There are two schools of thought on the locked tomb series; there are the people who took tazmuir at her word when she said gideon had a longsword and drew it as such; then there are the people who know what a longsword is and know that the thing gideon swings is at the bare minimum a fucking claymore.
gentle reminder for those that belong to the former school of thought
It’s standard practice on the Ninth for luggage trunks to be capable of fitting one adult skeleton
All the other houses at the spaceport: “Surely the Ninth can’t be as morbid and terrifying as they all say…”
Gid just casually walking down the ramp with an actual casket as her luggage: “‘Sup nerds.”
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In point of order, a Claymore is also too short for Gideon’s sword. As an actual, usable weapon, a Claymore was 4-5 feet long. The only historical weapons regularly approaching Gideon’s stupid giant sword in length are Zweihänder, which are still a type of longsword!
One thing I can’t say for sure because I’m illiterate, but is the 6 feet mentioned being the length of the blade only, or the blade AND handle? — because there’s a number of Chinese swords that, when paired with the handle, reached 6-7 feet in length and were considered “long swords” like the changdao, which also had famously long handles. Because modern sensibilities suggest that the handle should also be one continuous piece of material with the blade, that’d still count.
Or one of the zhanmadao/zanbatō anticavalry swords.
Given the aesthetic, zweihander seems more feasible, but, I must attempt to be useful sword nerd here, because playing games with words is fun!
And actually, thinking about it, a claymore could count, if it had a particularly long handle, which some did!
Can I be real with you, I was so blinded by the impression that Gideon was swinging around a double-edged greatsword that I completely overlooked the extremely good option of her expertly wielding a middling quality odachi like some kind of obscenely yoked mid-2000s weeb.
There are two schools of thought on the locked tomb series; there are the people who took tazmuir at her word when she said gideon had a longsword and drew it as such; then there are the people who know what a longsword is and know that the thing gideon swings is at the bare minimum a fucking claymore.
gentle reminder for those that belong to the former school of thought
It’s standard practice on the Ninth for luggage trunks to be capable of fitting one adult skeleton
All the other houses at the spaceport: “Surely the Ninth can’t be as morbid and terrifying as they all say…”
Gid just casually walking down the ramp with an actual casket as her luggage: “‘Sup nerds.”
ALT
In point of order, a Claymore is also too short for Gideon’s sword. As an actual, usable weapon, a Claymore was 4-5 feet long. The only historical weapons regularly approaching Gideon’s stupid giant sword in length are Zweihänder, which are still a type of longsword!
One thing I can’t say for sure because I’m illiterate, but is the 6 feet mentioned being the length of the blade only, or the blade AND handle? — because there’s a number of Chinese swords that, when paired with the handle, reached 6-7 feet in length and were considered “long swords” like the changdao, which also had famously long handles. Because modern sensibilities suggest that the handle should also be one continuous piece of material with the blade, that’d still count.
Or one of the zhanmadao/zanbatō anticavalry swords.
Given the aesthetic, zweihander seems more feasible, but, I must attempt to be useful sword nerd here, because playing games with words is fun!
And actually, thinking about it, a claymore could count, if it had a particularly long handle, which some did!
There are two schools of thought on the locked tomb series; there are the people who took tazmuir at her word when she said gideon had a longsword and drew it as such; then there are the people who know what a longsword is and know that the thing gideon swings is at the bare minimum a fucking claymore.
gentle reminder for those that belong to the former school of thought
It’s standard practice on the Ninth for luggage trunks to be capable of fitting one adult skeleton
All the other houses at the spaceport: “Surely the Ninth can’t be as morbid and terrifying as they all say…”
Gid just casually walking down the ramp with an actual casket as her luggage: “‘Sup nerds.”
ALT
In point of order, a Claymore is also too short for Gideon’s sword. As an actual, usable weapon, a Claymore was 4-5 feet long. The only historical weapons regularly approaching Gideon’s stupid giant sword in length are Zweihänder, which are still a type of longsword!
One thing I can’t say for sure because I’m illiterate, but is the 6 feet mentioned being the length of the blade only, or the blade AND handle? — because there’s a number of Chinese swords that, when paired with the handle, reached 6-7 feet in length and were considered “long swords” like the changdao, which also had famously long handles. Because modern sensibilities suggest that the handle should also be one continuous piece of material with the blade, that’d still count.
Or one of the zhanmadao/zanbatō anticavalry swords.
Given the aesthetic, zweihander seems more feasible, but, I must attempt to be useful sword nerd here, because playing games with words is fun!
The problem with fanfiction, especially for smaller fandoms, is that it can require you to replay an entire fucking game or series, in order for you to achieve the authenticity and accuracy you desire.
Somebody ought to write a Series Style Bible for small fandoms, for all characters speech quirks, personal histories, the way they express emotions, etc. Clearly.
Alright. A user I was talking to in a discord mentioned being initially annoyed at the “sex isn’t real” stuff before we had a conversation in which I explained it, so gonna like. explain it here more properly.
So, I am asexual. I use this term to mean that I have a general discomfort with sex and a disinterest in sex. At the same time, this is a kink blog. I write about things that are sex-adjacent. In fact, many people would call them sex!
The question of “what is sex” is surprisingly popular. While one could be forgiven for believing that “sex is when a penis enters a vagina”, that’s widely disputed. Our society places a lot of emphasis on ‘sex’ as important, relationship defining, and the height of intimacy. So, it’s common to see discussions about “actually X is sex”, held both seriously and in jest.
Asexuality is defined relative to sex and by rejection of it. While the experience of being ace is defined by having others see you as deviant, as broken, or as flawed for your disinterest in sex, the politics of asexuality leans towards deprioritizing sex. Arguing that the full human experience doesn’t need to include sex. That sex isn’t special. It’s just something people do.
Personally, I think that we must understand the arguments about “what is sex?” that seem to believe political power grows from expanding language in this context. They see the emphasis placed on sex as a real power, and seek to take that power by expanding the definition. To create room to assimilate into it.
I reject all of this. Because you literally can’t have sex. Sex isn’t real.
This is a two-pronged argument.
First, I reject the political efforts to expand the definition of sex. I see them as silly and misguided, trying to find power in changing language without engaging with what generates that language (the real system of heterosexuality, the structural power and existing hierarchy). I’m uninterested in all forms of “X is sex actually”. Nothing is sex, actually.
Second, this is an ace kink blog. I don’t want to talk about sex. I don’t want to think about sex. But I want to explore eroticism. I want to explore things that might be called sex. My “sex isn’t real” comments draw a line, saying that I’m interested in the fiction of sex and in the rejection of sex. I’m interested in things that are not sex and things that might be sex but are not sex. It’s for my own comfort, creating a space that I enjoy and prefer. A space where people stop trying to do digital sex with me and talk about sex. literally shut up you can’t have sex it’s not real.
Anyway, I hope that makes sense and explains it better.
This is a good take, even if my personal opinion is that having sex is a spectrum that can be objectively quantified in hertz per meter.
spurts and squirts per meter or per minute are also adequate quantifiers.
Huēhuehcoyōtl, god of music, dance, mischief and song, is an outlier adn should not be counted.
You know, Wile E. Coyote being the Aztec God of Mischief and Patron of Rawdoggin’ It does explain how he’s been thrown off of cliffs and blown up so many times without incident.
As a big fan of the various the Coyote tricksters that shows up in various myths and legends, be they the same or purely coincidentally similar, this brings me more joy than I think you might realize. I am immensely, immensely pleased, @earsandtailsarefeet.
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