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Nicolò the Unrepentant sideblog / im 26 / weird about armor 18+ / minors DNI he him

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I'm Nicolò, my main where I follow and like from is C*****ne

I'm 26, I’m a man, pronouns he/him, will mostly just post about knights and armor. te/rfs dni i’m trans.

I do HEMA longsword (historical fencing) and you should too let’s talk about it.

neo-nazi “euro supremacy” bullshit get the fuck out I post pictures of european armor because I jack off to them. I will block you.

all original posts - #my post

all photos of me - #my pics

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Statuette of St. George (Munich Residence Treasury)

The statuette was made to house a relic of St George that Archbishop Ernst of Cologne sent in 1586 to his brother Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria.

In the seventeenth century, the statuette was displayed on important feast days on the altar of the Ornate Chapel in the Munich Residence.

The bearded face of the saint behind the movable visor is carved from boxwood and resembles that of the man who commissioned the statuette, Duke Wilhelm V.

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genuinely would love to hear your distinction between a proper knight and a loser guy in a suit of armor lol

I feel like you are asking me this knowing that I’m going to sound like an insane asshole but that is ok and I thank you for that opportunity fr I don’t mean that in a snippy way. This was fun to write but it may be a whole lot of nothing.

1) in my mind and in my amateur and largely meaningless opinion there is a difference between having a fetish/kink for ‘knights’ versus ‘armor’. And to be clear, I would consider myself of both leanings, and don’t think one is ‘better’ or more ‘sophisticated’ than the other LMAO

Armor kink: (let’s assume we’re talking about some form of medieval/gothic plate armor and not more modern military uniforms) to me is the eroticism of the armor on the body, where the actual traits of person inside is notably playing second fiddle. I would compare it to latex and leather kinksters. The way that plate armor feels, the intimidation aspect, the physical process of putting it on and taking it off, the tiring effect it has on the wearer, the empowering effect it has on the wearer, the vulnerability that they are sometimes placed in, the sound. Obviously an armor fetishist might say that they are attracted to knights because knights wear plate armor, but to me this is still just armor kink, because the thing that likely makes the knights attractive to this person is the armor. A bold assumption: a knight with no armor is not much to fantasize over for an amor fetishist, therefore, they’re not really into knights … right? Well, no, and also yes. It is hard to separate plate armor from its knightly body within, and an armor fetishist owes their arousal to knights in that sense, but the outer layer comes first.

Knight kink: to me is at its core a fetish for servitude and the psychological turmoil of maintaining servitude - be that submissive servitude, protective and romantically chivalrous servitude, religious servitude, or self servitude. There is something in the historical or fictional understanding of a knight to be a person who swears themself to violence, combat, war, and protection that one may find erotic. Dogma is an attractive trait, regardless of what that dogmatic person may be wearing…but they are probably wearing armor.

More on knight kink though, I see this type of kink as being linked to historical European romanticism, not historical accuracy as I’ve seen many claim. Here’s a short, sweet summary of what I’m referencing.

Medieval romances were usually about knights, and those knights were usually battling with internal and external relationships to servitude. It was romantic and erotic to readers in the medieval era in many of the same ways it is now. It’s also a HUGE abstraction of what a knight historically was.

I’m not going to go on a historical knight diatribe but I will highlight that this romantic, lustfully virginal, emotionally complex archetype usually does not want to deal with the reality that a great deal of real knighted men were not good people. The crusades, the early colonization of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales by the English, the knightly classes associations with sexual violence and abuse of women, the horrific violence of what a tourney often entailed. I could go on, and that is a sort of an England/France/Germany centric list but you get my point. There are people who fetishize the violence, brutality, and fascistic aspects of real knights - I’ve met them! They’re all over the reenactment scene! - and they are best labeled as neo-facists and incel types. (EDIT: the emphasis here is on fascistic aspects, not ‘violence’ and ‘brutality’ which are very abstract words for me to be outright condemning the enjoyment of) (Which is not to say that they are worshiping the REAL knights, a lot of them idolize crusaders in particular and lmao. Try telling your average tradcath chud that the crusades were a failure and a repeated attempt at genocide, not a ‘just, holy, godly war’)

Anyway my over-explained point is that the average “knight kink” enjoyer is also not really into knights, we are into the eroticism and contradiction of undying servitude and the fictionalized archetype of the Knight that was in vogue even when knights were still roaming the streets. So ok NO ONE is a REAL knight fetishist we’re just suckers who are still getting tricked by Malory hundreds of years later.

