Why I defend Mortal Kombat X
Sexualized women…
…and unsexualized women
Sexualized men….
…and unsexualized men
Humans…
…and crazy awesome monsters
Men and women having close relationships without it being romantic
A gay male character without having his entire identity be based on him being gay but not glossing it over completely
An evil same-sex couple
An interracial couple where neither of them are white
Who are also part of a team where every member is a different ethnicity
(sorry I know I used that picture twice but it’s my best picture of the four of them)
A female monster who actually looks scary
An actual surprising betrayal plot twist
A female character with small boobs and absolutely no sexualization placed on her
A bad guy who isn’t hurting on the inside but at the same time isn’t evil for the hell of it, and rather is driven by greed, making him an evil yet human villain (though he isn’t the main antagonist)
and later he gets his ass kicked which is hella fun to watch
A main female character who not only has no love interest, but could very possibly be aromantic/asexual
And the writers had a huge opportunity to give her a love interest (because the power she inherited from her father is activated when she sees a loved one about to die)
But they DIDN’T
And the loved one she saved was HER FATHER
And the most important love in her life was revealed to be HER FAMILY
Basically I know Mortal Kombat has a bad history of being sexist and ridiculously over-sexualizing women, but it really has improved as a franchise and really does have a lot of representation. It’s also a good fighting game with great gameplay and a decent storyline.
eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2
Twilight may be trash but at least they cast actual native americans to play natives
The Twilight franchise was basically a great cast all trapped in hell together
One thousand days of lessons for discipline; ten thousand days of lessons for mastery.
1. Friends will leave, Friends you’ve had for years will become strangers, and people that you met in your english class first semester will become your best friends. Time means nothing, and friendships end for all kinds of reasons but one of the biggest reason that you will find for losing friends is that you simply outgrow each other. sometimes people don’t fit in the same ways they used to and thats okay, sometimes you walk the same path to only end up on completely different ends.
2. Just because people do good things does not mean they are good people and just because people do bad things does not mean they are bad people. Don’t judge people based on good or bad deeds, people can be all kinds of surprising and first impressions are almost always wrong.
3. You will miss that boy all the damn time, even when you get over it, there will be days your just looking out the window and the color of the sky will remind you of the time you were laughing in his car singing along to old r&b songs. Its okay to miss him, its okay to be sad about it. Just don’t let it consume you and don’t ever ever ever tell him that you miss him.
4. If they don’t make plans with you, they do not want to hang out with you. People are never always busy. We make time for the things that we want.
5. Stop making excuses for him, stop making excuses for her, stop making excuses for everyone that does you wrong. Their actions do not deserve to be justified. If he is not here for you its because he doesn’t want to be. If an apology is lame, don’t accept it, and don’t make up one in your head. If she lies to you, cut her off. Stop making excuses for people, if someone shows you their true colors, don’t try to repaint them.
6. People are not all bad. when you get out of the mentality that “people suck”, you will start experiencing life. Talk to people, and don’t close yourself off to the world because one person broke your heart. There are so many kind people out there, put yourself out there and stop hating everything and everyone. People can be amazing if you believe they can be.
7.Its okay to not know how to breathe sometimes. Its okay to feel like everything is collapsing on top of you. No one is happy all the time, So many people feel the things you do and its okay. You will be okay, things have a funny way of falling apart just to be put back together again. Nothing is more amazing and more painful than the way your heart can break into a billion pieces and glue itself back together.
7 things I learned by the time I was 17 (via fadedheartbreq)
dnwinchester
#NOPE #NOOOOOOO #OH MY GOD ARE YOU FUCKING JOKING THOUGH LOOK AT THE SECOND ONE #HE LOOKS SO TERRIFIED #THAT SAM WOULD THINK THAT #HIS HEART IS SO SCARED #AND FOR A SPLIT SECOND HE WONDERS #’DID I?’ #BUT NO HE DIDN’T #OF COURSE HE DIDN’T #HE LOVES SAM AND HE CAN’T BELIEVE HE FAILED HIM #JESUS H CHRIST I’M GONNA DIE
I don’t believe I have EVER seen Cas look more stunned and horrified and hurt than he did at that moment, before or since.
