#im massacreing you with a hammer

[the-writing-mobster]

Hm. I don't think we should support this artist.

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[littlemessyjessi]

hello ma'am! i dunno if You still accept requests... if You don't, just ignore me, please. but if do, then lucky me!

some time ago i saw posts, where in one an author compared, what bts member is most to least likely to date a chubby/plus size person and why, and in the second one, set up a list: "how many drinks it would take a bts member to hook up with a plus size girl".

tbh the second post gave me '???' reaction, but i saw Your plus size oriented works and couldn't help but think, what would You think about that ideas and how would You do it.

if that's something You would like to write, im so excited to read Your thoughts! 🫶

BTS Members and a Plus Size Reader Partner: Thoughts and Vibes

Hello, darling!

I AM still taking requests for BTS x plus size reader at the moment!

Thank you so much for reaching out!

I appreciate you!

As far as my thoughts go, they are as follows. Let's stretch and begin.

Regarding the first topic: Well, I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with this topic. I mean, plus size is just another variety of person like blond or green eyes or freckles or whatever. I don't really think there's a problem with saying who you think might or might not be into a more cushiony body type for a partner.

But just.... why? I feel like some do this from a pure point of view just out of curiosity. But some do it to be mean... in which case... I'm going to tell Jimin to hit them with a stick.

However, regarding the second topic. .... wtf?

On the one hand, I get HOW people post that and don't get massacred. We live in a society where thin is presented as prime and best.

Not to say that there is anything wrong with slender. There is 100% not and to shame anyone for their body type, regardless of that body type, is WRONG. Again, if you're bullying anyone over their appearance like that.... I'm telling Jiminie and he will get you.

And honestly, if you rely on picking apart someone's physical appearance in a negative way... it kinda seems like a sign of low intelligence.

Like really? I mean, that's kinda of a fucking joke. It's literally amusing sometimes. Not the bullying. Just the audacity is straight up funny sometimes.

I get it. The world's standards are fucked and SK Beauty standards are so unobtainable in general. Blah, blah, blah.

However, to elude to the fact that they would have to be absolutely hammered to be with a larger person?

Brooooo..... that's so fucked up.

If I were any one of them, I'd be straight up pissed for anyone ever even having the audacity to THINK they knew what my preferences were or weren't. Or rather I'd be pissed that they thought they knew me enough to speak on them and that I would need to be intoxicated to find attractive what that writer didn't.

Like broooooooooooooo. In this day and age? Body shaming? Still doing that?

It's giving small brain energy.

It's giving insecure.

It's giving very much stagnant personality and lack of growth.

How embarrassing ....

Here's the thing, none of us know what they like or don't like. We're not them. We can't read their minds. We can imagine though. The difference lies in the details. To ask how many drinks it would take is to insinuate that the plus size person is therefore less than and the member would be in need of a mind altering substance to even consider being with a fat person. Which is fucked. What is wrong with some of these people?

Now, If I were going to write this, I would instead go about it like this.

What each member loves about dating a plus size body. Like, in theory what they might like based on what little information they have released to us. Or what they might like the best about being in a mixed size relationship. Stuff like that.

But shit! I wouldn't be like... "Oh fuck, how many shots do you think it would take Jimin to bang a fatty?"

Like bro, whaaaaat?

I feel like poor Namjoonie would catch second hand embarrassment just reading that shit.

Also, I would never be so stupid as to assume that A, Jimin would play that game or B, that the shots would even touch him.

The man drinks like a fish. I'm almost certain he's part merman or siren or Poseidon him damn self.

I don't know. I can't focus on Jimin for very long.

He tricks me with the cute, lures me in with sweet and then when I get there and I think I'm safe, he turns on the sexy shit.

Mother fucker is out to get me. I'm telling ya'll.

And he fucking knows it.

Anyway, thank you so much for sending in this ask! It was fun to explore and great responding to you! Please enjoy this Koo with a bow and a bunny smile.

Love, K

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[aristotels]

imagine seeing direct quotes from mussolini and visconi and massacres and the fucking expansion politics and 2 million dead in leningrad and then having the fucking BALLS to say that shit. go explode in a hammer covered car i am so done. if you ever mention the fact that nazi germany was very much planning to exterminate slavic people you should apparently im too pissed off to finish writing this post i need to go swallow a dynamite and explode myself

[bonefall]

i know you were asked about rewrite characters, but ive been wondering--what canon versions of characters can you not stand? bonus points for popular/largely beloved characters >:3c

Im going to drown canon Spottedleaf in a puddle and reverse-stepford wife her with MY Spotty and you'll thank me for it

Hmmm...

Post-Firestar's Quest Firestar sucks both of my butt cheeks. REAL Firestar isn't a tool of the warrior code, he's a righteous little gremlin who tells StarClan to SHOVE IT when he finds out they let SkyClan get exiled. They massacred my boy.

I feel like Moth Flight, Half Moon, Bramblestar, Frogleap, Bumblestripe, Clear Sky, and Thistleclaw are all pretty standard canon cats to hate tbh, or at least generally understandable.

Gray Wing is probably my most unpopular opinion. I like the idea of him, Thunder's adopted dad and a wise sage guy, but when I read DOTC I want to beat him with a hammer. I HATE the "oblivious towards personal impacts on other people" trope, especially in a romantic sense. He's also really not treated like Thunder's dad, in spite of the final line of Sun Trail.

Is it cheating if I just say, "The entire cast of Canon DOTC except Bumble"? Yes? Dang.

OH I HATE CANON BLACKSTAR. HES THE WORST. I HATE HIM AND HIS SHITTY "RECKONING" CONFINED TO 1 BOOK. I hate how he continues to be just as violent and shitty as he was in TPB but it's like, fine now because no bigger bad is around to lead him by the nose

"Thank you for this novella StarClan! I will not repeat my mistakes!"

(REPEATS MISTAKE 2 YEARS LATER, HAS TO BE YELLED AT BY ACTUAL ANGELS. NO ACTUAL PERSONAL REFLECTION REQUIRED)

And Finleap, who's not AS bad as anyone else in this post but god he both annoys me and makes me uncomfortable. Hawkwing is supposed to be his dad and then he just... gets with Hawkwing's bio daughter. Come on man. I know the Erins hate adoption but can you at least hide it a little?

[chansaw]

I'd love to hear more about the yj animorphs au! I'm curious when (besides the Jackie-Gets-Stuck Incident) it really hits the girls that the lives they knew are gone forever, that their own lives and their loved ones' lives are in danger, etc. Are they forced to put down a family member, knowing their loved one was trapped and screaming in their own head the whole time? Does a teammate get captured and the others realize, after a massacre of a rescue mission, that they're capable of terrible things? Does each girl realize they can't go back to Before at a different time? Sorry if I'm rambling, I'm just so curious about the mindset of these kids forced into a brutal, insurmountable war.

anon i love you so much :plead:

anyways i touched on some of this a little in my last response but i can talk about this so much. the main thing that connects animorphs and yellowjackets in my mind is the theme of "no return", and the way both of these series explore the way trauma mentally and physically transforms a person.

Does a teammate get captured and the others realize, after a massacre of a rescue mission, that they're capable of terrible things?

this is actually exactly what happens in like chapter 5 or 6 - van gets captured and tortured, and taissa goes absolutely ham trying to get her back. things go from bad to worse after the mission ends and someone off-handedly compares tai to shauna, which upsets them both. shauna is distraught that the others see her as just a bloodthirsty berserker, and it terrifies tai to think about how many ethical lines she crossed in the fight to save van, and how easy it was for her to cross those lines.

with regards to the family members thing... i feel like we have so little canon information on the girls' families that i'm not sure yet how im gonna use them. but you're right - in animorphs, jake's primary motivation throughout the war is to save his brother, tom; in the final act, his decision to send his own cousin on a kamikaze mission to take tom out ends the whole war but also shatters jake as a person. it's a similar moral dilemma to the one nat faces when she decides to let javi die in her place. still hammering out plot beats, i might come back to this later lol

anyways, to answer your question: yes, i feel like each girl has her own "oh, this is real, this is actually fucking happening and there's no turning back now" moment but the moment that really cements the line between Before and After is when laura lee is killed when she volunteers to commandeer a stolen bug fighter and it explodes in midair, and no one knows why. its a wakeup call: laura lee dies for no good reason, and the team realizes their lives could be cut short just as easily at any moment. i'm kind of sick so this probably isn't as good as it could be but words hard

[cakejerry]

im so glad you can be critical of jk without being cruel i see so many ex-jkks turned jimin solos talk about him like he killed jm with hammers or something just bc he isnt publicly hanging out with him as much and the company favors him like its crazyy to mee.. he clearly doesnt have any direction or identity without his group and hes been spiralling ever since and idk maybe bc im a ancient army who died in the trenches in 2018 and now im kinda back from the dead so the image i have of jk is veeery dated.. but like thats still googie hiding behind whatever hes got going on rn they could never make me hate him !! like obviously hes acting like an inmature teenager .. WONDER WHY .. but i also feel for him bc he molded his personality based on what (RM) his fans told him to be and to see him at his big age say that hes still catering to them in terms of how he presents himself is so sad to me... likee no wonder his version of being himself is doing the opposite of what people tell him to be bro is lichrally stuck at 13 .. also maybe its meee hoping for a redemption arc and getting dissapointed every time he says he for the hundredth time that he wants to be c-word but i can kinda see him trying to be self aware and mature but he has no idea how and hes sooo far behind he should have gone through this at 16 or something, he gets a little close to making sense and then he fucks it up by saying the most delusional out of touch sentence ever and then he makes a finger heart or idk pouts and everyone forgets BUT I DONT !! i remember what you said about your PARENTS when i catch youuuu ..its crazy that the most blank canvas member of bts is kinda the most complex one FOR THE WRONG REASONS and ofc i blame rm he goes on and on with his pretentious rants trying to come off as woke and mature do something for once and book him a therapy session !!!

