Someone Named Az

Someone really tired. Prefer neutral pronouns.

[swadloom]

Probably my best Kid Icarus headcanon is that the Space Pirates are mechs piloted by little aquatic creatures. Maybe squids that look like mini versions of the Space Kraken or little orange fish in fish bowls. But whatever they are they all have a comically tiny eyepatch

[sinnyclair]

Kid Icarus Headcanon #(FJDKNANSHEMWM)

Because Pit was born with a photic sneeze reflex (llight helps him sneeze), Palutena sometimes has to flashbang him with her staff when the sneeze doesn't come out

[sinnyclair]

Kid Icarus Headcanon #(idk, I lost count)

Before Pit learned that hearts were a symbol of love, he used to be very frustrated at Valentine's Day and complained about how he only got "counterfeit money."

[mapleejay]

does anyone else think about how brave all their friends are and get really emotional about it

[mapleejay]

I'm glad everyone is alive rn

[smashy-headcanons]

Phos and Lux HATE Viridi and her people. They would trash her stuff, trample both Phosphora and Arlon, and dump her recycling bins all over the place. They only like Dark pit, who really doesn’t like it when they get out of their stable and follow him everywhere. Wheen SSBU came, They immediately gave them back to Pit.

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[onionpwder]

mayhaps a nice nature? (If you feel like it)

[erisw0o]

Hello Uma Musume fans in uma tumblr, I uhhh.... I drew Tachyon, enjoy

[mushroom-rt]

Nature's cute too... r-right?

[k-mraz]

Golshi and McQueen but medieval

[maxidango]

some umas that i like

[paranoidghosts]

haru urara made a new friend…?! 🐎

[llycaons]

omg

I'm interested in the role of the umamusume in society. they seem to be well-treated in society, have infrastructure and equipment designed for them, etc. and while there are schools available for them to run, they don't have to. they can just live a regular life, it seems. and this is a trainer being dragged in front of a council of young-seeming umamusume. these characters have power here; they're not the property of their trainers and they seem to wield a great deal of power on their own terms and have their own status. I don't know what kind of contract oguri cap signed, but it seems like there are strong labor protections for the umamusume to prevent them from being exploited or controlled. I know it's not that deep and not meant to be that deep, but I'm still paying attention to it because I'm interested in the social and political worldbuilding

[kid-az]

My personal HC is that, given the fact the Umas only have 1 biological sex and are simply built different to where they likely established highly respected warrior castes throughout history, Women’s rights & suffrage arrived far earlier in this timeline than in OTL

[qqchurch]

[qqchurch]

what

[running-with-toast]

nothing will top The Big Phone

[wretcheddollthings]

my fav is the fact that the japanese kanji for "horse" is different

(art source for second pic)

[yugirl]

Oh a scale of 1 to Umamusume how in depth is your worldbuilding?

[ouroborosorder]

I’m sick of this shit. “How did they do horseback combat in the umamusume setting? Did they have them carry a guy on their back?” obviously not. they gave the Umamusume a spear and armor and had them kill are you thinking this through at all

[tachyon-log]

Albeit briefly mentioned, it is quite explicit, if the people of this website can afford to stop thinking exclusively about Eurocentric examples of historical mounted combat for a moment, that there is a legacy of archery amongst Umamusume that parallels yabusame, a ceremonial form of Japanese horseback archery. It is a major component of the Orchestra in Late Autumn event, which has already been released on the game's global server.

Yabusame - Wikipedia

Though horseback archery (more generally referred to as 騎射, kisha) has existed in Japan as a form of warfare for at least one and a half millennia, yabusame (流鏑馬) specifically was formalized in the Kamakura period around 800 years ago, some centuries before early firearms were introduced to the country. Similar to how it is portrayed in Umamusume, it is a ritual meant to appease Shinto deities and ensure good fortune & prosperity.

On Yabusame Yabusame is a traditional Japanese archery

Being that it was originally performed by members of the now-extinct samurai class, the worldbuilding implications in Umamusume should be rather obvious.

[ouroborosorder]

one of the funniest parts of umamusume's worldbuilding is that like. magic and ghosts and parallel universes and otherworldly demonic spirits and aliens are just. casually real. but like. this doesn't reaaaaally matter because we've got horse racing to do

[fresh-cup-of-antimatter]

On Logistics of Fielding an Umamusume Army in Medieval Conditions

Introduction to the Umamusume

It is well said that an army fights on its stomach, and that masters of warfare take to logistics as the cornerstone of military strategy. What challenge demonstrates these principles greater than that of fielding an armed and trained force of hundreds or even thousands of umamusume?

