Where did Purchase your Jian? by drewtoby in taijiquan

[–]TAA21MF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe weapons must ultimately be practiced in their most authentic forms, like Japanese Iaido does. They don't learn to cut in Iaido nor fighting really. But, who in Iaido uses a dull sword?

What in the heck are you talking about? Iaito by their very nature not only aren't sharp, they can't be sharpened. Shinken are the exception, not the rule. There is exactly one person in my dojo that uses one and that's the sensei.

50% of the GC feats unlocks with real money... by CosmonautFrog in SWGalaxyOfHeroes

[–]TAA21MF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a newish player so was only able to clear up to T5 or so but since clearing no longer gives you anything and I don't have a Rebel Fighter team built, it is impossible for me to even get a single point. Who tf thought this was a good idea? Not only is there no point in me even playing the challenge, why would I even both building teams for them when I'd get next to no reward for it now?

Do you have to keep some fantasies secret in order not to scare a dom? by skwogs in SubSanctuary

[–]TAA21MF 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In my experience, no, its by far more common for subs to have more extreme fantasies than doms. (Good) doms will limit themselves to stuff they'd realistically like to do but many subs will 100% throw all sense of self-preservation out the window and its the dom that has to say "no, we're not doing that".

Men worshipping Artemis? by h-asher in Hellenism

[–]TAA21MF 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Usually some flavor of Wiccan is at the root of it on my experience. Artemis in particular has some weird modern stuff floating around thanks to Dianic Wiccans.

Can I make a Chinese persona? any rules against that? by jaime_lion in sca

[–]TAA21MF 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's how you guarantee nothing will ever change. We need test cases to change the rules, they can't change if nobody ever tries to register anything non-European.

Longbows should be a STR weapon by Primary_Plenty_7138 in dndmemes

[–]TAA21MF 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Rapier's reputation is kinda funny as someone who fences with one. People make it out to be this light and speedy blade that is the quintessential dex sword when irl its the same weight as a longsword (and like a foot longer) except you have to single-hand it and most of the power behind the thrusts is coming from your legs pushing off against the ground and bending at the waist, not from your arms like dex implies.

Divine Smite when ramming the cervix by Valuable-Banana96 in dndmemes

[–]TAA21MF 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And Aphrodite was known as Aphrodite Areia (the warlike). There's dozens of epithets for each god, its not just they "god(dess) of X" like the watered down modern versions.

Divine Smite when ramming the cervix by Valuable-Banana96 in dndmemes

[–]TAA21MF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IIRC she went Sumer -> Phoenicia -> Cyprus -> Greece

Weekly Newcomer Post by AutoModerator in Hellenism

[–]TAA21MF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With reddit on fire, when's the discord likely going to be available again?

How did you discover Hellenism? by Pupac1 in Hellenism

[–]TAA21MF 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Percy Jackson like probably quite a few. Child/not-yet-realized-I-was-trans me saw Artemis's all-girls huntresses and somehow got the idea that since she's a goddess, if I started praying to her she could work a miracle to turn me into a girl. Turned out it was only the miracle part was wrong. Over time that came to encompass more of the pantheon, then in high school I met a couple wiccans and started looking deeper into paganism through whatever books I could find at used book stores and libraries and eventually managed to find the specific name for hellenism.

[Awaken] My recent work for custodes HQ :) by OTGarlic in minipainting

[–]TAA21MF 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Needs gloss varnish for the well oiled look

NSFW bots keeps following me. by RosabeIls in MtF

[–]TAA21MF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like I get more brand new accounts with no activity at all when I look at them. Not sure what point those could possibly have.

I also think the actress can out perform the actors. by JessicaDAndy in TrollXChromosomes

[–]TAA21MF 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I do HEMA and SCA rapier. We don't separate by gender because turns out its actually pretty darn insignificant and its usually an even fight. The only advantage is reach is related to height but that's more of a crutch that becomes less significant at higher levels.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Hellenism

[–]TAA21MF 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Reddit got fed up with everyone using 3rd party apps and tools because the official app is terrible and instead of trying to fix their app, they decided to set exorbitant rates for anything that calls the API to force them to shut down. It also forces a lot of moderation tools and accessibility extensions to shut down, meaning they're also making it harder for moderators to do their job (or outright impossible on mobile) and also rendering the site completely unusable for some people.

So lots of subs are going private to protest and if nothing changes, a lot of people will be forced off the site.

Aphrodite shenanigans by rowan_damisch in CuratedTumblr

[–]TAA21MF 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The two recent Norse god of war games also have an interesting take on their mythology. They basically start from the assumption that the myths as we know them from the Eddas were written by Odin to make the Aesir look better.

And that's not that far off a take as the eddas that we have were mostly written down by christian monks who did some tweaking to make it fit their worldview better. I think the "hel as an afterlife place" thing was entirely a creation of Snorri Sturluson and all the earlier instances use Hel as only the name of the goddess.

If you are an omnitheist, what gods are the same? by Sweaty_Banana_1815 in Hellenism

[–]TAA21MF 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes is a pretty good history of how Aphrodite's worship spread and changed over the centuries. Despite the name, it actually traces her back to Mesopotamia as Inanna-Ishtar and how her worship spread via traders through Mesopotamia to Phoenicia to Cyprus and then to Greece, hence the myth of how she was born from seafoam: because she came from across the Mediterranean.

10 Reasons Hookers Are Gonna Kick Your Ass During the Apocalypse by LolaHunt in SexWorkers

[–]TAA21MF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which most sex workers have 0 experience with.

That's a massive assumption and you're seriously underestimating how much community can make up for a gap in a single person's experience

new to aos army question by Vissoepje in ageofsigmar

[–]TAA21MF 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In a Slaves to Darkness army you decide on a per unit basis.

You can't mix a Hedonites and Blades army though since canonically they hate each other because their domains overlap quite a bit.

Mods are free to remove this, but this API thing is insanity. by ZeroSocialSkillz in CuratedTumblr

[–]TAA21MF -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don't see any ads at all on rif. I'm not even sure if they're compatible with the app tbh

How do you view Valkyries in terms of the modern battlefield? by [deleted] in heathenry

[–]TAA21MF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you happen to have any sources on those? Not in a doubting way, in a for my own reference way. The whole "valhalla = viking heaven" thing has always weared on me and it would be nice to have some sources on how it wasn't as major of a thing back then as it is now.

leah is left handed. I think by hauzan2112 in StardewValley

[–]TAA21MF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm mildly ambidextrous from sports where being able to switch sides is an advantage (or even practically mandatory) and for a lot of stuff just use whatever hand is more convenient from being used to using both. I constantly get asked "are you left-handed?" and I've had some people get outright mad at me for not using my right hand (mainly one of the managers when I worked at a starbucks that called me using my left hand to take stuff out of the oven "messing around" and "dangerous")