1000cavalry

I am into Greek mythology and classics as well as fiction podcasts such as tsv and tma. I will post my writing ideas and occasional art.

[1000cavalry]

[spiltm3lk]

I started reading the book a while back and I’m about halfway through now so I thought I’d share some doodles I made! Love book!thorin what a diva that guy, I have more doodles to share but I initially did them in my sketchbook so once I’m done digitizing them I will post them here. Also fili and kili are both blonde?? That was interesting to find out so here is my like film x book mashup designs ig (except bilbo he’s perfect the way he is)

[penny-anna]

Bilbo was declared dead while he was away in the Hobbit (and had to do a bunch of paperwork to get declared alive again) but there’s no indication he was formally declared dead after leaving the Shire, even though most people assumed he had died.

Therefore I posit: having a missing person declared dead in the Shire requires the consent of their next of kin. Whoever Bilbo’s next of kin was at the time of the Hobbit (possibly Otho? I’m not sure) had him declared dead at the first opportunity but Frodo refused to ever do it.

Frodo had anxious hobbit bureaucrats knocking on his door every couple of years like ‘Mr Baggins… blease… it’s been 10 years… he was eleventy-one… can we fill out his death certificate yet’ and Frodo was like ‘absolutely not’.

Early on he genuinely couldn’t bring himself too but after a while it was more that he enjoyed irritating the local magistrate’s office than anything else.

[61below]

I raise you: the hobbitish bureaucracy has no means to re-declare someone dead. They had no precedent to declare someone who was once-dead dead again. They would need the Thain, the Mayor, and the Master of Buckland to agree to changing the statute, and since the Thain and the Master are too amused by the whole henclucking that they haven’t gotten round to it just yet.

[telltalelily]

I’m upping the stakes with: last time Bilbo was declared dead when he was, in fact, not dead, they removed the law stating that you can have someone declared dead without a body, so when Bilbo left (happily aware of this legal loophole and snickering) he could never become legally dead again.

[penny-anna]

I am loving the implication here that Bilbo can literally never die in the eyes of the law. He’d love that.

[apathetic-revenant]

a hobbit parent telling their kids the story of Mad Baggins and being like “thanks to a loophole in hobbit law he’s technically still alive today”

a hobbit child misinterprets this and lies awake at night worrying that Mad Baggins is still out there and will appear in their room without warning 

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Alternatively: the laws for declaring somebody dead if they’re missing for long enough are still in place, but the magistrates are just refusing to enforce them in this particular case.

After all, last time they declared Bilbo Baggins dead— which involved filling out all the paperwork necessary to declare somebody dead without a body— he had the rudeness to show up again, forcing them to do a lot more paperwork, and this time with an indignant Bilbo having a go at them while they did it.

As a result, the magistrates have decided that they’re not going to declare Bilbo Baggins dead a second time unless they have a body, a coroners report explaining the cause of death, and a three day wake to make sure that he doesn’t get up and walk away again.

Centuries later, hobbit parents tell their children that Mad Baggins is forever gone from the shire— at least until the day when somebody is stupid enough to declare him legally dead, at which point legend states that he will immediately come marching back, demanding an explanation.

[mcgregorswench]

[derangedyharnamite]

Technically speaking, Bilbo Baggins could very much still be alive. He left with the elves to their ageless land in order to die somewhere peaceful, but we don’t know if the immortality of the elves’ homeland covers just elves or all inhabitants. This means, theoretically, there is a chance that The Mad Baggins is waiting in his idyllic retirement home TO THIS DAY for the day to come that The Shire declares him legally dead, so that he may leave the lands as the Elves once did, in order to return to The Shire and show up, indignant that they claim him to be dead without a body the second time. Surely, Frodo would have told the tale of Bilbo’s holiday to the people of The Shire upon his return home, and the Hobbits, already burned once before by The Mad Baggins, while they would be hesitant to believe in tales of immortal lands hidden to all but elves, would nonetheless be unable to confirm that he ISN’T still alive out there beyond the horizon, and thus no lawmaker of The Shire or even all Hobbitkind would be able to confirm that Bilbo is Dead. For surely, if there’s even a chance he isn’t, he would absolutely come home to dispute it with all the anger of a Hobbit scorned twice.

