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nights-at-crystarium

you guys should draw Feo Ul more often, they deserve more fanart. here i'll go first

(panels from Fragments)

aydken99

temmiechang

final fantasy 14 diablo 4 spongebob doodle

lunarea0

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘯 ffxiv・Urianger Augurelt ・ウリエンジェ・オギュレ Major Arcana series

ferhog

Discourse around whether or not Suletta is the first female Gundam protagonist is funny to me because surely we all understand the difference between the main character of a new main installment with at least a season's worth of episodes and a new line of model kits to go with it, and the co-protagonist of a 3 episode Gundam Seed spinoff that was mainly advertising variants on existing models.

And then there's the people who say Chris was the main character of War In The Pocket, because apparently piloting the Gundam supercedes how much screentime and overall story relevance you have.

#literally this #its deeply unserious

sapropel

Apolitically killing bandits and savages in my video game with no messages

diet-poison

asked the skyrim bandits why they were living in a cave and they explained the war effort has buried the economy so they can't find work and lost their homes. I use my shout to blast them across the cave and find a preeeetty nice sword among their belongings

sapropel

The bandits and savages attacking on sight with innocent corpses in their lairs are part of my apolitical worldbuilding to avoid all messages in my video game

twoblogger

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

twoblogger

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

angel-derangement

I hate it too tbh

m4plesoda

BAIT & SWITCH

dude-standin

commission

qsycomplainsalot

What is a Hand Mortar ?

Sauce : ArmurerieDuForestier.eu

A hand mortar, sometimes mistakingly called a cohorn in literature, is a shoulder-fired blackpowder weapon designed to launch fused grenades at medium range. It is a pretty straight-forward combination of a static mortar, an artillery piece designed in the Late Middle Age to launch explosive shells, and a firelock musket as developed in the Early Modern Era.

A bronze mortar ; note how thick and stout it is, as mortars were designed to handle large amount of propellant to lob heavy explosive shells over walls.

Generally hand mortars are constructed with a simple musket stock and lock, be it matchlock, wheellock, flintlock or other. Some examples have their stocks replaced by a long curved monopod meant to redirect recoil into the ground.

Fitted on either of these constructions was a large barrel, that had a powder chamber in the back before flaring up into a cup of a much larger diameter designed to accept the grenade.

Art by yours truly.

Said projectile would be a metallic sphere filled with blackpowder and primed with a fuse - either a match or a plug. Although used throughout the Modern Era - read ‘from around the Italian Wars of the late 15th century to the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th- hand mortars were notoriously finicky and dangerous to use. They combined early grenades lit using open flames with firing mechanism that were not entirely reliable, meaning any misfire could potentially light your projectile while leaving it inside the weapon for about five seconds before both of those would explode along with the user’s arms, face and dignity. Hand mortars could be used as line throwers on boats and, especially ones made using pistol grips, were also commonly used to launch flares and other pyrotechnics on the battlefield. There is also a few recorded instances of them being used filled with lead shot as an extremely large shotgun.