waitt anon you're literally me I also left them in early 2018 and walking back in a few months ago was wild because they actually massacred my boys like what happened...

but like damn i wonder why this boy who got called 'oppa' and sangnamja constantly by 30 year old women when he was half their age ended up like this. it's like he can't fathom the idea of being cool and manly while also being the maknae.. well we can! we been doing it! he needs to catch up tbh

c-word 💀 "he gets a little close to making sense and then he fucks it up by saying the most delusional out of touch sentence ever and then he makes a finger heart or idk pouts" RIGHT ANON LIKE YOU GET ME he's distracting us because what do you mean "armys are the biggest... even more than my parents..." and then backtracking LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEANNNN

'blank canvas' member you're so right for that. company favors him because of that and he just follows aimlessly thinking it was his own idea. like idk, if he had even an ounce of flavor or self-identity he could do something actually revolutionary and interesting, like you want a cool image but you debuted in a hoodie and jeans with a radio hit? does he even know what cool means?

'complex for the wrong reasons' you're so right for that please marry me. he's complex in like a metanarrative way. I can't explain it.

rm catching strays I love it. he really acts like he has all the secrets behind their fame figured out too like bro you the translator c'mon THINK!!

[alkalyart]

What im going to tell is not a hate speech towards this community,i appreciate animation, but not too much, the past months i discovered a thing upon this fandom, something that is just weird.

let me talk about the "zaslav torture porn", ever since that merge, it became the canon event for this community which led that huge massacre of erasing 'toons in order to save money (in my country we dont have the whole CN shebang at all) and the loss of sanity of some members which led them to draw, what im describing that type of art is just basically the johnny test hate art that has been surfing on the web but with a real person in it, the majority of these drawings has the same vibe as looking at a chris chan drawing, all drawn in crayons and color pencils and taken with a photo or either scanned, if the johnny test hate art has cartoons punching him, there's the animaniacs or the coyote hitting the CEO of discovery with hammers and anvils, in the looney way not in a bloody way because that would cross the line(like the mask comics) all drawn in a way that i describe it like a childish rage, that type when a kid gets angry and draws his/her parent impaled or bitten dogs with blood scribbled with anger.

some of them are drawn in digital, but you either get the crudely drawn using mouse ones or the very professional ones and hope that part of the community does not discover blood, or wb splatter.

[the-s1lly-corner]

felt fun to do a live reaction of texas chainsaw massacre SOOO doing it again with the second film except its all in one post rather than a reblog chain! under the cut woo yeah

"oh hey that sign says dallas! this takes place in texas, cool! ........wait...."/srs

oh my god these two dudes are annoying as hell but at least one of them has cool glasses. me want

its not often that i root for a character to be offed however these two deserved it omfg they were so annoying

god the head getting chainsawed in half... such a cool effect and the first gore thing in a movie to make me recoil, at least first in a while... last time that i cringed like that was with the thing.... speaking of i need to lock in and finish watching, i never finished it because i pussied out

the movie keeps stopping and needing to buffer so theres going to be timestamps randomly littered througout this simply so i can know where in the movie to return if i swap stuff up, these are for me so ignore them... 17:00

lowkey rocking with the fry house this man is fully of whimsy

Unfortunately you'd better stop with that meat mess of the chili, so that you could have it for a cookoff actually, so that you could drink a soda and then eat a candy and then-- burp Excuse me. Eat meat. So- grunt I was at a cookoff and I eat chili with a- cornbread- and then, I drink a cherry sprite in the cookoff. And that was ago when I was actually well about that. Plus I would rather- eat chocolate, as well. So, that chili mess; clean it up please. So, I don't wanna cause any more troublemakers./ref

drayton couldve passed as a semi sweet grandpa if he didnt eat people/j

tweaking out over what vaguely looks like a lesbian flag at 20:23 but logically i know its not

"oh, my kid banana!"

do you think leatherface and choptop (is that the dudes name?) looked at each other like this, but with more fear, when stretch started playing the murder on the radio- also what were the chances they were on that specific station at that time?

im going to be very upset if they kill LG, he made a fry house, hes got whimsy

BUBBAS THE YOUNGEST????

choptops only been on screen for 2 seconds and i already dig his vibe

"I like his vibe!" *choptop proceeds to eat a piece of his scalp*

ik im only on the second movie, and i do know theres a grandpa but like... where are the sawyers parents?? are they just deceased or?

35:00

BUBBA PUNK ASS JUMPSCARE

he do a little steppy jig with his chainsaw before chasing

oooo metal plate- wonder what that was for- did they put it in themselves or did they take choptop to the hospital?

"music is my life!" he just like me frfr

THEY GOT MY WHIMSICAL FRY HOUSE DUDE

i think. for both the first and second movie. its a nice attention to detail to have kirk and lg seize up and stuff after getting a head injury since like... accurate... nice little detail albeit a horrifying one

oh leatherface is getting freaky call that freakyface

oh boy i sure hope no one walks in as my back and computer screen are facing the door, while leatherface is sensually tracing his chainsaw up the bare leg of a woman

he got that thang on him though i just noticed how nice his tie looks i want it

i like how leatherface keeps doing the lil jig with his chainsaw its like he keeps hitting the emote button

ballsy lady protags my beloved yes girl go chase the chainsaw having killers after narrowly surviving, go unprepared and unequipped (affectionately but gOD)

ik its for plot reasons and suspense stuff but WHHHYYYYYYYY would enright drive his car at her in the middle of the night instead of just getting out and letting her know it was him... like i already knew it was him because i saw his fatass hat in the darkness but like- YOU KNOW????

why must all the slashers have big tiddies (not complaining i like em thick)

LGS STILL ALIVE?????

even half skinned and after a bad beating to the skull with a hammer lg still tries to comfort her i think he might be one of my favorite lesser characters from a slasher film bro did not deserve to be in this mess

"s-c-e-x... sex!"

oh mu god is the body choptop carrying around meant to be the brother that died in the first movie... speaking of, where the fuck was choptop in the first movie?

oooooooh quick search says he was in Vietnam and thats also why he has the metal plate... which... i mean hes been mentioning it here and there but i deadass could not tell if he was being /srs or not i feel so dumb i thought i was so smart for thinking it wasnt that serious

"youre balling up his shit"

THE GRANDPAS STILL ALIVE WHAT THE HELL

bro took a chainsaw to the ass

im sorry but theres no way in hell enrights tiny ass chainsaw was long enough to go right through bubbas midsection and still have a sizable piece of blade sticking out the other end

wait nvm i forgot he got the third larger one but i dont remember it being that long

WDYM THERE WAS JUST. A GRENADE ON NUBBINS CORPSE THE ENTIRE TIME

ik stretch tweaking out with the chainsaw at the end is a reference to the ending of the first but its so so corny

anyways TCM2.... 8.5/10 i enjoyed it a little more than the last!! woo yeah!!

[pomodoriyum]

oh when fiztjames hits you with the ‘my father’ line you know its ALL over

fitzjames. shut uppppp. the tear. jesus fuckinggg

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‘the marines are running’ oh man they left camp for what. a couple hours??? and shit goes craaazy

HODG YOU ARE SO. SOOO FUCKING DUMB. and racist but we’ve known this. man this sucks though. absolutely awful that they massacred those people on hickeys word alone. i mean why the hell would you trust hickey!!! hickey!!!!!! <- its not unreasonable to trust him somewhat actually since hodg didnt know what we the audience know but its drving me nuts. like. dude. he just offered you dog meat and openly said ‘the captains plan isnt gonna work’ and then suddenly the inuit ‘just so happened’ to ‘attack’ them ??? helllo???? and shooting them instead of you know. going to get help??? is just. wrong. god

oh my god. ohhh my god. ‘could obly have been done by savage men’ ohhhhh my god. *hitting hodge with a hammer*

hickey is so good at using the others own racism against them to play into their fears its fucking creepy cause this sorta shit. also happens today. like differentky but its the same mechanism

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silna says. ‘ew’. god

HICKEY SHUT UPPPPP. his stupid lil blankie. rhe stupid lil cup. ‘no longer a man’ lol how many times did you wish that on irving before you got to do it, hmmm ???

‘theyll be our murderers’ *hits him with a hammer*

“im not a decent shot personally—“ SHUT UPPPPPPPP

oh you were so not going to talk to crozier ‘immediately’ shut the fuck up

also his lack of use for jops new title…no respect.

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francis. you are like Not a great boss but you know its fine. its fine. evrythings stressful

des voeux….leave it be man

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peglar bridgensssss <3 ough i know this little plotlines gonna hurt <3

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silna :(

:(((((((

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des vouex you horrible little man. out of your mind with fear. god “hey tozer. gimme gun im scared. also mutiny time??????”

