#The Flying Guillotine

[chernobog13]

ONE-ARMED BOXER VS. THE FLYING GUILLOTINE (1976), aka MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE.

Yet another Jimmy Wang Yu film where he is the one-armed protagonist (he also had a series of One-Armed Swordsman films).

In this one (which I believe is the second One-Armed Boxer flick) he battles fighters from various countries with their own unique styles, including this Plastic Man-wannabe.

Only then does he get to take on the nigh-indefeatable big bad guy, armed with the titular Flying Guillotine (basically a hat box with saw blade teeth on a chain), who's been decapitating people left and right throughout the film.

I consider this to be the best of all the films that I've seen that used the flying guillotine motif.

[pilferingapples]

though after that one argument about how the revolutionaries were all Super Gross And Evil that said Marat never bathed I do feel like. like I got a good idea of the History-Channel-doc level of knowledge here.

[vampryn]

why does Dear Diary My Teen Angst Has A Bodycount sound like SHIT on spotify?! this isn't what we wanted. give us the album version of Dead Baby Kickball or give us nothing.

[depression-more-like-depression]

I CAN'T VOTE YET AND I HATE ALL OF YOU PEOPLE WHO DECIDED NOT TO VOTE OR TO VOTE FOR TRUMP. GENUINELY, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU??? NOW ME AND THOUSANDS OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO COULDN'T VOTE ARE GONNA HAVE TO DEAL WITH YOUR HORRIBLE DECISION FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS AND POSSIBLY MORE. WHO KNOWS IF I'LL EVEN BE ALIVE IN FOUR YEARS??? I LITERALLY LIVE IN THE SOUTH WHICH IS ALREADY SUCKY, NOW I HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MY RIGHTS BEING TAKEN AWAY FROM ME BEFORE I EVEN TURN EIGHTEEN! I AM SO ANGRY AND TERRIFIED FOR NOT ONLY MY FUTURE, BUT FOR THE FUTURE OF MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY. HELL, I'M WORRIED FOR PEOPLE I HAVEN'T EVEN MET FUTURES. HOW FUCKED UP OF A PRESIDENT DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO MAKE PEOPLE WORRY IF THEY'LL EVEN SURVIVE FOR THE NEXT ELECTION??

[templeofvengeance]

"Good morning!"

The External steps from behind a pillar.

Immediately, Khonshu's temple takes on that hint of fecundity: rodents stir in their dens, outside. The air smells of wet earth. The "dunes" of sand blown in over the decades firm beneath them. Yeah, it appears his floor is deciding whether it wants to stay a floor or take a walk on the wild side and join up with the desert.

Shar beams, holding up the big white pumpkin in her arms so he can get a good look. "Look! It matches your color scheme." She glances between the pumpkin at him before wrinkling her nose. "Monochrome as it is." With a little shrug, she 'dances' the huge gourd in front of his face. Dah-dah-dah-dah-dah! Look at it, Khonshu!

"I remembered our little talk about holidays over brunch and decided to stop by a pumpkin patch." Which she now owns. Also, this implies there are more pumpkins waiting.

Dah-dah-dah-dah. Look at the pumpkin!

"Do you want to cut first or shall I?" [externalconceit]

@externalconceit

He swears, every time Shar shows up, she gets a bit more bold with decorating his temple. At least the changes seem to undo themselves (with a bit of convincing) once she leaves. While the thought of his temple acting as an oasis for lost travelers is an appealing one, making the air damp and attracting rats didn't quite fit the definition.

In any case, it would seem she'd brought him another offering. (She was smart not to do so right away, or Khonshu would've just eaten it.)

"You are here to carve it?" Khonshu asked, though he didn't really need an answer. Plenty familiar with human customs to know the history of jack-o'-lanterns, back when turnips were the vegetable of choice instead of pumpkins. Despite her immortality, Shar seemed invested in Halloween traditions, between this and her mysterious party.

"Hold it still," Khonshu requested flatly, lifting his staff from the ground, positioning the crescent blade against the top of the pumpkin to lock-in where he needed to aim. Then he reeled back like a baseball bat, and swung.

