#walling

“Stonewall” Bench by AATISMO,

There is a technique known as dry stone walling, in which stone walls are built without using mortar or concrete, but only by the weight of the stones and their interlocking.

Despite the ease of their construction, if the stones are stacked properly, they are extremely long-lasting. Even if they collapse due to earthquakes or heavy rains, they can be quickly repaired by local people themselves. It was a familiar technique in people’s lives at that time.

When piling tall stonewalls, iron rods called “shousen” are inserted into the gaps between the stones, and a board is passed over them to provide a temporary scaffold for piling stones even higher.

Peter + neck? You got it, anon! This takes place in my Bucky & Peter au where Peter is held captive by HYDRA.

trigger warnings: collars, walling, captivity

At the sight of the collar, Peter tries to backtrack. “No, I’ll be good!”

Maybe there’s a glimmer of sympathy in the Soldier’s eyes. Maybe not. It doesn’t matter because either way he grips Peter’s hair in that inexorable metal fist and clamps the collar around his throat.

The British have beenusing stress positions without restraints for decades. I wouldn’t describe them or any torture as ‘voluntary’.

 The most similar thingto what you’ve described is probably ‘walling’ something that was usedextensively in Ireland during the Troubles. Victims stood with their armsoutstretched facing a wall. Their finger tips touched the wall and they were standingat a slight angle so some of their weight was on their fingers, as if they werestretching out muscles in the backs of their legs.

 They were kept likethis for up to 48 hours without breaks and it was enforced by beating them ifthey moved.

 Note that’s not actually a measure of how long it’sphysically possible to hold your arms like that.

 The timing on stresspositions is usually limited to 48 hoursbecause otherwise the victims start dying. They die of kidney failure and sofar as we can tell this is triggered by damage to the muscles the torturecauses, damage that is invisible to the naked eye.

 How long someone wouldsurvive is dependent on a lot of factors: their physical fitness, age, howrecently they ate or drank before the torture began, how often they’re beatenduring torture-

 My best guess for how long someone could survive is somewhere between4-5 days. I’d but the LD50 rate (in this case a guess for the time at whichabout 50% of people would die) at around 3½-4 days. However they’d likely fall unconscious before that point.

 After 48 hours in anystress position most victims have trouble walking and using their arms. They’rephysically exhausted and in a lot of pain. They also tend to have swollen feetand ulcers or blisters caused by the pooling of fluid in their feet.

 I don’t know what aSurvivor challenge is but I’m guessing it’s one of those American TV showswhere they force people to exercise. That is unlikely to contain useful information on torture if they have doctors on hand and careabout the participant’s survival.

 As far as I’m aware theUS doesn’t actually kill people on TV.

 So- Yes it’s a possibletorture method, I think the timesomeone could physically keep doing it for is probably around 3 days and thiswould likely risk killing them.

 And if you want goodsources on stress positions and what they actually do either O’Mara’s Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscienceof Interrogation or Rejali’s Torturein Democracy would give you more information.

 I hope that helps. :)