SCA bullet points

Just some observations based on the recent fighter practices and related mailing lists:

• Fighter practice ain't just for fighting, or at least not locally. The one I visited over the summer includes dance practice and there is now discussion of setting aside a hallway for informal sewing lessons. Coming out of clubs where the entire focus is on the sport/martial art, I find this kind of odd but refreshing - it gives people who want to be supportive but who aren't necessarily into swords something(s) to do. Besides, if there's a space, might as well use all of it.
  
  • This seems to be planned for the new local practice as well, though there haven't been enough people to fight let alone do other stuff (thus far?) I've brought in the Mary Rose book for people to look through, and I'll likely bring in other books if there's interest.
  
  
• One of the local heavy fighters takes his persona development fairly seriously, building a back story for his name and even developing a "secondary persona" for some of his other interests. I've met a few SCAdians who really get into the acting/character development aspects (rather like creating a character for an RPG?) but not often so that's kind of novel for me.
  
  • Said fighter has offered to help me figure out my own persona, which is kind but I'm not there yet - I'm not even as far as a name yet. I figure when I do it will likely be something like [period version of my first name] of [tempting to pick a variation of "Maupin" or "Alatriste", but let's face it, "Quixote" would probably be more fitting :P]
  
  
  

things that amuse

This shirt could get me in a heap o' trouble :P

Why no, I'm not from Texas, but I like it anyway.

The Procrastination Flowchart, via geekchick.