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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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fulminata2

When you pick up a sword for the first time you will be slow and awkward. This is frustrating, but refuse the temptation to try and become a “faster” fencer. Chasing after speed is like trying to catch smoke. If you try and pursue speed, all you will accomplish is haste. Haste is the enemy of 1st class fencing.

Speed is a lie the untrained mind tells itself when it sees an action it cannot follow. The truth is a combination of timing, control, and fluidity. Fluid motion, even done slowly, will always arrive before a hasty strike. Control will allow you to move without wasteful motion that will slow you down. Timing will eliminate the need to move fast almost entirely. There is no need to get somewhere fast so long as you get there at the right time.  

ladyoflate

Slow is steady, steady is smooth, smooth is fast.

blueandbluer

My old fencing coach used to say exactly that, word for word.

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kaelio

the hardest thing about working in a particular field is trying to figure out if it’s important at all. once I left science i was amazed how little people seemed to care about things I thought (and still think) are cataclysmic and earth-shattering. now that I’m in another field with wide ramifications I’m also like “I can’t believe people aren’t worried about this” and yanno sometimes you just shrug because who fricking knows

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subalpinepurgatory

Tumblr doesn’t have any Jutland horses… Let me tell you about these big sweeties!

  • Originated in Denmark
  • Usually chestnut in color
  • Very compact and muscular
  • Excellent temperment
  • Ridden by Vikings in the 9th century
  • Common ancestors of the Suffolk Punch horse
  • Became popular in England, France and Germany during the middle ages, used mostly for jousting.
  • Excellent for agricultural work and riding in the summer wind with a battleaxe in hand and the breeze toussling your long flowing locks.
  • Cosmo Tip #2432 says u shuld ride a Jutland horse to impress your mate just do it it works I promise.
  • Floofy feetsies.
  • Stocky body = extra cute.
neil-gaiman

starspangledpumpkin asked:

I might be having a short story published through my school but I won't find out til spring if they publish it. It's a good story, and whoever reads it ends up emotional, but do you have any tips for how to cope if they reject it? I'm trying to prepare now, especially since I'll have to deal with rejection in the future when I publish more stories which are already in the works. Thanks. Big fan of yours, btw.

Write other stories and send them out between here and the spring, so that if it comes back you have other things to worry about.