“in those days, of course, life was tough for a 19 year old” des voeux dude you look awful man

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ohh hodge knows he fucked up. he knows. good.

ahaha edward little you are in danger. tozer is. extremely ready to shoot you

woof. armie i hope you ARE filling out the logbook. good on edward trying to descalate that sitch without getting yourself shot. tho it did Not Work

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collins <3 i LOVE the tone shift. hes just having a nice time :)

aw silna and goodsir. :,(

“good”. Yeay <3

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“im the worst kind of sorry” edawrd….

love how horrified hodge is. as he should be!!!

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jopson scurvy moments <3

“do you have a sudden gift for aim” am i reading this correct???? hello??? ‘kill me so i dont have to face the gallows, i dare you-‘

croziers delivery of ‘that was mr. hickey!�� is sooooo good. his wild emotional state. its a good reminder that irving was. his friend also

hickey looking for bilyl before he speaks. heehee thats love. the accent switch ? microaggression king. *hits him with a hammer*

tuunbaq really only started attacking again cause they killed the inuit, huh?

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edward little is going to have the worst headache tomorrow. huh

tozer ptsd momentz.

[autisticri0t]

I deeply apologise that I only just saw this but I figured I’ll bring it up and give people a New Year’s resolution to stop using that fucking thing.

I also want to state before I get any accusations - I’m not against anyone who is communist. I’m against people using the hammer and sickle as a ‘anti fascist’ symbol. Im Jewish (conservodox) myself with family members who lived in Russia previously. None are alive and therefore I cannot ask them personally but I did all my research and cited my sources within this post. If you have any questions, dm me or leave them in the comments - reblogs aren’t my strong suit and I will not see your answer immediately.

It’s also important to note that sources or quotes I may mention will reference ‘Zionists’. Please note that it’s usually a thinly disguised term for Jewish people in this case. My tip when identifying it goes as follows - replace Zionist or whatever the term is with Jew and listen to how it sounds.

My TLDR of this post goes as follows:

- almost every soviet Russian leader caused some form of torment to the Jews.

- the Soviet Union hardly benefitted to the Jews in any way and committed horrific acts against the Jews in the name of communism.

- they sided with the fucking nazis and denied everyone that genocide took place on Russian soil. I don’t know what to tell you.

Okay here are the actual reasons, with a hell load of history and atrocities along the way.

That being said, do not read if you’re triggered by this content. This took me three days to write and it was not easy. There’s a lot of terrible things that happened here, but I think it’s important to mention the blood that lies on the blades of the sickle and the head of the hammer. The first part especially has stories that I don’t wish to happen upon my worst enemies.

1: they quite literally sided with the nazis. You know. Hitler and all that? The people you’re all against? That guy? They committed horrific atrocities on soviet Russian soil?

Odessa massacre? Stalag 325?

In the book Holocaust by Bullets - penned by Father Patrick Desbois - he found out that at least 1.5 million Jews were murdered in the soviet/nazi occupation in Eastern Europe. Father Desbois’ grandfather was a prisoner of war in Stalag 325, but rarely discussed it. His only commentary went as followed (quoted directly from Father Desbois)

And then one day, one summer morning, sitting beside him in the little gray truck, I pushed him, pushed him so much that he told me about his three escape attempts. I was seven years old. He had tried to escape from the camp twice and failed, but on his third attempt his fellow-inmates helped him by stomping their clogs on the ground, making a racket to create a diversion while he jumped into a thicket. It was successful. He made it to the train station of Strasbourg, in Alsace, a region of France which had been annexed as part of Germany. He went to buy a ticket to return to his wife and son in Chalon-sur-Saône. He asked for a ticket in German. The lady behind the counter answered him in French. My grandfather paused for a moment: "In that instant I knew I had failed. She was going to report me! I didn't even make it to the train. The Gestapo arrested me. Destination Rawa-Ruska." Then my grandfather fell silent. And afterwards . . . ? There was no afterwards. This silence, from a man usually so cheerful, was charged with meaning. The silence had a name: Rawa-Ruska.

(…)

Just once, he uttered these words: "For us, the camp was difficult; there was nothing to eat, we had no water, we ate grass, dandelions. But it was worse for the others!" That sentence was engraved in my consciousness as a child for all time. I realized that he couldn't say any more about it. But who were the others?

(Page 21-22)

This silence prompted the priest to find out what had happened. He met with the deputy mayor of Rawa Ruska who arranged for 100 people who witnessed this massacre to tell their stories. Jews would shot and thrown into pits they were forced to dig. Some would be thrown in alive and suffocated that way. The pits would move as Jews suffocated to death. After every testimony relating to the pits, the witnesses recounted the same thing: the earth moved for three days. I read his book - Holocaust by Bullets - where he met with people who gave horrific testimonies.

"Where we come from the Nazis machine-gun the Jews but in the west they kill them in camps." - Polina Pavlona Katsenko, page 12. She had joined the red army and had found Auschwitz.

At the edge of the ditch the earth had been packed into a makeshift ladder. The Jews undressed, while the guards beat them. Completely naked, family after family, fathers, mothers, and children went calmly down the steps and lay face down on top of the bodies of those who had just been shot. A man called Humpel, a German policeman, advanced, upright, walking on the dead bodies, pistol in hand, and murdered each Jew, one after the other, with a bullet in the back of the neck. Less than 10 meters away, the two sisters saw everything. Before starting his work that morning, Humpel had put on a white coat like a doctor's smock, and then had gone down into the ditch. Luba thinks he wanted to protect his uniform. At regular intervals, he stopped shooting, climbed out of the pit, took a break, drank a small glass of liquor, and went back into the ditch. Naked, another Jewish family climbed down into the ditch and lay face down. The massacre lasted one full day. Humpel killed all the Jews in the village, single-handed. - the testimony of Vira and Luba, the 460th eye witness account of the massacre of Ukrainian Jews. Page 13-15

On the other side of the barricade, they caught sight of little Dora. She was naked. In the icy cold, she was begging the Germans to give her back her coat: "Give me my jacket, I'll give you my shoes in exchange!" But the Germans listened to no one's requests. Dora was shot. (Page 217)

This is all I felt able to share.

All of these testimonies were only revealed in the 2000s - over 60 years after the massacre of 1.5 million jews in the Soviet Union.

After World War Two ended, the Soviet Union often denied the horrific actions that took place on their land.

Oh and don’t forget how the Soviets kept ignoring it and quite literally disbanded a Jewish organisation they made over this.

But don’t worry, I’ll get there soon ;)

2: “but that was Stalin! That does not represent Lenin’s views!”

Okay, valid point. They were two different people. Let’s check Lenin’s views about Jewish people then shall we?

In March 1919, Lenin delivered a speech about “Anti-Jewish pogroms.” During this speech he essentially said “hey guys can we stop killing Jewish people? They did nothing to us and had been oppressed for god knows how long let’s just leave them alone okay?”

A nobel speech which summarises how capitalism breaks us apart by creating hatred against different groups and turning us against each other-

What’s that? Sorry I forgot to mention: a few months later all Jewish properties were seized by the soviet government in their scheme to basically say to others religions “hey fuck your religion”. This was an attempt to assimilate religious people. Many Jewish people would be familiar with this as it’s so common we made a festival about it one time - idk if you’ve heard of it, it’s called Chanukah. Look it up, it’s more than just funky candles and donuts and fried potatoes.

Kehilahs (basically Jewish community places) were shut down.

But sure, Lenin and the soviet government were totally supportive of Jewish people and their faith. Whatever helps you guys sleep at night.

3: I was going to leave out Stalin since I figured people may know of his atrocities by now. Then I remembered of a conversation I had with someone who very seriously told me that Stalin was a good leader despite his well documented anti semitism and dictator leadership. So no, he’s not getting away with shit here.

So Stalin was a pretty hardcore anti-semite but I’ll mainly focus on after world war 2 since we all know the atrocities he committed during that time. He started a campaign that went by various names but namely the anti cosmopolitan campaign.

This namely happened due to an organisation called Jewish Anti Fascist Community. They were established by Stalin after Hitler’s totally shocking betrayal against Russia and were tasked with assisting the Soviets by telling everyone else that was definitely no Anti Semitism in the Soviet Union (unless we ignore the details mentioned earlier).

After the war they basically started archiving every that happened to the Jews in Eastern Europe, including the Holocaust. Two soviet men of the group published a book (The Black Book of Soviet Jewry - all hail the internet archive!) in collaboration with the JAC with 500 pages worth of manuscripts and eyewitness of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Which conveniently mentioned a lot of the atrocities Russia committed while they were allies with Germany.

I won’t go too far into it because I’m going down a completely different rabbit hole but just know Stalin wasn’t really fond of the JAC at this point because of their disagreements with the soviets.

He then proceeded to start with an ‘anti cosmopolitan campaign’ (read: anybody who was Jewish was fucked)

Mysteriously two years later, the Chairman of the JAC - Solomon Mikhoels, also a Yiddish actor - was found dead on a narrow road with his friend Vladimir Golubov-Potapov (theatre critic). It was a tragic death that definitely was not an assassination organised by the Soviet government. A soviet newspaper definitely did not admit that they killed him.

