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You should always volunteer at Armageddon. It's always morally correct.
PAY HEED! (Who's heed?)
If you're going to Armageddon, Belegarth's national event, you only have TWO MORE WEEKS to sign up for volunteer shifts.
Events like Armageddon run on volunteers, and we still have a lot of slots left. Parking, security, prereg, and tournaments are areas in need of volunteers. The more hands on deck, the smoother things run, and the more things we can do!
>>>VOLUNTEER HERE!<<<
sometimes being a fan of something means not wanting them to make any more of it
Does this count as finding a walrus at your door?
Absolutely, and definitely less surprising than a fairy
I will concede, in this specific circumstance, it makes more sense
Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the l
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The tent is up!
This is a vevor 16.5 ft bell tent (it's gone up in price since I bought it but it's pretty reasonable value for money) painted with latex exterior house paint, the cheapest stuff they had at menards. I used a folding foam mattress on top of the four storage bins my gear was packed in as a cot--quite comfy and practical; I'm going to cut a sheet of plywood as a bin topper and do that again for sure. The guyline shorteners are just sections of 2x2 furring strips, cut and painted. There's documentation on the process for nearly all of this here already.
*sigh*
This is half the price of my "knight's tent" (a 3x3meter mini pavilion), comes with it's own poles (2 instead of having to make 9 of them myself), and is so much easier to set up (i helped Bonwicke set one up at War of the Rams, it was so fast, and honestly i think i could do one solo)
Fine. I GUESS I'm gonna buy another tent. The knight tent will be relegated to vending events only.
if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills
where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*
I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".
this is exactly why I love talking about historical passive heating and cooling techniques
oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?
and we're still building them?
while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?
uh. okay then
(also public transit. the history of public transit in the US is infuriating, because we had it! and then we destroyed it!)
Some more Pooka for you
This is a hard thing to hear but i genuinely say it with care and best wishes:
Keep using your brain and trying that hard thing no matter how foggy. Feel stupid! It's ok! I promise you are not stupid. I promise your brain will appreciate it. And that with time it will be valuable that you tried.
It's so easy to lose a whole week to brain fog. But your brain and body don't just stop existing that week (though it can feel that way). It's so important to try to incorporate puzzles anyway. Cook a meal from a scratch, do a jigsaw, the wordle, sudoku, use your other hand, learn a new card game, watch a brand new show, do simple math equations, write words backwards, learn a new language (or even just random phrases from a few), play a podcast, read a fun article or magazine, try a new creative project. Something! To help you feel better longer and keep your brains synapses synapsing.
Find a way to push yourself into it. Ask a friend to do it with you, set a timer, build it into your routine, have a bunch of fun games on your phone, puzzles by the bed, set your google to open straight to wordle.
TO CLARIFY: neuroplasticity is magic. And CONTRARY to prior belief it does not just stop after like 25. The brain can recover in exceptional ways so if you feel behind, or feel like you lost so much of what you knew due to a deep spell of illness or depression or injury; it's never too late. Never too late to nuture your brain to a better state of health.
So have a glass of water, take a deep breath and please join me in feeling really stupid trying to finish a "simple" puzzle and know we are all doing a very good job. ❤️
I just want to remind everyone how affordable buying food from indigenous tribes is. I live in a major city and I was able to purchase and ship (15) pounds of fish from back home to myself for cheaper than I could buy it from a grocery store here in the city. Yeah, shipping has its own environmental factors but I was able to support an indigenous owned business while also getting my groceries at a lesser cost. (Buying in bulk is always a good idea if you’re planning on having something shipped to you)
Some tribal owned grocers that ship:
Bow and Arrow (Ute Mountain)
Native Harvest (White Earth)
Red Lake Fishery (Red Lake)
Wozupi (Mdewakanton Dakota)
Ramona Farms (Gila River)
Tanka Bars (Oglala)
Indian Pueblo Store (Pueblos)
Twisted Cedar Wine (Cedar Paiutes)
Ute Bison (Ute)
Seka Hills Olive Oil and Vinegars (Yocha Dehe Wintun)
She Nah Nam Seafood (Nisqually)
Sakari Botanicals (Inupiaq)
Honor the Earth (? Anishinaabe)
Nett Lake Wild Rice (Boise Forte Anishinaabe)
Passamaquoddy maple (Passamaquoddy)
BONUS: coffee :)
Yeego Coffee (Navajo)
Spirit Mountain Roasting (Yuma Quechan)
Birchbark Coffee (Anishinaabe)
Thunder Island Coffee (Shinnecock)
Small correction:
Honor the Earth is an organization founded by Winona Duke of the White Earth Nation (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe) with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers (LGBTQ musical duo Indigo Girls and long-time political activists.) You can buy Honor The Earth merch online to support the environmental work they do, specifically to help protest Enbridge Oil’s Line 3 Pipeline routed through tribal lands that endangers wild rice beds which are both a staple crop and sacred to Anishinaabeg.
However, Winona also heads up a hemp farm called Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm located on and run primarily by members of the White Earth Nation. It seeks to general local wealth for the tribe by encouraging the production of hemp as a fast-growing renewable and regenerative crop resource to be used for everything from non-plastic textiles/clothing, housing construction and insulation, food products, and CBD products! (They also grow other crops there such as heirloom varieties of corn, beans, squash, Jerusalem artichokes, potatoes, and ceremonial tobacco in an effort to help re-establish and increase tribal food sovereignty!)
They have both a brick-and-mortar shop called The Hemp Market Store and Coffee Shop in Osage MN where they sell their products and others by Indigenous-owned & -run companies! (They also sell those seasonal tribal heirloom crops there including Lakota squash and Ojibwe purple potatoes.)
