It looks like it's about to kiss you

but it will tear your heart out

(don't worry, i only use it to eat strawberries)

for Macro Mondays # Contraption

Equinox Weapons - Axe and assassin bracer available We <3 RP

March 4th

Music

Exile :

Exile - Gemini @🚕 C88 🚕

I greatly enjoyed Cadence Weapon, whose album Parallel World won the Polaris Prize in Canada. His politics and insights are spot on and he has a great sense of rhythm and sound structures. Rollie Pemberton had a lot of passion as well as some funny stories and was definitely the highlight of the day on Friday.

cadenceweapon.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-world

***All photos are copyrighted***

Delicate Weapon - Grimes feat. Lizzy Wizzy ♫

RAF Holbeach

Lincolnshire

RAF Holbeach

South Holland

The Wash

RAF Holbeach

Lincolnshire

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Z2Eo7__kI

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

[Camille Paglia]

Happy Fence Friday

Langley 2016 airshow.

digital art

"Well, I'm a hand grenade

Try to take this ring from me

Watch me detonate ..."

- Falling in Reverse

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A wise man knows cologne is the most powerful

weapon in the fight for female attention.

(Marcello Mastroianni)

Weekly Theme Challenge - Repetition

Looking close... on Friday! - Perfume Bottles

(original photo by Freya, edit by me)

Thanks for views, faves and comments!

Keeping warm with alpaca mitts knitted by me & a wool shawl crocheted by me. Combat the chill!

More infos on my blog @ ahmanetmetall8.wixsite.com/ahmblog/post/stay-in-my-side

Galactic Guardian 2h Lasersword from

Broken Arc

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Inworld Store

Built in 1928 by The Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough to house an experimental rotating loop navigation system (Inertial Navigation System) and later adopted by the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) to record ballistics and aerodynamics during bomb trials. Now used by the National Trust as a fabulous bird hide, but the integrity and history of the building using information boards is very well explained.

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Includes:

Part of my Batcave. There are weapons, a computer, stairs, the bat symbol, an extinguisher and tables. What do you guys think? :)

This Batcave was inspired by Boss Bricks.

An example

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A Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) strikes a pose while grooming her raptorial forelegs. Photographed where found, perched on a white-topped pitcher plant in North Carolina.

After showing the power section I felt that I owed you a look at the payload delivery section.

With bouquet!!! IN THE EXPLORE 10/25/2015

Crysis 2

hud_hide 1 (hide hud)

r_drawnearfov 2 (hide weapon)

ReShade+SweetFX

Lighting & details snapshots

We've had a small incursion of flies in the last week who were resistant to the usual weaponry.

So, Kate suggested I haul out the artillery. And the carnage began. The damn bugs may be able to avoid the flyswatter, but they haven't evolved the ability to escape a subsonic cloud of salt propelled by a blast of CO2. Even Kate managed to pick one off!

Here the ordnance rests on the kitchen counter, ready when the next fly dares to annoy us.

I considered adding one of the carcasses of the enemy, but that would have violated several rules of YCPTPH (and possibly the Geneva Convention). And be icky.

Here's the picture I took a couple of years ago. Pretty much the same, but now it's been battle tested. And that picture shows more of the story.

The World Renowned Frazier Studio

Elgin, Illinois, USA

August 28, 2026

This is a real photograph taken with a real, physical camera, and not created by AI.

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Bet you have not got one of these. A rare WW1 artillery shell timer

Another B&W from my visit to Leeds.

About time I posted something here, you know the drill comment what ya think

-James (mgb)

I have a few weapons still from my karate class.

The gastraphetes (Ancient Greek γαστραφέτης, lit. 'belly-bow') was a handheld crossbow, used by ancient Greeks. It was described in the first century AD by the Greek author Heron of Alexandria in his work Belopoeica (Ancient Greek Βελοποιικά, 'on catapult-making'). It is believed to have been invented around 400 BC.(Landels, 1978, p. 99-100)

The weapon was powered by a composite bow. It was cocked by resting the stomach in a concavity at the rear of the stock and pressing down with all strength. In this way considerably more energy can be summoned up than by using only one arm of the archer as in the hand-bow.

There are no attestations through pictures or archaeological finds, but the description by Heron is detailed enough to have allowed modern reconstructions to be made.

A larger version of the gastraphetes were the oxybeles, which were used in siege warfare. These were later supplanted by the early ballistae that later also developed into smaller versions supplanting also the gastraphetes.

[edit] In modern culture

Gastraphetes appears in the Square Enix tactical RPG Final Fantasy Tactics. It is mistranslated as Gastrafitis and is the strongest crossbow in the game. It appears in Final Fantasy XII for PS2 once again as the strongest crossbow.

In Microsoft's Age of Mythology, Gastraphetes appear as a unit trainable only by Hades. They wield a crossbow and are very powerful, having few weaknesses.

A Gastraphetes also appears in the MMORPG Lineage 2. However, it is not a crossbow in the game. [from wikipedia].

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