deegandungeons

blackqueerblog

High fantasy worlds based on real life geography and culture amazes me every time!

kathraak

Can we step back for a second though and look at this twitter thread without any blinders whether that be on any level concerning representation in media, to realize how aggressively presumptuous the Twitter OP is being?

Outright, the focus is on ‘their’ culture. On ‘their’ tiny little aspect of this vastly creative effort that has been almost universally loved by those who’ve seen it. Things like this, people trying to control creators, to punish those who want to make something if it isn’t made to ‘their’ specifications, are the modern equivalent of the old Catholic Church arresting artists who made things the organization found “untasteful”.

Outrage culture is just a thing we have to deal with for now. People are going to flip their lids and go on childish vendettas against people that don’t fit their vision of a good artist or media maker. But preemptively throwing an aggressive and accusatory tantrum about something no one has even SEEN yet is where I draw the line.

You want to see representation for your culture? Right now that’s you. And by that example your culture is whiny, self-interested, and narrow minded.

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pantherdaemon

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charlesoberonn

worthikids

Frasier and Niles Become Demon Lords

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lyonface

striderofthenorth-dom

I’ve been working on a wooden longbow most of the afternoon. Here are ten easy steps for making your own :)

1. Cut down a tree

2.Split that tree into lengthwise sections called staves. The dog will help

3. Build a woodshed

4. Let those staves dry for a few years in the shed

5. Remove all the shit that isn’t a bow. The dog will help again by lying on your foot

6. Make sure the handle stays centered in the growth rings

7. Steam bend and weight the wood so that both limbs start with the same bend

8. Slowly remove wood from the belly of the bow on both sides until they bend evenly

9. Add tip overlays, handle wraps, and all the fancy crap

10. Go out in the yard and practice till hunting season starts

I may need to drive to town for some human contact.

chiribomb

😮

sighinastorm

Any particular wood? What was it here? I always meant to try making a bow out of my parents’ overgrown yew shrubbery, but that didn’t work out.

striderofthenorth-dom

Pictured in the compilation above are shagbark hickory, hop-hornbeam, and common buckthorn. While English yew is rightfully considered one of the best bow woods, almost any straight grained hardwood can make a very nice bow. You can even use maple boards from the hardware store to start.

synonymforhappiness

“Shagbark Hickory,” “Hop-Hornbeam,” and “Common Buckthorn,” all sound like the names middle earth kids give their high school garage bands.

striderofthenorth-dom

😂😂😂… and now my brain just created Ent Metal as a genre. It’s pretty damn Larghissimo, but very strong.

danipup

what a fuckin’ nerd.

mrmattegrey

Okay now I want to figure out what ent metal would sound like.

striderofthenorth-dom

I’m thinking thunder and whale song. Somehow.

striderofthenorth-dom

The amount of notes this has gotten is absurd. That doesn’t happen to my posts, but since you crazy kids seem interested here’s (one of a gajillion ways) to make the accompanying primitive arrows.

We want lighter wood than we used to make the bows. This is white cedar- nice and light and sproingy.

Mill that up into rectangular pieces as long as your arrows need to be.

Then you use this homemade tool called a shooting board to rest them in while you hand plane them from rectangular to round.

You saved your wings from the spring turkey hunt, right? Good, we’re gonna need those primary feathers.

Make yourself a pattern out brass or copper sheet, clamp the feather to it, and burn it with a torch. This will shape the feathers into fletchings.

Now we need to make pine pitch glue by melting together pine pitch (you can pick it off pine trees where they’ve been injured) and hardwood charcoal. Think of it as ancient people’s super glue.

Get your paleontologist buddy to give you some rock from actual Paleolithic quarry sites ‘cuz that’s pretty rad.

Learn flint knapping… he said casually after years of hair-pulling-out struggles with it.

Attach your stone points to your arrow shafts using the ancient super glue stuff and leg sinew from the deer you got last year. Do the same for the fletchings.

