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Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) dir. Christopher McQuarrie Deadpool and Wolverine (2024) dir. Shawn Levy

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there’s such an unbelievable multitude of this type of (straight) woman who’s like “when he mentions a ‘she’ 😡🥺👀” “when he calls some girl his ‘friend’ 👀👀🔪” etc and this person is like a different species to me. this person is a space alien. this type of person makes me feel like amy adams in arrival

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JOUSTER??? Are there pictures??

Sure is. I did it fairly regularly between 2010 and 2017 and was fortunate to travel quite a bit with it too. These pictures below are from a 2012 tournament in Texas. I trained up here in Canada with a local group and we trailored the horses down for this one. I'm riding Peter here, who I learned to joust on. Peter has since moved on to the big meadow in the sky but he was the best mount you could ask for starting out.

It's been a hot minute since I've talked about jousting so the rest of this is gonna be under a cut haha.

Anyway, later that year, I got bucked off jousting at a gay wedding and got pretty badly concussed so didn't do much in 2013 but in 2014, an invitation arrived for a tournament in Australia and I couldn't say no. These photos are from Australia the first time.

I'm jousting an Australian friend there on her lovely boy Apollo. The second image gives a good sense of the action and impact, especially my lance which has rotated around entirely and seems to be hanging in the air between us. That was our first pass of the tournament and we just about wiped each other entirely out LOL.

For local shows, I usually rode the troupe's horses, which included Rowan (left) and Blue (right), below:

And Galahad (he was the dude who bucked me off later that season), below:

In late 2014, I worked my own horse (Ziggy) up and did some of my best riding with him that year. Here we are breaking sticks with Sarah from Australia at our local show:

Graduated from my loaner armour in 2015 and upgraded to a historically-accurate custom-made 1480s South German armour, which made the whole experience 30000x better. Shout-out to @xxstarfukkerzxx, fellow local jouster, for the shot below:

Here I am with Arthur (left) at the Folsom Renaissance Faire in 2016 (I think?).

Also got to France that year (sure don't miss the historically-accurate long medieval dude hair but do miss scrappy little Kerleos, who was a fantastic, tough-as-nails ride):

And back to Australia (riding Duke, the retired racehorse):

My last tournament was a real fancy English one in 2017. Spoiler: I was cripplingly -awful- at this one (buy me a beer sometime and I'll tell you why) but the horses, locale, and photos were second to none.

Will never look as cool in a photo as this last one but feel my photos with Barney C.'s MetroCop kit and helmet on are kinda close.

Anyway, having aged / matured in the years since 2017, I would certainly like to get back into it when the conditions are right! Also more than happy to answer questions about the whole process because there is a LOT to it.

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Where the Shadow Falls II ,Skøyen, Oslo, 17 November -   Mattias Härenstam, 2022.

Swedish, b. 1971-

Woodcut on paper with hand coloured watercolur,  105 x 90 cm. Ed. 20.

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Doomer

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Anna Podedworna

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Dariusz Kieliszek

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Shark Girl

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yeah you just gotta resubmit it 4 times so it knows youre cool and probably have the required materials to cast

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Fulgrim with consorts

Since he's the only primarch who has been married -multiple times, prolly simultaneously- I think it's not unreasonable to imagine him freely enjoying the company of women once he got more power to devote himself to the enjoyment of all things beautiful ,,,

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How it feels to own a black sword

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✶ Dark Forest ✶

@missupacey and I did something a little spooky for our Rose City Comic Con collaboration! Witches felt appropriate. ❤︎ Snag them at our tables! We’re neighbours at D-18 and D-20! (Or in our shops! Prints and stickers available @ Jijidraws.shop & Missupacey.com)

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A scratch can grow into a fatal wound.

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Link ~~~

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JACK ARMS@wj654cl4

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