#slingblade

[dramaticeyerolls]

In the process of moving some of my current art from ig over to here! More red rising from less than a year ago!

[hyena-frog]

The makerspace at work is allowing library employees to use the 3D printers over summer (only students are allowed in the print queue during the semester). I got approval to print my own slingBlade and I'm so so so excited.

I've been talking to theorangearmory and he very kindly gave me the .stl files for his 3D print slingBlade design, and has given me a lot of advice on painting on PLA filament. I'm going to update this post as I go through the process of printing, painting, etc.

[bullwrecks]

Slingblade vs Kelly Armstrong (2002 PBR World Finals)

[hate5sixofficial]

Slingblade 2024-01-26 El Rocko Lounge Savannah, GA

[poetrythreesixfive]

Discernment

The mushrooms are waiting to be born

like subconscious reminders that we all

come from darkness and to darkness we

will all return, spores sitting just below

the surface of the lawn waiting for fall,

for dampness, for the ideal condition to

poke their heads up out of their hidden

awareness, their misbegotten fantasies

of celebrity and virtue and significance

and into the uncomfortable light of day

where little awaits them but an

unforgiving lawnmower

blade to the

head.

                -GeorgeFilip

[troncelliti]

The Parts Of A Life Art Tearing Apart Other Humans For A Barbie Potluck Party Art Most Satiating. Aye, Mattie.

Veggies almost ready for the meat cauldron…

The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

[thenwothm]

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[chiefkeefpharrell]

ios 11 sucks so much but hey its useable somewhat idk anymore lol

[onlyhurtforaminute]

SLINGBLADE-BURIED IN CLAY

[joemayo65]

The french fries are pretty good 🍟 #slingblade #billybobthornton

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[umlewis]

lewis hamilton enjoys a slice of birthday cake at the launch of the mp4-23 - january 7, 2008 📷 david rawcliffe / propaganda-photo.com

[darkwehl]

[purpllehazel]

I have no reason to believe this but I believe I could do a perfect DDT first time with no practice

I know trans women are women because we can't even say something in obvious exaggeration without people jumping down our throats

[m-check]

reposting some RR fanart and adding headcannons

hcs:

At some point Darrow got another scar that turned the slight curve of his Peerless scar into a slingBlade. Whether unintentionally earned in battle or intentionally marked by someone else, I'm not sure.

The curve of Darrow's slingBlade - the actual weapon and the icon - was designed with the proportions of a crescent. When held up, it directly mirrors the Lune crescent.

Sevro, of course, making constant jokes to Pax about "You've got your father's eyes - no wait, I do."

[thegorydamnreaper]

Darrow vs Lysander - symbolism and favored weapons

Okay this I a bit of analysis that has been turning around in my brain since I finished Light Bringer. There will be major spoilers for all of the books, so read on at your own discretion.

And of course if anyone has points to add please do! This is by no means exhaustive, just a compilation of my main thoughts on the whole thing!

Darrow basically grew up with a weapon in his hand, since he started mining at age thirteen. It becomes part of his identity, an extension of himself. It’s also a symbol of his people, as all Red miners are given one. So as a Red, he already closely identifies with the slingBlade as a weapon, as a cultural symbol, and as a means of protection.

“I wonder what Eo wants of me. Does she want me to take my slingBlade and start a rebellion? I would die. My family would die. She would die, and nothing would make me risk her. She knows that.”

(RR Ch 4)

“This is your slingBlade, son. It will scrape the earth’s veins for you. It will kill pitvipers. Keep it sharp and if you get stuck in the drills, it will save your life for the price of a limb.” So said my uncle.”

(RR part III intro)

Lysander, on the other hand, is trained by his grandmother from childhood to use his mind as his weapon. He is capable of using a razor after spending a decade with Cassius, but his mind was his first weapon. It’s also a callback to the Jackal losing his hand and being mostly unaffected - because all Golds are taught that their mind is their first and greatest weapon.

“He sighs. “I told you. I am something different than you. A hand is a peasant’s tool. A Gold’s tool is his mind. Were you of better breeding, you may have realized this sacrifice means so very little to me”

(RR Ch 41)

“Skipping supper. No wonder you’re a little twig,” Cassius says, pinching my arm. “I daresay you don’t even weigh a hundred ten kilos, my goodman.”

“It’s usable weight,” I protest. “In any matter, I was reading.” He looks at me blankly. “You have your priorities. I have mine, muscly creature. So piss off.”

(IG Ch 8/ Lysander 1)

“My memory is a formidable thing. In many ways it is my grandmother’s great legacy, her teachings preserved in me.”

(IG Ch 8/ Lysander 1)

But the mind isn’t a symbol on its own, there’s no cultural gravitas to it. So to him physical weapons are tools that are an extension of his intellect. In that world view, a gun is the most practical choice of tool. Firearms are the great equalizer - you can be smaller, weaker, less trained than your opponent and there’s still a VERY good chance that you will win any fight.

This leads into another similar understanding that he and Darrow share: their rise must be meteoric. Darrow accomplishes this the hard way, through pain and training and failures. He builds himself as a symbol because he knows that’s the only way to start the chain reaction of bringing Gold down. He is a symbol, and so are his tools. The slingBlade becomes a symbols of liberation when once (as just a razor) it was a tool of the enemy.

Lysander? He cuts corners, because the tools don’t matter only the endgame does. He’s not trying to build something new, or inspire his followers to fight for something they never thought possible. He is fighting to reestablish the status quo as swiftly as he can. He doesn’t need to fight from the ground up to become a symbol - as a Lune, he already is a living breathing symbol of Gold, and that’s enough.

“Dancer would want me to accept the offer. It would guarantee my survival. Guarantee my meteoric rise. I would be inside the halls of the ArchGovernor’s mansion. I would be near the man who killed Eo. Oh, I want to accept. But then I would have to let the Proctors beat me. I’d have to let this little whorefart win and let his father smile and feel pride. I’d have to watch that smug smile spread across his bloodydamn face. Slag that. They’ll feel pain.”

(RR Ch 41)

“He sneers at the gun. “No honor.”

“No time.”

I shoot Alexandar in the head”

(DA Ch 81)

He studies those who came before him, flipping their symbols and methods against them instead of doing anything new. He quotes poems like Roque, uses Darrow’s Morningstar as his flagship, claims to be honorable like Cassius - but it’s hollow because these aren’t his achievements. He doesn’t subvert the paradigm like Darrow does constantly, he just borrows and steals to get his way.

Darrow sees himself as the sword of his people, but he’s more than that because he put in the work to be more. He questions if he’s a good man, but the we see the weight his decisions have on him. But because he built himself up, he has a community that loves him, friends and family that are truly loyal and will check his worst impulses. He is the symbol, but he’s anchored by those he represent. It’s real and has meaning because of all the sacrifices he has had to make.

Lysander can’t even unite the Golds because he is built upon lies. His parents and their deaths, a lie. His grandmother’s teachings, all lies and propaganda. The Golden lies of the Society he so desperately wants to restore. He is built upon lies and hollow promises, of course he collapses into Gold dogma at the first sign of pressure. He has no idea what he’s doing, but he’s sacrificing everything and everyone to prop up this dying system, because that’s where he feels safe. He has no symbols to look up to, no culture to give him strength and community. Anything that could have grounded him is gone (often because of his own actions). Pytha and Cassius were his only family left and he rejected them and their teachings. More than ever before there’s nothing holding him back. He has his mind and it is telling him the only way to be safe is to double down and become the worst of Gold.