#fence school

[frachive]

pavement

[kald-dal-art]

Revisiting old school work because these past week inspired me to go back to it to fix it up a bit more as part of my summer homework

The project was about to make a poster for an Olympic sport (or a sport in general, made up or real) but put it in a more fantastical setting

So we could pick between a few locations like space, the arctic, underwater and some others I don't remember anymore, but obviously you can see I picked underwater and picked fencing because I like the uniforms and thought most of my classmates weren't gonna pick it

[bulbagarden]

any other weirdos on here who grew up as Weird Children roleplay pokemon on the school playground ? did u ever do that. pls tell me .

[oddly-casual]

I love Jazzy, just as a general rule, but something that caught my eye in the beginning was the little ways Jazz’s brother treats his brother like shit.

Looking at the anime, it makes sense why they censored the women and kept the mess to a minimum for animations sake, but at least he’s clothed and awake. It makes it seem as though Jazz’s older brother is doing it for the soul purpose of being a bastard.

But looking at the manga, he’s asleep. The curtains and couch are torn, the mess is purely clothes, food, and drinks.

His brother isn’t even awake to gloat. The manga gives the impression that Jazz’s brother disregards his space on a regular, to the point where he feels comfortable passing out drunk half naked in his brothers space.

I know it’s not just me, but having a room- that’s supposed to be a safe space- violated repeated by sights and smells you don’t know? This poor kid has no sense of privacy or safety. His family literally runs on the idea that if you get robbed it’s your fault.

[lesbianmaxevans]

Faran vs Bloody Rose || Chapter 14: When a Stranger Calls Back

[housecow]

some of your posts are very funny, what can you not do?

i can’t be on my feet walking around for 4 hours without feeling sore the next day apparently 😭😭😭

[webdiggerxxx]

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[cringe-time]

How do I subtly convince my coworkers to stop being trump supporters???

I work in a school and just found out at least 2 of my coworkers are Trump supporters. We’re not close, and I don’t think it’s appropriate to at any point in the day try to open up a political discussion. I also have really bad debate skills. However, with the election so close, if Trump won and I did nothing at all to try to sway the people in my vicinity, I’d never forgive myself. So does anyone have advice for this? I don’t wanna start any arguments, I’m mostly hoping to get them questioning Trump, ideally without even having to directly bring him up. Like complaining that I feel bad for our kids, who will likely never experience a white Christmas (appealing to nostalgia and Christianity), and at another time mentioning something Trump said about destroying all climate regulations.

[frachive]

no recess, you're in school again.

[daguerreotyping]

Circa 1900s postcard of university girls being girls: smoking, drinking, fighting, gambling and asking the important questions, namely: "Wer zahlt den Früh-schoppen?" ("Who's paying for the morning pint?")

[swimmingwithfish]

to the Fence readers I don't know if you know but most, if not all the other schools in State Championships are Sydney/Melbourne schools and if you're an Australian reader it is just so funny

like imagine you just see your high school in one of your favourite fictional comics where fencing is a state recognised high school sport IT'S SO STUPID pacat could have used any other fictional school names but no-

[kitabasis]

I wish fencing/HEMA in general was more ubiquitous…I have a mighty need to swing an epée around. Hell, I’d even accept a saber at this point.

[sometimeswritingsometimesdying]

What's this Fence comic you're posting about? The art and the passion have got me intrigued.

ohohohohoho you don't know what floodgates you've just opened.

so basically it's a series of graphic novels (and 2 novels) detailing the life and times of nicholas cox, who is the illegitimate son of a US fencing champion and wants to become the best at the sport to be noticed by his father, but also its INSANELY gay and full of both sillies and angst and like gay people being crazy about having a crush

the main ship is between nicholas and his rival seiji katayama who is this perfectionist, overachieving (in my opinion) complex character with a dramatic backstory who doesn't really care for nicholas all that much UNTIL they end up being roommates (!!!!!). it's basically set up to be a rivals to lovers but since theres like 4 volumes a year its the slowest slowburn i've ever read. seiji is also my personal favorite character so im kind of insane about him. im also insane about nicholas but like in a hes so me way yk?

