Blessed are the cheese keepers, champions of the crust

Personal blog and occasional art blog. Indy, she/they, queer, 30s, and trapped on tumblr since 2010. I reblog a little bit of everything, but SW, Tron, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and KCD are mainstays. Currently big into The Pitt. @dustyfedora on bsky. Header by @littleskrib.

[kestalsblog]

Not every story is about seeing yourself in it. Sometimes it’s about learning to see other people too.

[doesnotloveyou]

@tearyeyedcat this was beautifully written, thank you for adding it!

[charlesoberonn]

Another excuse for me to post Head Writer of ATLA Aaron Ehasz’s great characters board:

[pagingdoctorcarter]

things that keep me up at night

[freenarnian]

You've heard of the man, the myth, the legend. Now get ready for the woman, the omen, the portent.

[thefriendlymurderer]

Jolene

[cokezerovape]

[didoofcarthage]

Automedon with the Horses of Achilles by Henri Regnault. French, 1868. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

From the MFA:

Regnault’s painting illustrates a story from Homer’s Iliad. Automedon, chariot driver for the Greek warrior Achilles, restrains the horses Xanthos (behind) and Balios, two beasts who could predict the future. As Regnault wrote, “the horses, aware that their master [Achilles] is taking them into combat, and that this combat will be the last and will cost him his life, struggle and wrest with the groom who has come to take them from their pasture. One of them, chestnut brown, rises like a great dark phantom, outlining himself against the sky. I wanted to give the picture a foretaste of disaster.”

[lezbians]

being an adult is always like i have to go to the store i have to go to the store i have to go to the store

[coffee-n-kush]

[not-this-crude-matter]

[jojo-the-dogg0]

Hi, I have questions about the knee part on armors

How ?

More precisely, is it fixed on the thigh part, if yes how, is it flexible in a way and how much can you bend your knees ? Could you flex all the leg like normal or does it restrain movement ?

Hi !!

It depends if your leg armor is fully articulated or floating.

Articulated means that the cuisse and the poleyn (knee) are linked together with rivets, the articulation comes from different interlocked iron layers, it looks like this :

And floating means that the cuisse and the knee have individual attachment, that can still be linked with leather straps :

Since floating is less restrained, it's probably more flexible, but if the articulated is well crafted it also allows plenty of room to move :)

This usually is how flexible articulated can be /!\ without chainmail or padded pants

(all of this are references for european ~14th 15th medieval armors , they change a lot depending on where and when)

Many pictures come from Age of Craft or Medieval Extreme

[funstyle]

Im always like "i will not add my two cents. i will not add my two cents" but i cant lie the pennies are getting sweaty in my hand

[da-pitt]

[punkenglishnerd]

Unpopular opinion: Being intelligent isn’t an excuse for being unkind.

[satans-classics]

Pretentious asshole is OUT! Pretentious Sweetheart is IN! Wearing dapper clothes and holding the door open for others makes you feel COOL AS H*CK! Glance up from your hefty books to give a stranger a smile!! Quote literature to inspire others! Be presumptuous in the way that you presume that everyone needs their day to be a little brighter!!!

[representationthirst]

Administration showed us this tweet on day one of grad school and boy did it hit home

[biglawbear]

“distinguished yourself by being kind” is my literal life motto at work, holy shit

[memescomedy]

[spiletta42]

This is not an exaggeration.  Your download speed would slow down to the point where Windows would make this kind of absurd estimate, and you’d sigh and leave the room for a while (because you couldn’t use the computer while it was doing this for fear it would crash and lose all your progress) and then you’d come back in 40 minutes and maybe it would now say 52 years or maybe it would say 3 minutes, who knew, not Windows.

[hymnism]

[tatters-the-bat]

Reports say Windows 15 will be "a transparent pane of glass" that will be installed into frames on a wall; Lead developer comments, "finally, we got it right. Somehow we kept making operating systems instead and it was getting really frustrating."

[worst-roommates-ever]

i think americans should have to put a banner above their post that says U.S. CENTRIC ADVICE/INFORMATION. i think political posts should clarify that they are giving protest/societal/class information relevant only to the USA i think i would like to stop getting halfway through a post with really good information and then realising it is not widespread advice and is only applicable in the united states of america

[worst-roommates-ever]

for the love of GOD can we PLEASE stop treating us-centric advice as applicable to the whole entire world. Please. beyond anything else, i do not think you guys understand how difficult it makes it for young people to interact with and learn information relevant to them.

at a certain point, treating us-american advice as universally applicable borders on misinformation. i am not saying that it is done maliciously, but it is dangerous at worst. i do not want younger people going around assuming that certain laws do/do not apply to them and getting in trouble because of it. i worry about what 'fundamental/constitutional/labour rights' are only legally defensible in the USA. i worry about kids who do not know yet to wonder where the advice is for, and take it as fact because a post that reads "EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS" begins with "EVERYONE".

[worst-roommates-ever]

okay yes all the tags are very very good points but i would like to point out the main reason i made this post, which is that

if you are non-american then it can be dangerous to hold beliefs about your rights that are only applicable in the US.

i am australian and i have seen young australians have completely us-american perceptions on the rights they hold (or do not hold) in regards to protest, police officers, self-defense, medical care, higher education, debt, and legal proceedings. i am not talking about "boooo americans" i am talking about the genuine danger it might present to have us-centric assumptions in high-stakes situations

(please do not chalk this up to 'if you don't do research then you are stupid'. i made this post with young people in mind. that being said i am willing to bet it also applies to others, ie those who are newer to non-local internet, older folks, or those escaping high-control environments.)

[basiate-culam-meam]

Finally replaced the blender that broke last year, but I picked a "fun" colour, so it's specifically marketed to families with young children to encourage them to join in on making food. The box art has dinos and plants all over it.

So I got a new blender and a dinosaur sticker sheet. Winning.

[paper-wounds]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.