#female archers

[redsamuraiii]

Kasagake Shinji: Japanese Horseback Archery at Kamigamo Shrine

“Performed at Kamigamo Shrine in October, Kasagake Archery is one of the three original styles of archery performed for the entertainment of shrine deities in Japan. The nature of the shooting at this event harkens back to the practice drills performed by archers in the days of Japan’s warring period, recreated today as part of a religious offering. 

As opposed to the more commonly performed yabusame ritual where the archers shoot only at one fixed target, the archers at this event take aim at five targets- three at shoulder-height and two closer to the ground to simulate more realistic military maneuvers on the battlefield.  

#discover kyoto #kyoto #japan #yabusame #kasage shinji #kamigamo shrine #japanese archery #horseback archery #japanese culture #japanese tradition #kasagake archery #female archers #female warriors

[blumineck]

"Why are there so many female archers in fiction?"

Please forgive the clickbait-y title! This is a super complex and interesting topic that I barely scratch the surface of here, but I hopefully will be able to do more justice to things like this in the future!

Also, it's not the point of the video, but I had fun with the outfits in this- do you have any faves?

As always, please consider supporting me on Patreon if you can, or watching on youtube if not!

#archery #fantasy #nerd #trick shot #archer #female archer #katniss everdeen #merida #aloy #kate bishop #etc

[leadjockey]

The Baroness of Whitestone

#vex'ahlia #critical role #vox machina #cr fanart #digital illustration #artwork #female characters #artists on tumblr #character design #legend of vox machina #digital art #character art #dnd art #dnd #dnd character #dungeons and dragons #dungeons and drawings #dnd elf #archer

[that-beeotch]

Damian Priest HCs

Some NSFW content

Translation:

Palomita- Little dove.

-You are a good girl. That's the way your co-workers described you. Never said anything mean about anyone, or done something to make someone feel bad.

-Damian has heard about you since you got here.

She is so nice.

Yeah she helped me with something I had going on.

So pretty and kind, it's like seeing an angel.

-Yeah a perfect little angel. It's exactly what made him want to meet you and see for himself. They weren't wrong, you were an angel, a perfect little dove, with perfect white feathers.

-Palomita, is what he called you every time he saw you.

What brings you here palomita?

This is exactly the type of place I never thought I would see you at palomita.

Let me get that for you palomita.

-He knew what he wanted from you, it was just so pleasing to corrupt a perfect little thing.

-Like when he caught you staring at him, he could read the lust in your eyes. Or when he would hug you and his thumb would slip inside your shirt... accidentally, he would swear. But he would see the way you'd bite your lip and shiver in his touch.

-Then there was the time there was a blackout and you were arranging a costume closet the size of a small storage room and he went in there cause you called out for help. Poor thing, you were scared and he took you in his arms and promised that if you closed your eyes everything would be better.

-His lips found your ear as he whispered some story from a long time ago in your ear. His arms snaked around you. You were a shivering mess and didn't mean to moan out loud when you felt his erection press against you. His lips sealed yours immediately and on instinct you wrapped your legs around his waist and began to grind against him not disconnecting your lips from him.

-You're an eager little thing aren't you palomita? he chuckled. I can't fuck you in here the way I want, but when I finish I promise I'll take you wherever you're at.

-You nodded and attached your lips to his again as the lights came back on and he set you down.

#damian priest x female reader smut #damian priest #damian priest x reader #archer of infamy #the judgment day wwe

[dragon-inc]

#fine art #female #archer #bow #forest #fantasy

[lionofchaeronea]

The Skipping Rope, Janet Archer, 1883

#art #art history #Janet Archer #female artists #genre painting #genre art #Victorian Britain #Victorian England #Victorian life #British art #English art #19th century art #Victorian art #Museum of the Home

[archerinventive]

Happy Sword Sunday! ⚔️

Thank you to Liv F.H. for helping capture this moment during a recent warm-up at Midsummer. 😊❤️

#sword sunday #sword #women in armor #female knight #lady knight #dame #dame archer #knights of loreamour #loreamour #archer inventive #archerinventive #sun always in my eyes #wearing my red pants

[pensamentsisomnis]

Photo of The Day 

#photo of the day #sean archer #model #art model #beautiful model #female portrait #portrait model

[carnageandculture]

Olympic archery Czechoslovakian team: Dana Pickova, 1948.

#czechoslovakia #olympic games #archery #female archer #1940s

[gilgil-machine]

old man and his stories😄

#I love when he's rambling about different stuff. he looks so cute🥰 #gilgamesh #fate grand order #fgo #fgo gilgamesh #fate gilgamesh #archer gilgamesh #fate #fate series #fate extra ccc #hakuno kishinami #hakuno kishinami (female) #gudako #my shitpost

[eschergirls]

Each part of her body looks like it belongs to a completely different pose and it's kind of amazing.  Also ow her feet.

(Loading screen and promo art for Atlantis: The Lost Islands, Vivid Violet, submitted by anonymous)

Originally posted at EscherGirls.com

#atlantis: the lost islands #mobile games #video games #female archers #swivel waist #rubber hips #ridiculous fighting stances #the agony of the feet #promotional material

[thesmartartslibrary]

#fine art #female #archer #bow #forest #fantasy #2310 #The SmartArts Library #shv3

[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

[itswhatienjoy]

Enjoy the beauty! @itswhatienjoy

#archer #female warrior

[that-beeotch]

The Many Uses of a Mirror Damian Priest

NSFW content below the cut. Minors dni. Thank you

Translation:

Mi amor- my love

Papi- Daddy

-Damian will be taking off tomorrow morning, he'll be gone for a whole week so he has a bright idea.

-You were beyond turned on, his hand between your legs, the mirror propped up in front of you, his fingers buried in your cunt, his mouth whispering dirty things in your ear, your hand holding his phone to record the way his fingers were stretching you, and his impressive erection pressed against you.

-'Keep the phone up mi amor, I don't want you to miss a second of this.' he says as he adds a third finger inside of you.

-You're a whimpering mess and he wraps his free arm around you to keep you from writhing away from his hand.

-'Look at that baby, you take it so well. Look how wet you are for me.' he pulls his fingers out and brings them up to rub them on your lips only to shove them back inside you.

-'Papi, i'm gonna cum.' You barely get the sentence out when you feel yourself hit your climax his fingers never stopping their assault on your pussy.

-He helps you get on his lap still facing the mirror. 'Okay Mami, make sure you catch how my dick tears you apart.'

#damian priest x female reader smut #damian priest x reader #the judgment day wwe #archer of infamy #damian priest

[dragon-inc]

#fine art #female #archer #bow #forest #fantasy