#parthian shots
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AJ Suede & Televangel - Goodbye (ft. Rich Jones)
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There used to be an idiom to the effect of "If you want to train a longbowman, start with his grandfather." As I have been told it by the historians I read, training someone to use bow and arrow effectively in a genuine combat situation was nearly impossible. Even Rome gave up on it and just hired archers from elsewhere. It turns out that in order to be an effective combat archer, you basically have to spend you entire life doing it in a way as integral to your life as eating and breathing. Places that don't have a longstanding tradition of hunting with bow and arrow don't produce combat archers.
This goes ten more times over for horseback archery. At some point or another, much of the planet had horsemanship and archery at the same time. There's a reason that only two or three of those places produced much in the way of horse archers.
So Link's ability to throw out Parthian Shots like it's nothing the second he has access to a bow and a horse (sometimes even without ever having so much as seen a bow or a horse before) is, depending on how you look at it, either very silly or extremely badass.
#legend of zelda#the legend of zelda#loz#ocarina of time#breath of the wild#majora's mask#tears of the kingdom#twilight princess#epona#zelda can do it too in twilight princess which might be even funnier. did the triforce of wisdom download a tutorial into her brain#or can she Just Do That#a queue in the dark beguiles me
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South of Greece, across the Mediterranean Sea, exists an older race of Amazons Led by the Amazon Queen Myrina in the desert lands of Libya of North Africa. The Queen conquers surrounding tribes with her 30,000 Amazon foot soldiers, 3,000 cavalry, and shields and armor made of giant snakeskin. Their horseback archery skills were unmatched, and were masters of the Parthian Shot, (hitting targets behind, while riding away).
Invading the lands of the Atlantians, Queen Myrina treated the conquered cities savagely, slaughtering the boys and men, and enslaving the women and children, until the neighboring cities accepted Myrina as ruler. Myrina also defeat another neighboring race of warriors called the Gorgons, who Medusa later leads against Perseus. She continues her quest into Egypt, befriending the god king Horus, son of Isis. Journeying East she conquers the Arabians and Syrians and founds cities along the way. Myrina is finally killed in battle fighting Thracian and Phrygian warriors, and the Amazons, suffering high casualties, are forced to retreat back to Libya in defeat.
This episode of North African Amazons comes from Diodorus Siculus, in his book “The Library of History,” (1st century B.C.) Diodorus seems to be an outlier from other ancient authors in placing Amazons in North Africa. In addition, the Atlantian civilization he mentions is not the lost mythical island of Atlantis made famous by Plato, which authors place in the Atlantic ocean, just west of the Pillars of Herakles (strait of Gibraltar).
The Thracians, said to derive from a son of Ares, were a race which thrived on the west coast of the black sea in modern day Turkey and Bulgaria, and they were known as allies of the trojans at Troy. The Phrygians resided in Anatolia and the Southern Balkans, and were said to have fought with King Priam of troy against the amazons. King Midas, cursed with his golden touch, was a Phrygian king.
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Tired: What if Caesar hadn’t been assassinated?
Wired: What if Caesar had survived the stabbing attempt?
It'll be tough: the stabbing probably didn't take more than a couple minutes, and there weren't any troops nearby to intervene. But suppose Antony is faster in this timeline, and luckier, and manages to flip Decimus Brutus' gladiators to his side before storming the building. Most or all of the assassins get killed in the fighting. Caesar's wounded, but as long as Gaius Servilius Casca hasn't struck the blow in his ribs yet, the injuries are non-lethal.
The Parthian campaign will be delayed, perhaps called off entirely as Caesar recovers. This...is not actually good for Caesar, who's been growing more unpopular in the last year. The Senate resents him, and it's now clear that his policy of "leniency" is not going to reconcile the Caesarians and Pompeians, nor keep him safe. The Roman people are upset that he still hasn't reinstated free elections now that the civil war is over. Even his officers and soldiers are pissed, mostly because they feel he hasn't been rewarding them appropriately. Caesar inflicted a real cost on himself by not proscribing his enemies and giving their property to his men.
(You might ask, "But weren't the people furious when Caesar died?" Well, a subset of them were; we don't know if they reflected most Romans' views. Caesar's popularity among the general public seems to have been declining. I suspect that many people were unhappy with his rule but didn't want him to outright die, due to fear of more instability.)
If Caesar can't invade Parthia, and thus regain popularity with the people and plunder for his loyalists, his regime starts looking a lot weaker. And the fact that the assassination attempt happened will signal to other dissidents that they aren't alone. It's only a matter of time before someone takes a shot at him again.
