#am about to demolish it

[rainymoodlet]

there’s something minty going on in strangerville… ⚗️

#if anyone wants to write a detailed guide on taking gp shots i’m all down 🙃 #ts4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 screenshots #ts4 legacy #;actaea #;actaeag1 #sim: nimphidia #sim: nano #(robot kitty) #ts4 not so berry challenge #|| #this house has taken me four days across like 18 hours fhfhf #i am in love with it absolutely omg #now i just gotta step back and take a break from it so i don’t immediately want to demolish it fhfhf #nimphidia is so cute she’s bubbly and bright and loves being colorful and mischievous #but she will also smile at you while she takes off your legs to study what you’d do if you had to crawl out of a collapsing building yknow? #just for the ~science~ of it all #and i love that about her fhfhf baby mad scientist in a frutiger aero world #she’s going to end up with specimens floating in tubes and a crush on a certain ferryman of souls so lets gooOOOO #i love you all i hope you’re doing well mwah 😘 #another day off wasted to the sims brain bug fjfhfh #oh this is based off of monsanto’s house of tomorrow btw!!

[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.

#to be VERY clear. I Am Not An Actual Expert. #i AM however drawing from my own experience and research #and literally i can find Zero literature about recurve arrow flights dropping faster than longbows #all i could find was that recurve range is worse compared to compound bows #which. OBVIOUSLY. compound bows CHEAT. #(said lovingly. ish. if you use a compound more power to you but also It’s Doing All The Work For You.) #this article was literally all i could find from a couple hours’ search comparing recurves and longbows #anyway recurves are cool. flanagan why did you do recurves so dirty. #for that matter why are all your women blonde. #(i’m not including brotherband here sorry) #(but also why did it take a spinoff series for him to create a named female character that wasn’t a blonde) #(flanagan explain) #god these books have so many problems. truly this is my ‘i could fix him’ #thank you flanagan for getting me into this special interest. now Tell Me Why You Did It Wrong. #rangers apprentice #anyway if you REALLY want to read about some bangin historical horse archers #look up the parthians :) #specifically how they fucking Decimated an entire roman contingent :) #crassus getting absolutely demolished by mounted archer parthians is definitely my favorite bit of roman trivia

[rosecandyart]

I just woke up and got tag-teamed I see how it is

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #pearl splatoon #pearl houzuki #shiver splatoon #shiver #THE SONG IS A BANGER #THEY ALL LOOK AMAZING #WE GOT MORE PUNK PEARL #PEARL UTTERLY DEMOLISHED FRYE AND PRAISED MARINA #MARINA WAS A SWEETIE TO SHIVER #I AM SO NORMAL ABOUT THIS #REMINDER THAT PEARL IS THE BEST AND COOLEST SPLATOON CHARACTER RAAAAAH

[jason-gold-falcon]

Did a Redraw Challenge where you draw the image as a Ship you like. I did Demolisher (Ironhide) and Cyclonus (Sandstorm) from Transformers Energon (Superlink)

I think I cooked.

#recent art #sketch #sketches #transformers #transformers armada #transformers micron legend #transformers energon #Transformers Superlink #demolisher #Armada Cyclonus #Sandstorm #ironhide #why am i even posting about this?

[lloydfrontera]

i just realized how delightfully ironic it is that javilon rebelled because he thought it was shameful for the king and adeline to grant rakiel's request when just a few weeks later javilon will be fully enamored of him. completely gone for the man. like. yeah babe adeline had to live in his court for a couple weeks but you're gonna kneel at his feet and beg him to stroke your hair. you are not the same lmao

#i talk a lot <3 #javilon amboise #rakiel magentano #royal malpractice #sorry i'm reading the translation for their first arc and. god. he's soooo embarrassing about rakiel lmaooo #i am still convinced that if rakiel had just. gone for a smooch instead of an awkward head pat javilon would've been done for #because like. him being weird with rakiel starts even before he cures his headache #he's already fascinated by rakiel he wants to be his friend he wants to be closer to him #and then rakiel gives him the answer he's looking for and he just. breaks. he completely loses sense of who he is. #so if rakiel had pushed at his boundaries just a little more i am fully convinced javilon would've crumbled and rebuilt himself #around rakiel. forever revolving in his orbit. #one day i will write the most toxic rewrite of cpsm where rakiel demolishes javilon's sense of identity and makes himself javilon's most #important person in the entire world to get him under his control. so exactly like in canon. but gayer <3 #and then you'll all understand what i'm talking about ajhkdsf #crown prince sells medicine #cpsm

