An SCA Nerd

Stuff about my nerdy adventures in the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) in the Kingdom of Atlantia, and other medieval and Scadian related things. Atlantian | Man-at-Arms | Combat Archer | Sword & Shield | Goldsmith | Landsknecht Lover | Your SCA Mom/Aunt | she/her

[sca-nerd]

She had me at Fools Court. No explanation needed; if there's shenanigans, I'm your girl.

[sca-nerd]

ALAS, shenanigans didn't happen. Pointy hats showed up and made it a Royal Progress rather than the planned below the salt event. It was still delightful to see my friends, though.

[palis-delon]

It's sad when pointy hats kill the fun instead of embracing it.

I'm thinking of the Queen of the East a few years ago who decreed that ABBA was period. There were sooooo many songs written that year (and the East is a bardic heavy kingdom).

[sca-nerd]

I have HEARD about this. I also have one of those songs on my SCA playlist.

In defense of the Crown - they didn't kill the fun. Originally, the event wasn't going to have a Court (Baronial or otherwise) which was why the organizers had planned a Fools Court. Well, business had to happen because of schedules and availability which turned the event into a Royal Progress, and the organizers read the room and decided that a Fools Court wasn't gonna work with the changes that needed to be accommodated.

I'm sad that the original vision of the event wasn't realized, but I'm happy for the people who were recognized appropriately for their contributions to the Kingdom.

And I still want a Fools Court.

[ladyoolong]

Not letting this go by without plugging some of the filk in question. <3

Bjorn’s Ceilidh and Baronial Investiture (and Shenanigans!)

So, I got to return to the SCA and my kingdom with both feet yesterday at Bjorn’s Ceilidh up at our second home, Concordia of the Snows. I p

Carpe Diem

This filk was written to honor SCA volunteers who offer service. I’ve learned from my friends who do service that it is often a war between

[sca-nerd]

🔥🔥🔥

[sca-nerd]

She had me at Fools Court. No explanation needed; if there's shenanigans, I'm your girl.

[sca-nerd]

ALAS, shenanigans didn't happen. Pointy hats showed up and made it a Royal Progress rather than the planned below the salt event. It was still delightful to see my friends, though.

[palis-delon]

It's sad when pointy hats kill the fun instead of embracing it.

I'm thinking of the Queen of the East a few years ago who decreed that ABBA was period. There were sooooo many songs written that year (and the East is a bardic heavy kingdom).

[sca-nerd]

I have HEARD about this. I also have one of those songs on my SCA playlist.

In defense of the Crown - they didn't kill the fun. Originally, the event wasn't going to have a Court (Baronial or otherwise) which was why the organizers had planned a Fools Court. Well, business had to happen because of schedules and availability which turned the event into a Royal Progress, and the organizers read the room and decided that a Fools Court wasn't gonna work with the changes that needed to be accommodated.

I'm sad that the original vision of the event wasn't realized, but I'm happy for the people who were recognized appropriately for their contributions to the Kingdom.

And I still want a Fools Court.

[phoebeebies]

Happy Pride Month! 💖🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Here's all the medieval pride flag personas I've drawn over the past year, I have some more in the works so keep an eye out hehe

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 3 days 1 minute

[sca-nerd]

She had me at Fools Court. No explanation needed; if there's shenanigans, I'm your girl.

[sca-nerd]

ALAS, shenanigans didn't happen. Pointy hats showed up and made it a Royal Progress rather than the planned below the salt event. It was still delightful to see my friends, though.

[mauricetheblurst]

the clanging of his armored ass cheeks brought down the walls of many a castle

[madnessofmen]

From The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny (~1350), complaining about Knights These Days

And they are dressed in such an indecent way that that which everyone ought to be most ashamed to show is what they show all the time to those who want to look, for they cannot refrain from showing their backsides to whoever wants to see them.

What is more, it is not enough for them to be as God made them; they are not content with themselves as they are, but they gird themselves up and so rein themselves in round the middle of their bodies that they seek to deny the existence of the stomachs which God has given them: they want to pretend that they have not and never have had one, and everyone knows that the opposite is true.

