#winden

[flameanhoe]

why is the dark fandom more active on fucking pinterest than anywhere else I'm dying out here

[cowes]

dark s02e06

[pamsimmerstories]

avery in windenburg and freya in del sol valley trying to have fun by herself

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[avery]: hey, em! i’m almost done with this semester. so i hope you take some time for me, because i’ll there in a few weeks!

[hannahstanwald]

[reginleif-valkyrie]

Winden: “I’m having a problem with a guy.”

Dante: “Like you can’t fit his dead body in a bag kind of problem or you like him kind of problem?”

Winden: “The second one.”

Dante: “I can’t help you.”

[weirdhologurl]

[vidilpoge]

2023-03-31 Training Blog

After the usual warm up and Forma di Fiore we continued with some play for zornhau, last time it was with abnehemen, this time was winden. Love me some winden. It mad me utter the phrase: "this is the most german thing I've seen so far this year". We drilled winden plays till I was sick with them circa November and now here they are back with vengance. Let me go about some platitudes if you don't mind.

It has been scorched into my head since the first weeks of practicing that "Fencing start from the bind", and that the true mark of a master fencer was getting the stab in. How wonderful to find this two statements true in the winden plays. Once the bind is engaged you can fight almost indefinetily for the central line, changing high/low, inside/outside, and then someone slips and the stitch goes thru.

That is, in theory. In sparring I find that the most common reaction from sprechfenster is undo the binden and go for a chop, at least for my mates from the hall. This drives me nuts, but it's a me problem, I know that this is the case and I should adapt my style to counter it. We spar so little nowdays I don't even now if I have a style anymore.

I was mentally worn out from work and I opted out the last exercise, as it involved no collaboration between partners and minimal gear on (only mask and gloves). That's how you get injured or injure somone. It was "from the bind, without undoing the bind, do winden until you get in with the point". Ffs I can't do a fuhlen drill at 10 pm after a day of work and against a guy 15 cm taller than me. And with synthetic simulacra, or as I love to call them "the fisher-price swords". I watched them doing it and it was a shitshow, ngl.

Also before the training started I made clear with the instructor that the woman who came for the free trial last time was scared AF when him and the other instructor isolated her from the rest of the class and sandwiched her between the wall and themselves. I know it was to leave the floor to us and to talk to her about what HEMA is etc, but the thing was that two strangers who you know for a fact can wield violence (and they have weapons in hand!!) are cutting you off from the rest of the room and you're alone, at night, far from home. I will be surprised if she wants to be back, the poor thing. The instructor response to me laying down the situation was, like, "this is something we shall account for, in the future". I swear to GOD he is the most awkward guy, in the "he cannot be selfaware" sense of the word.

[girls-are-weird]

New design over at my Redbubble shop:

Dark - Triquetra (for dark backgrounds)

Dark - Triquetra (for light backgrounds)

I watched a Dark video a couple days ago and it sent me into a mini Dark spiral (the show, that is. That sounded way more dramatic than I intendedre, haha). Here is the end result (for now, I guess). I miss this show so much.

My Redbubble shop Dark Collection More art print options at my Society6 shop