#axe to grind

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Snow-White | 1933

[tilbageidanmark]

The Woodcutter and the Trees

[wispisstillverybored67]

DENIED

SEARCHING ALL AROUND

UP AND DOWN

CONTROL FOR EMPTY WORDS

WASTING AWAY HOURS

POSING LIKE SOMETHING YOU'RE NOT

WHERE'S YOUR THOUGHT?

YOU'LL FIND AN AXE TO GRIND

I TAKE HEARTS BUT NOT MINDS

[thedailycounternews]

AXE TO GRIND- HAMLET, NC's HIDDEN SECRET

In a world of fast bars and fast drinks there is still hope. Hamlet, North Carolina holds a secret establishment that reminds one of the old style pubs. Family oriented and just plain fun. The atmosphere takes you back to a time when you felt comfortable to go out and just have a good time with friends and family. Saturday nights is their Kareoke night, which you can hear good voices from the…

[call-me-strega]

Dc x Dp Prompt #21: Petition to the King

I haven’t done one of these in a while so here we go:

AU where Thomas and Martha Wayne live in the Ghost Zone version of Gotham and have been collecting signatures from the other ghosts there for a few years now. Since the Ghost Prince Phantom has finally come of age and is now able to hold court/assemblies they approach him with their official petition and beseech him: Please allow them avenge their grandson and countless other souls, who’ve signed agreeing to the petition, to haunt and torment the Joker for the rest of his living days. May he never find peace even in sleep, even in death.

Danny being the gracious prince he is agrees. Even going as far as to take the names of literally everyone on the list and create a haunting rotation, for who gets to torment the Joker on which days, with Thomas and Martha having first dibs.

The grandson in question is a revenant and thus also eligible to be put on the haunting rotation so Danny decides to reach out and go to Gotham himself and ask if he wants to haunt the Joker with his grandparents. Thomas and Martha tag along bc they wanna visit their grand-babies, their son, and their partner who raised him.

Jason isn’t sure what to make of his doting ghostly grandparents, the beautiful interdimensional king, or the apparent laundry list of people ready to mess with the Joker’s mind, but hey! If he can’t kill the Joker, eternal torment isn’t a bad deal to swing!

[baejax-the-great]

I am all for artists doing whatever they want and ignoring weirdo cranks like me with strong opinions on shit that does not matter, but I do NOT get the recent trend of giving Achilles elf ears.

His mom is a sea nymph. Show me a single sea creature with big, long ears. You can't, because those ears would increase drag while swimming AND do nothing to improve his hearing under water. If you want his ears to reflect his sea nymph heritage, it would make more sense for him to lack external ears at all like a dolphin or a fish or a seal or a penguin or a turtle*.

Webbed feet, pretty, iridescent scales patterned like a star trek trill, sharp teeth that grow back like a shark's-- these are sea creature characteristics. Big, wet eyes for seeing in the dark, sparse body hair, the ability to generate and sense electricity for defense or communication, these are adaptations for living in the sea.

Not big ears. Big ears are a desert nymph thing. Achilles can get his own thing.

*But then what would Patroclus bite?

[raymurata]

Folks in my Bellara post saying some manner of "The choice (to destroy the archive) shouldn't exist" or "It's racist to choose to destroy the archive" and the latter is true and the former is valid, but my point is more that:

1. Cyrian's death is contrived.

2. The game uses the UI to overtly convince the player that keeping the Archive is inherently dangerous while not allowing the player to interpret the events for themselves based purely on diegetic information (which is not clear, consistent or coherent enough to corroborate the conclusion delivered to you by the UI).

3. While it is in-character for Bellara to feel misplaced guilt (white guilt 🤮) over the actions of the Evanuris, and for her grief to lead her to see the Archive as responsible for Cyrian's death, it is bizarre for her, as a Dalish historian, to never once factor in the last one thousand years of history and instead blame the Evanuris not only for the destruction of Arlathan, but for the current plight of the elves. No other character (and perhaps not even codex?) in DAV ever mentions these one thousand years of slavery and subjugation either.

