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HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AND ARIANA GREENBLATT Behind the scenes of 'Ahsoka - Part Five: Shadow Warrior' (2023) Path of the Apprentice featurette
look. look at this beautiful sword meme. i’m going to cry
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I saw and reblogged this one a while back, but it’s always worth repeating, and this time I’m adding a bit of background info comparing common fantasy sword features to the Real Thing (with pictures, of course.)
Leaf-bladed swords are a very popular fantasy style and were real, though unlike modern hand-and-a-half longsword versions, the real things were mostly if not always shortswords.
Here are Celtic bronze swords…
…Ancient Greek Xiphoi…
… and a Roman “Mainz-pattern” gladius…
Saw or downright jagged edges, either full-length or as small sections (often where they serve no discernible purpose) are a frequent part of fantasy blades, especially at the more, er, imaginatively unrestrained end of the market.
Real swords also had saw edges, such as these two 19th century shortswords, but not to make them cool or interesting. They’re weapons if necessary…
…but since they were carried by Pioneer Corps who needed them for cutting branches and other construction-type tasks, their principal use was as brush cutters and saws.
This dussack (cutlass) in the Wallace Collection is also a fighting weapon, like the one beside it…
…but may also have had the secondary function of being a saw.
A couple of internet captions say it’s for “cutting ropes” which makes sense - heavy ropes and hawsers on board a ship were so soaked with tar that they were often more like lengths of wood, and a Hollywood-style slice from the Hero’s rapier (!!) wouldn’t be anything like enough to sever them. However swords like this are extremely rare, which suggests they didn’t work as well as intended for any purpose.
I photographed these in Basel, Switzerland, about 20 years ago. Look at the one on the bottom (I prefer the basket-hilt schiavona in the middle).
A lot of “flamberge” (wavy-edge) swords actually started out with conventional blades which then had the edges ground to shape - the dussack, that Basel broadsword and this Zweihander were all made that way.
The giveaway is the centreline: if it’s straight, the entire blade probably started out straight.
Increased use of water power for bellows, hammers and of course grinders made shaping blades easier than when it had to be done by hand. This flamberge Zweihander, however, was forged that way.
Again, the clue is the centre-line.
Incidentally those Parierhaken (parrying hooks - a secondary crossguard) are among the only real-life examples of another common fantasy feature - hooks and spikes sticking out from the blade.
Here are some rapiers and a couple of daggers showing the same difference between forged to shape and ground to shape. The top and bottom rapiers in the first picture started as straights, and only the middle rapier came from the forge with a flamberge blade.
There’s no doubt about this one either.
The reason - though that was a part of it - wasn’t just to look cool and show off what the owner could afford (any and all extra or unusual work added to the price) but may actually have had a function: a parry would have been juddery and unsettling for someone not used to it, and any advantage is worth having.
However, like the saw-edged dussack, flamberge blades are unusual - which suggests the advantage wasn’t that much of an advantage after all.
Here’s a Circassian kindjal, forged wiggly…
…and an Italian parrying dagger forged straight then ground wiggly…
There were also parrying daggers with another fantasy-blade feature, deep notches and serrations which in fantasy versions often resemble fangs or thorns.
These more practical historical versions are usually called “sword-breakers” but I prefer “sword-catcher”, since a steel blade isn’t that easy to break. Taking the opponent’s blade out of play for just long enough to nail him works fine.
NB - the curvature on the top one in this next image is AFAIK because of the book-page it was copied from, not the blade itself.
The missing tooth on that second dagger, and the crack halfway down this next one’s blade, shows what happens when design features cause weak spots.
So there you go: a quick overview of fantasy sword features in real life.
Here’s a real-life weapon that looks like it belongs in a fantasy story or film - and this doesn’t even have an odd-shaped blade…
Just a very flexible one…
If you want more odd blades, Moghul India is a good place to start…
i could not ask for a better addition to my meme post than blade education thank you so much
love the idea of sawds (the spork of combat)
A publicity still for Tarzan and His Mate (1934) starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan.
This was the second of MGM’s blockbuster Tarzan series starring Weissmuller. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan’s creator, disliked the series because of its portrayal of his hero as a monosyllabic, grunting savage. That did not, however, preclude Burroughs from making deals with MGM for additional films when he saw how much they made at the box office.
This film earned quite a lot of notoriety because of how skimpy Jane’s costume was: “Heavens to Betsy, you can see her bare thigh and hip!” There was also additional outcry and hand wringing over a scene with Tarzan and Jane swimming in a pond: originally Tarzan had his loincloth on, but Jane was completely naked. This led to the scene being re-shot several different times, with Jane (actually O’Sullivan’s swimming double, former Olympic swimmer Josephine McKim) wearing varying degrees of clothing.

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Popeye (1980) dir. Robert Altman
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
If you like Harry Potter but don't want to support J.K. Rowling, WATCH A VERY POTTER MUSICAL.
AVPM is completely separate from J.K.R. and the Warner Brothers. It's a musical written by some college students in 2009. AVPM has a wonderful queer romance, great music, and is made by creators who openly support trans people. They have also made two sequels which are equally good, if not better (A Very Potter Sequel and A Very Potter Senior Year). Darren Criss stars as Harry Potter. This was before he joined Glee or became a celebrity. The group that wrote, produced, and acted in it are called Starkid, and they still make musicals to this day, posting them in full length on YouTube for free!
plus, just look at these skrinkly skrunkos :)
Elsa Lanchester in The Bride of Frankenstein still.

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The Wheel of the Year is turning. It’s the final day of Summer and the Autumn Equinox is nigh. Spooky season is looming.
One of my favorite fairy tales from my childhood is Tam lin

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I MISS THIS SHOW SO MUUUUUCH. We never got closure, guys. There were SO many storylines left open! What the HELL happened to Dorothy and Lucas–after nearly killing each other, one can only assume they would grudgingly work together back in Oz…But would they grow back together again?! What about Jack and his robot-lady-love Lady Ev/Langwidere?? Who was Dorothy’s father–was it the skinless man a.k.a. The Beast Forever?? What happened to Tip/Ozma–how did she settle into her new/old skin, and how will she use her newfound royalty in Oz?!? What happened to the Cardinal Witches, splintered after East’s death…Would Dorothy have ever taken a place among them, to solve the “Beast Forever” problem?? Who is Mother South and where is she?? (I highly doubt she’s actually dead.) What happened to Eamonn after he went down the brick road as the “lion”?? SO MANY QUESTIONS I NEEDED ANSWERED. I read a tweet once about what the plot could have been had the show continued on, but it was SO not enough…
Betty Boop: Snow White (1933) HD
this is the short where that dancing ghost gif comes from skip to 4:40 or just watch the whole short.