Impulse and Insight

[pharbro]

wine mom or vodka aunt?

[burgertv]

[sassafranski]

concept: us asleep on our king-sized bed surrounded by our big fluffy dogs

[huggingthehorse-blog]

[suicunesrider]

I almost scrolled past this

I fucking almost scrolled past this

[impulseandinsight]

friend: why are you in a rush?

me: i gotta get home

friend: why?

me: i've fulfilled my quota for socializing today

[love-personal]

[parksanrec-deactivated20171215]

I’m the guy from the lady and the tramp who gives stray dogs pasta and stands in an alleyway playing an accordion for them

[thepetcollective]

[raptorific]

Comparing your relationship to Romeo and Juliet to express how in love you are is kind of like using Hamlet to demonstrate how close and well-adjusted your family life is

[punkboyfriend]

*laughs tastefully*

[macaedh]

what the fuck ethan

[kvothbloodless]

I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.

[pervocracy]

I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.

[maxknightley]

How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.

[squeeful]

1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword.  Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade.  Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.

This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords.  Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.

[optimysticals]

So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.

So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.

Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.

Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.

[hedwig-dordt]

“high fantasy math” - the tag I should have expected to write some day.

[themarysue]

I’m so proud of everyone in this post

[prettycryptid]

one time i forced my mom to play pokemon for at least half an hour and all she did was catch a butterfree and name it lowfat

[nevillles]

*takes one good photo* posts on all blogs, posts on all social media accounts, makes wallpaper, sends to friends, prints out and frames, emails to obama

[impulseandinsight]

You say this like a joke but I actually send all my good Snapchat selfies to Justin Trudeau

[thatsthat24]

We have come across the most adorable bottle of ketchup…

It is so small… so defenseless…

We shall adopt it and raise it to become big and strong.

[someclassysas-blog]

[mrdavisspeaksout]

I see no lies

[citylightsreceding-deactivated2]

[elblogdev]

[stunningpicture]

[wherenightmaresroost]

after a miserable night of camping in the rain, woke up to this. (newfoundland, canada)

[impulseandinsight]