Notice: An SCA Grump

[hrj]

I'm going to be good and not post this on my kingdom's mailing list. And I suppose that since I'm not going to the event in question, the matter has, in theory, no direct impact on me. But when I read endless announcments about how my kingdom's "official kingdom party" at an SCA inter-kingdom war is going to be a Hawaiian luau theme, complete with tiki bar and blender drinks, I really REALLY start wondering when the alternate reality split off in which the SCA no longer has anything to do with medieval history. Would it kill folks to hold their egregiously non-medieval parties as non-SCA events? I mean, it's one thing to be indifferent to putting a lot of time and energy into creating medieval ambiance at events (as opposed to falling back on "generic SCA") but I just don't get spending all that extra time and energy to create a slug-you-in-the-face ANTI-medieval ambiance. Folks, we all have non-SCA lives. We can all throw non-SCA parties for our friends. Why do the people who should be setting an example for the kingdom choose to set this example? (No need to answer -- I know, I know. But I needed to rant. Badly.)

Comments

Pennsic?

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

If this is for Pennsic, then it makes a weird kind of sense. They've already got every other kind of party on every other theme imaginable, including even some medieval ones... It really is the best and the worst, all at once. (Of course one could wish one's own Kingdom landed somewhere a little closer to one end of the spectrum than the other!)

Re: Pennsic?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

It's West-An Tir, alas. I've kind of joined those who don't really consider Pennsic to be an SCA event (in the restrictive sense).

Re: Pennsic?

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, that is a shame, then.

About Pennsic, I'm with you. Lot more fun that way.