If Caesar's willing to swallow his pride, he may finally resort to proscriptions. It's the most effective way to remove threats, silence the grumbling populace, and reward his loyalists at the same time. Though cruel, it's best way to keep himself safe.
But Caesar doesn't do "safe." His entire career, from flouting the Senate to crossing the Rubicon to nearly getting himself killed many times, has been "high risk, high reward." Hell, he'd dismissed his bodyguard some months before the Ides. And Caesar likes to think of himself as merciful, even if he was a lot less so at Munda and Thapsus. He refused to proscribe during the civil war, and almost never killed men from senatorial families outside of battle.
So I don't think Caesar would proscribe. More likely, I think he'd execute any surviving conspirators, arrange investigations of any new conspiracies, and reinstate his bodyguard. And I think he'd try to dream up a brilliant new scheme to quell people's anger with his regime. I can't imagine what, but he's great at improvising. Maybe he'll shoot the moon and create the principate early!
But I wouldn't bet on it. Caesar's at his weakest when he's injured, and now the illusion of his untouchability has been shattered. Arrows, poison, a disgruntled officer, an "accident" or infection, a senator who isn't afraid to die - there's so many ways to take him out, and so many people with a motive. And you better act fast, before he passes some new law that upends your life, or leaves Rome again.
Frankly, I doubt he'll survive the end of 44. And from there I think Octavian and Antony will butt heads over the inheritance of Caesar's legacy again. It might play out similarly to our timeline, or not. Pretty much anything could've happened. But this post is getting awful long already...
That's all just my opinion. Other ideas are welcome!
#for a REALLY fun time try stabbing caesar as he walks out of the catilinarian debate in 63. it very nearly happened!#either lethally or nonlethally. things would be SO different. i don't even know where to start...#ides of march#alternate history#jlrrt essays#julius caesar
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50 of my favorite Hip Hop releases of 2023
i know it's a few months late, but i'm still posting this for whoever might find it useful. maybe there's something on here that went under the radar for you, or something from earlier in the year that you mightve forgotten about. the albums titles are all hyperlinked to the bandcamp or spotify page where you can hear them. i could also do a list for non hip hop albums from 2023 if anyone would be interested in seeing that. as always, i also want to know what your favorite releases were & what came out last year that's still in rotation for you? i'm talking any genre, not just hip hop. let me know!
Chart with album titles included
billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions
Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
MIKE - Burning Desire
AKAI SOLO - Only The Strong Remain
Fatboi Sharif & Steel Tipped Dove - Decay
King Kashmere & Alecs Delarge - The Album To End All Alien Abductions
Blockhead - The Aux
Aj Suede & Televangel - Parthian Shots
Sunmundi & Āthmaan - Midnight Oil
McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
Theravada & Zoomo - Waste Management
KILLVONGARD - Life Is a Masterpiece.
Skech185 & Jeff Markey - He Left Nothing for the Swim Back
Onry Ozzborn - BlvckBeachBoi
Defcee & Messiah Musik - The Golem of Brooklyn Original Soundtrack
R.A.P. Ferreira - LILAC DIESEL
Unsung - Hand Painted Model Trains
Stik Figa & The Expert - Ritual
Anwar HighSign & Giallo Point - Whatever The Case May Be
Mary Sue & psychedelic ensemble. - CACOPHONOUS DIGRESSIONS
King Vision Ultra - SHOOK WORLD
Jack Jetson & Illinformed - CAMOGODSKIN
spectacular diagnostics - Raw Lessons
Bloodblixing - Sodom And Gomorrah (Gangsta Edition)
Backwoodz Studioz - High Bias
Fly Anakin & Foisey - Skinemaxxx
yungmorpheus - From Whence It Came
Earl Sweatshirt - Voir Dire
Ja'king the Divine & Javi Darko - Fear & Loathing In Long Island
Tomcantsleep & KILLVONGARD - The Sun is Yellow
Oddisee - To What End
Onoe Caponoe - Concrete Fantasia
Lukah - Permanently Blackface (The 1st Expression)
Open Mike Eagle - another triumph of ghetto engineering
Real Bad Man & Blu - Bad News
El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Glorious Game
Danny Brown - Quaranta
H31R - HeadSpace
Zilla Rocca & Jason Griff - Stacking Chips
Navy Blue - Ways of Knowing
Wiki & Tony Seltzer - 14K Figaro
