#life by the sword

[thewongbook]

Gretlahk, the Kingdom of Water

The northernmost kingdom in the Goldragon Empire. So-called for its myriad lakes and rivers, humid and rainy climate, and underground springs, it has encouraged and fostered a lifestyle connected in every way to water. Its rivers are its highways, flooded with ships bearing men and cargo. Its great cities have managed to harness this power of water in their technology, often powering great machines and clockwork engines with the flow of rapid rivers and waterfalls. It is not all peaceful, however--pirates make the waters their home as well, wreaking havoc as they scourge the countryside.

#bookblr #character profile #fantasy #writing #wuxia #book #life by the sword #writers on tumblr

[aslyran]

Visions

#i have so much love for botw link #he remembers nothing but the weight of the sword #he is willing to take in incredible amounts of pain and responsibility just to understand himself and his previous life a bit better #its not as if he’s not responsible and courageous #but this iteration of link has lost so much-even before the game it seems taking his destiny has made him quiet #dunno remember who was it who wrote #‘the sword became a needle snd with the thread of destiny; it sew his lips’ #but apart from the desesperation of looking for a trace of himself in all things #he is also guilty and scared of what his past holds #anyways i should write a fanfic not pour this into tags #botw #breath of the wild #link #legend of zelda #master sword #animation #procreate dreams #link botw

[carrotchipper]

More tarot life cards. Bdubs, his moms, and Mumbo.

Grian - Scott - Pearl - Martyn

Jimmy - Scar - Joel

Lizzie - Ren - BigB

Skizz - Impulse - Etho - Tango

#WOW this was a tough one. gem especially #orginally it was going to be etho under her sword lol #trafficblr #life smp #3rd life #last life #double life #limited life #secret life #zombiecleo #bdoubleo100 #geminitay #mumbo jumbo #carrot art #just 4 more cards left yaaay

[tiredfoxtf]

On some level, I think I always understood That a ship could never really love an anchor So I did the only thing that I could And severed the rope to set you sailing from my harbor

Never Love An Anchor - The Crane Wives

The Heart, The Sword and The Coward.

#> tired fanart #mcyt #trafficblr #trafficshipping #life series #bdubbleo100 #bdubs #ethoslab #joel smallishbeans #boat boys #smalletho #ethubs #the heart the sword and the coward

[risibledeer]

boat boys, shortgrass and greenbeans- what more could you ask for?

(ps-drawing reqs are open btw i need inspiration helpp)

#guys guys is it gay to be obsessed with kakashi?? #well surely it's not gay to be obsessed with shrek? #also joel and scar- two ends of the spectrum lol. if you ever have to go to the dmv kids - just bring a sword with ya #disclaimer (don't do that. please and thank you.) #half my time drawing this was just me cracking myself up #and the other half was me questioning my humour and sanity #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans #grian #ethoslab #bdubs #hermitcraft #life series #life smp #trafficblr #hermitblr #boat boys #hermitcraft fanart #bdoubleo100 #bdouble0 #me art

[qiinamii]

old men's little guys

#again they're separate tweets in the linked words! the first pic is older #got a buncha whoopsies in the 2nd pic so this is the revised one LMAO i give u the tumblr priviledge #ive been playing HSR since release day would you believe me that the standard banner gave me every 5* charas except yanqing #and bronya like i s2g if it gives me bronya or Not yanqing b4 i can hit its 300 pull. i will sue yanqing personally idc if hes 14 /lh #old long-life grandpas with their boys whos either unsatisfied or doesnt know how to accept gifts pick a struggle #qiiarts #zhongli #jing yuan #yanqing #xiao #lumine #sword choices were hard SKDJFHSDF #genshin impact #honkai star rail #stelle

[thursdaylast]

no one can stop me from creatureifying the hermits not even myself

today's victims are Gem (sea otter) Grian (great potoo) and Scar (cat)

#gem as a seafaring sword-wielding otter is the most redwall-ass thing i've ever drawn #it was also a stroke of genius on my part #I've drawn more salmon in the past day than I have in the entire rest of my life combined #Grian #geminitay #goodtimeswithscar #hermitcraft #rot draws

[writers-potion]

