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What white people hear: never use sage ever, don’t ever buy it, don’t own it, don’t even look at it.

Look, y’all. There’s a couple of facets to my talk today.

1) Yes! You can buy sage! You really, truly can! Buy it from either native sellers (go to a powwow! Eat our food, buy our stuff, watch some dancing!) Or buy it from a seller who sources the sage from native people. Pick one. And no, buying it from 5 Below doesn’t count.

2) you CANNOT smudge. This isn’t just you “shouldn’t”— this is a YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF SMUDGING. Waving a sage stick around your doorways IS NOT SMUDGING. It is smoke clensing. Smudging, depending on the tradition and tribe, could easily have dancing and drums involved. You, as a white person, do not have the cultural BACKGROUND to even know how it works. At all. Period.

3) please, for FUCKS SAKE, stop making posts here on tumblr where you tell other white people about cultural appropriation and what they can and cannot do. Please stop, your license has been revoked because none of you bother to get the facts right. We native people are FULLY CAPABLE OF DOING IT OURSELVES. Consider instead: a) reblogging our posts where we talk about it! We’re here! We have made posts!! b) Making a post that states what we said and then LINKS BACK TO US. Screenshot with a link if you must. Stop centering your own voices in these conversations. You are already centered in everything, stop centering yourselves in a native space.

I’m tired of this nonsense, y’all.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk ™

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This is the start of something wonderful. At least, for writers craving Historical Accuracy. And for writing weapon scenes in general. Something that will really be helpful is the Sparring Ref. section, which is a list that includes links to actual sparring for a bunch of different weapons. This list will be constantly changing, if you have anything to add, DM me, or send me an Ask!

Starters

-HEMA Alliance Website

-Sword Terminology

-HEMA documentary

-Common Mistakes when Writing Sparring

Basics

-Guards for Fighting with Sword

-British Military Guides (Great to build off of, pay special attention to the cuts and the slip)

-Roworth Cutting Drills

-Longsword Guards

Weapons

-Spadroon

-Broadsword

-Backsword

-Halberd/Polearm

-Cane Fighting

-Pugilism Basics (Sherlock Holmes Era, Hand-to-Hand)

-Two Handed Battle Axe

-Dirk

-Whip Swords

-Scythe Discussion

Sparring Refs

-Slow Motion Sparring

-Broadsword v. Broadsword

-Broadsword v. Broadsword with Targe (shield)

-Longsword v. Broadsword

-Longsword v. Longsword

-Longsword v. Daggers

-Longsword v. Halberd

-Longsword v. Quarterstaff

-Dagger v. Dagger

-Rapier v. Dagger

-Rapier and Cloak v. Rapier and Cloak

-Saber v. Saber

-Pugilism Sparring 

-Peasant Staff (This is just a big fucking stick)

-Double Axe v. Cutlass

-Axe v. Dagger

-Spear and Shield v. Sword and Shield

-Spear and Shield v. Spear

-Scythe v. Scythe

Books:

-The Expert Swords-Man’s Companion

-The Art of Defense on Foot

-Encased in Steel Anthology

-The Guards and Lessons of The Highland Broadsword

-Instructions for the Exercise of Small Arms and Field Pieces for the use of Her Majesty’s Ships 

-German Longsword Study Guide

-Of the Single Rapier

-Dagger Fencing: The Italian School

-Royal Armouries Ms. I.33

-Historical European Martial Arts in Its Context: Single-Combat, Duels, Tournaments, Self-Defense, War, Masters and Their Treatises Richard Marsden

-The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570

-Scottish Broadsword and British Singlestick

-The Flower of Battle: Fascimile, Translation and Interpretation of the Getty Edition of Fiore Dei Liberi’s Famous Treatise on Swordsmanship

-The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe

Sword Earrings 🗡

Afghanistan’s independence was in 1919.

Egypt was in 1922.

Iraq was in 1932.

Jordan was in 1946.

India and Pakistan were in 1947.

Myanmar and Sri Lanka were in 1948.

Libya and Oman were in 1951.

Sudan was in 1956.

Ghana and Malaysia were in 1957.

Singapore was in 1959.

Cyprus and Nigeria were in 1960.

Cameroon, Kuwait, Tanzania, and Sierra Leone were in 1961.

Jamaica, Uganda, and Trinidad and Tobago were in 1962.

Kenya was in 1963.

Malawi, Malta, and Zambia were in 1964.

The Gambia and the Maldives were in 1965.

Barbados, Botswana, Lesotho, and Guyana were in 1966.

Yemen was in 1967.

Eswartini (Swaziland), Nauru, and Mauritius were in 1968.

Fiji and Tonga were in 1970.

Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates were in 1971.

The Bahamas was in 1973.

Grenada was in 1974

Seychelles was in 1976.

Dominica, Tuvalu, and the Solomon Islands were in 1978.

Kiribati and Saint Lucia were in 1979.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines were in 1979.

Vanuatu and Zimbabwe were in 1980.

Antigua and Barbuda and Belize were in 1981.

Saint Kitts was in 1983.

Brunei was in 1984.

In addition to that: Northern Ireland is still a British territory. So are the Falkland Islands and Bermuda.

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like if you are saying “other cultures have these 3rd genders so thats evidence nonbinary is real thing” that doesnt really work because those genders arent nonbinary, they exist out of the context of the western gender binary, theyre part of a different system of genders. cant be nonbinary if theres no binary to begin with.