Fighting Purple People Pleaser

I'm in my HEMA arc, but you can still find my art at ilysetration and my digital Lilith shrine at ihateheaven. Icon and banner by @agroshka 🐿⚔️

Felt beastly, might delete later 🤭

Everyone loves sword shopping, but don't forget to love the one you're with 🧼⚔️! Your sparring partners will also thank you, because you won't be covering them with rust and cutting them with burrs. Plus, a clean, well-oiled sword is way more likely to cast some cool sparks while you're fighting 🤩!

Dinosaur egg 😱

I wonder what his HEMA rating is 🤔

A woman goes to the doctor. Says her bones are bruised. Says her tendons are chopped. Says her ear got cauliflowered and then she got stabbed for real on her first day back. The doctor says, "Treatment is simple. The great HEMAist Ilyse the Beast is in town tonight. Go and see her fight. That should pick you up." The woman bursts into tears. "But doctor..." she says, "I am Ilyse the Beast." 🤡⚔️

I'm already learning a lot from Donny McKay's new book 😅⚔️

We came to Scottish Fest to educate, but also to entertain. Here are some of my exchanges with Dolan Hall, who has some of the most artistic moves and gear in HEMA. I hope my video conveys how much fun it is to fight someone like him!

Last weekend, my HEMA club had the honor of sharing our passion for swordplay at Scottish Fest ⚔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Thanks to all the brave and curious seekers who visited our booth and crossed swords with us. We hope you'll come back next year! 👋😊⚔️😊👍

In HEMA we typically celebrate our birthdays by fighting one exchange for every year we've been alive. Here are some choice exchanges from my 37th birthday. It's a long and self-indulgent video, but I had a good time so I made myself a souvenir. I'm grateful to everyone who participated, as well as Jordan and HQ for filming.