[cnestus]

Dorytomus inaequalis, a weevil that i'm petitioning to give the common name Dhalsim Weevil

[hot-chocolate-is-my-lover]

My grandmother messaged me this morning saying "I thought Americans were a good shot". Savage in her old age

[teamfortressnames]

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976) - Art by Gabz

[geekynerfherder]

'Master Of The Flying Guillotine' by Grzegorz Domaradzki.

Officially licensed 24" x 36" screen print, in a numbered Regular edition of 215 for $60; and a numbered Variant edition of 140 for $80.

On sale Thursday February 9 at 11am CT through Mondo.

[witchern]

i'd seen only the first season back when it debuted and i wasn't very involved in the fandom beyond passively reblogging stuff, but there's a whole chapter in maureen ryan's "burn it down" that's dedicated to what happened behind the scenes of sleepy hollow over the years and nicole beharie's treatment on that show and holy shit i didn't realize how bad it was.

[chernobog13]

Emperor Guillotine, the big bad of Giant Robo, aka Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot.

And his second cousin once removed, Rufus, the Imperious Leader of the Cylons (Battlestar Galactica: The Original Series).

[lemon-pilled]

the postmatch experience

[visplay]

Chris: Master of the Flying Guillotine is a Japanese action film involving a blind warrior attempting to get revenge using a bizarre weapon that decapitates, noteworthy for music by Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, but I think I saw a chicken killed for real in this film, which makes it ethically substandard, so Avoid.

[hauntingblue]

I cant believe I am already on fem law... this happened like 2 days ago I cannot do it....

[corkinavoid]

DPxDC Danny the Guy Who Won't Die

He lives in Gotham, and he is just A Guy. Nothing weird about him, he's just there to study/work/help Lady Gotham to lift her curse/on vacation with Sam. Point is, he is not there to cause trouble and there's no GIW on his tail. Just a dude living his (after)life.

And Gotham, being Gotham, still finds a way to be annoying. There are mugging attempts, robbery, Rogues running around. Only Danny really doesn't want to deal with any of it.

Now there's a dilemma. If he uses his powers to fight, it will sooner or later come to Bats' attention. And if he fights as a human, it will also alert some of the Bats since he doesn't really do a great job at keeping his power levels low. Not to mention the fact he is really not enthusiastic about accidentally punching someone hard enough he sends them to a hospital.

What does he do instead? He pulls the 'I guess I'll die' act.

So every time he is attacked, he just plays dead. The mugger shot him in the chest? He falls down and stops breathing. Caught up in the middle of a Poison Ivy attack? Skewers himself on the vine and goes lax. Scarecrow's Fear Gas? Very dramatically chokes himself and plays a corpse. He makes sure to disappear before any ambulances arrive later, and it all goes well for a few months - he is just a casualty, who cares, really - until one day, he runs into that same mugger who shot him in the chest a while ago.

The man does a double take. Danny doesn't notice - he's been mugged so many times, who has the brain capacity to remember all of those fuckers. But the rumor goes out anyway.

A guy-who-won't-die. It's more of a city legend, really, and the Bats don't give it much thought since, well, it sounds stupid and not very important. A rumor of some man who was shot dead and then showed up like nothing happened? Yeah, it's probably because the mugger didn't check if he was actually dead. That happens. Maybe it wasn't even the same man, Gotham is a big city. If anything, hey, at least that was one less casualty? That's a good thing.

That is, until one day, they show up to Joker's hostage situation and witness the clown screaming at one of the hostages. He is so enraged he is shaking, spit flying out of his mouth, and, contrary to the usual Joker's evil sneers and maniacal laughter, he seems just... furious. But, like, the normal-human-level furious. The 'I just lost the last ounce of patience with you' furious.

"Don't you look away from me, you think I don't remember you?! Na-ah, I do. You were the one I drowned in the shark tank last week! And you were the one run through the chainsaw trap two weeks before that! And you were in the guillotine!!! I saw your fucking head get deattached from your body, how the fuck are you here again?!"

And the guy he is screaming at just looks at him, confused and incomprehensive.

"Um, I'm pretty sure I'd remember getting my head cut off, you know? So, err, wrong guy."

"Wrong guy my fucking ass-"

Joker is so distracted by his screaming match that it makes it almost too easy for the Bats to fight him down and drag to Arkham. Yet, a few of them get just a bit suspicious.

Now, imagine all the shenanigans when they try keeping a watch on Danny the Won't Die Guy.