Re: SCA is different things to different people

["Tim and Carole " <jpbrew@pinn.net>]

Poster: "Tim and Carole " <jpbrew@pinn.net>

Sure do, but bring the Mead with you.

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> From: einar <einar@cvn.net>
> To: atlantia@atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: Re: SCA is different things to different people
> Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 5:27 AM
> 
> 
> Poster: einar@cvn.net (einar)
> 
> At 01:47 PM 8/11/98 PDT, Anarra wrote:
> >groups is up to academic standards.  And why should it be?  We aren't 
> >academics.  This is a hobby.
> 
> That, in fact, was my point.  I expect more of myself because of my level
> of knowledge, but I know that most people don't read Georges Duby and
Marc
> Bloch for kicks.
> 
> >This is as it should be.  Now I have the work of all those older 
> >Laurels, Pearls, Rose Leaves and Jambs d'Lion to work with.  I didn't 
> >have to do my own research from scratch so much.  They have done some of

> >it for me. I am walking up steps they built and am obliged to build 
> >additional steps for those who come after me.
> 
> 8->  In the history profession, the stock phrase is:  "If I see further
> than they, it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants."
> 
> >  And there's nothing in the IRS regs that 
> >say you can't party *and* teach!
> 
> Thank the gods and pass the mead!
> 
> >But let's not shame our organization for not being what it was never 
> >conceived of to be.
> 
> That really wasn't my purpose.  I hope my post didn't come off that way.
> 
> Incidentally, I can be something of a costuming heretic when the mood
> strikes me.  I've been known to show up at events wearing a side-laced
> t-tunic (very 12th c. looking) with Middle Eastern accessories.  Hey, it
> was all the same time, just not the same culture!  I looked like a
> crusader's lady gone native... maybe not documentable, but certainly
> plausible.  I got a lot of puzzled looks, and I wore a grin that said
"deal
> with it!"  Then they saw my other half, in his usual Viking gear, and
> someone actually said, "oh, that explains it!" ;->  Thanks to Einarr, I
can
> get away with that and have a built-in excuse -- it's booty from raids
and
> trades, and he'd be hurt if I didn't wear his gifts!  That's my story and
> I'm sticking to it... 
> 
> As Johann wrote, isn't it possible that we as SCA members may take the
> authenticity part a bit too far?  I think we do, when we expect
> period-to-the-last-detail from our artisans.  Yes, artifacts exist that
we
> can study, providing you've got the time and money to go to the museums
> where they are housed and make detailed studies.  I don't have that
luxury.
>  Very few of us do.  
> 
> The other thing that puts a crimp into putting so much time into creating
> stuff, is that time for creative projects can be insanely limited.
> Especially if you're a screaming perfectionist like me...  Okay, so
Einarr
> shouldn't have used lag bolts when he made the camp bed.  So the camp
> shower isn't a work of art.  If he hadn't whacked the damn things
together
> the way he had last summer, we wouldn't have them.  In the case of those
> items, authenticity be damned, if it works, who cares?  Peeking into our
> tent to see if the bed is period is like lifting a lady's houppelande to
> make sure her underwear is period (that is, nonexistent) -- just plain
> rude, and I *will* yell, loudly.
> 
> Hey, Johann, just how wide is that door shield?  Got some room?  ;->
> 
> Elen Prydydd 
> 
> PS  Theodora, I'll get back to you on that request...
> 
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