#saber right

[biteghost]

[FGO] strong enough to hold up my gf's cintiq

#fate series #fate grand order #cu chulainn alter #mastersona #art #sketch #fanart #just a collection of stupid doodles featuring my mans <3 #no cringe just right #prince of lanling saber

[oddeyes588]

So... Lostbelt 6 part 2 is out and it's great! I haven't finished it yet but uh... I gotta address something. And it's this scene.

Good scene, right? Beautiful CG, some insight into the way Castoria thinks... but there's something wrong with this scene.

It's translated wrong.

Now if you're like me and you've been keeping up with fan translations for FGO, you may have realized this already, but this translation fundamentally misses the entire point of the scene.

This is what Castoria is supposed to be saying:

I don't want to see her. I don't want to be shown her. She's too much. I don't want to believe it. I don't want to acknowledge it.

After all.

She has no equal. Takes no refuge. No one who understands her. None who can comfort her.

She receives no reward. No goals. No rest. She cannot afford failure, not even a single mistake.

Ah—from the bottom of my heart, I think: "no."

Just how cruel must it be for everyone to smile and acknowledge a king like that?

Do you see the difference? This is a defining scene concerning Castoria's character. Something that sets her apart from every other iteration of Artoria that we've known so far (barring the Servantverse ones). Castoria sees the way of life that her PHH self chose and is repulsed. She can't stand to think about it. At first it seems like she's just buckling under the weight of those expectations, but in reality, Castoria just can't stand to see her.

She can't stand to see this other version of herself willingly throw away her humanity for the sake of an ideal. To give up her own happiness, to give up any chance of ever being understood, all to become a perfect king who the people will love and praise, but never truly understand.

It is a lonely existence, and like a certain redhead in Fate/Stay Night, she can't accept it. Who could bear to live like that? Who would want to live like that? Castoria wants nothing more than to be happy. She wants to make friends her age, eat sweets with them, go shopping with them and walk down the street while holding their hands. She wants to LIVE, and the thought of giving all of that up for the sake of everybody but yourself...

Noble? Sure. But it's mostly just tragic.

That's what this scene is about. Establishing exactly how Castoria feels about her Proper Human History self. She doesn't admire her, if anything it HURTS to see her, to know what she went through, to know what she did.

So WHY was it translated like this?

I'm the only one of my kind. I have nowhere to run. No one understands me. Romance is out of the question.

There's no reward. No finish line. no rest. I can't make so much as a single mistake.

Ahh... So many things I'll never have.

How cruel would I have to be for everyone to accept a king like me with a smile?

Listen, Castoria thinking of her own struggles in parallel to Saber's is interesting, and it isn't NOT there... but that isn't the point of the scene, and foregrounding it like this is uh...

It sure is a decision, that's for sure.

It's not necessarily bad, but it just doesn't fit due to the obvious reason that this isn't what the scene is supposed to be. This scene isn't Castoria seeing a vision of Saber and going "wow, how am I going to live up to this?" as if Saber's story is aspirational.

No. It's a tragedy, and what Castoria is actually thinking is "that's cruel and fucked up"

Anyways I just felt like putting this out there... and before anybody jumps down my throat about how the fan-translation could've been wrong... I did bring this up with a friend who can read Japanese and went to read the node in Japanese. While you could argue that because Caster and Artoria are acknowledged to be different versions of the same person, that Caster is using "I" to refer to the other, but the last line is just outright wrong. The scene is fundamentally about the cruelty of everyone around Saber placing an impossible burden on her, and how Castoria feels seeing that.

#fate grand order #fgo #fgo na #lostbelt 6 #artoria caster #castoria #artoria pendragon #saber #lostbelt 6 spoilers #oh would you look at that its a SURPRISE ODDEYES RANT WOOHOO #this time its about FATE #ABOUT TIME RIGHT #anyways i have a normal amount of thoughts about artoria caster and artoria pendragon

[purble-gaymer]

my world has turned so cold, but i won’t cry

‘cause icicles don’t soften when they die, so why should i? (x)

#they sharpen into sabers and they stab you in the eye! #kirby #kirby right back at ya #meta knight #rhyn's art #this’ll be in the pre-dreamland thing don’t worry about it #i’ve had this scene written out for like a year #i think about this all the time. it hurts me

