#spartan larp

[trunk--slamchest]

spartan larp is really hilarious. Please tell me your supposed love of "ancient Greek history" and I'll tell you the 95 ways Sparta got its ass BEAT by everyone from the Persians to its neighbors.

[kriegsgeist]

Guy who larps as a Spartan including the gay sex

[chronicmouse]

My friends. My friends.

May I present to you two sports that exist and are literally adult jungle gyms: rock climbing/bouldering and parkour.

I started bouldering 3 years ago and it has amazing benefits not only in whole body fitness, but as a mental resilience building tool as well.

You don't even need to go high up if you don't like heights.

Please, my friends. Adult jungle gym sports absolutely exist and thrive out there.

Also, trees are climbable and even if you aren't very good at first, one thing that is new as an adult that isn't as new as kids - long term progress in fitness goals.

Kid strength is real. Regaining equivalent strength to do monkey bars as an adult? They literally make that an obstacle in Spartan runs.

Reclaim the jungle gym. Obstacle courses or playground business nowadays often have an adults only night or timeslot, too.

As an adult, you are uniquely able to indulge your inner Tarzan-LARPing child.

Have fun! Who's gonna stop you? Your mom? You're an adult, now. You can do what you want.

[jdeko]

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[medieval-collectibles]

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[nauticalcartstore]

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[mcclaywriting]

I mostly agree with this post and its messaging but its wrong on a few points that I want to address.

First off while the vast majority of the Nazi Party and its adherents were indeed Christian, typically some variant of Protestant with a minority of Catholics, chunks of the leadership and parts of the SS were not. At least not fully. Hitler privately looked down upon Christianity due to seeing it as corrupted by Judaism and if the esoteric faction within the party had been stronger more anti-Main Stream Christian actions probably would have been taken. Heinrich Himmler thought he was a fucking pagan wizard reincarnation of a Burgundian Prince and worked hard to remove the influence of Christianity within the SS. He was for sure an outlier and the actual true believers in his weird pagan ritual replacements for Christian traditions, like a new SS marriage ceremony or celebrating the solstices instead of Easter and Christmas or making SS officers swear loyalty to him and wear special rings, is not considered to be super high there were still people who believed in it. Now let's talk about God's least favorite gay man: Ernst Rohm.

Rohm was the leader of the Sturmabteilung, better known as the SA or the Brownshirts. They were the brutal paramilitary street fighters to the SS's bodygaurd and and so-called 'elite' unit in the early days of the Nazi Party. Rohm was to the 'left' of the Party in that he actually believed that there should be some sort of right wing revolution against elements of the capitalist class within Germany, similar to the infamous Strasser brothers. He was also an openly gay man. Its important to note that the Nazis knew about Rohm being gay for years. He did not fucking hide it and considered it a badge of pride. It freed him from the weakness of women and let him LARP as fulfilling some sort of Spartan ideal. There is no mention in Hitler's personal writings of him being especially displeased or disgusted with Rohm's sexuality. This is not to say that the Hitler and most of the early Nazi Party were not homophobic, but rather that but grounding his sexuality in misogyny and appealing to a masculine ideal, Rohm made being being gay acceptable within a very certain context to the Nazi Party. What I am saying is that the Nazis did not kill him for being gay. Nor did they kill him for being fat, Mr. Somerton. Fucking Goering existed. Rohm was killed due to three reasons. 1. He was a notorious party boy and drug user and this, combined with his sexuality, made him embarrassing to the Nazis when they were trying to gain allies with the traditional conservative elements of German society 2. As stated before he was on the 'left' of the Nazi Party and wanted some form of wealth redistribution from the Junker and industrialist class to the 'Volk' (white, christian, conservative lower and middle class Germans). While not as radical as the Strassers this was a position that the Nazi Party wanted to move past while they were getting into power, as it alienated the conservative sections of German society they were courting. 3. He lost a power struggle. Himmler, who was fucking ragingly homophobic, was battling it out with Rohm for who got to be the Nazi Party's main paramilitary and special unit after they ascended to power. It was going to be either the SS or the SA and the leader of the group that lost was probably gonna end up dead. At the end of the day Himmler both managed to manipulate Hitler better, with the extensive help of world class shit head Reinhard Heydrich, and his weird wizard shit was determined to be less embarssing and threatening to the conservative powers of Germany than everything about Rohm. While Rohm's sexuality was a reason for his death in the Night of the Long Knives it was not The Reason. They killed him because he was too radical for the Nazi Party and because he lost out on internal power plays, not because he was Gay. But otherwise yeah, the Nazis used rhetoric that would not be dissimilar from what you hear from large sections of the Republican Party. Being spicy I will also say that some of what the right wing of the Democrat Party says is pretty close to that rhetoric as well, but thats another fight. This post is over all really good, I just wanted to clear up some historical mis-conceptions that drive me nuts.

