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pastel trash bandit

[uwurraca-deactivated20240207]

If Spamton was supposed to look like this

but now loolks like this

MAYBE it has something to do with this…

[uwurraca-deactivated20240207]

He didn’t wear those glasses before as you can see in this old poster of him!

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[aplpaca]

kinda funny when english teachers say stuff like “i can tell if you didnt read the book” or “i can tell when people bs their paper”

no you cant.  you can tell when people are bad at bs-ing their paper.  i didnt even read the sparknotes and i barely skimmed the wikipedia and you gave me an A.  you kneel before my throne unaware that it was born of lies

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World Heritage Post

[fearthefuzzybear]

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[notajerusalemcricketd-deactivat]

That's pointing to the left

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[yukapiruka]

A tender feeling 📸

[yukapiruka]

A tender feeling 📸

[armthearmour]

Were hunting swords used for anything other than hunting? Or were they so specialized as not tonbe useful elsewhere?

This is one of those things where context is very important. The specialized hunting sword is pretty much an 18th century thing.

They are very much geared towards being used on the hunt, but of course, they’re still swords, they’re still useful as a weapon.

Many do lack any meaningful guard, and some do have grips that are…

well, impractical to say the least. But again, the context here is important. Much of 18th century Europe had a strong dueling culture, and most of these duels we’re conducted with Smallswords.

Any man rich enough to have a fancy sword for going on hunts will probably carry with him a Smallsword as his weapon of self defense, so it’s not that the hunting sword isn’t useful as a weapon, but rather the hunting sword isn’t really the right sword for fighting given the context of the times.

[qsy-complains-a-lot]

This begs the question, can you do anything with that grip you showed above ?

[armthearmour]

You can delicately draw the sword from it’s scabbard, and daintily deliver the coup-de-grâce on the already half dead animal lying motionless on the ground.

Or you can just look fancy.

[victoriansword]

Hunting swords were sometimes used as officer’s sidearms during the American Revolution. Here is Ethan Allen’s sword, which is located at the Fort Ticonderoga Museum:

(source)

[qsy-complains-a-lot]

Wouldn’t that qualify as a hanger ?

[victoriansword]

The lines between a hunting sword and a hanger are blurry. It could be considered either. 

[themoosebaruniverse]

Just gonna say, if you zoom in on the plaque

It literally says hanger

[armthearmour]

Terminology is a weird thing. First off, musea don’t always label objects correctly, I’ve seen many mislabeled objects in museum catalogues.

But also, I think hunting swords are usually hangers. If you just define a hanger as a short, curved, one handed sword, then many hunting swords fit that description,

but not all.

To me, what makes a hunting sword is the intent. A weapon made for taking on the hunt to dispatch wounded prey is a hunting sword. In an 18th century context, these are often hanger, and usually have motifs of dogs or other animals, and of hunting on them, so it’s pretty easy to say, “ah yes, this is clearly a sword made for hunting.”

Based on that definition, I wouldn’t call Ethan Allen’s sword a hunting sword, but of course that’s just a personal definition, and other people are likely to have different meanings for the term.

[short-swords]

Two things to add here:

The term “hanger” is a 17th c. (I think) English word that refers to any short sword (often but not always single-edged) that quite literally hangs from a baldric or frog. It is a general description, not necessarily a separate type of sword. Many different kinds of sword – hunting swords, cuttoes, cutlasses, even dussacks – could also be worn and accurately described as hangers.

And there is also the hunting knife of the 16th-17th c., which we can see as a kind of predecessor to the more elaborate 18th century hunting swords. These are usually in a set with at least one smaller by-knife and fork (together called a hunting “trousse”). Although these could become very elaborate, they were generally a more service-oriented tool for the hunt, not only to deliver a coup-de-grace to a wounded animal, but also to cut away underbrush.

Hunting Trousse ca. 1609, Germany @ The Art Institute of Chicago

[qsy-complains-a-lot]

So wait that choppy knife in hunting trousses are used like machetes ?

[short-swords]

Not primarily, and to clarify, the set above would likely not be used to deliver a killing blow, but to dress an animal in the field, meaning that you also wouldn’t want to go wacking the edge on lots of heavy brush beforehand. But of course, one imagines that in the actual circumstances of the hunt and tracking of wounded prey, you might need to use your big knife to wack a sapling or two. And the hunting knife/trousse set isn’t necessarily replaced by the longer hunting hanger of the 18th century – they continue to coexist, with some examples of 18th c. hunting hangers with thick sawtooth blades suggesting a more specific use for clearing brush.

