I was told to make an intro post.
About me
Aliases: Sword Guy/SG/Max/MaxNovaTiger/Noah
he/him (possible that this will be updated at some point, idk. I will probably be introspecting until the day I die)
I love swords. And boats. And large swaths of any variety of nature.
I'm primarily a sabre fencer, but I've started getting into longsword fencing as well.
⚔️ HEMA Rating ⚔️
First-year undergraduate student (Geography & Comp Sci combined degree)
Maybe autistic (a lot of people think I am, but I'm not so sure. I think I'm just a little strange)
Interests (yay it's the fun part)
SWORDS I F#&KING LOVE SWORDS
I'm a HEMA fencer (much as it pains me to be associated with the hemaist stereotypes lol), focusing primarily on sabre fencing. Most of my training is based off of late 19th century Italo-Hungarian sabre sources (e.g., Barbasetti, Arlow). I also enjoy fencing longsword, but I only recently started training it regularly and do so much less than sabre. I'm also interested in getting into rapier at some point, but unfortunately, swords cost money. I do love doing rapier-like stuff with sabre though! (passata sotto my beloved)
All that is to say: SAYBRRRRRRR RAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Also: BOATS I F#&KING LOVE BOATS. Ahem. Excuse me.
I enjoy vessels that carry me upon the water. Could be of any variety, but my favorites are the options not propelled by an engine: kayaks, canoes, and of course any kind of sailing vessel. I love good stories about boats, both telling them and being told them (if you know good boat stories lmk). Also, if you wanna know why the Olympic should be the famous ship and the Titanic can suck my left nut, then I refer you to this post.
As you may have predicted, my interests in sabres and sailboats combine to form an adoration of pirate stuff (Cpt. Jack Sparrow my beloved).
Also: video games!!! Baldur's Gate 3 is tied for my favorite piece of media of all time. Much to my shame, I also play a lot of For Honor. Lots of indie games of various flavors.
Also: nature!!! I love backpacking and other forms of camping and just outdoor stuff in general. Anything that puts me right up next to nature.
Favorite things
SWORDS (and related items): sabres, longswords, rapiers, montantes/greatswords/claymores, poleaxes, billhooks, sallets, bascinets, hounskull bascinets, barbutes, etc.
BOATS: sailboats, kayaks, canoes, and the stories of the Endurance, the Olympic (NOT the Titanic), and the Imo
Games: Baldur's Gate 3, Firewatch, Inscryption, Red Dead Redemption 2, Split Fiction, Hades, Getting Over It, Hollow Knight, Titanfall 2
Music: Achilles Come Down, Will Wood, The Longest Johns, Hozier, The High Kings, Cosmo Sheldrake, Lord Huron
Books: Ranger's Apprentice, Mistborn, The Myth of Sisyphus, Animal Farm, Moby Dick, Elantris, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, The Book of Good Times, Everything is Tuberculosis (dw bean i will read Six of Crows at some point!!!)
Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean (especially the first one, but not a fan of the last two), Bo Burnham: Inside, The Princess Bride, Rango, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Lord of the Rings
did I mention I like swords?
(and boats)






























