People are saying “makeup gives them confidence” like….the fuck? If your 12 year old has image issues and your solution is to tell them that makeup is something to cover insecurities you are part of the problem.
Yes, makeup can be used artistically and is cool, but it’s also an exploitative industry focused on making women’s bare faces socially unacceptable and denying that fact won’t make it less true.
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!
OMFG EVERYONE PLEASE DROP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH IT RIGHT NOW O_O
HOLY HELL
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.
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.
Holy shit I want that in my book but who wouldn’t call it unrealistic???
So
the Welsh refer to themselves as the Cymru and their language as
Cymric; “Welsh” comes from the Old English word “waelsc,” which meant “foreigners.”
Invading somebody else’s country and calling the people you just ran out “foreigners” is one of the oldest English traditions.
On
a similar note, the Irish word for the English language is “Bearla.”
The Irish word for language in general is “Bearlagair.” One of the most
insidious relics of colonialism, that is; the natives speak
god-knows-what whilst the colonizers speak Language.
Actually no, not at all, in fact. The Romans called them Britones, a Latinization of the Gallic Brittos, “inhabitants of Britain”; so the Romans invaded but called them what they called themselves. Welsh, from Waelisc (Wylisc in the West Saxon dialect and Welisc in the Anglian dialect) is definitely an Old English word developed from the Proto-Germanic *Walkhiskaz that only became applied to the inhabitants of Britain after the Anglo-Saxon migrations of the 5th and 6th centuries. It was the English who invaded and called them foreigners.
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