[deus-ex-mona]

g. good meoto morning guys…

#honestly they were so smart for making this a 4 image mv #imagine how b a d l y society would collapse if we got to see them act even *more* disgustingly in love #aiyuu nation would’ve been left in s h a m b l e s i tell you #…well not like we aren’t already demolished by *that* one handholding frame… #though wait is it just me or is the haori/covering in general that aizo put on yujiro to keep him warm present in the handholding image #dammit i have to leave for work in 5 mins why am i still thinking about meoto h el p #LXL MEOTO CRISIS 2K24

[5mcsinatrenchcoat]

i should be doing stuff, but instead I'm sitting here sobbing about how fucking tender all Karlach's romance scenes are

#it's so easy to look at her and go 'oh step on me' like so many do #all the while her actual romance is the softest shit ever #she goes from accidentally burning you every time you get close to actually getting you close and holding you so lovingly... #on one hand i respect people's kinks on the other hand every time someone's like 'oh she'd demolish me and spit on me' #I want to scream DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW SOFT SHE IS ACTUALLY #the devnote about her being vanilla who's all about touch lives in my mind rent free #look at my fucking scary big barbarians forehead touching and stuff I am gonna DIE #the most tender masc4masc ever (to me) #tav posting

[fontasticcrablettes]

BONUS: Yuri vs Flynn

They didn't have a chance to go head to head in the bracket, but these competitive knuckleheads demand a chance to face off.

Who's hotter, the vigilante or the knight?

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"Man." Yuri stared sullenly at the spires of Zaphias Castle as they rose on the horizon. "I can't believe I lost to some royal twit."

Beside on him on the deck of the Fiertia, Flynn said, "He seemed nice enough."

"He offered to name a pig after me as a consolation prize!"

"Maybe you should have entered a pig under your name, and you would have won."

Without looking over, Yuri shoved Flynn hard enough to make him stumble to the side. "Like you can talk. I know I would at least have beaten the guy you were up against."

Flynn righted himself and turned to Yuri, arms crossed. "Oh, would you?"

"'Course I would've. I know how I stack up against people who look like you."

"And what's that supposed to mean?"

"It means I'm the hot one, and we both know it."

"If that's what helps you sleep at night."

Yuri turned away from the railing. "Hey, Estelle!"

Estelle, deep in conversation with Judith and Rita, turned from across the deck. When Yuri waved her over, all three girls joined them.

Flynn said, "Yuri, you don't have to involve -"

"Which of us is hotter?" Yuri jerked his thumb between himself and Flynn.

Estelle looked between them with a trace of panic. "Oh, um... um... I think you're both very handsome!"

"But who's more handsome?" Yuri asked.

Flynn sighed and shook his head. "Ignore him, Lady Estellise. Yuri is being ridiculous."

Judith folded her arms and surveyed the options. "Hm.... Strip your shirts off so we can get a better look."

"W-what?!" Flynn straightened up and then snatched Yuri's arm when it went for his belt. "Yuri!" he hissed. "Not in front of Lady Estellise!"

"This is so stupid," Rita said. "You're both ugly enough to have lost your stupid tournament."

"That was rigged," Yuri said. "Come on, now it's just me and Flynn. I'm hotter, right, Judy?"

"This is such a waste of time, Yuri," Flynn said, scowling. But he couldn't help but add, "Besides, I'm the one with a cupboard full of love letters I can't get women in the castle to stop sending me."

Estelle giggled. "You two will turn anything into a competition, won't you?"

"What are they bickering about now?" Karol asked, strolling over with Raven from the bow of the ship.

Flynn started to say 'nothing' but Judith got there first.

"They're arguing over who's sexier. I think we may have to have a vote."

"Oh no..." Estelle said. "I don't want to have to vote against either of them.... I would feel bad."

"Well, well." Raven put his fingers to his chin as he grinned. "I have a solution for ya there. This whole shebang is unnecessary, 'cause obviously the sexiest man here is Raven the Great!"

Without a shift of facial expression, the rest of the group chorused, "No."

#tales of sexyman #yuri lowell #flynn scifo #nightfoot writes things #''why do Yuri and Flynn get a dedicated ficlet and bonus poll when they lost but no one else has?'' #well you see #when I am not hosting sexy character polls this is actually primarily a Write Fic About Flynn and/or Yuri blog #anyway I fully expect Yuri to demolish Flynn but I also assumed Yuri would beat Peony so you never know!

[detentiontrack]

Today's boy dinner is french fries dipped in barbecue sauce, a big mac, and lemonade

#i am SO hungry rn #i was way too nervous to eat before my driving test and then i was way too excited to eat after passing my test #i'm going to absolutely demolish this #(no one ask about my vegetarianism. it's a special day /lh) #food

[malice-ov-mercy]

…. Should I… throw in some like a little slut in this knifeplay fic…..?

