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status 85% complete unpacking
Ok I've unpacked everything I can without a closet hanger rod, a whole ass wall shelf not yet installed, missing shelf pegs that are currently in my dad's wallet, and no tower PC to speak of (I am not unpacking a single gotdamn cable if I cant plug it into anything that's nuts)
New problem: how do I display an entire bouquet of decorative daggers
I am allowed to put small nails into the wall but only some of these have chains set up
any suggestions? @hellenhighwater I think this is in your wheelhouse??
lemme know in the replies n stuff folks, pls know that my new roommate HAS a 3D printer
#the quiver's gonna be hanging off of the shelf that needs to be installed#there's also two shortswords#but those have chains/straps that allow them to be held up by single pegs/nails
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sword misconceptions part 2: shortsword
Post series: longsword | rapier | buckler | dagger | spear
so as I'm getting back into fantasy lit as a historical fencer, there are a lot of things I am noticing cropping up in swordfights that are inaccurate or flat out wrong. So i wanted to write a post for my fellow writers putting down a few things I've learned in 2.5 years of swinging the actual weapons around!
Disclaimer: i REALLY wanna emphasize this because in my last post someone decided to get cute (and wrong) about this. Historical terms for weapons were NOT STANDARDIZED. There as no "one" longsword/rapier/shortsword etc when we're talking about a weapon that existed for hundreds of years across an entire continent. And "shortsword" especially is not a specific term. As how you use weapons are governed more by their properties than their names, you can generalize many things that may not have historically been called "shortswords" under this term. There are like five or six different weapons which have distinct traditions in HEMA which match the fantasy game description of "shortsword". So I'm talking here about any one-handed, straight-bladed, double-edged sword with a (mostly) simple hilt/crossguard and a blade length typically between 2 and 3 feet. As "shortsword" is a generic and not a specific weapon descriptor, this covers what we in HEMA call arming swords, gladiuses, some messers, and probably a bunch of other types of swords I can't think of right now (the "simple hilt" rule is because I'm putting italian side swords and scotch broadswords in a different category. They feel really really different to wield than an arming sword/messer, and classing them as shortswords feels wrong).
Misconception 1: dual wielding shortswords is safe and effective.
When you dual wield, you really REALLY want different length weapons in each hand -- like a dagger in the offhand. Otherwise they cross over each other, get in each other's way, and generally slow you down and mess you up. We'll dual wield matching weapons for fun sometimes, but it strangely feels very unsafe and most of the time you have to resort to windmilling (getting stabbed in the chest as a result). Is this a skill issue? Maybe partially, but there's another reason to have a shorter weapon in your weaker hand, and it's physics. Maintaining parry structure and speed in a full size blade is really hard to do in your weaker, non dominant hand, so if you're going to hold an offhand weapon, you want it to be something that can't be easily wrenched or beaten aside, and instead something that has more leverage (like a short lil dagger!) so that you can turn aside incoming hits without the sword getting blasted aside. If you have a character that's really, truly ambidextrous they might be able to legitimately dual wield full length weapons, but most of the time this one just looks silly.
Misconception 2: since it's a one handed weapon, you shouldn't use your nondominant hand at all.
One of my favorite things about slashy one handed weapons like messer and arming sword is that your offhand still gets a job, but it has to diversify its job prospects! Most "shortsword" traditions aren't like modern fencing the way saber or rapier are, where you only use your sword arm. In messer, which is a very grappling-focused system, your offhand's job is to grab your opponent's arm, put them in joint locks, seize the opponent's blade after you've locked it in a bind, and otherwise be a nuisance. In arming sword and buckler, the offhand holds a lil shield, whose job then becomes to suppress the opponent's sword by shoving the buckler into a bind, protect your sword hand, parry afterblows, or deny entire target areas to your opponent. Most shortswords are NOT weapons designed to be used without backup from your other hand in some way. Don't just have your character hacking an arming sword around. Have them close distance, grapple hard, yank, push, armlock, trip. Shortswords don't grant the luxury of distance longswords can. You have to be up close and very personal.
Misconception 3: shortswords are faster than bigger weapons.
