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āYou struggle and suffer through so much my love, why do you deny compassion and affection when itās something you so sorely crave and ask to receive? Why would you destroy yourself for the happiness of others and their opinions only to say that you need to go further once youāve received it?ā
To this end the reply, āIāve dug this grave. I intend to lie in it and not hide the fact of what I did was terrible.ā
look. look at this beautiful sword meme. iām going to cry
@petermorwood
I saw and reblogged this one a while back, but itās always worth repeating, and this time Iām adding a bit of background info comparing common fantasy sword features to the Real Thing (with pictures, of course.)
Leaf-bladed swords are a very popular fantasy style and were real, though unlike modern hand-and-a-half longsword versions, the real things were mostly if not always shortswords.
Here are Celtic bronze swordsā¦
ā¦Ancient Greek Xiphoiā¦
ā¦ and a Roman āMainz-patternā gladiusā¦
Saw or downright jagged edges, either full-length or as small sections (often where they serve no discernible purpose) are a frequent part of fantasy blades, especially at the more, er, imaginatively unrestrained end of the market.
Real swords also had saw edges, such as these two 19th century shortswords, but not to make them cool or interesting. Theyāre weapons if necessaryā¦
ā¦but since they were carried by Pioneer Corps who needed them for cutting branches and other construction-type tasks, their principal use was as brush cutters and saws.
This dussack (cutlass) in the Wallace Collection is also a fighting weapon, like the one beside itā¦
ā¦but may also have had the secondary function of being a saw.
A couple of internet captions say itās for ācutting ropesā which makes sense - heavy ropes and hawsers on board a ship were so soaked with tar that they were often more like lengths of wood, and a Hollywood-style slice from the Heroās rapier (!!) wouldnāt be anything like enough to sever them. However swords like this are extremely rare, which suggests they didnāt work as well as intended for any purpose.
I photographed these in Basel, Switzerland, about 20 years ago. Look at the one on the bottom (I prefer the basket-hilt schiavona in the middle).
A lot of āflambergeā (wavy-edge) swords actually started out with conventional blades which then had the edges ground to shape - the dussack, that Basel broadsword and this Zweihander were all made that way.
The giveaway is the centreline: if itās straight, the entire blade probably started out straight.
Increased use of water power for bellows, hammers and of course grinders made shaping blades easier than when it had to be done by hand. This flamberge Zweihander, however, was forged that way.
Again, the clue is the centre-line.
Incidentally those Parierhaken (parrying hooks - a secondary crossguard) are among the only real-life examples of another common fantasy feature - hooks and spikes sticking out from the blade.
Here are some rapiers and a couple of daggers showing the same difference between forged to shape and ground to shape. The top and bottom rapiers in the first picture started as straights, and only the middle rapier came from the forge with a flamberge blade.
Thereās no doubt about this one either.
The reason - though that was a part of it - wasnāt just to look cool and show off what the owner could afford (any and all extra or unusual work added to the price) but may actually have had a function: a parry would have been juddery and unsettling for someone not used to it, and any advantage is worth having.
However, like the saw-edged dussack, flamberge blades are unusual - which suggests the advantage wasnāt that much of an advantage after all.
Hereās a Circassian kindjal, forged wigglyā¦
ā¦and an Italian parrying dagger forged straight then ground wigglyā¦
There were also parrying daggers with another fantasy-blade feature, deep notches and serrations which in fantasy versions often resemble fangs or thorns.
These more practical historical versions are usually called āsword-breakersā but I prefer āsword-catcherā, since a steel blade isnāt that easy to break. Taking the opponentās blade out of play for just long enough to nail him works fine.
NB - the curvature on the top one in this next image is AFAIK because of the book-page it was copied from, not the blade itself.
The missing tooth on that second dagger, and the crack halfway down this next oneās blade, shows what happens when design features cause weak spots.
So there you go: a quick overview of fantasy sword features in real life.
Hereās a real-life weapon that looks like it belongs in a fantasy story or film - and this doesnāt even have an odd-shaped bladeā¦
Just a very flexible oneā¦
If you want more odd blades, Moghul India is a good place to startā¦
i could not ask for a better addition to my meme post than blade education thank you so much
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Sword post
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The longer it takes for this to come across your dash the funnier it is
Iām
The fondest memories are made gathered around the table.
[Caption start]
*Speaking quickly* So before Halloween I decided to get online and try to look for some abandoned cemeteries.
So I ended up finding one but it was in the middle of the woods so I decided to just plug some coordinates and take a chance. And I found something a helluva lot scary.
As I am walking the path to find this abandoned cemetery, um... *voice getting louder* Hands! Hands! Everywhere!!
By now you're probably thinking to yourself, easyise, hands don't just crawl what are you talking about? You would be correct.
Um- SPIDERS! FUCKING SPIDERS! DRACULARACHNIDS THE SIZE OF MY FUCKING HAND!!!
So after pissing myself and driving home, uh- I came home and looked it up on the internet and found exactly what it was I saw.
*Louder voice but not quite yelling* And here it is fam! Uh people like to call 'em golden silk orb weaver *voice getting louder* but I like to call them NIGHTMARE FUEL DIPPED IN YELLOW FUCKING PAINT.
*Yelling* YOU SEE THE UNHOLY SIZE OF- THERE IS NOTHING AMAZING ABOUT THAT ON YOUR FACE!!
WHAT KIND OF ALIEN VS PREDATOR SCP SATAN SHIT-
IS THAT ONE EATING A FUCKING BIRD?!?!
THIS THING IS LIKE VOLDEMORT FUCKED A DEMAGORGON BUT SURE LET'S PUT IT ON A GREETING CARD!!!
*In a incredulous tone* SATAN DOESN'T EXIST?!?! THEN WHY WAS I MET WITH A FOREST-FUL OF THIS SHIT?
CHECKMATE ATHEISTS!
[Caption End]
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on the basketball court he does a nautical dunk
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this song slaps harder than anything iāve heard in the past decade
Me: *gives snail cucumber slice* š: munch munch Me: *literally sobbing* you ask for so little but you deserve so much
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is this Polygon Castlevania monsterfucker Zelda canon timeline read-every-book-in-Skyrim guy?
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You can reblog Saturday shorts every day of the week if youāre gay enough
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Itās a good metaphor tho, because the situation is never going to get better if you donāt eventually pull the door. And afterwards, no matter what the damage was, youāll have a working cabinet, whatever plates you could salvage, and a place to start putting new plates.
Reblogging for that comment ^
Hats off for negative jokes turned to wholesome posts
So this was me for a long time. Afraid to open the door, certain that all that I was would crash and break. That I could never be repaired.
But I opened the door.
And what fell out and crashed to the ground was not me. They werenāt my dishes.
They were other peopleās dishes.
Put inside we without my permission, when I was too young to know that I could not hold them all.
I opened the door, and Iām still here.
It turns out, Iām not that fragile.
Oh damnĀ it got better
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I feel that if I donāt repost this somewhere every year at some point, Iām living my life incorrectly.
What is even..
Some backstory. In FFXIV, for a very short spurt of time, there was a glitch where the upper body of a model would lock and freeze in place while the rest would still perform animations from other emotes and attacks. The results were pretty incredible for those that could get the lock to happen.
It was quickly hot-fixed out, but not quickly enough for the above video to get made, un/fortunately.
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Headcannon: our guardian decked our doppelgƤnger in the face after the cutscene ended
āDonāt you recognize us? We are not your friend. We are not your enemy. We are yourā¦ Salvation.ā
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Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Tweeted in support of the NFL protesters and added that JFK quote, āThose who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.ā Which. Is unfathomably woke for NASCAR