Would swords look different if it wasn't for the cross design? Like, would there be a big difference in styles of knights' swords if their base design wasn't cross-shaped? I've been asking myself this question for the past week and wanted to know what your answer was, brainstorming what a "non-religious-world" knight would look like, if they existed.
Well, that’s a bit difficult since this assumes the cross-guard was a design choice based wholly in religion, rather than practicality. See, the crossguard is a natural progression of the earlier viking and Roman swords, as such. See below:
Notice how the guard actually only forms a non-slip wedge for the hand? It’s not really made to protect from coming attacks, but to stop the hand slipping along the blade. This is similar with Roman swords; the lack of handguard was partly because the shorter Roman swords didn’t need much in terms of hand protection, just a way to stop the hand slipping when performing a thrust.
The crossguard is kind of a natural step up from that; by lengthening the guard in two directions, you have a tool that can now protect the hand, AND be used to catch and control an opponent’s blade in the same motion. Since having hands is generally accepted as being useful, and controlling an opponent’s blade is itself helpful in that regard, a crossguard is just the next step along.
Notice the above example is basically similar to the earlier viking samples, but with a crossguard? That’s because early arming swords essentially were just viking blades with added hand protection. Later swords would just get larger versions of this as swords themselves became larger. It’s not entirely true to say religion was the main factor in the design, more that form followed function, which happened to include a religious symbol; a few Masters of fencing draw attention in passing to the cross of the blade being the “salvation” of the user, which is arguably mnemonic description for using it defensively in the mentality of the mediaeval mind, where the cross is associated instantly with Jesus dying for the salvation of mankind.
Now, a variant in this habit of crossguards can be found toward the renaissance, as the development of guards progressed into ring-guards.
Adding protection to the sides of the blade, and more overall cover from blows to the hand, these were useful for dealing with glancing blows, “krumphau” blows, and generally added protection against cutting blows to the hands. All at the low, low cost of less dexterity. Which is not as low as it seems; from personal experience I’d have to say if I’m worried about getting hurt, the ring-guards are great, but for actual handling, the simple crossguard is easier. Even so, it’s hardly noticeable for most practical purposes.
Now the ring-guards are actually a good example of an alternate design that is viable in a fictional setting, as in the same period where zweihander swords using ring/cross-guards existed, we also see the use of the single-handed blades of the landsknecht, “Cat-gutters”, or “Katzbalgers”.
Notice the lack of crossguard, in favour of a circular guard?Keeping in mind these are still sidearms, these swords are useful for close combat, not so divorced from earlier viking and Roman blades; keeping the hand from slipping along the blade, and also offering some cover from savage sword cuts. Notice also that the rings here are a crossguard wrapped around?
If I was to guess what shape a sword guard from a world where the crossguard didn’t develop, actually took? To be perfectly honest, either thin diskguards as in Japanese culture (which are more for beating other blades aside than defence alone)or the viking period blade guards; enough to keep the hand away from the blade. Or, perhaps in a more high-tech situation, maybe the ring-guard?Honestly though, unless you are going for a very anti-religious message, I don’t see any reason to not include the crossguard, as they only make logical sense in terms of blade evolution.
audius-the-blogger
You did exactly what I was hoping. Rather than just google and take the first answer as law, I wanted a more historical backing for an answer to my question. It never occurred to me that thrusting without a guard would cause you to lose your grip. I also didn’t know about the natural progression of the guard, or the idea that religious ideas we imprinted upon the design, instead of the design being applied due to religion.
Thank you very much, this is some good for thought.
No problem, glad to help.
The “non-slip” part of a guard is often overlooked. I can say I will never overlook it after an attempted thrust with a machete, and slipping my hand about halfway along the blade…
Guards on a sword as are much for the user’s personal safety in use, than to stop coming attacks!
Well, eastern swords provide a few variations when it comes to hilts.
Then we have sabres, which are where the military sword ended up after a while. Many were straight blades, even if they were single edged, so they are closer to ‘knight’ swords (arming swords, at least; many knights liked hammers and maces as their main weapon - good for bashing in plate - and carried a smaller sword if any) than you might think.
As a swashbuckler, I should also mention rapiers, small swords, court swords and the fencing sword which lies at the end of that bloodline, the foil.
we-are-rogue
*knife person butts in*
First, here are some scimitar (etc) hilts, because I like them.
