#black freighter

[lesdeuxmuses]

Black Freighter - Graves And Monuments (Vendetta Records, 2010)

[picspammer]

It's too late. Always has been, always will be… too late.

[bizarroedits]

[sisislair]

Just finished watching the animated Watchmen movies with one of my friends, and y'all the tale of the black freighter is made for Arthur. Literally only thinking about him everytime the comic showed up in the movie.

[tomoleary]

“Dave Gibbons Watchmen Movie "Tales of the Black Freighter" Prop Comic Cover Original Art (DC/Warner Brothers, 2009). Created to produce a screen-used prop comic and posters for the movie Watchmen. Tales of the Black Freighter is an imaginary comic book, woven into the narrative of Gibbons and Alan Moore's allegorical superhero novel, Watchmen. This cover-design piece depicts the story, "Marooned," which is presented as a sub-plot in the fifth issue of Watchmen. The objective was to create a facsimile of what an EC Comics title of this nature might have resembled. Mission accomplished! In the movie, the final printed version was seen in the hands of the boy at the newsstand, and also this cover was used to produce a large "New Issue" poster on the side of the street corner newsstand. The pseudonymous signature at lower left suggests Al Feldstein, an EC mainstay.”

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/covers/dave-gibbons-watchmen-movie-tales-of-the-black-freighter-prop-comic-cover-original-art-dc-warner/a/7209-93101.s

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Knife Is Useless In Extracting Pay,” Montreal Star.  June 26, 1931. Page 3. ---- CREATING a scene aboard the ship from which he was just discharged, brandishing a knife and demanding his pay in no meek accents, is conduct for which the Canada Shipping Act provides a heavy penalty, Thomas Scott, colored, of Halifax, learned this morning. He will spend the next six months in jail.

Discharged from a Canadian National freighter, Scott went back and demanded pay he said was owing him. Ordered off the ship by the master, he returned and started brandishing a knife. Then he was arrested.

Appearing before Judge Cusson this morning, he was sentenced to six months in jail - the minimum term

[echthr0s]

it used to be that I could and did take Watchmen (2009) with incredible seriousness, and there's still a part of me that's going ape over "the inherent monstrosity of violent apotheosis" and so on and so forth, but mostly what I'm thinkin through this 3+ hour blue and yellow cringe-CGI riot is some combination of "hee hee hoo why his dick look like that", "lol imagine bein the doctor that has to give a Rorschach test to the guy whose whole schtick is the Rorschach test", "Big Figure's henchman... calls him.... Mr. Figure........ *wheeeeeze* *knee slap*", and "considering that Laurie hits the flamethrower button on Archie when she comes, I think that you could call the previous scene where she hits it on accident when it's parked 'premature ejaculation'"

[swtechspecs]

Vin Feal's Modified Nova-Drive 3-Z Light Freighter "Black Butcher"

Source: Planets of the Galaxy, Vol. 1 (West End Games, 1991)

[bonecouch]

watched the watchmen movie against my better judgment. hate it hate it hate it hate it. stupidest movie i ever saw. absolute butchery of the source material. dr manhattan explode me now

[welcometosasakiworld]

DPXDC prompt #33

As a apology/birthday/deathday present to Danny, Maddie and Jack decide to make authentic space tech from his favorites movies... Star Wars and Star Trek.

Now the Justice League was dumbstruck chasing a, honest to god, real Millennium Falcon YT-1300 light freighter mixed with Enterprise NCC-1701?!

Did they forget to mention the transporter? Or the other brought to life fictional tech from star wars and star trek? Or the fact the this spacecraft was being driven by a blue-eyed and black-haired teenager?

[odo-apologist]

