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Hi there, I'm Axel ● 30 ● she/her ● Find me on: (ノФ ωФ)ノ~ https://poipiku.com/MyIllustListPcV.jsp?ID=11413326 🦋https://bsky.app/profile/axelhoza.bsky.social 🐦https://x.com/AxelHoza?t=cWByMRC83hIyuEikJ3MDEg&s=09 (this one's mostly for retweeting mononoke fanart) Please refrain from unauthorized reposting or Ai training

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animentality

blumineck

I’ve got a lot of Thoughts(tm) about The Odyssey at the moment, but damnit Blum I’m an archer, not a film critic, so here’s something in my lane!

dragonesseclectic

As someone who read the Odyssey translation all the way through, I note that Odysseus's bow was not a standard Greek bow (whatever those were like). It was a storied bow that went through many illustrious hands before being gifted to him, that originated with the steppe nomads--i.e., it was a Scythian horse bow. A composite bow that is impossible to string if you don't know the trick of it. Blum doesn't mention that, but his brief diagram was that of a composite bow, so I assume he knows that.

Also the axe heads thing? That was a test of accuracy and adequate draw, not armor-piercing. Axe heads had a hole through them for mounting on the haft. Line up twelve of those with the holes in a line, and you have to shoot very straight to go through all 12 holes. Also the bow has to be correctly drawn or the arrow will drop during flight due to lack of kinetic energy and fail to go through all 12 holes. Arrows from a partially-drawn bow (lack of strength), or badly-strung bow (as demonstrated) won't fly straight and true.

saltnvinegar-chip

more of him

kidzbopdeathgrips

it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao

kidzbopdeathgrips

like so much of Everything today is premised on the idea that the earth-shattering catastrophe which happened within living memory of everyone older than a third grader has had no meaningful material or psychological effects on the general public and i don't think that's good, lol.

"(some of) the top-line economic indicators (sorta) recovered (in most places) so everything is fine and we don't need to talk about it" is not a sustainable framework for interfacing with reality

kidzbopdeathgrips

"why is everyone so angry and paranoid now?" "why is politics so dysfunctional now?" "why is [x] [y] and [z] now? blah blah blah"

2020:

mr-palmtree

Reboot of some old mononoke fanart! :3

jackal-tabaque

https://archiveofourown.gay/works/87821426

Новая иллюстрация к тексту ^^

New illustration for the text ^^

allthingswhumpyandangsty

lysyszczur

anndr

Guess the year this picture was drawn :)

mysticdragon3md3

writing-prompt-s

We’ve all heard tales of the moon being made of cheese, but what if it were made of bones? Bone fragments. Bone dust. Partial skeletons from animals we have no name for, no knowledge of. What if the moon were made of bones?