Tell me....

[kampfrau]

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. (Some I know too well. You know who you are.) I read your journals, or we have something else in common and we chat occasionally. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you for your

Comments

[diermuid]

Here's an interesting tidbit you probably haven't heard... when I was young, I was a shit. Gothy, punk, criminal, self-centered little shit.

When I hit the SCA, I was a D&D fan, and thought mostly in D&D terms. When I had to create my persona, I had the concept of a paladin in my head, combined with the 'barbarian' background of an early period celt.

Since I was able to 'play' a Marine while at work (I was a young corporal at the time) and I was able to 'play' a noble person at the SCA, it came to me that I could simply adopt those 'personas' as who I was from day to day. It marked a distinct change in who I was, and has continued to make me happier with who I am today.

[elasait]

In junior high and high school I used to check out the fairy tale books in the kids' section of the library and re-read them, because I didn't realize there were fantasy books written for older readers.

In high school I got a short shag haircut when they became fashionable. This is the only time in my life I have had hair shorter than shoulder length, as it became apparent fairly quickly that I look like a giraffe without hair to soften my neck.

I can't stand wearing things that slide up and down my arms, so I never wear bracelets. But in high school, bangle bracelets were oh so fashionable and I was the absolute queen of bangle bracelets.

[noveldevice]

I really dislike Aristophanes, despite having a sense of humor so dirty it's frequently unacceptable in polite company. I have never broken a major bone. I have a contact allergy to milk as well as an anaphylactic allergy to ingested milk.

I miss the SCA because I miss dressing up, but I don't miss the morons at all. The latter more than anything else is why I haven't gone back. One cannot keep oneself completely isolated amongst one's friends, and I am not getting mellower with time.

[kampfrau]

Cat said... I miss the SCA because I miss dressing up, but I don't miss the morons at all. The latter more than anything else is why I haven't gone back.

That's part of the reason I've chilled out from playing as much as I did when I was White Hawk Herald.

[noveldevice]

Some day it will once again be perfectly acceptable to punish SCA morons as they deserve.

On that day, I shall return. With a hammer and a martial gleam in my eye.

Tell me...

[eleanor_deyeson]

I am sort of ADD in terms of what I want in the SCA. Anytime I find a cool looking dress or doohickey, then I want to have the complete ensemble that goes with that time and place. Life and research would be simpler if I could just choose, but I can't.

In the real world, I am running for school board.