Well, that was new and different
Apr. 11th, 2011 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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thread_walker won me a rose in the Tournament of Roses. It's been rather amusing to watch people react to the information that this is the first time in my entire 34-year SCA career that anyone has ever fought for me. It's been even more amusing to watch some people try to comprehend that I never considered this a lack. It made me overwhelmingly happy to have her do it, because it made her happy to do it.
(There have been a number of occasions over the years when I've wanted to point out to Certain People that one can live a perfectly happy and fulfilled SCA life without ever fighting or being fought for, but I mostly kept my mouth shut because I didn't want anyone to think that I was fishing for someone to spoil my perfect record out of pity.)
thread_walker won me a rose in the Tournament of Roses. It's been rather amusing to watch people react to the information that this is the first time in my entire 34-year SCA career that anyone has ever fought for me. It's been even more amusing to watch some people try to comprehend that I never considered this a lack. It made me overwhelmingly happy to have her do it, because it made her happy to do it.(There have been a number of occasions over the years when I've wanted to point out to Certain People that one can live a perfectly happy and fulfilled SCA life without ever fighting or being fought for, but I mostly kept my mouth shut because I didn't want anyone to think that I was fishing for someone to spoil my perfect record out of pity.)
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Date: 2011-04-12 10:35 am (UTC)That is the point, really. The thing that separates our game of combat from other martial arts is the whole "fighting for the honour of another" thing. There is more joy in fighting and earning a rose for a friend than there is in fighting in and of itself. Is it a lack to not participate in the combat by inspiring someone? No, not really. Is it cool to have a friend do better because you inspired them to do so? Yup.