Every ENT character is the most character ever. Archer is a bitch he plays a fundamental role in the creation of the Federation he brings his dog on away missions which once causes a diplomatic incident he likes water polo he commits war crimes he saw a gazelle giving birth and implements it into his rousing speeches he had a wet dream about his first officer that included his dog's funeral he had to carry the soul of the creator of the main tenets of Vulcan philosophy in his head he gives a lecture on Tycho Brahe while getting his ass beaten during an interrogation scene. T'Pol is strict in her Vulcan beliefs she doesn't believe in time travel even as she's presented with irrefutable evidence and remains somewhat skeptical after experiencing it firsthand she is the funniest person on Enterprise she is more emotional than average Vulcans to the point that she had to have memories erased for causing her too much distress she could canonically pick up any of her crewmates and carry them bridal style she has Vulcan HIV she has it cured by the woman that later watches Spock and Kirk roll around in the sand in Amok Time she is technically canonically trans she is a recovering drug addict. Trip is a perfect gentleman he undergoes incredible emotional losses his favorite movies are Frankenstein Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein he gets pregnant five episodes in he dies in the worst episode of the entire series (and the entire franchise) only to have that death retconned in the following tie-in novels he ran around the ship in his underwear he leaves the ship for a couple weeks only to come back after one person had been kidnapped another thrown in jail and the engines are on the verge of destruction and reacts like :/. Malcolm is gay he has 50 ex-girlfriends he has only had one friend in his life his own sister barely knows anything about him he dies alone he likes pineapple even though he's allergic to it he gets spacesick he worked as an agent for a top secret organization he's afraid of drowning he whined about getting a cold he had a spike driven through his leg and didn't complain at all he has a psychosexual obsession with a man he thinks is after his job and grows to respect once they had a homoerotic fight scene before witnessing him die. Hoshi is a linguistic prodigy she's the greatest contributor to the universal translator she has a panic attack on one of her first missions she ran a gambling ring she has a black belt in aikido and broke her superior's arm she has never been to the principal's office in her life she is afraid to use the transporter she became an empress in an alternate universe she is the only one who gets laid on Risa making her the first human to do so she reacted to the threat of getting worms injected into her brain to make her reveal secret information by spitting in her interrogator's face. Travis is the sweetest man ever he loves rock climbing he gets injured whenever he tries to use those skills he's a fan of ghost stories he grew up on a small freighter he gets neglected by the narrative his counterpart helps Hoshi become empress he works out when he's horny he dies in a alternate future where Earth is destroyed he's a movie buff who would probably love the Criterion Collection he likes to chill in a part of the ship with zero gravity which he calls "the sweet spot." Phlox grins like the Cheshire Cat he breaks doctor patient confidentiality to help figure out Malcolm's favorite food he goes crazy when the rest of the crew have to sleep through part of space because of how social his species is he has three wives who in turn have three husbands he responds to the news of one of his wives propositioning a crew member by being like "cool! have fun :]" he once nearly vivisects Travis because he's being affected by radiation and gets obsessed with knowing why the guy has a simple headache he has a menagerie in the middle of his sickbay. And they're all my best friends.

[thesiltverses]

Now that we have the complete poem... I have to ask, have you had it since the beginning, or was it made along the show? Also, were you to give it a title, would it be The Silt Verses? (Not to be confused with The Silt Verses the show or The Silt Verses fictional religious text within said show)

The poem actually might not quite be technically complete; when the dust has cleared I think I do want to quietly tweak these last two episode titles so they form an explicit repeating pair to finish off the final quartet. So:

Of love, and gods’ defeat; Of love, and gods’ defeat.

I didn’t want to do that right away, because at various points this season we’ve had people assuming they were listening to the very final episode and getting worried, so I wanted there to be a big flashing neon PART ONE PART ONE sign.

I didn't have the exact poem in mind from the start (because of course we've had to adjust the number of episodes over time and season-by-season) but I knew it was a poem about a storyteller who begins to tell a story, then begins to resent their own story, rages and rails at it, longs to be freed from it, but ultimately makes the choice to keep bearing it on into the dark until death.

I don't think I would call the poem 'The Silt Verses', although I don't know what I would call it! To me it's a separate but parallel mini-story, a kind of implied framing device from some future storyteller who's staggering through a desolate land and telling the tale of what went down in the show.

Sort of like an inverted Tales of the Black Freighter from Watchmen.

[picspammer]

Your turn, Doctor. Tell me... what do you see?

[quasi-normalcy]

Okay, but hear me out. It's a Deep Space Nine episode, first or second season; a scheduled freighter warps into the Bajoran System, but it's moving erratically; Sisko sends out some runabouts to catch it and tow it in, but when they do, they find that everyone is dead, exsanguinated, except for a single feral black dog, who runs out the airlock and disappears on the Promenade. Amongst its cargo are 12 crates of Earth soil, registry unknown. Odo investigates the murders and determines, with some understandable excitement, that they could only possibly have been committed by a fellow shape-shifter. Meanwhile, a dark, sinister stranger turns up at Quark's, looking for discrete passage to Bajor; Earth has become too civilized for him to easily ply his trade and he's hoping that he might more easily find...opportunities...on a war-torn planet...

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

"Sump Panda" Bone Picker - (Homo sapiens quisquiliae collectori) - Necromunda

A lesser known abhuman species, Homo sapiens quisquiliae collectori is a race of humans originally found on Forlax Primus, Secondus, and Tertius, a series of waste worlds almost completely covered in detritus dumped from across the imperium. Generally ignored by most imperial crews, they are simply left alone. However, whether smuggled onboard freighters, or picked up by rogue traders, they can be found in many sumps across the Imperium, including Necromunda.

While the ruling class on many planets consider them either mutants or vermin, and the general consensus in the upper hives is extermination on sight, the "Sump Pandas" as they are known by the inhabitants of the underhives are in high demand by many gangs.

