More from Abattoir land! Out in the wastes of the great plains is a big ass worm. 

The Greater Salamander is an unusually motile annelid who spends most of their time ambling through the snow and ice. Being devoid of sunlight leaves them in below freezing temperatures the majority of the time which places them in a sort of mobile torpor. Walking along to produce just enough heat not to freeze until the rains come again. In contrast to the norm, storms here bring with them scalding hot rain. The heat awakens the Salamanders into their active feeding stage and their skin flushes with blood to now attempt to stave off overheating. Salamanders are herbivorous in that they primarily feast of the spores of lichen which use the rising steam from the rain to aid in their dispersal. Being that this is the primary method used, there is a lot of eating to go around once the rain does come and wake everyone up. 

These are special in The Abattoir land in the fact that they are one of the few large species not derived from a human source. Instead their modern counterpart are earthworms! Unfortunately an invasive European species but nowadays they are pretty settled into their environment. 

the ✨️🐂mystery🐂✨️ was homicide

My albums selection for the next week:

Aseptic Stir - Year Of Detachment

Golem Mecanique - Sheol

Dive - Snakedressed

Edward Ka-Spel - One Last Pose Before the Ruin

Can – Live In Paris 1973

Da-Sein – Sore

Lorenzo Abattoir – second act

Burning Witch – Crippled Lucifer (10 Psalms For Our Lord Of Light)

Magic Dragon - Emotional Landscape

L' Orgasme Masochiste - Electrocutofilia - EP

a nitpick. but. one of the foremost reason burgers were ever “cheap” is bc fast food companies contracted with beef farms and slaughterhouses which use trafficked human labor, child labor, and allow deplorable animal conditions of suffering and unimaginable disease.

it’s even cheaper to use less effective methods of killing thousand pound animals without any effort at stunning before butchering/skinning, so many of the animals are even still alive while it happens bc it’s too much time and therefore money to make sure they’re all dead—even rifle shots point blank to the head take 4 or 5 times to kill a massive cow who is struggling violently for her life.

and ofc, thorough government subsidizing of all this abuse.

burgers are not and never were a human right. get the fuck over it. they are an INSANE luxury built on so many levels of enslavement and hellish cruelty, to humans and nonhuman animals both.

you think burgers are supposed to be cheap bc you don’t even think about what had to happen for it to get to your plate.

because those companies never pay out when their underage workers get mangled in the machines. because not a single soul in those slaughterhouses has a single legal protection or right. because the workers who farm the immense amount of feed for these animals you eat are not even thought of let alone paid anything resembling a wage.

it’s always “cheap” to produce something when your business depends on human and animal slavery.

You were spilling all my will out I was bleeding my last brains It's nothing like the nothingness That normally numbs one's pain

Goodbye, oh goodbye

some closeups for you

how i'm feeling putting orpheus & eurydice references in my burakhovsky fic

if this painting supposed to be the town then what the hell is this

it's from the wiki under paintings inside houses in p1. and that cant be the Cathedral. but it can be a cathedral you would see on the horizon in dark souls. not to mention this painting just below that

and here is the steppe creature taking my white ass to the town-on-gorkhon (said the bachelor)

these (page 16) are interesting to me not just because of the extremely cool unused quarry pattern but b/c they give a canon scale measurement for the entire patho2 map by extension ("10 meters" ruled on the images). is it accurate to the apparent size in-game Who Knows. quantifying everything in pit walkway width units (PWWUs) from now on

foreman oyun, the abattoir

Wanted to get into the Abby choirs. These are some of the fellas from an undisclosed (read: the favorite) Abattoir! INFO DUMP BELOW!

Starting with names! From left to right, Daniel, Michael, and Kirstin! Have a big post cooking about how to get into the club but for now what the job entails. Choirs are those blessed with slivers of the Gods power, BUT unlike the dragons and abattoirs they are born from within the Abby they'll serve. Not that Abattoir residents know that there are any others!

Choirs are tasked with keeping order and stability within their Abbies, the two main tasks are ensuring that the populace stays in good condition and making absolutely sure the tobacco quota is met. The latter being far more important than you'd think at first.

The God Worms kind of give them free reign to do whatever they want otherwise, so it kind of depends on the vibe of the choir for how your internal Abby experience shall go! Some are more laid back, some are more totalitarian. Gods don't really care as much as they probably should. These fellas within the favorite Abattoir are more laid back than most, defaulting to a more democratic approach to keep the people they're watching happy. Michael has been there the longest, a few thousand years, Kirstin and Daniel have been there a few hundred years.

Another IMPORTANT NOTE is that every choir member looks like that is because to become a member you need to partake in some divine flesh to gain godly power. Such power violently corrupts those it meets! But should you survive the process, you get a fun monster form and power in one of two veins. That of either flesh or soul. Both the separate domains of the Gods so you can only be particularly good in one. Flesh is far more common than soul, as leaning too hard into the soul aspect may result in getting kicked out of your body. :(

That's the main gist! Oh another big perk is also the initial reason most people try to join the choir! Choir members are exempt from the yearly feast.

three patho fans in one minecraft server 😳 what will they do 🫣

this yt comment is taking me tf out omfg

ABORTED-THE GANGRENOUS EPITAPH

slept for twelve hours straight last night. the good news: my respiratory infection seems to be in its final death throes. the bad news: my uterus is now producing black gore that wouldn't look out of place in a saw film.

