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devourable · 1 year

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➶ the butcher

sfw | tags ; nb!yandere butcher x gn reader (only prn used for reader is ‘you’), yandere behavior/tendencies, stalking, butchery (duh), violent imagery/ideation + implied violence

i dont see explicitly nonbinary yanderes much at all so im here to change that bc us offgendered mfs can be are crazy too 😌 sorry if this kinda sucks bc i finished this up while half asleep

you always felt there was something… off. about the 24 hour deli you always passed by.

it seemed to always be empty, aside from the butcher who was constantly at work inside. chopping meat, severing flesh from bone, every action executed with nearly clinical precision. did they ever do anything else? how were they always so busy with so little customers?

you could never understand. but as much as you were put off by the strange little store, curiosity gnawed at you with equal strength.

because of that, the day you entered the shop for the first time late one night, you left all of your concerns at the door.

unbeknownst to you, the butcher had been watching you long before you ever entered their deli. they always felt your eyes on them when you passed by their store — your gaze just felt so different from others. electrical, almost. they always knew when you were nearby. you must've felt it too, right? the connection you had?

but poor rhodes, they could never just approach you! you never stopped by and you didn't even know their name. they never had an opening to meet you formally. it'd be such a shame to scare you off...

thus, they were content with watching you from a distance. they ensured you never noticed their dark eyes following you, only daring to observe you passing in their peripherals or looking in your direction after you had walked far enough away. how wonderful your appearance was... a lovely sight that always brightened up the monotony of their work days. it was so fun to see you go about your life, it satisfied them enough to not mind your lack of connection.

though, sometimes... they couldn't help but imagine the animals they were tearing apart were the folk they occasionally saw you talking to. to tear their skin off of them, cut them into filets and send them far, far away from you... they ideated about it more times than they'd admit. why did you have to interact with others in front of them?

the day you actually entered their shop was a day they'd never forget. they thought they were dreaming when you walked in, shivering from the cold of the night seeking warmth and food in their establishment for the first time. you'd started a new job, see, and your shift ended well after everything else had closed. you were forced to forgo dinner and you were starved. so rhodes' butchery was the only place nearby you could visit.

you were intimidated by them, admittedly. their hulking frame, blank expression, and rough voice combined with the blood and gore constantly clinging to their apron was enough to put anyone on edge. but they couldn't be that bad, right?

their rampant emotions were hidden behind the unwaveringly neutral expression they always held, and you were none the wiser to their thudding heart and the slight tremble in their hands as they took your order.

the exchange was simple enough — you ordered a sandwich and something warm to drink, they made it for you, and you'd sit in one of the few chairs scattering the deli's entrance to enjoy your food and try to wind down after your shift.

and just like that, a routine was established.

you got to know rhodes as you continued to visit their place of work. they weren't scary, just awkward! or so you told yourself. but they were so easy to talk to — albeit not the best conversationalist, they were a superb listener. they'd devote their full attention to you every time you spoke to them, not daring to breathe a word so they wouldn't interrupt your lovely voice. they'd learn everything they could about you during your conversations. how you were gradually getting used to your new job, how it was a good thing they were open so late, how you were grateful for their work... things that they'd replay in their mind over and over again when you left.

you never really thought much of it when rhodes began giving you food on the house, using various excuses from not wanting to have to reopen the register to having conveniently already made your favorite sandwich earlier that day for a canceled order. you were friends now! of course they'd want to do you favors.

you also never really thought of it when the coworker who you'd complained about to them a few times stopped coming to work, either. they made an enemy out of so many people at your job, maybe they got fired? it wasn't any of your business.

rhodes had no clue how they'd get closer to you just yet. but now that you were seeing them regularly, they didn't mind settling for making your life a bit easier.

in any way they could.

after all, no one was going to question a butcher for having bloodied clothes.

#🥩 rhodes williams #lovesick | ocs #mine | fics #yandere x reader #yandere x you #yandere x oc #yandere headcanons #yandere imagines #yandere x darling #nonbinary yandere #nb yandere #t4t yandere #yandere oc #trans yandere

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stony-ao3-feed · 2 years

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these wretched things

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by howlingbuchanan (penmarks)

(marvel x the magnus archives)

when the time arrives and all is darkness and butchery, you’ll wish you had stopped listening, and run.

Words: 626, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Tony Stark, Nick Fury, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Sharon Carter (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Carol Danvers, Maria Rambeau, Wanda Maximoff, Peter Parker, Edwin Jarvis, Gamora (Marvel), Nebula (Marvel), Taneleer Tivan, Arnim Zola, Alexei Shostakov | Alexi Shostakov, Yelena Belova, Bruce Banner, Loki (Marvel), Sylvie (Loki TV), Peggy Carter, Stephen Strange, Quentin Beck, Ho Yinsen, The Beholding (The Magnus Archives), The Lonely (The Magnus Archives), The Spiral (The Magnus Archives), The Web (The Magnus Archives), The Extinction (The Magnus Archives), The Buried (The Magnus Archives), The Dark (The Magnus Archives), The Flesh (The Magnus Archives), The End (The Magnus Archives), The Slaughter (The Magnus Archives), The Hunt (The Magnus Archives), The Vast (The Magnus Archives), The Desolation (The Magnus Archives), The Stranger (The Magnus Archives), The Corruption (The Magnus Archives)

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Sharon Carter/Natasha Romanov, Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau, Gamora/Peter Quill

Additional Tags: Statement Fic (The Magnus Archives), Canon-Typical Worms (The Magnus Archives), Leitner Books (The Magnus Archives), Tony Stark Has A Heart, Steve Rogers is Not Captain America, Lonely Steve Rogers, Crossover, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Alternate Universe, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Psychological Horrors & Trauma

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#stony #fanfiction #ao3feed #superhusbands #stevetony

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ao3feed-stony · 2 years

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these wretched things

by howlingbuchanan (penmarks)

(marvel x the magnus archives)

when the time arrives and all is darkness and butchery, you’ll wish you had stopped listening, and run.

