Shut up and eat your meatloaf....
Okay, so I wasn't at June Crown. Don't care. My having witnessed, or not, any of the proceedings would make no difference to what I am going to say.
This definition of 'meatloaf' floating around.... it is incomplete. One definition is being applied - someone who has reigned to many times.
But there is a second definition that isn't being discussed really that I think is also a part of the problem - the flavor of a reign being the same thing again.
I begin to wonder if the nature of that second definition isn't something a bit more underlying to what many people seem to be complaining about. That is a thought for a future post.
Okay, before I go any further let me just say that all in all I don't care that Titus and Ellis are going to be up there as King and Queen again. It's their second reign so the first definition of 'meatloaf' simply doesn't apply as far as I am concerned. The second definition of 'meatloaf' can't yet apply because they haven't reigned yet! For crying out loud how can anyone know if it's going to be 'meatloaf' if they haven't even started cooking it yet! Sheesh.
I don't care that Titus and Ellis are going to be up there as King and Queen again because regardless of who is up there I am still a Peer of the Realm(tm), an Officer (for a while longer yet) and The Baron of Darkwood. None of those things are changed by who is sitting on the thrown. Those things are only affected by whether or not the Kingdom still exists. Period.
My fealty as any of these things is my way of expressing my service to the populace through the auspices of the Throne. The Throne has granted me my Peerage and so I serve. The Throne has given me a job and so I work. The Throne has made me responsible for a part of it's lands and so I hold them.
Those Peers I've heard about who have been making all the noise about 'not showing up' for a reign or taking their toys and going and playing somewhere else are all forgetting essential parts of their Oaths.
There are times when you speak. There are times when you shut the hell up.
There are times when you do. There are times when you leave it the f*ck alone.
But there are never any acceptable times when you don't “do as you have always done,” especially for no better reason than you don't like who is sitting on the Throne.
You are Peers, and Officers and whatever other figures of authority you might be and if you fail to serve - well then you have failed as a Peer, an Officer or whatever.
I'm not saying we all have to like each other. That's BS and we all know it. But the rules of this game are, at times, surprisingly clear about what you do and who you afford your respect to and if you can't suck it up when you are dealing with someone on the Throne who you don't get a long with, than I would suggest that you might be lacking in some of those PLQ's you are supposed to have.
And yes, I will state here and now that there are people who have reigned to many times to close together for my taste and as such have become 'meatloaf' in my perspective. So what? At no time during those reigns did I stop serving.
But that second definition of meatloaf - that idea that reign after reign blends together because nothing about them is particularly different? That is a form of 'meatloaf' I think needs to be worked on far more.
In any case, right now, there isn't 'meatloaf.' It's an unfair label at best.
Right now there is a King and Queen who now have heirs. Right now there are heirs who are preparing to reign. But they haven't done it yet and we don't know what their reign will really be like. Perhaps it will be something spectacular. Perhaps it will be the same old thing.
But either way, regardless of who sits the Thrones of The West, I am a Peer of the Realm, an Officer and The Baron of Darkwood. I owe my fealty to the Crown and Kingdom.
It really is that simple.
This definition of 'meatloaf' floating around.... it is incomplete. One definition is being applied - someone who has reigned to many times.
But there is a second definition that isn't being discussed really that I think is also a part of the problem - the flavor of a reign being the same thing again.
I begin to wonder if the nature of that second definition isn't something a bit more underlying to what many people seem to be complaining about. That is a thought for a future post.
Okay, before I go any further let me just say that all in all I don't care that Titus and Ellis are going to be up there as King and Queen again. It's their second reign so the first definition of 'meatloaf' simply doesn't apply as far as I am concerned. The second definition of 'meatloaf' can't yet apply because they haven't reigned yet! For crying out loud how can anyone know if it's going to be 'meatloaf' if they haven't even started cooking it yet! Sheesh.
I don't care that Titus and Ellis are going to be up there as King and Queen again because regardless of who is up there I am still a Peer of the Realm(tm), an Officer (for a while longer yet) and The Baron of Darkwood. None of those things are changed by who is sitting on the thrown. Those things are only affected by whether or not the Kingdom still exists. Period.
My fealty as any of these things is my way of expressing my service to the populace through the auspices of the Throne. The Throne has granted me my Peerage and so I serve. The Throne has given me a job and so I work. The Throne has made me responsible for a part of it's lands and so I hold them.
Those Peers I've heard about who have been making all the noise about 'not showing up' for a reign or taking their toys and going and playing somewhere else are all forgetting essential parts of their Oaths.
There are times when you speak. There are times when you shut the hell up.
There are times when you do. There are times when you leave it the f*ck alone.
But there are never any acceptable times when you don't “do as you have always done,” especially for no better reason than you don't like who is sitting on the Throne.
You are Peers, and Officers and whatever other figures of authority you might be and if you fail to serve - well then you have failed as a Peer, an Officer or whatever.
I'm not saying we all have to like each other. That's BS and we all know it. But the rules of this game are, at times, surprisingly clear about what you do and who you afford your respect to and if you can't suck it up when you are dealing with someone on the Throne who you don't get a long with, than I would suggest that you might be lacking in some of those PLQ's you are supposed to have.
And yes, I will state here and now that there are people who have reigned to many times to close together for my taste and as such have become 'meatloaf' in my perspective. So what? At no time during those reigns did I stop serving.
But that second definition of meatloaf - that idea that reign after reign blends together because nothing about them is particularly different? That is a form of 'meatloaf' I think needs to be worked on far more.
In any case, right now, there isn't 'meatloaf.' It's an unfair label at best.
Right now there is a King and Queen who now have heirs. Right now there are heirs who are preparing to reign. But they haven't done it yet and we don't know what their reign will really be like. Perhaps it will be something spectacular. Perhaps it will be the same old thing.
But either way, regardless of who sits the Thrones of The West, I am a Peer of the Realm, an Officer and The Baron of Darkwood. I owe my fealty to the Crown and Kingdom.
It really is that simple.