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I don't see much protection of pilgrims en route to Jerusalem happening here. On the contrary, it seems to be mostly cutting birthday cakes and playing dress up

I don't see much protection of pilgrims en route to Jerusalem happening here. On the contrary, it seems to be mostly cutting birthday cakes and playing dress up. These guys might as well join a drag party for the same kind of fun.

defrost 1y ago
They're literal Drag Knights not Drag Queens though .. seems more like a bottoms in search of a top scene.
- metalman 1y ago
  ouch, mercyless as someone who has read a lot about the crusades and has visited some of the places involved by hapenstance, it does seem to me that the practice of learning the hard won leasons of history has as pointed out, been turned into something else entirely reading the only first hand descriptions of King Richard as written by the daughter of the King of Constantinopal does give the whole mad affair a bit of perspective, we also have some other descriptions of what constituted the living conditions of Kind Richard and his knights while on crusade, and the notion of "living rough" does it no justice, but from middle easter sources we do have glowing accounts of how much they coveted the crusaders horses, and how time and time again, a night was spared any direct attack as it might injure the horse he was riding, the deduction I get from that is: horses were valued by everyone so highly at the time that all in all, it was better to be a horse. And as I somehow ended up having a destrier myself, I can empythise.
  - defrost 1y ago
    It's all a matter of personal taste, IMHO, each to their own. In the domain of LARP'ing cosplaying I'll take The Grey Company* over these SMOTJQ+ Templar wannabe's any day, and with all due respect to Great Horses that can suffer the weight of a full tin can and chain mail insert I prefer, and own, the Waler (and Kimberley stock variations)**. "If it's a good enough horse to take a great grandfather through a four mile cavalry charge into and over machine gun nests, it's good enough for me" * https://greycompany.com.au/ https://greycompany.com.au/ ** https://walerhorse.com/about-the-whsa/the-waler/ https://walerhorse.com/about-the-whsa/the-waler/
    - metalman 1y ago
      waler ,nice, got an ausi saddle here in Nova Scotia,to go on "little thing" , a percheron/arab cross, 1900lbs,she can piroet on one foot, amongst many other exceptionaly agile manouvers, very brave,smart, curious, funny, and affectionate, part ballerina, part bulldozer and a whole lot of pony I knew nothing of horses, and she knew nothing of humans * I have witnessed a short round of the horse game played by the mountain tribes of Afganistan and surounding areas, over a hundred for both teams, almost a uniform coulor from having been delivered in cattle cars men and horses alike,short match no goals, but one man was taken away on a stretcher with broken bones, and two horses were shot there on the field from untreatable broken legs

defrost 1y ago

They're literal Drag Knights not Drag Queens though .. seems more like a bottoms in search of a top scene.

metalman 1y ago
ouch, mercyless as someone who has read a lot about the crusades and has visited some of the places involved by hapenstance, it does seem to me that the practice of learning the hard won leasons of history has as pointed out, been turned into something else entirely reading the only first hand descriptions of King Richard as written by the daughter of the King of Constantinopal does give the whole mad affair a bit of perspective, we also have some other descriptions of what constituted the living conditions of Kind Richard and his knights while on crusade, and the notion of "living rough" does it no justice, but from middle easter sources we do have glowing accounts of how much they coveted the crusaders horses, and how time and time again, a night was spared any direct attack as it might injure the horse he was riding, the deduction I get from that is: horses were valued by everyone so highly at the time that all in all, it was better to be a horse. And as I somehow ended up having a destrier myself, I can empythise.
- defrost 1y ago
  It's all a matter of personal taste, IMHO, each to their own. In the domain of LARP'ing cosplaying I'll take The Grey Company* over these SMOTJQ+ Templar wannabe's any day, and with all due respect to Great Horses that can suffer the weight of a full tin can and chain mail insert I prefer, and own, the Waler (and Kimberley stock variations)**. "If it's a good enough horse to take a great grandfather through a four mile cavalry charge into and over machine gun nests, it's good enough for me" * https://greycompany.com.au/ https://greycompany.com.au/ ** https://walerhorse.com/about-the-whsa/the-waler/ https://walerhorse.com/about-the-whsa/the-waler/
  - metalman 1y ago
    waler ,nice, got an ausi saddle here in Nova Scotia,to go on "little thing" , a percheron/arab cross, 1900lbs,she can piroet on one foot, amongst many other exceptionaly agile manouvers, very brave,smart, curious, funny, and affectionate, part ballerina, part bulldozer and a whole lot of pony I knew nothing of horses, and she knew nothing of humans * I have witnessed a short round of the horse game played by the mountain tribes of Afganistan and surounding areas, over a hundred for both teams, almost a uniform coulor from having been delivered in cattle cars men and horses alike,short match no goals, but one man was taken away on a stretcher with broken bones, and two horses were shot there on the field from untreatable broken legs