Words: 626, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Sharon Carter/Natasha Romanov, Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau, Gamora/Peter Quill

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/41726211

#stony #steve rogers #tony stark #iron man #captain america #fan fiction #ao3 stony feed #stony fan

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historystrainwrecks · 3 years

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Fire In The Hole

Major General Ambrose Burnside was going to blow some stuff up.

He was on top of the world in 1862. He had been promoted to major general after winning the battles of Roanoke Island and New Bern, the first significant Union victories in the east. Eight months later, he was given command of the Army of the Potomac after President Abraham Lincoln fired George McClellan, the “Young Napoleon.” He had invented a gun that was named after him (the Burnside carbine) and sported truly magnificent sideburns (also named for him, even though he looked a bit like a walrus in a uniform).

Burnside didn’t want overall command of the Union armies, citing his loyalty to McClellan and lack of military experience. He learned that the command would go to General Joseph Hooker if he declined, which changed his mind.

Ambrose Burnside really didn’t like Joe Hooker.

Listen to the rest of the story on The History's Trainwrecks Podcast Episode 12:

So he took charge of the Army of the Potomac, knowing full well what the Commander in Chief wanted: for him to take the fight south to the Confederacy.

He planned an assault on the Confederate capital at Richmond, which definitely qualified as taking the fight to the enemy. Lincoln, frustrated by Union losses and McClellan’s seeming inability to press forward with the large and well-equipped army the President had gotten for him, approved the plan, despite his doubts that it would work. Lincoln needed a significant victory in order to maintain public support for his administration in the face of consistent Southern victories.

No pressure, Ambrose.

The attack, known as the Battle of Fredericksburg, was a disaster. Bureaucratic slowdowns delayed vital supplies and Burnside reacted slowly to changing events on the battlefield. Robert E. Lee did not, moving his forces rapidly from defense to offense, attacking the slow-moving Union Army before it could get its act together. The Union armies withdrew, having suffered twice the casualties as the Confederacy. Lincoln was called “a weak man, too weak for the occasion, and those fool or traitor generals are wasting time and yet more precious blood in indecisive battles and delays.” The governor of Pennsylvania described the battle to the President as “a butchery,” which drove Lincoln to “a state of nervous excitement bordering on insanity.” Lincoln said, “If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it.”

Burnside was relieved of command a month later and replaced by his nemesis, Joseph Hooker.

Ambrose Burnside really didn’t like Joe Hooker.

Each general ended up with something named after them, by the way. Burnside thought his was better, but Hooker’s were more popular. Plus, it took a long time to grow really bushy sideburns. They were never going to see eye to eye.

It was all downhill from there. Burnside led troops at the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House in a manner described as “reluctant.” He ended up at the Siege of Petersburg, which was the aftermath of Grant’s failed attempt to defeat Lee in a pitched, decisive battle. Both sides dug trenches and waited. Grant knew his opponent had lost men he could not replace, and supplies were running low. But Lee was clever, and Grant worried that the more time Lee had to strategize, the more likely it was that he might escape. The battles leading up to the siege were bloody and costly for the North, and Grant was called a “butcher” for his apparent willingness to sacrifice his men in inconclusive battles. General Grant had his own experience at the siege of Vicksburg to draw upon, where he had learned that sieges were expensive and bad for morale.

Like Burnside, Grant needed something big to turn things around.

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Colonel Henry Pleasants, a mining engineer from Pennsylvania, hatched a plan where he would dig a long shaft under the Confederate trenches, pack it with gunpowder, and blow the whole thing sky-high. This would open a massive hole in the Southern defenses that troops could pour through and attack.

This sounded great to Burnside, and he approved the plan. General Grant was also onboard, though he later wrote that he saw it as a “mere way to keep the men occupied.” This lack of enthusiasm from the chain of command meant that Colonel Pleasants had to forage for his own materials, demolishing a bridge and an old mill to acquire the wooden supports he needed for the tunnel. He rigged an ingenious air exchange system that kept fresh air in the tunnel where the men were digging—he kept a fire burning near the start of the tunnel that drew fresh air in and stale air out by way of the chimney effect. The men hauled earth out of the tunnel using cracker boxes that had been fitted with handles.

The mine shaft was 511 feet long and more than 50 feet deep with hidden ventilation shafts, which helped avoid detection and countermeasures by the Confederates, who had heard rumors about the plan. General Lee refused to believe it for a couple of weeks before ordering “sluggish and uncoordinated” countermining operations that were unable to discover the tunnel.

Burnside had trained a division of United States Colored Troops under General Edward Ferrero to lead the attack into the crater that would result from the explosion. These two brigades would go around the crater and be the spearhead of the assault on Petersburg. General Meade, Burnside’s commander, vetoed the use of colored troops because of repercussions in the North if the attack failed and it was believed the black soldiers had been sacrificed. Burnside protested to Grant, who sided with Meade.

