That thar not-quite-meme
OK, so that those of us Nordskogen ex-pats in Grey Gargoyle-country can join together...
1. What do you feel you are doing well?
The garb for one of my personnae (the 1265 Gooiland one) seems to be going alrightish. I keep improving on things. For example, last Pennsic, my goal was to always have my hair in a very period and proper style. This did get me into moderate trouble at Vlad's Pleasure Pavilions when an authenticity-policing baron from Canada got all excited about how proper my hair and hat were and decided I was his soul-mate...at least for the next five days...and would find me at parties and try latching onto me. He was cute, but way too desparate and like, 20 years older then me...but cute in that Conn kind of way. Of course, he was quite tenacious and nimble and tough to loose...especially when I found out that he shopped at the same place I did.
I also am kind of proud that, even though I have multiple personnae, they are all tied together by being from the same region and same group of land-owners that existed in 't Gooiland from the mid 13th C. through about 1920. In fact, they are all related to each other. I love researching the history of these anti-nobility folk and have gotten myself into trouble in SCA politics by being true to a properly researched group of people in the oldest republic in Europe who really did tell the nobility to go f*ck themselves unless they could prove that they could be productive. Heck, I love the fact that I live in a province instead of a Barony for this reason and it is why I am anti-Barony...being true to my personnae...all of them.
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but the books I bring to events to read are actually Dutch literature (yes, early, middle, late middle, and renaissance Dutch) from the time of the personna I am using that day.
Yes. I'm a research nut. I am getting ready to toss a random Scottish personna into the bunch... a 7th C. one from Dunadd. However, I'm not haphazzardly leaping in and putting on plaid and saying "HEY! I'm SCOTTISH!" No, I am researching and going to Kevin and Kendra for help to make sure I have things right.
2. What can you do better?
Underwear. However, I do hold with the idea of something being hidden by the tunic not existing ;)
I should have better shoes...but the ones I wear are very plausible (they fooled many an authenticity police person) and only cost $18.00.
I also need to brush-up my pronounciation of early and middle Dutch, bringing it back to what it used to be in college. I would like to be able to get back to the point of being able to prattle on in it like I was when I was studying Middle English and Middle Dutch and loving to compare the two at length.
3. What do you need help with (motivation counts), what's stopping you?
Uhmmm...time? Money (esp. for the shoes). Patience (to keep from wanting to scream at each skull and crossbones flag I see when I provide perfectly documentable 1570's Zee Geuzen flags for an event and provided research with pretty pictures and everything...).
4. What could you care less about?
Items hidden under other layers. The perfect underwear is no underwear...but who would really know if I was going knickerless or not under those layers of tunics and dresses? I would. And, if someone else was raising a stink, I think I could just bitch them out in middle dutch and walk away :) This also counts when it comes to what's inside my tent. And, ever since being informed by a former resident of Enchanted Ground that yes, my tent looks quite proper from outside, even with the vents, and was contemplating getting one made just like it for her hubby and herself...well, I think that it is fine and dandy to have an air-mattress with foam padding and a small sterno stove for boiling water.
I could also care less about whether or not my fighty stuff is perfectly proper and of a single period...I would rather that stuff protect me and work and be able to be used rather than look "right".
Also, I love shooting my Mongolian horseman's bow...but my personnae are Dutch. Whatever...the bow is purty and at least coordinates with my garb to a nearly frightening degree.
I also do have very non-period pretties that I like wearing now and then...such as my greenish pearl circlet with the carved jadeite leaves on it. It's purty and so not right and a symbol of nobility (a no-no for my personnae), but..pretty. And, I'm fine with that and admitting that it isn't right, just purty.
1. What do you feel you are doing well?
The garb for one of my personnae (the 1265 Gooiland one) seems to be going alrightish. I keep improving on things. For example, last Pennsic, my goal was to always have my hair in a very period and proper style. This did get me into moderate trouble at Vlad's Pleasure Pavilions when an authenticity-policing baron from Canada got all excited about how proper my hair and hat were and decided I was his soul-mate...at least for the next five days...and would find me at parties and try latching onto me. He was cute, but way too desparate and like, 20 years older then me...but cute in that Conn kind of way. Of course, he was quite tenacious and nimble and tough to loose...especially when I found out that he shopped at the same place I did.
I also am kind of proud that, even though I have multiple personnae, they are all tied together by being from the same region and same group of land-owners that existed in 't Gooiland from the mid 13th C. through about 1920. In fact, they are all related to each other. I love researching the history of these anti-nobility folk and have gotten myself into trouble in SCA politics by being true to a properly researched group of people in the oldest republic in Europe who really did tell the nobility to go f*ck themselves unless they could prove that they could be productive. Heck, I love the fact that I live in a province instead of a Barony for this reason and it is why I am anti-Barony...being true to my personnae...all of them.
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but the books I bring to events to read are actually Dutch literature (yes, early, middle, late middle, and renaissance Dutch) from the time of the personna I am using that day.
Yes. I'm a research nut. I am getting ready to toss a random Scottish personna into the bunch... a 7th C. one from Dunadd. However, I'm not haphazzardly leaping in and putting on plaid and saying "HEY! I'm SCOTTISH!" No, I am researching and going to Kevin and Kendra for help to make sure I have things right.
2. What can you do better?
Underwear. However, I do hold with the idea of something being hidden by the tunic not existing ;)
I should have better shoes...but the ones I wear are very plausible (they fooled many an authenticity police person) and only cost $18.00.
I also need to brush-up my pronounciation of early and middle Dutch, bringing it back to what it used to be in college. I would like to be able to get back to the point of being able to prattle on in it like I was when I was studying Middle English and Middle Dutch and loving to compare the two at length.
3. What do you need help with (motivation counts), what's stopping you?
Uhmmm...time? Money (esp. for the shoes). Patience (to keep from wanting to scream at each skull and crossbones flag I see when I provide perfectly documentable 1570's Zee Geuzen flags for an event and provided research with pretty pictures and everything...).
4. What could you care less about?
Items hidden under other layers. The perfect underwear is no underwear...but who would really know if I was going knickerless or not under those layers of tunics and dresses? I would. And, if someone else was raising a stink, I think I could just bitch them out in middle dutch and walk away :) This also counts when it comes to what's inside my tent. And, ever since being informed by a former resident of Enchanted Ground that yes, my tent looks quite proper from outside, even with the vents, and was contemplating getting one made just like it for her hubby and herself...well, I think that it is fine and dandy to have an air-mattress with foam padding and a small sterno stove for boiling water.
I could also care less about whether or not my fighty stuff is perfectly proper and of a single period...I would rather that stuff protect me and work and be able to be used rather than look "right".
Also, I love shooting my Mongolian horseman's bow...but my personnae are Dutch. Whatever...the bow is purty and at least coordinates with my garb to a nearly frightening degree.
I also do have very non-period pretties that I like wearing now and then...such as my greenish pearl circlet with the carved jadeite leaves on it. It's purty and so not right and a symbol of nobility (a no-no for my personnae), but..pretty. And, I'm fine with that and admitting that it isn't right, just purty.