And in close quarters, they sure as hell ARE faster, because that's where longswordsget jammed up by proximity. But "close quarters", in this case, is "less than five feet apart". I'm talking CLOSE. Correct to: measured by speed of the hand, you can swing a shortsword more times per minute than a longer weapon. But a few things equalize that: their length, so you have to step in to score a hit, making them slower; and their relative lack of mass. This seems counterintuitive, but think of it this way: cutting a longsword around often just involves redirecting its velocity, which is already trying to continue forward due to its mass, in a different direction. Cutting a shorty around often involves restarting the whole cut: it's probably stopped against your opponent's weapon or bounced off, so you have to re-engage your swinging muscles to get it moving again. This is why when you watch sword and buckler or messer fighting, fencers will often avoid binding their blades at all costs and instead repeatedly disengage under or around each other's blades instead -- because in this situation, with good footwork, the sword actually FEELS its proper speed. A two-handed sword is going to be faster and more nimble than a one-handed sword in almost all cases UNTIL you get close enough that the longsword wielder can no longer move their sword properly -- which is well within the longsword's cutting range.
Misconception 4: shortswords are for weaker characters than longswords.
My beef with d&d 5e is that every sword SHOULD be a finesse weapon with a strength prereq to wield. Yes, shortswords ARE lighter than longswords, but only by about a pound. Add that to the fact that you can only use one hand to hold it and the fact that you're probably trying to swing it faster due to being practically in the other guy's teeth, I find short swords actually more physically taxing to wield than longswords. They burn out your dominant shoulder BAD and there's no way to relieve the weight on your arm without dropping your sword and probably taking a point to the chest. Yes, they are easier to pick up. They are harder to fence/fight with for extended lengths than longswords, at least to me.
That's all I can think for now! Hmu with any questions or confusions.
#writing reference#writing#historical fencing#historical european martial arts#hema#creative writing#shortsword#longsword#reference#Sword reference#Swordfighting#swords
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Check this batch out!! A bunch of new shapes coming soon! Keep an eye out. Thanks everyone!!
#lunarlightforge#handforged#handmade#hand forged#handcrafted#hand made#viking#vikings#knife#leatherwork#sword#shortsword
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AAAH THIS'LL DO for now!! 🐟 {Full bio} He got his big scar from Byers over a stupid reason dfDFG
#he has dual shortswords too dfgdfg#entry#totk#tears of the kingdom#botw#breath of the wild#tloz#loz#zora#zora oc#legend of zelda#furry#scalie#pri draws#pri posts#my ocs#lionel
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she doesn't know how to hold them yet 😔
#babys first rapier and shortsword <3#started texturing the rapier#like an hour ago so its not far along yet#gonna try to squeeze in both finishing the rapier textures and the shortsword tomorrow and then i can continue with the earrings#and then work more on the hair#tf when no rig
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imagine being morena dekarios and tara with this run’s morghaine. you’re worried about your boy after his terrible relationship and terrible breakup with the goddess of magic and he shows back up a year or two later with a ranger who hunts mages. talk about overcorrection
#morghaine: EVIL mages. evil mages specifically#gale: you put a shortsword to my throat#morena: they WHAT?#morghaine: in my defence i didnt know if he was evil or not yet#morena: ...#morghaine: happy to report he’s not. 👍 good job#morghaine perilous
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i see we're back with the big pizza slice knife
oh you mean the italian cold steel cinquedea?
.... yes. thank you
i mean what better knife to kill a duck's wife with
- karina + jacob
#drawing games based on randomly generated titles#return of the italian cold steel cinquedea#the big fuck off knife/shortsword depending on handle construction#handle construction will not protect you from the sticking force of this blade's stab#italian cold steel cinquedea#drawfee#drawfee quotes#drawfee video#jacob andrews#jacob drawfee#karina farek#karina drawfee
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Do you rant to your girlfriend about how a giant pet peeve of yours with Gideon the Ninth fanart is when they portray Gideon with a longsword (or worse yet a fucking arming sword) instead of the greatsword she clearly is trained for? Or are you normal?
#ill accept rapier fanart cuz yknow. plot#tamsym literally acknowledges a friend trained in zweihander technique in the book y'all#gideon uses a fucking zwei and i will die on this hill#i saw art of her wield a shortsword in two hands and started going feral#it was really pretty art otherwise but my sword lesbian heart was dying inside#“stop blocking with the blade” hema technique for longsword is more parry focused while greatsword technique is more blocking focused#im normal and fine its fine#bite me#the locked tomb#gideon the ninth#gideon nav#tlt#harrow the ninth
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I flirted with death
And then ghosted her for I am married
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i learned there’s a limit to the amount of answers you can have in a poll 💀💀💀💀
if i forgot someone’s favorite tell me
#sword#swords#scimitar#rapier#smallsword#shortsword#longsword#broadsword#hook sword#saber#cutlass#katana
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*howling like a great wind through a canyon, it engulfs your mind, drowns your senses. Above the howl rises a screech, gleeful and maniacal. It is the way and the truth. Absolute.*
The Emperor: Leave - them - alone.
