Karume's Ships

of a handful of mutuals

shows up in my notes

💙Hiii gamers! My name is Panchi (They/It) You wanna promo your local aro/ace and trans self shipper that kisses a concerning number of blonds! 💙 My carrd can be found here! 💙

Hey, I'm Ash (she/her, 18+)! And I can be your friendly neighborhood unlabeled mutual!

I've been focused on First Light's James Bond, but I've got f/os from just about everywhere.

I talk about video games and baking yummy desserts <3

Labels are for soup cans and I'm sure not a can of soup.

Let's be mutuals 😝✌🏽!

That type of bevor seen in the first picture wouldn't usually go with an armet-style helmet, but rather with a helmet without its own built-in neck protection, such as (what is neologically called) a sallet or kettle helm.

If you wanted to get more neck protection out of an armet, you'd use what is usually called a "wrapper plate" which is kind of similar to a bevor but shaped to fit armets.

Arming jackets/doublets (usually also called gambesons - the thing about the Middle Ages is that they didn't actually have a lot of standardized words for things at all and many words we use today to refer to specific pieces of equipment are either completely new, or they refer to something specific today but a medieval person would have used the same word to refer to many different things) have strings all over them not just to keep them tied together but because that's how you attach the plate armor to the body. Their padding also not only acts as padding, but also offers some basic resistance to blades in the event that a blade gets between the plates and through the maille (chainmail) armor that usually fills the gaps between the plates. There is almost no chance at all of a blade penetrating the plates themselves.

Bigger thicker gambesons were worn as a form of armor themselves for poorer soldiers who couldn't afford anything better. They are surprisingly cut-resistant and cushion the body against blunt force as well. Stabbing weapons will go straight through them, but even then it's better to have it than not, because if you're wearing 2 inches of padding and get stabbed by a 5-inch blade in the heat of battle when everyone is constantly moving around and your opponent has no time (or desire) to drive it all the way in, that's only 3 inches deep into your actual flesh instead of 5.

Oh one tip I will give that technically is a correction is that that belt in the bottom-left picture is anachronistic. It's hard to describe how 15th century belts buckle but it usually looks something like this.

for lesbian/wlw self shippers of color, i understand how frustrating it can be, to be perceived in ways by other people that aren't fair to you or your identity. whether the world thinks you're too masculine, too feminine, too neither, too dark, too loud, too confident-- your f/os don't care about any of that, because they love you because of all of those things, not in spite of them!

femmes, your f/os are always taking the initiative to make sure you're taken care of: from chivalrous acts and sweeping romantic gestures from your butches showing you just how special and beautiful you are to shopping dates and glamorous outings with your fellow femmes and being able to enjoy the world and all it has to offer with all of your f/os that might fall somewhere in between!

butches, your f/os can't help but feel utterly enraptured with you and the way you navigate the world so confidently: they coyly hook their finger through your belt loop or the carabiner affixed to it and yank you in for a kiss, smile as they button up your dress shirt for a formal date and tell you how handsome you look, and are more than ready to stand up for you when people try to give you shit!

and for everyone who falls somewhere outside of those labels, don't think i'm counting you out either! wherever you fall, whatever you look like, and however you present, your f/os are just happy that they're able to wake up with you every day and spend the day with someone so perfect for them 💟