Second, here are a few alternate ways to achieve a firm grip that prevents your hand from slipping, found in knives, daggers, and (mostly short) swords around the world.
- Captain Obvious at your service: Friction (that’s up to hilt material and maintenance) and training.
- A hilt with bumps, like some yatagan swords.
- A hilt with finger grooves, a typical knife hilt design.
- A ring somewhere on the hilt, like many kurkis.
- The falcata hilt design, and similar.
- The bichwa hilt design, and similar.
- The katar and other push daggers.
- The pata sword (aka gauntlet sword).
- A hilt with a forefinger ring (modern only, as far as I can tell).
- The ice pick grip.
- For some knives, thumb on the spine and index finger around the choil.
weareloremaster
From experience I can say a lot of the knife variants offered here will do very little to stop your hand from slipping when wet, such as while covered in blood from said fight.
we-are-dread-commando
Yeah that last one especially does jack squat for thrusting, except for making it even more likely to slip. As far as I understand it, holding it in a pistol grip like that only gives greater accuracy for cutting and slicing. And yes, modern fencing swords have pistol grips too, but a proper guard as well, which is why the same criticism doesn’t apply. I’m equally divided about that ice pick grip; on the one hand, holding it with the cutting side facing you makes it more likely to damage your opponent because it’s coming towards them during the swing. But at the same time you really should have it pointing away from the veins and tendons in your arm, allowing the fingers to rest comfortably in that right angle formed by heel and bolster. This still allows uppercuts with the sharp edge, and a stabbing point on the downstroke. An ice pick grip is really more suitable for, well, ice picks and stilettos, where there’s no cutting edge to threaten the user. The falcata, and the knife with the forefinger ring, stand to give the firmest grip out of all these IMHO.
weareloremaster
The icepick is easily the worst for a variety of reasons.
Mainly being it is INCREDIBLY easy to have your thumb slip or lose grip on the end of the handle and now you’ve cut open your own hand, and are mixing blood with the opponent. You know most likely have a disease. (I have cut my hand this way but it wasn’t fighting someone, it was skinning a pelt).
The finger ring is good so long as it doesn’t get used to break your finger. A gloved opponent can wrench the knife in such a way to break, and perhaps remove, your finger.
we-are-dread-commando
Ouch. Yikes. I didn’t consider the finger-breaking aspect, and now I feel dumb because it’s so obvious. From an uninformed, logical, point of view one would think that no sane person would ever grab a knife, gloved hands or otherwise. But in a desperate knife fight, grabbing at the knife hand to control the knife itself, and risking even more injury if you miss, still happens.
And totally agreed on the ice pick, with the caveat that, while it may not be *ideal* for weapon retention, it is safe to use with something that has no edge to cut yourself with. In fact if I were using an ice pick (or other edgeless stabbing weapon) *that had no guard to stop the fingers sliding*, I’d probably use it in a reverse grip with the thumb over the pommel. It *feels* more secure than a forward grip, but I could be wrong, and here is where I defer to your experience.
weareloremaster
Something without a guard the thumb over does provide an extra stop, and can make a difference between stabbing your opponent, and cutting your hand open. I’m not saying you should never do it, but I wouldn’t recommend it for every thrust. Personally I’d never carry a blade without a guard, but I’m not going to stop someone from doing so if they feel it’s best for them.
Icepick grip is used in a variety of cultures, and I can testify as a HEMA person that it’s the main way of using a dagger. But we’re using daggers with hands clenched around the rip, not putting a thumb on the butt as if we enjoy losing the one thing that separates us from stab-happy cats.
Mind you, we’re using Rondel daggers, which have wide disks for the hand to be held steadily in place; these are daggers for punching through joints in armour, after all.
