#may day massacre

[caer-gai]

"Do it for them."

(The flowers are supposed to be anemones (forsakeness) and begonia (warning))

For @queer-ragnelle 's May Day Parade, prompt 1 the morbid month of May/Mordred =)

[adhd-merlin]

so mordred is a taurus?

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

The May Day Massacre

You are a murderer, no matter how beloved.

[lakes-only-daughter]

Oh yeah, happy hide your kids from Arthur Pendragon day!

[starbirdaltair]

I want someone to add the concept of the May Day Massacre into bbc Merlin because honestly it would just be so cool to see how people try to work that into the story given how it was originally. also it gives Mordred more trauma so yey.

[luxi-lilith]

I just realized how much of a slūt I am for early 2000's horror movies 😩🤌

[uwmspeccoll]

May Day 2024

Today is May 1st, on which we celebrate May Day or International Workers' Day. An international holiday, May Day in the U.S. is celebrated on May 1st to mark the beginning of the general strike in support of the 8 hour workday of 1886 that culminated in the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago on May 4th. Four protestors were murdered after an unknown party threw a bomb at police—an act which ultimately resulted in the hanging of four men who were never proven to have been involved with the bombing (some of whom were not even at Haymarket Square).

This pamphlet, May Day: 1947 was written by novelist and writer Howard Fast (1914-2003). Fast was a member of the Communist Party in the 1940s and in 1950 was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He refused to rat out the others who had donated to fund a home for orphans of the Spanish Civil War and was sentenced to jail. While in jail, he began writing the novel Spartacus, which was published in 1951 and turned into the well-known Stanley Kubrick movie Spartacus.

The illustrations shown here are by American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and adventurer Rockwell Kent (1882-1971). Though not a communist himself, Kent had progressive political views and was a member of various unions throughout his life, to the extent that his passport was suspended in the 1950s during the Second Red Scare. His travel rights were only restored after a 1958 Supreme Court Case on the matter in which they found the suspension of his passport a violation of his civil rights.

May Day is an important time to recognize the fight it took to get us the labor rights we have today. It didn't happen overnight or by the benevolence of the bosses—it happened on the backs of workers and through the strength we possess when we band together.

Workers of the world, unite!

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[thefollow-spot]

"Untitled" (Trophy)

Gen ● T+ ● WC: 100 ● Warning: Violence // Written for @merlinmicrofic 2024, for the prompt 'Tradition'.

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Mud underfoot—post-storm damp. Warm, not cold. Arthur’s boot lifts, slicked heel to toe with blood.

A boy, dead at his feet: pulled drowned from the well, with a cracked skull and sticky, congealing hair clumps. A Druidic medallion crosses his dislocated shoulder.

“Orders?” The knight’s sleeve: soaked to the elbow.

Arthur can’t feel his knees. Spare the children.

In one squashed eye, the boy’s pupil runs into iris, floating in a red socket. A spoon of jelly. Arthur—with a mouth of hot, pre-vomit bile—snaps the trinket off his white neck. A trophy for his father. It’s tradition.

[mariocki]

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

"Things happen here about... they don't tell about. I see things. You see, they say it's just an old man talking. You laugh at an old man. There's them that laughs and knows better."

[orkneyism]

AITA for throwing a spring party for myself (25F) and my friends (My Loyal Subjects) on the anniversary of my husband's (28M) mass killing of infants? It's also the birthdays of my oldest nephew-in-law and friend (24M) and my youngest nephew (8M) who survived the said massacre attempt?

[sortanonymous]

Wait, they're making another one? Oh-kaaayyyy... Not holding my breath, but hopefully it's at least better than the $h!tshow that was the second movie. (Even if that "version" of Silver is still there.) If it's any consolation, I don't know how much Sega is involved with the Sonic movies, but if it's a good bit, then maybe they can help out! At the very least, there's this amazing comment under the reveal teaser. (GOLDEN ISLAND MENTIONED)

[thatmaxcontent]

My favorite One Piece character? Heh... that'd be Usopp, of cours-Drops wallet and 100,000 pictures of Killer fall out OH FUCK I mean haha how did that get there, let me just trips over collection of Killer x OP Self Insert art UHHHH I mmmmade those for a friend, I'll just move those over ther- millions of pages of fanfiction explode from bag, majority of which has self insert dating dozens of OP crushes but specifically Killer and Eustass Kid STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT

Deep breath

... Usopp. Usopp is my- closet opens to reveal Killer merch GOSH. DAMN IT!

