Obscene Display.

[Apostate]

Yes, and with our feet nailed to a bevelled or (as here) curved stipes,
our knees are forced apart, we have to give our obscene display

That's kinda the point of crux, Eulalia.

And absent a bevelled or curved stipes, a carnifex who knows his business can improvise.

 

[Deleted member jedakk]

That's kinda the point of crux, Eulalia.

And absent a bevelled or curved stipes, a carnifex who knows his business can improvise.

Actually, that is a round post on Sabina's cross. That's the reason her knees are splayed apart like that and the reason I made it that way. Although I could certainly create a pic showing a girl nailed to a squared-off post with her legs splayed, there's not a physical reason for that unless she just wants to.

 

[Apostate]

Actually, that is a round post on Sabina's cross. That's the reason her knees are splayed apart like that and the reason I made it that way. Although I could certainly create a pic showing a girl nailed to a squared-off post with her legs splayed, there's not a physical reason for that unless she just wants to.

I zoomed in on Sabrina's stipes, and it still looks squared off to my eye. But that's probably because that's what I expect to see. So I stand corrected.

Eulalia, I'll have to look around for another example of a crafty carnifex for you.

 

[rb1956]

That second victim looks vaguely familiar

I like the first one too ... always partial to mass crux scenes, I am

i like your new avatar!!

 

[Deleted member jedakk]

I zoomed in on Sabrina's stipes, and it still looks squared off to my eye. But that's probably because that's what I expect to see. So I stand corrected.

Eulalia, I'll have to look around for another example of a crafty carnifex for you.

Might not be completely apparent from any side view, but if you look at the edge of the stipes where it fits up against the bottom of the patibulum in this pic, you can see that it's round.

 

[Apostate]

Might not be completely apparent from any side view, but if you look at the edge of the stipes where it fits up against the bottom of the patibulum in this pic, you can see that it's round.

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Proof positive, Jedakk. I stand not only corrected but convinced.

Eulalia, I realize that the only method to guarantee the thighs-splayed, shame-and-degradation display with a squared off stipes is to employ Yusseby's patented "nails through her heels" technique. Jastrow's adapted it fairly often as well.

 

[Apostate]

A grim reminder that under Roman rule, yoga was a capital crime.

 

[Deleted member jedakk]

Proof positive, Jedakk. I stand not only corrected but convinced.

Eulalia, I realize that the only method to guarantee the thighs-splayed, shame-and-degradation vibe with a squared off stipes is to employ Yusseby's patented "nails through her heels" technique. Jastrow's adapted it fairly often as well.

I'm not a believer that nails through the heels ever would have worked. With the nails through the tops of the feet, they could be positioned to bear directly against bone and the pressure is all in a downward direction. With nails through the heels, I don't think there's any way to avoid torsional forces that would almost certainly fracture the heel bones, if they weren't fractured already by having nails driven through them.

 

[Apostate]

I'm not a believer that nails through the heels ever would have worked. With the nails through the tops of the feet, they could be positioned to bear directly against bone and the pressure is all in a downward direction. With nails through the heels, I don't think there's any way to avoid torsional forces that would almost certainly fracture the heel bones, if they weren't fractured already by having nails driven through them.

Listen to the man, people. Jedakk's our resident expert on the mechanics and physics of crucifixion, and I say that completely without irony.

In my own case I choose to suspend disbelief. As I do with those rarely used, if at all, wooden washers. Both nailed heels and washers appeal to my own unclean fantasies.

Although Jedakk, you showed us a long time ago how to mount an obscene display on a square stipes.

 

[Fox-on-Cross]

I'm not a believer that nails through the heels ever would have worked. With the nails through the tops of the feet, they could be positioned to bear directly against bone and the pressure is all in a downward direction. With nails through the heels, I don't think there's any way to avoid torsional forces that would almost certainly fracture the heel bones, if they weren't fractured already by having nails driven through them.

You must exactly know where de passage is between heel- and footbone?

