#THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE

[novathesheltie]

such a difficult life

[ulysseinthewild]

Do you ever just live about your day and then

"God, I thought I was red. I was bright fucking blue."

hits you on the skull?

[gijoe-forever]

SGT Slaughter: “51…..52…..We’ll be here all day slow poke ! No more playing house and Tea Parties at The Pit……..Welcome to the slaughterhouse !!!!”

Falcon: 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

[readingwonderer]

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labor power without producing anything that can be consumed.

1984 by George Orwell.

[shesnake]

Interview with the Vampire Part II episodes 6 & 7 (2024), by Rolin Jones, Hannah Moscovitch, Jonathan Ceniceroz // Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut

[valtsv]

while i'm thinking about intimacy and violence and the ways they intersect there's something so compelling to me about allowing someone to hurt you. seeing someone consumed by their rage and pain so completely that it's burning them up from the inside out and saying you need to set this loose before it destroys you. you need to let it out. so give it to me. i can take it. take it out on me. i'm giving you permission. i want you to hit me as hard as you can, for as long as you need to. the way it blurs the lines between who is the victim and who is the perpetrator. who is in control and who is bowing to whose power and authority. who is truly dependent on whom.

[chamerionwrites]

Nearly a dozen children were working shifts cleaning meat processing equipment used at an Iowa pork plant’s so-called kill floor over a four-year period, the US Department of Labor announced.

Eleven children were using corrosive chemicals to clean as well as perilous “head splitters, jaw pullers, bandsaws, neck clippers and other equipment” at a Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing plant in Sioux City, according to officials. This is the second time federal investigators have found children working at that particular Sioux City meat processing plant.

The most recent settlement comes with Qvest LLC, an Oklahoma-based cleaning company hired by Seaboard from 2019 to 2023. The company was fined $171,919 for violating federal law.

In September 2023, Seaboard hired a new cleaning contractor: Fayette Janitorial Services, headquartered in Tennessee. Investigators found Fayette hired 24 children to work overnight shifts – some as young as 13 and carrying glittery school backpacks – including some of the same minors who were employed by Qvest, the previous cleaning company. In May, Fayette was fined $649,304.

“These findings illustrate Seaboard Triumph Foods’ history of children working illegally in their Sioux City facility since at least September 2019,” said wage and hour midwest regional administrator Michael Lazzeri. “Despite changing sanitation contractors, children continued to work in dangerous occupations at this facility.”

The federal investigation comes after a 2023 New York Times report on migrant child exploitation, in which the paper documented children working dangerous jobs and overnight hours.

Children who arrive at the US’s southern border alone often stay in the country for years before their cases are adjudicated. While they wait, they live with sponsors. As of 2023, only one-third of migrant children went to live with their parents, a sea change from a decade ago. That can leave children vulnerable to exploitation or trafficking.

[ivynightshade]

my body is a slaughterhouse for all the people who have tried to love me. / including myself.

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘my body is a slaughterhouse’.

[sillydog33]

14.8... when i catch you wildbow

[abyranss]

Assorted Bonesaws

[etirabys]

a frustrating thing about battle royale stories is that they take place in a world where there's a massive popular appetite to see torture and death, the existence of this appetite is the main moral evil of the story (so far so fine), and the author tends to pretend this is also a huge problem in our world so that their work can stand as a Commentary On Real Evil. when the world their actual readership lives in has the opposite problem – too squeamish about seeing torture and death and coercion and collectively agrees to sequester it out of view so that nice things can keep being available for under five dollars at the grocery store

[vvitchs]

NICHOLAS ALEXANDER CHAVEZ for the face magazine 2024

[innominaterifter]

"Oh, you can kind of predict the future! Come on, surprise me!"

"Well... I see a woman with a mane of hair down to her waist... I can't tell if she's blonde or brunette..."

"Wow, I like this already! Blonde or dark - it doesn't matter. The main thing is that she's hot, haha. What is she wearing?"

"She's completely naked."

"You're damn good at working with clients! What's around, where are we?"

"Some dark place... Lots of space, brick walls, high ceilings."

"Looks like some kind of cool loft, not bad! What is she doing?"

"She's smiling at you..."

"I'm not surprised, I'm really good with women one-on-one! And me?"

"You give her everything she wants."

"Cool!"

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I was testing a new, interesting location for filming the Siberian. It was very cold, and I was practically naked, so we didn't film much, but it turned out very atmospheric.

[aethereaii]

Prop art for Project Fish. Some things you'd typically see at a Li-Luan port.

These props are inspired by things you'd normally see at urban areas within south-asian communities.

I dug deep into what’s been inspiring me to create art for Ormauk recently, and a lot of it has been my relationship with nature as an adult, but especially more so when I was a kid. I grew up a short walk away from the beach. The town that I lived in was outside of the city, but you couldn’t really classify it as suburbia. There were empty plots of land filled with guinea grass growing taller than us kids. Unfinished foundations of houses that sat undisturbed for most of my life; overgrown and abandoned. There was a small pasture for cows behind my house where frogs croaked their hymns when rain fell and created ponds. Overhead cables and graffitied electrical transformers had a specific vibe that I just don't see where I live now.

I wanted to show my version of solarpunk, and it finally clicked with me how I can achieve this; by mixing those snapshots of my childhood with thematically designed technology that fit that south-asian culture I’m trying to emulate. A bit of what exists now and what could exist.

[ghostofadragon]

let me down easy

[bl00dymarie19]

Nicholas Alexander Chavez for The Face Magazine (December 3rd, 2024)