#all of which I’m absolutely here for

[disneydatass]

Tumblr girlies be like: I absolutely support harassment and murder but I draw the line at being antisemitic!

[otaku553]

Luffy week day 7:

Free prompt: Sunrise

Happy birthday, Luffy :)

[falconfate]

Hello ranger’s apprentice fandom can we talk real quick about the stupidest thing Flanagan ever wrote

It’s about the bows. Yanno, the rangers’ Iconique™️ main weapon. That one. You know the one.

Flanagan. Flanagan why are your rangers using longbows.

“uh well recurve arrows drop faster” BUT DO THEY. FLANAGAN. DO THEY.

the answer is no they don’t. Compared to a MODERN, COMPOUND (aka cheating) bow, yes, but compared to a longbow? Y’know, what the rangers use in canon? Yeah no a recurve actually has a FLATTER trajectory. It drops LATER.

This from an article comparing the two:

“Both a longbow and a recurve bow, when equipped with the right arrow and broadhead combination, are capable of taking down big game animals. Afterall, hunters have been doing it for centuries with both types of bows.

However, generally speaking and all things equal, a recurve bow will offer more arrow speed, creating a flatter flight trajectory and retain more kinetic energy at impact.

The archers draw length, along with the weight of the arrow also affect speed and kinetic energy. However, the curved design of the limbs on a recurve adds to its output of force.”

It doesn’t actually mention ANY distance in range! And this is from a resource for bow hunting, which, presumably, WOULD CARE ABOUT THAT SORT OF THING!

Okay so that’s just. That’s just the first thing.

The MAIN thing is that even accounting for “hur dur recurves drop faster” LONGBOWS ARE STILL THE STUPID OPTION.

Longbows, particularly and especially ENGLISH longbows, are—as their name suggests—very long. English longbows in particular are often as tall or taller than their wielder even while strung, but especially when unstrung. An unstrung longbow is a very long and expensive stick, one that will GLADLY entangle itself in nearby trees, other people’s clothes, and any doorway you’re passing through.

And yes, there are shorter longbows, but at that point if you’re shortening your longbow, just get a goddamn recurve. And Flanagan makes a point to compare his rangers’ bows to the Very Long English Longbow.

Oh, do you know how the Very Long English Longbow was mostly historically militarily used? BY ON-FOOT ARCHER UNITS. Do you know what they’re TERRIBLE for? MOUNTED ARCHERY.

Trust me. Go look up right now “mounted archery longbow.” You’ll find MAYBE one or two pictures of some guy on a horse struggling with a big stick; mostly you will actually see either mounted archers with RECURVES, or comparisons of Roman longbow archers to Mongolian horse archers (which are neat, can’t lie, I love comparing archery styles like that).

Anyway. Why are longbows terrible for mounted archery? Because they’re so damn long. Think about it: imagine you’re on a horse. You’re straddling a beast that can think for itself and moves at your command, but ultimately independently of you; if you’re both well-trained enough, you’re barely paying attention to your horse except to give it commands. And you have a bow in your hands. If your target is close enough to you that you know, from years of shooting experience, you will need to actually angle your bow down to hit it because of your equine height advantage, guess what? If you have a longbow, YOU CAN’T! YOUR HORSE IS IN THE WAY BECAUSE YOUR BOW IS TOO LONG! Worse, it’s probably going to get in the general area of your horse’s shoulder or legs, aka moving parts, which WILL injure your horse AND your bow and leave you fresh out of both a getaway vehicle and a ranged weapon. It’s stupid. Don’t do it.

A recurve, on the other hand, is short. It was literally made for horse archers. You have SO much range of motion with a recurve on horseback; and if you’re REALLY good, you know how to give yourself even more, with techniques like Jamarkee, a Turkish technique where you LITERALLY CAN AIM BACKWARDS.

For your viewing enjoyment, Serena Lynn of Texas demonstrating Jamarkee:

Yes, that’s real! This type of draw style is INCREDIBLY versatile: you can shoot backwards on horseback, straight down from a parapet or sally port without exposing yourself as a target, or from low to the ground to keep stealthy without banging your bow against the ground. And, while I’m sure you could attempt it with a longbow, I wouldn’t recommend it: a recurve’s smaller size makes it far more maneuverable up and over your head to actually get it into position for a Jamarkee shot.

A recurve just makes so much more SENSE. It’s not a baby bow! It’s not the longbow’s lesser cousin! It’s a COMPLETELY different instrument made to be used in a completely different context! For the rangers of Araluen, who put soooo much stock in being stealthy and their strong bonds with their horses, a recurve is the perfect fit! It’s small and easily transportable, it’s more maneuverable in combat and especially on horseback, it offers more power than a longbow of the same draw weight—really, truly, the only advantage in this case that a longbow has over the recurve is that longbows are quicker and easier to make. But we KNOW the rangers don’t care about that, their KNIVES use a forging technique (folding) that takes several times as long as standard Araluen forging practices at the time!

Okay.

Okay I think I’m done. For now.

[unordinaries]

presented without comment

(chapters 280 + 344)

[sincerely-sofie]

Update on The Appointment (mentioned here previously) for anyone who was curious / concerned: It went good and I’m NOT going to have to drop out of college and scramble to find a way to get myself in working condition in spite of various health conditions and pay for my expensive medications out of pocket in less than two years!

I’ve been waiting for an answer to that for about two weeks straight and it’s been wearing on me horribly. I’ve been struggling to sleep and eat from what I now recognize was the stress of anticipating a “Yeah you need to get yourself a steady job ASAP that will fund the medicines you need to ensure your brain doesn’t spontaneously combust” as an answer.

