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Hi, I'm Paige, I post a mishmash of random fandom stuff. I also make/reblog posts about ADHD and Dyslexia. Sometimes I get political. Feel free to message me! @fandom-trash98 is my fanfiction blog and @adhd-uni-life is my studyblr.
Neo, signing: Don’t worry, I have a few knives up my sleeve. Jaune: I think you mean tricks. Neo, pulling knives out of her sleeves: No, I do not.

hey give birds antlers

But what if they get stuck in the trees

alright but they could also use it as camouflage and blend in with the tree

What if they landed on each other’s antlers

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i keep presenting you with cursed concepts and you keep drawing them in friendly, pleasant ways, this is blasphemy 

Imagine if you picked one up from its antlers, like some birb-on-a-stick

Utterly fantastic

Birds with antlers you say? Have a class doodle

the ones on top are its babies

Here’s some art by Munwie on Deviantart:

Meanwhile, this is an obvious reason why Viking helmets didn’t have horns.

Going into battle wearing handlebars for the opponent to play with is a Bad Idea. That didn’t stop other cultures (Indo-Persian, Japanese) from doing so, but Vikings? NO.

The origin of the Nordic Horned Helmet is actually known: they first appeared in C.E. Doepler’s costume designs for Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” operas.

In 1876.

Incidentally, calling mail armour “chain-mail” first happened in the novel “The Fortunes of Nigel” by Sir Walter Scott.

In 1822.

Something similar has happened with the word “longsword”, which only came into general HEMA use for what had previously been “hand-and-a-half” or “bastard” swords about 20 years ago; even then the first time I saw it (in “Medieval Swordsmanship” © 1998 by John Clements) it was two words with a hyphen: “long-sword”.

As a single word it’s been part of the fantasy fiction arsenal since the mid-1970s, for example in C.J. Cherryh’s “Gate of Ivrel” © 1977, I used it in “The Horse Lord” © 1983, and I’m sure a search through very early D&D manual could place it even earlier.

Longsword is certainly a handier term than the alternatives, but IIRC even “hand-and-a-half sword” is no older than Victorian. In the Middle Ages a sword was usually just “a sword”; it was very inconsiderate of them not to think of later generations who might like to label things with a bit more exactitude…

Not all Munwie’s Deviantart birds are corvids, and not all are sinister…

…though you might have second thoughts about that if you know anything about the lifestyle of the European Robin.

They’re ferociously territorial, their usual song translates as “Get Off My Lawn Or I Will Kill You With Death”, and we’re grateful the two pairs in our garden are the size they are and not as big as e.g. tyrannosaur turkeys.

Which having written it is a mental image I really didn’t need…

LONGSWORDS ARE CALLED BASTARD SWORDS PASS IT ON

this post has EVERYTHING

I have a personal theory about the Costume Horned Helmets:

Exhibit A:  Mead Horn

Ehbit B: Beer Hat

If anyone wants to know what it’s like to have ADHD the entire roller coaster of this thread is a good place to start, but imagine it’s your inner monologue every second you’re alive.

what a wild ride this post was

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underwater temple, underwater monk

underwater rhymes and underwater funk

he sleeps in the sea in an underwater bunk

with mirrors all around him hes an underwater hunk

he’s got underwater junk in his underwater trunk

on the basketball court he does a nautical dunk

he’s got a little stash of underwater skunk

underwater temple, underwater monk

Sick rhymes

HOLY COW! SOMEONE MADE THIS A SONG!!👍✨

this song slaps harder than anything i’ve heard in the past decade

Zuko having a connection to the spirit world but instead of it being something deep and profound, it’s just because he spent three years pre-finding the avatar running towards the first weird magical shit he saw.

Aang and Zuko journey to the Spirit World.

The Spirits: Oh look, the avatar.

The Spirits when they see Zuko: AND HE BROUGHT ZUKO WITH HIM! GUYS ZUKO’S BACK!!! EVERYONE HE’S HERE!!! ZUKO YOU BASTARD HOW ARE YOU?!

iroh’s connection to the spirit world is one of sober mutual respect

zuko is the spirits’ equivalent of that one racoon who just hangs out inside a gas station on top of the slurpee machine so persistently that he’s given a namebadge and an employee cubby in the break room

fellow neurodivergents — can anybody else smell heat?? i don’t know how else to explain it. but it’s like i can smell temperatures

I can! I can smell the cold too! It’s a very specific sensation