Though not officially mentioned, other Jews with connections to the JAC were also arrested or killed. They were:

- Der Nister, a Yiddish writer (arrested in 1949, died in a labour camp a year later)

- Yitzhak Nusinov, a literary critic (arrested and died in prison in 1950)

- Shmuel Persov and Miriam Zheleznova, both journalists (shot and killed in 1950)

In 1952, Stalin committed his final act upon the Jewish people - The Night Of The Murdered Poets. This was when fifteen soviet Jews were put into trial and executed within the Lubyanka prison in Moscow. Only two survived. They were:

- Benjamin Zuskin (1899 - 1952) - an actor who did a lot of Jewish theatre and held the title of People’s Artist of the RSFSR. He had been acting for over 30 years and had performed with Solomon Mikhoels (remember him?). Most of his children had been killed in the Kovo Ghetto. He had been arrested in hospital in 148 while being treated for depression and had been put to sleep (it was a way of treating depression just go with it). He woke up to find himself in prison, where he remained until 1952 - when he was murdered.

- Joseph Yuzefovich (1890 - 1952) - a researcher for the institute of history, soviet academy of sciences and a trade union leader. He and the other members were tortured so badly, he said to court that he was ready to confess that he was the pope’s nephew. He was one of two who did not confess to his crimes. Joseph was murdered in 1952.

- Solomon Lozovsky (1878 - 1952) - a prominent communist and Bolshevik revolutionary who found himself Chairman of the trade union and later general secretary of the red international labour unions. After a conversation between Mikhoels in 1944 about where to establish a Jewish homeland in Russia, Stalin went ‘ah ha! Anti soviet activity!’ And had Lozovsky arrested and tortured in 1949. He defended himself so hard the judge basically had to take a breather for a week - the only time this happened in a political trial during Stalin’s ruling of Russia. He was murdered in 1952.

- Boris Shimliovich (1892 - 1952) - a prominent revolutionary who was involved in the Russian civil war and later the JAC. He was also a medical director in the Botkin Clinical Hospital. He was arrested in 1949, his injuries so severe he was carried to court in a stretcher. He was one of two members to not confess to any crimes. Boris was murdered in 1952.

- Leon Talmy/Talmi (1893 - 1952) - translator and journalist and a former communist party USA member. He was born in what is now Belarus and became a member of the Zionist socialist party. He would move to the US with his parents where he would become a secretary for the newspaper Unzer Vort. After the February revolution in Russia, Talmy moved there and worked for more newspapers and became part of the communist party in Russia. He did various Yiddish translations during this time and would later join the JAC. He was arrested in 1949 and murdered in 1952. (shout out to the congress for Jewish culture for this info)

- Ilya Vatenberg (1887 - 1952) translator and editor of the JAC newspaper, labour Zionist leader in Austria and US. After studying law and running a law firm until 1914, Ilya moved to Vienna until 1920, at which point he moved to America. There he became a member of the Zionist socialists party Poale Zion. He then met his wife Chaika and they would move to Russia together. He would work as a censor for the publishing house of foreign literature and later an official for JAC. He would also write article for their newspaper. He was arrested in 1949 with Chaika and was murdered in 1952.

- Chaika Valenverg-Ostrovskaya (1901 - 1952) - a translator for the JAC and the wife of Ilya. Due to her various language skills in English and Yiddish (after living in America for ten years), she would work as a typist for the association of scientists and later the same publishing house Ilya worked. She would then work in the JAC as a typist and translator, therefore not often involved in the political affairs. However, she was arrested in 1949 and murdered in 1952.

- Emilia Teumin (1905 - 1952) - an editor for a variety of papers as well as the soviet information bureau. Her father was a member of the communist party and after Germany attacked Russia, Emilia became a translator for the Soviet form office. She would later join the JAC and had compiled documents about nazi persecution in the Soviet Union. As a result, she was arrested in 1949 and was murdered in 1952.

- Lieb Kvitko (1890 - 1952) - a well known Yiddish children’s author and poet who wrote for the JAC’s newspaper and a literary magazine called The Heymland. He was murdered in 1952.

- Dovid Hofshteyn (1889 - 1952) - a Yiddish poet who often worked to teach Jewish boys who had been orphaned form the pogroms. He would protest the banning of Hebrew, which caused him to move around countries for various times. In 1926, he returned to continue his work and became a member of the communist party. Shortly after the state of Israel was established, he had been arrested and was murdered in 1952.

- Peretz Markish (1895 - 1952) - a Russian Yiddish poet who wrote many poems and became the co founder of the soviet school of writers. He would awarded the order of Lenin in 1939. He would join the communist party and worked with the JAC. He was arrested in 1949 and murdered in 1952. He left behind two sons, Shimon and David, and his wife Esther. They fought to keep his memory alive.

- Itzik Feffer (1900 - 1952) - a Yiddish poet who fought for the red army and was in prison for a bit before being released by armed workers. He started to edit literary and art magazines and was a member of the communist party. His poems often involved themes of socialism and were published frequently. He would write the poem The Shadows of the Warsaw Ghetto - in memory of the 750 Jews involved in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He also worked with the JAC’s newspaper but also the NKVD. Despite the fact that everyone blatantly knew, honey didn’t made much since they mostly did activities in the name of Soviet Russia (before they started archiving the actions of Soviet Russia during the Holocaust). Shortly after Mikhoel’s assassination, Feffer was arrested and accused of treason. Due to his involvement with touring the west with Mikhoels, many attempted to save him such as Paul Robeson and Albert Einstein. Paul even met Feffer in prison and Feffer warned him of his imminent death. Paul would publicly tribute Feffer and would sing Zog Nig Keynmol - popular Yiddish anthem of Holocaust survivors - and wrote to defend him. Despite these efforts, Feffer was murdered in 1952 and left behind his only daughter.

- David Bergelson (1884 - 1952) - a Yiddish writer who went through pogrom after pogrom in his youth. Despite this, his family were wealthy and tutored in in Russian, English and Yiddish. After the first failed revolution, he became a writer and wrote for various publications as well as writing his own novels, essays and short stories. He was also heavily involved in the JAC. He was murdered in 1952 . he left behind Lev Bergelson - his only child. His last words were quoted as being “Earth, oh earth, do not cover my blood!”

- Solomon Bregman (1885-1953) - a writer who collected materials for the infamous Black Book). He was arrested in 1948, survived his injuries in 1952 but fell into a coma while in prison and died in jail.

- Lina Stern (1878 - 1968) - a biochemist and physiologist for the Soviet and a pioneer in the blood brain barrier. She already found it difficult to get into her academic field due to her Judaism and had to study abroad in Switzerland as a result. I won’t pretend to have a clue what she did because I am not a scientist, but essentially she made a lot of mind blowing progress of the blood brain barrier and became incredibly well known as a result. She also won the Stalin prize and was the first female member of the academy of sciences. By 1939, the Russians allied with nazi Germany, which Stern did not like and joined with the JAC during that time. As a result, she was arrested. However unlike the other members, she ended up being given a prison sentence of three years and a five year exile. However, this ended early after Stain’s death. From there, she was the head of the department of physiology at Biophysics Institute until 1968. This made Lisa Stern the only survivor.

I’m aware this feels like a different road, but I feel the need to mention everyone’s backstories because when we argue over this matter, we forget real Jewish people lived in soviet Russia. They fought through hell and back for a way to make their lives and everyone else’s lives better in whatever way they could - through art, literature, science, politics. And whatever else they could’ve done was crushed by one man - in the name of soviet Russia and communism.

Yet people still choose to defend the hammer and sickle that represents the people who murdered thirteen Jews.

“When one’s thoughts turn to the martyrs of August 12, the painful question asked by the poet Leib Opeskin of Vilna arises: “Can one forget, may one forget?

Forget Mikhoels, Bergelson, Markish, Feffer, Hofshtein, Kvitko, Zuskin, Solomon Lozovsky, Boris Shimelevich, forget all of our own who during World War II were the members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in Moscow? Can we forget Leon Talmy who was the New York secretary of the ICOR (Association for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union), can we forget our own Morning Freiheit staff member Elyeh Wattenberg and his wife, Chaikeh Ostrovsky, who all left here in the 1930s to build a new life in the Soviet Union?

And, indeed, so much was built there then! When one speaks of the Yiddish culture, this ought not be forgotten. This underscores even more the scope of the tragedy that occurred, the great crime that was committed against the Jewish people and against socialism itself.” - Paul Novick, The Anti-Zionist Campaign in the USSR

During this time, Stalin had accused various Jewish doctors of trying to assassinate soviet leaders - this became known as the doctors plot. There has been accusations previously against Jewish doctors, notably Dr Yakov Etinger. He had been accused of mistreatment of Andrei Zhdanov (died in 1948 of heart disease, possibly intentional misdiagnosis) and Alexander Shscherbakov (died in 1945 of heart failure caused by drinking and obesity). Etinger died in prison in 1951 after being brutally tortured during his interrogation.

When accusations about Etinger were brought to MGB minister Viktor Abakumov by Mikhail Ryumin (after torturing Etinger), Abakumov did not believe them. Ryumin then wrote to Stalin and accused Abakumov of killing Etinger to hide a conspiracy of killing soviet leaders. Abakumov was arrested and tortured before being executed in 1954 for fabricating the Leningrad affair.

