Harrassment in the SCA - walking between worlds - SCA and Cosplay
I've not really done very much in the past year in the SCA.
Without going into a lot of detail, there were a couple of people in the SCA that I did not want to associate with that were beginning to stalk/harass me, and it was not worth the trouble of fending them off constantly.
One of them is no longer active in the SCA. The other has been told I want no interaction with them - and my Seneschal and my peer served as witnesses.
If anyone has questions regarding the latter or if you have concerns about things you have heard about me personally you should probably check with my peer.
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So for the past year I have been doing a lot of cosplay and getting to work in all sorts of non-period materials. I found that I'm doing a LOT more leather working in Cosplay - or utilizing those skills. Everything is so different - the synthetic materials, using zippers, the garish colors and unlimited color ranges and combinations. Using a lot more wire armatures, paper mache props, it was like I had been playing on this one playground for 20 plus years, then someone says ... hey look over here... there's a door here.... and you go through it and there is a whole other playground with different things to climb and swing on, etc. It was kind of like being on creative vacation.
The really cool thing was all of the skill sets I was bringing with me to cosplay... it's nothing to draft a pattern, sew a buttonhole, make a leather strap, carve or cast, or any of the stuff. And instead of something in a costume being "period" being authentic to the original costume is being called "cannon".
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So, yes there are creative outlets everywhere, with common threads that they share.
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I'm probably going to try to play a little in both worlds now.
I miss the detail and the fine work of the projects I do in the SCA. I'm going to be pulling out my roman tunica and finishing the embroidery on the back panel - picking up where I left off about a year ago.
In Cosplay I still have to get a Jawa made, and finish my flowerpot munchkin outfit.
