Well, that was new and different

[hrj]

At Coronet this weekend, 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.)

Comments

[etaine-pommier.livejournal.com]

The thing is... you really would make the BEST PRINCESS EVAR! Precisely because of the spirit of what you wrote here. The fighting (and consorting) community does have unfortunate tendency to forget that non-fighters/non-consorts make up the *majority* of our game. (Not all of us, I hope, but a seeming majority.)

I can be as blind of any of us - I didn't expect that Janos taking a year off from fighting was actually going to increase my enjoyment of the SCA, but it really has!