[sodawizardo]

How about we all stop talking for a little while

[kosmicpowers]

England isn't a real country, stupid. England is a lie to sell you more Doctor Who

[1000cavalry]

England isn’t real (thank god). It’s actually South Scotland people are thinking of when they look at ‘England’.

And of course Doctor who is actually Welsh, so the existence, or lack thereof, of England is irrelevant.

Doctor who does perpetuate the lie of England. When Rose says the Doctor ‘sounds like he’s from the North’ she should actually be saying he has a Scottish Midlands accent.

[aaaaaaatournament]

round one

Toph Beifong

Yor Briar

Sister Carpenter

Walter "Walt" Pensive

Inej Ghafa

Remaining time: 3 days 14 hours

Inej Ghafa

From Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Various headcanons including asexual, aromantic, demisexual, demiromantic, caedsexual, various other places on both spectra, and agender

Toph Beifong 

From Avatar: The Last Airbender

Various aspec headcanons

Doesn't have any major explicit romantic relationships during the show's run and when she appears again in the sequel series The Legend of Korra, it's revealed that Toph had two daughters from two fathers and was never particularly interested in settling down with either of them, preferring to live on her own. Her main outfit is also green, white, and yellow, the colors of the alloaro flag. 

Walter “Walt” Pensive

From Hello From The Hallowoods

Canonically asexual

[Image Description: white text on dark blue.

“What about you, Walt?” She asked. “You got a wife or kids or anything?”

“Nah,” Walt said. The topic made him uncomfortable, but he felt more better talking with Riot than with the parents of five at the Scoutpost. “Never had the interest in having kids. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to meet a lady one of these days - but, uh, can’t do the honeymoon stuff. Never wanted to, never will. Didn’t know what to call that until I met Violet. She says I might be… ah-sexual? I think.”]

Sister Carpenter

From The Silt Verses

Canonically aspec, generally accepted as aroace

[Image Description: black text on white. I think I told him, “Thanks.”

I probably could’ve said, ‘I know that I’m smart. I know I’m all of these things and more. What does that have to do with you, or you and I?’ 

I could have made it extremely clear that I had known in my heart, since adolescence and self-awareness came bearing down upon me like a flood, that I didn’t want the same things he wanted, and that if I was certain of any part of myself, I could say right now that I never would want them. 

But I wasn’t certain about myself back then, and I still believed there must be something wrong with me, and even if I had been confident or articulate enough to explain who I was, what I did and didn’t want from other people…

…I still don’t think I owed him that.]

Yor Briar

From Spy x Family

Headcanoned as aroace

[1000cavalry]

I love Toph but please, please let Carpenter beat her!

Her chapter 4 monologue about Aromantacism (/being aspec) fully altered my brain chemistry.

The line “I know I’m smart, I know I’m all those things and more. What does that have to do with you?” lives rent free in my brain.

Also, in the same episode, she goes on to burn down a church while standing on the roof and laughing like a madwoman: “Tell me the name of your god, Charity, I want to know who’s house I’ve wrecked!”

So she’s a certified badass as well. (If that helps convince anyone)

In general, I would heavily recommend the Silt verses as an Aromantic podcast. Though Carpenter is the only canonically Aromantic character the whole podcast is very Aromantic.

There is not a single significant romantic relationship in the whole main cast. Most of them could be head-cannoned as Arospec, particularly Hayward, Paige (and later Val). A lot of them have strong Aro theming.

[katerinaaqu]

If I were to make an Odyssey series of 2D animation THIS would be the opening titles song 😭😭😭!

I mean holy moly the sounds and the epic and awfully depressing sound?! Or the lyrics "I'm lost at sea without a friend, this journey will it ever end?" is sooooo Odysseus in the middle of the sea as he is grasping for dear life at the remains of his ship!!!! 😭😭😭 The depressing music but with some hope hidden in there?! I cry every time and the way this UNDERRATED movie starts would be how I would do it honest!

The watercolor images would be SO how I imagined an Odyssey to begin! Showing us shadowy watercolor images of the travels of Odysseus of some kind Like we have the ship of Odysseus or the ships before they got destroyed just like the bottle with the message is in this movie! That ship being consumed by storms or the fleet being sunken by rocks, or Skylla and Charybdis and waves and thunders ⛈️ gosh I have chills! And of course the ship and such are like shadowy figures as if it is from a book or something. Possibly coming back to Penelope and her looming having the laughing suitors as a background!