[ghosts-cyphera]

hi can someone tell me to go and spend €120 on a lightsaber? my mental health needs this (…) but I’m too goddamn indecisive and feel like this one ✨ treat yourself ✨ moment is going to bankrupt me for life sksksk

#(USD 130) #I was about to get a set of two for $60 on amazon but my boyfriend convinced me that at that point ‘I might as well look at a more mid-range #lightsaber instead’ and now he’s apologizing for making this too difficult for me #AS HE SHOULD #but like ?? physical activity is good right ?? #learning to spin some sabers wouldn’t hurt right ?? #OR this will end like my ukulele hyperfixation. bought one and played for 15 minutes and gave up because I didn’t learn fast enough sksk #mind you it was my first time ever playing an ukulele #HELP #lo talks

[altblock-tm]

Sorry I just wanted to draw him with a biggol’ smile

under the cut is an alt where I thought I could be cool and color it with highlighters but just ruined it by accident

#doodle doodles #fate series #fgo #fate grand order #Diarmuid ua Duibhne #traditional art #saber diarmuid #Sabermuid I love you…… #I gave him a grail yesterday and he was so happy that he got a super success right to level 85 instead of 82

[bysaber]

can’t stop thinking about how obito is a lover boy by heart but also a lunatic. he fell for you when you were still young and nothing was ever that serious but he never lets go, he can’t let go. even if destiny has different plans for the both of you, he will defy it and force himself back into your life because he knows that’s where he belongs – beside you, the only one he loves.

I just see him going out of his way for you, to make you realize you need him as bad as he needs you. you’re the reason why he breathes. you’re his whole life. he gotta marry you, keep you, build a life with you.

he will make sure you understand that.

#s.wonders #saber thinks about obito #im a little tipsy right now and hes in my mind #obito uchiha x reader #obito x reader #obito uchiha #tobi #wbysaber

[tallmadgeandtea]

Turn Week 2023:

History Nerdery!

Hello, and Happy Fourth of July! For today's Turn Week, I wanted to talk about Benjamin's regiment in the Continental Army. We all know he's a Connecticut Dragoon, but what does that mean and what did they do, exactly? I'm going to let you know! The Continental Cavalry is my favorite unit in the army, and I actually did an Honors Research Project on them last year for my college. WARNING: this is going to be LONG. I'm sorry. Kind of.

What is the Continental Cavalry?

The cavalry is the mounted troops in a military force, meaning they fight on horseback. At the time of the Revolution, the cavalry was considered an elite and necessary force for a proper military. Combat on horseback was dangerous- you not only had to avoid cannon and gunfire, but you had to attack other mounted troops with lances and sabers of their own.

There are two types of cavalry: light cavalry and heavy cavalry. The light cavalry had three primary duties. Scouting, which was to patrol enemy forces, movements, and the terrain surrounding camps and battlefields, which also played into reconnaissance. They also served as messengers to officers on and off the battlefield. On the other hand, heavy cavalry was troops used in action. Their objective was to lead charges and weaken the enemy’s unmounted troops, like going after their flanks. They also performed raids/ambushes or small skirmishes against the enemy. Their combat was on and off the battlefield.

Due to the near constant lack of funds for the Continentals, their Dragoons performed both light and heavy cavalry roles. A dragoon/trooper is a soldier who fights either on horseback or on foot, depending on the amount of horse available. They used weapons such as: a cavalry saber, a shortgun, and a musket.

Unlike the British army, which brought over cavalry forces, at the beginning of the war, there was not an official cavalry for the Continentals. Some state and organized militias had mounted troops- such as the Philadelphia Light Horse- but professional, commissioned troops had not seen action.

After seeing the performance of the British cavalry during the New York Campaign, General George Washington realized his army needed horses of their own. Writing to Congress in late 1776, “From the Experience I have had in this Campaign… I am Convinced there is no carrying on the War without them.”

What made up the Continental Cavalry?

In 1777, the cavalry's first year in action, there were four regiments of Light Dragoons.

The 1st Regiment of Dragoons- from Virginia, also known as Bland's Light Horse. Their uniforms were originally the "classic" Continental coat: blue with red facings, but they then changed the standard to brown with green facings.

