The names Michael, but you can call me Mako

| 25 | He/Him | Pan | I never know what to put for these things

[businessinsider]

What Thanksgiving dinner looks like in your part of the country

[lotus-cr0wnd]

North East Central we got 2 kinds of potatoes at our meals! Thats exsactly what’s on the menu tomorrow

[pokehturtle-deactivated20191001]

[sokai]

Them…

[zlukaka]

Everything movies taught me about archery is wrong. This is a complete mind-blower. 8D

If you are even remotely interested in archery or medieval combat, check this out, it’s just great!

[luffik]

OMFG EVERYONE PLEASE DROP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH IT RIGHT NOW O_O

[secondlina]

HOLY HELL

[medievalpoc]

Not only is this fascinating, there are a lot of images from art history here. It just goes to show that what you can learn from the past isn’t limited to facts you can know, but things you can do.

My favorite part?

He learned this doing research for LARPs (Live Action Role Playing):

Lars Andersen originally started using bow and arrow to fight in pretend battles during Larps (live action role play) events, where he played a soldier in a medieval-inspired army. While Larps can be about anything – the Danish/Polish Harry Potter inspired larp College of Wizardry (cowlarp.com) recently got world-wide media attention and there wasn’t a rubber sword in sight there – many Larps take place in fantasy worlds inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. And it was at one of these Larps, that Lars started to learn to shoot fast while moving.

In 2012, Lars Andersen released his video, “Reinventing the fastest forgotten archery”, where he showed how he had learned to shoot from old archery manuscripts. Using these old, forgotten techniques, Lars demonstrated how he was now the fastest archer on the planet, and after its release, the video got 3 million hits on YouTube in two days.

Since the 2012 video was released, Lars has studied and practiced, and he is now able to fire three arrows in 0.6 seconds – a truly stunning feat making him much faster than the legendary fictional archer Legolas (played by Orlando Bloom in the Lord of the Rings movies).

The time benchmark he was trying to achieve, according to the video, was the expectation of the speed at which “Saracen” archers were expected to shoot. In fact, most of the source material as far as I can see isn’t European.

A lot of the techniques described are also used in Mongolian Archery, which requires being able to shoot from horseback, and is traditionally practiced by men and women. You can see a video here.

[misty-sparkles]

‘Tis the season!

[houseraspberry-deactivated20200]

@rainbow-draws @cinnamonsuga-r

[237-moved-deactivated20200830]

@demonic-gizm-o

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Neon Genesis Evangelion S01E16 ‘Splitting of the Breast’ (Hideaki Anno, 1996)

[porterr-robinson]

[poreless]

siri is isis spelled backwards!

[lindsaychrist]

[hometowncelebrity]

uhm… no. Siri backwards is Iris…

[poreless]

[rockodile-deactivated20181110]

I MISS MIIVERSE :( children are super funny

[piratekingcon]

god i miss this

[mageknight14]

What even was Miiverse?

[vampmotel]

IM CRYING

[felsicgay-deactivated20200528]

Men are hot but are they worth it?

[theholleywoodsigns]

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

My bussy says “Yes.”

[pocketss]

it’s just one of those croissant days

[pocketss]

we love a recovery

[bisexualspongebob]

no offense but squidward saying “nobody cares about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification” is more woke than anything wendy’s twitter or any liberal has ever said

[swarnpert]

wine tasting but instead with hard liquors

[swarnpert]

do i detect a hint of sharpie marker

[yuijns]

adriana sahar ; nyfw18

[neverstheless]

the juxtaposition..,,..,is really astounding

[onlyblackgirl]

Who tf is ole girl who rolled outta bed after her😂 walking stiff as hell.

[cowboysuggest]

*rips spine out and cracks it in mid air like a whip*

[thegreatm-deactivated20191225]

[deathflare]

i want this outfit for blue mage, at least……… :(