Hewhoreplaces - FREAKS ONLY

Covers for a hypothetical Crash graphic novel (2022)

Fun facts: the guy is modelled after J. G. Ballard when he was young, and the way his body is broken is inspired by Jayne Mansfield's butchered Buick Electra

dressed up like a gas station attendant today and got unusually high levels of male attention. what's up with that

Guy Pearce as Tash in Dating the Enemy (1996)

Dir. Megan Simpson Huberman

“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets. 

Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”

–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.

"Car Crash Debbie" - Bob Gruen's portrait of Debbie Harry, taken at a wrecked car on 6th Avenue and 50th Street in New York City, 1976

Milja Laurila. "The Latest Knowledge (Blindfolded)", 2012

Frantisek Drtikol - Woman Crucified, 1913

1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu IIHS crash test