General Burnside tried to get volunteers to take the duty, but none were forthcoming, so he selected a white division by drawing lots. General James Ledlie’s 1st Division drew the short straw. Ledlie failed to brief or train his men, and was reported to be drunk behind the lines when the battle started.

The plan was to detonate the gunpowder between 3 and 3:45 am on the morning of July 30, 1864. Due to the poor quality of the fuses they had been given, the explosion didn’t happen on time. Two volunteers went forward into the mine and found that the fuse needed to be re-spliced. They tried again and the gunpowder finally went off at 4:44 am in a massive explosion that created a crater 170 feet long, 120 feet wide, and 30 feet deep. The Confederates, stunned by the blast, did not react for at least 15 minutes.

Neither did the Yankees. Ledlie’s division, its command staff back behind the lines and drunk off its posterior, waited 10 minutes before attacking. Instead of going around the crater, they went straight into it, thinking it would be a great rifle pit.

It was, but for the South. The Confederates regrouped at the top of the crater and fired down into it, wiping out the Union soldiers stuck at the bottom. Confederate general William Mahone called it “a turkey shoot.”

Burnside, watching his last chance at redemption disappear into a deep hole, ordered General Ferrero’s colored troops forward, but the Confederate fire forced them down the center of the crater instead of around the sides. They broke through and pushed the Confederates back, but a counterattack drove the Union soldiers back to their own lines.

Casualties on the Union side were, in what was becoming tragically typical for Burnside, more than double that of the Confederates. Most of the brunt was borne by the colored troops. General Meade brought charges against Burnside, and a court of inquiry censured him and General Ledlie, who was drunk during the fighting, as well as General Ferrero, who was also reported to be in his cups.

General Meade, surprisingly enough, neglected to mention his own role in the disaster. General Burnside was relieved of command two weeks later. He met with President Lincoln and General Grant in December, offering to resign, but they asked him to remain in the service. After the meeting though, Burnside wrote that he “was not informed of any duty upon which I am to be placed.” He never went back to active duty and resigned his commission the week after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House.

The Congressional Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War exonerated Burnside in 1865 and censured Meade for changing the plan of attack at the last minute. General Grant testified to the committee that he believed that if the colored troops had been used, the battle would have been won. But if it had failed, “it would then be said and very properly, that we were shoving these people ahead to get killed because we did not care anything about them. But that could not be said if we put white troops in front."

Even though the Battle of the Crater was technically a Confederate victory, it did not end the stalemate. Both sides ended up in the same relative entrenched positions where they had started.

Burnside’s reputation only partially recovered after the Congressional investigation. He went on to run a number of railroads after the war. He was elected to three terms as Governor of Rhode Island and was the first president of the National Rifle Association. While on a visit to Europe in 1870, he took a crack at mediating the Franco-Prussian War.

Which did not work.

He was elected to the United States Senate from Rhode Island and served until his death in 1881. He was a good guy, but as one historian put it, “he had been the most unfortunate commander of the Army, a general who had been cursed by succeeding its most popular leader and a man who believed he was unfit for the post. His tenure had been marked by bitter animosity among his subordinates and a fearful, if not needless, sacrifice of life. A firm patriot, he lacked the power of personality and will to direct recalcitrant generals.”

The Crater operation was just the kind of thing Burnside was good at: complex strategic planning, as long as the execution was up to someone else. The tunnel excavation was in the best possible hands with Colonel Pleasants and his team of engineers. The initial blast did exactly what Burnside said it would do—blow a hole in the Confederate defenses and buy time for the Union by disorienting the enemy. The problem with Burnside, as always, was getting his subordinate commanders to stick to the plan, and not be drunk at the time. And, not to criticize, but Ulysses S. Grant could have been way more supportive.

In the end, the Battle of the Crater had come very close to ending the stalemate at Petersburg, and thereby the Civil War itself, almost a year before Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox.

#history #civil war

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listensullivan · 3 years

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i miss rhodes butchery im gonna put it here so i can lookat it give me a minute

#text #i havent posted my own art on here for ages bc Why bc its on my art account but also i love my own art and wanna put it somewhere

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biblicalmusings · 4 years

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Hiroshima’s Castigation of Humanity’s Best Attempts at Peace

Early one August morning, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was preparing to return home from the town where he had spent the last three months on business. He worked for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan as a draftsman, and was working over the summer on a shipbuilding project. He was on the bus heading to the station with two of his colleagues when he realized he left his ticket behind. His friends continued on while he returned to the company dormitory to retrieve it. Once he did, he began walking back toward the shipyard. Mr. Yamaguchi remembered the day well: “It was a flat, open spot with potato fields on either side. It was very clear, a really fine day, nothing unusual about it at all. I was in good spirits.”

But that would change in an instant for him and the approximately 300,000 others in Hiroshima that day, Aug. 6, 1945. “As I was walking along I heard the sound of a plane, just one. I looked up into the sky and saw the B-29, and it dropped two parachutes. I was looking up into the sky at them, and suddenly... it was like a flash of magnesium, a great flash in the sky, and I was blown over,” he explained. (Richard Lloyd Parry, The Times, “The Luckiest or Unluckiest Man in the World?”, March 29, 2005).

