DELUDED CUSTODIANS | JULY CHALLENGE

Bed of Nails for a Hamster Fakir?

With so many possibilities for Ann’s nail board contraption — I’ll start with the most likely

With control of the mind, comes control of the body. This handsome fellow is the master of both. — image created by author using Stable Diffusion AI and GIMP

As this month’s Deluded Custodian’s challenge,

Ann James

would like us to ponder the following object. What’s its intended purpose?

What the hell is that thing? Mysterious nail board — Photo by; Ann James

I thought of many uses, but considering the rather painful-looking nature of this device, few of them involved hamsters or any animals besides humans. The spikey circles reminded me of a floral arranging device called a ‘frog.’ It’s a little spiked disk that sits at the bottom of a vase to keep the flower stems upright and tidy.

Given the larger size of the featured item, a serial killer or Vlad the Impaler might consider arranging other things with it, as pictured below.

Lovely severed limb arrangement — image created by author using a photo by Ann James, Stable Diffusion AI, and GIMP

As stunning as it looks on the wall, the decorating possibilities are practically endless. With a few candles and a vertical limb…