#weapon lights

[historyofguns]

In his review on The Armory Life, Michael Mills evaluates the Crucial Concealment Universal Light Holster to see if it lives up to its promise of being a versatile concealment solution for firearms with mounted lights. Produced by Crucial Concealment, which was founded by Blackpoint Tactical's owners, this Kydex holster is designed to fit a range of handguns equipped with specific weapon lights such as the Surefire X300 or Streamlight TLR-1 and TLR-7. Mills highlights that the holster includes a unique adjustable retention system and a concealment "kickstand" to ensure both comfort and secure, discreet carry. The ambidextrous design and quality of the holster, paired with a price of $69 USD, suggest it offers significant value for gun enthusiasts. Mills also adds a dab of Loctite to the fasteners as a personal touch to prevent loosening, underscoring the importance of customizability and security in a holster's design.

[jessyourhusband]

𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐

[thesecrethistori-an]

New setup for a new academic challenge! (I'm starting a PhD)

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Jayce wincing or shielding himself from bright light while Viktor gazes into it

In the season 2 intro, does Jayce manage to withstand the light (spotlight), or is he swallowed up by it? And why is he the only one being overwhelmed by (stage) lights?

[cysticnotes]

I look at this one uh from time to time -

[dxrkl1ght]

GIFT ANIMATION

After a year and a half... IT'S DONE!!!

DCA! Serial Killer AU by @ayyy-imma-ninja & @moonlit-dreamers

Hope you two like it!! :3

Just wanted to make something for the AU because I love it with all my heart. Like, I love Sun and Moon in this, the plot, too. It's just amazing, dude. Can't wait to see how the story goes!!

My rambling under the cut-

First of all, I just wanna apologize for how long it took me to finish this qwq

I'm no professional animator and I made a ton of mistakes in the process of making this-

I've always liked crime/detective shows since I was little so I think that kind of explains why I love this AU so much XD

I tried to get as much of the AU into the animation as possible. There are also some unintentional and intentional references to the comic Meg made last year (ex. Sun tugging on his glove, etc.)

When I said I was gonna 'fix' older frames I actually meant "redraw almost the entire animation". Why? My style has changed a lot ever since I started this project. The first half looked so poorly drawn compared to the second half, and there were some scenes that I didn't like or didn't make sense.

I still have the old frames saved and oh boy... you CAN see the big difference and improvement... there are some I posted here some time ago that do not appear in this now. There are some scenes I did leave there, I think it's noticeable which ones because of the style

That's all I have to say I think yee :3

[lottiestudying]

24.08.2024—see how i study on the weekends? very demure, very cutesy, very academic weapon

[galacticxangel]

I think I’m handling the TS wait well, why do you ask?

[tritoch]

the warrior of light as a game-breaking force of violence

there's a moment, relatively early in dawntrail, that establishes succinctly how out of place the warrior of light (as the savior of eorzea and main character of four successive final fantasy game plots) is in what is essentially the story of fresh new final fantasy protagonist wuk lamat. and it sets up quite nicely how the framework of fantasy video game conflict pulls the warrior of light forever towards violence as the expansion goes on.

spoilers through 7.0 follow

consider wuk lamat's kidnapping and rescue. bakool ja ja holds his blade to wuk lamat's throat, taunting you. his lackeys line up against your party in neat little ranks suspiciously reminiscent of a classic final fantasy encounter screen.

and it simply does not matter to the warrior of light. you stride right through their combat setup because you are beyond that by now. the warrior of light has absolutely no respect for the "we are about to do ATB combat" lineup. the camera even jumps the line for you in one continuous rotating shot, crossing the axis of action as though to emphasize through the disruption of visual convention how far outside the game's boundaries you are.

this is how far you are above the problems of dawntrail's first half. you cannot even be bound by the normal rules of cinematography and video game combat. everyone else here lined up for a good old-fashioned scrap and the warrior of light said haha nope actually. i'm going to stroll through here like a god of war astride this tiny battlefield. your henchmen cannot even raise a hand to me. i don't even have to engage in violence directly anymore. my mere presence is enough.

in fact, not only can bakool ja ja's henchmen not raise a hand to you, he's not even worthy of your direct intervention. he kidnaps wuk lamat and steals her keystones and frees valigarmanda and kidnaps hunmu rruk and none of it warrants the warrior of light so much as raising a finger. he's wuk lamat's recurring villain, that's not your problem. you're just here to take in the scenery.

zoraal ja spends his whole life aspiring to be thought of as his father's equal and a worthy successor to the dawnservant as the "resilient son." all it takes for gulool ja ja to acknowledge you as a warrior on his level is like a five minute sparring match. the acknowledgement from gulool ja ja that zoraal ja hungered for his whole life and would eventually go full cyborg supervillain to get via regicide is something the warrior of light receives casually in a throwaway line after their level 93 solo duty on the way to more important plot conversations.

