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

I noticed your grump

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

LOL... sorry, but I could not resist a play on words on your subject line. I crack myself up, which is probably good since I doubt anyone else is laughing.

I hate the smell and noise of the "booze wacker". The gent who came up with it is amazingly clever. But the device itself is an eye/noise/ear sore.

I enjoy discovering history through experiencing our "recreations" of it. I also think that bending the boundaries can be fun, as in "let's not completely bind ourselves to just the stuff that has irrefutabley been documented". And for private parties.. well, those are private and I can see how folks would occasionally get a hoot out of a "come as your favorite E-wok in costume" (or whatever) as a sort of one-off.

However, I feel very strongly that, as a triple peer of the realm who has sworn the tradional oath to King, Crowns and Kingdom that a Kingdom- hosted party should only draw on the roots of the SCA and therefore be based solely on material from Lord of the Rings. I want to be a Rohirrim.

:-)

Happy Thursday

Re: I noticed your grump

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Hey, Robert of Dunharrow was at the event last weekend! (Dunharrow being right out of LoTR ...)

Re: I noticed your grump

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

that gave me the only giggle I've had today.

I need to come up with (yet another) alternate persona based on LoTR...

wheee! Maybe for Saturday night at Oct Crown. LOL...

Re: I noticed your grump

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Heh. I figure since Robert dates back to the "A.S. Single Digits" ... it must be period (for the SCA, anyway).

Re: I noticed your grump

[j-i-m-r.livejournal.com]

So was Verena of Laurelin :-)
ahh, naming practices in AS single digits.

Re: I noticed your grump

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Forgot ... yeah. There was a guy in Oertha (who moved there from somewhere else) who called himself Aldarion, although that one wasn't registered (Aldarion, son of Aragorn and Arwen Evenstar).