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[jebmungall]

An Introduction to Highland Swordsmanship

During the 18th Century, the Highland Scot came into vogue in Great Britain.  After years of repression and persecution of the Scottish Gael, it was ironically the Highland Regiments of the British Army that preserved many of the proud Gaelic martial...

Background I’ve been teaching at the high school level online since 2015 (you know, before COVID made it vogue to do so). But I’d had a taste of it as a student since 2010 with the Cateran Society, where I began learning Highland Broadsword. It involved reading primary and secondary sources on Highland Broadsword fencing, videoing myself and fencing partners performing these, sending them to…

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#british empire #broadsword #broadsword academy #caledonian #cateran society #claymore #colonial history #colonial period #cudgeling #education #fencing #hema #henry angelo #highlander #historical european martial arts #historical fencing #history #olympic fencing #online education #scotland #scottish #scottish history #single stick #singlestick #swords

[marisatomay]

every sex scene in a movie is necessary, actually. we called for a vote on it while you were in the bathroom. yeah, even the people who were on the fence voted in favor of it because you were being a whiny child. and we don’t like you.

#doooooont watch it if you don’t want to seeeeeeee it!!!!!! #and for the record: it’s weird and gross to use asexual people as a cudgel in your war to censor media!!!!!! #you sound like phyllis schlafly !!!!!!

[butchmartyr]

few things make me tune people out as virtue signaling dipshits like hearing “CAGAB language is just for intersex people don’t steal”, everyone’s birth assignment was coercive dumbass it came free with patriarchy’s (bio)essentialistic & paternalistic conception of gender

#ntm how it’s almost always brought out to shut up trans women complaining about intracommunity transmisogyny. lol #sasha speaks #maybe one day people will be able to treat other minorities as people and not rhetorical cudgels

[v0id-echoes]

had an idea, made a thing

should I do this with the other forms lol

#pokemon #pkmn #pokeblr #pokemon dlc #pkmn sv #pokemon teal mask #teal mask #pokemon sv #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon spoilers #pokemon dlc spoilers #the teal mask #the teal mask spoilers #teal mask spoilers #pokemon teal mask spoilers #pokemon memes #ogerpon #fuck it we ivy cudgel

[macaroonkitti]

Some Ogerpons <3

#pokemon #pokemon violet #teal mask #mochi mayhem #ogerpon #pecharunt #pokesona #ivy cudgel is such a good move ngl #my art

[therealmnemo]

*motions for my fellow trans afab peeps*

hey, I know that we've been dealing with transmeds using theyfabs to invalidate our existence... but you gotta understand that words can have different meaning and the widespread use of it by trans women right now is specifically with the meaning of someone that is afab and being transmisogynistic by trying to slap down their asab over trans women's real material complaints. look for context. theyfab isn't a slur and I'm honestly all in for that to be the most accepted context because I refuse to validate a transmed's train of thought. I will listen to trans women though when they talk about their oppression, and you should too.

*pats you on the back* good talk

#mnemospeaks #and because I've seen it floating around #i'm not really a fan of benjanun but she wasn't being anti-trans masc for shits and gigs #she called out a trans inclusive authors list have 0 transfems on it #and they decided to attack her on her past instead of owning up to their oversight #that's transmisogyny baybeee #and when trans women tried to speak out #they implied that benjanun controlled them #like no #they're talking for themselves #and benjanun was sticking up for them #and starting to get nasty with transmascs who refused to drop their issue with her tone and language #aand instead focus on what the issue was #anywho #tldr #theyfab is for afabs that decice to use their asab as a cudgel to silence transfemmes #that's it #that's the context in the transfemme community #get the fuck over it and look past insults and figure out why you're getting insulted on the first place maybe???

[semisolidmind]

Why do I see wukong and or macaque bringing up Pigsy is divorced because his inlaws and wife didn't care for him too much (if I remember jttw right)

fr. the potential sass tho

pigsy: "I don't know what she sees in you two! She could do so much better."

macaque: "We helped negotiate your divorce when we first met you."

wukong: "At least our wife actually finds us attractive. Yours called the exterminators."