The 2nd Regiment, also known as the Connecticut Light Dragoons, Colonel Elisha Sheldon and Benjamin Tallmadge's force, mustered from Connecticut, hence the name. Their uniform was blue with buff facings.

The 3rd Regiment, aka Colonel Baylor's or Lady Washington's Light Horse, in honor of Martha Washington. Their uniform was white with blue facings (one of my favorite uniforms in the army.)

And the 4th Regiment, led by Colonel Stephen Moylan. His troops originally wore red! coats, and this lead to some incidents of friendly fire. At Washington's order, the regiment changed to green with red facings.

How does this relate to Turn: Benjamin Tallmadge and His Dragoons.

Although the show does not get into heavy detail about Benjamin Tallmadge's battle experience, we know what battles he was present at with his regiment.

1777 the cavalry's first years as professional troops in battle. Both had very... different outcomes, let's say. Both were also mentioned or briefly shown in season 2 of Turn, and my research focused on this.

During the Campaigns, a set of troops from each regiment of Dragoons was stationed with General Washington in Pennsylvania, led by Bland, Moylan, Baylor, Sheldon, and Tallmadge.

Benjamin Tallmadge and his soldiers were present at both the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown.

At Brandywine, Washington first used the dragoons for only scouting, not combat. But as the British went after his insecure right flank, he frantically sent units of soldiers and cavalry to prevent the British from getting to the road along and to Brandywine Creek. The cavalry also acted as messengers to officers during this battle, but insufficient preparation and speed led to delayed reports. The cavalry did lead a charge that allowed Washington to retreat, but the day was lost. Afterwards, the British marched into the Continental capital of Philadelphia.

After Brandywine, Washington needed another battle to try and take back Philadelphia. With a night march, he decided to attack the British near their camp in Germantown, Pennsylvania, a small village outside the city.

Washington had four columns, 2 made up of Continental forces and two of state militias. Just as at Brandywine, his right wing was commanded by Sullivan, and his left by Greene. The Dragoons were now under their newly commissioned commander, General Pulaski. Tallmadge stated in his memoirs that, “if every division of the army had performed its allotted part, it seems as if we must have succeeded.”

Unfortunately, this would not be the outcome at Germantown. At the beginning of the battle, the Continentals were winning. Part of the camp was captured. A heavy fog and rain set over the battlefield, and the British used this fog to their advantage. They retreated into a local country house and created a stalemate.

Benjamin Tallmadge and his dragoons were first stationed with Sullivan’s division, close upon “the scene of the action.” As the battle turned against the Continental forces and the troops became victim to enemy and friendly fire, Washington ordered him to use his 2nd Dragoons to block any further retreat, to no avail. Germantown was lost.

Germantown was the last official engagement of the Philadelphia campaign. But on June 28, 1778, the Continental Army and the Cavalry engaged the forces at the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey. Due to proper military training thanks to the Inspector General Baron von Steuben and six months of waiting at Valley Forge, the army emerged as a proper fighting force and prevailed against the British. The victory allowed the Continentals to take back their capital and keep Washington in as Commander in Chief.

Monmouth is the shown in the finale of season 2- Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot- with Benjamin leading his dragoons into the battle.

After the 1777 campaigns, Tallmadge and his dragoons would stay up north, particularly New York, to patrol and engage the enemy in raids. They also participated in the Battles of Stony Point and Fort St. George, which were shown in seasons 3 and 4 of Turn.

Sources (and further reading):

Memoir of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge : Tallmadge, Benjamin, 1754-1835 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777 by Michael C. Harris, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)

Germantown: A Military History of the Battle for Philadelphia, October 4, 1777 by Michael C. Harris, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)

Cavalry of the American Revolution - Jim Piecuch - Westholme Publishing

#oh my GOD #i went insane #i went crazy #i'm so so sorry #i just really really like dragoons. #turn week 2023 #turn: washington's spies #benjamin tallmadge #military history #american revolution #the Philadelphia campaign #saber & shortgun #I hope I got everything right. oh my god. I’m sorry. #long post

[matoitech]

idk who this is but hes bisexual. please enjoy him

#my art #ocs #I GUESS? #furry #anthro #big cat #idk what he is #hes got horns also #standard Guy from me. big cat saber teeth mohawk horns muscles #idk if ill keep him as a Character or anything but its just fun to draw designs w no stress abt getting them right #no refs to follow.. Freedom and big cat men #only thing i know abt him is that he is short . btw #eye strain

[fiovske]

Do you have any recs for other non-DnD game systems? I've only ever played 5e, and I'm a little intimidated to get into other systems, but I also want to branch out and get away from WOTC's bullshit.

