That Time Heisenberg Stabbed Ethan With A Rusty Fencepost

That time Heisenberg stabbed Ethan with a rusty fencepost

Thanks to this one fic project that needed a pornographically detailed list of Ethan’s most memorable injuries, I've spent some time trying to figure out exactly what Heisenberg stabs him with when they first met. Working mostly from a free-camera version from youtube, I settled on calling a metal pipe with a square profile.

Tumblr: I was wrong. The reality is so much worse.

Having cracked the game files and installed my own free-camera mod, I tracked down the original asset for this thing, and, well...

No, really, this is it! Check out those matching cross-bars if you doubt me.

FWIW, it isn’t actually a spear. Those semi-mangled crossbars flag it instead as a spear-headed fence-post. (This may not be a distinction that Ethan would find very comforting after being stabbed with the thing, but there it is, regardless.)

In fact, if you poke around the cemetery area just outside the castle gate, you can even find the fence it presumably came from.

Look in on the cemetery near the church from the lane leading up to the Duke's shop beside it, and this is what you'll see.

It's not a perfect match (in fact, it's even worse viewed from the opposite side, because someone has clearly stuffed up the textures on different sides of the same asset). I'll also note that if you go back to this fence again after meeting Heisenberg, you won’t find any suspicious gaps in it where a post was recently ripped out. So I’m going to just go ahead and assume this particular piece was lying in a pile of surplus scrap in the cellar somewhere, and Heisenberg did not, in fact, drag the thing all the way there from well outside the whole damn building. I mean, at that point, you’re just showing off.

The fence post is, admittedly, pretty hard to get a good look at in the actual game. Unlike all the other crap Heisenberg already has levitating around him in this scene, the fencepost doesn’t appear at all until Heisenberg stabs Ethan with it. It actually seems to emerge at speed from between a couple of barrels at the back. But if you’re enough of a lunatic to play around with the various slow motion/rewind settings that came with the free camera mod, you can get a decent shot of it in flight, cleaning up any remaining doubt that this is the same asset that was used in game.

It even freaking spins in the air as it moves. FTR, yes, it does go in pointy-end first. And the whole fucking spearhead ends up buried in poor Ethan. (Please feel free to insert your own dick-joke here.) Those paying really close attention might even note that the blood on Ethan's shirt is present even before the spear hits him, but that's just going to be virtual-stunt-coordination having a normal one.

I can offer you no similarly definitive insight into why Heisenberg would think stabbing Ethan with this thing was a good idea. I can’t even tell you if he knew for sure that it was Ethan Winters he was talking to at this point (maybe he's just playing dumb, pretending not to recognise him. Or maybe he legit didn't know that Ethan himself had made an appearance until Miranda told him. Sure, he's already got that whole conspiracy board, but finding real pictures of this Ethan-guy is surprisingly hard.) But whether Heis was already testing out Ethan’s ‘interesting body’, or whether he’d just generally assumed that anyone who could survive a full lycan assault on the village wouldn’t be too seriously inconvenienced by a little stabbing, hoo boy was this one way to make a first impression.

I’m not even sure which of these losers is the bigger idiot here: the one who imagined Ethan might still agree to work with him even after inserting a very convincing imitation-spearhead into his intestines, or the one who never thought to seriously question how he keeps shrugging off injuries just as exciting as this one.

They probably deserve each other.

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yourdemisefromhell

2 months ago

"His favorite creations"

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yourdemisefromhell

1 month ago

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yourdemisefromhell

2 months ago

lets stay in and play minecraft

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yourdemisefromhell

2 months ago

Spellbound (1945)

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yourdemisefromhell

2 months ago

Hi! I was wondering if you had any tips on studying for long periods of time like you do?

I saw you had studied for ten hours in one day and I have never managed to stay focused that long.

Would really appreciate if you had any advice but if you're busy no worries and ignore this!

Thanks!

Hii :)

My 10h of studying seem crazier than they probably are- a lot of it is re-planning my study schedule, petting my dog with one hand while trying to write with the other, google definitions etc. but maybe this is still somewhat helpful?

-task mix & match

I don’t write for 10h straight, most of it is a mix of writing, reading, drawing sketches etc.- pretty much anything that makes my „normal“ task a bit less boring :) so: including as many productive task-solving variations

-frequent breaks

I try to put ~5min long breaks in between each (topic) section that I cover + a longer break where I do something non-study related if I notice my focus disappearing

-coffee + instant sugar

Tbh, without it I wouldn’t be alive lol if coffee doesn’t give me back my energy I usually resort back to eating an unhealthy amount of sweets to make up for it lol

-movement

Not as in stretching in my breaks but I’m constantly moving to keep my brain stimulated🥲 - changing the way I’m sitting, drumming along to a song, spinning on my chair (the adhd is adhding huh)

-switch noise input

I usually start studying without music and turn it on once the topics get boring / I lose motivation to switch up whatever I’m doing atm. 2000s „club music“ (aka hips don’t lie by shakira) is somewhat helpful?

-rewards

For me it only works if I really lose my entire free time to studying but having something to look forward to once I achieve whatever I’m studying for works quite well rn? I’ll either buy myself procreate or a new game once I pass my (written) finals :)

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yourdemisefromhell

2 months ago

here are my favourite poems to do with writing that are priceless and feel as informative as a guidebook on poetry writing:

to a young poet by mahmoud darwish (most favourite!)

how to be a poet by wendell berry (favourite!)

the real prayers are not the words but the attention that comes first by mary oliver

poem written in a copy of beowulf by jorge luis borges

the wolf’s eyelash by c.p. estes

digging by seamus heaney

?poetry by pablo neruda

ars poetica by archibald macleish

my heart by frank o’hara

notes on the art of poetry by dylan thomas

the joy of writing by wislawa szymborska

how to eat a poem by eve merriam

basho on haiku: 17 statements

how to write a poem in a time of war by joy harjo

discontinuous poems by fernando pessoa

you can feel free to add on more poems about poems to this if you know any good ones!

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yourdemisefromhell

2 months ago

*through gritted fucking teeth* i like when its simple, i like when its hard, i like when its a wrestling match between me and God; i like when its boring, i like when its fun; but most of all i like doing it and having it be done.

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