it really seems for a second, in the first half of dawntrail, like you are strong enough and the problems simple enough for this to be a clean and easy adventure. bakool ja ja? power of friendship'd. mamook? successfully reintegrated, no worries about the crimes against humanity. rite of succession? handily won. nothing can stop you. even duty finder queue times have been conquered: you can do all your duties with trusts now.

all of which only makes it better when the second half has sphene ask you and wuk lamat directly: could your strength have been enough to save alexandria? could you have found a different way?

i know some people get very annoyed we don't intervene in the gulool ja ja fight. now personally i think if you see arthur and mordred squaring up it's rude to intervene, but beyond that, it simply wouldn't have mattered. by the time zoraal ja's forces arrived in tuliyollal, alexandria and tural were already on a collision course and doomed to conflict. your hands alone could never have averted this conflict. sphene was always bound to do what she did—and certainly a gulool ja ja without his reason would not be any more inclined to peace than wuk lamat and koana were.

there's a great little moment just before living memory where estinien, champion at reading the room, is like "okay so if thancred and i stay here that frees up you up, aibou, to do what you do best and save the world and have epic fights. woo!!!" and immediately afterwards you basically have to apologize to alisaie because part of the sort of unspoken premise of this whole trip in the first place was that you were, finally, not going to plunge into mortal peril to save the world. you were finally going to take it easy. you were finally done with that. and she has to sort of ruefully be like nah it's fine bro. i was trying to get you to take it easy and not do insane risky world-saving violence. but y'know these things (interdimensional invasions) happen.

by the time you reach the very last trial, all pretense that the warrior of light could have ever been beyond these problems has vanished. you were, very emphatically, not strong enough to hold onto all that was dear without sacrifice. gulool ja ja and otis and cahciua died. yyasulani was irreversibly changed, physically colonized and culturally decimated by another dimension. you systematically shut down each part of living memory, and all its friendly, charming, loving ghosts, with your own hands. with your own clicks.

not even the vaunted strength of the warrior of light is enough to overcome sphene's inexorable logic of conflict. and so, in the end, she plucks you out of the crowd and says, explicitly for reasons of your strength, that you are going to have to do a boss fight now. you are going to have to kill her and you are going to have to do it in a proper 8-on-1 trial, and she forces you to affirmatively state that you understand you're going to kill her.

did you think you were above it all? did you think you could get away from here with your weapon undrawn, with your hands clean? that for you and you alone the logic of conflict comes undone? wrong. wrong. wrong.

your strength cannot redeem you, says sphene. your friends cannot make these sacrifices for you. if you would play the hero then you must play the hero. no half-measures.

back to the duty finder with ye.

[mindfulstudyquest]

my favourite animal is me when i remember what i'm capable of.

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Pt 2 and the final part of LL Megatrons conversation with an aware G1 Starscream

this one wasn’t as dramatic as the first part but there’s only so much emotional vulnerability Screamer can do with his new free will heheh, thanks for all of the comments encouraging me! I’ve never drawn longer comics like these before and it’s pretty fun so hopefully I can improve with the next comic I make!

[jessyourhusband]

𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇

[liacademia]

day 89/100

solid unproductive today, idk what got to me but i was just lazing around without a care in the world 😭 but i'm holding myself accountable, this won't happen again i promise.

i also deleted what little social media i had, like the texting app :D so let's consider it a digital detox for a while at the very least, all i have rn is tumblr and pinterest 😞✊🏻

anyway, here's the to-do for tomorrow:

solve previous year problem sheet on area under the curves

electrochemistry notes rev + problem solving

indefinite integration notes rev + review the types and mech

more problems on current electricity

revisit biomolecules (since it's very theory heavy, i keep forgetting stuff so imma revisit and relearn)

live lecture on definite integration

[friedri-ce]

heyyyy remember this emo loser

[jaeffry]

about me ⭑.ᐟ

i wasn't originally planning on making one of these, but today i realised i have fifty followers and while it may not seem like much, it is exhilarating to think fifty strangers would like to help me keep up with studying and trust me to support theirs.

i'm haru (any pronouns!) it is not my real name, but it is my cat's name so please feel free to imagine a little orange tabby deliriously typing into a computer.

i post pictures of my study space, notes, general progress with the curriculum and absolutely no pinterest sourced images. i'm here to look at you and your work, not some inauthentic curated collage of romanticised academia.

as of today i am twenty-one years old- i recently graduated film school but there isn't a degree or profession i'm pursuing. i simply study whatever i feel like that day, just for the heck of it.

currently, i'm studying french & japanese languages, as well as film theory

i'm an entp, i love reading books, eavesdropping conversations at coffee shops and watching films. i like the sound of opening soda cans, the smell of alcohol markers and watching trains at the metro station. i dislike dirty kitchens, having damp hair and the way queue is spelled.

i love watching everyone's updates and quietly cheering them on. if you are a studyblr/langblr and think we might make good study buddies, please make friends with me ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

[the-random-tyler]

POV your new painter and his assistant have finally arrived