An Imagined Dialogue Where I Meet You, the Reader
Who are you? My name is Brian Puckett. I have been doing historical fencing since 2016. What is this? A blog? Lol. Idiot. Big 2008 energy. I know all the cool kids have moved on to TikTok and Insta. Why? By 2020, I accumulated a Facebook friend list of about 700 people, most of whom I didn’t know. In the summer of 2020, I realized this was not good for me and decided to prune back the list for my own mental health. Nothing against anyone I cut (mostly) - but my dopamines had gotten all out of whack, y’all. At the time, a handful of people reached out to say they wanted to keep track of my thoughts on fencing, history, etc. I said I would think of something and have not followed through on that. This is partly an attempt to do so. Yeah, but why a blog? I’ve thought about trying to make videos for things, and I mostly don’t like it. It’s great for certain kinds of content, but it requires a huge amount of work that does not relate to things that interest me. The ratio of work to the sa