[sca-nerd]

Our barony of Aarnimetsä here in Drachenwald has Guild of the Golden Dove (not 100% on the translation – it's "Kultaisen kyyhkyn ritaikunta" in Finnish). It's people who basically volunteer to be emotional support scadians 😄 Their Thing is helping newcomers: teaching SCA basics, showing newcomers around and maybe introducing them, sometimes sitting beside a first-timer at court and explaining what's going on...

I'm too new to have joined the guild yet (though gradually gaining enough SCA-knowledge to maybe feel confident to do so), but many of the members are my oldest dearest SCA friends precisely because of how welcoming they were when I was new a few years ago 😊

OMG I ADORE THIS! Your Barony is doing it right, and I can't wait for you to feel confident enough to participate with the Guild. I really hope that this catches on. We need more Emotional Support Scadians and we need to cheer them on with recognition for their service.

[sca-nerd]

Ooooooo on the subject of Emotional Support Scadians, if there’s any Outlanders or potential Outlanders out there that need a little extra support, I LOVE helping new people out. (Chatelaine in all but name lol)

YES. MORE OF THIS. 💚💚💚

I love this being something different from Chatelaine, too. Like, yes, obviously EVERYONE is a Chatelaine, but also having someone who can be present for a new person in a more personal way is absolutely amazing.

[nightvaleofficial]

[sca-nerd]

I know you're in a different kingdom, so this is a bit of a longshot, but do you or your followers know anyone in the Barony of Thescorre? I just moved here and going on my own to anything they offer is just intimidating so I'm trying to find an emotional support scadian ♥♥

omg I love the idea of an emotional support Scadian. That needs to be a thing, now. We're going to make that a thing. I know there are folks from Æthelmearc around here, so this will hopefully be an easy arrangement for you. Until then, can I be considered your honorary Emotional Support Scadian?

[sca-nerd]

I'm so excited for a commission I've just made, y'all.

I lost my furbaby, Tipitiwitchit, last August. She was almost 18 and had been in my life for over 17 years. She is my heart and soul, and I still desperately miss her. She was loved by a LOT of people, so I actually have several pieces of art that friends and family have given me of her through those many long years.

I'm moving in August and I plan to put together a gallery wall where I'll include in the display some of the framed pieces that I have of Tipi. In addition, I've commissioned a VERY talented scribe to write the Gaston de Foix quote, “the moost defaute of houndes is that thei lyven not longe inowe,” to include with it.

The thing I love most about this (aside from supporting an independent artist and fellow Scadian) is that everyone I've told my vision to loves the idea and is so supportive. She will be a part of my life in the form of the art that brings joy and her presence will make my house feel like home.

[sca-nerd]

She had me at Fools Court. No explanation needed; if there's shenanigans, I'm your girl.

[ladyshinga]

[turgidturnip]

[turgidturnip]

[turgidturnip]

I just had to collect all of these responses together in one place

Edit: And one from my friend, who doesn't have a tumblr (yet)

[ladyshinga]

#i keep waiting for someone to address the '18th century looms were huge' claim#like sure some were#but the fact that textile mills had been invented doesn't mean that all home weaving ceased#indeed people still weave for fun or profit in this the 21st century#smaller looms were still being built and used in the 18th century just as smaller looms are still being built and used today#and that's without considering the existence of inkle/tape/band looms which were/are used for making narrower woven ribbons for trimming etc#small 18th century looms absolutely exist

there are thousands of notes and a few people ABSOLUTELY addressed this xD

[twistedmaiden]

I wanna add mine! But it still has some assembling to do before I can move on to the next step

[quick-to-query]

...Okay this place *is* better than Reddit.

[stormneedle]

My wife did a lot of hand crafts while we were dating. After we got engaged, my father piped up that at least she didn't have a spinning wheel. We put it in the doorway the first time my parents came to visit.

Her loom is packed away at the moment so she can work on an uncountable number of knitting projects and metalwork at the moment.

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Fibercrafts.

