually consisted of one fully formed twin and the deformed limbs of a second sticking out from somewhere, like extra arms and legs. Cases of the head of the parasitic twin being outside the host twin's body have been reported, but they're uniformly stunted in size (like Charity) and permanently comatose (unlike Charity).

Christian is a rough-and-tumble type. Note the surly expression and missing eye. Charity is a teetotaling, pious lass. But it's sort of pointless the refuse liquor when you share a liver with a boozehound.

Okay, shutting up now. Next time you see this, it'll be as the final pencils on bristol.

Posted by Spike at August 8, 2003 02:53 AM

Comments

this is some seriously twisted shit.
i want more.

Posted by india at August 8, 2003 05:02 AM
203.109.254.40

She's like a human sidecar.

Posted by Lemur at August 8, 2003 02:36 PM
65.36.124.218

I am intrigued. I'm not quite salivating over the prospect of more...unlike India...(maybe it's my 'stump fetish', eh, India?...) but I do like the concept, and the work so far.

Posted by Randell at August 14, 2003 11:04 PM
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um... does he let her go out with suitors. im sure there's many a man who would find her to be a fun conquest, or even a worthy hand for marriage. is she even able to reproduce?

Posted by b.b.d. at October 2, 2003 10:21 AM
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I'm a circus freak fanatic...have a little shrine set up..um..all very normal...where can i find more information ...and pictures..definetly pictures...for..um..information on a research project i'm doing...yeah!..that's it..research project..not..um..some sort of perverse psychological visual stimulation...but can i see some pictures?

Posted by veronica at December 15, 2003 01:41 AM
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show me more i cant find any good pictures on the web

Posted by melissa at February 7, 2004 05:36 PM
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hehe, ahh.....for some reason, things like parasitic twins, serial killers, and strange piercings are a morbid obsession of mine!.......please do have more on these strange deformed creatures.....they're so fascinatingly grotesque!

Posted by skye at February 9, 2004 01:50 AM
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Hi I would like more info on the twins for a television show I can't discuss on web so contact me by e-mail wendyclv@aol.com

Posted by Wendy Calloway at February 9, 2004 10:22 PM
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Uhm... okay.

Posted by spike at February 10, 2004 02:16 AM
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Oh for christs sake- conjoined twins cannot be of different genders. This was a true case of parasitic twinning, but both were males.

Posted by I R dum at April 26, 2005 04:02 AM
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Let me guess: found the site on Google, didn't bother actually reading the rest of the entires, particularly the one from 2003-08-06, posted in a fit of violent, consumptive stupidity.

This is from a sketchbook collection called "Impossible." If you need a moment to think about that, it's yours.

I'm aware of how twinning works. Thanks for your assumptions, though. Especially on a two-year-old entry. Very helpful.

PS: changed your post name for the sake of accuracy. <3 Don't be a stranger, now.

Posted by spike at April 26, 2005 09:26 AM
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by definition, parasitic twins, and all conjoined twins must be identical...thus the same gender too

Posted by guy santo at November 29, 2007 08:05 AM
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