Also, going back to guards, I was lazy when I reblogged this, but I should add:
Even though Swashbuckler and Rogue have added a nice variety of blades, notice how the guards are essentially universal? Either cross-guards (some with swept hilt design) or disks. The main exception is the Early Modern swords, the sabre, which has the basket. Hence why to my mind, in relation to the original question - you really only go for crosses or disks for sword guards, unless you remove them altogether.
we-are-rogue
@weareloremaster (and @we-are-dread-commando where applicable), knife fights are NOTHING like sword fights. They’re quick, brutal, and personal. For the slippery blood thing, it’s a non-issue here. If you drew enough blood to cover your hand and hilt in it, you’ve already won. And I’d like an opinion from the HEMA crowd on how detrimental to your grip blood really is, I’m not sure if it’s Hollywood physics or not.*
For the “not enough grip!” issue, enough for what? The primary purpose of knives is to stab, not parry, and to prick soft flesh, not armour. Even a simple, guardless folding-knife can spill your guts, and many guts have been spilled by folding-knives. We’re talking about the classic weapon of the criminal underworld, and often the only weapon allowed to the entire working class. Fancy fencing get all the press, but that’s the majority of the population right there. People DID use it, and took lives with it, and still do. Basically, you don’t NEED anything hi-tech in this context. Skill and blind luck are a thousand times more important than the shape of your hilt and blade.
As for the ice pick grip, the Knight covered me, and good point about the thumb on the pommel. See also these videos, and the dagger section in fencing manuals. The ice pick grip is a thing alright, though there’s some debate on how frequent / widespread a thing it was historically.
@we-are-knight, I agree that guard shapes are limited (crossguards or disks, what else?), but guard sizes vary a lot, from what I’ve seen, and sometimes I get confused. Like, is that supposed to be a guard?
…or just the shape of the hilt?
Anyway, here are some more guardless swords, because this post isn’t long enough yet. :p
The shashka
the khyber knife
the standard Mandinka sword
the dha sword
the Moro bangkung
the Dayak mandau
and I’ve already mentioned the yatagan, but here’s one more, because pretty:
* To be fair, period blood is excellent lube. But it’s not the same. Ahem.
decadent-dollhouse
“The Mouse Mansion of Sam & Julia” (“Het Muizenhous Sam & Julia”), a 100 room doll house by Karina Schaapman Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland.
That’s what im talking about
i wish birds brought ME presents
No, but think about this.
The crows she feeds obviously have their own little lives. They go about their business, and they spot *pretty thing* or /unique thing/ in question. What gets me is that the *first* thing on their minds as recipient of this thing is the little girl that feeds them.
They spot a thing, and immediately must think, “that nice girl with delicious foodstuffs must have this to show my gratitude.”
It’s actually more than that, though, if you read the articles or watch the videos. This has taken place over YEARS- it started with these birds following this little girl around because she was a messy eater and it has turned into a ritual for the family. They have a water station and food stations where they daily set out things for these birds and sometimes (but not always), these birds leave ‘payment’ behind for the food.
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE
These birds are not just taking food and leaving shinies. These birds are watching over this family now. Their lives have become involved. These crows are keeping track of this girl and her mother even when they are out of the yard. How do we know?
One of them is a photographer, and one day while she was photographing some stuff on a bridge, she dropped her camera’s lenscap over the edge. There was no way she could get it back, so she left it. When she got home, the lenscap was sitting on the edge of one of the feeding stations, waiting for her.
Not only were the birds following and watching over her, they were smart enough to realize she dropped an Important Thing and cared enough to bring it back to her.
I could not have asked for more
I told my partner about this story. I am reblogging it so I can actually show the photo or presents.
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dismantlethefeminism
I do not understand this “male privilege" bullshit.
What. Fucking. Privileges. Do. Men. Have.???????
Name them. I swear, I challenge you to name these “male privileges" and be able to prove them.
Come on, I fucking dare you.
Name them!
cosmic-kleptomaniac
Oh boy. Well, as a man, I’ll tell you my male privilege.
- My odds of being hired for a job, when competing against female applicants, are probably skewed in my favor. The more prestigious the job, the larger the odds are skewed.
- I can be confident in the fact that my co-workers won’t think that I was hired/promoted because of my sex - despite the fact that it’s probably true.
- If I ever am promoted when a woman of my peers is better suited for the job, it is because of my sex.
- If i ever fail at my job or career, it won’t be seen as a blacklist against my sex’s capabilities.
- I am far less likely to face sexual harassment than my female peers.
- If I do the same task as a woman, and if the measurement is at all subjective, chances are people will think I did a better job.
- If I am a teen or an adult, and I stay out of prison, my odds of getting raped are relatively low.
- On average, I’m taught that walking alone after dark by myself is less than dangerous than it is for my female peers.
- If I choose not to have children, my masculinity will not be questioned.