[1000cavalry]

I’ve never watched this film before, but you are so right! A similar artstyle/ soundtrack would really suit the odyssey.

I can visualise the part at the end of the opening title sequence where it says “rescue me” fading between shots of Penelope at her loom and Odysseus on the beach at Ogygia. Then, as it fades to instrumentals, it could go to Athene as she is about to speak to Zeus, showing that she will help rescue them both.

Honestly the first thing I would do if I were really rich would be to commission an animation studio to do a series of the odyssey.

Somehow, despite being one of the most famous stories in the world, the Odyssey is still seriously underrated.

[1000cavalry]

Herbstgold- Maximilian Lenz

Omg this landscape looks so dreamy! The way the leaves glow looks like a blaze of fire, especially with the darker foliage behind like smoke.

Honestly I feel so jealous of the girls in the painting. I’d love to go frolicking there.

[sassylich]

do you care to weigh in on the light up sketchers debate

there's a light up sketchers debate???

[pinkelotjeart]

Okay so, this is going to be allot of screenshots. Short version: Jon Ware got an ask about light up crocs and everything devolved from there

Jon then canonised the light up crocs only to decanonise all shoes. (My favourite part is the tags “good work Jon, that should put a firm end on all of the silliness.” )

Then this dreaded ask was asked (I was held at gun point to send this, please trust me.) and when we ignore the everything that is happening here. Jon DID canonise the fact Faulkners light up crocs have wheels.

And so uh yeah, it’s kinda a joke among some fans now

[sassylich]

alright this is clearly a very serious shoe-based debate and i must draft an Official Statement

light up shoes are reserved for members of the parish that have earned them. they're given out with the wreath of kelp at the drowned man's hearing, or--in special cases--loaned out for official pilgrimages like bowling shoes

he only gets them when he gets his fancy robes, he just forgot to mention them in the monologues because frankly he had a lot going on

[thesiltverses]

B is absolutely right and all of this is canon.

Or it would be, if shoes exist.

And of course, they don't.

[pinkelotjeart]

It’s finally done:,)

[1000cavalry]

TSV season 3 spoilers:

[1000cavalry]

Spoilers for silt verses season 3 (chapter 43) under cut:

We will give birth to terrors we cannot control, to give ourselves an advantage against the competition in our own petty squabbles for supremacy, and we’ll spend great fortunes on finding ways to make our atrocities sound pretty and sustainable and safe.

And when you try to tell us this, we will reply that you’ve been duped by undergraduate simplicity, you’re being unreasonable and you’re being naive - because it’s childish stuff to blame us for the horrors before your own eyes, and the world is really a more complicated place than you’ve painted it.

This part of Shrue’s speech was visceral. I could feel my chest tighten in anger listening to it.

[sketchysketchin]

Thorin, slightly re-yassified to my imaginings

[frankensteinsmonst3r]

Time traveling fic Bilbo: It’s Thorin! The dwarf I loved, the dwarf that died in my arms, the dwarf I will save-

Thorin: Grocer

Bilbo: The dwarf that I forgot was an asshole

[1000cavalry]

[yetanotherknitter]

ANYWAY you cannot convince me that the air nomads didn’t have any sort of trade good based on the flying bison and aang just didn’t have the time or safety to make and sell any of these while trying to stop ozai. they probably did so much spinning just because drop spindles are super transportable, it’s something to do while flying long distances, there’s always a weaver somewhere willing to buy yarn, and there’s always, always large amounts of shed fur just. around. look at how much came off of appa that one episode. so much fur

so three things happen the summer after ozai is defeated and appa starts shedding in earnest again

aang starts spinning and selling yarn because that’s What You Do and he’s clinging REAL HARD to every possible air nomad tradition because, well, who else will remember these things?

toph hears about this and scruffs him before he can sell too much because she’s a merchants daughter and holy shit aang do you understand what you’re selling?? yarn from the last known sky bison! the avatar’s own spirit guide!! spun by the avatars own hand!!!! what are you doing aang!!!!!! she has to drag katara in at this point because aang is real unhappy with the idea that his normal flying bison yarn of, uh, questionable quality is being sold to exclusive high class weavers so they can make shawls for filthy rich nobles for baaaaaank just on the basis of his name. this isn’t how the monks did it :/ and he doesn’t WANT a lot of money anyway! he’s a monk!! he only asks for what he needs to survive!! anyway katara manages to talk toph around to donating most of the money to reconstruction efforts, charities, and orphanages and convinces aang that having an emergency fund is a good thing and he should keep something. aang accidentally ends up with a reasonably full bank account and is really confused about how that happened, why it’s there, and what he’s supposed to do with it