Supastition - Every Last Word
Noname - sUndIAl
Skyzoo & The Other Guys - The Mind of A Saint
Nappy Nina - Mourning Due
G's Us - WHAT THEM DOGS DON'T KNOW THEY KNOW
illingsworth - i'm not supposed to be here
Jehst - Mork Calling Orson
Budamunk & Ill Conscious - Sakanoue
#2023 album of the year#music recommendations#billy woods#armand hammer#sunmundi#MIKE#AKAI SOLO#fatboi sharif#blockhead#aj suede
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water under the bridge | a(nother) natori shuuichi/matoba seiji fanmix
featuring cover art by the incredibly talented and wonderful @izumisays
tracklist + lyrics + notes below:
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HEALTH x PERTURBATOR - EXCESS [i didn't do it / i didn't do it for love / what did i do it for]
FOREIGN AIR - IN THE SHADOWS [i know you could hear me / but you pretend you don't have a heart]
OWEN PALLETT - PEACH, PLUM, PEAR (JOANNA NEWSOM COVER) [now its done / watch it go / you've changed some / water runs from the snow]
TAMER - BEAUTIFUL CRIME [when the sun sets we're both the same / half in the shadows / half burned in flames]
PARIS JACKSON - SCORPIO RISING [you're my stained gauze / you are all i've got]
BRETON - PARTHIAN SHOT [you can cover up what you want / cover up what you are]
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DOL IKARA - STONE TOWERS [what am i here for / i've gone astray / what are you here for / now i'm your decay]
TRILLS - SPEAK LOUD [you and me after / you and me before / time splits in two / on both sides of the door]
CHARLOTTE MARTIN - CUT THE CORD [we're too weak too strong / to cut the cord]
ADELE - WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE [if i'm not the one for you / why have we been through what we have been through]
LUDOVICO EUNAUDI - LOW MIST VAR 2. DAY 1 [instrumental]
DAUGHTER - SWIM BACK [i'd just need to erase distance / find a hole in the ocean / swim backwards]
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TEGAN AND SARA - BACK IN YOUR HEAD (DEMO) [i'm not unfaithful but i'll stray / when i get a little scared]
AGNES OBEL - FAMILIAR [can you walk on the water if i / you and i / or keep your eyes on the road and live the familiar / without you and i]
MARIKA HACKMAN - REALITI (GRIMES COVER) [when we were young we used to live so close to it / and we were scared and we were beautiful]
MACHINEHEART - LOST TIME [i'm thinking about the last time / i wanna try again / i'm pushing on the rewind where it all began]
PVRIS - OLD WOUNDS [they say don't open old wounds but i want to / i think i could love you till the day that you die]
FOALS - MILK & BLACK SPIDERS [and i know you're still with me / you're my compass and my sea]
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endless amounts of love and gratitude for dearest izumisays who put the cherry on top of my scorpio season with the offer to create a cover for yet another one of my little fanmixes! i now desperately need to hang this in the louvre and my wall because i cannot stop gazing at it in awe and adoration and feel the need to make everyone else do the same 🥰
we had talked about the vibe for this being inspired and informed by the transition from the sharp edges of their earlier dynamic to the recent (incredibly! surreal!) gentler pause in divorce coexistence that manga canon has been gifting us. as a result, it wound up much mellower and maybe even cautiously hopeful(?) in parts compared to those before (ie. the overall aesthetic contrast/narrative progression from here still hecks me up in the best way)
not sure how much tumblr may be messing with the resolution so full-view probably best and pls also appreciate seiji's tiny proposal loquat[TM] in the last pic! :D
#natsume yuujinchou#natori shuuichi#matoba seiji#horrible exorcists#hexfest2k23#mine#fanmix#collab#for anyone who knows me...mixes are basically my 'in this essay i will' and i'd been percolating in this for so long#that it feels great to finally let it out and also show off kay's gorgeous art to the world!!!#on this festive occasion of sparkly lizard boy's bday !!!!! ✨✨✨#bar revival 2k23 or die trying!!!!!
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matoba seiji/natori shuuichi; g; ~1200 w.
There isn't much small talk or exchange of pleasantries today. Instead, Natori starts right out of the gate with, "So, that was a reckless stunt you pulled."
"You'll have to specify," says Seiji, though he has a reasonable idea.
(A chance meeting shortly after Homura arc shenanigans.)