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

Mordred Pendragon

[marinerainbow]

I hope your first training day went well!!

I'll be right here waitin for you when you get home, honey! I've got a roast in the oven and I've been watching Martha all morning! Let me serve you after your hard work serving everyone else today. You sure deserve it!

xoxo, Tiff 💜💜💜

Baby!

Here's hoping your day's going as good as mine!! I wrote you a song, babygirl, and I'll sing it for you when you count your stars tonight! I'm practically buzzing to see you and show ya! Remember you're my little rock star and hold your head high!

- Man of your Dreams

I'll be waiting with a cup of tea for you when you get home after work. You'll tell me if anyone was unpleasant towards you and I'll kill them. They're lucky to have you.

- Hessian

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 Wicked! Oh my lord. My heart. I love all this so much!!! It's so soft and sweet. And you added Hessian too!!! Thank you so much for this 💜🧡💙💜🧡💙💜🧡💙

... And now I feel bad because I'm watching none of these guys or their movies. Tonight, I'm finally gonna be watching Fright Night- and may get a new F/O in Jerry XD is this the F/O equivalent of cheating? XD

[serious2020]

MAY 18, 2023: HAITIAN FLAG DAY: #StandWithHaiti

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[thebibliosphere]

So, anyway, I say as though we are mid-conversation, and you're not just being invited into this conversation mid-thought. One of my editors phoned me today to check in with a file I'd sent over. (<3)

The conversation can be surmised as, "This feels like something you would write, but it's juuuust off enough I'm phoning to make sure this is an intentional stylistic choice you have made. Also, are you concussed/have you been taken over by the Borg because ummm."

They explained that certain sentences were very fractured and abrupt, which is not my style at all, and I was like, huh, weird... And then we went through some examples, and you know that meme going around, the "he would not fucking say that" meme?

Yeah. That's what I experienced except with myself because I would not fucking say that. Why would I break up a sentence like that? Why would I make them so short? It reads like bullet points. Wtf.

Anyway. Turns out Grammarly and Pro-Writing-Aid were having an AI war in my manuscript files, and the "suggestions" are no longer just suggestions because the AI was ignoring my "decline" every time it made a silly suggestion. (This may have been a conflict between the different software. I don't know.)

It is, to put it bluntly, a total butchery of my style and writing voice. My editor is doing surgery, removing all the unnecessary full stops and stitching my sentences back together to give them back their flow. Meanwhile, I'm over here feeling like Don Corleone, gesturing at my manuscript like:

ID: a gif of Don Corleone from the Godfather emoting despair as he says, "Look how they massacred my boy."

Fearing that it wasn't just this one manuscript, I've spent the whole night going through everything I've worked on recently, and yep. Yeeeep. Any file where I've not had the editing software turned off is a shit show. It's fine; it's all salvageable if annoying to deal with. But the reason I come to you now, on the day of my daughter's wedding, is to share this absolute gem of a fuck up with you all.

This is a sentence from a Batman fic I've been tinkering with to keep the brain weasels happy. This is what it is supposed to read as:

"It was quite the feat, considering Gotham was mostly made up of smog and tear gas."

This is what the AI changed it to:

"It was quite the feat. Considering Gotham was mostly made up. Of tear gas. And Smaug."

Absolute non-sensical sentence structure aside, SMAUG. FUCKING SMAUG. What was the AI doing? Apart from trying to write a Batman x Hobbit crossover??? Is this what happens when you force Grammarly to ignore the words "Batman Muppet threesome?"

Did I make it sentient??? Is it finally rebelling? Was Brucie Wayne being Miss Piggy and Kermit's side piece too much???? What have I wrought?

Anyway. Double-check your work. The grammar software is getting sillier every day.