Mithril's Hanger

Queen of the Dead part 2, 54

I don't know if you actually can see the island of Aegina (originally named Oenone according to some ancient sources) from the Acrocorinth, but let's just say that it's possible in this fantasy version of ancient Greece, because otherwise I don't know how Sisyphus could know where Zeus brought the girl.

so this got me wondering.. the Acrocorinth's summit is a bit over 1800 feet. according to this site, at 1000ft the horizon would be at a bit over 32 miles away, and at 2000ft it would be at a touch over 59 miles.

according to googlemaps's "measure distance" featue, the distance between the acrocorinth and Aegina is 32.14 miles. so the island is not below the horizon if veiwed from the top of the acrocorinth.

however there are two factors at play that would make it pretty hard to see.. first is that atmospheric scattering would blur a lot of detail more than 30 miles away. which for something as big as an island might not be much of a factor, assuming it is visible at all.

the big issue would be that a direct flight path over the acrocorinth to aegina passes over rugged hills that block most of the LOS to the island.

i would rather die than write “astrid h*ddock” ……………………………………. she’s a hofferson and she’s proud of it u careless, mean spirited fools 

That’s! Not! How! Scandinavian names! Work!

Women didn’t change their surnames to their husband’s prior to the 19th century. Icelandic women still don’t!

(they also didn’t have fixed surnames, so Hiccup technically should be Stoicksson and Astrid should be (parent’s name)dottir but whatever)

So what your saying is …

Thor is the real father of Tuffnut and Ruffnut?

K I’ll buy it but can you imagine all the family discourse on Asgard yet to come?

Thor: Yes, Good - My sacred twin offspring shall do Great Things in my name, worship me and follow my ways faithfully, Thor’s mighty name always upon their lips.

*from the moment the Twins can walk and wreak havoc to present day in New Berk*

Uncle Loki: *directly in his brothers face* PFFFFFFTHAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA —!!

The Norse did use lineage names (like clan or tribal names). So if you want to, you could imagine that Hiccup and Stoick are of the Haddock lineage, while Astrid is lineage Hofferson. Not sure if a woman marrying into another lineage would become part of her husband’s or retain her own.

Besides patronyms (like Hiccup Stoicksson or Zephyr Hiccupsdottir) people used descriptive epithets, like Stoick the Vast or Gobber the Belch.

I hc Astrid becoming known as Astrid the Axwielder.

He is playing clash of clans he does not notice her stealing his gun

no lie i genuinely believe brands are so behind the pleather movement bc they can just buy cheap plastic sell it as expensive 'vegan leather' and be ready for you to return in a couple years to buy another 'vegan peeta approved™ leather jacket' bc they last like 5 minutes compared to the way leather lasts decades all the while you can pat yourself and coorporate's back for being sutainable all the while pvc (what some fake leather products are made of) has been labeled the single most environmentally damaging type of plastic and while there are non pvc fake leathers such as pu leather... its not like thats much better producing plastic pollutes and the second your pleather clothes start to breakdown (which happens much faster than you think) theyll wound up on landfills for at least a 100 years...

also they love love LOVE to try and sell you "plant-based leather" that you then look at the details and it's "45% cactus" or whatever and there's no mention of what the rest of it is

it's plastic.

it's always plastic.

Let me tell you a story.

50 years ago or so a cow died. It died in a slaughterhouse after a life on a cattle ranch. It was butchered in a meat packing plant, and it's body was sent off to a grocery store where it then became an overdone steak or a dry hamburger or maybe dog food. It was the 70s and people had only recently realized that you could put food in things that were not jello. Cut them some slack.

But its skin went to a tannery. And that skin was processed in the hide and then leather. That leather was bought by a clothing company who made jackets out of it, long leather dusters for working men and ranchhands. Cowboy shit.

The dead cow that is now a leather jacket is not technically waterproof because if you stand out in the rain for 6 hours water will eventually work its way through the seams at the shoulders. But its pretty damn waterproof. It keeps off the rain and the snow and the dust and the mud and the brambles and it doesn't melt if it catches a spark. So 50 years ago a man bought one and he wore it pretty much until he died and his wife shoved it in a closet. Decades of use, from the deserts in the southwest to the arctic, because it turns out that cowboys are wildly adaptable.