Sure thing! I am also including a link to the itch.io pages since that's where i get most of these games!

Blades In The Dark: i'm mentioning this first bc the rules are very easy to grasp and if you're looking for a setting that has a touch of ghosts and steampunk, this game is the perfect gateway to that! it's the best for a heist i have found and the game mechanics and names are so soo sick here's just a slice from their itch.io page:

personally i find the setting and the stress mechanic very cool, because it takes into account the mental toil that an action can have and i find games with inbuilt consequence mechanics very compelling! it introduced the concept of clocks to me and i am obsessed.

a) adjacent to Blades, are all Forged In The Dark Games which are third-party blades games, and the most notable of them is Scum and Villiany which is space-western setting and also my favorite and if you're looking to play a game in the breadth of star-wars like interplanetary politics and everything, i highly recommend this game! b) if you're looking for a Blades game with mechanics to suit something more royalty-adjacent, with court-politics and agendas and masquerade parties and all, like say d20's court of fey and flowers vibe then i recommend Court Of Blades! I havent gotten around to playing this yet but it looks really promising and i soo badly want to play a game in this setting!

2. The Ground Itself : this is a world-building game. focused on one single place over time and how it changes and how it's people change, the events of this game can be spaced out from a week to several millennia depending on the rolls of ur dice or your choices! i have found that this game serves very well as say, a session zero game also, for setting up a place before you play in it, and not only a very fun session of making a place together for your party to play in, but also not leaving all the work to the gm! so it's a win win situation!

tbh, all games by everest pipkin are very good! i wanna get my hands on world ending game as well bc it is a game about giving your campaign, your world-building and your characters the perfect send-off.

3. Wanderhome : if you're looking for something ghibli-esque (this is the closest i can come to defining this game thru popular media) then i highly recommend wanderhome! it's got a very cozy pastoral vibe to it and the art is really beautiful and you get to pick from a range of animal-folk to play as it's very cool!

also honorable mentions,

a) Sleepaway is a game by the same creator in which ur a camp counsellor to a bunch of misfits and horror stories around campfires ensue! b) Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast which is an upcoming game which you can still back and it looks really interesting so i'd recommend checking it out as well!

4. Lancer: this game has mechs it has space-battles and you get to be a pilot in a future set years in the future and a thousand directions to take ur campaign in! he relationship between pilot and mech is smth that can be so personal.....

i wanna play lancer sometime it has very cool mech designs and it has very much piqued my interest, if i find ppl who wanna play lancer w me im 🏃🏃!

5. Heart The City Beneath : honestly, one of my fave settings of all time, it has strong horror components so mind the cws! but the classes and the game mechanics are very intuitive and overall it helps you not only build a character that feels natural and organic, but since this is a horror setting, things do not have happy endings... however it will ensure that your characters have a well-built journey whose ends will be terrifying and magnificent.

I got introduced to the fallout mechanic through this game and oooo how i love it, it's the perfect blend of your actions have consequences + every consequence is interesting and will affect your character deeply and emotionally, which is <33

this list got too long so i will just mention some more here:

the quiet year (very good map-making game, for before the frost shepherds arrive in winter.)

beam saber (forged in the dark game that deserves its on mention! austin ramsey's games i highly recommend!)

thirsty sword lesbians (ecactly what it says on the tin, i wanna check this game out also)

lotr's one ring rpg (this one is the closest substitute to classic d&d bc lets be real. tolkien is where d&d got it's shit from. and i have heard good things abt this game even tho i've never had the chance to play it)

mothership rpg (space horror whose build mechanics are very easy and user-friendly and i've had a LOT of fun with this!)

orbital (one very beautifully written rpg about life in space and it's only 32 pages but well-worth the time, highly recommend)

that's all i can give off the top of my head, i might've missed a few but these are strong standouts, so i hope u find at least one to your liking!

