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smokinghorse

just had a really good mango it was so good that i had to illustrate how it made me feel afterwards.

stratfender

op’s tags are so fucking important to me

enjoylentgreen

obliviasart

I feel about women the way op feels about that mango

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.

thecrumbez

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

erratic-dragon-fruit

out of the tags with you

sceptixfakemon

new sketchbook, time for pinups

bunnpan

killugon twilight au fic updated!! I drew more art for it :p (plus original art from 2022)

from dusk til dawn by therocknamedwonder

leonkennedywho

lilithpng

WIP ! ! !

drfish0-0

morro-idk

they on the ‘dachi life

microcomets

a lot of fandom seems to gloss over the fact that cas is like, funny? like has a dry sense of humor. often it gets pigeonholed into naivete or cluelessness, which in the earlier seasons is sometimes genuine, but take, for example:

“But come on, dried dung can only be stacked so high.”

“I’m not ashamed to say that my big brother knocked me into next week.”

“It’s a shortened version of my name.”

“I’m an angel, you ass.”

“I missed television.”

“The bird represents God. And coyote is man, endlessly chasing the divine, yet never able to catch him. It’s…it’s hilarious.”

“[What the hell?] Guess again.”

“Uh, you could try….insouciant, maybe.”

“You should’ve seen Luke.”

“[Do I look like I’m joking?] …you never look like you’re joking.”

“Just so you understand….why I can’t help.”

“[How was Jerusalem?] Arid.”