The plane he saw was the Enola Gay. It had just completed its mission of dropping the first atomic bomb (called “Little Boy”) ever used in a military operation. He continued, “When the noise and the blast had subsided I saw a huge mushroom-shaped pillar of fire rising up high into the sky. It was like a tornado, although it didn’t move, but it rose and spread out horizontally at the top. There was prismatic light, which was changing in a complicated rhythm, like the patterns of a kaleidoscope. The first thing I did was to check that I still had my legs and whether I could move them. I thought, ‘If I stay here, I’ll die.’

“Two hundred yards ahead, there was a dugout bomb shelter, and when I climbed in there were two young students already sitting there. They said, ‘You’ve been badly cut, you’re seriously injured.’ And it was then I realized I had a bad burn on half my face, and that my arms were burned.”

Mr. Yamaguchi’s story is one of thousands of first-hand accounts of the horrifying devastation that single bomb created. One patient of Michihiko Hachiya, who was the director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital, recounted this story, which Hachiya kept in a diary along with dozens of other stories he heard from patients at that time:

“The sight of the soldiers . . . was more dreadful than the dead people floating down the river. I came onto I don’t know how many, burned from the hips up; and where the skin had peeled, their flesh was wet and mushy . . . And they had no faces! Their eyes, noses and mouths had been burned away, and it looked like their ears had melted off. It was hard to tell front from back” (Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, 1986, p. 726).

With one bomb, approximately 140,000 people were killed. Every person who survived had his or her own account of the suffering they witnessed, and those accounts numbered in the tens of thousands. “People exposed within half a mile of the Little Boy fireball . . . were seared to bundles of smoking black char in a fraction of a second as their internal organs boiled away. ‘Doctor,’ a patient commented to [Dr.] Hachiya a few days later, ‘a human being who has been roasted becomes quite small, doesn’t he?’ The small black bundles now stuck to the streets and bridges and sidewalks of Hiroshima numbered in the thousands” [Rhodes, pg. 714-715]. The magnitude of the destruction is beyond comprehension. No words can adequately describe it.

How Could We Do This?

The capacity of people to kill each other entered an entirely new and never before imagined age that day. For the first time in history, the dreadful prophecy that mankind would completely destroy itself if it weren’t for the return of Christ was actually conceivable (Matthew 24:22). Yet instead of being chilled by such destructive power, over the next several decades, ever more powerful atomic weapons were developed across the globe in an arms race between the U.S. and Soviet Union during the Cold War. The most powerful weapon ever tested was the Russian Tsar Bomba, with an explosive power nearly 3,000 times that of the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Today, the nuclear arsenal of just the United States and Russia (to say nothing of India, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, France, China and other countries known to possess nuclear weapons) is sufficient that the inhabited portions of the earth could be destroyed multiple times over.

Why did the United States drop the bomb in Japan that day? To end the war faster. Japan was all but defeated, yet their national pride kept them from surrendering. The American military was gearing up for a massive land invasion of Japan, so they reason that if the bomb could be used and proved effective in forcing Japan to an unconditional surrender first, then the lives of perhaps tens of thousands of American servicemen could be spared. In his history of the Second World War, Winston Churchill summarized the thinking behind the decision: “To avert a vast, indefinite butchery, to bring the war to an end, to give peace to the world, to lay healing hands upon its tortured peoples by a manifestation of overwhelming power at the cost of a few explosions, seemed, after all our toils and perils, a miracle of deliverance.” [Rhodes, p. 697].

A miracle for whom? The men and families of the men who would have been sent to the shores of Japan to fight the enemy in conventional warfare if it weren’t for the bomb, yes. But certainly not those who lived in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nor for the billions born since who have lived in the shadow of the Bomb.

This is the peace that mankind produces.

Apocalyptic Forerunner

When trying to picture the events Jesus talked about that will happen before He comes back, I don’t think it’s entirely off-base to imagine the desolation in Hiroshima, and multiply it the whole world over. In that coming tribulation, every citizen of every country of the world will be at risk.

I recommend looking up the book The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (which I have been quoting from in this article), and reading its final chapter, “Tongues of Fire.” As I read its account of Hiroshima’s devastation—beginning months in advance with the American military preparing an island from which to launch this and other attacks on Japan, and concluding with page after page of firsthand survivors’ recollections of the misery they witnessed that day—my heart began to pound. Rhodes makes a chilling statement:

“‘There was a fearful silence which made one feel that all people and all trees and vegetation were dead,’ remembers Yoko Ota, a Hiroshima writer who survived. The silence was the only sound the dead could make . . . They were nearer the center of the event; they died because they were members of a different polity and their killing did not therefore count officially as murder; their experience most accurately models the worst case of our common future. They numbered in the majority in Hiroshima that day.” [Rhodes, p. 715, emphasis added).

There is only one thing that can give us hope in the face of such unspeakable evil and the fear that ensues from living in an age where to be utterly destroyed remains a possibility: God’s promise of salvation.

“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared . . . I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, ‘Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them. He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever’” (Revelation 21:1-4, New Living Translation).

There is a day coming when no one will ever have to worry about destruction from bombs, guns, chemicals, tanks, landmines; a day when there will no longer be a feeling of unease that somebody in a different country might come hurt you and your family simply because you are a different skin color, religion, culture or have something they want. God will enforce His law of love, which mankind has so blatantly torn to shreds.

At that time, He will take the earth—destroyed, tattered and burned as it will have been by mankind—and remake it. All the death, the sorrow, the evil, the hatred, the legacy of humankind’s aggression against God and each other will be destroyed and forgotten. He will raise all those killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and all those who have died in every war or accident or by natural causes through all of history—and they will be given a new life. A life free of hatred, sorrow and suffering; instead full of love, service and joy (Revelation 20:5, 12).

