recurring theme of the weekend
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anotheranonHot. Damn hot, real hot, now with extra humidity! I think it's fair to say that if this is bugging me, I must finally have acclimated after all these years :P
First off was a localish SCA event that promised a historic fencing demo/class and the presence of some people I knew online and off.
I got lost and was a bit late for the fencing demo, but did catch enough to remind me yet again that there are a few hardcore sword historians in the SCA, who know what they're doing and are eager to share :)
I also got to watch one of my Weds. practice buddies go through SCA rapier authorization and see how that worked, as well as wave "hi" to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
belfebe.
Notes to self: if there's a way to do Elizabethan comfortably in a mid-Atlantic summer, I've not found it. At least industrial strength sunscreen lives up to it's promises and I didn't burn in addition to baking :P Even wearing all natural fibers and no doublet I was pretty miserable. The people running around in Greek and Japanese had the right idea, IMHO!
So did the arts and science people, who were in a the main air-conditioned building. I finally got to meetladyaelfwynn and we chatted on subjects large and small and ate some fantastic food - SCA events always seem to have great food, and lots of it, Aelfwynn and her friends did a fantastic job!
I had been planning to leave, but stayed a bit more for conversation and a silk knotting/beading class.
Observations: I'm still a bit surprised at how generous the SCA folks are, though I shouldn't be - this is a group that loves to do and show and tell. I think that's the big difference between them and average Renn faire-going - the latter is more entertainment, the SCA is more participatory.
There's also a lot for kids to do at events, and IMHO it's a great place for people with children. Kids aren't treated like little adults but they aren't hovered over like fine china or treated like idiots either, so they wind up having a lot of autonomy. Besides, all the adults are looking out for them :)
I'm still finding my way, but speak enough SCA now to know that Pearls have earned their congrats and Pelicans make it all go 'round. The peerage hierarchy is still a bit of a mystery. Time.
After changing clothes and quick go-over with wet wipes, I went over toorangesophie's for her crafty birthday party to catch up (I'd not seen her in a year!) and make sock puppets (the real kind :P) Something to work on helped me stay awake as I was pretty wilted, and I still wimped out early, but it was good to see her and her dude S. again.
dotheranon's reward to himself for CISSPdom is a new high-def, wide screen tv - this thing is posh! We've been watching LOTR, Underworld, and other slickly produced things just to see the shiny, and have been muchly impressed. Me, I'm thinking the Olympic fencing is going to look just faaaabulous...
Speaking of which, another morning of suiting up and sweating for fun and.. well, fun :P My feet continue to improve though I foolishly forgot to take Ibuprofen before practice. Visiting/new(?) person outright bounces.
High if cautious hopes for the movie - high because Angelina Jolie, w00t!, cautious because the original comic made out the "heroes" to be so racist/misogynistic that I didn't bother to finish it. The movie did away with the latter but was so loosely based on the original that they dumped the superpower/alternative world storylines too.
I actually found James McAvoy's freaked out accountant funny and in his freaked-outedness, but poor Angelina had little to do when she wasn't shooting things (and she needs a pork chop and a bowl of grits, desperately). Fun action flick but don't expect it to stick to the original; it's more of a "wage slave sticks it to the man" story.
I'm still rehydrating/tired from the weekend and catching up on laundry/web work/sundries. Going to drink water now....
First off was a localish SCA event that promised a historic fencing demo/class and the presence of some people I knew online and off.
I got lost and was a bit late for the fencing demo, but did catch enough to remind me yet again that there are a few hardcore sword historians in the SCA, who know what they're doing and are eager to share :)
I also got to watch one of my Weds. practice buddies go through SCA rapier authorization and see how that worked, as well as wave "hi" to
belfebe.Notes to self: if there's a way to do Elizabethan comfortably in a mid-Atlantic summer, I've not found it. At least industrial strength sunscreen lives up to it's promises and I didn't burn in addition to baking :P Even wearing all natural fibers and no doublet I was pretty miserable. The people running around in Greek and Japanese had the right idea, IMHO!
So did the arts and science people, who were in a the main air-conditioned building. I finally got to meet
ladyaelfwynn and we chatted on subjects large and small and ate some fantastic food - SCA events always seem to have great food, and lots of it, Aelfwynn and her friends did a fantastic job!I had been planning to leave, but stayed a bit more for conversation and a silk knotting/beading class.
Observations: I'm still a bit surprised at how generous the SCA folks are, though I shouldn't be - this is a group that loves to do and show and tell. I think that's the big difference between them and average Renn faire-going - the latter is more entertainment, the SCA is more participatory.
There's also a lot for kids to do at events, and IMHO it's a great place for people with children. Kids aren't treated like little adults but they aren't hovered over like fine china or treated like idiots either, so they wind up having a lot of autonomy. Besides, all the adults are looking out for them :)
I'm still finding my way, but speak enough SCA now to know that Pearls have earned their congrats and Pelicans make it all go 'round. The peerage hierarchy is still a bit of a mystery. Time.
