#slaughterhouse nine PSAs

[teaandspite]

Putting all these in one place so I stop losing them. Public Service Announcements and encouragement from your friendly neighborhood Slaughterhouse Nine! They're so thoughtful that way.

Originally posted on my dA in like... 2012.

[artbyblastweave]

🔥worm

I understand and agree with the common criticisms of Skidmark's portrayal vis a vis the ugly portrayal of black people and drug users, but nonetheless I'm fond of the character on a number of levels. He's significantly smarter and more competent than he's given credit for within the narrative or within the fandom at large- from the logic underpinning the demeaning naming conventions of his crew, to the fact that he's one of the only on-screen characters to successfully engineer a trigger event, to the untold story behind how he acquired his Cauldron vials and his knowledge of their potential pitfalls. He holds his own against Faultline in a fun way. He gets some really funny lines. His power- and it's use for the trigger arena in arc 11- is the crab-bucket mentality made literal. Thematically I rarely see anyone point out the ways in which he fits into the observed schema of how all of Taylor's enemies are foils to her in some way- he's the only one of her antagonists who's also trying to tap into the power of the masses, a dark mirror to her strongwoman cult-of-personality tactics at a point in the story where the one-bad-day logic governing superpowers and supervillainy has been applied to the entire population of the city. Obviously, the entire package is fatally dragged down in the previously litigated ways by the 1980s-PSA-level of narrative hostility towards drug users and dealers, his status as the butt of every joke, and the ultimate fate of his entire team being unceremoniously exterminated in a sequence that borders on slapstick so that Slaughterhouse Nine can receive a slight credibility bump before they start taking dive after dive. But there's nonetheless some there there. There should have been a merchants interlude

[teaandspite]

Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll get it right eventually

Eyyy happy halloween, got a Slaughterhouse Nine PSA for you. And because I am a mature, nice person, I did NOT name this file “Let’s Do The Time Loop Again”