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Anyone know of any fiction that features a healthy(ish?) polyamorus relationship, but isn't ABOUT poly? Only counts if all the main characters have depth. (I've seen enough harem anime, thanks.)

Any medium is fine, I'm not picky.

exykt

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valarhalla

Fun fact: Tenochtitlan fell in 1521. From 1603 onwards, large numbers of honest-to-god fricking Japanese Samurai came to Mexico from Japan to work as guardsmen and mercenaries.

Ergo, it would be 100% historically accurate to write a story starring a quartet consisting of the child or grandchild of Aztec Noblemen, an escaped African slave, a Spanish Jew fleeing the Inquisition (which was relaxed in Mexico in 1606, for a time) and a Katana-wielding Samurai in Colonial Mexico.

valarhalla

Also a whole bunch of Chinese Characters BECAUSE MEXICO CITY HAD A CHINATOWN WITHIN TEN YEARS OF THE FALL OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE.

st-pam

quietpinetrees

Hello, waldkinder! I am pleased to announce that I have posters for sale, featuring the original QuietPineTrees image: “The Deer Philosopher” by Ryan Maniulit. Adorn your home with the wisdom of the ancient herd, available in 24”x36” and 18”x24” right now!

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lewd-plants

New goddess idea: She’s an earth goddess of the new age who’s domain is spinning and weaving, but specifically spinning and weaving gigantic structural steel cables for construction and other industrial purposes. Her skin is steel grey and hard to the touch and her hair is like long dredlocks of woven steel. She laughs at shitty architecture deigns that will fall apart if actually built and protects well-made bridges and buildings she likes. She might warn you of unforseen danger if you always wear your proper PPE.

Okay now what do I name her

systlin

O’sha.

Obviously

lewd-plants

THAT’S PERFECT

systlin

I AM ALWAYS HERE FOR QUALITY WORKPLACE SAFETY REGULATION PUNS

fishmalazahn

That’s my goddess. 👍🏻

systlin

May O’sha bless you with earplugs that are comfortable and respirators that fit perfectly.

lewd-plants

And good steel. Always good steel.

systlin

May your steel deliveries be always on time and your rebar strong

skiptomy

I’m just gonna…. put this here…..

hope you don’t mind

nonsensicallycereal

BEAUTIFUL

femmenietzsche

*Surfs the internet on a computer without AdBlock like a prince discreetly holding a scented handkerchief over his nose as he strides through the muck of the Meagre Quarter towards a distasteful but necessary midnight rendezvous*

transmortifried

Underrated Experience

listening to people you love infodump

like hell yeah please please go off on stuff that fascinates you i love it

transmortifried

this blew up and i’m crying very gay tears

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s a p i o s e x u a l

sisyphean-marble

@bibliolithid

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

George Bernard Shaw

#quotes #freecodecamp

bardicchef

d100 carousing table: The Sands

[ FULL SIZE IMAGE HERE ]

Part of my carousing table series. The Sands is a set of goofy, entertaining outcomes for carousing within a desert setting, especially in towns where liquor is present. Can be used with standard carousing rules for nearly any system, or to encourage plot hooks, and character development in your game.

These carousing tables are being released for free to the community. If someone tries to stick this in something up for sale, they’re a douchecanoe and should be kicked in the face. Full pdf will be available soon - and will also be free.

If you’d like to support what I do, it’s super appreciated! - By reblogging/sharing these tables around social media! - By dropping by my Ko-Fi account and buying me a coffee or something! - By visiting my Etsy store where I make handmade things, and also have D&D-themed shirts, prints, and other merch.

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For all your desert drinking times!

If you like this, be sure to check out the others and donate using then links above.

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void-flesh

this is the most realistic queer dialogue ive ever seen

sirobvious

Ser Obvious! Please tell us why knights with guns is such a surprisingly good combination to behold!

Knights with guns is a real historical thing and, well, if you want a serious answer it’s probably because actual Medieval war history is not well-known or well-represented in pop-culture.

That’s one of the reasons why I find real Medieval arms and armor so cool, especially when placed in a fantasy setting. It’s because most writers of fantasy settings are copying what the previous generations of writers described, and the previous generation was describing what they saw from the generation before them, and none of them were doing any research, resulting in a long line of distorted and warped representations of “Medieval” warfare. Because of this, when a writer or artist actually does the research, it improves the coolness factor not only because you know that more work was put into the piece of media you’re experiencing, but also because that historically accurate stuff you’re seeing is new. Since it’s rare to see historically accurate arms and armor in fiction, the historically accurate arms and armor make the work feel creative and original compared to its peers, even though technically it’s just copying something that really exists in a museum somewhere.

