Bringing awareness to this because I hate the fact this is a common thing.
Have always wanted to talk about this. Martial arts gyms are awash in creeps, which isn’t really unique I guess.
If you follow MMA closely, you might have noticed a lot of women (especially young women) are dating their coaches who tend to be like 15+ years older than them. The really creepy part is a lot of them have known their coaches since like middle school. The most famous case is Pat Barry and Rose Namajunas, who allegedly started dating when Rose like like 14 and Barry was like 30ish. But there are others - Jim West and Aspen Ladd, whatever the Shevchenkos and Paul Fedetov, and way more. It’s creepy. And you can read all types of stories about other gyms.
And these weren’t even the ones I was looking for. They just popped up on Google. Point being, we should look out for one another. There are way too many people who are comfortable in the martial arts community being predators. Look at Lloyd Irvin.
Me, at the store: Buying a dog collar
The person at the register: Haha you have a big dog, huh?
Me: They're for me.
The person:
Me: The dog collars are for me.
The person:
Me: I'm the big dog.
Thank you, Aphrodite Epistrophia, for giving me the perfect partner for me. They are so kind and so sweet. I will forever thank you for this gift you have blessed me with and I will cherish them always.
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I've been wearing it for 3 days because I refuse to do laundry.
As someone who lives in a heavily right leaning area, THIS!!!
By my left toenail, I'm far too scared to even put some band patches on cuz they are in Arabic and like....half my state is scared of different languages 😭
PUNK PSA:
Please don’t put anything too political on your back patches— especially about your own marginalized experiences.
This has been a long standing rule in punk communities, passed down for generations. People do get jumped and experience violence as a result of this. You can’t see who is behind you, you can’t tell if they’re far right, and you can’t prepare yourself for sudden violence from behind.
So many people are new to the scene, introduced via social media, and don’t know the weight of walking with something on your back (literally and metaphorically) that immediately outs you as marginalized. If you’re able to defend yourself, or out with friends who can watch your back, by all means go for it and wear whatever you want on your back patches but if you walk alone at all ever, please be safe.
Also this is why punks wear spikes and studs on our shoulders especially. Makes it harder for someone to grab you and works as self defense (but also never wear spikes at a small show or if you plan to mosh— people can get hurt!).
grug hate two factor authentication. first grug have to remember password. then grug have to point out which cave painting has birds. now they want grug to hunt and gather new thing called numbers. grug won’t do it grug miss the bird paintings grug was getting pretty good at birds.
where's that "was anyone gonna tell me" meme when you need it because holy shit did the bird app just slap me in the face with this
(and yes, it's real and terrifying tbh)
Normally wouldn't do alot of self promo but its my account so whatever lol
I put up some older masks on my etsy! I also am open to possibly doing some commissions, but only one or two at most (shoot me a message either here or on etsy if your interested)
The ones already made are older and not the highest quality so are only around 30 bucks when I would say my current mask making skills are around 60-100 depending on things :3
You can find them here or looking up RusticMothArtistry on Etsy if you don't trust links lol (fair)
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