#clubs

[scoutingthetrooper]

these are the best cards on the planet and no one can tell me otherwise

(etsy)

[leaslichoma]

Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.

[theinternetarchive]

photographs of patrons at the goth club helter skelter in los angeles, propaganda magazine, september 1992.

[ultimateravehub]

[skeksis98]

The Imperial Pack of Unique Playing Cards, Ace of Clubs, 1894

[cosmerelists]

Cosmere Characters With Guns...

As requested by @karlathewitch :)

I mean, it's pretty much what it says on the tin. Only, I'll mostly be doing worlds that don't already have guns. "Wax...with guns!" just doesn't seem very groundbreaking for some reason.

1. Kaladin

One word: Sylgun.

Kaladin: [Is up in the sky, sniping people on the ground with his Sylgun] Kaladin: Hey Syl...are there any, like, honor implications for fighting this way? Syl (as a gun): No it's totally fine. Kaladin: Okay. Kaladin: Yay.

2. Vin

Uses the biggest gun you have ever seen in your life.

Lord Ruler: I am this world's god! You think that you can kill me? Vin: [hefting a rocket launcher] Let's find out!

3. Szeth

Uses one of those bayonet rifles. He mostly still stabs people. With this gun.

Person being stabbed to death by a gun: But whyyyyy Szeth: I don't ask myself those questions.

4. Clubs

I'm seeing a sawed-off shotgun for Clubs.

Clubs: [Is inexplicably sitting on a porch in a rocking chair] Clubs: My copper cloud hides us from the Lord Ruler. Clubs: And if that doesn't work... Clubs: [pats the sawed-off shotgun in his lap]

5. Adolin

Turns into a cowboy immediately.

Adolin (in a slow drawl): You 'n' me. Pistols at dawn. We'll settle this like gentlemen. Jakamav: Will you please at least take off the cowboy hat that you're wearing on top of your helmet? Adolin: ... Adolin: Nope.

6. Zane

Keeps trying to get Vin to play Russian Roulette with him.

Zane: You'll never feel so alive as when you hear the click of that empty chamber against your head. Vin (completely caught up in the moment): Wow... Zane: I bet Elend wouldn't understand!

7. Dalinar

As a young man, Dalinar once tried to eat soup with a gun.

Evi, Gavilar, and Navani: [solemnly watching Dalinar try to eat soup with a gun] Gavilar: Is there any chance you find this attractive? Evi: Um...

8. Nikaro

He, of course, wields a paintgun.

Yumi: H-How did you paint such a beautiful bamboo forest using on a paintgun?? Nikaro: I'm actually insanely talented, you know.

9. Lift

Water guns only.

Nale: [Looking down at his damp shirt] Lift: [Is wielding a water gun] Nale: [Looking down at his damp shirt] Nale: I know what I am making illegal next.

10. Nightblood

Is a gun

Nightblood: Hello! Do you want to shoot some evil today?

[surgeknight]

If Kelsier’s crew bonded Radiant Spren, my thinking is:

Vin —-> Windrunner [She literally says the Second Ideal in Well of Ascension, and also notably was uniquely attuned to Preservation: the Shard of stasis and protection]

Elend —-> Skybreaker [A lot of people say Bondsmith, which is fair for how he tries to bring together the Skaa and Nobility, but to me Skybreaker feels right for his dreams of a fair democratic code of laws. In a more ideal world he’d be a Skybreaker in my mind]

{EDIT: I see now that I subconsciously paired together a Windrunner and Skybreaker, which is really cute. It was unintentional but it definitely works for how the two are opposites but at their core are aligned in their goals}

Spook —-> Edgedancer [He’s experienced the pain attached to feeling forgotten, and he paid his dues to the commoners of Urteau in his reconnaissance]

Kelsier —-> Willshaper [His entire goal was freedom for the Skaa and the destruction of the oppressive systems of the Final Empire]

Ham —-> Stoneward [He’s a constant in the crew and among the New Empire’s most formidable warriors]

Breeze —-> Lightweaver [Deceptive, subtle: feels right]

Dockson —-> Elsecaller(?) [He was the most disciplined and rational of the crew, honestly this one I’m not certain of]

Clubs —-> Lightweaver(?) [Stoneward’s tempting, but it’s important to remember that above all Clubs was an artist]

Sazed —-> Truthwatcher [This one feels really obvious yet I don’t see it mentioned often, he’s a scholar and his entire arc in Hero of Ages was seeking truth]

OreSeur —-> Lightweaver [He was literally a spy]

TenSoon —-> Dustbringer [He’s the Kandra’s most skilled shapeshifter]