The chipped axe blade says otherwise.
Not to mention using a pillory without any structural support to immobilize the prisoner.
That won't work well at all.
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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The chipped axe blade says otherwise.
There's nothing professional about this. A headsman doesn't execute people from a pillory at all. The criminal's hands would get in the way. You need to cut through the neck, but the pillory covers the neck. And you'd have to be extremely precise to hit the person and not the wood or metal, which might explain the chip in the axe blade.
If you insist on executing a person in a pillory, a professional would whip them to death.
Then, there's the basket. It's way too far away. The head would drop straight down and land on the ground.
No, this is a guy cosplaying as a headsman. No professional in sight.
This guy executes
Actualy, the axe is just a symbol, like a badge of office, and the punishment will actually just consist of the gentleman in the hood coming up with a diss track mocking the prisoner. The basket is there to catch the inevitable tears.
"Dude, stop roasting the poor guy, he's already dead!"
@beep@lemmus.org have the politeness to put the source, not putting is rude
Shadow of the Torturer.jpg
A troubled teen runaway cosplaying as his dead teen crush cosplaying as himself cosplaying as a travelling actor cosplaying as a professional torturer?
And the skipper too