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back in my day we didn’t have youtube or tiktok if you wanted people to see your funny video you had to mail a VHS tape to ABC and pray for bob saget’s approval
So I thought this meme (credit to @swordlesbianopinions) was always pretty delightful and a lil while back due to many things, but in part prompting from a couple of friends who know what a big sword nerd I am, I finally opted to throw together a list of sword designs I’d associate with the different pride flags (based primarily on the sword’s literal design, not history). Obviously, this is a lot of personal opinion, but hey, it’s all for fun. Enjoy!
“While You Were Being Heterosexual, I Studied The Blade“
(My original thread is on Twitter here.)
Lesbian first, bc that’s the OP’s orientation. Backsword. Beautiful, fast, delicate, single-edge, evolution of the Falchion meets fencing sword. Also, it was the design used for the Sword of Dios in Utena & Pearl in SU. (Pretty sure Utena just copied this: http://elfgrove.tumblr.com/post/111286499668)
Rainbow flag. The Flamberge. Large and flashy, slightly slower movement but powerful, memorable/iconic, double-edged, more of a display of the swordsmith’s skill than practical weapon, but damn they’re fun.
Also, have fun with the flaming puns.
Bisexual flag. Leaf-bladed Greek Xiphos or Celtic Hallstatt sword. Double-edged, smaller and swift, but heavy for its size. Lends to a wide range of use and style and has a great deal of creative variety in the hilt.
Pansexual flag. Trondheim Viking sword. Double-edged, a relative to the Greek Xiphos, longer, lighter, a bit more generic a profile, but good and highly versatile blade that lends towards minimal simplistic but elegant hilt designs and blade etchings and little crossguard if any.
Asexual flag. Rapier. Usually double-edged. Long, thin blades with a great deal of reach. Fast cut-and-thrust usage style. Iconic for the elaborate and decorative basket hilts that while pretty also deflect attacks to protect the wielder. Often paired with a parrying dagger. (Appropriate since Ace folk often “dual wield” multiple labels.)
More Color More Pride Flag. Ngombe. A traditional sword from the Congo region. Beautiful, strongly detailed, and large, used as a symbol of prestige and sometimes in ceremonial dance or as currency. Colonization spread now-debunked myths of it being used as a slave/animal execution tool.
Transgender flag. Kris/Keris. An Indonesian short sword. Asymmetrical. Double edged. Triangular guard that is a part of the blade. Beautifully detailed blades requiring complex smithing and are both a weapon & spiritual. They can be hard & intimidating or delicate pieces of art.
Agender flag. Kora. Single-edged. An unusual sword design wherein the inside curve is the sharp edge. The curve lends power and the flared end is both decorative and adds weight to the force of a swing. Designed for slashing rather than thrust-style fighting. Typically practically adorned but sometimes features artistic engraving on the blade and gilded details.
Non-binary flag. Khanda. Double-edged but most of one edge is encased in a strengthening plate. Features a widened flat tip that eliminates thrusting from usage. Effective for slashing & versatile for single or dual wielding. Pommel hook or strengthening plate can serve as a grip. Can be very practical in appearance or highly decorative and gilded.
Genderqueer flag. Scissors Katar. A variety of push dagger. These wide, beautifully decorative blades open into 3 via a spring (usually) mechanism. Despite colonialist rumor they exist to cause excessive harm, recent theory is the mechanism is actually defensive, meant to act as a sword catcher and breaker rather than for viciously gutting opponents.
Edit: Added by request.
Aromantic flag. Stiletto. A chronically underestimated and misunderstood blade. Stilettos are most commonly thought of as a defensive parrying dagger to a rapier, and while they can be used as such, stilettos exist both as daggers and as swords. Stilettos were actually first designed as a purely offensive weapon and the secondary weapon of knights to be used to efficiently cut through mail or armor right to the “heart” of the problem at hand. Stilettos are also well known as a concealed blade such that most cane swords are actually stilettos.They are iconic in that even when made with edges, it is not designed to be useful for cutting or slashing but rather is a thrusting (stabbing) blade usually forged from a single piece of metal. They are at the height of thier intended usage as an “edgeless” sword/dagger. They can be highly artistically decorated or simple and practical as suits the wielder’s tastes.
