#knife nerd

[prinnay]

Telekinesis

[blumineck]

Nothing wrong with a stabby boi, but let us have our polearm archers and shield archers too!

Patreon - YouTube

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Pearl doodles sitting on my hard drive

[screwpinecaprice]

When your boyrfren is a morning person.

(Idk if Connie's not a morning person, but it'd be funny if she isn't.)

Connie doodles (and a Steven!)

[akasanata]

A List of Dracula holidays, edited

Dracula manga masterpost

I tried to keep it vague, but if you haven't read Dracula and don't want spoilers, look away

Also, some of these aren't holidays but I say they deserve to be

May 3. Paprika hendl

May 8. A foul bauble of man's vanity

May 9. Return of the Queen

May 11. Lucy Westenra Day and Sad Wet Cat Man Day!

May 12. Lizard fashion

May 15. Lizard fashion part 2 & feeling like a lady day

May 16. The three weed smoking girlfriends roommates

May 24. The three suitors & Cowboy Day

June 30. Shovel day

Aug 8. Arrival of the Demeter

Aug 12. Return of the King

Aug 24. Jon/Mina day

Sep 2. Gangrene succ, aka Van Helsing day

Sep 7. Corn day

Sep 20/21. RIP Lucy

Sep 25. Meeting of the nerds and Bloofer Lady day

Sep 28. The would be wedding

Sep 29. RIP Lucy, part 2

Sep 30. The Crew of Light

Oct 1. Arthur's dogs

Oct 3. The Attack(tm) & Holiest Love & Kukri knife day

Oct 5. Straw hat day

Oct 11. Burial service

Oct 28. The Train Fiend

Oct 30. Gun day

Nov 6. See you, space cowboy

[kaiserouo]

Knife Trick

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[smolthealmighty]

Oops, forgot to post a couple other fun pictures I got from Anime Boston: Saturday Edition. These are my two favorites that came from the impromptu “The Owl House” photoshoot!

A grimwalker conjuring circle to summon the ghost of their ortet.

Belos calls this move “disappointing your brother/murder victim out of religious vindictiveness”

[see-arcane]

Queer Dream ghost (???): You should have brought with you the most important thing of all

Jonathan: I know but she wouldn't be able to come we're not married yet and also-

Queer Dream ghost: I mean your huge knife...

Jonathan: Instructions unclear, I will be spending the next two months wishing I was with Mina and also that I had a rifle to take shots at Dracula's lizard fashioning ass

[bellepeppergirl]

everytime i watch a YT video and someone refers to the Black Knife Assassins as a "he" when the game makes it very clear they're all women, i die a little inside

[straitjacketprincess]

if this is you plz rape me

[theoutcastrogue]

8 Fancy Pocket Knives

Etched pocket knife from Eskilstuna, Sweden

Silver / mother of pearl Victorian fruit knife, England

Damascene Toledo knife, Spain

Inlaid Toledo knife, Germany

Silver-plated fruit knife, USA

Damascene Toledo knife, Spain

Etched pocket knife from Eskilstuna, Sweden

Mother of pearl pocket knife from Eskilstuna, Sweden

@victoriansword [details after the cut]

1) Swedish pocket knife by EKA (Eskilstuna Kniffabriks AB), c. 1980-2000. Model 6 GS (1967-2010), with main blade, bottle opener/screwdriver, pen blade, and nail file. Tang stamp "EKA / SWEDEN" (from 1967), etched handle, 7 cm closed.

These were very popular in the 2nd half of the 20th century as gift knives or advertising knives. They were manufactured by many cutlers in Eskilstuna, and widely exported. The decorative pattern appears, with variations, on Swedish knives from at least the 19th century, and is inspired by Norse / Viking art, which often features twisted serpents/dragons. The interlacing perhaps also borrows from Celtic knots.

2) English fruit knife by Martin Bros & Co, 1848. Silver blade with 4 hallmarks (for Queen Victoria, the year, sterling silver, and Sheffield) and maker's mark, mother of pearl scales, 9.5 cm closed.

