#Flensing

[peopleofwiki]

A group of Inupiaq men flensing a whale, Utqiagvik, Alaska, USA. From flensing.

[artbyblastweave]

With a couple days to chew on it I've gotta say I've really come to appreciate the Untwist surrounding Nina's character. She's coded as a specific kind of guy, right, who shows up in a lot of Ensemble superhero stuff and Gunn's superhero stuff specifically- the innocuous neurotic with a middling power who ultimately comes in clutch at the last minute and demonstrates why they actually did belong on the team the entire time. "Heart is an awesome power", in TVtropes parlance. Polka-Dot man and Ratcatcher, Vigilante, Groot to an extent in the first Guardians movie.

So you spend seven episodes with this one member of the ensemble who never kills anyone, doesn't try and doesn't want to, gets haplessly dragged from nightmarish situation to nightmarish situation with no say in anything, spends a significant amount of the show's runtime trapped in a goddamn bathtub, and you've been trained to assume that she's going to get some kind of big moment that retroactively justifies all of that, demonstrates why Waller thought she was a good addition to the team. And then it turns out, no, she actually was just fundamentally poorly suited to this lifestyle. She had a superhero origin, the same kind of emergency power-granting medical intervention that Cyborg and Beast Boy got, but it turns out that Gunn's version of the DCU is a weird enough place that that's just a kind of thing that can happen to children sometimes, not something that guarantees that you'll actually become a viable superhero. She genuinely had no business being on the team, except that she looked weird enough that she got legally unpersoned and handed over to Waller, and Waller thought she looked weird enough that there was no reason not to try pointing her like a gun to see if she could do anything useful. No skin off her nose if she's a dud munition- you don't end up on the Suicide Squad because you're hard to replace, you end up on the squad because you're available and there won't be any blowback if you go missing.

This is, of course, one of the tensions that Suicide Squad and associated projects occasionally run into- you need to strike a balance between staffing the team with villains who're competent enough that Waller doesn't come off like a moron for entrusting them with anything important, and villains who're inept, underwhelming or out-of-control enough to remind you that half the point of the squad thematically is that it's a corrupt and morally bankrupt idea that on a really good day breaks even on solving as many problems as it creates. The usual fix is to include some number of mauve shirts who're included entirely to die badly- Slipknot in the Ayer film, Mindboggle in the first arc of the original Ostrander run, Voltiac in the first arc of the New 52 run, Most of Rick Flag's decoy team in the opening of The Suicide Squad. All played for some combination of shock-value and kafkaesque dark humor (did anyone check if Weasel can swim?) but rarely played for tragedy. These deaths are tone-setters, too early for you to care enough for it to be tragic. Nina is a well-disguised Slipknot, with her pointless, anticlimactic death bumped to the end of the story in a way that lets you get attached to her- which in turn finally, finally allows the narrative to hammer home that what keeps happening to the Slipknots and Javelins in these stories is fucked up. Nina didn't belong here! She's the only one of these people who doesn't have a codename! She gets the big, heartfelt you-can-do-it- you're-one-of-us speech from The Bride and Phosphorous, she strides out to finally get her Big Moment, and then no, she really really isn't one of them, and all that happens is that she ends up getting gutted like a. like a. Hey. Hang on

[notbecauseofvictories]

I swear I tried so hard to listen to a standard, talking heads podcast while I was working on my latest project---but it is just not my medium. I can do fiction! If it's an audiobook with some production values? A play staged by my imagination? Great, amazing. I love a soundscape.

But anytime they venture even slightly from that, I want to murder them and their tinny laughter.

[insects-in-every-hole]

A photo of my photo on a billboard

[oozeandgoo-art]

[twilightdomain]

flense will not be participating in soto but she is sending vibes for. the morale

[bowl-of-fruit-loops]

got so sidetracked writing a fic im reading academic papers

[nabsthevulture]

Flensed the lady fox down this morning and now my garage smells like fox 😭

[darka-art]

I loved and I loved and I lost you And it hurts like hell Yeah it hurts like hell

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Been working on it for a good while, but I'm glad it's over. I've been thinking about making a mini ''animation '' with it later on Premiere pro, I must work on the audio.

Draker Flense from the Gaunt's ghost novel , and my Ocs, Sopheea. They have complex story, and lets say, she is presently being angry at him for very good reason ( its never a good idea to break the heart of your beast friend).

