#Projectile Point

[contremineur]

Native American projectile point (flint, c. 8000-6000 BC)

from here

[uwlmvac]

Past peoples in the Upper Mississippi Valley crafted lithic tools from many different types of stone, each with its own qualities. A wide range of raw materials were used, including varieties of chert, silicified sandstone (orthoquartzite), rhyolite, and sometimes quartz, like this projectile point from north-central Wisconsin. Multiple factors played into why people used certain types of stone, including availability, how easy they were to work, and the quality and kinds of tools that could be produced. This point has a notch in one edge but not the other. It might have been left unfinished due to issues with the quartz, which tends to break along fracture planes that can complicate knapping and final touches. The small size and general form of the point might indicate a later precontact time frame.

[flywolfarchaeology]

When I say I LAUGHED SO LOUDLY MY DOG TOOTED

[polychromaic]

🌸 when the Hindriarch banished Eskhind and her kin from Bey Lah, Neelahind would follow her heart into voluntary exile. To abandon a surefooted life, as well as a coveted spot among the Fellowship, is nearly unheard of among both hindren and Wardens, but Neelahind was glowing when she took her leave. I hear the pair are quite happy together, practicing arconautics in the ruins to the west—at least, that's what the kendren bring news of when they come back to trade.

back at it again w more caves of qud deer gals 😏✨ i'm kind of enamored with the ending to the Bey Lah quest where Esk and Neela both take off, so i wanted to see what they'd look like as a matched set of lesbian pariah-arconauts. geez, i can’t believe it’s been almost two years since i drew them last

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img desc: A drawing of a hindren deerfolk girl from "Caves of Qud". On the left a title card reads "Pariah Neelahind (she/her)". Some of the details are labeled. Her fur is a rich cedar red, with a lighter heartwood underbelly curling under her arms and on the inside of her legs down to her hooves; her curly hair is dark mahogany, tied back in a ponytail with a sky-blue bandana; her antlers are a pale heartswood, deepening to a rich velvet at the tines. She’s smiling, looking up and off to her right; she's poised upright, her arms spread to either side of her as she grips the haft of her war-scythe Yal, which is laying across her shoulders. She’s wearing shining steel platemail���a breastplate over a nanoweave surcoat patterned with pale lemon slices over pink (called "Pink Lemonade"); her armor is incomplete, but well taken care of. She’s wearing leather braces, a steel gauntlet on her left hand only, and a woven blue sash and bedroll across her back.

img desc: A drawing of a hindren deerfolk girl from "Caves of Qud". On the right a title card reads "Pariah Eskhind (she/it)". Some of the details are labeled. Her fur is ashen, with her pale undercoat spotting through on her forearms and flanks. Her messy hair is a greenish bleach-blonde, and one of her ears has a hole in it; her antlers are pale and their velvet is darker grey, and they're covered in little tied-on charms and brass tine hornaments. She has an eyepatch over her left eye, and a gap between her front teeth. She's grinning, slouching in a relaxed fashion, pulling back her hood with one hand and flashing a rock-on with the other; her front two legs are crossed, while the back two are spread like she's posing for a picture. She's wearing a well-worn chainmail hauberk, which extends down over her back; a ragged cowl, with buttoned slots along the hem of the hood for her antlers to fit through; a leather bracer on her left wrist, a steel pauldron on her right shoulder, a fingerless elastyne glove on her right hand, and two pairs of croccasins on her hooves. A pocketed saddle is slung over her back, along with a backpack and bedroll; on either side, the pockets are full of tools and bits. Tucked into her swordbelt is a sheathed folding carbide longsword and a gaslight kris; slung across her chest is a bolt-action rifle called "Peashooter" (it has a lesbian flag on its stock). Around her legs are several beaded bracelets and charms; one of them is the rightfully reclaimed Kindrish, complete with its carved deer charm.

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

RVB OC WEEK: DAY 7 ENERGY SWORD SUNDAY

While I don't normally imagine any of the Clovers getting their hands on an energy sword, Great Key or otherwise, it is a fun visual to play with and I think if I was going to give one to any of them, it would be Ivia She.... isn't the most conventional user of a sword though

THANK YOU TO @rvbocweek2025 FOR PLANNING AND HOSTING THIS OC WEEK!! It was a joy to have such fun prompts to draw with my little homemade blorbos, and its been great checking out everyone else's colorful little guys!!!

[adorablegorilla]

I think the real reason people insist Ho'ollheyak is a bad 6 star is because visually her s3 looks like it should pass through enemies but it doesn't. I genuinely believe that's way bigger of a reason than her actual kit or balancing

[halfbaked00q]

This man was ready to give it all up and "retire" to run away with Vesper. This man takes the LEAST amount of convincing or excuse to run away with the circus retire to Jamaica. This man is ABSOLUTELY vulnerable to cult indoctrination.

[liquidstar]

honestly does anyone else think that the what:if routes are perhaps telling us that some sort of collision between subaru and reinhard is just inevitable in nearly every route

[thestonedknifeman]

Got a good knap in this morning

[penofwildfire]

Zane's self-sacrificing ass really jumped in front of Wu at the sight of Garmadon like he was blocking a bullet. I need to study his brain why is he like that.

[bromcommie]

god I love snow……would love to see some that doesn’t melt into death trap ice sludge within 48 hours……would love to not have it kill me some day

[uwlmvac]

This Durst point base came from a lithic scatter in Rusk County, Wisconsin. It is made of quartz, as were many of the other stone artifacts from the site. Even though the tip and a good portion of the blade are missing, the length of the stem and how it expands or widens slightly toward the base help to classify it as a Late Archaic Durst point, about 3,000 years old. The remaining portion is 22.94 mm (9/10 inch) long, 13.20 mm (just over 1/2 inch) wide at its maximum width, and 7.65 mm (3/10 inch) thick, and weighs 3.1 grams (about 1/10 of an ounce. The stem, where it would have been hafted to a shaft, is 12.50 mm (just under 1/2 inch) long.

Link to more information about Durst Stemmed points: https://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/past-cultures/artifacts/?letter=d&term=125730

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

"I don't miss!"

I,, might've gotten a little carried away with gravhammer Donut, ya know, just a smidge

local artist not immune to putting their favorite in vaguely god-like finery

[nii-hieromythic]

Actually I'm already regretting teaching my grad seminar on empires because every theory piece I've assigned makes me want to set myself on fire in light of everything that's just happened in the last 24 hours alone.

[luvsavos]

cat behavior

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Lots of love for lemon but not enough for amaryllis, she 100% tried pumpkin spice bc everyone around her was and it's one of the very few trends she genuinely enjoys