Coercing one or several of these creatures to join one's gang through bribes, bartering, or bullying is a fast way to come into possession of all sorts of technology and riches, as these abhumans have a knack for both thievery and finding all manner of things in the underhives. From esoteric weapons and smuggled stims to functional mining robots lost under piles of refuse, a squad of them can pick an entire black market clean or sort through several metric tons of trash for a single plasma power cell.

Art (and lore) by WolfdawgArt

[absurdthirst]

Ok I got a weird one for ya…..

Which of the P boys would be a sperm donor?

What if their female friend wanted a child or she’s flipping through a sperm donor book and stumbles across a Prince from Dorne or a handsome DEA agent but can she resist the cute pilot?

Who Would Be A Sperm Donor:

**Female Reader

Javier Peña: Hell no. Not at all. Never. He was lucky that he had managed to never knock anyone up, he would never donate sperm for a child he would not be involved with.

Ezra: Shocked you would want his sperm. Questions if you understand that he will not be around to help you with this child. He's willing to give you his seed, but then disappears on the first freighter out of the system. What do you do with the doctors and his sperm is up to you. He's already spent the credits you gave him.

The Mandalorian: Is against it at first. Reminds you that he is a bounty hunter with a youngling he has adopted, he won't be able to help you out with a child. Eventually comes around to it. Gets you pregnant the old fashioned way and never leaves again. Well, he does - but he always comes back.

Pero Tovar: Food, a bed and a hot cunt? Pero is surprised that you are so wanting a child you are willing to have his bastard. Can be talked into it with a few cups of beer and flashing your tits at him. Surprised Pikachu face when he comes back next winter and there is a child there. Ends up staying in the village and raising the boy with you.

Agent Whiskey: NO. Absolutely not. After his wife and baby boy died, Jack got the snip. There are no babies in his future.

Frankie Morales: You have to talk Frankie into this. Yes, he would have to admit that he has also give a sperm sample when he was young and dumb. Later on, he tried to withdraw the right to use it - but it had already been used. Now he has to wonder if there is a little Morales out there that he doesn't know of and he doesn't know if he can do it again. Eventually he comes around and feels a little awkward when it comes to giving the sample and listening to what they will do to you to give you that baby you want. Quietly inquires if he could give the baby any of his benefits.

Dave York: Dave donated when he was younger. Probably still at the sperm bank, but he was young and about to deploy for the first time. He had wondered what would happen if he died, so he had gone down and donated his sperm. If you want that, he can show you which clinic, or he can give you a fresh sample but Carol can never find out.

Oberyn Martell: Done. Is there really any question? You want a child and he would love to bed you. But you will raise his child in the shades of the Water Gardens and they will become another one of his beloved Sand Snakes.

Marcus Pike: VERY conflicted. He would love to help you out, but he's also had a lot of dreams of having his own children. Children that he has a very hands on approach to raising. Honestly, he's turning you down. Not because he isn't sympathetic, but there is no way he can have a child out there that he's not in their life.

Max Phillips: Sure! Let's do this! It has to be the old fashioned way though. And does it matter that his sperm is technically dead?

Marcus Moreno: He's had sooooooo many requests for this. Do you know how many people want to have a Heroic's baby? Thinking that it would increase their chances of the child having Heroic abilities, the requests can sometimes be overwhelming. He will have to turn you down. His answer is always no.

Max Lord: Sure. If you invest in Black Gold, Inc.

Zach Wellison: Reluctantly admits that he's donated before. He got paid for each donation, so.....yeah. There was a time where he was donating blood, plasma and sperm to trying to survive. A little ashamed of it, but he did what he had to do. If you want a kid, he'll do it again, you've been a great friend to him.

Javi Gutierrez: Surprised. Honored. A little scared of the idea. You have to very thoroughly explain everything to him and he will go with you to a doctor's appointment to get even more information. A little sad that he wouldn't have any rights to the child unless you agree. Eventually decides that he will do it. Anything for the woman he secretly loves.

Dieter Bravo: Are you trying to shake him down for money? To get child support from an Oscar winner? He is squinting at you suspiciously before he asks if you want to do a line of Coke with him.

Tim Rockford: He studies the idea like he would a case. Digging into the information and talking to people who have used sperm donors and the donors themselves. Eventually decides that he will do it for you. But then he misses every damn appointment for the donation because he was working on a case.

Joel Miller: Pre-Outbreak Joel would think that you are joking. Laughing at your suggestion until he realizes that you aren't laughing with him. Asking why him. Why would you want him to give you a baby? Talks about it with Sarah and only turns you down because she would have different expectations of having a sibling than what you would want. Post-Outbreak Joel would think that you have lost your fucking mind. Good luck ever getting in his pants now that he knows you want a kid in this godforsaken timeline.

Marcus Acacius: You want his seed? He is unsure of this, because he knows that he will fall in battle at any time, but he knows that you will be able to take care of a child. Plus, he will be able to spend a good amount of time in your bed, taking those memories with him when he leaves on his next campaign of the glory of Rome.