#Spanish Weapons

[kultofathena]

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The unsharpened blade of this Early Spanish Rapier is made of well tempered Chrome-Vanadium steel with a hardness of 50HRC and is peened at the pommel for durability.

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[armthearmour]

A fantastically chiseled and gilt Rapier,

OaL: 45.5 in/115.6 cm

Blade Length: 39.5 in/100.3 cm

Width: 6.5 in/16.5 cm

Depth: 3.4 in/8.6 cm

Weight: 2.1 lbs/935.5 g

Spain, ca. 1590, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[studyingselene]

november 8, 2024 - sorry for being so inactive 😭😭 i've been drowning in work lately but i hope you guys are doing well

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8 de noviembre de 2024 - perdón por estar tan inactivo 😭😭últimamente estado agobiado por el trabajo pero espero que ustedes están haciendo bien

[hero-of-the-wolf]

Silly Game Time: (Bringing back a crowd favorite)

We're about to march into glorious battle! But unfortunately ... our weapon shipment got mixed up with the London Philharmonic Orchestra's insturment shipment.

Use a random letter generator, then look up a musical instrument that starts with that letter to find out which musical instrument is now your improvised melee weapon. Post a picture! On a scale of 1 to 10, how much use is it going to be in our now less-than-glorious battle?

I have to go with the maracas skahakgaksha bc the mental image of me bashing things in with these is just too good to pass up

[byfulcrums]

swk's staff being sentient would be a great thing. he's got a deep fucking connection with that thing, he loves her and she loves him and they're unstoppable together. he almost cried during the 500 years without her. she's still angry at him for leaving her on that mountain

she picks mk because she likes him, not because sun wukong does. eventually they might have as good of a relationship as she had with her old holder. mk screamed in excitement when he found out she was sentient. she's not swk's anymore (not yet) but she still fights with him if necessary

mk relies too much on her at first and she doesn't like it. she starts to be more cold to the touch after season 3 because of lbd. she can't talk but they understand her anyway

[sophiefallenangel]

[mainfaggot]

criticizing countries that have insanely oppressive governments due to the weaponization of religion (Iran and Saudi Arabia for example) is a perfectly acceptable thing to do, but tumblr users are actually fucked in the head and jump onto any opportunity to be blatantly islamophobic... like fuck you for real... it's always the hindu nationalists, zionists, and catholic fucking freaks banding together to be disgustingly uneducated in the tags of any critical post

[proshippersstimming]

Puss in Boots with places in Spain, Spanish guitar, cats and swords for anon!

🇪🇸 🎼 🇪🇸 / 🐱 🗡️ 🐱 / 🇪🇸 🎼 🇪🇸

[vastiitas]

thinking abt... the connotative difference between being a killer vs a weapon,

[deathsmallcaps]

Blue beetle spoilers. And spoilers for Macario (1960)

There’s plenty of articles out there already with this info but these are my thoughts.

Ok I just saw Blue Beetle and I’m in love with Xolo Maridueña!!! His character Jaime Reyes is so enthusiastic and loves his family and ultimately kind. And he has sweet eyes XD. It’s really cool he got the role because of his martial arts skills.

Harvey Guillén is in there! He plays another character with the same last name, de la Cruz, so maybe we can jokingly have crossovers in this universe with What we do in the Shadows. Blade (admittedly Marvel but still) is semi-canon already. (I didn’t catch the entirety of his real name sorry, just definitely the end.)(idk if Guillermo de la Cruz is his full name or if his name was shuffled around/inaccurately represented due to USian naming customs)

I loved George Lopez as Uncle Rudy. He rocks the kookiness!

Nana was hella cool. Between her implied revolutionary backstory (she hates Imperialists! The way she pulls out her braids when it’s time to attack makes me think that she was part of a pro-Mexico or maybe pro-Indigenous force back in the day) and Ignacio’s backstory (his mother, his only family, murdered in a ‘anti-communist’ attack in Guatemala, and then he was sent to ‘Escuela de las Americas’, a USA funded ‘school’ that basically churned out child soldiers and later adult destabilizers sent out to disrupt Latin America in the name of USian interests (its still in operation), and then he was experimented upon by the very people that ruined his life (a la the Tuskegee Airmen Experiment) really speaks to the racism and imperialism that affects the family in the movie and many people face today (preaching to the choir I know). The fight ain’t over.

(First link is in spanish, second link is the English Wikipedia page)

I appreciate that a good half of Jaime’s family were not in the US legally. The constant terror and unwillingness to seek help for fear of attention was quite palpable, and I think really adds to the idea that superheroes are supposed to make sure ALL people live safely and happily - legality should not contradict human rights. And hell, even though they were in the USA, their home was still threatened - by gentrification!

