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Quick Thoughts on An Tir 12th Night
Jan. 12th, 2009 09:35 pmHome* now. I need to go to sleep. But I can't resist posting these scattershot-thoughts:
-- Not as different as I thought it would be.
-- The hotel staff was fantastic. The event autocrate and the hotel clearly had their shit together. One favorite sighting: a note on the restraunt podium listing ways to interact with SCA folks. The one bullet I actually read said something like "SCA people make thier own costumes and are proud of them. Ask them about thier outfits" :-)
-- Coronation court was to me, a Westerner, super short. Also, the fealty oaths seem a lot shorter and more "improvised". The coronation oath stresses that the Crown is a job (TM).
-- Looked like they had a good martial turnout on Sunday. Didn't catch any of the heavy, really, but passed the rapier and it looked pretty well attended. Also, Muskateer is obviously culturally OK in An Tir, whereas it is not down here. (To be honest, I do not believe that Musketeer stuff should be in the SCA. We are a big tent, but not *that* big. YMMV, obviously.)
-- J/S had been telling me beforehand that he's not been very active for a long time, and that he didn't know most people in An Tir anymore. I'd said, OK, we'll just meet new people together, and we'll have help from Ann Marie and John T. and Ysabella put out a call, etc. It turned out, however, that that was not the movie we were in. Like 12th Nights down here in the West, it turned out to be "Old Home Week". Met a bunch of his old friends, all of whom seemed to be just as much fun as J/S' stories had made them out to be. ;-) Of course, I got a clue about what movie we'd be in when we walked in the door. The event staff had, as part of its decorating scheme, created "stained glass" images of "Icons of An Tir", and my sweetie got included. So we approach the lobby and I look up and the first words out of my mouth were, "Honey, you're on the wall..." Yup, different movie than I expected, but still fun! :-)
-- Ann Marie has fun apprenti (and spouses :-) ).
-- Really enjoyed chatting with folks. Berek and Lisel I knew from way back in the Old Westermark days and it was great to re-connect with them. And I had a great time talking with Guelenay and learning all about Kazars, a people I had *never* heard of before -- very cool stuff! Overall people were *very* welcoming.
-- Ya know, it may well have been because it was 12th Night and people dress differently than they usually do, but I didn't think I saw any higher proportion of Viking-types than we see here in the West.
-- I'm sure J/S and I stressed An Tir's ability to stand ooogly-moogly cuteness. No, really.
-- Leaving J/S and coming back here is getting so hard I can bearly do it.
:-( Must figure out way to live together! We are so pathetically sad at the airport. I think I'm not a basket case right now because I'm in denial about not seeing him for a month. I get so spoiled when we are together.
-- I don't have a good way of expressing this, but I've just got this vibe over An Tir 12th Night that I *could* live up there (SCA-culture-wise). Like I could be my little 16th C self up there and it would be OK, and I'd have cool people to hang out with. Weird, 'cause before I just couldn't see that. People being super nice to me helped a lot. :-)
Probably more later...
-- Not as different as I thought it would be.
-- The hotel staff was fantastic. The event autocrate and the hotel clearly had their shit together. One favorite sighting: a note on the restraunt podium listing ways to interact with SCA folks. The one bullet I actually read said something like "SCA people make thier own costumes and are proud of them. Ask them about thier outfits" :-)
-- Coronation court was to me, a Westerner, super short. Also, the fealty oaths seem a lot shorter and more "improvised". The coronation oath stresses that the Crown is a job (TM).
-- Looked like they had a good martial turnout on Sunday. Didn't catch any of the heavy, really, but passed the rapier and it looked pretty well attended. Also, Muskateer is obviously culturally OK in An Tir, whereas it is not down here. (To be honest, I do not believe that Musketeer stuff should be in the SCA. We are a big tent, but not *that* big. YMMV, obviously.)
-- J/S had been telling me beforehand that he's not been very active for a long time, and that he didn't know most people in An Tir anymore. I'd said, OK, we'll just meet new people together, and we'll have help from Ann Marie and John T. and Ysabella put out a call, etc. It turned out, however, that that was not the movie we were in. Like 12th Nights down here in the West, it turned out to be "Old Home Week". Met a bunch of his old friends, all of whom seemed to be just as much fun as J/S' stories had made them out to be. ;-) Of course, I got a clue about what movie we'd be in when we walked in the door. The event staff had, as part of its decorating scheme, created "stained glass" images of "Icons of An Tir", and my sweetie got included. So we approach the lobby and I look up and the first words out of my mouth were, "Honey, you're on the wall..." Yup, different movie than I expected, but still fun! :-)
-- Ann Marie has fun apprenti (and spouses :-) ).
-- Really enjoyed chatting with folks. Berek and Lisel I knew from way back in the Old Westermark days and it was great to re-connect with them. And I had a great time talking with Guelenay and learning all about Kazars, a people I had *never* heard of before -- very cool stuff! Overall people were *very* welcoming.
-- Ya know, it may well have been because it was 12th Night and people dress differently than they usually do, but I didn't think I saw any higher proportion of Viking-types than we see here in the West.
-- I'm sure J/S and I stressed An Tir's ability to stand ooogly-moogly cuteness. No, really.
-- Leaving J/S and coming back here is getting so hard I can bearly do it.
:-( Must figure out way to live together! We are so pathetically sad at the airport. I think I'm not a basket case right now because I'm in denial about not seeing him for a month. I get so spoiled when we are together.
-- I don't have a good way of expressing this, but I've just got this vibe over An Tir 12th Night that I *could* live up there (SCA-culture-wise). Like I could be my little 16th C self up there and it would be OK, and I'd have cool people to hang out with. Weird, 'cause before I just couldn't see that. People being super nice to me helped a lot. :-)
Probably more later...