What became known as the Killer Doctors Case then was brought up in 1952 after a letter was dug up where Lydia Timashuk wrote that Zhdanov had suffered a heart attack but it was misdiagnosed and the doctors covered up the mistake. The doctors who treated him however were Russian so Jewish doctors Etinger supposedly mentioned were arrested. Head of security Nikolai Vlasik was fired and later arrested for ignoring the letter.

9 doctors (six of which were jewish) were accused and were initially going to be charged. However Stalin’s death came and the charges were quickly dismissed. After this, it was revealed Stalin had planned to send Jewish people into camps and possibly deport them. But due to his sudden death, Stalin never got to do this.

And good fucking riddance. All he did was use the hammer and sickle as a symbol for his tyranny. All he did was suppress people for expressing themselves and archiving history. Is this what we want communism to be? Because this is what you represent with every time you use it for your cool funky fresh battle jacket.

4: okay well there were other soviet leaders after Stalin? Surely they weren’t as anti semetic right?

Well Nikita Khrushchev almost immediately started an anti religion campaign which destroyed all religious buildings and life including Judaism. So… not a good start.

Jews would receive even more anti semeitism and propaganda ramped up again.

Khrushchev was even quoted as saying “naturally if the Jews now tried to occupy leashing positions in the republic, the local inhabitants would object.” (Page 17)

Synagogues were shut down, with the accusations that drunken activities and criminals ran wild in them. Tefillin (prayer shawls) could not be made or worn. No observance of Jewish worship or prayer or ritual was to be allowed without permission of the authorities. This was particularly vital because Jews rely on synagogues to keep Judaism alive - even now they’re often community centres as well as places of worship. Without this and the production of Jewish articles, Jewish religious life declined to an all time low under Khrushchev’s rule. These synagogues would be turned into warehouses, meeting halls and clubs.

Other forms of anti semeitism happened too, such as:

- Jews would be forced to work Saturdays - the day of shabbos, when Jews were not allowed to work. They’d try their best to avoid this but this was a difficult task.

- rabbis would be charged for various anti soviet activities and were often imprisoned.

- Jewish cemeteries were closed with various excuses given out as to why. Many Jews were forced to cremate their dead relatives - a big no no in Judaism.

- when returning from the Holocaust, many Jews would not be able to return to their homes. A particularly common scenario in Ukraine and Poland. It was a particular fact that stuck with me when I visited Poland in 2022.

- Khrushchev started a economic campaign during which he claimed that “economic crimes” were because of Jews. Speculation, bribery and black markets would be punished by death. Those executed were mostly jewish.

Even in newspapers, one could not escape the Jewish stereotypes that plagued soviet newspapers, that published an article the evils of ‘Zionism’ (read: Judaism). The television and radio would frequently discuss Jews, their supposed plans to take over the world.

Anti semetic books were frequently published between Khrushchev and Brezhnev’s reigns, such as Judaism Without Embellishment. I won’t go into the contents of the book since it’s a lot of your typical anti semetic bullshit but if you want an idea, here’s the front cover.

This book was widely acclaimed within soviet Russia, but after international pressure, the soviet communist party newspaper the Pravda would published a condemnation of the book, stating:

There is no such thing as anti-semeitism in the USSR and cannot be.

Page 35. (See internet? We’ve always been this way).

Other anti Semitic books were published, and went through similar cycles to JWE. One such book was In the Name of the Father and the Son by Ivan Shevtov, which featured a lot of anti semeitic conspiracy theories from the book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - a notorious conspiracy theory book which features a lot of anti semeitism about the Jewish people.

“In vain I plead with these pogrom bullies. While they jeer and shout,

'Beat the Yids. Save Russia!' Some grain-marketer beats up my mother.

O my Russian people!

I know

you are international to the core.

But those with unclean hands

have often made a jingle of your purest name. I know the goodness of my land.

How vile these antisemites—

without a qualm they pompously called themselves

the Union of the Russian People!”

- Babi Yar by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. This poem was written about the 1941 Odessa massacre, during which 34,000 - 100,000 Jews and Romani people were massacred by the Romanian soldiers in Ukraine. Russia had refused to acknowledge this massacre. Khrushchev harshly condemned Yevtushenko for this work in a meeting with soviet writers and accused him of lying about anti semitism in Russia.

“Okay? Well the anti religious campaign only lasted until Khrushchev was fired. Surely Brezhnev was better?”

After the Six Day War, during which Russia sided against Israel, as well as the Dymshits-Kuznetsov hijacking affair, rampant anti Zionist propaganda would be made. They were mostly thinly disguised anti semeitism. One particular example I found was Secrets and Explicit - essentially a version of The Eternal Jew, a nazi propaganda film from 1940. Secrets even featured a lot of scenes from The Eternal Jew.

If that’s not an antisemitic film, I dunno what is!

During this time Jews could not leave to go to Israel or the US and jewish schools and informal centres were closed. Many Jews desired to get out of Russia and move to Israel due to the increase in anti semeitism. One man who expressed this idea, Boris Kochubievsky, was put into a mental institution without any questioning. In an article about ‘Zionists’, one even mentioned a way to point them out: “hairy chest and arms”, “shifty eyes” and a “hook like nose.” Jews would frequently compared to nazis. Jewish activists were exiled, jailed and send to psychiatric hospitals where they suffered harsh conditions.

Like I mentioned, a lot of the anti Zionism tended to lean towards anti semitism a lot of the time.

Public pressure did eventually allow Jews to leave and in the 70s, 250,000 Jews would leave. The leaving process was often frustrating and if one’s application was rejected, they would be harassed constantly. They would be known as refuseniks. A further 80,000 would leave at the end of the decade.

While Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko’s reigns over the Soviet Union we’re brief, both were reluctant to change the soviet policy on Jews and even Tammy didn’t have much of the impact that Khrushchev and Brezhnev did.

Mikhail Gorbachev’s attitude to Jews varies depending on who you ask.

Forward - a Yiddish newsletter - made a variety of articles about him upon in death in 2022.

When discussing the lack of Jews left in Russia by the time, Benjamin Ivry mentions a speech by Gorbachev at Babi Yar.

“There, Gorbachev noted that although the right to emigrate had been established for Russia’s Jews, “we… greatly regret the fact that our (Jewish) compatriots are leaving, that the country is losing so many talented, skillful, enterprising people.”

In a different nation, the inclusion of the term “enterprising,” possibly alluding to the astuteness of Jewish oligarchs in accumulating rubles, might have raised some eyebrows. But as Russian leader, Gorbachev was given credit for merely admitting that antisemitism existed at all: “The venomous sprouts of antisemitism arose even on Soviet soil. The Stalin bureaucracy, which publicly disassociated itself from antisemitism, in fact, used it as a means to isolate the country from the outside and strengthen their dictatorial position with the help of chauvinism.”

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt would also discuss his own interactions with the leader, joking to him that he should run for prime minister in Israel. Gorbachev would allow the rabbi to reinstate Jewish schools and synagogues again for the first time in years.

Rina Shamilov would write an article about her parents life as refuseniks, thanking Gorbachev for his efforts in allowing Jews out.

Gorbachev’s work paving the way for our family to leave made him a hero to us. As my mother said, it meant “that my family and kids had the opportunity to escape a painful reality.” Three decades later, the monumental significance of his intervention in our lives still feels fresh.

That’s not to say life as a Jew in Russia was perfect from there.

During a seven day massacre of Armenians in Baku in 1990, a Jewish/Armenian neighbourhood was vandalised. The police and soldiers that were there did nothing. The soviet soldiers would declare martial law there, but it would be too late.

By 1992, 367,000 Jews left Russia.

So, in conclusion, Gorbachev was the only leader who had a somewhat peaceful attitude with Jews. And this had mostly been due to the fact that most of them had left.

But the damage had been done.

Because in the 63 years before Gorbachev’s reign, Jews had been persecuted, murdered and exiled for simply what they believed in, no matter how much they did for communists.

Is any of this okay? Is anything of this something you want in your communist utopia, marked by hammers and sickles and red stars? Is this what you want to see? Because by using the Hammer and Sickle, you’re representing a country’s long history of anti semeitism and persecution towards Jewish people. Even despite their great contributions and achievements for the Soviets, they were murdered, not allowed to leave, not allowed to express themselves or their culture openly. They were exiled, they were executed and brandished with shame.

The Hammer and Sickle has done nothing for the Jewish people. Soviet Russia did nothing for Jewish people. And I hope one day we set it aside and acknowledge that it’s a symbol of spite towards people who did nothing but exist.

If you chose to use this symbol after all I’ve spoken of, I can’t stop you. After all, I’m a single Jewish person in Britain, a distant and quiet voice that can only be heard from a screen.

But I will be angry. I’ll be angry that after I recounted over 60 years of Jewish genocide and persecution, you still chose to wear that bloody hammer and sickle. I’ll be angry that you will dismiss my evidence as stuff from the past. I’ll be angry when you tell me it doesn’t matter and it doesn’t represent the communist idea.

And I’ll cry because after over 100 years of people writing about their pain, sobbing over unjustly murdered relatives, opening telling their tales of how they ran away from a government and country that did nothing but hate them, You’ll still wear that bloody hammer and sickle.