Whatever happened to Mr. Yamaguchi? After getting his bearings and finding cover at an air raid shelter that terrible day, his wounds were bandaged, and he spent the night. The next day he and his companions managed to return to their hometown—Nagasaki. Despite his wounds, he reported for work two days later, Aug. 9, 1945. At work, he and his boss were having a conversation when the second atomic bomb detonated above the city, killing tens of thousands more as the first had done in Hiroshima. Mr. Yamaguchi was not injured in the second blast, and he and his wife both went on to live into their 90s. They both died in 2010, and are survived by three children. He is the only person officially recognized by Japan for having survived both atomic blasts, though there were many others.

“The reason that I hate the atomic bomb is because of what it does to the dignity of human beings,” he said in an interview. “I can't understand why the world cannot understand the agony of the nuclear bombs. How can they keep developing these weapons?” (Michael W. Robbins, Military History, “Japanese Engineer Survived Atomic Strike on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” July/August 2009).

There will be a day Mr. Yamaguchi will have his wish fulfilled. God speed that day.

(A version of this article was originally published at ucg.org here)

#hiroshima #75th anniversary

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Visitors to South Africa’s ‘New World’ winelands are regularly surprised to discover that the country’s winemaking history stretches back for nearly 350 years. The first wines were made here back in 1659 – and not long after that, one of the Cape’s landmark estates was first settled.

That was in 1685, when the French Huguenot Jean le Long laid the foundations of what would become modern-day Boschendal Farm. This venerable estate in the shadow of the Drakenstein and Simonsberg mountain ranges has long been known for its fine wines and fruit, but in the past five years has built a reputation as one of the leading luxury destinations in the winelands.

That is thanks to the consortium of new owners who, in 2012, brought a long-overdue injection of investment and energy to the historic property, revamping the accommodation, food and wine offering across the estate. Today the farm is a shining example of high-end agri-tourism.

Chef Christian Campbell at Boschendal Farm – by Claire Gunn

At the heart of the offering is the historic Werf precinct, centred on the 200-year-old manor house. In the renovated farm buildings on either side, Executive Chef Christiaan Campbell offers a wide range of culinary experiences that have proven themselves a hit with both locals and tourists.

At the Farm Shop & Deli visitors are presented with a wide range of homemade produce from Boschendal and selected local producers, alongside a menu of deliciousbistro-style dishes. A few steps away the on-site butchery sells superb cured meats and fresh cuts, with an array of wine tasting experiences on offer. But the main gourmet attraction is across the grassy lawns at The Werf restaurant, where Campbell dishes up an ever-changing menu of fine-dining dishes inspired by both the seasons and the farm.

Werf food garden salad in homemade house dressing – courtesy of Boschendal Farm

Campbell is a fierce proponent of farm-to-fork dining, and the estate presents his pantry with an enviable selection of fresh produce each day. The 2,000-hectare estate produces a wide variety of export-quality fruit, while the nine-hectare vegetable garden bordering the restaurant takes care of just about all the fresh produce needed by the kitchen.

Werf Cottages at Boschendal Farm – courtesy of Boschendal Farm

“The vegetable garden certainly dictates the menu at the Werf Restaurant – it feeds our creativity in the kitchen”, says Campbell.

The farm also has its own herds of pasture-reared sheep and Black Angus cattle, with flocks of free-range chickens roaming the pastures. In winter nearby forests provide wild mushrooms for the menu, too.

While the food and wine offering is superb, the estate’s accommodation is also turning heads.

Perhaps key to that success is the sheer diversity of offerings. With their stylish farm aesthetic, the romantic Werf Cottages are ideal for couples and honeymooners, while the Orchard Cottages are a more affordable, family-friendly option, with spacious lawns and a large pool area. For small groups, the exclusive-use Rhodes Cottage is the perfect five-bedroom bolthole, designed by acclaimed Cape architect Sir Herbert Baker. A National Heritage Site, the house comes with private staff and plenty of seclusion.

Bedroom aesthetic in one of the Werf Cottages, Boschendal Farm – courtesy of Boschendal Farm

In between afternoon siestas and gastronomic adventures there’s plenty to keep guests occupied on the estate. The farm runs up the flanks of the Simonsberg, where mountain bike and walking trails meander through indigenous Cape fynbos vegetation. Horse

Werf Restaurant interior – courtesy of Boschendal Farm

riding, trout fishing and vineyard tours are available, along with a range of treatments in the Farm Spa.

With the winter months traditionally a quiet season for inbound tourists to the winelands, Boschendal has been proactive in appealing to locals. Enticing Capetonians out of their homes in the depths of a drizzly Cape winter is no mean feat, but the array of engaging weekend workshops is certainly a good start. Alongside special menus and farm-focused feasts, over the next few months Campbell and his culinary team will offer hands-on weekends, focusing on everything from natural fermentation to artisanal bread-making.

It’s a fine example of a historic estate adapting to a modern-day tourism landscape. Whether guests are stopping in for lunch or unpacking for a long weekend, Boschendal is certainly leading the way in five-star farm getaways.

The post BOSCHENDAL: HOW TO DO FIVE-STAR FARM GETAWAYS THE RIGHT WAY appeared first on We Are Africa.

