... Don't take it as gloomy -- that's certainly not the spirit in which it's intended, at least in the example I gave. (Which was the "simpler life" case.) ...
... Usually, there's no tension here. A good Crown -- pretty much by definition -- is sensitive to the needs of the Kingdom, and is at least trying to do right...
... The problem is, it's all horribly subjective. "Too drunk" is a term that is so culturally mediated that I'd bet there's a factor of four difference...
... =================== The SCA is FULL of grown-ups taking responsibility for other grown- ups. Otherwise what are all the oaths and offices and autocrats...
Our peerage oath doesn't have " 'To speak and be silent. To do and to let be...'" but it seems that in any case some peers would be speaking while others...
... I suspect actions towards others would be the border that would get me to do something -- making drunken unwelcome advances towards the ladies, getting...
... I don't see it, at least not in most of those cases. For example, I don't give orders to my apprentices, I make suggestions. When I'm autocratting, I...
... If one of them were in some sort of trouble or had screwed something up, would you deal with it directly (take responsibility) or would you say "He's an...
Occasionally, to encourage someone whom I see potential in I will make a portion of a project: an annular brooch to fasten a keyhole neckline, a buckle and...
I think this donation of partially finished projects is a great idea. I've seen it done here in the East to what looked to be good results, and I myself was...
[Catching up, now that my email's back online:] ... Yaas -- this can be a big deal, especially for the right person at the right time. One of the most...
I couldn't find Dermod's original question, but I remember it as asking us to help figure whether if a king were getting drunk and rowdy or verbally "out...
/The 1916 edition of Mother Goose is a favorite staple in our household at bedtime (for me, anyway!) The following is my most favorite tale to introduce...
Sixteen or seventeen years ago, I ran a children's area at Grand Outlandish. Artan and Aziza were king and queen, and I arranged for them to do a little...
Lady Ansteys Darcy will be made a Mistress of the Laurel on September 12. I had a little vigil speech planned, and Duke Artan hosted a little vigil in...
Good Morning, All. I don't keep score with myself on my GQ (Goodness Quotient); if I'm doing the right things for the right reasons, I generally know it. If...
-=-if I'm doing the right things for the right reasons, I generally know it. If I'm not, I for certain know *that*...... and should stop. -=- That's exactly...
This was on one of those lists limited to a certain subgroup of SCA members. I always think it's a shame to write something potentially useful and not have it...
Good Morning, All. To focus on AElflaed's last point, to the degree that the Society appears to be increasingly a place in which the majority of folks playing...
On Oct 26, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Gilbert Head wrote , ... Greetings I think like minds in the Present Known World are scattered, as they always were, and so you...
AEdward raises a point I have wanted to talk about. There does not seem to be a venue for discussing philosophy. Now, the philosophy that interests me is...
-=- There does not seem to be a venue for discussing philosophy.-=- That used to be ThinkWell, back in the ancient days (well, medieval days of the SCA maybe...
... Â Â Â When I moved to the Outlands after I retired, I considered various other hobbies, and I still pay my dues in some of them. Â But my level of...
-=-I still miss philosophy chez Mistress Aelflaed, though.-=- Thanks. Some of that group was over for a Halloween party Marty/ Bardolf threw, and they did...
-=-a Halloween party Marty/Bardolf threw, and they did have some of the coolest of the costumes, while their friends from work or school (not from the SCA) had...
... Interesting. While I can understand that, it clearly isn't why I stay so active: it's at least as true of the LARP communities I'm close to. I suspect that...
-=-the tension between the "living in period" mindset and the "playing period" one.-=- We can't begin to "live in period." That tension isn't worth even ...
... Oh, I don't know -- just because the extreme is unattainable doesn't mean it doesn't make a useful marker. In this particular case, I'm referring (a bit...
I knew what you meant, but it just seemed overstated. I like the idea of playing really well. Not every moment can be evocative of the period, but the more...
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