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Baronial Birthday was fun, and it seemed to me that people were working together better than they have in a while. This was nice.
The Merry Rose is wangsting again. While I think that the intent of the SCA as expressed in Corpora is that we're supposed to be a middle ages/Renaissance group, I personally don't care about Egyptian personas, Greek personas, Incan personas, or whatnot. Heck, I never even minded the elves. Finding myself (dressed as a 9th century Viking) standing next to a Pharoanic Egyptian is not much more anachronistic and disconcerting than standing next to an Elizabethan lady. Or a knight who thinks garb is jeans, a SCA-themed t-shirt and a white belt. Or a 400 pound man in a loincloth. Or Captain Jack Sparrow.
Look, I love the SCA, but I have no illusions about what it is. There was a point where they could have firmly established a start date, but that ship has sailed and we're stuck with the pre-17th century language. Most people will always do the Middle Ages/Renaissance periods, but there will always be folk on the fringes, and that's okay with me. (Now the issue of whether we should recognize these fringe folk with awards based on their fringe culture activities is something else, and I'm not going to go there just now.)
The Merry Rose is wangsting again. While I think that the intent of the SCA as expressed in Corpora is that we're supposed to be a middle ages/Renaissance group, I personally don't care about Egyptian personas, Greek personas, Incan personas, or whatnot. Heck, I never even minded the elves. Finding myself (dressed as a 9th century Viking) standing next to a Pharoanic Egyptian is not much more anachronistic and disconcerting than standing next to an Elizabethan lady. Or a knight who thinks garb is jeans, a SCA-themed t-shirt and a white belt. Or a 400 pound man in a loincloth. Or Captain Jack Sparrow.
Look, I love the SCA, but I have no illusions about what it is. There was a point where they could have firmly established a start date, but that ship has sailed and we're stuck with the pre-17th century language. Most people will always do the Middle Ages/Renaissance periods, but there will always be folk on the fringes, and that's okay with me. (Now the issue of whether we should recognize these fringe folk with awards based on their fringe culture activities is something else, and I'm not going to go there just now.)