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In the opal mining red dirt of Andamooka, South Australia; a son faces the memories of the mysterious disappearance of his father in a great flooding storm, while the same storm appears on his own horizon. — The South Australian desert is a mystical place - millennia ago it was an ocean, and opalised aquatic dinosaur fossils are still found in the dirt there today. It is home to an arid land and deep, old magic. It is a place of endless sweeping salt flats and undulating flat red earth. Andamooka is where the frontier is, and the last of the great Australian frontiersmen call it home. The land is a stolen land, and a cursed land - and the magic of that wound has a unique way of working on the people that are born there new, and those who came before. — Executive Producers: Julianne English, Cameron Gray, Matthew Helderman, Johnathan Sheldon, Cameron Cubbison, John Rhodes, Angela Thompson, and Ian Thompson. Producer, Director & Writer: Matthew Thorne Producer: Steven Garrett Associate Producer: Zoe Edema Location Production Manager: Lara Lukich Location Logistics Coordinator: Katalin Wilby Director of Photography: Aaron McLisky Director of Photography (Pickups): Andrew Gough Production Designer: Benjamin Ashley Editor: Katerina Borys Sound Designer: Chris O'Neill VFX Supervisor: Pedro Motta Colourist: Daniel Stonehouse Original Music Composed by Luke Howard Album available online (via Mercury KX — Apple Music, Spotify, most other streaming services) Album available on vinyl (via Hobbledehoy Records — https://ift.tt/2KG99M3) First AD: Christopher Seeto Steadicam: Tim Walsh 1st AC: Chris Braga 2nd AC / Data Wrangler: Danielle Payne Gaffer: Max Gerschabach Grip: Martin Fargher Sound Recordist: Luke Fuller Art Director: Aisha Phillips Art Department Assistant: John Flaws Assembly Editor: Rolando Olalia Assistant Editors: Eliza Cox, Shannon Michaelas, Jana Plumm Compositor (The Refinery): Chris Betteridge Additional Sound Design: Daniel Mueller, Soren Maryasin Dialogue Editing: Brendan O'Neill Title Design: Nadeem Tiafau Kokatha Community Liaison: Glen Wingfield Editorial by The Butchery Sound Design by FrostFire Audio VFX by Push VFX Colour by Crayon DCP by Postlab.io Camera Equipment provided by Gearhead Opals Provided by Dukes Bottle House Motel & Andamooka Opal Showroom Catering by Tanya Simpson, Pippa Stafford and Charlie Sim Produced with the assistance of the ScreenCraft Short Film Grant & Bondit Media Finance Additional Cast: Stacey Dadleh, John Wilby, Paul Uhlik, Taj Gow-Smith, Clive "Spready" Spreadborough, Alan "Staffy" Stafford Heath, Stefan Bilka, Joe Sach, Drago "Tarzan" Antic, Val Harrison, Mash Clifford, Annie Uhlik, Jacinta Carrr, Tanya Simpson, Pippa Stafford, Claudia Mitchell, Greta Howard, Nikki Johnson Special thanks to Greg Franklin, Jack Hutchings, Matt Glasser, Freya Maddock, Jospeh Sach, Margot Duke, Simon Quilliam, Peter Taubers, Lester & Gill Rowley, John West, Clint & Jodie Gow-Smith, Stefan Bilka, Kendal Secker, Conan "The Barbarian" Fahey, Samantha Collings, Mandy Masters, Rebecca Dugan, Rachael Ford-Davies, Greg "Greggie" Franklin, Cowel Electric, APOMA, The Pool Collective, Andamooka SES, Andamooka CFS, Charle & Co. Coffee, Roxby Travel and Cruise, Andamooka Boo-Teek Op-Shop, Coates Hire Roxby Downs, Roxby Downs Motocross Club, The Tuckerbox & Staff For the community of Andamooka, South Australia.

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The Sand That Ate The Sea from Matthew Thorne on Vimeo.

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The South Australian desert is a mystical place - millennia ago it was an ocean, and opalised aquatic dinosaur fossils are still found in the dirt there today. It is home to an arid land and deep, old magic. It is a place of endless sweeping salt flats and undulating flat red earth.

Andamooka is where the frontier is, and the last of the great Australian frontiersmen call it home. The land is a stolen land, and a cursed land - and the magic of that wound has a unique way of working on the people that are born there new, and those who came before.

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Executive Producers: Julianne English, Cameron Gray, Matthew Helderman, Johnathan Sheldon, Cameron Cubbison, John Rhodes, Angela Thompson, and Ian Thompson.

Producer, Director & Writer: Matthew Thorne Producer: Steven Garrett Associate Producer: Zoe Edema Location Production Manager: Lara Lukich Location Logistics Coordinator: Katalin Wilby

Director of Photography: Aaron McLisky Director of Photography (Pickups): Andrew Gough Production Designer: Benjamin Ashley Editor: Katerina Borys Sound Designer: Chris O'Neill VFX Supervisor: Pedro Motta Colourist: Daniel Stonehouse

Original Music Composed by Luke Howard Album available online (via Mercury KX — Apple Music, Spotify, most other streaming services) Album available on vinyl (via Hobbledehoy Records — hobbledehoyrecords.com/store/luke-howard-the-sand-that-ate-the-sea/)

First AD: Christopher Seeto Steadicam: Tim Walsh 1st AC: Chris Braga 2nd AC / Data Wrangler: Danielle Payne Gaffer: Max Gerschabach Grip: Martin Fargher Sound Recordist: Luke Fuller Art Director: Aisha Phillips Art Department Assistant: John Flaws