And you’re finally ready to start practicing! Don’t worry, the dog will help again by standing directly in front of the target because she’s beautiful and loving, but not very good at critical thinking sometimes.

danipup

mansies, this post keeps getting more awesome. :)

also, proposal: should Caradhras have a different name in summertime? i’m feelin’ a more Bag End or Hobbiton vibe when the place isn’t covered in show.

striderofthenorth-dom

You can’t go changing place names seasonally, @danipup What would the maps look like? Every place has 4 names?😂😂

danipup

I’m living in 3018 map ideas, @striderofthenorth-dom . get with the program, Bow Boy. 💡

hypno-sandwich

From up the thread- I’m glad all these Old Romantics are into Ent Music.

theleeallure

@systlin this seems like it would be right up your.. archery lane?

systlin

Holy shit

staxilicious

You can also do a bath and bend version where you use straight pieces of wood instead of carving them, soak the wood in salted water, set to dry using clamps to shape it; repeat the bath soak then clamp set (moving the clamps for each new set) until your bow is in the preferred shape.

(This is how my uncle taught me to make long bows in his workshop at Howitzer when I was a child. They made a lot of fiberglass bows, which I was too young to be around the manufacturing of, and mostly made compound bows (the ones with pulleys that give more tension to the pull). My uncle designed the Warthog bow for himself and other short people who like to now hunt. OP has a couple of clever life hacks to my uncle’s method (using lifting weights is a genius idea), and an excellent bow making method. I am only sharing a different technique for those who may find soaking easier than steaming (or those who find themselves needing to make a bow in the wild since you could bind the wood around a tree instead of clamping it to shape).

elodieunderglass

this is such a nice post

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boethiah

Anonymous asked:

Okay weird lore observation. Heirs of the dragon blood are capable of wearing the amulet of Kings. Traditionally that refers to the heirs of the imperial throne. It's been inferred by some that all of the heirs of dragon blood are technically dragon born and could absorb dragon souls. One of the first (if not the first) MINOTAURS was an emperor and the son of Alessia no less. Thus it would stand to reason that not only could a minotaur wear the Amulet of Kings, but could also absorb dova souls?

boethiah answered:

it hasn’t been clarified whether the dragonborn who can wear the amulet of kings are the same as the dragonborn who can absorb dragonsouls. nonetheless the idea of minotaurs being able to wear the amulet of kings is… very interesting ngl

kathraak

I’ve considered this at some length before. The Minotaurs were a proud people that were reduced to little more than beasts on the edge of society by a fanatical religion. There’s certainly a regal nature to them that is sadly lost in the games.

As the whole ‘dragon blood’ thing goes, it’s hard to say because Alessia’s bloodline were the original Emperors. They were eliminated only to be replaced by the Septim line. Both were able to wear the amulet, both may have consisted of Dragonborn.

So then is Dragonborn an inherited trait at all?

boethiah

gay743 asked:

i guess this isn't really lore but in the minute amount of hours i've put into morrowind it's the thing that bugs me the most - what the fuck is the deal with fargoth? And his 'hiding place.' i'm too scared to find out for myself

boethiah answered:

i really, truly, do not have a clue. fargoth scares me

kathraak

Fargoth’s hiding place is a hollow stump in a small pond in town.

weenie-kun

puncromancer:
“Clench your assholes lads we’re on the hunt for pirates
”

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queennati

lafaiette

Friendly reminder that:

Qunari are empowering Saarebas with lyrium so that they can become stronger, open temporary Rifts, slow time down, and use mysterious spells, all through unknown means.

Tevinter is terribly weakened, corrupted, and will not last in the war against the Qunari.

Fen’Harel, now incredibly powerful, is planning to eliminate the corrupted parts of the Qun (good thing), but also to tear down the Veil (not that good, depending on the consequences). He will probably help the Tevinter slaves in rebelling against their masters too.

Titans are awakening. They are enormous beings living deep underground, whose blood has been consumed for millennia by mages and Templars alike, shaping the world as it is today. They also seem able to influence events above ground and they are very angry with the world or at least with the elves. They will probably re-establish their contact/link with the dwarves.

Something is happening in Weisshaupt, the Wardens have gone silent, and a new Blight is most likely coming.

The Evanuris are still locked away, but it’s obvious they will get free soon. They are a bunch of homicidal assholes who will not think twice about conquering Thedas again. They might be also tainted by the Blight, if the theories “Evanuris locked away with the Blight in the Black City” are true.

If Kieran was born, Flemeth/Mythal took the Old God’s soul from him, planning to do something with it. We still don’t know what it is, but it’s unlikely she will stay “dead”. She still has to have her revenge, her “reckoning which will shake the very heavens”.

Either Morrigan or the Inquisitor drank from the Well of Sorrows and the consequences of that act are still unclear, but whatever they are, they are going to suck or at least be mildly disturbing.