Short story, this is after Mr Flense came back to Juant After have saved a world from the Tyrnids. Draker was of course decorated with medal, and it of course boosted his pride. Sopheea and the woman who was at the time, his Fiance, warned him if he continued like that, his pride and anger would be his downfall.

Needless to say, he was too pride and blind, and literally Left Sopheea and his Fiance behind, in the search of glory and revenge against Ibram.

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© 2023warhammer 40000K belong to Game Workshop

🎶Hurts like hell by Fleurie Art is mine, do not trace/edit, use as NTF , reblog or clams as your own.

[murderandcoffee]

👁️👁️

congratulations, you have been assigned…

🎪 THE STRANGER 🎪

and

🔥 THE DESOLATION 🔥

enjoy your new allegiance!

(send me a 👁--or 👁👁 if you want two!--and I’ll roll a d20 on my randomized chart and assign you a fear entity!)

[blacklightsociety]

[milkteamoon]

Tag Game: Last Line

Rules: Make a new post and post your latest/most recent line from your WIP and tag as many people as there are words (or don’t. I’m not your mom)

Tagged by @thisisworsethanitlookslike, @rakel-on-ao3, @babyyodablackwood, @three-magpies-in-a-trenchcoat ... ty for all the tags I’m feeling very loved lol

No one likes feeling as if their skin’s being flensed by a divine being. Well, maybe Elias, but Jon has a hunch that he’s a little bit of a masochist.

I think most of my tma writer friends have been tagged so...I’ll expand these tags to other fandoms :3 @bloodsbane @dancingacrossthemilkyway @godshaper @cnnmonbimee @thatsrightdollface @krispyt

[tlaquetzqui]

If the “For You” tag was renamed “Generate Blocklist”, would anyone feel its function had changed?

[bolters-and-rivets]

sorry to be the "Achtually!" guy and ruin your joke, but.

based on the fact Nostramo devolved right back into the way things were before Kurze the moment the emperor sent him elsewhere, coupled with his own 1st captain critiscisng his actions in writing, he very much did very little ruling aside from live streaming butchery to the masses to keep them in line.

Kurze ruled through terrorism because he never thought any other option was even possible, not that he ever tried.

this excerpt is from Prince of Crows

‘Where is the nobility in any of this?’ Sevatar gestured to the streets of Nostramo Quintus around them. ‘You can claim a savage nobility, father, but this is far more savage than noble.’ Curze’s pale lips peeled back from his filed teeth. ‘There was no other way.’ ‘No?’ Sevatar answered his father’s snarl with a grin. ‘What other ways did you try?’ ‘Sevatar…’ ‘Answer me, father. What politics of peace did you teach? What scientific and social illumination did you bring to this society? In your quest for a human utopia, what other ways did you try beyond eating the flesh of stray dogs and skinning people alive?’ ‘It. Was. The. Only. Way.’ Sevatar laughed again. ‘The only way to do what? The only way to bring a population to heel? How then did the other primarchs manage it? How has world upon world managed it, with resorting to butchering children and broadcasting their screams across the planetary vox-net? ‘Their worlds were never as… as serene as mine was.’ ‘And the serenity of yours died the first second your back was turned. So tell me again how you succeeded. Tell me again how this all worked perfectly.’

Now, according to lore, Konrad was actually a pretty good ruler of Nostromo and quite sensible when he wasn't out in the streets hunting criminals for sport. And I find that thought quite funny.

Frightened serf: "M-My liege, about your recent decree-"

Konrad, absolutely covered in blood and gore: "The people deserve free healthcare."

[twilightdomain]

marcel my dear friend marcel, for that prompt ask, can i have Touching + 47 and 49 for whoever you'd like!

i took a hundred years to do these and THEN accidentally deleted my alt text after describing both of them and had to recover from that so thank you for waiting!!!!!!!!!!!!!

touches ask game touching #47 & 49: "touching their elbow to get their attention" & "holding onto the other’s shoulders for support"

[melpcmene]

funny story but i had this amazon page up on my browser, this kindle book that i wanted to read and i've had that up and never really closed out of it for, i'd say two weeks now or something?? maybe more than that, and all of a sudden, yesterday or the day before that it became free to purchase for kindle and i'm just like-- OMG