then you have like every other ship dynamic imaginable: childhood friends with seemingly unrequited love who try to ignore their feelings for each other, sunshine little dude and giant who doesn't talk to anyone, over-protective and super-supportive boyfriend with quiet, studious partner who has to keep him in line, and one that isn't really confirmed but i personally think it's gonna be canon: enthusiastic jock who loves his friends vs spoiled rich kid who is actually incredibly lonely (i hope they head this way with his characterization but i feel like we haven't seen enough). and all of them are queer!

it's also obviously a sports series, and as a fencer it's the first time i've seen the, i think, very complex dynamics that exist in this sport portrayed so well!!! i definitely identify with the characters a lot and i think they're easy to get attached to, and i feel like the sport is also well explained (except my qualms with the epeè slander, it's the best weapon). the writing is also witty and just plain fun. i know i focus a lot on ships here but there's truly a lot to mine about the importance of sports and team efforts and the relationship an athlete can cultivate with their desire to win that can either be positive or turn sour. or maybe i'm just hyperfixating

either way, if you have the chance, i'd definitely check it out!!! it's gotten me back into writing and has me in a chokehold rn. i love all the characters and theres a LOT of amazing works of writing and art in this tiny but mighty fandom!!!

[untilyouremember]

Cheeky Brat

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[iffeelscouldkill]

On Kings Row's fencing scholarship

Thinking about this AU and what might have happened if Nicholas had never taken up the fencing scholarship at Kings Row that year made me wonder: who was the recipient of the fencing scholarship last year?

I mean, when Harvard is showing Nicholas to his dorm room he says this:

"We" here could refer to Kings Row as a whole, but that seems bizarre, that there would be only one scholarship student of any kind per year. Besides, "you won't feel out of place" suggests that Nicholas would be in good company as a scholarship student among the fencers (not just in the school). (One scholarship student per year among the whole school would definitely lead to feeling out of place).

But since we know that the fencing scholarship student has to make the team, who could it have been last year?

Aiden clearly has enough money that he wouldn't need a scholarship. Harvard seems well-off too, and if he were also a scholarship student, that would definitely be relevant to bring up in a conversation like this. Kally we know is a scholarship student, but he's an academic scholar, not a fencing scholar. And if it were Tanner, again, you'd think that would come up - since everyone made a big deal about Nicholas and Kally being "the two scholarship students", if Tanner were a scholarship student, that would have been mentioned.

But that doesn't leave any more team slots for a fencing scholar. So, was the scholarship not awarded to anyone? Or maybe the fencing scholar didn't make the team (ouch ><)?

Dwelling on this made me think about how tough it is to require the scholarship recipient to make the team in order to keep their scholarship. I mean, it does make sense - academic scholars have to demonstrate academic excellence; sports scholars need to demonstrate sporting excellence. And how do you demonstrate excellence? By making the cut for the team.

But at least good academic performance is only dependent on you. Getting good grades doesn't require someone else to get bad grades, and if another person gets really good grades, that doesn't make your good grades go away. It's not a zero-sum game.

Whereas there are only four slots available on the fencing team, and that means that you as a fencing scholarship recipient only need to be outperformed by four other students to lose your slot. In a school where most of the other students will be older and more experienced than you, that's a pretty harsh requirement.

(It also makes me wonder if you need to make the cut for the team every year in order to keep the scholarship. Surely not, right? But then, as an academic scholar, if your grades slip, you're in danger, so... the same applies to a hypothetical fencing scholar...

But then that means that between freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors... you would need a fencing scholar to take up every single slot on the team.

How does this scholarship work??? someone give me the answers)

[dangans-ur-ronpas]

what if we spent our formative years feeling we would never love or be loved in a way that mattered. and also spent as long as possible trying to develop ourselves into people who wouldn't need to be loved to be known and recognized. and we...knew each other. casually