And knights with guns is a pretty extreme example of that. It’s one thing to have historically accurate 15th century armor in your fiction

but pop culture teaches us that the handheld gun is a very recent thing that, once invented, brought about the end of the knight in shining armor because bullets can pierce plate armor and that’s why U.S. Marines aren’t out there in 60-pound suits of steel, but history and technology arn’t ever that straightforward. People don’t immediately give some traditional thing up just because a new invention has made it useless(look at how many armies still marched slowly in formation during WWI despite the spread of machinegun and mortar technology), and even if people did immediately give up the old ways as soon as something new came along, plate armor sticking around despite the popularization of handheld gun technology is not even an example of that. If you want to put guns in your story, don’t think that it automatically removes plate armor because plate armor is now useless(hell, most writers keep every character in full plate armor even though they write swords cutting straight through it, effectively making it useless extra weight in the world of their story.).

Plate armor doesn’t become useless just because a bullet can pierce it. If that were true, it would have been useless the same decade it was invented(the mid-14th century), because at that time, English longbow arrows and crossbow bolts were said to be piercing it too, or at least hitting with such force that it badly concussed the wearer inside the armor. But that hardly makes armor useless. Arrows, crossbow bolts, spears, etc. were piercing chainmaille before plate armor was invented and they still wore that.

Here is a metaphor:

Your objective is to cross a rainy parking lot without getting wet, and you have the option of taking or leaving your umbrella. Thinking that plate armor disappears as soon as guns are introduced to the setting is like saying that the umbrella is useless because it won’t protect you from a firehose. When you’re standing twenty feet from an English longbowman who has practiced so rigorously for twenty years that his left arm is visibly deformed, NOTHING can protect you,

but when you’re two-hundred yards away being pelted by arrows falling from the sky at an angle, you want as much armor coverage as you can get, even if it wouldn’t protect you from a canon. Even just a really thick shirt is better than nothing in that case, because even that could block a few arrows, or at least stop them from going into your body as deep as they would otherwise.

You can’t just cut through plate armor with a sword either. It’s too solid and swords are too light. That doesn’t mean an unarmored man can’t kill an armored man with a sword–he still can if he gets it threw the viewport or caves the helmet in with the butt of the sword–but it’s a hell of a lot harder for him to win than his opponent because the targets he has to hit on his opponent’s body are a lot smaller; and that’s what armor is all about: It will never make you completely invulnerable, but it makes your weak point a whole lot smaller than your opponent’s. For virtually any weapon, an unarmored man’s whole body is a weak point.

And even then, the evidence is in favor of the fact that plate armor wasn’t even just one of those things that stuck around because of tradition after guns became widespread. In fact, they were using handheld guns for as long as they were using plate armor.

(A handheld gun from the 14th century.)

Until pretty recently in the lifespan of guns as a technology, plate armor could stop bullets. Guns didn’t bring an end to plate armor because they were just too powerful for it, it was because rulers realized that guns were just so much easier and cheaper to use than fully-armored knights. You could train someone to use a gun faster than you could train someone to use a bow, and for a whole lot less money. A wagonload of gold could buy you one fully-armored horseman, or one-thousand lightly-armored handgunners. Even though the knight could probably 1v1 all of them in a row, he can’t stand up to a whole army at one time(oversimplified but you get the point). Thus, heavy armor gradually gave-way to large formations of musketmen firing in volleys.

But that still means there was a several-century period of time were plate armor and guns were frequently found on the same battlefield.

In conclusion: Knights holding guns is cool not only because you’re combining two things together that are already cool on their own, but also because in real life knights used guns, yet you never see it in movies or video games because nobody does any research, so in the rare cases when you do see it it’s something new and fresh and original.

sirobvious

Medieval guns not appearing in media may also have something to do with the Tiffany Problem, where writers don’t put certain little-known historical facts in their historical work for fear of those facts making the work seem less historically accurate to general audiences.

Example: “Tiffany” is a Medieval name but it doesn’t sound very Medieval because we still use it today.

Writers may be concerned that firearms may make their Medieval work seem less Medieval even though they’re actually historically accurate for the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

max-the-merc

Also I’d like to add that actually plate armor and guns coexisted on the battlefield up until the late 17th century and in some cases even further. The most famous examples are that of the harnesses made in Greenwich depicted in the Jacob Album… (note the gun this gentleman is holding with pride)

and of course, the Polish winged hussars (who would also had a gun in their kit most of the times), among many others.

Anyway the documentary “Secrets of the Shining Knight” from PBS Nova shows this fact with more detail as it also debunks once more the other myths sorrounding late Medieval and Renaissance plate armor.

In my conclussion, plate armor is good and that’s why it was used it got better throught time for so many years, if 14th century guns were that effective as the media often shows, people would have stopped using plate armor but this wasn’t the case until around the 1700′s where warfare became completely focused on firearms and close combat weapons assumed a secondary role. And for that reason and the growing and new tactical needs of both infantry and cavalry, full plate armor got finally discarded.

armthearmour

I’d like to add to this, plate armor wasn’t totally discarded really until the 19th century. Cavalry, who still utilized melee weaponry in very large part, often wore armor (assuming that they were a heavy cavalry unit like cuirassiers.)

This is a bavarian Cuirassier’s armor that dates to about 1850. So yeah, for the large part plate was abandoned, but it remained on the battlefield well into the 19th century. Arguably when into WWI, as there was a lot of experimentation during that war with armor.