Heraldry

Deborah Sweet dssweet at okway.okstate.edu
Thu Apr 6 09:00:08 PDT 1995


Aodhan writes:

>There are far too many people playing in the SCA who have absolutely 
>no inclination to learn the least little bit of Medieval or 
>Rennaissance history. They just want to dress weird, swill booze, and 
>chase after bed partners. Frankly, I wish they'd all just move along 
>to SF Fandom.

Hey! Not everyone in SF fandom dresses weird, swills booze & chases 
after bed partners!

Dressing weird is mostly :-) a matter of perspective. (Halloween at 
once a year is too infrequent. We should have at least 3 or 4 days when 
dressing up/strange/weird is allowed/encouraged.) [Dressing up as a 
Federation officer or a Klingon or Romulan is normal IMHO, but those 
people who dress up for Vampire games are weird! :-) ] 

But you will find people who dress weird, swill booze & chase bed 
partners in almost *any* organization (in varying degrees). And the 
people who don't do these things often wish that those who do "do them" 
would move over to some organization "where that kind of thing is more 
tolerated/appropriate." :-) 

But I do agree with your original statement that "there are too many 
people playing in the SCA who have absolutely no inclination to learn 
the least little bit of Medieval or Renaissance history". However *I* 
don't want them to move over to SF fandom. Maybe they should just hang 
out at bars more.

Estrill Swet
Dancemonger
Mooneschadoweshire
Stillwater, OK





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