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i am behind on writing this week and my deadlines are coming up (including 50 days to finals…) and i estimate perhaps:
—never love an anchor: finishing editing tomorrow/day after (27th)
—keep me in mind: I’ll be honest I’m stuck on chapter 49 and it needs a full rewrite, so maybe the end of this week? so will be a few days off my posting schedule
—parthian shot: the last chapter is basically done but I have to smooth in all the bits between so I’d say this week could be possible 🧘🏽♀️
all this rewriting is tiring but it feels so much more satisfying than just posting right away than I used to, hopefully I can build up a chapter buffer again after finals (optimism optimism optimism 🙏)
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i'm getting ready to spend another friday night on wlur from 8pm until midnight. swing by or catch up with last week's show below!
no love for ned on wlur – may 12th, 2023 from 8-10pm
artist // track // album // label
jale // ali // so wound // sub pop
urusei yatsura // plastic ashtray // we are urusei yatsura // rocket girl
hole // violet // live through this // dgc
mhaol // asking for it // attachment styles // tulle
mousey // the bench // my friends // winegum
cheekface // popular two // it's sorted // (self-released)
kate davis // monster mash // fish bowl // anti-
the long blondes // once and never again // someone to drive you home // rough trade
pale lips // get up and go // if you gotta go-go, go-go now- a tribute to the go-go's // sympathy for the record industry
the courettes // night time (the boy of mine) // back in mono // damaged goods
vera ellen // homewrecker // ideal home noise // flying nun
calvin johnson // good and crazy // gallows wine // k
hannah everingham // go on // between bodies // (self-released)
hayden featuring feist // on a beach // are we good // arts and crafts
sweeney // home song // stay for the sorrow // observable universe
golden brown // busted crystal // weird choices cassette // inner islands
center // the empty gesture // over the stations // bruit direct disques
abdul wadud and leroy jenkins // straight ahead (excerpt) // straight ahead // red
kahil el'zabar and ethnic heritage ensemble featuring dwight trible and david ornette cherry // don cherry // spirit gatherer- a tribute to don cherry // spiritmuse
cvartetul de jazz paul weiner // colinda p // spirale // electrecord
drew gardner featuring marco eneidi, roberto de haven and vytas nagisetty // the human abstract // the return cassette // astral spirits
john carroll kirby // jubilee horns // septet // stones throw
theo croker featuring ego ella may and d’leau // theo says // by the way ep // masterworks
planet giza featuring saba // wyd // ready when you are // quiet note
aj suede and televangel // rosicrucian rolls royce // parthian shots // fake four
yaeji featuring k wata // ready or not // with a hammer // xl
heather woods broderick // i want to go // labyrinth // western vinyl
waterbaby // airforce blue // foam ep // sub pop
evening pines // take a few steps back // it will take a long time // both worlds
the lost days // half the time // in the store // speakeasy studios sf
kid loco featuring katrina mitchell // love me sweet // a grand love story // yellow productions
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AJ Suede & Televangel - Mount Doom (ft. Onry Ozzborn)
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With this book, the end of the biographies of the death throes of the Roman Republic:
Wrapped the biography of the last of the overmighty generals of the Republic, next up are the Roman Emperors from Augustus to Theodosius, and then two books on the history of the Baltic Sea states/Northern Europe. Mark Antony was another case like Pompey of a man who started with far greater advantages than the men who ultimately sealed the fate of history and the Roman state.
This is not a factor to be lightly cast aside, Augustus (through Agrippa) was the one who ultimately wound up calling the shots like his uncle Gaius Julius Caesar before him. He did so against twin disadvantages of youth and Antony having had the time to amass far greater wealth in money and troops and having an established network of power spanning the entirety of the Roman Republic.
Caesar overcame Pompey's advantages because it went to the point of the sword and Caesar was a better general than Pompey, who lost history in a single afternoon of sitting on his laurels. Augustus overcame Antony because Antony loved the good life a little too much, because he was deeply arrogant and flighty where Augustus was every bit as arrogant but a workaholic who understood how finely balanced the instruments of power were, or could be.
Antony, what's more, was willing to ally with Cleopatra VII and to treat her as an equal and she had two deficits against her. First, she was a woman. Second she was the arch-'Oriental' around whom the Roman version of the Orientalist stereotypes consolidated. Antony retained vast advantages against Augustus, but his failure against the Parthians (a track record which would only really see a distinct difference under Emperor Trajan, who in this as in other things was an exception to a general pattern) was what gave Augustus the opportunity for Actium.
The era that began with Marius and Sulla marching on Rome ended in a naval battle between two warlords, and in the end it was the man who knew he had no aptitude to lead forces directly but was good at choosing subordinates who triumphed over the man who was good at soldiering but mediocre at best at ruling who was forced to rule instead of being the Agrippa to someone else.
9/10.