#rambles #why am I asking???? the answer is so clearly yes #and yes I’m still thinking about the Demolisher cover

[lokh]

jesus. do you ever come out of a hyperfixation and think Wtf happened

#like How did i get into this what the hell grabbed me #anyways. im coming to my senses LMAO #OR.... omg its the thing abt im on stablisiers and am no longer a bts stan LMAO #anyways im genuinely chill about it now LMAO im kind of like wait its just like a normal ship what happened #to clarify Of course i still like it. but omg #like that guy who wakes up and all the oreos are demolished... #ah wait i remember WHAT kickstarted it #it was a specific fic lmao. my question still stands why did this ship grab me by the balls

[pinkfey]

i don’t think i’m built to work with teachers in the school district 😔

#i’m autisming too hard today #like i cannot be librarian again after this job bc this one teacher can’t stand me and i don’t know what i’m doing wrong #she told the principal that i cut their library time short because i didn’t want to do story time?? when that isn’t what happened at all #the cutoff point is six minutes until the next class. if it takes her class that long to pick out books then there isnt time to read a story #because we’ll go overtime and the next class will have to wait!! #so i told her i don’t think we have time for a story today so if you’d like for them to keep reading that’s fine #and u can leave whenever you’d like !! #like hello ?? what am i missing !! what did i do wrong !! #the principal confronted me about it and i said i could tell the teacher was upset when i told her #and the principal said she gets upset about a lot of things 😟 so #idk i just. i can handle mean parents but i can’t deal with a mean coworker i just can’t #everyone else is nice to me but when i see her talking to them in the break room it reminds me of like. #the socializing i struggled with in school. i just can’t do it #like this on top of the abortion is just demolishing me today #anyways.txt

[miserye]

genetics? what even are genetics who fucking needs genetics fuck your genetics fuck

#chatterye #i am being demolished by the punnet mfs #god damn i hate genetics #calculate the pr- SHUT THE FUCK UP LEAVE IT TO CHANCE OH WAIT IT IS CHANCE BECAUSE ITS GENETICS #if i breed the most ungodly creature with this regular ol' joe what children do they have #fucked up ones and dead ones no in between #oh but rye they make more sense than chemistry does NO IT DOES NOT. IT DOES NOT. #orgo i apologize for anything bad i said about you i hadn;t met genetics yet #also side note i messed up my knit i'm workign on rn and i'm debating what to do because i can't frog it because it's mohair and the only #thing worse than genetics is frogging mohair #i'll just work around the mistake and hope for the best ig #maybe i'm genetically inclined to being stupid who fucking knows

[klmt1]

Breaking news: the beautiful first new monstera leaf of the season is putting out its own new leaf. A new empire will rise from this one leaf. The platonic ideal of monstera leaves if I may be so bold

#I’m trying to think of things I am excited about at the new place to make me less sad about leaving this one #(which is getting demolished) #I am looking forward to REAL HARDWOOD FLOORING #that is not GREY

[meat-pvppet]

GAAAAH THE HORRIBLE CRINGE NEED TO ACTUALLY WRITE OUT MY FUNGER SONA 

#.txt #anyway hi im brain dumping here #so i was remembering the times i had some pretty scarily accurate tarot card readings for some people who asked me for some in school #i know that sounds really im like so the main character teehee but yeah #but yeah i was remembering those times and i was like hey what if daan had a tarot card reading from someone and got absolutely demolished #in "oh wow you are extremely tragic and life is really not going your way #so uh #brain began to brain and now i am holding every single fiber of my being back from writing a serious character thing for my funger sona #mostly out of fear of being cringe for #idk #my belief system around tarot cards and tarot readings n witchcraft??? #idk i just feel like ill be hunted for sport if i talk about that publicly online #which is why i dont really use my old witchcraft blog that often anymore #but thats beside the point #writing this makes me feel delusional but i just need to brain dump about this before i explode into a million billion pieces

[arosebyan0thername]

When my dad first started listening to the mcelroys he asked if any of them were gay because one of them has "a gay voice." I, gay, don't generally think that way but I do know what my dad, straight and 53, would think that means, and you know what? I still don't know which one he meant.

#mcelboys #the mcelroys #mbmbam #taz #this is not an insult to any of them i am literally a flamboyant bi transmasc #well. maybe flamboyant is a stretch but i do have a Fruity Voice™️ if ever there was one #but they all have certain aspects that i could see him construing as 'gay voice' #and i love that about them #this thought brought to you #as it always is brought to me #by griffin's 'good god whats the deal??' when turbovicki absolutely demolishes basketball #and by demolishes i mean she does it so bad that basketball stops being a sport anymore