Not even once. You start with "Oh, I'd love to learn the drop spindle" And the next minute your home office is occupied by a loom, you're planting flax in the garden, and considering the logistics of owning an alpaca.

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

Actual roman epitaph for a dog

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

humans are the same

[mornington-the-crescent]

[bedlamsbard]

I’ve seen this one doing the rounds a few times (and it makes me cry every time I see it), but was curious about the original Latin text, so I did some digging: it’s a shortened version of CIL 10, 00659, a tombstone from Salernum (modern Salerno, Italy). (source; CIL is the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum).

Portaui lacrimis madidus te, nostra catella,

     Quod feci lustris laetior ante tribus.

Ergo mihi, Patrice, iam non dabis oscula mille

     Nec poteris collo grata cubare meo.

Tristis marmorea posui te sede merentem

     Et iunxi semper manib(us) ipse meis

Morib(us) argutis hominem simulare paratam,

     Perdidimus quales hei mihi delicias.

Tu, dulcis Patrice, nostras attingere mensas

    Consueras, gremio poscere blanda cibos,

Lambere tu calicem lingua rapiente solebas,

     Quem tibi saepe meae sustinuere manus,

Accipere et lassum cauda gaudente frequenter

And here’s my translation:

Wet with tears I have carried you, our little (female) dog, just as I did in happier times fifteen years earlier (lit. “three periods of five years).  For myself, Patrice, now you will not give me a thousand kisses nor will you be able to lie lovingly around/against my neck.  I have sorrowfully placed you, merit-worthy, in a marble tomb and I have joined you always to myself in death, as by your cleverness you matched a human.  Alas, we lost such pleasures for myself!  You, sweet Patrice, were accustomed to join us at our table, to beg charmingly for food (while sitting in our) laps.  You were in the habit of greedily licking our cups with your tongue, which my hands often held for you.  Frequently and joyfully (you) receive a weary one with your (wagging) tail...

tl;dr: this dog was named Patrice and was very, very loved.  (another translation with some glossing of the text.)

[red-faced-wolf-deactivated20251]

[ospreyonthemoon]

It's the fact she's joined to them in death, it's the fact that she sat in her owner's arms and ate their food. That he held the cups down for her to drink from....

Hundreds of years and we still know she was loved. We still know how she liked to sleep. All these years!! Loving dogs is the same!!!!

[thaylepo]

gonna point out too that 15 years is an INSANELY long lifespan for a dog in ancient Rome. This dog was both well loved and well cared for to have lived so long. Obvs there's going to be some statistical overlap with ancient dogs with loving epitaphs having longer lifespans, but in a world without modern vetrinary science or medicine, no canine vaccines, and no nutritionally formulated dog food, this Roman's beloved pooch exceeded even the average pet dog lifespan today.

[sca-nerd]

As Gaston de Foix lamented in the 15th century, “the moost defaute of houndes is that thei lyven not longe inowe.” [the greatest fault of dogs is that they live not long enough]

[mikeybooch]

I feel like by now we've all seen the medieval marginalia of nuns diligently picking phalluses from a tree. These illustrations were drawn by 14th century artist Jeanne de Montbaston who worked alongside her husband Richard. To the best of my knowledge, there is no clear reason for the inclusion of these illustrations, but perhaps there was some contextual evidence that was lost to time.

In any case, I decided to illustrate these industrious ladies in my own style amidst a flurry of medieval inspired phallic references and symbols of virility and fecundity. By my estimation, there are about 130 phalluses in this picture.

Available to purchase on INPRNT

[sca-nerd]

Had a talk with the sargentry people and im wondering if theres an online quiz somewhere like "which SCA path should you take" mostly because i like structure but also i like personality quizes.

Not that I'm aware of, but I think you've discovered your path and should make one. 😂 If I did it, it would be as a joke.

[offshoreoilrig]

[antigyro]

I don’t understand the point this post or the one it’s quoting is making but HELL FUCKING YES COMMEDIA DELLARTE MENTIONED!! my fav is brighella, how abt you?

@sca-nerd @sca-newbie @sca-friends

[sca-nerd]

Pantalone all the way.