4. Despite being called a spirit, the Archive never gets treated as a spirit by the narrative or its characters. It's presented as some sort of programmed hologram without will of its own.

5. I actually wish the PC could be racist, and that it cost them both Bellara and Davrin's respect and approval, or the VJ's support, or something, but DAV tries to be apolitical but instead ends up lacking in conflict and substance. And it's not exactly an RPG.

[fistfuloflightning]

found a post from pre-Gladiator II release in my drafts and wanted to share (esp now that I finally got around to watching it… and regretted it)

I haven’t even watched Gladiator II yet, but I’m already hoping/wishing they’d give us more of the Senate side this time around. Make Lucius (Lucilla having hid his identity in childhood to protect him from the following emperors) be an adjunct to Geta, and the lover of Fulvia Plautilla before she’s forced to marry Caracalla. The brothers are already low key trying to kill each other and (in history) Caracalla already hated Fulvia, viewing her and her Praetorian Guard leader father as threats to his rule. So with the drama of knowing his wife and his brother’s servant (Lucius, Commodus’ true heir and another unseen threat to his rule) were once a thing, and the intrigue and betrayal he would make of that connection, that just throws more gasoline on the dumpster fire that is Caracalla’s and Geta’s joint rule. Have Gracchus and Lucius be mentor/mentee in the Senate while they play 4D Machiavellian chess with the emperors and try to stay alive while patching up/trying to excise the corruption in the government they’ve dedicated themselves to. I want more ‘continuation of Gladiator but with more emphasis on the politics of the time and an interesting pov within the government’, and less ‘cheap knockoff Maximus in a sad reboot of Gladiator swearing to destroy Corrupt Bad Government made vaguely palatable by dragging the og cast back for a nostalgia-trip’

Idk we’ll see

famous last words 🙄

[shituationist]

I've noticed a strong correlation between Althusserianism and being a dunce.

[last-of-the-lot]

I tend to watch Vox Machina a few different times in different languages.

This has had the unintended side effect of causing me to laugh for a stupid amount of time at Cassandra swearing in the castle siege scene. Oh boy did it take me a minute to stop and double check that yes, miss prim and proper said that!

Honestly with everything she went through, girl deserved it

[scarwasright]

completely out of the blue and certainly unrelated to anything reminder that describing a work of fiction in terms of uselessly vague buckets of political ideology is analytically pointless and frequently lies at the bottom of why this site is so bad at articulating why we like or dislike a given piece of art.

[jup1tersparx]

rick rounds autistic and gets away with no one ever picking up on it via pretending all of the autism traits are 1) him being rude on purpose and 2) him just being a REALLY dedicated and stoic leader.

he never makes eye contact with anyone and seems to ignore to half of the things you say when talking to him? yeah he’s locked into that sigma grindset bro he doesnt have time for your bullshit. he refuses to let anyone touch him? oh is he also gonna cry and tell you about his feelings while you’re hugging 🥺🥺🥺? he barely makes any facial expressions, his voice is always monotone and he won’t react at all if you break down crying in front of him? yeah hes hardcore man completely unreadable. he gets really loud and angry and unpredictable when theres a lot of people and noise and lights? yeah hes a fucking wildcard bro you dont wanna mess around near him trust me. we need real men like this leading America forward thank god men are finally being masculine again 🙏🙏🙏 (/s)

[chamerionwrites]

I wasn’t watching it at the time to see firsthand, but there’s a lot of schadenfreude to be found in imagining the tantrums thrown by dudebros suckered into watching Black Sails unaware that it was The Queer Pirate show. However I confess that I am also deeply amused by the number of people who wrote it off as gritty male gaze sex-and-violence, were dragged kicking and screaming into watching it by some friend or other, and discovered that it was their Show Of All Time

[stylistic-nightmare]

Exhumed - This Axe Was Made to Grind

[idknotgonnapost]

u guys remember when axe and grind aired and just the entire feed was just ‘caraJO i think u broke one of my rIIIBss’ and also the one handed belt removal (and leg removal) okay whatever it was just sooo iconic . Oh and he got his nails did