Assembly Editor: Rolando Olalia Assistant Editors: Eliza Cox, Shannon Michaelas, Jana Plumm Compositor (The Refinery): Chris Betteridge Additional Sound Design: Daniel Mueller, Soren Maryasin Dialogue Editing: Brendan O'Neill Title Design: Nadeem Tiafau

Kokatha Community Liaison: Glen Wingfield

Editorial by The Butchery Sound Design by FrostFire Audio VFX by Push VFX Colour by Crayon DCP by Postlab.io Camera Equipment provided by Gearhead Opals Provided by Dukes Bottle House Motel & Andamooka Opal Showroom Catering by Tanya Simpson, Pippa Stafford and Charlie Sim

Produced with the assistance of the ScreenCraft Short Film Grant & Bondit Media Finance

Additional Cast: Stacey Dadleh, John Wilby, Paul Uhlik, Taj Gow-Smith, Clive "Spready" Spreadborough, Alan "Staffy" Stafford Heath, Stefan Bilka, Joe Sach, Drago "Tarzan" Antic, Val Harrison, Mash Clifford, Annie Uhlik, Jacinta Carrr, Tanya Simpson, Pippa Stafford, Claudia Mitchell, Greta Howard, Nikki Johnson

Special thanks to Greg Franklin, Jack Hutchings, Matt Glasser, Freya Maddock, Jospeh Sach, Margot Duke, Simon Quilliam, Peter Taubers, Lester & Gill Rowley, John West, Clint & Jodie Gow-Smith, Stefan Bilka, Kendal Secker, Conan "The Barbarian" Fahey, Samantha Collings, Mandy Masters, Rebecca Dugan, Rachael Ford-Davies, Greg "Greggie" Franklin, Cowel Electric, APOMA, The Pool Collective, Andamooka SES, Andamooka CFS, Charle & Co. Coffee, Roxby Travel and Cruise, Andamooka Boo-Teek Op-Shop, Coates Hire Roxby Downs, Roxby Downs Motocross Club, The Tuckerbox & Staff

For the community of Andamooka, South Australia.

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the hunger: Axe + Cleaver

#rhodes butchery #ocs #sigh #ok were starting it back up

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I kept thinking about Rhodes and like do they process like whole animals? Like whole carcasses or just the already cleaned ones?

Cause if its the whole one, how would they react to their darling being fascinated by the cleaning process?

And also if their darling asked to take the heads only to come back later to proudly show them the cleaned skulls

I am endlessly fascinated by gore and vulture culture stuff and in a cooking class ages ago we were cleaning chicken guts out and I was the only one holding the bucket of guts amd happily laughing at the fact I was holding a bucket of guts which weirded out my classmates LMAO

And also just i like collecting bones and skulls and animal pelts

So darling asking for heads and them going like "well thats a weird thing to eat but I won't judge." Only to be shown weeks later clean skulls.

♡Bunny

oooh this is such a cute concept! i love it 🥹

this is a bit short but i hope you like it anyway

🦴 the butcher x morbid curious / vulture culture darling 🦴

[ cw | descriptions of animal butchery ]

for starters : yes, rhodes process whole animals. they prefer getting their product directly from farms rather than slaughterhouses because it ensures they have higher quality product, plus it means less of the animal goes to waste as they try to use all parts of it in one way or another.

second, rhodes would be pleasantly charmed by a darling that’s interested in the process! though they’d insist you stay a reasonable distance away, both so you don’t get any mess on you and because the equipment they use is dangerous and they don’t want you near it. but they’re happy to explain the process of breaking down/preparing the various different animals they get in, how they memorized various cuts and where they’d be on the human body (as a fun fact!). eventually they’d grow to trust you enough to let you assist them in their work if you really wanted to.

it’d be the cutest thing to them, seeing you so fascinated by such a major yet mundane part of their life. carving up animals is so second nature to them that they’de see nothing really interesting about it. the warm fuzzy feeling they get in their chest whenever you ask anything relating to butchery would be what they live for. after some time they would allow you to assist them if you really wanted to, giving you the job of collecting blood/organs to set aside while they process the rest of the carcass.

when you present them skulls of the animal heads you requested from them, they’d again be pleasantly surprised. you’re just full of them, aren’t you? if they had known you wanted to do that they would’ve saved more of the skeleton so you could have the bones. they’d try to be mindful of part of the animal they’d feel you’d like — the horns of a bull, a lamb’s pelt, etc etc. it’d make them happy knowing they’d always have access to a gift you’d enjoy.

you can rest assured that every time they have access to a more unique animal, you’d always be saved a keepsake from it.

#🥩 rhodes williams #inbox | bunny #yandere x reader #yandere x you #yandere x oc #yandere imagines #yandere headcanons #nonbinary yandere #nb yandere #trans yandere #the butcher

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Worst Field Trip EVER :Episode 18

After returning from a trip to Rhode Island, the Dynamic Duo claim the “Worst Field Trip EVER” after visiting a “unique” butchery with the stench from...you catch the drift. The duo loved Rhode Island but are glad to be back with plenty of hilarious stories! A night out at the beach ends with Jimbo on stage playing an inflatable air guitar and rockin out with that infamous hair. Jackie models a fishnet unitard that didn’t quite make it through a “Find a Penny” evening. Don’t forget that no episode is complete without Jackie’s Southern Sayins, Weekly Highs and Lows, and the most hilarious video from the internet yet!! Pour your chamskey and get ready to have those ear holes violated!