there is a real weird period of time where it’s In Fashion for high noble ladies to have shawls and scarves dyed the same color as aangs clothes (because that’s how you know it’s made with special avatar yarn!) or have images of appa woven into them (can you imagine a shawl that’s just a full length body shot of appa?? amazing) and all the earth kingdom nobility are just rocking green and orange like nbd. weaving decorative shawls with slubby yarn becomes really in fashion, too, because aang is not great at spinning. he’s 13 and it’s boring, ok?

BONUS sokka is just. so mad. you could have been making bank with appa the whole time we were scrambling around the planet aang? do you realize how much more food we could have had? how many more hot baths?? how could you betray me like this

(probably the air nomads also did a lot of weaving but it was mostly the pregnant nuns and the really old nomads so it’s a little off aangs radar. and does aang eat cheese? it never comes up in series but I would also believe that the nomads made a lot of air bison cheese and bison butter tea)

[theflashisgone]

headcanon accepted re: sky bison products

[dedicatedfollower467]

you said SPINNING on a DROP SPINDLE and i instantly went YES. OH GOD YES.

i bet sky bison yarn is really strong but probably not super soft - we see in the show that the fibers are really long, which lends itself well to strong yarns that can stand up to a lot of wear and tear (silk yarn is INCREDIBLE when it comes to being hard-wearing, and that’s mostly because silk is basically an INFINITELY LONG FIBER). But because it’s so long and comes from such a large animal, it’s probably really coarse and thick.

I’m imagining most of those high-class ladies would be wearing at least one layer underneath their shawls, because bison yarn is probably pretty itchy if you’re used to high quality wool, silk, or fine linen. Especially bison yarn spun by a 13yo who doesn’t really like spinning.

unless of course the air nomads bred their bison specifically for soft fur, but generally when you’re breeding for stuff like that, you need different breeds for different purposes. appa’s pretty clearly a long-distance riding bison, which would probably have been a different breed than whichever ones would have been bred for soft fur. most species of domesticated animal that are dual+ purpose (i.e. meat/milk/wool/transportation) have breeds that can only do one or two of those well, and the others not as great.

the air nomads obviously would not have been breeding for meat, because vegetarians. For long distance travel and a nomadic lifestyle I bet they would have wanted a travel/milk dual purpose breed, but because they can regulate their body temperature with airbending, soft warm yarn might not have been a high priority for that breed.

which is a lot of words to say “appa-fur yarn is ITCHY”

[theflashisgone]

My impression is that the sky bisons aren’t actually domesticated, so much as semi-sentient and choosing to partner with the air nomads, so I don’t think they’d be bred for anything, much less soft hair.

I actually headcanon spinning as something air nomad kids would be taught to do from a young age to burn off energy and stress and make it easier for them to learn to meditate, so I think Aang would probably be decent at making yarn that’s evenly spun, but probably wouldn’t have the experience to make super fine thread.

[yetanotherknitter]

I would assume that appa has a double layer coat like most high altitude herd animals, so even without selective breeding the insulating inner layer would probably be suuuper soft. just look up qiviut for an idea of how soft and expensive muskox fur can get, and the skeins of bison fur yarn I have aren’t noticeably different from something like alpaca. assuming that appa sheds a proportionate amount of undercoat to muskox or bison (up to seven pounds a year) there is going to be a LOT of snuggly undercoat to turn into snuggly Soft Things

and I’ve seen a couple people say that aang would probably have learned spinning pretty young and be fairly competent at it, and I agree! I def meant the questionable yarn quality to be a statement on his attention span and post-war schedule, not skill (I don’t really know how to spin so idk if constantly starting and stopping and not paying any attention anyway would effect the consistency any? it just Felt Right)

[dedicatedfollower467]

I’ve never spun anything like qiviut - the most exotic thing I’ve spun is alpaca, unless folks think silk is more exotic - so I didn’t think about the double coat! Don’t they usually need special treatment to separate the topcoat from the undercoat, tho? I wouldn’t be surprised if Aang either didn’t know or wasn’t very good at separating from them.