#lightdancer comments on history#book reviews#european history#roman republic#mark antony#from the roman republic to the roman empire
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Undefeated
When you find yourself before Theodosian walls
And hears screaming of someone's
When you are in a war
And there is no way to stay far
When you are standing before a desert storm
And don't know what's going on
When you are against the Parthian shot
Thousands of arrows may be brought
They will hit and run
Making your fun
Like pains come and go
Destroying us from to and fro
When you sail the sea
Don't know what's gonna be
Searching for your fate
Like your life depends on a bet
The wall will fall today or tomorrow
You just need patience in your sorrow
Behind every victory
There is always a story
Keep going, my dear friend
Fight till the end
Ride through the desert storm like an Arab Bedouin
who knows to rise even from a ruin
Hold the sheilds like the Roman legion
You can stand against thousands of arrows when you have a clear vision
Don't you know how the Vikings used to sail?
Can we hide their courage behind the veil?
Have you heard about the sagas of the Norse?
These won't bore you like the prose
We fear the unknown
Even more than we fear the known
In our hearts where fear lives
Everyone knows how it feels
Once you face your fear
Then, face it twice
Face it again again until it gets tired
-Tanzim
#poetry#poets corner#poets on tumblr#poem#original poem#love poem#poem love#poem on tumblr#creative writing#writeblr#writers on tumblr#writing#my writing
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had the year end fic review meme brewing in the drafts and forgot all about it until now so for my own reference and posterity's sake: 2k23 edition (while its still uh january!)
apparently i used to do this every year for a while and then had several years of writerly drought so here's manifesting more words for the years ahead!! as with previous years, using metrics from ao3
Total number of completed stories: 8
Total word count: ~8k or so
Fandoms written in: drrr!! (gasp), project k, jjk, natsume yuujinchou (really truly bar revival 2k23 or die trying!!!!!)
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? the last few years had totally sapped me creatively so the bar was on the floor. more than expected by that metric even if much less than i had relative to years before that.
What's your own favorite story of the year? kirigami probably! i guess the good thing about doing this a month into the new year is i dont have to mysteriously redact the yuletide reveal anymore :)
Did you take any writing risks this year? i posted drrr!! fic after ages and that wasnt bb gangsters-centric! and tried my hand at jjk characters' voices (posted only a tip of that iceberg) which was ~adventurous even though i still dont rly have a handle on em! birthright was a risk bc it was a total shot in the dark about a dynamic we havent even seen play out yet??? (more matoba siblings lore when, ms. midorikawaaaa)
Do you have any fanfic or ofic goals for the New Year? just telling myself to keep writing, dont overthink it, and remember everything you write will generally sound awkward and clunky after reading it for the 100th time without stepping away
My best story of this year: i never have an objective measure on this so my fave(s) are typically the best to me
My most popular story of this year: parthian shot & saccades are tied at this moment by ao3 kudos science if we're going by that!
Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: nothing stands out over the year
Most fun story to write: a few come to mind. though it was a v tiny memefill, i had a lot of fun with where the hours bend and it came very easily! fun fact: i was in the vicinity of houjicha cheesecake at the time and it subliminally crept into the fic which i only realized much later :')
more beautiful than night was also written amidst a self-indulgent single-sitting whirlwind with so much love and really felt like going back to basics because 2nd person mkiz nonsense is my brain's default state of being apparently <3
kirigami was wildly fun in a very different way like a puzzle i needed to crack and couldnt step away from until i did
Story with the single sexiest moment: mayhaps natori shuuichi ready to throw down at his first appearance in kirgami :D while maybe not what most people would call sexy, the entire dynamic and vibe throughout (anguished repressed bidirectional longing and all) was very sexy To Me!
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: wound up contemplating izaya and celty's absolutely bonkers dynamic via zero sum game in a way i dont think i had before
Hardest story to write: kirigami bc of the mental gymnastics of remixing that original vol 28 canon arc that is an absolute masterpiece in storytelling in its own right. i was very intimidated about doing it justice and as a gift-fic as well! the months leading up to yuletide were also bananas overall so, all things considered, it's a miracle that it came through on time!!
parthian shot also comes to mind bc the current canonverse exorcists dynamic, as delicious as it is, feels so frail and tenuous and i find myself wanting to handle it with the utmost care and respect when trying to show it
Biggest Disappointment: the stories i invested a lot in, i wound up fairly happy with! [endless number of ancient wips glare at me in disappointment]
Biggest Surprise: bar revival 2k23 in its entirety tbh :') also probably the extent to which i fell into jjk/stsg hell but i guess you cant really tell from the finished works for better or worse!!!
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TIL that Crassus was killed by a Parthian shot and my immediate reaction was "lmao get punked idiot"
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