Forever and always I want to cross swords with you
Been working on my own mayakuro nendos for a while now and finally finished! I love them so much, ahhhhhh!!!
(More photos and progress pics below)
I was really lucky I could get this sick uniform, it even has the little bow in the back. And the hairstyles are just perfect. Maya’s hair was a pain to color regardless. As for her bow, one of my friends was nice enough to make it out of paper clay!
Brandon was fostered at Barrowton with old Lord Dustin, the father of the one I’d later wed, but he spent most of his time riding the Rills. He loved to ride. His little sister took after him in that. A pair of centaurs, those two.
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“You ride like a northman, milady,“Harwin said when he’d drawn them to a halt.“Your aunt was the same. Lady Lyanna.”
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Horses… the boy was mad for horses, Lady Dustin will tell you. Not even Lord Rickard’s daughter could outrace him, and that one was half a horse herself.
Actually, ancient glass, having been rather neglected by archaeology for decades, is a pretty exciting topic in scholarship right now. The main thing is that glass persists–it’s very stable. After fabric rots and metal turns to a scrap of rust, there will lie a necklace, still scattered across a chest that itself has turned mostly to earth.
Bead typologies, for example (that is, the classification of different styles/shapes/decorative motifs/colors) can allow scholars to trace trade routes, as they study the distributions of different bead types over time and geography. Glass production is kinda industrial in nature, not like spinning or beer that make good cottage industries. It was often produced in one place, and then sold on to artisans elsewhere, and then the beads themselves were traded across entire continents.
Chemical analysis of the glass can do even more to trace routes, since different compositions and incidence of different mineral contaminants can allow archaeologists to trace glass production to individual sites, thousands of years after the fact. It’s dizzying, really.
The downside is that for a long time, archaeologists regarded beads as unimportant trinkets, and antiquities dealers understood that they were easy to take and easy to move. So an awful lot of the most exceptional beads we have from the distant past spent time in private collections or uncategorized drawers somewhere in a museum back room, so they’ve lost much of what we could have learned from their original provenance. Maybe we’ll be able to turn new analytical tools on some of these to reconstruct more of their past.
I like thinking about beautiful glass beads traveling around. I don’t know why, but they feel more “alive” to me when compared to spices, silk…. And I keep imagining they look like Murano glass.
And they traveled through generations, through continents, through cultures. From Rome to Scandinavia. From Saxony to China. They decorated emperors and sorceresses and little girls with little graves. And they are FULL of all those lives.
Notes: This one has the first crimeboys fluff so I hope you enjoy it! And so sorry this chapter took so long I kept rewriting a part of it over and over again until it sounded right. I’m so excited to get more into this AU and I have a lot of things planned >:) I hope you like it! (and asks for this au are open)
Cory you’re creating an amazing superhero/villain au WITH ALL THIS WORLDBUILDING TOO this should be illegal >:0
Poor Tommy he’s been doing his best to work out ways to survive but it’s still not enough. he’s just a tiny guy your honor
ooo lore time!! i have so many questions now! like whether Tommy is actually a sizeshifter and doesn’t know it (and why? did his parents know? were they heroes/villains and died before they could tell him “oh hey, in case you were wondering, you can change size”) or whether he’s just naturally that small
“Ay you’re the one who’s eating them” aksjck love that bit
I’m calling it now the books are for Techno. Also! I just wanted to say I love how soft Wilbur is for Tommy, it turns my heart into a puddle :D
I AM SCREAMING YOUR COMMENTS ALWAYS MAKE ME SO HAPPY :”D
This made my day thank you so so much and I’m very glad you liked it!! Tommy’s size will be explained eventually >:)
(and yes who else would need the books as much as the blade)
GAMERS. Anyone else losing their minds about “Yaboku dies with you”. Cause I am
YABOKU DIES WITH YOU. Not yato. but yaboku. the idea of who he was. who he was forced into being. yaboku dies with you. “the old me; the past; your thousand-year lie., dies with you”. its centuries of abuse, its failed escapes, its being held back, suppressed, tortured; what he probably MEANS is that he will die, but what ADACHITOKA means is that in that moment yaboku isnt a person but a concept. and i am simply insane about it
SO I WAS WATCHING SHERLOCK TODAY AND WHEN THE CREDITS CAME UP I NOTICED SOMETHING ODD. THERE WERE SEEMINGLY RANDOM RED LETTERS AMONG THE NORMAL WHITE TEXT. IF YOU PUT ALL THE RED LETTERS TOGETHER IT SPELLS A NAME: ISADORA PERSANO. APPARENTLY THIS WAS THE NAME OF A WELL-KNOWN JOURNALIST AND DUELLIST FEATURED IN ONE OF ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE’S CASES CALLED “THE PROBLEM OF THOR BRIDGE.” ISADORA “WAS FOUND STARK STARING MAD WITH A MATCH BOX IN FRONT OF HIM WHICH CONTAINED A REMARKABLE WORM SAID TO BE UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE.”
Kate Sharma is finally here and I , a desi girl could not be more excited than I am today! I’m so happy that the production team chose Simone Ashley. I simply cannot wait for all our lovely Kathony moments in Bridgerton season 2! Let’s celebrate with a fanart today. I added bits and pieces of the process and inspiration as well. I’m looking forward to how the official costume team would fuse Regency fashion with South Asian fashion.