Umamusume, sometimes compared to valkries, are outwardly similar to human women with the noteworthy inclusion of their unique ears that stand on top of their heads and a soft tail not too disimilar from bundles of grass. Each and every umamusume carries a great deal of strength, diligence, and speed that records of humans that may match their speed are half burried in mythology.

However, these superhuman capacities bring about an equivalently nigh insurmountable appetite. A hypothetical farming community of a hundred humans (including children) may only be able to take in half a dozen umamusume children (assumed born in the community and cannot help increase food production) before their margin of excess produce is wiped out, cutting into the village's ability to trade or keep a reserve in case of disaster. Therefore, the sad reality is that you rarely see many young umamusume in rural areas; for most umamusume in times where a single bad harvest can spell famine for many, foals that cannot be sustained by their community are either offered up for adoption by those of wealth and into being raised for service to nobility or the state workforce (if such institutions exist); or worse, abandoned for anyone unlucky enough to have heart yet without much means and food to provide for a growing foal.

Thus, the main factor preventing the sovereigns of old from mustering a terrifying force of umamusume soldiers is simply that such a force would cause localised famines where ever they tread, not to mention amassing such a force in the first place would likely burn through years of resources in reserve before they are battle ready.

(Extra Note)

It is with this fact that explains the higher populations of umamusume within nomadic raiding cultures, history shows many examples of raiding umamusume being a strong threat to many civilisations. Loot, eat, and carry excess back to the others at camp. And even then, such forces have to manage their raiding schedules lest they accidently starve their settled neighbours to death which in turn hurts the nomads from accumulating wealth and supplies.

Human Logistics

With the only beasts of burden being oxen, and sometimes camels (though only available in desert regions), humanity's only available means of transport are limited as cows and oxen often are crucial for the yields and survivial of farming communities. If your region has no navigatable rivers for boats, then you can only move what you can carry on your own back, march at the speed of your two legs.

The concept of a standing, professional military is something of a luxury, reserved only for well organised states with the bureaucracies to ensure the society is able to feed not only itself and have reserves in case of poor harvests, a large excess should be taxed and carried alongside where ever the army goes; not to mention non-levy soldiers do not contribute to food production, and levying soldiers from the common peasantry wrecks productivity, destabilising the economy of state.

And as the only reliable unit of speed of any force is that of the march, most armies begin campaigns carrying just enough food to cross into enemy provinces, looting and pillaging supplies from the enemy's people as they go. Human couriers and carvans can only catch up with armies if the army stops to wait, in which case each day of idleness is another day's rations lost for no strategic gain in the conflict. Therefore, war is fought both against time and mortal force.

Relays and Food Colonies

Umamusume are gifted with a natural affinity for running, their great strength in addition makes umamusume what can be considered the rule-breaker of warfare. Whilst their great hunger means that umamusume has a similar ratio of what they must eat against how much they can carry as their human counterparts, their speed and strength offers the possibility for resupply from headquarters to the frontlines under reasonable timeframes so long the umamusume packcarrier can access sufficient food during the return trip.

The Mongol Empire in order to sustain the massive logistical networks needed to sustain their massive empire and army developed a system of stations in which small teams umamusume are stationed with enough supplies to last them a month (assumed if they don't keep their own livestock or work fields in the meantime), their core function is to receive and deliver messages (sometimes cargo for a fee, most traders have their own caravans) to the next relay station in the chain, spreading out the mouths to feed while ensuring speed of information and supplies through the continent.

Another solution to the logistical challenge came in the form of small food colonies run by the state dotted throughout the realm. This was the preferred solution by more sophisticated empires which allowed for larger resupply of both human and umamusume armies. Food colonies tended to include not just farms, but also warehouses, barracks, and allocations for training; a self-contained ecosystem for an army, and the first proper mode of quartering a mass of umamusume.

In conclusion, there is much to be thankful for the rise of technological advancements in transportation. Today, umamusume soldiers can be ferried and quartered in the same units as humans without any worries of food running out, logistical aircraft and trains keep supplies everflowing, whilst greater economic output and the excess production of most goods in modern nations has rendered looting no longer a logistical neccessity of war. It is with such benefits and improvements to the societal framework that social equality of umamusume has improved, the practice of weath-based adoptions of umamusume foals has been banned worldwide, and umamusume today universally live as private citizens with recognised autonomy as individuals like every other human.

[fresh-cup-of-antimatter]

I wonder if there was an umamusume luddite movement against trains.