more faire thoughts

In no particular order...

• Faire seems to me like "Halloween for adults" in a way that sci fi/costume cons and the like don't - perhaps because Renn faire is more widely known/open to "the masses" than the comparatively narrow-interest-focused con scene.
  
  
• I used to get irked by the lack of historical accuracy in the costuming of players and patrons alike, until I got it through my snobbish skull that that's not what faire is for. Now I just love to people watch and see what people come up with.
  
  
• So very many pretty people....
  
  
• The performance aspect - of both the performers and the "playtrons" - fascinates me, perhaps because I'm so emphatically Not A Performer. Some people really seem to thrive on the attention.
  
  
• I was told as a teen that "faire people" were a breed apart, my breathless friends passing along rumors of drug fueled madness after hours (like they'd know :P) As an adult I think it's more likely that they're like me and the guy still in garb I saw in line at the grocery yesterday after I got home - having a few hours of fun and then getting on with their daily business. And for people working the faire, it IS business - they work really hard.
  
  
• Would love to have an 18+ or other adults day at faire so the performers don't have to water down their lyrics :P
  
  
• Still astonished there's such a nice, permanent site for an event that only happens ~8 weekends a year.