#ill-limbed

[thesandlorde]

you should know I could never make it work

it's pretend, really // do you like the way the water tastes?

it's like gunfire

[somber-cryptid]

he was so casual about losing an arm.

d'yall think kim rok soo had his limbs blown off before????

???

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i'll admit it. he's blorbo shaped

[whack-patty]

still burnt out as FRICK so im using all my art braincells for schoolwork. so sorry to all those requests im slowly catching up on but here's this scribbly scroobbly Chilchuck i did for a hw warmup today

[bloominglegumes]

small powl test doodle,,, original voice is rino romano in 2004 the batman

[vonecent]

I found this weird bug, can anyone help identify it?

+ wingless pinless version

> 6h 34m

> I was going to pin a dragonfly to use as reference for pin location and then it ended up only needing six pins for everything so instead I just guessed

[foolsocracy]

Now having watched Frankenstein (1931) I find this really interesting. I didn't really expect the writers themselves to have watched the film; I assumed they saw it was a horror film released in Pete's time and included it with the bonus that the audience would know the story because its Frankenstein. It really aligns with the themes of spider noir though, so I'm second guessing myself.

I read Frankenstein a while back so I'm not as familiar with it as I once was, but I'd say its generous to say the movie is based off of the original novel. It hits some of the points but it really is different. I mean, in the film its Henry Frankenstein, not even Victor.

In the film, the monster is played almost-infantile. He reaches out towards light as if he could grab it. He plays with a little girl by a lake, throwing in flowers to watch them float like boats. When he kills her, it's an accident. How could he have known that she wouldn't float along with the flowers? Its Frankenstein and his assistant who are portrayed as monstrous. They lock him in the dark for three days. The intimidate him with fire and whips and fists.

Despite this, its Frankenstein who gets the 'good end,' while the monster is left to burn alive, pinned inside a wooden mill set alight by the townspeople.

Pete could have gotten nightmares from a number of scenes. Although I wouldn't personally say this is a scary film, there are definitely unnerving parts. There was also a different standard in 1931 for what was scary in film, plus Pete was already living a hard life at such a young age when he saw it.

Based on the panels themselves it is clear that Pete was scared of the monster itself (which is fair, the make up and costuming wanted him to be frightening). "I expected him to tell me there's no such thing as monsters," because no one in real life is a resurrected, looming... once-man-now-creature. (Just you wait, Peter). It's a more juvenile read of the film but Pete is a kid. Ben though, is a veteran, a socialist, has been around the block. He has the sense to analyze the film and interpret it differently. It is the men who find themselves with a capacity for senseless cruelty that are the monsters. That is exactly what the noir comics are about.

I really like that it's clear that Uncle Ben knows what Peter is about to learn. It also shows how much Pete has changed, just within the 1-2 years since he'd seen Frankenstein.

[bengallemon]

< It's cold. That's how night works. The beach you are on is not lightless. Like home.

< It was dawn before. When you woke. That's how time works. You did not understand where you were.

< It hurt to stand. That's how exhaustion works. You struggled to get up before beginning to wander further inland, to try and find home.

< The heat blinded and stung. That's how the sun works. You headed forward until you saw houses alongside the water and beach. Almost like home.

< There was movement ahead, people seeing and rushing forward. That's how life and curiosity works. They stopped when they reached you, extending their hands.

< However. The strange ones only had arms to reach to you for, only legs to run to you on.

< You extended out your limbs to them, opened your mouth to ask where you are, why you're on a beach you cannot recognise-

< They freeze. The people stop and draw their hands away, their feet already ready to run.

< They do not recognise you as one similar to their kind, their strange, four-limbed existence, their flightless lives.

< The strange ones panic. They speak static to you, rising to show how they are afraid.

< You continue to reach, to ask, to understand. The closest figure raises their fists.

< You scream and fall back. That is how injury and pain work.

< You.

< Turn. And run.

< You do not stop running. Not for a second. This is how fear works.

< ...

< It's cold. That's how water works. It splashes against you, over you, around you. It's.... comforting.

< ...

< You realise.

< You do not know where you are.

< You do not know how to get home.

< You cannot remember where home is.

< You....

< Cannot remember home.

< You are alone, without name nor family nor memory nor home.

< This is how life will work from now on.

[museofdeity]

chronic illness so bad you gotta devote yourself to lord apollo

[thecrimsonjaguar]

some old ass subject delta doodles. ive changed his face a bit since ive drawn these, but i figured id finally release these into the wild anyway

and teeny fambily

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

heyy not tryna be a hater or anything but since you’re kind of the OG body part blog do you think you could encourage all of you guys to come up with some sorta tag of your own? it’s getting kind of hard to browse the malevolent tag with so many of y’all when i really just wanna read analysis stuff so if there was something that could be filtered out that’d be appreciated 👍

I believe the tag a lot of them are using is Limb Posting but I'm not sure how widely used it is. I don't really tag the limb stuff as malevolent because it's way more posts now . The limb stuff has grown out of my hands now but I'll definitely bring it up in the discord 🫡

[canisalbus]

You've encouraged me to be much more expressive with the body launguage and general poses of my oc's. I love to draw them but was never fully satisfied; like something wasn't quite right with them. Turned out I needed to stop treating their bodies like stiff plastic toys and more like, well, actual animal bodies, which are WAY more dynamic than we realize.

I'm so delighted to hear that! I'm a big fan of expressive body language myself, sometimes you can tell so much about a character's personality and their current mood just by looking at how they occupy space and position themselves, often subconsciously.

Mammalian bodies can be surprisingly elastic and bendy, just like you said. (Personally I tend to think shoulders in particular are way more mobile than you'd initially believe, for example when you stretch your arm up it's not just your arm that moves, your clavicles, shoulder blades and all the muscles connected to them shift a little bit too and that can alter the shape of your upper torso significantly).

[lyss-butterscotch]

Iterator blood!?

Imagine Moon accidentally pricking her finger with a spear, it starts to bleed and Pebbles like 0-0 and Moon like "haha It's just a scratch! Relax!"

Yeah that definitely happens, especially with Pebbles being super on edge when it comes to Moon's well being now. Small scratches can usually be welded shut without alot of issues though! Not Moon's first experience with it.

[katytheinspiredjjkblog]

This mf is giving me such problems tonight.

[lacunazai]

you can't see me but I'm punching the ground weeping

[goat-boy-sounds]

a whumpee who goes catatonic as a coping mechanism after being captured and a whumper who isn't exactly sure what they're doing anymore because they can't get a single reaction out of whumpee except for some stray tears every now and then