Cookies for Queen's Quarterly Mini Tournament 2 tomorrow. All are sugar cookies but half have lemon lavender sugar and the other half have hibiscus sugar. #HEMA

In light of getting a scan tomorrow, this joke is aggressively popping into my head: What do you call a fencer with good knees? A Newbie.

This photo from our skirmishing muster last night is a renaissance painting.... #HEMA

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

Fire dog at my arson investigation conference. Right off he tried to eat a piece of muffin on the floor.

I will be in Asheville Monday and Tuesday for an arson investigation conference (I talked my self into giving a presentation) one off site activity is going to a live burn demo by the fire department. Need someone to talk me out of bringing my sword to it to get get some epic photos ⚔️🔥 #HEMA

I just backed Miscreant Anthology 175+ Creators. One Epic Book. on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mis... It's always important to support artists, now more than ever!

Finally got to sort through the photos from our most recent skirmishing muster and I found this one of me executing a pretty epic thrust. #HEMA

Molly recharging her solar batteries.

We are currently doing a module of side sword and cape in #HEMA class. Had to just use a towel last week but I got my crafting on this weekend and threw a dueling cape together. It’s just cotton and a repurposed Halloween tablecloth.

My friend Lisa got me a super cool birthday present in the form of a personalized message from Kane Hodder on account of our shared love of the Friday the 13th movies. www.cameo.com/recipient/69...

Three years ago today my wife and I took this "Intro to Longsword" class at our local #HEMA club. I enjoyed it so much I came back the next week for my first free class and now 3 years later I am helping to run the club as we settle into our own private training space. Crazy! ⚔️

Hotel is booked for SERFO in June! We did a shared house last year but I am too old to sleep on a trundle bed and share a bathroom with 7 other people, before trying to go fence in the morning 😀 My back alone applauds my hotel decision! #HEMA

With our new location comes some new classes. In Wednesday night longsword we are starting an extensive Fiore (sword in 2 hands) module that is expected to last the next few months. Super looking forward to it. #HEMA

Got my Meyer coloring book yesterday thanks to a classmate bringing it back from SoCal for me. It looks fun! #HEMA

Tonight we hold our first classes in our new location! #HEMA

Along with the new location and new class schedule comes a new monthly newsletter for all your club news and updates! You can find it in all the usual places as well as a physical copy at the new gym. Hope you enjoy! #HEMA drive.google.com/file/d/1mU6-...

One of my #HEMA friends Richard started making these HEMA / tarot card linocut prints. I ordered one and finally got it framed up. This one is The Fool and depicts alber aka The Fools guard.

Sometimes at work we get free merch and other trinkets from our various suppliers. This time it was some science socks! #Science

When I got home after work I went back out to the car to put some oil in. When I unscrewed the oil cap on the engine it rolled and fell behind the engine block but instead of falling all the way through got caught on a bit of the engine in such a place that I could see it but not reach it.

Hema bookshelf just dropped a Meyer coloring book and I am fully on board. Have to see if I can get some clubmates who are going to Socal to grab me a copy. #HEMA

In honor of the day my friend Lisa and I watched the masterpiece this is Friday the 13th part VIII Jason takes Manhattan. Which really should be Jason takes a boat ride and visits the city for 15 minutes but that’s beside the point. It is an amazing film that makes no sense at all. I love it.

Funny to see that #FioreDeiLiberi is part of #Altered (TCG by Equinox). The quote from the Flower of Battle is accurate. The choice of having him sport a #rapier and a Musketeer outfit is questionable, but good to see a bit of #HEMA permeating some areas of pop culture.

"Why do you want to have a 1970s music pavilion at the Shakespeare festival?" "It features wine made by the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party!" "But how does that make it anything to do with Shakespeare?" "Mao is the vintner of our disco tent!" [Exit, pursued by a bear]

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

Primary day here in Charlotte so doing the poll worker thing like usual.

Did some more Fairbairn cane stuff last night with the wife, she really likes wailing on the punching bag with it. We also started going though some of the other bits of the book, escaping from 1 and 2 handed wrist holds and such. Hopefully no one saw us since this one might be hard to explain #HEMA

For various reasons my wife was interested in learning some simple cane defense stuff so we started with some simple cane/umbrella drills from "Hands Off! Self-defense for Women" by William E. Fairbairn, which is just slightly modified stuff from his All-In fighting combat manual. #HEMA

The folks from my #hema class asked for a video of one of the exercises, so I'm putting it here as well: m.youtube.com/shorts/VFpjT...

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

Our Valentine's day dagger workshop went really well. Everyone looked like they were having fun and we sold like 8 pairs of daggers (plastic rondel trainers) for people to take home. I think the couples/paired workshop idea is something we will have to do more of in the future. #HEMA

Fry is ready to help with the special dagger worship we are holding today. #HEMA

The Valentine's day dagger workshop @swordwind.bsky.social is doing this weekend has sold out! This is our first time putting this one on and we weren't sure how many people would want to spend their Valentine's day learning how to stab their SO...guess it was more popular than we thought!⚔️ #HEMA

#HEMA Mini tournament went well. Everyone had a good time. I fenced pretty well in Longsword ending up 6 of 12 in the rankings. Because we had a few drops I ended up fighting in dagger as well which went less well but was still fun. Now I am going to go collapse.

Mini tournament today. As is traditional I made some cookies to bring and made another batch of cookie medals for the winners. (They still need their ribbons in this picture)

Been a fan of Dr. Bronner's soap for years but after seeing their social media post from yesterday I went on their website and ordered a bunch of stuff in support.

@swordwind.bsky.social is holding our first Mini tournament of the year Sunday. I am fighting longsword and then helping judge dagger. These are great practice for fighters and for us to train tournament staff. Extra bonus is we made them "official" now and they will count to your #HEMA rating.

Signed up to compete at #SERFO again this year. This time I signed up for both longsword and sword and buckler. I have very little experience with sword and buckler but it will motivate me to study it more in the next few months so I don't get utterly destroyed in pools. #HEMA

Got up to the mid 30s yesterday so a good half of the snow here in Charlotte melted but then it dropped to like 15 over night so everything froze. Even so made it to work fine, the apartment parking lot was a little icy but main roads were fine.

Just did our last potty break of the night. Probably about a foot of snow here in Charlotte. Saw two coyotes walking along the tree line behind our apartment. 😳 good thing we don’t have to go anywhere any time soon.

Took some sword pictures in the snow.

Poll worker training today! We have a primary here in March so we are already getting ready.

Hey Charlotte,NC! We have a fun workshop coming this valentines day! swordwind.pushpress.com/landing/even...

Today is exciting! My #HEMA club @swordwind.bsky.social signed a lease on our own location after years of sharing space in a CrossFit gym. This will let us expand classes and it will be cool to have a place I go practice on off hours. ⚔️

Who did this? Because I fucking love it and I want to shake your hand, sir (not gender specific)

Got crafty this weekend and made a new bag for my sword. Outside is Ukrainian flag colors and the inside is lined in scrap vinyl I got at the used art supply store. #HEMA

#OhMyHorror challenge 2026 week 2: Hotel Horror - The Haunted Hotel (2021). A anthology with 8 short stories all set in the same haunted hotel in different time periods. Listed as a horror comedy but was neither scary nor really funny. Cheesy in a bad way and not even fun to watch. (2 out of 10)