#scythes

[charnel-grounds]

“Degustat amara” (Bitter Taste)

engraved by Johann Christoph Böcklin (1657–1709) after the design by Johann Andreas Thelott (1654–1734)

engraving on laid paper, 1708 — source

[prokopetz]

The problem with folks arguing on the Internet about whether it's "realistic" to use a scythe as a weapon is that they're almost never actually talking about scythes; they're talking about some sort of fictitious vaguely-scythe-inspired polearm, and there's no point having an argument about that, because obviously a weapon can be used as a weapon. Let's bring real scythes into the picture – I want to see the hypothetical combat stance for one of these:

[genries]

╔　 　🗡️　　Heart and Weapon (Scythes and Daggers) PNGs

╠　　 F2U Do not credit me, reblogs are appreciated

╚　　 Source: Pinterest

[hadesisqueer]

"Scythes are not a good weapon choice" who gives a shit this is cool

[promethea-excelsior]

Bronze figurine of warrior from Gigatl', Tsumada district, north-west Dagestan, Russia.

Various interpretations and dating from researchers propose that the figurine is a depiction of the ancestral Scythian deity named Targitaos or Scythes, (the ancient Greeks identified him with their own hero Hēraklēs/Heracles) or it represents a high-born Scythian warrior from the period of early Scythian campaigns in Near Asia, in the 8th-7th centuries B.C. The date of the figurine is proposed to be from the second half of the 7th-6th centuries B.C.

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

HEAVY SHARDS

by Marcin Rubinkowski

[deathnotearchive]

Source (archived)