2) So there’s the armor fetishists and there’s the chivalric romance fetishist who call ourselves knight fetishists. And there is the internet and there is me.

What I am not doing is insisting that these two parties segregate themselves perfectly and leave each other alone because the ven diagram is overlapping. I’m not going to lie to you it is overlapping. And we’re all getting along and making out and it doesn’t really matter.

BUT! When I am on my high horse and in the #knightkink tag on tumblr, I sometimes get the sense that in some posts out there …. The OP is from neither party.

Because I don’t actually think that a suit of armor is the same as latex and leather. Medieval plate armor has been a staple of fashion since it was used at war. It’s on the runway and red carpet, it’s in music videos, it’s in museums, its in one billion blockbusters, it’s at party city, it’s truly not associated with kink in the way even fur suits are. It’s sexy in the way cowboys and corsets are. It’s a good look, it’s not kink. Neither is taking pleasure in the idea of someone swearing service to you or something greater in a way that makes their own sexuality taboo. bodyguards and nuns and ‘soulmates’ and doctors and modern soldiers and maids are right in there with knights as widely accepted, somewhat ‘vanilla’ service roles for a romantic lead to fill. I don’t think of myself as a chainsaw fetishist because I feel sorta hot when I use one, Im just appreciating the existing and accessible tropes of power tools being read as sexy sometimes.

But I am an armor and chivalry fetishist. And so are the people who are perverting these normalized concepts past convention. Ex: Amor doesn’t just look good on the body, it actually feels bad and heavy and suffocating, and that is the erotic part. It’s not just arousing for a knight to protect you, it’s arousing for them to lose a tournament and never speak to you again out of shame. These things are not ‘sexy’ they are fetishized. In my very personal and unprofessional opinion. Of course.

So to answer your question: posting about how hot someone looks in armor or on their knees before you is not a fetishistic thing to do on its own, and a lot of people are doing that. It’s correct and awesome to want to fuck some person who looks good in armor and will die to protect you. But the kinksters I relate to more are pushing the issue into the specific, all-emcompasing erotic effects that metal armor and chainmail can have on a body, or the sexually charged concept of servitude and performative chivalry through a literary medieval romantic lens. So ok maybe they DO want to fuck a knight. But not in the #knightkink way I’ve invented in my mind.

I guess part one wasn’t really relevant to the conclusion. I’m also not taking a shot at anyone in particular. The people I block are the crusader chuds and you should too.

[3liza]

unironically i love this website and the people who post here because like 4% of them are even more pedantic and specialized in their knowledge bases than i am, and they are ALL HATERS. these are my people, sincerely. i support them uncritically even though all of us are REALLY annoying

[ghw-archive]

photos of Heath Ledger taken by actor Rufus Sewell, behind the scenes of A Knight’s Tale

[tam-a-ne-tut]

do you guys ordered some knights in love?

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Before rewatching A Knight’s Tale (2001) staring Heath Ledger you will say to yourself ‘A Knight’s Tale (2001) staring Heath Ledger cant actually be as good as I remember.’ and you will be wrong every time

[knightwithahundredkings]

Yeah Lev Grossman understood the assignment.

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Title: Half Armor

Armorer: Helmet and reinforcing pieces attributed to Kolman Helmschmid (German, Augsburg 1471–1532)

Date: ca. 1510–20 and later

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15th-century altarpiece showing St. Isidore of Seville (c. A.D. 560-636). from the Diocesan Museum of Calatayud, Aragon, Spain.

(Source: Pinterest)

[themonsterousregimentofwomens]

Queen Mary I from the Exchequer Roll of 1554

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Being on this website and loving/wanting to post about Arthuriana while also not really enjoying BBC Merlin is very similar to being Christ on the cross. Imo

[steellegacy]

📰 Vintage 1960 ad for Wright’s Silver Cream — America’s largest‑selling silver cleaner.

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📰 Винтажная реклама чистящего средства для серебра Wright’s Silver Cream, 1960 год.

В тексте рекламы утверждается: «Самое продаваемое средство для чистки серебра в Америке».

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THE LION IN WINTER (1968) — Dir. Anthony Harvey

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[fashion-runways]

LUVR LAB Heroine Collection 2026 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

[sonsofadam]

Basalt male torso, 1st century B.C.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta), Parma, Emlia-Romagna, Italy