[short-swords]

Apparently I’m avoiding doing my actual work today, because I just went and found this at the Royal Armories, which they describe as a “Forester’s Sword” from Germany, dating to 1600, with an OAL of 38 inches, saw-backed blade of 30 inches, and which could be described in different places in England and Europe, at different times between 1600-1800, as any of these things or any combination: a messer, a forester’s sword, a hunting sword, and a hanger, and could be practically used for any number of purposes, including killing game, sawing tree limbs and brush, and/or messing up a guy.

And I really want it.

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[psychictoastmaker]

People in the comments being all bitter. As if the arts aren’t out here giving you a reprieve from all the shit y'all go through. As if the arts aren’t out here making sure you live a little bit instead of just surviving.

[miranova23]

[pinkpiggy93]

I’m reblogging this cuz, same. As an artist i confirm even without turbulents, this ux my purpose of existence

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[whothebuckisfuckybruh-deactivat]

me realizing my experiences with sewing have been a lie this whole goddamn time:

[fuzipenguin]

I don’t know about human surgeons, but that’s a suture pattern I use to close skin all the time and you can see why.

[foreverabrokenfighter]

The slip stitch (or invisible stitch) was created to hide seams and later used by surgeons.

My cousin is a surgeon and was sewing something and used that stitch and then froze and said “Wait this isn’t a person.”

Grandma said “We used it first keep going.”

[saddest-cat-hours]

[thecollectibles]

Forest God part 1 by Oleg Vdovenko

[thecollectibles]

Forest God part 1 by Oleg Vdovenko

[stilllifequickheart]

Giovanna Garzoni

A Bitch

1648

[avant-sad]

um, rude? let her enjoy her snack in peace

[brandsilva]

[brandsilva]

FE por. Brand Silva

[jackanim]

ASTRO BOY

https://www.instagram.com/jack_anim/

[morganoperandi]

I’m a cis-gender man which basically means that, when I was born, the doctor went “It’s a boy!” and when I was old enough to understand I agreed with him.

The thing is, I don’t know why I feel like a man.  I was teased and bullied for it a lot when I was little.  I’ve never had stereotypically American male interests.  I never cared about sports or cars or guns.  I was more interested in music and cooking and the arts.  I’ve always been emotionally in tune and sensitive, even when I did my best to suppress my emotions to survive a childhood of abuse from other children.

It’s not physical either.  I don’t feel like a man because I have a penis or a beard.  If you put my brain in a robot body or any other body, my essence would still feel male (I assume).  I literally can’t imagine what being any other gender would feel like, since I feel so acutely male.

I think that’s why the concept of being transgender always made sense to me.  I’m a man.  I don’t have any bloody clue why I feel like a man, but I don’t feel that it’s tied to my body or my interests or the way that I’ve been treated.  I feel like a man because of something beyond that.  Something ephemeral.  So, why couldn’t others feel the same?  Why couldn’t a person who’s been misidentified as a girl feel like a boy for the exact same nebulous reasons that I do?

And, since gender really doesn’t make any sense to me anyway, why couldn’t there also be people who feel as if they don’t have one?  Or who flow across genders like a ship on a map?

Are there people out there whose sense of their own gender is inseparable from their physical form?  If you put those people into robot bodies or, simply, other physically different bodies, would their gender identity also swap?  If so, why?  Are they actually more lost in their gender identity than I am and they need to hone in on the physical in order to anchor themselves?

Why do people feel like they are the gender that they are?

[sir-renaissance]

This is very soul filling to read. Thank you

[5typesoftrash]

My grandfather, who had a difficult time coming to terms with it when I came out, has been working very hard to understand me and my experience. About 5 weeks ago, he asked me, almost offhand, “why are you so sure that you’re a man?”

And I replied, “well, I could ask you the same thing.” And I moved on, continued, tried to explain why I feel the way that I do, but I don’t think he heard any of those things that I said afterward. 

Because six days later, we talked about it again, and this is what he told me: 

“I couldn’t stop thinking about what you said last week. Because all my life I identified it as ‘these are the parts that I have, and so I am a man’. But you’re living proof that gender is not limited to what is attached to your body, so I asked myself, why am I a man? And all I can say is ‘because I have no idea what it feels like to be anything else’. I cannot imagine what it’s like to be a woman. Or neither, or both, or any other gender. I have always been a man.”

And I replied, “that’s exactly what it feels like for me.”

So, shoutout to my cisgender grandfather, for stumbling upon the essence of being trans accidentally, with very little help from me. I love you, grandpa.

[the-cimmerians]

watching cis folks suddenly and comprehensively grasp the inessential nature of gender is always a joy

[tyleroakley]

#2006vs2016: some things never change

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I thought translating it would clear things up but I’m more confused than ever before.  

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*touches soil* something awful happened here