After changing clothes and quick go-over with wet wipes, I went over to
orangesophie's for her crafty birthday party to catch up (I'd not seen her in a year!) and make sock puppets (the real kind :P) Something to work on helped me stay awake as I was pretty wilted, and I still wimped out early, but it was good to see her and her dude S. again.dotheranon's reward to himself for CISSPdom is a new high-def, wide screen tv - this thing is posh! We've been watching LOTR, Underworld, and other slickly produced things just to see the shiny, and have been muchly impressed. Me, I'm thinking the Olympic fencing is going to look just faaaabulous...Speaking of which, another morning of suiting up and sweating for fun and.. well, fun :P My feet continue to improve though I foolishly forgot to take Ibuprofen before practice. Visiting/new(?) person outright bounces.
High if cautious hopes for the movie - high because Angelina Jolie, w00t!, cautious because the original comic made out the "heroes" to be so racist/misogynistic that I didn't bother to finish it. The movie did away with the latter but was so loosely based on the original that they dumped the superpower/alternative world storylines too.
I actually found James McAvoy's freaked out accountant funny and in his freaked-outedness, but poor Angelina had little to do when she wasn't shooting things (and she needs a pork chop and a bowl of grits, desperately). Fun action flick but don't expect it to stick to the original; it's more of a "wage slave sticks it to the man" story.
I'm still rehydrating/tired from the weekend and catching up on laundry/web work/sundries. Going to drink water now....
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Date: 2008-06-30 02:35 am (UTC)As for peerage hierarchy...theoretically we're all equal to each other. The chivalry sometimes act like they're a smack more equal than the Laurels and the Pelicans, but "peer" means equal, and a candidate for any of the peerages has to be publicly endorsed by a member of each of the other peerages during the elevation ceremony, at least here in the East.
You'll learn the terminology. And yes, the Greek, Japanese, and Indian folk have the right idea in the summer. Cool and light is *good*.....
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Date: 2008-07-01 12:40 am (UTC)Good to know. So far, I'm not seeing much in the way of snobbery from any quarter, but I'm glad to know it's not officially encouraged :)
the Greek, Japanese, and Indian folk have the right idea in the summer. Cool and light is *good*.
Perhaps me too, one day - once I get a basic 16th c. wardrobe in order ;) It's tempting to make one of every place/period, but if I'd like everything to be reasonably interchangeable and I've already got kirtle, breeches, etc...
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Date: 2008-07-01 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 02:50 am (UTC)It was a lot of fun getting to meet you. I hope we get to hang out some more.
For the trip home, I stripped down to my choli top (halter top type thing I was wearing as a bra) and just my harem pants. I felt practically naked but it got me home without melting.
The next event I'm going to is the Storvik Novice tourney. One of my apprentice sisters is being elevated to a Laurel.
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Date: 2008-07-01 12:45 am (UTC)Congrats to your apprentice sister!
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Date: 2008-06-30 02:27 pm (UTC)On the Peerage/Pearl/Pelican thingy, the quick and easy answers are as follows:
Arts and Sciences:
Order of the Coral Branch - First level A&S Kingdom award. Carries an award of arms if you don't already have one. Their Majesties can give one without consultation with any orders.
Order of the Pearl - Second level A&S Kingdom award. It carries a grant of arms, and it is a polling order. This means that Their Majesties must consult with the Order before inducting anyone into it.
Order of the Laurel - Top award for A&S. It is a Society level award, and also a Polling Order.
For the Service awards, the structure are Opal, Golden Dolphin and Pelican, respectively.
For the armored, Silver Osprey, Kraken, and Chivalry.
For Rapier, Sea Dragon and White Scarf (there is no Society level award for rapier.)
For archery, King's Missiliers and Yew Bow (there is no Society level award for archery either.)
Hope this helps :-)
-Note: The Pelican, Laurel and Chivalry carry Patents of Arms, and give you a Peerage.
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Date: 2008-07-01 12:44 am (UTC)What is a patent/grant of arms? Does this mean coat of arms, or that the A&S award has some sort of fighting award built in for non fighters- ?
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Date: 2008-07-01 01:13 am (UTC)People can register a device (which is like a coat of arms), even if they have not been awarded "arms." That's why it is called a device, and after you are awarded arms (or higher), they can be called arms. It is not fighting language, but heraldic, which in some historical way was related to arms. I hope it makes sense. :-)
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Date: 2008-07-01 01:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-01 01:35 am (UTC)A&S: Order of the Maunche
Service: Order of the Silver Crescent
Heavy weapons: Order of the Tygers Combatant
Fencing: Order of the Golden Rapier
Archery: Order of the Sagittarius
Youth Combat: Order of Gawain
The peerages are the same. I'm a Maunche and a Laurel, both for my work in (surprise!) medieval quilting. I *think* I'm the only quilting Laurel in the Society but am not 100% sure.
My icon shows my device, which I registered only a few years ago. The consulting herald at Pennsic was shocked to see that no one had grabbed it yet even though it's fairly simply.