This is the posh version of what used to be an incredibly useful tool, a knife (and sometimes a multi-tool knife and fork) for eating on the road. The fancier ones were also status symbols, and very popular gifts – millions of silver fruit knives were manufactured in Britain from the 18th to the 20th century, mostly in Sheffield, Birmingham, and Edinburgh.

3) Spanish Toledo knife, as it's sometimes called, a damascened penknife of recent manufacture. Two pen blades, tang stamp "TOLEDO", 6.7 cm closed.

Not to be confused with Damascus blades! The handle is damascened – decorated with gold inlaid into oxidized steel (see here for details). Reminder that gold is a highly ductile metal (you can stretch it real thin before it breaks), so that impressive aesthetic result comes from a tiny amount of gold. It's a cheap knife, is what I'm saying, for tourists basically.

4) German pocket knife, confusingly also called Toledo, by Hartkopf. With main blade, pen blade and nail file. Brass handle inlaid with oxidised steel. Tang stamp "Hartkopf&Co / Solingen", 8cm closed.

It's "damascened" in the broad sense of inlaying, hence the name "Toledo": it supposedly emulates the Spanish style, and perhaps pretends to be Spanish, but both the metals and the geometric patterns are different. Knives of this type were popular in Germany all through the 20th century as gifts and advertising knives.

5) American fruit knife by William Rogers Mfg, made in Hartford, Connecticut c.1865-1898. Main blade, seedpick [also called nut-pick or nut-picker *snickers*], silver-plated nickel silver, decorated with flowers and apples. Tang stamp: an anchor logo and "Wm ROGERS & SON AA", 8.2 cm closed.

Sometimes fruit knives like this were bought by fruit shops/groceries (relatively fancy ones, presumably) in bulk, and sold or given to customers as gifts.

6) Spanish Toledo penknife (another one). With pen blade and damascened handle, different pattern, probably a bit older. Tang stamp again "TOLEDO", 6.8 cm closed.

7) Swedish pocket knife by Emil Olsson, c. 1920-1950. Blade, pen blade and corkscrew. Tang stamp "EMIL OLSSON / [star logo] / ESKILSTUNA", 9.2 cm closed.

Another etched serpent pattern on the handle, though by now you have to squint to see it. This knife has seen some shit. Until ~1940, pocket knives were widely sold and used in Sweden because they came with corkscrews, and all the bottles had corks, and everyone needed to open bottles. After the war, bottle caps replaced corks for everything except wine, and the pocket knife's utility plummeted, and cutleries started closing. There used to be hundreds, and by now only EKA's left. So statistically, if it's from before ~1950 it saw a lot of use, and if it's after ~1950 it did not, it was a gift or something.

8) Swedish pocket knife by EKA, c.1935-1965. Model 38 PB, with blade, pen blade, flat screwdriver, and corkscrew. Handle with mother of pearl scales and nickel silver bolsters, tang stamp "E.K.A. / ESKILSTUNA / SWEDEN", 8.3 cm closed.

The corkscrew is a quirky one, known as Gottlieb Hammesfahr patent: it pivots on the pin and opens perpendicular to the handle, not pulled downwards as in most pocket knives.

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ty for the tag @snowflakenali i love new and exciting variations of song-based tumblr tag games :D

tagging @polychromeedge @dayabot @that-art-hoe so basically everyone i know in the world !!!

[mariocki]

Final Exam (1981)

"Why are you so apprehensive? When are you going to realise that the whole world isn't made of psychopaths skulking about?"

"But they are out there. They do exist. People are killed every day for no reason at all. Perfect strangers wake up in the morning and decide, 'Hmm, I think it's a good day to snuff somebody". And these are people who eat at our restaurants with us, use our highways and vote for the President, which probably explains something about him, too. I'm not paranoid. I'm just facing unhappy facts."

[roamingtigress]

"See how they glisten . . . "

[boiledegghole]

compilation of my act 5 thoughts

[cherrirui-official]

!! Cw // blood + knife ... Yeah that's pretty much it ahaha !!

Waltz