[newyork]

Germany | Photographer: Oldiefan

[plushmayhem]

Demisexual pride bats are now available at my store! <3

pattern by @beezeeart

[taproot-bread]

Commission for @withafrozenheartandasoulonfire!! Thank you for commissioning me!

[gisellegrantham-deactivated2020]

I bought 90% cocoa dark chocolate today and like

It fixes my chocolate cravings without needing a lot

In conclusion, sugar is my enemy

[obri-art]

^_^

[catchymemes]

Skyrim in Real Life

by @JinnKid

[mintgoth]

just learned that the word “ferret” is derived from the Latin word furittus meaning “LITTLE THIEF” and that a group of ferrets is called a BUSINESS and i am absolutely pleased with this new knowledge

[mono-red-menace]

thieves’ guild….

[moon-grave]

Why’s he so fucking tall??? Crouch down maybe, you big bitch

[maybemanyskeletonhats]

Teldryn Sero as a S/O would include…

- I hope you have some semblance of a sense of humor.

- because boy is he gonna make you mad.

- calls you ‘FireLily’ for what reason you aren’t sure.

- likes to wrap his arms around your waist from behind.

- if you set up camp and are sitting by the fire, he’ll come behind you and rest his head on your shoulder.

- you got into a argument over him wearing his helmet everywhere, even when you’re in Skyrim. 

- “you never take it off!”

- “Sorry Sera I don’t want ash in my mouth.“

- he was grinning the entire time and it makes you wanna strangle him.

- “JUST TAKE IT OFF!”

- holds your wrist instead of your hand, he wants to keep his tough guy look up. 

- “Talvas flirted with me…”

- this prompted “And now I have a mighty need to burn his hair from his scalp.” 

- can get jealous despite what he says. 

- braids your hair for you if its long enough.

- kisses that take your breath away, very passionate rough kisses.

- shares his food with you, and if he has good drinks..by I mean drinks, I mean Wine, Sujamma, Cliff racer [a drink you can buy from the bee and the barb.]

[ladystarks]

[animationstations]

[catholicamputee]

this was the weirdest movie ever.

[marsup]

shrek 2 was the highest grossing film of 2004 and is the 26th highest grossing film of all time

[ubercharge]

look. look at this beautiful sword meme. i’m going to cry

[literallybyronic]

@petermorwood

[petermorwood]

I saw and reblogged this one a while back, but it’s always worth repeating, and this time I’m adding a bit of background info comparing common fantasy sword features to the Real Thing (with pictures, of course.)

Leaf-bladed swords are a very popular fantasy style and were real, though unlike modern hand-and-a-half longsword versions, the real things were mostly if not always shortswords.

Here are Celtic bronze swords…

…Ancient Greek Xiphoi…

… and a Roman “Mainz-pattern” gladius…

Saw or downright jagged edges, either full-length or as small sections (often where they serve no discernible purpose) are a frequent part of fantasy blades, especially at the more, er, imaginatively unrestrained end of the market.

Real swords also had saw edges, such as these two 19th century shortswords, but not to make them cool or interesting. They’re weapons if necessary…

…but since they were carried by Pioneer Corps who needed them for cutting branches and other construction-type tasks, their principal use was as brush cutters and saws.

This dussack (cutlass) in the Wallace Collection is also a fighting weapon, like the one beside it…

…but may also have had the secondary function of being a saw.

A couple of internet captions say it’s for “cutting ropes” which makes sense - heavy ropes and hawsers on board a ship were so soaked with tar that they were often more like lengths of wood, and a Hollywood-style slice from the Hero’s rapier (!!) wouldn’t be anything like enough to sever them. However swords like this are extremely rare, which suggests they didn’t work as well as intended for any purpose.

I photographed these in Basel, Switzerland, about 20 years ago. Look at the one on the bottom (I prefer the basket-hilt schiavona in the middle).

A lot of “flamberge” (wavy-edge) swords actually started out with conventional blades which then had the edges ground to shape - the dussack, that Basel broadsword and this Zweihander were all made that way.

The giveaway is the centreline: if it’s straight, the entire blade probably started out straight.

Increased use of water power for bellows, hammers and of course grinders made shaping blades easier than when it had to be done by hand. This flamberge Zweihander, however, was forged that way.

Again, the clue is the centre-line.

Incidentally those Parierhaken (parrying hooks - a secondary crossguard) are among the only real-life examples of another common fantasy feature - hooks and spikes sticking out from the blade.

Here are some rapiers and a couple of daggers showing the same difference between forged to shape and ground to shape. The top and bottom rapiers in the first picture started as straights, and only the middle rapier came from the forge with a flamberge blade.

There’s no doubt about this one either.

The reason - though that was a part of it - wasn’t just to look cool and show off what the owner could afford (any and all extra or unusual work added to the price) but may actually have had a function: a parry would have been juddery and unsettling for someone not used to it, and any advantage is worth having.

However, like the saw-edged dussack, flamberge blades are unusual - which suggests the advantage wasn’t that much of an advantage after all.

Here’s a Circassian kindjal, forged wiggly…

…and an Italian parrying dagger forged straight then ground wiggly…

There were also parrying daggers with another fantasy-blade feature, deep notches and serrations which in fantasy versions often resemble fangs or thorns.

These more practical historical versions are usually called “sword-breakers” but I prefer “sword-catcher”, since a steel blade isn’t that easy to break. Taking the opponent’s blade out of play for just long enough to nail him works fine.

NB - the curvature on the top one in this next image is AFAIK because of the book-page it was copied from, not the blade itself.

The missing tooth on that second dagger, and the crack halfway down this next one’s blade, shows what happens when design features cause weak spots.

So there you go: a quick overview of fantasy sword features in real life.

Here’s a real-life weapon that looks like it belongs in a fantasy story or film - and this doesn’t even have an odd-shaped blade…

Just a very flexible one…

If you want more odd blades, Moghul India is a good place to start…

[ubercharge]

i could not ask for a better addition to my meme post than blade education thank you so much

[frayedcobweb]

I love this more than I love my left foot. (Seriously, fuck you left foot, why aren’t you a freaking wiggly sword? Huh?).

[neithy]

Persephone illustration, step by step

Artwork @ Neith

[jivke]

musing over an adult myrrh concept

[somecutething]

[thickdaddydandelion-deactivated]

A TINY, FEARLESS LEADER

[mjsheartisstillbeating]

C’MON GUYS

[fullpraxisnow]

“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which — in addition to its nutritional deficits — is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor — especially with children to support and care for — is a perpetual high-wire act.”

— It Is Expensive to Be Poor | The Atlantic

[bae-in-maine]

“Poverty charges interest ” holy hell. Ive never read$heard someone put it that way before. But its so friggen true.

[taraljc]

what $$$ does is buy TIME. Which poor women know, and rich men barely understand.

[tropesarenotbad]

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

- Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms

[endbittersweet]

when people say they started shipping your otp b/c of u