But maybe ignorance is bliss.

“Under the banner of Communism and the hammer and sickle, millions of people--Jews and anarchists, but many many more besides--were persecuted, jailed, silenced, tortured, repressed, and murdered (…) Perhaps people who identify as statist Communists will also be moved by this material to renounce their politics and join us in our struggle against domination, racism, and oppression of all kinds... but we do not have any great hopes of that.”

- A Jewish-Anarchist Refutation of the Hammer and Sickles

Hot take: honestly we should probably stop using the hammer and sickle as a symbol of communism. It’s (debatably) anti semetic and soviet russia doesn’t really represent the whole communism idea very well but I guess people are in denial or something

[herrlindemann]

BRAVO - 10 April 2001

"Mother's Day" on April 2: Till, Flake, Paul, Richard, Oliver and Schneider delivered the hammer disc that Rammstein fans have been waiting for more than two years. "Mutter” immediately shot to the top of the charts: BRAVO bring everything about the strongest and heaviest CD in the career of the Berlin super band.

“Sie kommen zu euch in der Nacht. Dämonen, Geister, schwarze Feen. Sie kriechen aus dem Kellerschacht, werden unter euer Bettzeug sehen…” — Rammstein open the gate to the underworld! The Berlin shock rockers declared April 2nd as "Mother's Day" - on this day "Mutter”, the long-awaited new album, was released. The band's masterpiece: Howling sirens and ominous string chords, booming guitar explosions and bass shockwaves overwhelm the listener with the violence of a natural disaster. Not to mention the demonic scary tube with which singer Till paves the way to the light of day for fears and crazy hallucinations from the deepest subconscious.

The starter "Mein Herz brennt”, from which the opening quote comes, is by far not the hardest number on the disc. In “Spieluhr” a child is buried alive: “Zwischen harten Eichendielen muss es mit der Spieluhr spielen. Eine Melodie im Wind, und aus der Erde singt ein Kind…”

"Rein raus" is about fucking as vividly as it is blunt: "Tiefer, tiefer, ich fühl mich wohl in deine Haut, und 1.000 Elefanten brechen aus. Der Ritt war kurz, es tut mir Leid. Ich steige ab, hab keine Zeit…" In the title song "Mutter” Till comes up with nightmare horror: "In ihren Lungen wohnt ein Aal, auf meiner Stirn ein Muttermal. Entferne es mit Messers Kuss, auch wenn ich verbluten muss…”

The content corresponds to the packaging of the CD. In addition to a human embryo, Till, Flake, Schneider, Paul, Richard and Oliver are depicted — as anatomy — as dead bodies floating in formalin. "Flake almost died during the photo session for the cover," reports Schneider. “We had to dive in a glass tank with green liquid and stay under water for minutes. Flake swallowed water badly.”

Opinions differ on Rammstein, their uncompromising style, their lyrics and wild pyroporn shows like no other band on the international rock scene. Till and Flake were arrested in the USA in 1999 for a drastic sadomasochistic sex scene during the song "Bück dich" and later sentenced to probation. Rammstein were even blamed for the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, when it became known that the two teenage killers were crazy about their song “Du hast”. Till's comment on the allegations against his band: "If you don't like Rammstein, you don't need to listen to us. Our music is hard but not destructive. We do what we want, but we don't glorify violence and we're definitely not Nazis!” On the new single “Links 234″, the frontman makes it clear: “Sie wollen mein Herz am rechten Fleck. Doch seh ich dann nach unten weg, so schlägt es links!” But the boys will definitely not back down. The new show, with which Rammstein will tour Germany from May 13th to June 1st, will be harder, more spectacular and more dangerous than that of the "Herzeleid" tour. Paul: “Rammstein fans have the right to be offered something. A few more or fewer burn blisters should do the trick and certainly don’t matter!”

[bestworstcase]

Now that you mention it I still have NO idea on how mankind came back to Remnant after the Gods left. Maybe the final stage of Grimm evalution is humanity? Or maybe the 2nd Generation Humans were derived from the Faunus? I'm not sure, it is suspicious though.

i think the most horrifying possible answer is that humans just straight up evolved again,

do you ever think about the probable aftermath of the massacre because i do and it haunts me like

the gods slaughter every person on the planet, including salem, who reconstitutes. then they leave, shattering the moon on their way out

consequently an enormous quantity of moon chunks hammers down on the planet, which in the best case scenario causes a prolonged impact winter and subsequent mass extinction of other species; worst case scenario, depending on how severe and how long the bombardment lasted, we’re looking at ‘everything is on fire everywhere and the oceans are boiling away’ levels of apocalyptic. salem is alive for all of this,

im distraught.

anyway regarding the revival of humankind i have a small fleet of theories gamboling around in my head, including:

1. salem did it. team oz may have forgotten or overlooked the fact that she got dunked into and equally changed by THE POOL OF LIFE too, but i haven’t

2. squints at the very humanlike spirits who inhabit the relics squints at the god of light i have questions (or: this is something of a crack theory but i am not sure i believe the brother gods actually made those spirits, and that the two we’ve met are both wrapped in chains is perhaps more than an aesthetic choice)

3. millions of years pass and myriad different ancestor species convergently evolve in accordance with the cosmic ‘blueprint’ the gods established when they made humans the first time, like carcinization except it’s humankind hdjfhdjsk

4. in order to make humanity, the brothers combined their innate natures and accidentally made something greater than the sum of their parts; that is, while the gods are stronger than humankind as a matter of raw power, metaphysically the dual/harmonious nature of humankind surpasses the broken and strictly dichotomous nature of the gods, and in making humans the gods created something they just aren’t capable of destroying, no matter how many individuals they slaughter. (i think the general thrust of this is likeliest to be what rwby is going for, given the staunchly humanist outlook saturating the narrative + the hopepunk lean)

5. the god of animals is real, has nothing to do with the brothers whatsoever, and is playing silly buggers in the sandbox they abandoned (this is the funniest option we love a god who rocks in after the apocalypse and goes MY PLANET NOW) (realistically though i am doubtful that the god of animals exists in the literal sense) (i have been toying with the theory that the god of animals might actually be the god of darkness, which go hand in hand with the mulling i’ve been doing that the divine ultimatum wasn’t a joint declaration / the brothers have split from each other a lot more than we realize since the massacre; see also, the ‘it is SPECIFICALLY light who will be the final boss’ tinhatting and vague thoughts i don’t think i’ve ever written out properly regarding how dark is, on balance, actually the lesser danger vis-a-vis humankind)

6. the humans on remnant were and aren’t the only humans in the cosmos, and humanity 2.0 actually came from somewhere else (an intriguing possibility given that rwbyj are now somewhere else, plus the girl who fell through the world)

7. all of the above somehow

bonus round: funny u should say that about the grimm because, while i have not the slightest clue where rwby’s going with them, that is in fact EXACTLY how i decided it works for the purposes of the for want of a nail au i’m working on rn—not that humanity 2.0 evolved from the grimm somehow, but that when the brothers made humankind they combined destruction+knowledge and creation+choice and the grimm are straight up just the raw material dark whipped up in preparation for that process. take a person, cut away creation+choice, and you get a grimm; likewise, give a grimm creation+choice and you get a person. i promise to utterly lose my shit if this turns out to be how it works in canon too

[roughentumble]

most of the time when people talk about horror and the violence in horror being almost pornographic i roll my eyes, i just dont see it, even when the violence is sexually charged or sexually exploitative or obviously made to be sexy, i still never feel like that word is appropriate, it just doesnt work for me. but something about texas chainsaw massacre genuinely feels pornographic to me, in a way i've never connected to other horror films. 2 is just, exceedingly blatant with it, but 1 as well. there's just something about it.

i mean, its hard to get around how sexually charged it is for stretch to ask "how good are you?" while leatherface quite literally strokes her leg and grinds against her crotch with his gigantic chainsaw held at dick level. it isnt even charged, it's just textually sexual. but like, i dont know, in other movies i would be like "yeah that's a sexually charged scene" but just something about how it's shot here, im like "oh no yeah this shit is pornographic. that scene in tcm1 where they hold sally down by her arms and try to fucking brain her to death with a hammer is horrific and, somehow, pornographic. it evokes in some way pornography"

[worstloki]

A few, yes.

Mobius is being kind, yes, but, more importantly, he's being tactful because he wants to gain something in each scenario* from seeing what information he can get from the kid at the church to wanting to manipulate Loki into working on the case to still having something to gain on his case by keeping Loki around or getting C-20 safe bc she knew relevant info to needing Loki to help bring the TVA down.

While he's said these things which are decent, he has also spoken/acted less morally well, and on more occasions (I won't put all the instances in or we would be here for a long while).

Which is completely understandable.

He's doing his job, and that requires being apathetic towards pruning off timeline branches, it requires dealing with dangerous Loki variants, and it requires being a grade-A jerk who has no issues with using the information he has to psychologically mess with anyone if that's what it takes to do what he has to for the TVA because that's what he believes in.

And he does this stuff (notably: 'breaking' Loki, twice), and comes out completely unaffected. The guy is remorseless. We saw him gaslight/lie to Loki back in Episode 1. We've seen him interact with his coworkers. We've seen the TVA. They really don't care if the Variants have any autonomy (re: your Loki, Variant pet, stripping them down, the entire show of putting on a trial) because they're Variants. The second you're off the Sacred Timeline you're damage control with an upcoming expiration date and no longer have any importance, one could even say you're a cosmic mistake.