Anyway, I pulled grandad's jacket out of the closet a while back and there is nothing wrong with that coat. It does have some distinctly non-modern vibes, but more importantly it is cool as hell and looks almost new. I have seen faux distressed leather that looks worse.

The cow is still dead. There will be another cow that dies tomorrow for the same reason. But there's no market for leather these days. Its skin won't be a garment that lasts 50 years. Its gonna rot in a pile with all the others. Someone will sell a "vintage" cowboycore Americana aesthetic dark academia plastic peice of shit that will be garbage in a year. And then they'll sell another one.

That cow, that became a leather coat?

It's probably also a saddle that another cowboy is still riding.

And several belts. Probably some wallets, several gloves, some riding tack.

Nobody who doesn't work with leather understands how much material you get from one cow. I have sides (like 1/4 of a cow) that I've been making things out of for years and there's still lots left in my materials stash.

Once that coat is too worn out to wear, there will still be lots of the leather that's still good. Someone who can't afford to buy hides will probably make smaller things from those pieces (that's how I started working with leather).

Even when every piece of that hide is completely unusable, it will decompose like it was originally going to, and shed no microplastic particles. A synthetic alternative lasts a fraction as long and sheds microplastics for its entire life.

You also can't use that synthetic leather for many of the things you'd use real leather for. It's not fire resistant, so welders can't use it to protect them from sparks. it doesn't have the tensile strength of real leather, so you can make equestrian tack out of it. It doesn't provide any abrasion resistance, so you can't make motorcycle leathers from it. It can't be used for protective equipment in sports like archery, because it would disintegrate under normal use.

Synthetic leather can only be used in place of real leather in fashion and upholstery applications, and it's not very good at either. It requires hundreds of times more material for the same applications due to its short lifespan, and it produces plastic pollution constantly.

There's literally no good argument for replacing real leather with synthetic alternatives. Even if you want to go the animal rights route, how many marine and aquatic ecosystems are you willing to sacrifice for the life of a few cows? Are you even saving cows, when we use them for so many other industries? Does a domesticated animal have more right to life than the wild species impacted by synthetic leather production?

In the long run, it's just not worth it.

help me out guys. reblog this, like this. for every note, everything is pushed back a day for him. I need your help. he doesn’t believe it’s possible to help him. but it’s entirely possible, especially with your help. I know these are so sporadic and cliché to an extent along with becoming so popular on here, but please. I appreciate every single note

REBLOGGGGG LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT

BREAK THE POST BREAK THE POST!!!!

REBLOG LIKE YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE.

this could save a life!!! i have to rb this : V

Take in count that if this thing works, this dude will live 516,1723076923077 years. YOU GOT THIS, CHAMP!

My partner and I cancelled our Adobe accounts today because of this. Imagine if makers of physical art media had the right to pilfer your sketchbooks because you used their pencils and paints. That’s basically what Adobe is trying to foist on everyone.

– Terry Pratchett, Thud!

Some Maquis pick on a Cardassian ship, Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Preemptive Strike” S7E24

I appreciate that they used 3 kinds of Maquis ships; there are ones like Chakotay’s ship, there are Bajoran fighters, and also Federation peregrine fighters.

A Betazoid character who isn't in a nurturing profession, but is a tactical officer.

"Captain, I sense they know they're about to get their asses handed to them"

Also, a Klingon character who is in a nuturing profession instead of tactical.

"You are a true child of Kahless for confronting your fears and I am honoured to have helped you."

Klingon therapist: the battle against mental illness cannot be won decisively. It is a long campaign against an enemy who never tires, whose forces swell to twice their size whenever you look away. Battle against a foe of such magnitude, who occupies your very mind… every moment you survive is a triumph against all odds. There is no more honorable combat.

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Shin Godzilla 2016

This is canon btw

it's why he shoots purple

Urbosa

Urbosa

your daily dose of “orwell and the spanish civil war” tweets

Orwell had very clear flaws (ratting out certain leftists and gay people to the British government being a major one), but it's always so funny to see right-wingers worship this guy when you can spend all of two minutes on his wikipedia page to learn that he probably would not have sided with right-libertarians and MAGA chuds.

“be careful with my emotional baggage,” i say. “it’s designer.”

“be careful with mine, its vintage.”

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

I know I’m part of this post so I shouldn’t say it, but damn that’s still one of my fave posts on tumblr