#bad end wukong #twice as bad au #their words are just as deadly as their cudgels #reader isnt gonna interfere #the way she sees it pigsys got it comin

[volturialice]

opening up my email this morning like JONATHAN!! where the hell have you been, loca

#and he's like I've been trapped in this castle #cudgelling my brains #dracula daily

[admirableadmiranda]

I recently read somewhere here (won't name them) that after the Guanyin Temple confession, Lan Wangji's actions were selfish. That he should have stayed there to comfort his brother who has just lost (and killed) the love of his life instead of f-ing of to screw the love of his life. The person has referenced chapter 110 (111 on some websites) where Lan Wangji says that even comfort from his brother by birth will be in vain.

I hope you will analyse that part. Because I think it is a translation issue. It doesn't sound like something Lan Wangji would say. I would have accepted that person's analysis if their post wasn't so blatantly anti-wangxian?

Well anon, the thing is that the person posting it does have the correct line. It’s not a translation issue.

The issue is their whole interpretation of the situation. Lan Xichen was not in love with Jin Guangyao, he did not kill the love of his life and this person is doing the same rude shit as a lot of people who don’t like Wangxian choosing each other over nebulous ideas of duty.

They are taking a narration line and putting it in Lan Wangji’s mouth from the sound of it, lemme grab it for you. It is from Chapter 111, right after Wei Wuxian reveals that the Guanyin in the temple looks like Jin Guangyao’s mother.

“[Wei Wuxian] turned and glanced back, letting out a rare sigh, “I don’t want to care about any of those nasty things anymore. This is it.”

Lan WangJi nodded and tightened Lil’ Apple’s reins. He continued to walk with it.

Each could only deal with their own troubles. Even if Lan XiChen was his brother by birth, Lan WangJi couldn’t do anything to help him right now. Comfort was useless. It’d all be in vain.”

Bolded line highlighted for necessary emphasis.

It’s just narration there, it’s being treated as a fact - and it is. The things that Lan Xichen needs right now are not things that Lan Wangji can provide him. Lan Xichen needs time and space to grapple with everything that he saw and his own role in all the events that came to pass. What could Lan Wangji do? Lan Xichen is confronting his own guilt both in what he participated in and what he looked aside from, things that brought irreparable harm to a lot of people including his brother and the love of his brother’s life.

How would Lan Wangji staying help anything there? Lan Xichen has just watched them cuddle through a siege, flirt and laugh and tell each other how much they loved each other. It is the one unquestioningly good thing to come out of that night, something that he wanted, for his brother to be happy. That’s the whole crux of his rant at Wei Wuxian, he wants his brother to be happy and he thinks that Wei Wuxian is knowingly toying with his feelings.

Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are already planning to elope even before anyone else gets there. They sneak off really quickly and easily. Lan Xichen is not looking for them, he’s busy telling Lan Qiren to shut up and let him think.

Lan Xichen is already filled with guilt and confusion over what’s happened, but also think about how much worse it would feel if he knew his brother set aside his own marriage and honeymoon to come sit with him, sacrificing his own happiness to Lan Xichen again, this time much more knowingly. That wouldn’t make him feel better. That wouldn’t make anyone who has a shred of empathy feel better. It is more likely a comfort to Lan Xichen to know that something good did come out of that terrible night.

They return three months later, when they are settled and choose to come back and then Lan Xichen is ready for that comfort. He wouldn’t have wanted it then. It was too soon and the cost of it would have been too high.

These brothers care about each other and know each other well and they are in their thirties. They are not helpless children any longer. Lan Xichen is not alone and suffering, he returns to his clan with hundreds of people living in it to pick up the ashes at his feet. He has solace in knowing that at least one person is happy and better off despite his actions in the matter. Let him have that.

I hate that stupid trend you reference in your post. I hate the idea that Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji have to continue sacrificing their lives and everything else to take care of the people around them first.

They have been parted by circumstance, homophobia, war, the aftermath of war and fucking death for twenty years. They have in fact actually gone through worse than most of the rest of the cast and somehow finally found their way back to each other and a happy ending. What more do people want before they are allowed to be selfish for once in their lives?

