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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • I’m sure there are plenty of activities that you could enjoy but never thought of. Try joining a sports club that isn’t a gym, or a board games club, or a book club, anything really. It doesn’t have to be something that you currently do or that you already enjoy, you can also try expanding your hobbies by thinking of cool stuff you’d like to do but never got around to try


  • Nah, too risky. What if during those two days someone puts a gun to my head and tells me they’ll shoot unless I post the rowboat emoji? What if I’m stranded in the middle of a lake and need to communicate to an illiterate person that they should get their rowboat and come help me?








  • I mostly do messer (based on Leckuchner’s treaty), a bit of arming sword and buckler (based on the 1.33 manuscript) and recently started 19th century sabre (based on Waite’s manual). They’re all really fun but my heart goes to messer, it’s such a fun weapon to use and the period really interests me.

    What’s keeping you from getting back in?


  • So in May or June this year I had this idea about crafting myself a scabbard for a sword I use in HEMA. I bought power tools, plywood, wood glue, wood varnish, linen sheets, leather, a shit ton of leather making tools. Then it made me want to try out wood carving so I bought tools for that, as well as for wood whittling “to try my hand with smaller scale projects”.

    6 months later, all I have to show for it is an unfinished knife sheath I tried to make to train myself and then lost interest in finishing