- If I do have children but I do not provide primary care for them, my masculinity will not be questioned.
- If I have children and I do care for them, I’ll be praised even if my care is only marginally competent.
- If I have children and a career, no one will think I’m selfish for not staying at home.
- If I seek political office, my relationship with my children or who I deem to take care of them will more often not be scrutinized by the press.
- My elected representatives are mostly people of my own sex. The more prestigious the position, the more this is true.
- When i seek out “the person in charge", it is likely that they will be someone of my own sex. The higher the position, the more often this is true.
- As a child, chances are I am encouraged to be more active and outgoing than my sisters.
- As a child, I could choose from an almost infinite variety of children’s media featuring positive, active, non-stereotyped heroes of my own sex. I never had to look for it; male protagonists were (and are) the default.
- As a child, chances are I got more teacher attention than girls who raised their hands just as often.
- If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether or not it has sexist overtones. (Nobody’s going to ask if I’m upset because I’m menstruating.)
- I can turn on the television or glance at the front page of the newspaper and see people of my own sex widely represented.
- If I’m careless with my financial affairs it won’t be attributed to my sex.
- If I’m careless with my driving it won’t be attributed to my sex.
- I can speak in public to a large group without putting my sex on trial.
- Even if I sleep with a lot of women, there is little to no chance that I will be seriously labeled a “slut,” nor is there any male counterpart to “slut-bashing.”
- I do not have to worry about the message my wardrobe sends about my sexual availability.
- My clothing is typically less expensive and better-constructed than women’s clothing for the same social status. While I have fewer options, my clothes will probably fit better than a woman’s without tailoring.
- The grooming regimen expected of me is relatively cheap and consumes little time.
- If I buy a new car, chances are I’ll be offered a better price than a woman buying the same car. The same goes for other expensive merchandise.
- If I’m not conventionally attractive, the disadvantages are relatively small and easy to ignore.
- I can be loud with no fear of being called a shrew. I can be aggressive with no fear of being called a bitch.
- I can ask for legal protection from violence that happens mostly to men without being seen as a selfish special interest, since that kind of violence is called “crime” and is a general social concern. (Violence that happens mostly to women is usually called “domestic violence” or “acquaintance rape,” and is seen as a special interest issue.)
- I can be confident that the ordinary language of day-to-day existence will always include my sex. “All men are created equal,” mailman, chairman, freshman, he.
- My ability to make important decisions and my capability in general will never be questioned depending on what time of the month it is.
- I will never be expected to change my name upon marriage or questioned if I don’t change my name.
- The decision to hire me will not be based on assumptions about whether or not I might choose to have a family sometime soon.
- Every major religion in the world is led primarily by people of my own sex. Even God, in most major religions, is pictured as male.
- Most major religions argue that I should be the head of my household, while my wife and children should be subservient to me.
- If I have a wife or live-in girlfriend, chances are we’ll divide up household chores so that she does most of the labor, and in particular the most repetitive and unrewarding tasks.
- If I have children with my girlfriend or wife, I can expect her to do most of the basic childcare such as changing diapers and feeding.
- If I have children with my wife or girlfriend, and it turns out that one of us needs to make career sacrifices to raise the kids, chances are we’ll both assume the career sacrificed should be hers.
- Assuming I am heterosexual, magazines, billboards, television, movies, pornography, and virtually all of media is filled with images of scantily-clad women intended to appeal to me sexually. Such images of men exist, but are rarer.
- In general, I am under much less pressure to be thin than my female counterparts are. If I am over-weight, I probably suffer fewer social and economic consequences for being fat than over-weight women do.
- If I am heterosexual, it’s incredibly unlikely that I’ll ever be beaten up by a spouse or lover.
- Complete strangers generally do not walk up to me on the street and tell me to “smile.”
- Sexual harassment on the street virtually never happens to me. I do not need to plot my movements through public space in order to avoid being sexually harassed, or to mitigate sexual harassment.
- On average, I am not interrupted by women as often as women are interrupted by men.
- On average, I will have the privilege of not knowing about my male privilege.
And lastly, I am taken as a more credible feminist than my female peers, despite the fact that the feminist movement is not liberating to my sex.
This is male privilege.
acureforbrainwork
THIS. THIS IS HOW YOU BE A MALE FEMINIST.
