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Everyone say thank you to trans mascs for showing us a version of masculinity born from joy and desire instead of just through coercion

Everyone say thank you to all people outside of the cis gender binary for showing us a version of gender born from joy and desire instead of just through a simple frame work in which our oppressor have used to kill, erase, and censor us.

Poleaxes, also known in French as great arming axes, were a man-sized late evolution of fighting axes that appeared in the 14th century and were used for a little bit more than a hundred years, up to and including the War of the Roses. They were primarily used by knights and armored men-at-arms on foot against other armored foes. Unlike other polearms like halberds, they were used in very close quarters.

A poleaxe is divided in three parts, named the tête/head or gros bout/big bit, the demy-hache/half-axe and queue/tail. They roughly correspond to one third of the weapon each, and are defined by where they sit in relation to the user’s hands. The tête is composed of the croix/cross, which is the axe head. It can be made of any two of a taillant/axe, a mail/hammer or a becq de faulcon/spike. A dague/dagger, basically a spear of ahlspiess head, is fitted over the croix with attelles/languettes that run down the haft. A rouelle is sometimes present to protect the hand at the top third mark of the haft, and very rarely a second one can be present at the bottom third mark to protect the other hand. The queue ends with a talon/heel, which can be a ferrule or a spike used to buttstroke your foe.