#boonasaurusrex

My friends have been encouraging me to kill the part of me that cringes and write just. Fluffy cringey bullshit and it's so fun!!! I'm having a blast writing the Mary Sue travelling through time to have shenanigans with the Character!!

Also I'm on new meds that allows creativity to happen at all!!

I hope your heavy thing ends quickly or goes well. You deserve peace

awww hell yeah!!! :D both of those things are very awesome and i'm proud of you for working through those insecurities to write what you really enjoy. that's what matters most, after all.

I've been really into Burn Your Village by Kiki Rockwell, it's very dark and thumpy!

Oooh that is fun! Very dark and thumpy as you said, I like that!

In return, have Bosorkanya by Alina Pash!

CW: pet whump, caretaker new master, panic attack, fear of death, unreliable narrator, use of 'put down' as killing a person.

Beige can't get his words to work, and when Master wrapped his arms around him his lung stop working altogether. In the first seconds, when there was still air in his system, he tried to say he is dirty, he is dirty and lowly and sweaty and useless and he is dirtying master too. Can't Master see he is not worthy of being touched? Even if, by the way he can't breathe, this is the way Master chose to kill him, he is still not worth this much.

When the air was over he panicked, he had avoided death so often and for so long and it was almost unbelievable that this would end just like this. He didn't fight back at first, he wanted to at least die as a good pet, but soon and against his will his hands tried to push Master away, his lungs tried to futility take in air, and he cried, silently and without air, he cried for what felt like entering as his body was slowly running out of air. Master said words, but it was in the world of the living, and Beige seemed to have gone past that.

Master tightened his grasp around him, forcing the air out of Beige's lungs, but allowing him to breathe once again, albeit while coughing and using the little oxygen to bust into sobs.

He backed away as soon as Master wasn't holding him anymore, and he felt like a fresh pet-in-training when he desperately fell on the floor and crawled under the bed. Long lost memories of the training flooded his mind as he covered his ears to Master's angry words.

first of all, thank you so much and holy shit!!! would you ever share some of the annotations you make? I'm so flattered (and also so curious)!!!

I'm off to scroll a thousand miles down my dash to reblog the shit out of that post, you keep doing you! It's fabulous!!

So during the fairly brief and (for unrelated reasons) frustrating period of time that I studying sword fighting, I studied a super old (like 1440s), super formal (I literally had to sign a pledge that included promising not to go to brothels) discipline called Katori Shinto-ryu, where you do things like train as though you’re wearing armor, so hitting someone on the head like that isn’t the sort of thing you train for.

That being said, you could hit someone over the head with the tsuka (hilt) of the sword. You would probably have better luck, though, hitting someone with the saya (scabbard) for the simple reason that it’s bigger. 

From what I remember about it, hitting someone with the tsuka could be awkward just by virtue of the fact that you need to make sure you don’t hit yourself with the blade, and because the way you generally hold the sword, the pinky of your right hand is traditionally half-off the bottom of the tsuka. That being said, I’m sure there are not-bad ways to do it, it’s just not a sword of fighting I’m particularly familiar with. 

For things that are pipe-shaped, there are ways to do what I think you’re asking about (basically just smashing someone over the head with the blunt part) fairly easily, but stretching back to my memory of learning this about a year ago and basically not doing it since, you would probably run into issues with the tsuba (sword guard) getting in the way.

I’m not sure if that actually answered your question satisfactorily, but basically the answer is, I’m sure it’s done, but it might be awkward, and you might be better off using the scabbard instead.

God job!!! That's so amazing! Must've taken a lot of discipline and dedication I'm so proud!!