R- (Tawen)

@kathanglangit.bsky.social

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Call me R- | Weapon & Neography Designer | Digital and Martial Artist | Mechanical Engineer | TTRPG Writer | Mechanics Designer at Sword Isles Studios 🇵🇭 Contact details and other links here! kathanglangit.carrd.co

A screenshot of a livestream on Discord labelled "Narrative Combat Casual Playtest". The screen features a digital image of an intricate weave being used as a game board.
An open notebook covered in dappled light and shadow on a wooden surface. A network of glyphs and incomprehensive scribbles occupy the visible pages.
Screencap of a friend request sent by OP to Facebook user Anto Anto, whose profile pic is a circle of SEAsian blades with a rainbow colored ring that says PRIDE 2022 on top
Screenshot of SEAsian blacksmiths named Pcm Blades and Panjalu Jayati accepting OP's friend requests on Facebook
Instagram post from sanggar pusaka kerejekian of a very intricate naga-motif keris next to a carved scabbard
Post from kathanlangit on tumblr with a blurry cat jumping off a small concrete landing. The text below reads: I was taking a cool aesthetic photo of you to share with the internet (they love cats) but Nope u decided to fuck off mid-shot so I'll post this fuckass shot of you anyway to show everyone you rude bitch
Screenshot of Kupu rere kē written by Alice Te Punga Sommerville, every word of which except for the title and "Aotearoa" being italicized, which reads as follows: Kupu rere kē My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems. This advice came from a well-meaning woman with NZ poetry on her business card and an English accent in her mouth. I have been thinking about this advice. The publishing convention of italicising words from other languages clarifies that some words are imported: it ensures readers can tell the difference between a foreign language and the language of home. I have been thinking about this advice. Marking the foreign words is also a kindness: Every potential reader is reassured that although obviously you’re expected to understand the rest of the text, it’s fine to consult a dictionary or native speaker for help with the italics. I have been thinking about this advice. Because I am a contrary person, at first I was outraged — but after a while I could see she had a point: When the foreign words are camouflaged in plain type you can forget how they came to be there, out of place, in the first place. I have been thinking about this advice and I have decided to follow it. Now all of my readers will be able to remember which words truly belong in Aotearoa and which do not.
Screenshot of text that reads as follows: What is a sword? Picture one in your mind; A child sketching in the back of her notebook in the middle of Southeast Asia would draw the same cross-shaped, double-edged, vaguely single-handed weapon you might imagine, despite growing up surrounded by a hundred cultures for whom a “sword” is not an arming sword, but a barang, a sundang, a kalis, an itak. Why wouldn’t she? That is what the Fantasy Adventurer wields, in all his many iterations, and so that is the default assumption even in this part of the world. The world only ever gets smaller and smaller. Soon he will wield it Everywhere.
Screenshot of a post from the-fairtyale-cowboy that reads as follows: "Hey guys, I'm making a ttrpg!" "Cool, can I be a barbarian?" "T-This isn't dnd?" "Oh, okay... well can I have an owlbear?" Anime screenshot of some guy from Yu Gi Oh with his head in his hands I love my friend but he is not getting what I am laying down. I've already tried explaining that TTRPGs are a medium.
Screenshot of two PDF files sent over Discord
Supermarket stalls containing camote and indian mango with their prices in the middle
A winged dagger known as a balaraw. The blade is shaped like a leaf. There is no guard on the hilt, and bands of metal hold it together. The hilt extends downwards into two horns. Between the horns, the tang of the blade extends outward as a metal spike.
A kalis- a sword with an undulating blade near the hilt, that goes straight down towards the end. Part of the blade juts out into a sort of spike as it meets the hilt, functioning as a guard. Carvings adorn the blade near the guard. The blade itself is affixed to the hilt with golden braces. The hilt is made of carved mammoth ivory, and the pommel is the abstracted shape of a cockatoo's head. The pommel and blade are a near-translucent orange, their features outlined in light orange lines. The blade lies against a backdrop of the sky at dusk; The bottom half of the background is a red-orange haze, going up into a deep purple dotted with stars. At the bottom right is the artist's logo- a crescent moon next to the morning star, between clouds that part below, above the moon's reflection on the sea.
A blade of light, with a corroded metal hilt, the pommel of which resembles the head of a squid with two eyes. The blade is underwater, surrounded by the darkness of the deep.
An axe from the Philippine Cordilleras. The blade is wide, with the top half curved forward such that the edge is shaped like a crescent with the inside facing out and the top edge of the crescent tangent to the top of the axe-head, which in turn is perpendicular to the handle. The back of the axe-head has a long protrusion on the top, serving as a spike. The handle is a pine branch, still covered in its bark. There is a protrusion halfway down the handle, on the same side as the edge, where an arm of the branch has broken off. The axe is on a bed of red soil, covered in pine-needles, with a suggestion of spilled and dried blood.
Digital art of a traditional Filipino blade known as a hinalung, somewhat leaf-shaped, with the point down. The handle and blade are all hewn from the same metal, glowing blue, and the handle is wrapped in rattan. It is floating against a backdrop of a starry night sky, with the bottom of the panel and the area around the blade covered in white clouds. Larger stars connected by dim lines surround the blade. Above the handle is the artist's logo- a stylized crescent moon with a single star next to it, above two walls of cloud, above the sea.