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

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[himboskywalker]

As per the world turning, 2021 was an absolute shit show and stressful nightmare. And yes I can barely turn on the news anymore and yes it’s really starting to feel like we’re all Sisyphus,but I wanted to end the year on a hopeful note and gratefully remember the good things that happened to me this year.

After 3 years at the same job I was finally hired full time! It’s still very much a temporary thing until I really figure out what I want to do but for the first time since I was 21 I have dental insurance and finally get to have my wisdom teeth taken out!

I moved in with my best friend in a cute little apartment with a back porch that I can grow veggies on in the spring!

Two of my college friends got married and I got to see my entire group of college friends who hadn’t all been together since we graduated.

I finally got back to the gym and not only reached where I was before Covid,but I’ve reached some new goals for my arm strength!

I ran my first ever Spartan race and didn’t die so that was pretty cool.

My bf and I got a very stupid orange cat named Hobbes that I love more than life itself.

My bf and I had our 1 year anniversary!

Me and most of my loved ones got vaccinated!And while my mom and I did catch Covid in October (it was wretched) we survived and were okay,I i tested negative in time to go to my favorite larp of the year.

And finally,I finished Conceal Me What I Am and wrote nearly 180k of fanfiction this year! I’ve made some truly wonderful friends through fandom and this community,and continued to have such a wonderful support network,both in real life and online. So thank you guys for making 2021 more bearable.

[budk-knives]

Spartan Grecian Helmet With Plume - Brass #budk #spartan #helmet #armor #display #grecian #brass #battle #larp #blade #knifelife #knifegasm #knifecollector #knifecollection #knifefanatic #knifeaddict #knifeaddiction #tactical #knifeporn #knifecommunity #knifestagram #knifepics #knifepoint (at Budk)

[centrally-unplanned]

Always hammers home for me that Rome is the birthplace of classical 'democracy' in the west- and by this we mean forms of republicanism - and what we inherited is Rome's LARPing version of Athens they used for their own ideological purposes. The line of actual influence on governance & legal system between Rome & Athens is extremely sparse; the line between modern structures and Athens sparser still.

At least Athen's legacy isn't quite as fake as the Spartans, speaking Deveraux!

Reading the new Devereaux post.

And, like, endlessly amusing to me that in Birthplace of Western Liberty and Democracy classical Athens

a- actual voting citizens probably never made up a majority of the adult male population

b- weirdly misogynistic and patriarchal even by the standards of the classical Mediterranean. Made Rome look like a bunch of feminists! Rome!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

What it's like to be a man

Patriarchy's dirty secret is that it sucks for men, too. There's been an ocean of ink spilled over "toxic masculinity" but until I read Phil Christman's "What It's Like to Be a Man" in the Hedgehog Review, I couldn't crisply define it.

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/identitieswhat-are-they-good-for/articles/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-man

For Christman, the essence of maleness is "chosen discomfort" - spend your life denying you care how you look while tormenting yourself with painful exercise you're not allowed to admit hurts, nor may you admit that you're doing it because you worry about your appearance.

"I live out masculinity as perverse avoidance of comfort: refusal of good clothes, moisturizer, painkillers; hard physical training, pursued for its own sake, not because I enjoy it; a sense  there is a set amount of physical pain/self-imposed discipline I owe the universe."

Masculinity requires that you find "the costliest, least productive, most epic way of doing everything," combined with a masculine omerta, a prohibition on talking about any of this stuff.

"Manhood resists straightforward discussion even as men stand accused—correctly, insofar as any accusation directed at such a broad target cannot fail to hit—of sucking the air from every other conversation."

The masculinity conversation is driven by occultists like Jordan Peterson and "vitamin-hawking conspiracy theorists, rape apologists, and Nazis of YouTube."

