Bayleaf

Bayleigh/Rowan | freelance artist | She/They | Trans lesbian 🏳️‍⚧️

[iceghosto]

Today’s fit 💙🖤🐺

[iceghosto]

Feeling good about myself today 💙💙🐺

[apricops]

that post about “you get bandits when you cut soldiers loose without pay” reminds me of the Thirty Years War, because one could say that beneath all the religious schisms and diplomatic jockeying, the heart of the thirty years war was “what happens when you have a state with just enough capacity to raise massive armies but without enough financial capacity to actually pay those armies” and the answer is that the line between professional armies and roving gangs of bandits disappears and every time you try to raise an army it just becomes another independently acting wildfire devouring the countryside. No matter how bad things get, every day I wake up and thank my lucky stars that I do not live in 17th century Europe. Or 17th century China. Or the 17th century Americas. Or basically anywhere in the 17th century.

[probabilitydirigible]

One of my favorite little anecdotes about ancient mercenaries is that it was tradition for most of history to give your mercenaries two wages- "Bread" and "Gravy." Both were set at a daily value, but where "Bread" was intended to cover regular maintenance and life stuff and therefore paid out frequently (Here's your week's meal and gear repair budget!) the "Gravy" wage was paid out exclusively at the end of the contract as one lump sum. So like, your gravy wage and bread wage might be one silver coin per day each, so you're getting a handful of coins every week to cover food, and then at the end of an 800 day campaign, you get a wheelbarrow with 800 coins.

Employers liked offering this structure because then they didn't have to like, try to guess how long the invasion of spain will take and then carry 800 coins per soldier around the battlefield where it could be captured. It also gives them the chance to budget around the assumption that they take an enemy city and *find* vast sums of treasure even if they don't have the full value at the beginning of the war.

The main flaw of this system is that it's very easy to end up in a scenario where if you have, say, 50,000 guys that have been fighting for 800 days, you now owe 40 million silver to your army, and if the budget has not worked out to a 40 million surplus, you literally can't afford to end the war, but you can probably afford to pay them for a couple more weeks. So then you have to start thinking creatively.

Anyway across all time and history a lot of generals were ultimately beaten to death by men chanting gravy.

[witchazard]

Hi y’all!

Just a little reminder, today is the last day you can snag these Sam and Bianca goodies as they’ll change up starting in June!

You can join the Loveletter Tier on my Patreon to gain access to all of my werewolf yuri as well as get these as postcards for this month! Additional info are all under the latest free post on there.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

i was watching a video about how regional cheeses are made around the world, and was shown a type of mozzarella called zizzona (the z/zz pronounced like the 'zz' in 'pizza', with a 'tz' sound), which, yes, means "mother's breast".

so rest easy tonight knowing they have titty cheese in italy.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

they also make special GIANT 66lb zizzona

so rest easy tonight knowing they have hummina hummina aWOOGAH iyiyiyiyi GAZONGA cheese in italy

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[hymnism]

shirahama's hatching process

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[iceghosto]

seeing how stunning you are and also realizing that your body type is pretty similar to mine has me feeling better about myself so. thank you 🥺 you are absolutely gorgeous!!! 💖 (also ive been on the fence about cutting a lot of length off my hair for a while and yours is definitely helping convince me omg)

Awwwww Ahhhhhhh Thank you!! Thats so sweet and means a lot to me! <3 <3 And definitely go for it! Its a real fun change of pace. I havent had short hair since before i transitioned so its just really nice to know i can still look like a woman with it. haha. You got this!

[iceghosto]

Do you think you’ll ever draw trans masc Ukyou from Ranma 1/2?

Oh yeah definitely. I've just been really busy trying to get my life back together after the last few months.

[angelnumber27]

[honeysider]

[esynk]

[tiralatele]

[finofilipino]

Wait for the master.

[thebroccoligoblin]

The amount of confidence oozing from this dude

[jumpingjacktrash]

i re-watched it several times, looking for what he does differently. finally i spotted it. look at the line of motion in his strike. it’s not especially fast, he doesn’t wind up more than the others, and it’s not a matter of strength – the guy who knocked over the stand probably put more muscle into it. but there’s a unity of movement he has that the others lack. his body and sword are all one curve. everything moves at once along the same line.

from a physics perspective, that means all the force he’s applying is concentrated at the point of contact between his sword’s edge and the target, and it moves at just the speed that breakage propogates through the material. too slow and it wouldn’t have enough force; too fast and he’d get ahead of the break, shoving the target over instead of cutting it.

from a writing perspective, that means that i should focus on describing a master swordsman’s smoothness more than their strength or speed, and can also have witnesses be confused at the effectiveness of strikes that don’t actually seem all that fast.

[giuliaciulia89]

Martial arts are all about physics, my karate sensei is has a mechanic/physics diploma and he loves to explain the biomechanics of human body and how this was turned into fight via martial arts. It’s a very good way to teach. The sword master has a larger stance of the feet, much more than the others, allowing his barycenter to lower and thus giving more stability. This, united with the movement of the sword that follows the angle of his body increases the power of the blow without actually using too much muscle strength. Pretty sure he’s also just tending (not contracting) the muscles under the armpits, near the rib cage, the serratus anterior. That makes a huge difference.

[patentlyabsurdrpgideas]

Above: The science of moving like a master of martial arts.

[meret118]

What was most interesting to me is size has no correlation to success for any of the people.

[anyataylorjoys]

The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye

[seeveekat]

Hey this movie is really important in queer history! It was the first feature length film directed by a black lesbian! You can watch it here for free!

I really recommend you do because while it is a rom-com (and a drama), it also looks at how the stories of black queers are over looked in history.

[ellewantsrevenge]

aadam jacobs's archive

[tura23]

I love it when someone shares their obsession.

[sallllltywater]

Gul the Mild, a previous clan Mors stormvermin, and then somehow get to the position of warlord in an accident. And made himself a full set of armor to avoid getting assassinated.

(And finally, a clan mors comm again, I’m so happy)

[witchazard]

Besties who can't get enough of each other!!!!!

(Sam x Bianca🐺, ocs)

You can see the uncensored on my bsky or the full rest of the uncensored drawing over on my patreon

[iceghosto]

Someone asked me to draw the humanized Cyndaquil evolutions haha. It was fun