#mdzs #wangxian #wei wuxian #lan wangji #lan xichen #asks #anon #anon asks #like dude what a terrible take to take #just let them have their happily ever after for once #and let everyone else deal with the consequences #also get the XiYao stuff off of the ending #please cite to me where mxtx ever says anything like that in book or interview #it’s literally just being used as a cudgel against wangxian for daring to have their own lives #something that LXC WOULD WANT for his brother #or did you miss the meaning of the entire rant in the temple?

[sunshades]

Obviously a complicated subject to navigate but the theme of "a person's worth" in the canto is a very interesting adaptation of the book and I'm enjoying it very much.

Heathcliff's attitude towards and understanding of his own upbringing shapes how he acts with the second generation- it's a sort of experiment for him, as he sometimes likes describing it in scientific terms. Talking about the boys with Nelly he draws this distinction between Hareton and lil Linton, that Hareton is an incredibly smart child and very aware of his own situation and degradation- especially as he meets other people his age, namely the younger Cathy, for whom he quickly develops feelings for, and love becomes yet another thing he cannot be allowed to participate in.

While in game it's someone else who ends up saying these lines, what they're actually referring to + what they represent in the book is actually shown through Hindley, the degradation, relegation to servant and denial of education as well as the condemnation that to Hindley is the most cruel and most important: losing the worth "necessary" to be loved.

In the end book!Hindley's efforts go through in making Heathcliff a horrible person just like him, though neither his nor game!Hindley's plan ever manages to actually deprive Heathcliff of his sister's love (though they certainly work in making him believe that!), but book!Hindley's plans are further defied by Heathcliff becoming rich and educated, and book!Heathcliff's plans go off the rails even further as Hareton is not only smart, but also manages to become a legitimately good person- which is where I think it's very clear how game!Hindley is inspired by Heathcliff's book self. This line describes game!Hindley's behavior towards Heathcliff and Catherine just as much as it describes book!Heathcliff's towards Hareton and young Cathy.

But in the end the point is there's this awareness of being hurting and turning a person into something they're not, something worse.

I think it's also very important to note those first rate qualities he talks about are very heavily referencing Hareton's ability to learn. While Heathcliff doesn't talk about this when referring to himself by this point it's obvious his own learning abilities are something he's quite proud of, all through the book he's adapting and changing to what he's faced with (from his first appearance as a child, where he doesn't even speak the same language as the family, but learns soon after, to his final plan for his own burial) and by comparing himself to Hareton he's recognizing those same qualities in him. And I feel like with what we've seen of game!Heathcliff ever since the first chapter, and what we see of him in the different identities and mirror worlds, this is gonna be quite important in part 3- all the abuse has never deprived him of his ability to improve, to learn new things, to trust in new people, just as it's never deprived him of the love he no longer feels worthy of. So! Hope we'll get to see you realize that soon, Heathcliff!!!

#bell.txt #limbus company #canto vi spoilers #canto 6 spoilers #I WAS LIKE IM GONNA TYPE A SMALL THING REALLY FAST AND INTEAD I BURNED MY HAMBURGERS WHILE WRITING THIS #this is also part of why heathcliff? is not book!h and specifically he isnt part 2!h. #his revenge is turned completely inwards instead of being outwards which makes them completely different characters #heathcliff? is specifically a deviation of timeskip!h: i was planning on doing justice on myself; until i heard your voice #it is a version of him thats never heard cathys voice again- it is the version of him whos never realized he was loved #that voice changes him! it is the reminder that she (and her love! and a future happiness!) existed- and that i have lost her! #that is a very important point in all his further behavior: all that rage is because he KNOWS they couldve lived a life together if they #hadnt been separated by circumstances and injustice. he KNOWS that was injustice that was done to him. okay im done. THANK U FOR LISTENING #edit: added alt thumbsupemoji. made me remember the extra Cycle moment in cathy mentioning the cudgel #while heaths log mentions earnshaw presumably beating hindley w/his cane. i believe hindley also fights w/one in the rabbit fight doesnt he

[melonthesprigatito]

Holy trinity of Mascot Legendaries whose designs are not really my taste but the game did such a damn good job at endearing them to me by giving them adorable/ goofy and charming personalities that I would die for them.

