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GhitaAmati -> RE: BDSM and the SCA (7/12/2007 7:05:03 AM)
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I have to say..I am soooooo glad I live in Trimaris and not whereever yalls bad SCA experiances come from.
Im at an SCA event usually twice a month, plus fighter practices on Sunday, household meetings every third monday, and baronial meetings every second tuesday. Add to that the three out of state drives each year for Gulf War, Pensic, and Estrella.
I will be the first to agree that the people you normally see first are uppity, political, snobs, all grovelling for whatever scraps they can get from the royalty. But we arent ALL like that. In fact, Id say the majority of the people I meet in the SCA are nothing like that. Unfortunantly, the few who are the worst are the ones who really want all the attention so they end up greeting all the newcomers and scaring them off. There are alot of people there who do what they do just to get recognition, and god forbid you actually have a natural talent at something, cause they've been researching it for 10 years and who cares if you can make something better than them, they are still gonna tell you what you're doing wrong. But there are people like that in all walks of life! Ive never seen fairies(except for the excessive force fairy on the field at Gulf Wars this past year, but thats another thread) and most of the people I know in the SCA would NEVER wear their garb outside of an SCA event or a ren faire...and to tell you the truth most SCAdians are really agasint the renfairs because thats where you find all the people who veiw it as a sideshow. Someone up there mentioned Civil war re-enactments...wanna talk abotu authenticity nazis? Damn if you arent wearing perfectly period wool uniforms and perfect accesorries, you are basically laughed out of camp. At least in the SCA the rule is an "attempt" at pre-1600 clothing, so yea you can use cheap cotton and wear nurses scrubs under your cheap t-tunic and sleep in a coleman tent and no one cares cause the whole point is to have fun, not how much money you had to spend on your gear. And you dont have to wear hot stifling clothing....no one says you have to choose a northern european persona....during the summer down here in Florida I usually go with egyptian or greek...nothing cooler than a toga! And whats are this about upper and lower classes? Everyone in the SCA is automatically a noble! You arent a lower class unless you personally choose to represent yourself as that. So even the newbies in a throw together t-tunic (SCA version of a tshirt) is still an upperclass noble. Who cares if you're using a coleman tent and mundane coolers..the whole point is the dream of something else...Our King fights in a pair of Nike tennis shoes...One of our leading rapier champians drives around in one of those little motorscooter things...no one says anything to any of them. Armor is held together with multi colored duct tape, mongols walk around in combat boots and medical scrubs, people cover coke cans in leather beer coozies....and no one cares...the whole point is to go and have fun and NOT have anyone make fun of us because we arent in the size 2 bodies we were in back when we were 18 and hadnt had kids yet. And think of all the home-made booze and easy women! There have been songs written about us Trimarians being able to drink and screw long into the night when all the other kingdoms have given up and passed out asleep...and STILL be able to win on the battle field the next morning! As long as you learn to relax, dont take anything too seriously, grab a pint of beer, and a woman, the SCA is wonderful! (and the kids enjoy it too!)
~~edited to add....Instynctive hadnt written when I started this...so I thought Id comment....
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That's the other problem with the SCA.. god FORBID if anyone says ANYTHING negative about it.
I have no problem with anyone saying anything negitive...and if the SCA isnt for you then by all means, stay away! Cause we dont really want you...but...I wanted to make sure people understood that there was more to the SCA than the bad stuff! Yes, there is bad stuff...but there is bad stuff everywhere...learn to walk around the bad stuff and some of us arent so bad!
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