Genderfluid Flag. Haladie is a sidearm blade originating in ancient Syria and India. It is a wavy (usually) two bladed, double edged dagger connected by a single hilt, but a three bladed version is not uncommon, the third blade (or spike) set up to work double duty as both a finger guard and knuckle duster, and there are cases of Haladie with even more blades set across the guard. They are designed for swift, flexible usage with quick shifts between what edges are being employed. Haladie are robust as both slashing and stabbing weapons. As seen above, it can vary between being very plain or gilded, but even when decorated, is kept designed for use.
Feel free to request I add flag/sword matchups for orientations I didn’t get to on the first pass at this.
NOTE:
I do not want my fantasy media to be realistic. I want my fantasy media to be convincing.
If you’re gonna read one article about the bitcoin crash please read this one, it’s so funny
“That sent shockwaves through the crypto community, since stablecoins are supposedly backed by real assets and aren’t just Monopoly money.”
“And if you listened to Matt Damon during his Super Bowl commercial for Crypto.com, insisting that “fortune favors the brave,” you’re probably kicking yourself.”
“For its part, Tether issued a statement early Thursday insisting that everything was fine, something you’ll just have to take their word for because they’ve never been audited.”
The lady was a zoo keeper for this(pallas) cat when she was a baby. That’s why she recognized her face.
full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j51MCpL4vk
who tf let a baby become a zookeeper
that was the most sincere “oh no” at the end
…I want to just draw a fashion zine of just Miss Piggy, oh my god. she is so underrated and underutilized, where is my succession-like muppets satire thing LOL I want it so bad. let me do it disney call me pls
"it makes no damn sense.... compels me though" is one of the best lines on screen I LOVE it
i think people who collect funko pops are insane and demented but i also think it’s funny how common the experience is for people my age to have gotten like a single very specific one as a gift and don’t want to get rid of it and now it just lives in their house. … and you have to explain no I do not support the funko pop craze but this is my [whatever] from [whoever]. I brought this up on twitter once and the pairings of specific singular funko pop to who owned it were like actually hilarious
just stumbled across Francisco Soria Aedo's work and first off: really good painter, super talented. He mainly did portraits and neoclassical but I really like are his expressions, which do show up in his neoclassical work. lots of people smiling and having fun and it's just very cute
this is one of my favorites
heres a couple more examples!
...i dont thing I’ve ever seen this style with people smiling...
let's hear it for our annabeth!!! so so excited for her!!!
Hair extensions and dye exist if they decide the hair color is that vital to the story. But it isn't really.
The "dumb blonde" stereotype Annabeth was overcoming in the novels was much more of an 80s~90s (and very early 2000s) cultural thing that doesn't hold the same level of relevance as a trope and assumption about people today in 2022. (Legally Blonde and Clueless were 2001 and 1995.)
What is very real today? Black girls and women are too often stereotyped as irrational, over-emotional, temperamental, and uneducated despite being (one of if not) the most educated demographic in the US -- making casting Annabeth as a black girl is a great update to her thematic struggle with stereotypes about her intelligence and ability to be the strategic leader the character is.
Cat and Mouse …..
Meanwhile in Washington DC, people are projecting the Ukrainian flag on the Russian embassy (back entrance) & embassy staff trying to blank it out with a white light.
God, the embassy staff would’ve been smart to just say ‘fuck it’ and let the people project the flag. Sure, that’s not a good look, but this? This?
This is funny. This will spread farther than pictures/video of the flag just statically projected on the embassy would have. Instead of a basic article maybe remembered for a week, this is gonna make it immortalized as a meme.
Good on those activists, and boy howdy did those embassy workers fuck up.
The embassy workers were probably told to keep at it.
actually, I'm no izzy apologist. I'm an izzy explainer. I will give you a detailed character analysis of why he did the things he did and why his reactions were valid in his mind and then I will agree that he is still a nasty little bitch bastard (affectionate)
that some people respond to any well-foreshadowed reveal with “ugh that plot twist was so predictable” proves bad faith criticism has rotted their brains to the point they think it’s bad writing if they can correctly identify information the writers were intentionally giving them
like you do realise that the entire point of set up and pay off is that you’re supposed to pick up on the clues the writers give you right? you do understand that plot twists only work when they retroactively make sense bc there were hints building up to the reveal right??
animators fuck me up. if you asked me to draw something it would take every ounce of my life to complete this task. if you then asked me to draw it again a little to the left I would die