Even there, the contradiction is inescapable: "If you need a YouTube video to help you be a man, then in some essential sense simply BEING one is already off the table."

What is "masculinity"? It's "an abstract rage to protect" -- but not "the actual useful things a man (or anyone else) may do for other people," rather, "activities that stem from a fear that simple usefulness is not enough."

That is, larping out the prepper's fantasy of being spartan in grooming and habits, undertaking "defensive projects that have no connection to the actual day-to-day flourishing of the people one loves."

"Men seem constantly on patrol, whether or not there’s anything to patrol against." From "securing your family's future," it's a short walk to the neo-Nazi's "fourteen words."

Leading asshole thinkfluencer Harvey Mansfield accidentally nails it: "Honor is an asserted claim to protect someone, and the claim to protect is a claim to rule. How can I protect you properly if I can’t tell you what to do?"

The contradiction of masculinity is that following Mansfield's prescription means you will always fail to live up to the standard it sets. Men fail to protect the people around them in two ways:

i. "Many of us commit violence against women and each other, and the rest of us stand accused, with more or less justice depending on our individual circumstances, of letting those guys get away with it"

ii. "We sit around too much" Women who work outside the home average 98h/week of work... "that’s presumably a lot of work we men are not doing."

"Protectors always fail": "The world is the sort of place in which statistical probability reaches down like a giant and swats us and our loved ones away. You cannot be a protector any more than you can be a changeling or a fairy princess."

Even by their own terms, men have "clearly failed women."

This is why men can't "disclose even a serious personal problem to another man, even in private conversation, without offering up a  litany of the categories of human beings whose oppression is undoubtedly worse."

It's an apology for "claiming the human prerogative to hurt," and against it, a longing for "the dignity of having something real to worry about."

"We feel like a bad joke."

There aren't any great ways to prove you're not a joke: "turn sullen and grumpy, like people out of a Frank Miller comic" or "turn defensive" ("defensiveness has a well-known tendency to make us behave in ways that are laughable").

The great irony of patriarchy is that it makes everyone miserable, including its notional beneficiaries. Of course, this is also our best hope: if no one actually likes this system, maybe, just maybe, we'll dismantle it.

[sirjustynmedievalknight]

Not a Viking but 14thC auxiliary soldier. Most people associate round shields with Vikings and rightly so, however round shields persisted for centuries after the Viking age ended. We see French, English, Scottish, Irish, Spanish and Italian light infantry with round shields in the 14thC though most often without a boss in the center. #vikings #got7 #medieval #shield #larp #reenactment #history #spartan

[ketten-krad]

I have never seen a bigger LARP session than an American protest and counter protest colliding. Like American flag spartan helmets, antifa barrel drum shields, the joker wannabes, some guy dressed as batman showing up, "revolutionaries", and much more!

I can't wait til some retard straight up pulls out a sword and full steel plate armor fighting against some guy dressed as a communist cowboy or something. It's bound to happen lmaooooo

[spartanworx-blog]

Just playing with the SpartanFront design. . Have a nice friday! . My pinterest: https://pinterest.com/spartanworx/ . My shops: SpartanWorx.redbubble.com http://tee.pub/lic/b0W0fHMqcC0 . . #moralepatch #stickers #leonidas #spartan #sparta #tshirtdesigns #tshirtshop #tshirtdesign #tshirt #tshirts #phonecase #phonecasedesign #logodesigner #sword #helmet #shield #symbols #simplicity #warrior #fashionforwarriors #fashion #fighter #fencing #logo #martialarts #larp #larping #hema #historicaleuropeanmartialarts #history https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Utv5BHIaU/?igshid=dw3502n9vagh

[fudoshin09]

Just finished lining the right #leather #vambrace the left has “magsanggalang” or protection/protector written in #baybayin while the right says “labanan” or fight/battle. I’m a rightie so attack with right shield with left. This project has now possessed me! Lol I’m drawing up and researching plans for the #spaulders or #pauldrons as well as the #cuirass and #helmet In my internet searches I haven’t found much in the way of #filipinoarmor so I will probably be making a mix of styles from #samurai to #spartan to #knight To #fantasy Hence the name of my shop Halo Halo Creations (halo halo = mix mix) #leatherarmor #leatherarmour #larp #brass #brassrivets #illbewearingthis for the rest of the day