#sword fights are cool

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Sword fights are cool! Every show should have one.

The Librarians/The Outpost/Leverage Redemption/The Ark

[joshuamj]

...?

[spookeart]

I’ve been told people wanted a fanart of the cave scene, so here it is🤲

This is from ‘Only the brave’ by @solmussa on AO3!! The way I went FERAL reading this omg

‼️ bloody version under the cut👇

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

vaggie, miss "im not used to fighting with long hair" who's out of practice actually battling someone or really stabbing ppl...

...still had the arm and hand strength, the REFLEXES, to do a bare handed blade catch on a SWORD, who's user had been doing an aerial dive with it aimed at vaggie's FACE

then sling around and THROW her opponent with it

i know she wants a peaceful-ish life with charlie, but i really wouldn't mind seeing her getting into just a FEW more fights >:D

also also side note: carmilla was able to eff her up earlier so easily bc vaggie fought like an exorcist, no thought to getting hurt or personal defense, the headspace of 'i can't get killed! wheee! DIE DIE DIE' that got that other exorcist killed

and the main advice vaggie got from carmilla was take advantage of that sure, but first and more importantly, defend yourself better

which kinda plays into the whole "be out for love thing" too

aka the fight isn't important, it's what you're fighting to still have Afterwards that matters- the people you love, having a life with them

(the hotel, the hazbins, charlie)

carmilla doesn't send vaggie off with a 'you're ready to go kill angels'. she's only satisfied and ends their little lesson / sparring match when she can say "you might just survive this"

feels like she wasn't teaching vaggie to take out angels. she was reminding her and showing her how NOT to get KILLED

so it's just so nice seeing vaggie blocking, dodging, and grappling lute later. how good she is at focusing on avoiding or neutralizing those attacks aimed at her. how Seriously she takes them

binding lute's both lute's arms and wedging them into her own body so lute's sword CAN'T be angled towards her

the way this shot emphasis's the THREAT of the sword hanging over vaggie

and how her flash-fast recovery and block shows she's READY for it

dodging, not attacking

she's not in this for blood or vengeance, this lady is trying to stay the fuck alive. she's got things and people to live for

things like the idea of mercy. that thing both her and charlie show their enemies, people who came down to hell for murder and spent this fight trying to kill them and got damn close to doing it.

and sure there's a pretty big tone difference between charlie's "Whoa whoa dad. He's had enough" and vaggie's "No, live. Live knowing that you only do because I let you" but both end at the same place, with someone who hates them still getting a second chance

(UNLESS ITS NIFFTY WITH THE ANGELIC BLAAADE)

and vaggie wants that second chance too. she wants a life with charlie, and fights hard so she can stick around for it

epic fail, lute... have you considered getting a hobby...?

[figs-oliomedley]

it's time I come out: I am a Samukai fan. He's in my top 5, if not number one, Ninjago villains.

anyways 24 HOUR ANIMATION CHALLENGE BABY SOLVES ALL YOUR PROBLEMS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (except hand pain) I CAME I SAW I DIDN'T EAT COZ THAT'S A TIME LOSS BUT I COOKED

I wanted to add all the other ninja and I had their bits planned out, but hey, that's life. Hope to return to this in the future!

[soni-dragon]

my bug leader that i finally made a ref sheet for :P

[returntodreamland]

Revolution Flame (well kinda like revolution flame ignore how its lacking 2 more)

[teatitty]

Going along with my Mist heritage HC's for Iruka and the fact Mist ninja canonically known for their swordsmanship... Iruka could fucking body Kakashi in a sword fight. He goes from "you would beat my arse in 5 mins" to "Try Me Bitch" the moment he gets a sword in his hand. Spars with Kakashi this way and ends up pinning him to the floor with the blade pressed to his neck and Kakashi is just laying there like "Sure hope this hasn't awoken anything in me" and then spends the rest of the day and night thinking about how fucking hot it was

"Do you think I have a competancy kink" he asks Kurenai to which she gives the most telling side-eye of their lives

[foolishandfiendish]

Sick and in bed watching BBCs Merlin when my spouse walks by and says “Merlin! Yes!”

To which I say “yeah I’ve just been really into knights lately”

Spouse looks me dead in the eyes and says “you’re always into knights”

[vertigoartgore]

1981's Daredevil Vol.1 #175 cover by Frank Miller & Klaus Janson. Source

[slutpoppers]

Lord Orochimaru vs Log

Boruto: Naruto next generations

[hanzajesthanza]

the training montage in crossroads re-ignited a headcanon i had of geralt waking up and doing gymnastics, performing kickflips and mid-air spins around on a fencepost outside an hour before sunrise to ‘limber up,’ and bleary-eyed dandelion wrapping himself up in a blanket to be like "heyyy... what the hell are you doing 💖"

[queenofglassbeliever]

The Double-Edged Sword Job

bonus

I recently finished watching this episode and I swear Eliot had more chemistry with Libby than with the Marshall.

[vintage-tigre]

Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones in The Mask of Zorro (1998)

[of-fear-and-love]

[aureentuluva70]

You've heard of Grond but have you heard of MANWE'S LIGHTNING SWORD?

(From the War of the Jewels, The Lay of the Children of Hurin, and Morgoth's Ring)