Writing Weapons (1): Swords

The Thrusting Sword

Type of fight scene: entertaining, duels, non-lethal fights, non-gory deaths, swashbuckling adventure

Mostly used in: Europe, including Renaissance and Regency periods

Typical User: silm, male or female, good aerobic fitness

Main action: thrust, pierce, stab

Main motion: horizontal with the tip forward

Shape: straight, often thin, may be lightweight

Typical Injury: seeping blood, blood stains spreading

Strategy: target gaps in the armous, pierce a vital organ

Disadvantage: cannot slice through bone or armour

Examples: foil, epee, rapier, gladius

The Cleaving Sword

Type of fight scene: gritty, brutal, battles, cutting through armour

Typical user: tall brawny male with broad shulders and bulging biceps

Mostly used in: Medieval Europe

Main action: cleave, hack, chop, cut, split

Main motion: downwards

Shape: broad, straight, heavy, solid, sometime huge, sometimes need to be held in both hands, both sides sharpened

Typical Injury: severed large limbs

Strategy: hack off a leg, them decapitate; or split the skull

Disadvantage: too big to carry concealed, too heavy to carry in daily lifem too slow to draw for spontaneous action

Examples: Medieval greatsword, Scottish claymore, machete, falchion

The Slashing Sword

Type of fight scene: gritty or entertaining, executions, cavalry charge, on board a ship

Mostly used in: Asia, Middle East

Typical user: male (female is plausible), any body shape, Arab, Asian, mounted warrior, cavalryman, sailor, pirate

Main action: slash, cut, slice

Main motion: fluid, continuous, curving, eg.figure-eight

Shape: curved, often slender, extremely sharp on the outer edge

Typical Injury: severed limbs, lots of spurting blood

Strategy: first disable opponent's sword hand (cut it off or slice into tendons inside the elbow)

Disadvantage: unable to cut thorugh hard objects (e.g. metal armor)

Examples: scimitar, sabre, saif, shamshir, cutlass, katana

Blunders to Avoid:

Weapons performing what they shouldn't be able to do (e.g. a foil slashing metal armour)

Protagonists fighting with weapons for which they don't have the strength or build to handle

The hero carrying a huge sword all the time as if it's a wallet

Drawing a big sword form a sheath on the back (a physical impossiblity, unless your hero is a giant...)

Generic sword which can slash, stab, cleave, slash, block, pierce, thrust, whirl through the air, cut a few limbs, etc...as if that's plausible

adapted from <Writer's Craft> by Rayne Hall

#writing #writers and poets #writers on tumblr #creative writing #let's write #poets and writers #creative writers #writeblr #resources for writers #helping writers #fantasy #sword #sword fighting #fight scene #historical fantasy #adventure fiction #description #writing practice #writing prompt #writing inspiration #writing ideas #on writing #writer #writerscommunity #writing advice #writing community #writer stuff #writers life #writers community #writers block

[otselotus]

:)

#mcyt #secret life smp #secret life #secret life spoilers #ldshadowlady #lizzie ldshadowlady #ldshadowlady fanart #ldshadowlady secret life #she's a shapeshifter btw #also i know she didn't die with a sword but #traffic life #traffic smp

[ninjautistic]

I don't remember this but HOLY FUCKING SHIIIIIITT LLOYD WAS CONFIRMED TO BE AT LEAST 9 YEARS OLD HERE AND HE WAS ABLE TO DO THAT??? JESUS FUCK

#This might be proof that lloyd is quite jacked #i mean lloyd literally cracked the entire floor split open under ONE fucking FIST #and in dragons rising lloyd literally blocked the empress' sword on her big mech with his tiny ass gold sword #and lloyd also literally lifted and threw kai across the ship in dragons rising too.. #and in the magazine comics (not entirely canon sadly) lloyd threw a big ass enormous fucking vengestone mech in his oni form with his HANDS #ANNNNDDD lloyd can even handle the power of the source dragon in dragons rising.. #ANNNNNDD the original ending for crystallised was gonna be about lloyd lost in his oni form and beating the overlords ass and rule ninjago.. #in which apparently the ninja save him from the power of FRIENDSHIP #lloyd literally fell on piles of glass and wasn't bothered by it #HE WAS 9 AND HE FELL ON PILES OF GLASS WITH NO HESITATION!?!?! #fucking OUCH #and yet wu says lloyd is “the wise one” fuck that shit he should become a GOD #lloyd literally risked to sacrifice his life to the three dragon cores in dragons rising like holy fucking shit I'd marry him #if lloyd was a villain I'd fucking root for him so hard I'd be on my knees they should make it happen PLEASE PLES PLEASEE #sorry i love lloyd hes my wife #ninjago #ninjago fandom #lloyd garmadon #lloyd montgomery garmadon #lloyd garmadon ninjago #ninjago lloyd #lloyd ninjago #ninjago lloyd garmadon