The poor Dad’s death is sadly not an uncommon phenomenon. Many immigrants, but especially undocumented ones, work themselves to the bone, both physically and emotionally. Poverty and instability kill more than any capitalist would ever like to acknowledge. And yet Alberto still found it in his heart to be kind whenever possible. I really respect that. And I think his kindness inspired Rocio (the mom, who is totally cool) and Milagro (sister) to keep on after his death.

The body horror aspects were interesting, for both Jaime and Ignacio Caripax. I hope they lean into that in later works.

But what really caught my eye was the cave of candles that appeared twice in the story. There’s a European story, Godfather Death, about a godchild of the personification of death who gets given the power to heal, and ultimately (in some people’s views) wastes it in greed and/or love. He gets to watch his life, represented as a candle, blow out. However, in Spanish, death is a feminine concept, and so Death is a godmother in that situation. Godmother Death* is thus a common story in Latin America too, but especially in Mexico and Guatemala, where Maya beliefs mixed with Catholic ones.

It turns out, the creators wanted to bring in some Latine magical realism and reference the classic Mexican film, **Macario, which is based on a novel based on a local legend that was likely based on La Madrina Muerte. I’ve ordered the book, lol, and will watch the movie soon. I’m quite excited to see it.

I found it quite interesting that Jaime’s acceptance of Khaji Da and the Macario/Madrina Muerte scene happened really close to each other. In a way, he chose compromise to continue with life, as opposed to Macario’s/the Godson’s stubbornness which lead to their deaths. His willingness to work with Khaji Da (scarabs are symbols of rebirth btw) shows a willingness to work with his place in the life and death cycle, and the Madrina Muerte themes showcase his interest in alleviating suffering***.

In any case, if you have money for a ticket, I highly suggest going to see Blue Beetle! It’s totally worth it.

*La Madrina Muerte, in Spanish. I’ve been somewhat obsessed with it since I was a preteen, as I came across the Spanish version translated to English first. My tumblr name is *somewhat* related lol.

I was somewhat inspired by La Calavera Catrina art, Santa Muerte and the Grim Reaper when I drew this.

**for some reason tumblr has decided that two links is quite enough for this post. Sometimes it just doesn’t let me add more links? Or copy/paste!!? Anyway if you’d like to read a more knowledgeable article about the relationship between the two films, look up ‘macario blue beetle’ & then an article by slashfilm will appear.

***In the legend, the godson is given a plant, a potion, or just the power to heal. But he must abide by Death’s position by the bed of the afflicted person. If death is at the foot of the bed, then they were meant to live, and he gets to take away their suffering and cure them entirely. But if Death stood by the head of the bed, then the person was meant to die soon, and so the Godson had to leave them be. In either case, Death prefers to end suffering - through complete healing or a cessation of life. However, Jaime makes sure (when he can) to help people live and be able to choose what to do with their life (like in the case of Ignacio). And Khaji Da respects that.

[kultofathena]

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[everythingwasnormalhere]

elaborating on m5 playing jugger, kyle would def be a runner or a shield guy, no hesitation here

[studyingselene]

october 6, 2024 - honestly i kind of enjoy calculus and integration 😭😭

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6 de octubre de 2024 - honestamente yo disfruto del cálculo y la integración 😭😭

[rosebleue]

I think one of the reasons I hate it so much re: tradwife content in Spanish social media is that I've been made fun of for my interests in traditionally domestic hobbies (cooking, baking, making clothes) and I've even been said "I'm too butch to be a good cook" (it's not true. I'm an absolutely fantastic cook. Fuck you.)

So like. Y'all just want domestic-inclined partners when they're traditionally feminine and have baby fundie voices? Eat my ass.

[reginrokkr]

Admittedly, I haven't been daring with this aspect of Dain but I'm feeling bolder since a while about the premise that he knows what will happen in the future and that, since the prophecy of Fontaine was already carved in Irminsul a long time ago according to Nahida, that he could know about that too. Mona said that knowing about a future like that that can affect the entirety of Teyvat equals someone to being a visionary and personally, I'd love to touch more into that in interactions. Something like meeting a long-living species in the past where he tells them that "x will happen" with certainty and not elaborating any further, only for that someone to find out time after that what Dain said actually happened. Just something about squeezing one of the titles attributed to him, this one being: confluence between the past and the future.

[donfadrique]

I've mentioned on Zorro Discord that non-noble Spaniards preferred navaja knives.

Here is the finale of 'Bodas de sangre' (Bloody Wedding) by Carlos Saura, where flamenco dancers (one of them is the famous Antonio Gades) symbolically depict a fight with such knives.

And there was also el cuchillo and other types of long knives...

A flesh-eating knife

with sweet, murderous wing

keeps flying and shining

around my life.

© „Un carnívoro cuchillo (A flesh-eating knife)“

by Miguel Hernández