But you can also buy many of their products online including hemp-fiber clothing, hemp tea, and hemp pasta. They also partnered with an experienced tribal herbalist to formulate CBD medicinal products like balms and oils (haven’t used it myself, but I the CBD balm for my mom for Christmas a few years back and she said it helped her chronic hip pain a lot.)
compiling some additional info from other reblogs + fixing some broken links
it looks like some shops’ products are seasonal and arent avaliable at this time of year (november 2023), but it may be at a different season
new or fixed links in green with ✳️ emoji inactive/closed website in red with ⛔️ emoji
Grocers: from salamanderinspace’s reblog of product list
Bow and Arrow –> Cornmeal, Polenta
Native Harvest –> Maple Syrup, Plum Syrup, Coffees, Jewelry
✳️Red Lake Fishery –> fish (Walleye, Perch, Crappie, Northern, Whitefish, Smoked Fish)
✳️Nawapo (formerly Red Lake Nation Foods) –> Mixes & Batters, Teas & Coffee, Fruit spreads, Wild Rice, Personal care, Handcrafted gifts
Wozupi –> seasonal produce [no online ordering right now]
Ramona Farms –> Beans, Wheat Berries, Whole Wheat Flour, Corn Meal Products, Grits, Pinole, Chickpeas/Garbanzo beans
Tanka –> Buffalo-cranberry snacks [no online ordering right now]
✳️Indian Pueblo Store –> Housewares, Apparel, Mugs, Jewelry, Decor, Baked goods mix, etc
Twisted Cedar Wine –> Wine
Ute Bison –> Bison jerky sticks, skulls, and robes
Seka Hills –> Olive Oil, Wine, Vinegar, Nuts, Beef jerky, Honey, Body Care / Soaps, Pickled Asparagus
⛔️She Nah Nam –> [website is closed]
Sakari Farms –> Hotsauce, Tea, Seasonings, Lotions, Medicinal herbs & oils, Squash Candy
Honor the Earth –> [see the reblog above]
✳️Nett Lake Wild Rice –> Wild rice (website features recipes)
✳️Passamaquoddy maple –> Maple products (syrup, sugar, candies), Pancake and muffin mix, Seasoning
✳️Ioway Bee Farm (Iowa, recommended by watcherscrown) –> Honey, Lotions, Lip balm, Beeswax, Candles, CBD products, Honey sticks
Online retailer: partnered with some of the grocers in the list above, so you can order several grocers’ products from 1 place
✳️Tocabe (Osage, recommended by killmecoward) –> Pantry food staples
✳️Indigenous First (recommended by pingnova) –> Handmade crafts/art, Foods & Teas, Personal care, Decor, Seeds, Books, Jewelry supplies
✳️SweetGrass Trading Company (Winnebago, recommended by watcherscrown) –> Handmade crafts/art, Foods (of note: Salmon), Coffee & teas, Personal care, Books (website features recipes)
Coffee/Tea:
Yeego Coffee
✳️Spirit Mountain Roasting
Birchbark Coffee
Thunder Island Coffee
✳️Owl Lightning Coffee (Ute (?), recommended by c4-magic)
✳️Wild Canadian Tea (Algonquin/Anishnaabe, recommended by bellarad)
Recipe sources:
Bow & Arrow Brand, Ute Mountain Tribe
Native Harvest, White Earth Band (wild rice recipes)
Ramona Farms, Gila River (bean/corn-based recipes)
Sweetgrass Trading Co., Winnebago Tribe
Nett Lake Wild Rice, Bois Forte Anishinaabe (wild-rice-based)
fantastic resource! just one to add:
i get my coffee from Native Ground which is owned and operated by members of the Salt River Pima - Maricopa Indian community.
see unfortunately I have this condition where if I am not explicitly told that I am a part of the ingroup then I will assume I must be part of the outgroup
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Is this how you roll?
I'm going to be asking from a Belegarth perspective, but I'd like to get opinions from people in Dag, Amt, SCA, and other LARP/historical combat communities.
I've been in Belegarth since 2017 (took a break because pandemic/grad school from 2020-2024), and I've recently taken on more responsibilities in my realm, my unit, and my community. Most of it has been volunteering my time, resources, and skills to help at events. I am the go-to food distributor for my companions at events; I successfully completed my self-imposed quest of cooking a meal over a fire last week at Armageddon. (I made a delicious Tuscan bean soup for everyone, and my Watch General made quesadillas to go with it.)
Meanwhile, I have noticed people in my extended circle either begin or complete their path to knighthood. In the time between WPO and Armageddon, my realm has gone from one knight and two squires to two knights and four squires. Not to mention that two of my realm/unit mates are both considering squireship after this event.
As a result, I'm also thinking about pursuing squireship. I came up with a plan that I'd spend the next year--from this past Armageddon until next Armageddon--improving my crafting, my volunteering, and my fighting, and revisit the topic at that time.
So I wanted to ask those of you who have pursued similar leadership roles in your various LARPs/communities how you decided you wanted to go about it. What were the factors you took into consideration before beginning? Was knighthood conferred upon you without planning (which is pretty rare in Belegarth)? Or would you have rather had a concrete idea of what you wanted before taking it on?
Feel free to reblog/comment below, or send me an ask/IM. I know this isn't my usual reblogging behavior, but I once again did not take any pictures at Geddon so I have nothing to post lol.
The thing is nobody at pride is evaluating you to determine if you’re queer enough to be there because they’re too busy thinking “it’s so hot out” and “why is this lemonade 12 dollars?”
KICK THE CAN!
Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.
To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.
the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now
And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!
i have literally never fallen in battle. only tripped gracefully with tasteful panty shot
People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.