[annabelle--cane]

murder should be legal if it's your friends' shitty parents

#give me a sword and ten minutes alone with my gf's mother #marina marvels at life

[thewongbook]

Xia Profile: Koh Xinyi

Age: 22

Sex: Male

Height: 5'11"

Weight: 185 lbs

Ethnicity: Trueborn Imperial

Country: Magne-La

Sect: Leng's School/Icebreaker Sect

Style: Art of the Avalanche

Weapon: none

Bio: A friendly, personable xia who holds a grudge against a certain organization. Though he's very competative, at the end of the day he's a rather stand-up lad who takes his losses (and victories) in stride. He fights very aggressively, creating armor out of ice for both defense and offense. Equally likely to pelt you with razor-sharp icicles or to drop kick you in the face. May not look like it, but a surprisingly tactical fighter.

#bookblr #character profile #original character #fantasy #writing #book #wuxia #life by the sword #writers on tumblr #cryokinesis

[falconearring]

Sun, Star, Moon, Swords.

Congrats to Martyn!!! Whipped this up real fast once I finished the episodes. Funny, it was my first time watching his POV this season and I really enjoyed it ^_^

#limited life spoilers #limited life #limited life smp #inthelittlewood #smajor1995 #scott smajor #pearlescentmoon #grian #traffic smp #when i first saw all the sun star moon stuff i assumed it was a tarot ref #hence why ive decided to represent martyn as the suit of swords

[malcontentonline]

The lyrics here are from Alex G's Gnaw which I feel very strongly is their song.

#kakagai #kakashi hatake #might guy #dont rip into me too hard for how edgy this is bc its literally Kakashi's life lol #comic #sort of ig #yall see the sword of damocles reference though #that was unintentional until like half way through when i noticed it and decided to lean into it #i am once again asking for Tumblr to not destroy the quality #my art

[the-phantom-peach]

something i was working on was not panning out the way I wanted so i post miscellaneous zelda scribbles instead :)

#yeesh comps a bit messy on these #im replaying twilight princess for posterity #and jc i miss the kids sm i just had to draw them ;; #also #Queen Sonia makes me want to surgically remove both of my eyeballs in her presence just so I can say she was the last thing i saw in life #and I think that’s okay #im normal #:) #the legend of zelda #tloz #loz #tears of the kingdom #totk #queen sonia #rauru #totk tauro #tauro #twilight princess #loz tp #skyward sword #loz ss #the wind waker #wind waker #toon link #ocarina of time #majoras mask #loz link #korok #art #my art

[wasyago]

we're at it again🕺

#jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #my art #sketch #back on my bullshit woo yeah woo yeah woo yeah #genuinely a lot happier with this design than the previous ones. the lighter metal looks better on him #and this one doesn't have a lot of detail (or any detail tbh) so it looks more solid and fun i think #and you can see im trying to figure out how gill would carry his sword around #technically he should just carry it in his hands and don't have a scabbard because its a longsword and isn't supposed to be sheathed... #but like... its not practical to always carry it in his hands. especially in a day to day life. because he always has the sword on him- #but he doesn't necessarily always hold it? like. he needs hands for stuff #i think i like the back scabbard better (even if i drew the whole turnaround for the hip one) just because it doesn't mess with his tail #plus that way destiny's blade is higher up and gets to look around at stuff and i think its funny #but then like... the cape is a little awkward if it has to go above the sword... #but its not a big deal. if he has a cape and armor on he probably holds the sword in his hands anyway #am i putting too much thought into this unnecessary detail? yes #am i rambling in the tags again instead of making a separate post? also yes