Live by the Blade

Fantasy and History collide

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[peashooter85]

German warhammer, 16th century

from Czerny’s International Auction House

[armthearmour]

An Oakeshott type Xa Arming Sword, Western European, probably ca. 12th-early 13th century, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[enneleyn]

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

The iron hand of Götz von Berlichingen (1480-1562), a knight and mercenary who lost his right arm in a siege [640×360]

[brunhiddensmusings]

points about this -it was shot off by a cannon -he continued being a knight for over 40 years after getting the iron hand -it was delicate enough he could still write with a quill using it, which is important as he was described as a ‘warrior poet’ -after a merchant-punching life suitable for an elder scrolls protagonist he was outlawed by the holy roman empire, friends of his used a high diplomacy roll and a bribe to get him out, and he then almost immediately kidnapped a bishop -after outlaw of the holy roman empire 2 electric boogaloo was placed under house arrest in a castle he had purchased with all his quest rewards to spend the next 20 years drunk off his ass

[fuckaspunk]

I can’t believe you’d make this post and not mention that his poetry contains the first known usage of the phrase “lick my ass”

[wanderingredleaves]

In costumepedia

[keslar]

IMG_3648 by Rosito Photographie https://flic.kr/p/Jr1et8

[ringing-steel]

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Y’know, back in my day, if a pestilence swept through the land during a time of famine and flood, it meant that the reigning kings had displeased the gods and that we risked the gods’ further ire by obeying them

[waraesthetics]

[ringing-steel]

[ringing-steel]

[sunandsword]

Some slightly less silly pics of me with a bow!

Archery has been difficult. I’ve become very comfortable with close combat, and am super happy with my skill level. Archery, though? I’m horrible. To make matters worse, everyone seems to expect me to be automatically good at it, and there’s lots of laughter when I make a bad shot/ obviously have no idea what I’m doing.

It’s getting better every week, but it’s sure been a little bit of humble pie. 

Luckily, I have photographer friends who manage to make me look good! 

[mun-sal-vache]

Knights of the Teutonic Order — Marek Szyszko. 

[hotdadcalendar-blog]

I literally can’t get myself to sit through movies that don’t have women. I’m like where the fuck are the women? Why are there so many men? This is boring as fuck goodbye

[sir-cockhammer-duke-of-chode]

Even if it’s historically accurate?

[marzipanandminutiae]

as everyone knows, women were invented in 1990

[ranger-truth]

All the notes of “women weren’t on old time battlefields” are wrong. There were more prostitutes and merchant women than there were soldiers in most every encampment. They followed the armies, marching alongside them, and notably ran the camps.

Many more women dressed as men to fight.

Long before female nurses were officially considered to be a part of the military, they were already on the battlefield. They merely didn’t get written into official reports because they were “invisible women”, “not supposed to be there”. Usually they would be local women running a makeshift care center out of their homes.

Movies involving ancient societies? Guess how many had female fighters?

Spies? Mostly female. Yeah, only the men were caught, usually (because nobody suspected the servant woman), but historians believe most cases had more women spies than men. Most cases meaning across time and continents.

Giving me a movie on samurai? Women were trained as well to avoid being captured and raped, and often fought just as hard as men. One woman notably survived multiple battles, and became a hero alongside her sisters after taking out 7 men before dying in her last fight (usually in sword fighting you’d be lucky to take out 2 enemy soldiers. 7 is fucking insane, but because she was a woman it was shoved under the records how the lord managed to survive).

Women have ALWAYS been on battlefields. Women have an intense history in driving victories and losses alike. They were supply runners, fighters, spies, assassins, prostitutes (look up how prostitutes essentially ran the western world, or even the social status of harem members. They literally fucking ruled), even underground activists.

The only time there weren’t many women were with cowboys. Actual western cowboys tended to be both POC and gay. In fact, any time women didn’t have a near equal or greater presence, there was a LOT of gay men.

[darthlenaplant]

History: either 80% female or 100% gay. And it’s 95% POC.

[le-dernier-soupir]

[tokk1]

valentines day is coming up,, if you ever wanted to gift me a sword with an engraved romantic message,,, now is the time