I Saw My Friends Neck Get Cut Open And My Reaction Was

I saw my friends neck get cut open and my reaction was

Huh

That’s what that looks like

That’s a lot of blood

At least I’ll be able to describe it in my writing now

…….yep

literally everything always feels like a performance to me. i’ll be uncontrollably sobbing and will suddenly be like wow i would’ve won an oscar for this

can we stop mocking queer people who are really excited and decked out in rainbow and crazy at pride events? why is there a stigma around "baby gays"? it's good that someone's excited and proud of who they are. celebrate that. hype them up. at the very least let them just be happy without your snotty ass commentary.

I posted it but it won’t let me tag you :(

Psst.. Sorry to bother you, but I saw your tags on that one queer culture post from awhile ago, and like I'm currently trying to learn about/am researching fencing!! I haven't been able to find much sadly, and I know like nothing about sabre, so I was wondering if you'd be fine with telling me about what it's like?? This has low-key become really interesting to me lately, and I'd love to hear stories from an actual fencer if your fine w/ that!! /gen /pos

ABSOLUTELY!!!! I could talk about fencing for HOURS!!! Not sure exactly what info you’re looking for but Im so glad you’re interested!

I’ve been fencing for about 3 years and have been fencing competitively for about 2 years. I started after my dad told me to pick a sport and I said either horseback riding, archery, or sword fighting, so he found a fencing club near us. This is just my opinions and experiences.

Ok so first things first: 3 types of fencing

1. Épée (which I began with, learning the sport, the simplest)

2. Foil (which I know barely anything about tbh)

3. Sabre (my pride and joy, my sport, my love, easily the best kind fight me)

Sabre can use both the edge of the blade and the tip (though mostly edge) anywhere from the waist up.

Fencing positions (advances, retreats, lunges, etc.) can feel really weird or awkward at first, but now I will stand almost in engarde position without realizing it.

Fencing is a bit more of an individual sport than most, but it still requires at least two people to work and you don’t want to just keep fencing the same person (I actually have a whole thing about how different benders from A:TLA work with different fencing styles and personalities if you’d like to see that).

Some of my experiences: there’s not too many girls until you get to the upper classes. Fencing is kind of a small world (at least two fencers from my fencing club are at the Olympics this week and our coach casually pulled out a Sabre from the 2016 rio Olympics at one point which was kind of insane). Manners are key. If you do not have proper manners and respect, you will be dismissed. One of the best fencers in my class was kicked out after they used the n-word.

Fencing, for all it’s armor and safety precautions, CAN still be dangerous. They’re still swords. There are accidents. Most of the time this means a bruise or cut, but there was one time when a blade broke mid-lunge as it went under a mask and cut someone’s throat. It was an accident and both the person hurt and the person whose blade broke were a bit traumatized by it. Impressively, the girl who was hurt is starting to fence again.

I’ve found that whenever I’m feeling really bad depression-wise, fencing can pull me out of it.

For me, fencing is about perseverance and dedication. It’s hard, but fun, and I have improved so much over the years. I love it.

You know what I love? The little ways we tell each other that we love them.

My sister and I say “I love you with all of myself,” which we started saying after binge-watching The Dragon Prince

My other sister and I have a handshake that is basically a fist bump into the ASL sign for “I love you” and we even do this on FaceTime or zoom when we can’t do it in person

My friend doesn’t like physical touch but that’s my love language, so we wrap our pinkies together like a pinky promise. I call it a [friends name redacted]-hug or a pinky hug

My cousin and I send memes back and forth to show our love and appreciation of each other

You don’t have to physically say “I love you” to let someone know how much you care for them and I think that’s wonderful

I added chapter 6 of Friends on the Other Side. I hope y’all like it!!

Ft. I love Carrie and she deserves a redemption arc

Not to flex on y’all but my sister and I are the “gay heroes of the fifth grade class” at the school my other sister substitute teaches at