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Today : New records show spread of parasitic deer flies across the United States

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With flattened bodies, grabbing forelegs and deciduous wings, deer keds do not look like your typical fly. These parasites of deer — which occasionally bite humans — are more widely distributed across the U.S. than previously thought, according to Penn State entomologists, who caution that deer keds may transmit disease-causing bacteria.

“It was more or less known where deer keds are found, but very broadly,” said Michael Skvarla, extension educator and director of the Insect Identification Lab in the Department of Entomology at Penn State. “We don’t know if deer keds transmit pathogens (disease-causing microorganisms), but if they do, then knowing where they are at more precisely could be important in terms of telling people to watch out for them.”

The researchers collated records of the four North American deer ked species and produced the most detailed locality map of these flies to date, documenting ten new state and 122 new county records. The researchers published their results in a recent issue of the Journal of Medical Entomology. They also provided an illustrated species-identification key.

The team harnessed citizen science — collection of data by the public — to gather deer ked records from the U.S. and Canada. In addition to scouring museum databases and community websites like BugGuide and iNaturalist, the team distributed deer ked collection kits to hunters as part of the Pennsylvania Parasite Hunters community project. The researchers also collected flies directly from carcasses at Pennsylvanian deer butcheries.

“I really like using citizen science information,” said Skvarla. “It often fills in a lot of gaps because people are taking photographs in places that entomologists may not be going. Deer keds are the perfect candidate for citizen science. They’re easy to identify because there’s only four species in the country and because they’re mostly geographically separated. And as flat, parasitic flies, they’re really distinctive. You couldn’t do this with a lot of insect groups because they’d be too difficult to identify from photographs.”

The European deer ked, Lipoptena cervi, thought to have been introduced from Europe, previously was reported to occur throughout the Northeast region. The researchers newly report this species from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and as far south as Virginia. In Pennsylvania, it occurs throughout the state, with 26 new county records.

The researchers also describe new records of the neotropical deer ked, L. mazamae, from North Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri — increasing its range further north and east than had previously been reported.

In western North America, two deer ked species, L. depressa and Neolipoptena ferrisi, are found from British Columbia through the U.S. and into Mexico — and as far east as South Dakota. The researchers newly report these species from Nevada and Idaho.

Deer keds are usually found on deer, elk and moose, but occasionally bite humans and domestic mammals. Although several tick-borne pathogens — including bacteria that cause Lyme disease, cat scratch fever and anaplasmosis — have been detected in deer keds, it is unknown whether they can be transmitted through bites.

“In Pennsylvania you have a lot of hunters,” said Skvarla. “Deer keds can run up your arm while you’re field dressing a deer and bite you. If these insects are picking up pathogens from deer, they could transmit them to hunters. With two million hunters in the state, that’s not an insignificant portion of the population. We don’t want to scare people, but people should be aware there is the potential for deer keds to transmit pathogens that can cause disease.”

The researchers will next screen hundreds of deer keds for pathogens. They will also dissect some insects to screen the salivary glands and guts separately. According to Skvarla, this approach will give a good indication of whether deer keds could transmit pathogens through bites, or whether the bacteria are merely passed through the gut after a blood meal.

In Pennsylvania, after deer keds emerge from the soil each fall, they fly to a host and immediately shed their wings, usually remaining on the same host for life. Females produce just one egg at a time — it hatches inside her, and she feeds the growing larva with a milk-like substance. When the larva is almost fully developed, it drops to the soil and forms a pupa, eventually emerging as a winged adult. If disease-causing bacteria are transmitted from mother to offspring, newly emerged flies could pass on pathogens to hosts. Pathogens could also be spread when bacteria-harboring flies jump between animals in close contact.

The other researcher working on this project was Erika Machtinger, assistant professor of entomology at Penn State.

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The plant-based restaurant group By Chloe, which has 10 restaurants around the world including one in London, is set to double in size over the next two years after a $31m (£22m) investment.

The fast casual restaurant business has received a cash injection to fund its expansion to 20 sites from Bain Capital Double Impact (part of investment fund Bain Capital), as well as from early stage investor Kitchen Fund, Collaborative Fund, TGP International/Qoot International, and other investors.

They join the restaurant brand’s original investor ESquared Hospitality.

By Chloe was founded in 2015 and is named after TV chef Chloe Coscarelli, who last year split from the business.

It has five locations in New York City, including its West Village flagship, as well as one in Los Angeles, two in Boston, one in Providence, Rhode Island and one in London’s Covent Garden.

Another By Chloe site is set to launch in London’s One Tower Bridge this year, with the prospect of more UK restaurants to follow.

Samantha Wasser, founder and creative director of By Chloe said: “We are thrilled to partner with Bain Capital Double Impact, Kitchen Fund, and our other strategic investors.

“Their support and belief in the By Chloe brand will only help to further our ability to bring delicious, accessible and affordable plant-based food to the masses.”

Warren Valdmanis, a managing director at Bain Capital Double Impact said: “By Chloe is a unique, authentic brand and dining concept with exceptional customer loyalty and engagement.

“Bain Capital has a long and successful history of investing in and supporting restaurant businesses.

“We are excited to partner with Samantha and her team to drive the continued growth of the business and to fulfil the mission to promote healthy food and lifestyles. We also believe there are significant opportunities to increase By Chloe’s social and environmental impact through targeted sustainability initiatives.”

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