Your character designs are always so dang cool!!! Are the captain positions on other ships in the holy fleet challenged for like the position of GHB in a duel to the death, or are they appointed? (Some combination thereof?) The Orisoner looks so friendly, but I bet he’s brained somebody with that whimsical staff! I love that in the group shot Kurloz’s frame is almost a 2x scaled up version of Sister Waspclaw - his Gigantic Lankiness is just so fun. (Also LMAO at Kurloz being too prudish to claim his right to show tits! Honestly any time he mentions modesty standards being different a couple centuries ago it cracks me right up 😂)

Aw, thank you! :D Waspclaw is real small for a highblood, especially a relatively old and powerful one--smaller than pretty much all her pupated students, and a few of the pre-pupation ones! So next to Kurloz "Big Motherfucker" Makara, she's absolutely tiny. But does still manage to have more boobs than he does. Tragic.

RE: succession, it varies! It's pretty much always going to include some amount of combat--some of the variety where the loser is allowed to slink away and lick their wounds, and some where they definitely don't. Let's see. On a scale from most to least "Challenge To The Death"...

Definitely the Behemoth. It follows the same rules as the Grand Highblood challenge--if two trolls who want to be in charge walk into what passes for a captain's court on the Freakshow, only one is going to come out. Yozuna's not fast, and most trolls who ARE fast aren't nearly strong enough to make a dent in it even if they hit it--but the fact that Kurloz is big enough to really hit it hard and also came up specializing in speed and evasion is probably a real big part of the reason it hasn't made any attempt to challenge him for the throne, honestly.

Waspclaw. She's very lax with gutsy newbies getting fresh with each other and their superiors, thus the Joker's reputation for letting people get away with stuff, but stepping to her directly is SUPER dangerous. Make your gamble if you know you can get away with it!! But always know you aren't going to get away with it with her. :o) Plus, much like the Uderaks and Untoxxic, she works in poisons and venoms, and also she's heavily min-maxed into speed, so by the time you realize your challenge fight has officially been accepted, she's gone "well, they made their choice!" and you've been stung with something fatal.

The Abattoir. He isn't fucking around, although she also strikes me as very businesslike about it, and not inclined to be vindictive about the act of the challenge itself. I think the format is a little less "immediate fight to the death" and a little more "courtly duel" in keeping with both of his knightly sort of vibes. The exception being if you manage to draw blood on either of him, in which case shit flips very much into death-match mode. Also like. Hard-mode. You do have to challenge for both ships at once, and you will be fighting both of her. So like, considering authority over Elixir and Stardust features a lot of interfacing with the nonbelievers and doing Finance and shit, not a lot of people are jumping at THAT daunting prospect lol.

The Judgment. She wants to hear your argument for why the fuck you think you have what it takes to perform the physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually-taxing work of disciplining the wayward sinner-criminals of the church, and she's not getting any younger, here! If she feels like she's won her argument and the battle and you're inclined to back down in shame, she's not going to continue to press the point, but she will definitely openly think less of you for making a stupid and badly thought out attempt on her authority. She's as close as the church fleet gets to having a legislacerator taskforce, and she's just as stern and hard-assed as the Cruelest Bar, but also a large part of the Penitent's function is for flagellation and rehabilitation (???) of potentially-redeemable highbloods who've fucked up in ways that the church considers forgivable enough to give them a shot. She's down to clown (fatal) but also she's not an executioner necessarily.

Brother Libation. I drew inspiration from Il Dottore from the commedia del'arte, Bacchus, and the whole concept of drunken fist characters as an archetype, so if he's challenged he's got like... a 33% chance of just offering some kind of whimsical puzzle challenge that nobody ever manages to solve to his satisfaction, a 33% chance of just verbally convincing them to chill the fuck out by being a Cool Hang, and a 33% chance of bonking them heartily to the brink of death with his big spiky gourd.

The Orisoner wins for least deathmatchy. You can try to challenge, but you'll just get invited to come chill and vibe and just like. Really get into why you think your leadership will be hilarious and honoring to the messiahs, and what you think about art, and why you feel like you need captaincy to make the changes you want to see in the church and empire. If anybody attempts to escalate to violence, they'll mostly be met with a vaguely disappointed, surprisingly benevolent no-weapon-open-palms kind of rebuff, and if things continue to get more aggressive from there, the big spiky walloping staff will come out and be employed with startling effectiveness and skill lmao. But! If there were ever going to be highbloods inclined to take debate of best leadership policy over violence, it's the ones who decide they want to be theologians professionally. (Debate of best religious interpretation is a whole other ballgame, and gets aggressive here more than any other ship on the fleet lol). Orisoner in general though, would be one of the safer trolls you could be around as like, a human or a lowblood, if you had to pick a ship.