WHICH IS WHY MOBIUS FINDING OUT HE IS A VARIANT IS SUCH A COOL THING BC IT'S A MILDER VERSION OF LOKI FINDING OUT HE WAS JOTUN IN THOR 1--

Overall I really enjoy his character because he isn't inherently good, in fact he leans heavily into bad, but he does show the ability to put effort and be/do nice. Even if he is, as episode 4 showed us, selfishly motivated by what he himself personally has an interest with.

He's essentially what people make Loki out to be and I find it incredibly interesting how so many people miss that Mobius leans on bad where Loki leans heavily on good and it is, to my knowledge, because of the likeability of the actor playing him. I love meta stuff and it's the ULTIMATE turn table because that's quite often a reason Loki fans get accused of making Loki out to be better than he is :D

*Except, in my opinion, the "These people are scared" "They're about to die. They should be scared." "Okay. Not of us." scene but that was so unnecessarily placed I legitimately thought everyone considered that the narrative blatantly trying to paint Mobius as a guy with sympathy, who is different to the others, look he's even got a close friend, like a cop except a nice one because we humanized him by showing he cares. <3

It is of worth to note that Loki has been present for, and arguably was the reason for notable behavioural changes in Mobius, such as when he convinced him to go against the norm and take him to Pompeii, though that also was to further the mission. I'm undecided on whether Mobius was being sincere with Loki towards the end of Episode 4 or not, but I do lean towards him believing in the good things he says of Loki because he's seen his life story, and we've seen Loki in the other movies. This does, however, depend on what state of retconning Marvel plans to settle on with Loki :(

Mobius: It's just a kid.

Mobius: Don't worry, that devil's afraid of us. We're gonna take care of him. And we're gonna put you back where you belong.

Loki: What is this place?

Mobius: Come on!

Mobius: You do know yourself.

Loki: A villain. ( Sighs )

Mobius: That's not how I see it.

Ravonna: But Loki is an evil, lying scourge. That is the part he plays on the Sacred Timeline.

Mobius: Maybe he wants to mix it up. Sometimes you get tired of playing the same part. Is that possible? He can change?

Loki: Okay. Why are you in there sticking your neck out for me?

Mobius: I'll give you two options, and you can believe whichever one you want. A, because I see a scared little boy, shivering in the cold. And you kinda feel bad for that ice runt. Or B, I just wanna catch this guy, and I'll tell you whatever I need to tell you.

Loki: I don't need your sympathy.

Mobius: Good, 'cause I'm runnin' out of it.

Mobius: Hey! These people are scared.

Hunter D-90: They're about to die. They should be scared.

Mobius: Okay. Not of us.

Mobius: Look at me.

Hunter C-20: It's real. I wanna go home.

Mobius: We're gonna get you there. Call the TVA, let the infirmary know...

Mobius: You were right, about the TVA. You were right from the beginning. And if you wanna save her, you need to trust me. Can we do that?

Loki: Yes.

Mobius: Okay. You could be whoever, whatever you wanna be, even someone good. I mean, just in case anyone ever told you different.

[jean-does-not-have-a-horseface]

Wildflower

Yooooo impromptu nsfw fic!? On this fine evening!? As if you don't know me! Y'all want soft wet Eren and I deliver.

Pairing: Eren/ Reader

Summary: You and eren find yourselves tangled with each other after a swim in the lake, things take a much warmer turn from there.

Warnings: NSFW, 18+

The lake was beautiful at this time of the day.

A soft evening breeze blew the fresh smell of blooming wildflowers around. Mellow tints of camomile and lavender lingered in your nostrils, blended with water lillies and hibiscus struck you tenderly, brushing your senses beautifully. The forest green leaves around you shimmered an entirely different colors under the thousand golden rays of the blushing sun. Numerous duos of butterflies fflickered and flapped their wings on each other, twisting and turning in the air as they seemingly kissed, landing on perky petals and hoovering with each other under the tangerine light.

Yet here you were; drainched and shivering, laid on a thin sheet of clothe, cold as ever, but burning up from your core and outwards.

"Eren"

The whisper of his name was silent, lost in the heart of the forest, overlapped by the sounds of nature as the sun was shyly hiding underneath the horizon. Still it reached his ears and his ears only, just like he thristed for.

He too was shivering and very pale and as sweat begged to drip from the pores of his skin, it merged with the flowing water that the two of you had been bathing in only moments ago.

His lips were sucking yours in with need, worrying your flesh with arrogance before his time guess dared to dip in the crevices of your mouth. His palms were always supporting, always cupping your face to sink his head closer into you. His tongue rubbed yours with twirling motions, dipping and swiping in any place he could manage to drag it on.

"You have such a lovely voice."

"I do?"

"You do" Eren said. "You're making my -ah- my heart melt."

Turquoise orbs locked with yours, his sharp nose brushed over the tip of yours, his hand coming to cup tenderly just the underside of your jaw line. The cold, wet fabric of his shirt brushed over your naked skin, hanging so low that when you'd stick your forehead to his collar bone you could see the view of his hips as they remained frozen and in collision with yours.

"Eren, please, please move."

"Shh." His lips brushed over yours with animalistic need, but he never placed a kiss on you. "I just want to stay like this for a while, to look at you, you're so beautiful under this light."

With a sharp breath creating commotion on your side you felt like your lungs were spent. His plum lower lip sank under his teeth as he looked at you, his eyebrows furrowing together and away from his eyelids in what seemed like utter, horrible pain.

Maybe it was painful. No, it definitely was painful. The fact that he wouldn't move inside you, the way your hardened buds brushed with his shirt. The sly adoration that glimmered in his gentle turquoise eyes. We're you ever in a position to chose a single memory to keep of his it would be this very moment.

That was if he would let you think clear.

With one thumb flicking over your most sensitive bundle of nerves occasionally and the squirm inside the depths of your chest, you instinctively brought your hands to cup his own face eager to clash his lips against yours. Your hips finally made a movement of their own accord; you bucked forward and into the small surface of the tip of his finger, searching desperately for some rythimc friction.

You found yourself pushing against him hard and fast, so much that the evening breeze was finally starting to become evident, forming little bumps on the surface of your wet skin. Another short lived shiver ravaged your body and you gasped, you forehead linked with his collar bone. Before your eyes, you could see his hand hiding just between your legs, rubbing just on the spot you wanted, and it only added to your lust.

With a hitched breath, you let out a soft mewl and earned one from the brunet in response.

"Fuck!" Eren snarled and his hand came to dig absurdly on the ground next to you.

With the twirling of his hips inside you, he bucked slightly before he hoisted him self out of you and aligned the tip of his length with your entrance, sliding it teasingly over you.

"I love you." He said and clashed his forehead with the prominent tip of your jaw.

Your heart throbbed the instant he uttered the words yet he de ied you the chance to look him in the eye. Whether from embarrassment or shame, whether because the little scarlet tint on his cheeks was something he was insecure about, he took away from you the right of being able to lock your gaze with his. And somewhere between not being able to look into his eyes and being teased by his slow rhythm against you, you felt lost and swallowed by the words you wanted to speak back to him.

Perhaps he knew your answer. That he could probably be why he didn't demand it.

Still, your heart slightly ached at the slight melancholy of his tone.

You were being swallowed as a whole by the slow dragging of his member across you, by the way that you could see he held him self just below his fleshy tip to take a lead and establish his self control. He didn't want to thrust inside you and establish a pace, he was making that obvious. The pained expression in his face was more likely due to that, the paleness of his skin gave him away.

"Don't you love me?"

It came out like a cry, a whine, like a little brawl of a hurt puppy and it hit hit you like a monstrus tide. Had Eren always been able of making such lewd sounds?

"Of course i- of course I do." You stuttered, the throbbing heat that thrilled your abdomen fueling by your confession.

You could only sense how much he was enjoying it; the hiccuped breaths he let out, the tight clentching of his abdomen muscles, the veins in his hands that flexed as he pressed into the abnormal soil with the fact of his palm, the stray strands of wet hair that shimered im tiny droplets at their base as they flickered on your skin, it all added to that.

"I feel so dirty." He whispered and you knew to what he was reffering.

"But you're not."

"That's exactly how I feel though."

"Not for me, you're not what everyone paint you to be."

"Then promise me you'll hold my hand." He growled. "That you won't leave my side with what's to come."

Right after hot slowly dragged his teeth the the length of your jaw, his breath was on your ear, hot against your skin despite the cold evening air. The hiffs of his nose shot like steam over the crook of your neck and unbeknownst to you they preppee the area for what was to come.

"I promise."

Eren's lips attacked you, the launched over the tender skin of your neck, the hot torture of his tongue and teeth beginning a sweet massacre against all the little sweet spots he knew you had. You only pressed your head against the sheet of cloth harder, accepting the little defeat of your own personal ego. You were glad you didn't have to worry about being audible into the heart of the woods.

