faded in memory

Photo

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:27:42 -0400

Photo

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:25:50 -0500

imgonnashoottothrill: : Masterlist: Military, Weapons, Terrorism, and...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:10:09 -0500

: Masterlist: Military, Weapons, Terrorism, and More

spectrewolf:

referenceforwriters:

Anonymous said: Hi! First off, I love your blog. Whenever I’m stuck or needing some sort of inspiration, I always check out your site. Now, I’m writing a heavy action, military/police work novel and was wondering if you had anything that could help me when it came to the specifics of weapons, ammunition, bombs. Bomb making. Inside the mind of a terrorist. All that fun jazz. Thanks!

Weapons & Ammo

List of weapons

Weapons of the US military

Ammo types

Ammunition

Ammunition types and characteristics

Category: Weapons

Guns in general

Getting a handle on guns

Gun terms for writers

Bombs

Bombs

Category: explosives

List of bombs

Bomb basics: why you need to know…

Explosive types

Atomic bombs

Military

List of military tactics

List of military strategies and concepts

List of established military terms

What’s Inside: Military

How the military recruiting process works

Military career fields

Job Skill Training

Military language

Military Sign Language

Counter-terrorism

Counter-terrorism

The counter-terrorism strategy

On counter-terrorism (background, problems, policy)

Terrorism

Terrorism-Research → Behavior / Goals

Terrorism: psychology behind

Tactics of terrorism

Terrorism

How suicide bombers work

The terrorist mind

Getting inside the terrorist’s mind

→ Military & PTSD

Book recs:

Before anything, I’ve got to say that I’m only mentioning these books for informative purposes, for the anon and anyone else that requires them for writing.

The Anarchist Cook Book: many, many chapters of this book talk about the making of several kinds of bombs. It also has another types of “hacks” and how to’s. Some of them are creepy. A lot of them are creepy. You can read online here.

Homemade C-4: what tite says. You can read online here.

Blogs to check for military&gun info

soldierporn

gunrunnerhell

Got more links you’d like to share with us? info? feel free to ask or submit and it’ll be added.

-Alex

If you have any questions about anything, please send me an ask. You’ve seen my Alliance Military Reference posts. Many people here know my experience with the military. I would be very much happy to oblige you in helping you make realistic posts about the military. Or even write a novel or short story about it. I have direct resources as well as my own experience.

Photo

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:48:22 -0500

sinistersartorialist: instacal: The Eldridge Knot is pretty...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:05:14 -0500

sinistersartorialist:

instacal:

The Eldridge Knot is pretty awesome, but you have to give the Trinity Knot its due.

How to tie a Trinity Knot.

therichandmighty: 9 Favorites | Dresses by Sargent

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:54:58 -0500

therichandmighty:

9 Favorites | Dresses by Sargent

idreamofaworldofcouture: fashioninhistory: ‘Junon’ Evening...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:53:59 -0500

idreamofaworldofcouture:

fashioninhistory:

‘Junon’ Evening Dress

Christian Dior

Autumn/Winter 1949-50

‘Junon’, or Juno to the Romans, was more vividly conceived. The Magnificent skirt of forty-five petals, like abstractions of peacock feathers without their ‘eyes,’ obliquely references the bird associated with the queen of the gods.

Each petal on the ‘Junon’ dress sparkles with iridescent sequins in varying shades of pale greens and blues to emerald green and navy blue, with sprinklings of rust.- 100 Dresses

Photo

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:41:35 -0500

Photo

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:51:29 -0500

savedbysoutherncharm: Learn it. Love it. Swear by it.

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:29:54 -0500

savedbysoutherncharm:

Learn it. Love it. Swear by it.

azur3sk1es: xxnephaelia-vondaemonenxx: I’ve reblogged this...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:28:12 -0500

azur3sk1es:

xxnephaelia-vondaemonenxx:

I’ve reblogged this before, but I want it so much

why does everything i want either not exist or cost money.

Photo

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:27:12 -0500

tuchesuavae: heretic composite bow.

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:25:03 -0500

tuchesuavae:

heretic composite bow.

Photo

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:17:22 -0500

Photo

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:26:25 -0500

hermagnumopus: 1920’s Gentlemens Fashions

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:13:56 -0500

hermagnumopus:

1920’s Gentlemens Fashions

non-westernhistoricalfashion: Hair Ornament 19th-first half of...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:08:03 -0500

non-westernhistoricalfashion:

Hair Ornament

19th-first half of 20th century

Qing dynasty

Kingfisher feathers, gilt metal, red glass

H: 9.8 W: 4.5 D: 1.2 cm

China

gallery note: The ornament is a single shafted hairpin. The brilliant blue is the natural color of feathers from the kingfisher bird, which is native to some parts of China and other areas of Asia. These feathers were chosen to make jewelry because of their dazzling visual appeal.

"Why do you hate the shape of breasts in plate armor so much?"

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:03:59 -0500

martwhim:

Since people often ask “Alright, well this is fantasy! Why can’t we have boob shapes in plate armor?!” I decided to make a post about it. My frustration has nothing to do with historical inaccuracy and I’m all for imagination and freedom— but I’d like to (very quickly) illustrate this for you:

I purposely over-emphasized the shape of the two spheres in the armor so you can really think about this.

Look at the shape of the blue cups and the green line, think about the form of that on some beautiful ornate plate armor. A female warrior is charging into battle. In the midst of this, she trips! Or is pushed over, or takes a blow to the chest! So long as the force is on the front of her torso it really doesn’t matter for the conclusion:

She feels a sharp pain in her chest and hears the cracking of bone! Oh no, what’s gone wrong? Well she doesn’t have time to think about that, because she is now dead.

Her sternum just fractured, take another look at that green line, that’s where all of the pressure from any front impact is going to go because of the shape of the two blue cups made for her breasts. The rest of the armor slides around your body, but because of the two cups for breasts that are often made in fantasy female armors, the pressure point is directly on the sternum. The breasts are not going to stop the force of you falling onto them, and because of that the metal is going to push in and bash you in the sternum.

What does a fractured sternum do? Why it goes right into your heart and lungs of course.

(that was the sound of all of my followers inhaling a sharp breath between closed teeth at once)

Here are three great solutions to the problem:

GREAT EXAMPLE OF FANTASY TORSO ARMOR THAT IS FEMININE BUT FUNCTIONAL:

It is usually possible to bind the breasts when fighting if they really are far too large to fit into regular looking armor (there’s padding anyway), but most women can actually fit into a similarly sized male counterpart’s armor quite easily. Even if that’s the case, the armor can be made to have a curve to it without putting all of the pressure in one area, which was actually a style of armor for quite some time as shown here:

And don’t even get me started on the dreaded “Cleavage Window”

The “Cleavage Window” defeats the purpose of having any armor on your torso because it means you’re just going to be leaving open the vital organs the rest of the armor is trying to protect.

If people are going to protect themselves and not have much torso protection, invest in some blocking lessons, because the best defense is to not get hit at all. There are also advantages to not having plate armor, and plate armor was often really expensive anyway.

Photo

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:21:05 -0500

theartofanimation: Marilena Mexi

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:37:33 -0500

theartofanimation:

Marilena Mexi