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20 September 2025
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viking aiming early attempts Shadversity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmGORk9z5zQ
Lars Anderson Viking Archery video
short
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rii-oWSsU4s
long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_UOfqXL3SM
my comment shadversity
I think you two had good fun with this one. I did learn something. What is clear is, as the common technique changed over time, the media interpretation of the past simply ignored the common technique used in the past. I think that is very interesting. I wonder how many techniques were done differently in various martial arts in the past, that most people today don't recognize. I do think the run test is the one that really makes the case for this style. You can't run with your arms level to your shoulders faster than you can with your arms parallel to the side of the torso. I argue, Viking archery wasn't weird. It was styled for people who shot while running and close chaotic combat, which you guys didn't test. The standing style is best for the large armies, the lines of archers in the roman empire/Kemet empire/Chinese empire. But, the Rus/Varangians/Vikings/northmen were raiding peoples. The Varangians and Rus and Danes and Normands eventually became kingdoms or empires, but the raiding by Northmen occurred from testament to the muslim governments before during and after the formation of kingdoms by Northmen. My point being, the Northmen liked to raid, more than have a huge standing army and I think it reflects how the structure of organizations like the holy roman empire born from a hybrid roman/northman culture was a set of principalities fighting themselves raiding, and the dissolution of the Carolingian empire after Charlemagne died between his sons who raided each other. Raiding culture allows for an army to be the raiding force but I bet alot of raids not all from northmen were far fewer people, and not as absolutely devastating to the raided. So that an army was usually more an alliance of raiders/Vikings/pirates than a regimented army under one crown. Anyway, I wish you guys would had made the following test, on your first attempts with the Viking style. Take a thirty pound bow on the run and try to hit a target middle of the run while running, perpendicular to the path of the run, and after release keep running. And take a hundred pound bow on the run and try to hit a target middle of the run while running, perpendicular to the path of the run, and after release keep running. Then try the same two run's above but have an option of three targets and randomly select one. I bet the advantage of the lower pound bow or the Viking style will occur. What I think it will prove is, while the standing arms up style is better for more poundage standing still in a line of bowfolk or aiming from safe distances to targets, the running style is better suited for a mobility demanded random obstacle environment where one may be alone at times or using a random arrow and unable to stand and shoot. Raiding is war, but it is another form of war. Raiding isn't campaigns of one big army against another big army, raiding can be a group, attacking a town in another country. In that environment mobility is key. you can't stay and set up camp cause the town will get reinforcements that the group can't handle.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmGORk9z5zQ&lc=Ugz1DcSkrkdKLciwUdl4AaABAg
my comment lars Anderson long version
very informative thank you. The question I have is about European media. The paintings show the truth, but later on the styles changed. Were people in europe ashamed cause when I think on the northman method, I realize , anyone can see it suits a raiding culture. not really large lines of bowfolk. Maybe people in europe descended from vikings were ashamed of the raiding culture of the vikings? any thoughts. I can make a modern example. In the USA many white people speak of the earliest and early white european settlers as farmers who just happened to have muskets. Colonial Williamsburg erases all violent actions to indigenous people of the americas from european settlers and their descendents. It is shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_UOfqXL3SM&lc=UgyFbqqi8q-Vw3Cy3sV4AaABAg&pp=0gcJCSMANpG00pGi
good one, but also add, the people telling them they were wrong, never tried to bow while running their fastest in a gauntlet with random targets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_UOfqXL3SM&lc=UgxIPp_NaiJSfa0eO294AaABAg.AMiV_GmzeTwAN7li5gdfT-&pp=0gcJCSMANpG00pGi
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20 September 2025
This event began 09/20/2025 and repeats every year forever
medieval fantasy is or not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6jtEbn2s-w
my comment
Interesting points. well done. I like ivanhoe. Good point, gawain and the green knight has more in common with narnia not lord of the rings when it comes to a real setting that interacts with the fantastic. I get your point. Folklorism needs to be stated more often. Good points, dragons/elves/magic women with items are not confined to european medeival. You convinced me, fantasy is the genre, not medieval fantasy. 18:56 good point the problem is the way in which history books assess history. 19:57 good quote, people didn't go to sleep ancient and wake up medieval. As i say, the roman empire didn't die when most think it did. 22:55 funny 23:14 great point, technology doesn't arrive at the same time everywhere. 24:31 good point on using communication methods as a determinent. 26:52 good point inhow in east asia, they are talking about who is running things, in that case, 28:47 good point, most people in europe durin the time called the middle ages had a greater religiosity than most fantasy novel labeled medieval have. 32:04 funny how he went from constantine to the ottomans. 35:54 what about european fantasy as a label for lord of the rings/song of ice and fire or similar. 39:23 yes more finesse is needed in how people construct history 43:17 great point , thousand of years and now tech change 45:58 thank you, some wars are inevitable 46:04 great point cause george rr martin once said, what about the orcs how are orc children. so Song of ice and fire is historical fantasy while lord of the rings is fantasy based on multiheritage folklore 53:03 hmm good points, using time or who is in charge is a better label
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Excalibur silent film edit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MjyYEQtr3A
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20 September 2025
This event began 09/20/2025 and repeats every year forever
so that’s why this scene made Denzel a star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdEjh41DCLo
my comment
the problem with glory is the film while a work of fiction speaks true on a lot of things. But the most important thing it says is, the union won but it wasn't that the union or the confederacy were heroes. but a few of the seeds in that time will start to modulate the usa into the functional multiracial populace it is today, over three hundred million, more racial variance than any other populace under any other government. As Speilberg suggested using O fortuna [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Fortuna ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nthojvLZoNY&list=RDnthojvLZoNY&start_radio=1 ] about the inevitability of fate. Most well known in film audiences concerning King Arthur which is a call back to a fantasy past. In Glory, O Fortuna , refers to the "glorious" fate of the usa going forward where blacks and non blacks will fight together moreover in the coming years and moreso beyond the time of the war between the states. So even as the 54 mostly fall , what they begin will be something unseen. A time unseen before. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz3sZiVAO0k ; NOTE: charging fort wagner - https://jameshorner-filmmusic.com/glory-an-analysis-of-the-complete-score/ ]
The Most Terrifying Trope in Modern Horror (That No One Will Touch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPyiNgAXEKg
my comment
Never heard of Swallow Barn from John Kennedy [ https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/swallow-barn-1832/ , under pen name Mark Littleton] , thanks. Aunt Phillis's Cabin [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Phillis%27s_Cabin ] thanks again.