YES YES YES YES YES
theelementoffire
Sad to say, but the fact that people think there’s no male privilege says a lot about social awareness.
Important Reminder:
Witches who began their practice YESTERDAY are still valid witches Witches who began their practice 5 MINUTES AGO are still valid witches Witches who had to TEACH THEMSELVES are still valid witches Witches who had someone TEACH THEM are still valid witches Witches who have been practicing in secret for YEARS are still valid witches
Witches who didn’t realize that they’d been doing magic ALL THEIR LIFE are still valid witches
Witches who were initiated into a COVEN are still valid witches
Witches who work ALONE are still valid witches
You are a Witch the instant you decide you want to claim that Title, and no one can take that from you. So don’t let them take that from you
Spoonie witches who dont have the energy to practice their craft every day are still valid witches
I don’t care if Hillary Clinton is corrupt. I don’t care if she lies, if she cheats, if she eats bowls of newborn chipmunks for breakfast.
She is literally the only thing standing in the way of a fascist dictator becoming President of the United States with a Republican majority congress that guarantees he can do anything he wants and nothing will be able to stop him.
I was and still am a Bernie supporter, and I hate a lot of things about Clinton, but none of that matters anymore. If Trump is elected, people are going to die. Women are going to die when Roe v Wade is overturned and Planned Parenthood is defunded. LGBTQ people are going to die when conversion therapy is further legalized and more bathroom bills are passed. POC are going to die as Trump rounds up Mexican immigrants, gives more power to the police, and fuels the fires of Islamaphobia. Poor people are going to die as Obamacare gets overturned and further cuts are made to welfare programs. And that’s just in this country. That’s not even taking account the all-too-likely outcomes of Trump starting new wars in the Middle East and having control of nuclear bombs that he’s said he ‘would not rule out’ using.
This is no longer even about ‘the lesser of two evils’. This is not ‘scare tactics’. This is literally life and death. Don’t fuck around and tell me you’re voting third-party or not voting at all, because you don’t have that luxury.
I am delighted that this post has gotten as many notes as it has, but as Election Day grows closer I would like to flush it out with some additional information and facts, particularly for those people who are still considering voting third party and those who still consider Clinton “just as bad” as Trump.
Why you shouldn’t vote third party AT ALL: x, x, x, x (hint, it’s because the electoral college presently makes it impossible for third party to win)
Worried about Clinton’s scandals? John Oliver breaks it down.
Concerned that Hillary Clinton defended a child rapist? She tried to get out of it, but she had no choice.
Feds investigating Trump advisor’s meeting with Russian officials seeking to influence U.S. election (Trump called Putin a better leader than Obama.)
Trump paid an IRS penalty for making a $25k donation to the campaign of the woman in charge of investigating his Trump University fraud case, an investigation she dropped after the donation
The official Republican platform includes banning abortion, overturning marriage equality, no background checks for purchasing guns, declaring coal “clean energy”, religion used as a guide for legislation, a border wall, and pornography declared a “public menace”.
Bernie supporter? Bernie says that now is not the time for a protest vote. Bernie tells you why you should vote for Hillary Clinton. Bernie says that Trump must not become president.
Please do not waste your vote. You can complain about Hillary Clinton as much as you want, but complain about her while you vote for her.
Some terrible progress pictures of this skull head! It’s a modded resin cast by Skullery, I was very scared at first to remove anything from the actual skull in case I messed up, so the first neckpiece I made was huge and really disconnected the head from the body. With some bravery, I removed a part of the back, drilled a large hole for the S hook and magnet. When the jaw is on, you can barely see the neck piece, and once I airbrush it all the same color I’m pretty sure it’s not noticeable at all.
The string I got for the DIM GSE body was too thick to string the skull on, so I couldn’t test the range of motion very well. Realized I could put it on another body, so I tested it strung just earlier. Works perfectly, very happy the neckpiece didn’t break under the S-hook either XD Looks like we’re painting soon! I’ll be attatching the jaw after airbrushing too, hopefully will be able to give it a range of motion but perhaps I’ll need to keep it closed.
sightdoll
Very, very awesome. Removing the skull bulla and moving the neck hole further forward really made this a lot more balanced and “natural” looking, really really love how this is progressing! That neck piece is super slick, nice little piece of engineering there!