#arbelas

I wrote this giant rant about hating that Arbelas and Scissor gladiators are conflated and how that makes no sense considering that some people attribute the invention of the sliding-blade scissors to the Romans, and that there's no reason why the Arbelas's crescent blade even achieves the "carver" description. Then I did some more research and found that the shears, from which the scissors were derived, fell under the term Forfex. Oops. Along the way, I find that scythe is spelled the way it is because people misattributed it to Latin origins that it doesn't come from, and a similar reason as to why we use the term scissors for the descendant of Forfex, (the term of which would evolve to Falx and Fork) instead of with regards to cleavers, like it should be. Fucking language mangling. GORRAMIT I JUST WANTED THIS ONE CHARACTER IN MY GLADIATOR AU TO WIELD SHEARS DOESN'T THAT IMAGERY ALONE SOUND FUCKING AWESOME *shakes fist at Marcus Junkelmann* That was fucking unlabelled picture, Marcus, super arbitrary decision you made there, man. Whatever. I'ma invoke Rule of Cool for this.