I’m going to go disperse into atoms now brb—

[disengaged]

i wanna live on my own again …. i’m so ready to put my books on a shelf and my clothes in a closet

[matt-murdick]

aegon targaryen they could never make me like you

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Just finished Reservoir Dogs, and I—

what— what… was that? [sigh] a chain of very intelligent decisions not influenced by emotion [c o U gh] deep, deep love at all oh god

I don’t even like crime moves and keep watching crime movies for the whump thinking the next one will be different— none of them ever are. They’re very well-done but awful at the same time, you know? I like grimdark but not this specific brand of realistic fiction grimdark. It’s not even cathartic (to me). No, it’s seven gigantic shots of depresso espresso injected into the bone marrow and idk how to feel about it, but one thing is for certain:

I am living for the White-Orange bromance… it was nice while it lasted djdjdjdnjdkdkdjdmsmmsls

[emily-mooon]

Ok so it looks like ship charts have been going around and not too long ago, I made my own cause I noticed the other one didn’t have a lot of the characters and I wanted one that did. I finally finished adding my own lines tonight (I also added Comeau, Jason Kim, Sandra and Monique cause I forgot to add them when I originally made this) so here’s my easy to digest opinions on the different ships!

Don’t feel offended if your OTP isn’t a top pairing for me and it’s in something like ��it’s ok’. I respect that you like it, its just not my thing. if it’s a ship you hate in one of the top spots, well be respectful please and thank you :]

Also if I forgot a ship, I’m sorry it didn’t cross my head while making this. Just tell me which one and I’ll respond with what line I would have put.

(Blanks and the different layers under the cut cause my god its a mess)

Also bonus logoless version if you want it :D

Ok bye! Have fun making your own with my blanks if you want to, just link to this post or credit me if you do please and thank you ;]

[alexturner2005]

i need the strokes to come back bc i very nearly made a sign that i’m 99% sure would’ve worked and it’s haunting my every waking thought

[mycological-mariner]

This might be the worst EEG I have ever had. Only on day one too. Of all my gripes the biggest is that the wires aren’t protected. They’re not wrapped, not secured with any tape or bandage, nothing. This is totally understandable if you’re only having a 4 or 7 hour EEG, but I’m here for five days. I can’t so much as lay down without the wires becoming loose, which is kind of crucial to having an EEG. The tech only comes in twice a day and leaves at 4pm. So that means tonight, when I’m sleeping and a wire is disconnected I’ll have no way of reconnecting it, costing HOURS of important data. Because this whole thing IS just that, collecting information. I will have thrown away a week and a grotesque amount of money on travel alone for an incomplete test. Absolutely ridiculous.

[jerseymuppet]

im sorry if this comes off weird. in your post about how tumblr doesnt celebrate women, a true post, you said "even the women here are men" but also said "not in a trans misogynistic way", which is a fair save but... thats not really worded inclusively at all. because it did look like you called all non-trans women trans people "men that are women" 😭 if you fixed that already im so sorry that tumblr doesnt update that across reblogs. I know it was a mispeak, no worries. just pointing it out. hopefully not to exhaustion here.

i apologize if it wasn’t worded inclusively enough! i love trans women and they are included in the point of the post (women being ignored in favor of cishet men) a) i said “even the women you TALK about here are men” I was very much referring to fandom spaces. b) i do think it’s a little strange that my post has to be worded for inclusivity? like. i would hope people would have enough brain cells to rub together to know that. the guy that goes by any pronouns and repeatedly has made many posts about loving trans women would not be talking about them.

there is not really an inclusive way to say “misogyny is so ingrained in queer/leftist spaces that the only time they talk about women anymore they are talking about men.” because no matter how i say it, someone isn’t going to be happy with that. even if i specifically say cishet they will accuse me of being transphobic towards their blorbos (cishet men) it is an easy bypass. to accuse someone of being a terf for simply.... pointing out that it’s weird the only woman people talk about is. gerard way.

also sometimes.... inclusivity is the problem. like im not trying to be mean but the reading comp/immediate jump to bad faith reading problem on this site is TERRIBLE. you really read me saying what was essentially shorthand for “this doesn’t apply to transfemmes, trans misogyny is another conversation that goes hand and hand with this one” and send me an ask about how i (person under trans flag, surrounded by trans women) didn’t address this issue nicely enough and might as well have said all trans women are men? very sorry to say that says more about how you view trans women than anything else. like. what is genuinely more important to you? i genuinely think i might be better off talking to walls at this point.

[hplonesomeart]

I’ve plummeted deep into the brainrot and no soul can even fathom being able to pull me out of it don’t even try because it’s a lost cause :))

Enjoy the silly spur of the moment cover I did while seated in the car Thursday (the 8th if I remember dates correctly). Was on the fence about posting it anywhere but hell why not. I tried to make one with cleaner audio quality but hated how my voice inflections sounded so this is the best version we’ve got a hold of currently!

[saveitlikesasuke]

Chelsea fans: “MASON MOUNT IS A SNAKE AND A TRAITOR HE HATES CHELSEA AND HE DISRESPECTED THE CLUB AND FORCED HIS WAY OUT AND HE’S NOT EVEN THAT GOOD ANYWAY AND HE PISSED ON MY NAN’S GRAVE AND-”

Every other clubs’ fans: “wow Chelsea really fucked up by replacing Mount’s earlier offer with a 1 year extension, what a signing for United, great player”

[cuteniaarts]

@katkastrofa: *writes a single throwaway line in one chapter of Lost and Found that is never referenced again*

Me, completely randomly and with no prompting: Alright, bet–

[steviescrystals]

i seriously need to get a new job and start making money again asap bc i cannot keep living at home much longer it’s driving me insane

(wrote an entire essay in the tags without meaning to oops)