 

[cire]

Not particularly obscene and no back story, just a quick one I did today. And who doesn't enjoy an occasional quickie...?View attachment 544243

It shows something that we are not talking about that often. You can see and feel despair.
The pic is really something.

 

[cire]

Being an ass man, I have a lot of renders of various scenes from a rear view. This particular one is a dramatic scene from The Serpent's Eye where they are lifting Sabina up and her toes are touching the earth for the last time.

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And hanging by her wrists as they prepare to drop her patibulum onto the tenon at the top of the stipes:

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I do pay special attention when I'm crafting the ass on these girls. Even if Sabina's is a bit dinged up from her whipping, it's still a great ass in my opinion.

The way Sabinas patibulum is attached is so amazing. It thrills me. Absolutely realistic.
It could be out of a schoolbook for executioners, specialised in crucifiction.
You can't be more effective.
Just the patibulum with the victim is lifted. She even will help the men while she is raised, to reduce the pain in her wrists. Unfortunately only just as long as her feet are still on the ground. No need to hurry for the guys, they can communicate every step of the crucifiction with each other. And that is another shocking aspect for the victim.

 

[Apostate]

It shows something that we are not talking about that often. You can see and feel despair.
The pic is really something.

Jas does despair very well.

 

[Deleted member jedakk]

The way Sabinas patibulum is attached is so amazing. It thrills me. Absolutely realistic.
It could be out of a schoolbook for executioners, specialised in crucifiction.
You can't be more effective.
Just the patibulum with the victim is lifted. She even will help the men while she is raised, to reduce the pain in her wrists. Unfortunately only just as long as her feet are still on the ground. No need to hurry for the guys, they can communicate every step of the crucifiction with each other. And that is another shocking aspect for the victim.

I don't know exactly how the Romans built their crosses, but they certainly used joints like that mortise and tenon for many other construction projects. So it's at least likely that they'd have used something as familiar as that to join the parts of a cross, too.

 

[cire]

I don't know exactly how the Romans built their crosses, but they certainly used joints like that mortise and tenon for many other construction projects. So it's at least likely that they'd have used something as familiar as that to join the parts of a cross, too.

This makes sense. Knowing the romans as being very pragmatic, I think you are very close. Thank's for your work.

 

[Apostate]

Moving on to somewhere in the 21st century, another "what the hell is going on?" render.

The first scenario that pops into my mind is a one-percenter couple on a lazy afternoon, inflicting unspeakable torture and death on a lady they don't like, or maybe a stranger, just for kicks, because hey, they're rich and they can.

Alternate interpretations are welcome, of course.

 

[Apostate]

Two X-cross drawings I'm posting for purely esthetic reasons.

"Easy on the eyes" is not a descriptor commonly used in this kink, but there you are. Fnhsr's stuff was like this, at once erotically charged and lyrical.

The one in B&W is signed, and I don't know the artist who drew the one in color. Anybody?

 

[morten sigurdson]

Two X-cross drawings I'm posting for purely esthetic reasons.

"Easy on the eyes" is not a descriptor commonly used in this kink, but there you are. Fnhsr's stuff was like this, at once erotically charged and lyrical.

The one in B&W is signed, and I don't know the artist who drew the one in color. Anybody?

Great pics, thanks. X shape is very interesting theme.

 

[Apostate]

These manips are by Gabrilele Patri and AE, and I wouldn't mind seeing the photo from which both are adapted.

And now for the most minor quibble known to our science. Both manips seem to be set in the pre-Christian Roman Empire, and therefore it could be argued that the crucifix hanging around the neck of AE's victim is an unbelievable anachronism.

Many, myself included, would contend that WHO THE HELL CARES???

Discuss. Or don't.

 

[Deleted member jedakk]

These manips are by Gabrilele Patri and AE, and I wouldn't mind seeing the photo from which both are adapted.

The pose is quite a bit like one I did for Lucilla in The Serpent's Eye, same curl of the left toes, the feet up on the outside of the lower crossbeams. None of my renders of Lucilla show her from that angle, so I don't know. Maybe the artist was influenced by my work, and maybe he just thought up that pose all on his own.


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