Squire Pyat Q. Wiltboggle of the Lower Alimentary Tracts

[pyat]

ruiskafleck and wggthegnoll were over today, the first time we've seen them since their wedding, almost exactly a year ago. Well, aside from a 45 second conversation at FanExpo.

We had a pleasant afternoon of conversation and sewing. Yes, sewing. velvetpage and ruiskafleck combined their talents to create me a sort faux-Medieval tunic. velvetpage and may be descending even deeper into dorkdom, and joining the Society for Creative Anachronisms! We're going for generic vaguely medieval for our first event, but if we like it, we'll need to create personas. wggthegnoll noted that one can choose any culture from the period between 600 AD and 1600 AD, provided it had contact with Europeans. This makes me sort of wonder if I shouldn't go for an Aztec from the time of the Spanish conquest...

I'm sure that would go over well at SCA functions.

"Glory unto Huitzilopōchtli for this delicious mead! Death is the road to awe! Hey, who made that mail for you?"

More seriously, I was thinking just going with my Dutch heritage, but sadly the 1600 cutoff date just misses Holland's golden age of empire and culture.

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I think I might just be a Jedi. *nods*

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

Well they aren't specific about 'a long time ago', it's true. My impression of the SCA's stringency about character persona was permanently coloured when I met "The Renaissance Man" in university - one of those eternal students who just kept kicking around Trent in his generously sized, anacronistic clothes, who explained to me one day that he had solved the problem of era by playing an immortal who had been alive through the whole range of the SCA's target dates.

Hmmm - maybe you should play a time traveling Bruno Von Boots - "I haf come to subjigate you all - vear my magic-candle veapon!"