#Pokémon #calyrex #koraidon #ogerpon #Ogerpon being shy and cheerful but can wreck your shit with a cudgel #Koraidon being the Pokémon version of Toothless #Little sandwich loving goober #Calyrex being noble and regal but also really fucking goofy and not understanding human culture #The fact that he TALKS helps a lot #And the fact hes like LET ME SHOW YOU MY POWER and busts into a Irish jig to grow a single carrot #I was laughing so god damn hard during that scene. #The fact that the carrot popped out of the ground with a “DOINK” sound effect was the cherry on top

[butchmartyr]

'[S]ocially murdered,' an AFAB nonbinary child was LITERALLY murdered this week, the predstrogen situation sucks massively but PLEASE try to have a little perspective. When the fuck are transmascs supposed to talk about the violence we face if not now.

suck my dick you disingenuous shit. i never say transmascs cant talk about transphobic violence, all i said was derailing the transmisogyny discussions re: predstrogen with “listen to trans people” is shitty when the events being talked about are very obviously against trans women (and have non transfems contributing to the problem, such as transmascs and trans men). it’s not my fault you cant read a trans woman talking about intracommunity shittiness without (transmisogynistically) assuming she hates all people who were afab.

#kvetching #as if trans women aren’t murdered constantly! #as if we aren’t harassed into hermitage! #how many trans women harassed off their sites have wound up dead without their support networks? oh you never thought about that? funny #not even mentioning how insane it is to use that transphobic murder as a cudgel against other trans people. eat glass

[stellanix]

relationships of dependence should not exist. when someone is mostly or entirely dependent on a specific other person or group of people for their basic needs, that's a situation that can very easily lead to abuse. different kinds of abuse thrive in our society, and that won't change until everyone can have freedom of movement, access to information, and their basic needs (food, clothing, housing, etc) met without having to spend money

if only people who can work can afford these things, anyone who can't work - like children, elderly people, or disabled people - are left disproportionately at risk. and even those who can work are often abused by their employers

basically, y'know, abolish capitalism and all other social structures based on coercive power

#tbh i don't think calling out individual bad people is a viable solution to the problem of abuse #at best it warns others of specific harmful people #but it also gives people (including abusers) a cudgel to use against those they dislike #cuz y'know DARVO is a thing #this is a systemic issue that needs systemic solutions #assholes will be assholes but it's a lot more likely to spiral into abuse when you're stuck with them because you can't afford to move out

[for-the-love-of-javert]

Just a biceps and cudgel appreciation post. nothing else to see here.

PQ in rehearsals for Les Mis.

"That's a big old cudgel Mr Quast and those biceps..................sigh!!!"

#philip quast #les miserables #les mis #biceps and cudgel appreciation post #big cudgel alert #philip quast rehearsing for les mis #javert #javert shirtless #nothing else to see here

[coldgoldlazarus]

It's just frustrating to see the discourse around Legend Of Korra is stupid as it was ten years ago, even if now dressed up in leftist language. AtLA was a lot better put-together than AtLoK, but it wasn't perfect or untouchable. Korra was messy and sabotaged and its attempts at political commentary were definitely a product of the obama-era neoliberalism of its time, but it wasn't the crime against the original show so many people are apparently still desperate to paint it as.

I want to engage with good-faith critique of its genuine problems, but far too often the people critiquing it wind up showing their asses and admitting (whether outright or implicitly through comparison) that they just hate Korra for the terrible terrible crime of checks notes not being Aang. (And I love Aang! I also love that Korra is so different!) Grow up.

#not a reblog #atlok #avatar legend of korra #legend of korra #or just refusing to take the show in its 2012-2014 context #even while using that as a cudgel against it #pointing out the mindset it was written under #but still acting like there is some malicious reason #for it not being up to date with the very different place #that the discourse is at here in 2022-2023 #anyway yes the Red Lotus are strawman anarchists #yes I love them anyway

[imsodishy]

look not to get into it, but if your reaction to a not even canon queer character having a het love interest is to scream 'homophobia!' and not to just shrug and say 'well Bi I guess' then that's uh... very much a you problem. like, the call is coming from inside the house.

(or just ignore canon, who gives a shit lol)

#but i guess when you use canon as a cudgel against other people it's hard to just give that up