*the screech quiets, the howl fades. Your mind is hollow, save for one lone voice.*
The Emperor: Bane's Chosen has fallen - his Netherstone is yours. You have done well.
Xa'rok: I heard the Absolute scream.
The Emperor: You heard the Elder Brain. It's regaining its autonomy. It cries not from pain, but exaltation. We must stop it, before it breaks free.
The Emperor: One Netherstone remains - Orin's. We must find her and take it from her. After that, we take control of the Brain. You should start wondering what you will do then.
Xa'rok: I'll decide once we get there.
The Emperor: ...sometimes, you surprise me with your wisdom.
#this scene is so fun#rip disabling subs to maximize ps5 screen real estate so none of the text is in these gifs#the emperor bg3#bg3#githyanki tav#my tavs#tav: xa'rok#my gifs#look at my guy (gn)#!!!#in order to get this btw you need to take out gortash before orin#then the brain starts acting up and Emp tells it to fuck off. very fun for me personally#technically xa'rok's first answer was 'I'll put an end to it' but I waffled on the 'I'll figure it out' choice and I like that response mor#also rare not carrying the sword of screams moment for xa'rok#but ever since I realized the guardian's sword has the same model as the shortsword of first blood I've put that blade in rotation#for xa'rok to carry#fun (awful) to think about if the guardian's blade also IS the shortsword of first blood#whose description states: 'a golden blade - exquisitely made and astonishingly sharp'#and that deals more damage to enemies who haven't been injured yet#so if you're stabbing the guardian with it.... ough#xa'rok has since ditched the circlet of psionic revenge for balduran's helm for that sweet hp bonus + narrative irony#but I do miss the circlet and it looks good on them#also annoyed what tumblr and the gif program did to the coloring because in the actual video#xa'rok is bathed in colored light from the stained glass windows and looks so so cool
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Custom short sword done and ready to ship out!! Would you like something similar? Send me a dm! Thanks everyone!!
#lunarlightforge#handforged#handmade#hand forged#handcrafted#knife#leatherwork#bushcraft#sword#shortsword
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Daily fish fact #647
El Quince swordtail!
It can also be called shortsword platy, as the typical "swords" that male swordtails tend to sport are only very small in this species, barely one millimeter. The males do not court females, and a study has found that apparently, the females of the species find males of a relative species, Montezuma swordtail, more attractive.
#fish#fish facts#fishfact#fishblr#biology#zoology#swordtail#el quince swordtail#shortsword platy#shortsword platyfish#short-sword platyfish
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dave hearn is very proficient in short sword
#aka all m can think abt is swords cause of stage combat#and this man has some WONDERFUL shortsword skills#plus he's got great acting to add to it#truly a stellar actor combatant#let me see dave do a full intense sword fight mischief i beg#dave hearn#mischief theatre#the goes wrong show
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11 for Ari and Elias?
Thank you! This is for this ask game here.
11. For martial KCs, favorite weapon? For spellcasters, favorite spell?
Ariadne favors her Holy Bombs over other weapons (the rapier at her hip is largely for show), though she does love the spell Baleful Polymorph as well.
Elias himself doesn't like combat in general, if he has to pick he prefers to transform into a panther and use natural weapons (unlike my OC, I do have a favorite spell from his spellbook and that is Weird.)
#answers#oc: ariadne trias-arendae#oc: elias olesk#i've gone through a lot of different weapons for ari#her earliest incarnation used starknives (she was a different person back then ok?) and at one point i had shortswords on her#ultimately it doesn't matter because even after the legend multiclass into magus she still mostly uses her bombs#probably for the best i don't think she's in the best shape for melee combat she hates training lol
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This is such a weird thing to say
#it's even stranger that those were rb tags on a gifset of the fight between touga/saionji and utena/anthy#Like idk which sword this one is calling a ''shortsword'' since they both seem pretty long to me but like#this is scaring me#who tf is the ''tma''??#who tf is the ''tme''??#Idk which is worse‚ mfs who say shit like ''The AMABs/The AFABSs'' or this#''This sword is giving 'Doesn't experience transmisoginy'! '' like WHAT!?#i can only hope the ''tma'' this person is talking about is Anthy and/or Utena bc that would make the whole thing slightly better#delete later
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