#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?

[doomed-prophetess]

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."

[stardust-falling]

No matter how much trauma you have experienced, you never have the right to inflict that trauma on others.

[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)

[doomed-prophetess]

Mordred Pendragon

[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!

[gideongrovel]

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!! 💘💌💝

[the-lord-of-springs]

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"I wonder if I should've died young"

Lleu couldn't help but think that from time to time. He clenches his fist each time you look at someone else, it started out with the villagers, then the staff and till even family. For someone like him, easily jealous and irritated even though he's spoiled on love, what is there for him to give you? What can he possibly offer in exchange for these years?

.....

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" the words swing like a pendulum, sway like small candle fires, every two steps he takes is met with a stumble

I understand now I'm not exactly a character but the start of a story, a place holder for someone else's love and so it's only right for me to return what I've borrowed

For the small cavity inside your chest, are you willing to take my heart?