I *do* spin on a drop spindle, tho, and the biggest problem with stopping and starting often is keeping the single the same width, but you have the same problem stopping and starting ANY kind of spinning project. In some ways, a drop spindle makes it easier to control that than a regular spinning wheel - you have a lot more control over the fiber and the yarn you’re spinning, so you can be more precise. My drop spindle yarns tend to be very regular and compact, while my spinning wheel yarns are more varied and lofty.

However, now I’m picturing the moment when you spin your single a little too thin, and the drop spindle lives up to its name - from hundreds or even thousands of feet in the air! Plummetting off the side of the air bison, with the older nomads scrambling to catch it…

[comfortabletextiles]

I can totally imagine that the air nomads hat special spindles with gliders (like his stick where he glides with) to spin with airbending as a practice for beginner benders, or in a similar stile as the hand spinning wheels from India, but for air nomads!

And wouldn’t the process from start to finish be a good lesson in great fullness? Like how long it takes from baby bison to clothes

Maby even a live milestone. From first bison who chosen you to your first own robe/Stola??

[greendragonqueen]

It could even be that the Air Nomad’s robes were MADE out of sky bison fur, if the under coat was a) incredibly soft (I bet they’d wear the over coat too just because they didn’t really care about worldly possessions and comfortability) and b) their only farm animal was the sky bison. That’s what the Air Nomad’s wear, is Sky bison wool clothes.

Also, to the person who said Sky Bisons would only shed about seven pounds a year, I would like to counter that idea with the fact that Appa is GARGANTUAN. He has enough room on his saddle to carry literally six or seven children and their equipment on his back without much complaint, of which these children are not too much smaller than adults. An ox or an Alpaca or a normal Bison are tiny compared to Appa.

Appa’d have a metric butt ton of under fur on his body. I’d say about twenty to thirty pounds of under fur, with more on top, at the very least.

[yetanotherknitter]

ok so I didn’t know that supported spindles existed and YES, very much yes to those. I love that.

I was actually trying to say that if muskox shed seven pounds we could use that to extrapolate how much appa shed if he shed proportionate to his size, not that appa would only shed seven pounds

ok, adhd rabbit hole time because I just looked up the average size of muskoxen and the approximate size of appa and, uh. apparently muskoxen are 900lbs full grown and appa is ten tons. over TWENTY TIMES THE SIZE OF A MUSKOX. obvs that’s doesn’t actually tell us anything about appas actual height and length but that’s the only solid number the show gives us and thirty pounds of underfur is starting to seem pretty conservative. it might be closer to 120lbs???

which is a weird way to say that I bet the air nomads had lots of crazy air powered spinning contraptions (and I’m still assuming that anything they had that wasn’t easily transportable was dealt with by pregnant nuns and aang wasn’t really introduced to it yet) and they just churned out textiles. literally everything fabric the nomads used was probably bison fur in some way because there was just. so. much. fur.

[rwoh]

Textiles Tumblr coming in clutch to build the air nomad trade empire

[your-mom-friend]

The

[haveievermentioned]

@joaniam

[delicatefury]

Good, someone mentioned the undercoat. I was going to say that most animals who shed seasonally do so because of their undercoat, which is indeed infinitely softer than the overcoat. (Case in point, sister’s German Shepherd has a super coarse overcoat, but her undercoat that comes out when she’s brushed with the de-shedder is fluffy and soft as can be. The birds love it.)

Which works well for spinning and weaving because you’ve got time to turn that thick winter fur into cloth before it gets cold and vice-versa with the lighter summer coat.

[ljf613]

@atlaculture

[atlaculture]

@ljf613 I did not know how much I needed Air Nomad fiber discourse in my life till now, thank you. Here’s some information about Tibetan weaving, if anyone is interested:

An Overview of Tibetan Weaving

Tibetan Rugs - Wikipedia

According to the first article, there are five types of traditional Tibetan wool-based fabrics that vary in coarseness. Tibetan rugs are special in that they are created using knotting techniques unique to the Tibetan culture, distinct from the surrounding Indian and Chinese rug-making traditions.

This reminds me, I still need to get around to constructing Air Nomad cuisine one of these days…

[atlaculture]

To all my followers that weave, what are your thoughts on this Tibetan rug-making video?

[heflapper]

I bet monks on the go could also probably have used some sort of backstrap loom with the other end anchored to the saddle. We know those things are pretty sturdy.

[eliounora]

merthur but they were girls together