#ttrpg recomendations #not dnd #blades in the dark #forged in the dark #the ground itself #wanderhome #lancer #heart the city beneath #the quiet year #beam saber #thirsty sword lesbians #one ring rpg #mothership rpg #orbital #ttrpg #long post #genuinely recommending this to everyone. #d&d is a very good jumping off platform and w everything happening right now... #no better time to leave wotc and try indie creators' games.

[wormholy]

I love saber…

#Arturia pendragon #saber artoria #fate stay night #fgo #fate grand order #right off the cusp of people finding a saber I drew 8 years ago #here she is I still love her #I drew her hair too long she’s giving Margaret nearl vibes but that’s ok

[ddejavvu]

i've watched this movie a billion times throughout my entire life but only now is it hitting me that when anakin calls dooku an 'unarmed prisoner' that is because he has cut both of his arms off

#like damn right he's disarmed you took those things right off #ur so right he doesn't have a saber anymore. that is because he does not have hands.

[kraniumet]

behold! the plot of gintama!

#there's a reason it was the coan ending. is all i am saying #this was what I actually was looking for btw. something like. trauma disjointed puzzle metaphor -> there's a gintama puzzle ending right. #in a kinda random seeming location drama-wise #-> oh. coan beam saber 😐

[arctic-rising]

hmmmm

(image text from top left to bottom right reads as "Gen. Obelisk, Bengal Tiger, Great Dane and Pit Bull". these are the general inspirations for each design.)

#flight rising #fr art #frfanart #fr obelisk #trying to figure out how i wanna draw obbies and also designing my own obbies a bit #Cerberus in top left Uriagen top right Venture bottom left and Wonder bottom right #Ouroboros is her own can of worms because she's a shape shifter #which is why she isn't here </3 sorry ouro #happy with most of them but i wanna see how uriagen looks if he's closer in appearance to a saber tooth tiger. #and i wanna make venture's face a bit thinner.

[mijoux]

Sooooooo, I read the qsmp Star Wars au of @zeb-z and I couldn’t stop thinking about Mandalorian Etoiles (or at least beskar wearing Etoiles) so I drew some stuff (please dont look too closely thought it’s quite rough).

I made him a mirialian because green skin and cool marking . In the fist version he is still a bit of a newby so his beskar is low quality and he changes it later for a better armor.

For the code sword and shield basically the code sword becomes some kind of dark saber adjacent light saber and the shield is an energy shield or something like that. It’s not always on though.

To replace the code infection , In the second drawing at one point the sword or shield malfunctioned, he got hurt and still has lighting like scars (could also be regular dark force lighting ).

#qsmp #sw #qsmp etoiles #I will probably do another #it was fun #also I know the specie and saber are not the right one but I was to far to backtrack and I like him like that anyway #Soooo au of au i guess #my art

[humanmorph]

millie n leap...... im simply fond of them : ]

🔫🐟👏🤖🏴‍☠️

#partizan #friends at the table #fatt #exeter leap #million blue #vermillion blue #millie #theres no highfive emoji pretend this is a highfive. #rosa art #this is from a few weeks back(as you can see. by the date) drawn shortly after finishing millenium break kingdom game #i kept putting off posting it here because i wanted to draw more millie+leap and then post everything together but. its not happening soon #i do have 2 ideas for like short comics i still really like so thats not the issue but. execution on those has proven to be trouble #so im setting it aside for the moment. im working on other things very slowly right now. #anyways i just finished ep 33. sick as hell as they say!!!!!! #partizan is literally the first time actual play combat has consistently been fun and interesting to me. #like theres been cool moments etc. in other seasons but i LOVE mech fights and how beam saber works and its. so cool always

[t-u-i-t-c]

"We will change the future."

#kamen rider saber #kamen rider espada #kento fukamiya #fukamiya kento #touma kamiyama #kamiyama touma #kamen rider #tokuedit #please do not repost #umbrella.edits #umbrella.gifs #umbrella.posts #translation: flamesubs #subtitles added by me #this moment is so important it's when kento finally returns to touma's side and decides to place his trust in touma #but he also is going to follow what he believes is right and stick to who he is as a person #kento is such an interesting character and i love looking at his moments of growth #⚡🗡️⚡