#and I may or might have not my grandmas tulips with my first sword

[kiradrinkalot]

One of my biggest fictional role models growing up was Xena the Warrior Princess

Because she was a fucking badass

And it feels kinda weird when some people now say female fictional characters who have similar clothing are too sexualised.

Like looking back as I'm older yeah she was hot. She had thighs that could crush a head and was dressed in leather and showed some skin.

But she was a force to be reckoned with.

And she was hot and she was super strong.

And as a little girl I wanted to be her. Not because of how she looked but because of how she was.

A badass fighter with cool weapons compassionate where it needed to be

...and the series may have started my obsession with swords and knives..

(which eventually lead me to LOTR and to join a historic swordsmanship club...and I still have my old wooden sword at home and still know how to use it)