I knew of Dixon but I didn't know he was a pastor, hilarious. The Leopard's spots[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard%27s_Spots ] / The Clansman [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clansman:_A_Historical_Romance_of_the_Ku_Klux_Klan ] / The Traitor [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Traitor_(Dixon_novel) ]
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KLAN IS DENOUNCED BY 'THE CLANSMAN'; Thomas Dixon Blames It for Riots and Bloodshed and Demands It Be Throttled.
Jan. 23, 1923
[ https://www.nytimes.com/1923/01/23/archives/klan-is-denounced-by-the-clansman-thomas-dixon-blames-it-for-riots.html ]
Within Our Gates from Micheaux is lovely
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1E0NrcnwAE ]
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Within_Our_Gates ]
Charles Chesnutt
If anyone ever finds the Conjure Woman I wonder.
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjure_Woman_(film) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjure_Woman ; ]
before passing by nella larsen [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_(novel) ] and devil in a blue dress by walter mosley [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_in_a_Blue_Dress ] there was the house behind the cedars
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_Behind_the_Cedars ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_(book) ]
The Foxes of HArrow - odd the book doesn't have a wiki page.
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foxes_of_Harrow ]
Computers can be coded to not make connections, though people may not realize it.
Good point on comedy being the way to attack the southern plantation. Yeah, comedy is a tool looking at Get Out, I am not a comedic writer.
Sons of Ingagi - first science fiction film to have an all black cast
[ https://archive.org/details/SonOfIngagi1940 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Ingagi ]
Consider watching the Blood of Jesus, written and directed by spencer williams
[ https://archive.org/details/blood_of_jesus ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_of_Jesus ]
Nice shout for the innocents, true horror classic
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpFEXmmiAt0 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innocents_(1961_film) ]
John P Kennedy mentored Poe, wow.
Funny how it took to the 1990s for lake Lanier to be revealed to still have graves.
Good point on slave narratives. A unique DOS genre , like Negro Spirituals.
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_in_the_Life_of_a_Slave_Girl ; https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/11030 ]
Good point on how Victorian mansions and antebellum homes were made at the same time, while the European Victorian broke down and haunted while antebellum became wedding spaces.
Never heard of the Changeling
[ https://youtu.be/WA-taJ2Ui30?si=HtwWlEGrRer5YrBw ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(film) ]
CLOTEL
https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/496-clotel-or-the-presidents-daughter-a-narrative-of-slave-life-in-the-united-states-by-william-well-brown/
ANd To see more work
https://aalbc.com/tc/clubs/7-dos-earliest-literature/
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20 September 2025
This event began 09/20/2025 and repeats every year forever
dark skin women are liked when they are physically exceptional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWVcDaKJVww
my comment
you made me laugh "excuse me white woman, would you please ..." ahh she is a DOS interesting so many assumed she is from the continent. If you ever go to the southern states and see black towns you will see very dark skin black people. good point on lizzo, the idea that black women whose faces are never deemed more beautiful than white women's in white owned media, has to have a body that no male can deny they want to screw is the allusion. And black entertainers especially musicians don't make it better when in their videos talking about the best women to screw, they have so many women who are not black or yella black women.
DO YOU KNIT?
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20 September 2025
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Ghibli vs Disney concerning "evil doers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DpniToXq4
my comment
One missed on thing about Zeniba. While many consider her good because she welcomes chihero and company, has her guide , lantern, help them through the dark forest about her home. Is hugging and gentle and kind. What is missed to the parallel between Zeniba side Yubaba is the negativities, maybe not evil, in Zeniba. Yubaba lives close to the gates to the living world, so she can actually interact with those who may become lost. Yubaba is like a community organizer of various spirits who have become lost or need a balanced life. Zeniba lives very far so much so even leaving at the early morning by train she can only be reached at night. She doesn't offer any assistance even though she can reach Yubaba's lands as she proved with the paper airplane creatures. Zeniba has never had a child meaning she has never opened herself up to certain kinds of relationship. Zeniba may not have what people can an evil aspect, but she has her own negativity, which i think is missed in ghibli's "good" characters at times.
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so @Miguelmunuera2601 are you saying the best writing strategy is to do the nippon 4 act in the jeudeo christian three act.
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