Your body was jolting against his touch, your pelvis, sore and needy in its movements slowly gave in the the build up in the aftermath or Eren's teasing. A hand came to grip on Eren's flexed bicep, your fingertips digging painfully into his skin everytime the feeling became unbearable for you to handle. You were going numb, painfully numb but you seemed to savor your release for later, you repeatedly told yourself that you could do it.

The little drizzling of cicadas had started spreading throughout the air by now, from the corner of your strained eye you could see some of them flying around, some birds chirping and flying inside their little nests as the last specs of sunlight peaked right between the enormous trees. Nature was celebrating another endearing late spring sunset and here you were, feeling the dear melancholy of a delayed edge.

It was only when Eren shifted his weight onto you that you immediately run your hands through his hair, throwing a chocolate lock away from his tired eyes just to finally get the chance to look at him. This time it was you who took so long tracing his jawline, it was you you placed chaste kissed across his face, chin, the corners of his so well outlined lips.

"Eren, I love you no matter what," You whispree, eyes closed as your heart hammered in your chest. "you don't have to hold back with me."

Whether he did it because you genuinely convinced him of your words or because he wanted to get this over with, you didn't know. All that you knew what that your legs were forced over his shoulders, and that his hand was cupping your cheek with force, desperately clutching on you as he finally slammed his throbbing member inside of you.

Puckered lips and glistering skin, angry brows and a menacing look, it all added to the occasional gulp he'd force upon himself, it all took away from the moans he failed to let out. The little grunts he left were due time the brutality of his rhythm and they were so unique but still overlapped by the sound of skin clapping and clashing.

You only gave a little moan and surrendered to the feeling, your coiling stomach refusing to allow you to hold your orgasm in for any longer. Your legs went still, your toes curled and flexed and your walls clenched around him. You let out a panting mewl as you felt your whole body giving into the immediate trance of afterglow.

Eren only grunted at the feeling, thrusting himself faster into you before barely managing to pull out, a hand coming to his length to guide the spurting white rope that emitted from the tip anywhere away from you.

"I'm so sorry" He panted, and finally his head nuzzled to the crook of your neck almost painfully.

"I got you Eren. You don't have to have a single worry in the world at the moment."

And he truly wished he didn't

[vigilantegetawaydriver]

Could you possibly write a frank x female reader who is fairly androgynous. Like really short hair who mostly wears sweats and crappy shirts. Im tired of reading so many Uber feminine reader fits. Hard to relate. Thank you!

Thanks for your request! This is actually my first time writing a requested fic, so be warned.

Note :Since I can actually relate a lot to your request, as I myself often wear stuff that isn’t really feminine , and occasionally shop in the guys section. (funny how xs for women and xl for men fits me the same, seriously sizes are confusing af. ) I corrected this at 1 A.M. so be warned

Warnings: grapic descriptions of violence and language

Pairing: frank castle x reader

Anyways here a little summary: I decided to go with Frank from season 1 episode 1 aka Construction worker Frank. The female reader is a co worker of Frank, and those bullies at the construction who bullied Frank (calling him a gimp etc.) are occasionally picking on her too. She actually thinks Frank is alright , but doesn’t try to pry to much so she just keeps a safe distance. Frank Frank kinda likes her too, you’ll see.

It had been three months since you started working here and had completed your apprenticeship. You quickly figured out that you were the only female on this construction site. That didn’t bother you though, as long as you could do your job , you were fine. There were some things that annoyed you though, on this particular site were a lot of douchebags, some were bullying everyone that didn’t fit in, which included you and some guy that didn’t play well with others, and of course there were guys that couldn’t stop commenting on your figure , even though you wore the same work clothes as them, since they didn’t have any of them fit for women they were pretty baggy on you, but you never were one to put much effort into dressing feminine . That didn’t matter apparently. You didn’t let them bring you down though, if someone commented on your appearance or mocked the way you behaved you were sure to give them a hard time.

Today a new worker was joining the construction team. You hadn’t really been introduced yet; the bullies usually beat you to it. As always, they were showing the new guy around, making him familiar with the site. You went ahead to go do your todays task, you had been assigned to work with Pete, so you made your way up to his workplace. As you arrived the guys that were showing the new guy around were picking on Pete. One was poking him in the chest, calling him a “gimp”. Pete didn’t react though, just staring at the guy and then turning his back. They seemed to lose interest and moved on.

“I hate those assholes.” You muttered passing Pete and putting your gear on the ground next to you. Pete just gave you a wordless shrug as answer and picked up his hammer. From there on you two worked silently next to each other, until it was time for lunch.

You were just unpacking your lunch when you heard some guys talking about a gig , to make some fast money ,illegally apparently. Pete must have heard it too, because he was looking a lot grumpier than usual. Just as you wanted to say something one of the guys that had been talking started to walk towards Pete bellowing in his face that he was intruding. When the guy started stomping on Pete’s lunch, you had had enough of it. You knew that Pete could take care of himself, he was more that capable of that , but you just couldn’t let it stand that those guys were treating another human being like that.

” Hey dirtbag, I am here too , he isn’t the only one that heard you talking bout your fucking illegal business! Maybe you’re just too damn stupid to realize it but that ain´t exactly the stuff to talk about at your workplace with your coworkers around!” You bellowed in his face.

“What did you just say you fucking bitch?!” The dirtbag shouted at you.

“Your dick may be small, that’s okey , but don’t let your frustration at your inability to get laid out on other people!” You countered in a mocking tone.

Well you didn’t expect to hear Pete chuckle, and you certainly didn’t expect your coworker to smack you in the face. You saw stars for a moment , but then you recovered quickly to land a precise punch on his nose. In your peripheral you could see his friends emerging, and started to brace yourself for a real fight. Two guys were advancing you, when Pete suddenly pulled you behind him. While he was busy with those two you had to go against the guy that had started it all, he had picked up a sledgehammer and was trying to hit you with it. Seeing the hole in the wall it had produced next to you, you quickly started to get real nervous , you hastily picked up a metal bar that was lying beside you. It was clear by now that these guys were trying to kill you, and apparently Pete too. While you had been dodging the one guy , Pete had at least killed one guy and knocked two others out, one of them not wanting to stay down it seemed. You had heard shots too, apparently someone had pulled a gun , but Pete had quickly gotten a hold of it and killed them.

With a loud crash the hammer collided with the bar you were using to defend yourself with. Slowly you began to think that you might not make it out of here alive.

All of a sudden Pete appeared behind your assailant and grabbed a hold of the hammer. He smashed it into the guys skull , he fell down immediately. His lifeless form now decorating the ground with his blood. You looked up at Pete a shocked expression plastered on your face. He just growled:” You don’t fucking hit a woman.”

You wanted to say something when you noticed another guy aiming his gun at Pete. Pushing Pete out of the way you quickly charged at the man effectively knocking the gun out of his hand. It clattered to the floor, and before you could reach for it, Pete had it aimed at the guy and shot him straight in the head.

It was sickening the stench of blood everywhere, but your focus was on Pete , or maybe you should call him Frank.

You hadn’t been sure at first but his little massacre just now had confirmed your suspicions that he was indeed the punisher.

“We need to go,” was all he said before gripping your hand and pulling you with him. Wordlessly you followed him down the stairs.

When you arrived at the yard you said:” W-We can take my c-car.” Given that you were in shock you just handed him the keys to your black chevy truck.

Apparently there were no witnesses, since it had been around lunch there hadn’t been anyone else on the site at the time it happened. Since you two were missing , you were a suspect. So you stayed with Frank for a while.

It had been more than a while since the incident, and you and Frank were sitting at a diner talking. “I talked to a friend, and he said he can help you.Gget you a new identity, you could start over.” Frank suggested in a hushed voice. “We have been over this , I don’t want a new start.But if you don’t want me to stay with you anymore that’s fine.” You mumbled. Looking into his eyes , searching for something unknown. Franks response was a little agitated , he grabbed your hand that was laying on the table next to his. Squeezing it he mumbled: “That is not what I am saying, I just want you to have a choice.” You wanted to say something when the waitress called to you saying there was someone on thenphone for Frank.

It had been an awful couple of days, Frank and you both had tried to find out as much as you could about this Micro guy. Frank had cut off his beard and gotten a buzz cut, which you didn’t mind one bit by the way. You had had to change you appearance too, cutting off your hair till it was just below your ears and dying it black. You had just finished rubbing it dry with a towel and were putting on your cargo pants, Frank had the same ones just a few sizes bigger, when he walked in and looked at you :”You know you can still back out now, you don’t have to do this for me, we have no idea who this guy even is.” He tried to convince you.

“I told you already , I will not let you do this alone, I have your back. Besides if we are right then he is just some nerd guy that wants to get back to his family.” You walked towards him. He looked at you like he was in deep thought before he said, cupping your face with his hands:” You stay behind me , and remember what we talked about. If you get hurt I don’t know what I will do.”

It was the first time he admitted that you meant something to him. You got on your tiptoes and placed a quick kiss on his cheek instead of his lips , as you didn’t want to overstep anything. But he wouldn’t have it, leaning in he pulled you towards him once more , kissing you gently on the lips. You leaned into it trying to hold in the moan that eventually escaped your lips. You both parted panting and looking at each other.

“You want this?” He asked hastily while his hand squeezed your hip. “Yes , yes I do.“ You panted, just before he pulled you in again , crushing his lips to yours.

You barely made it to the bed.

Micro would have to wait.