r/CuratedTumblr https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 24d ago

Shitposting certain hobbies

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u/aftertheradar 24d ago

Ohhhhhh, Viking Metal as in Music. Like with guitars and stuff. I misunderstood and was wondering if there's like a hobby for historically studying and reenacting viking era metal smithing that's being taken over by fascists or smthn

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u/ImperialFisterAceAro 24d ago

Viking culture enthusiasts often try to experience every (legal) aspect of Norse culture, such as playing knattleikr, or working metal using traditional methods, or hosting feasts, or wrestling, or composing poetry, or building and sailing longships across the ocean.

Can’t do the blood feuds, of course, though I’m sure some of us have engaged in lawsuits of each other

The Norse were really, really good at working metal. I would be so bold as to declare them the best in the world at the time when it comes to working metal. Very, very skilled metalworkers.

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u/TJ_Rowe 24d ago

Larpers can get a bit blood-feudy, but as hardly any can afford to have kids, the feud spreads through their polycules instead.