clown thoughts

Multi-fandom Mainblog [CURRENTLY INTO: P1Harmony, Thunderbolts and Chibidoki, oh and IWTV of course!]

[splrinky]

holy shit

[boy-reporter]

The biggest mood in the universe.

[arlin-potato2]

Much needed rest

[quemirabobo]

Some were drawing yaoi on churches or sculpting the hottest Lucifer but point still stands

[rylandsgrace]

First look at The Vampire Lestat (2026)

[simoneashley]

First look at Louis de Pointe du Lac in Interview With the Vampire Season 3

[1300marshall]

he’s asking for more cuddles

[some-pers0n]

I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. "Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don't you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It's so mid and bad you should listen to real music–" you are a pit of misery

[some-pers0n]

People can't just say "I don't like this music" anymore they gotta call you gay and autistic for listening to a band that had one song go viral

[melynnwaters]

just gonna drop this here

[amatterofcomplication]

[martinze-nn]

i will be your shadow, i will follow you, never let you go

[runfreebirdrun]

Halloween 1976

[gravegospel]

hey give birds antlers

[hideki16seiyuu]

But what if they get stuck in the trees

[gravegospel]

alright but they could also use it as camouflage and blend in with the tree

[trans-doll]

What if they landed on each other’s antlers

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

stack em

[pwapboi-deactivated20200412]

@wishem

[wishem]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i keep presenting you with cursed concepts and you keep drawing them in friendly, pleasant ways, this is blasphemy 

[tyrrellius-blog]

Imagine if you picked one up from its antlers, like some birb-on-a-stick

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Utterly fantastic

[liquidlikecats]

Birds with antlers you say? Have a class doodle

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the ones on top are its babies

[petermorwood]

Here’s some art by Munwie on Deviantart:

Meanwhile, this is an obvious reason why Viking helmets didn’t have horns.

Going into battle wearing handlebars for the opponent to play with is a Bad Idea. That didn’t stop other cultures (Indo-Persian, Japanese) from doing so, but Vikings? NO.

The origin of the Nordic Horned Helmet is actually known: they first appeared in C.E. Doepler’s costume designs for Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” operas.

In 1876.

Incidentally, calling mail armour “chain-mail” first happened in the novel “The Fortunes of Nigel” by Sir Walter Scott.

In 1822.

Something similar has happened with the word “longsword”, which only came into general HEMA use for what had previously been “hand-and-a-half” or “bastard” swords about 20 years ago; even then the first time I saw it (in “Medieval Swordsmanship” © 1998 by John Clements) it was two words with a hyphen: “long-sword”.

As a single word it’s been part of the fantasy fiction arsenal since the mid-1970s, for example in C.J. Cherryh’s “Gate of Ivrel” © 1977, I used it in “The Horse Lord” © 1983, and I’m sure a search through very early D&D manual could place it even earlier.

Longsword is certainly a handier term than the alternatives, but IIRC even “hand-and-a-half sword” is no older than Victorian. In the Middle Ages a sword was usually just “a sword”; it was very inconsiderate of them not to think of later generations who might like to label things with a bit more exactitude…

Not all Munwie’s Deviantart birds are corvids, and not all are sinister…

…though you might have second thoughts about that if you know anything about the lifestyle of the European Robin.

They’re ferociously territorial, their usual song translates as “Get Off My Lawn Or I Will Kill You With Death”, and we’re grateful the two pairs in our garden are the size they are and not as big as e.g. tyrannosaur turkeys.

Which having written it is a mental image I really didn’t need…

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

LONGSWORDS ARE CALLED BASTARD SWORDS PASS IT ON

[a-dumb-bitch-apparently]

@serialreblogger

[serialreblogger]

this post has EVERYTHING

[gallusrostromegalus]

I have a personal theory about the Costume Horned Helmets:

Exhibit A:  Mead Horn

Ehbit B: Beer Hat

[69shadesofgray]

[dr-i-have-beards]

Obligatory Halloween reblog.

[postalignments]

This post is chaotic good.

[too-many-rooks]

Classic family dinner stuff.

[cakebatteronabrickwall]

if you exchanged vinnie from brassic and river cartwright you'd get the exact same outcomes, only that vinnie has way better comebacks

[shirleydanders]

Can’t wait for Emily in Paris except it’s not Emily it’s River and he’s really sad and confused the whole time

[cecepe]

Slow Horses reminds me that I want to be a badass woman who voices her opinion

[cartwrong]

Watching Slow Horses is really just saying oh River, over and over in different ways.