#quotharavennevermore

[ofgeography]

either is fine! TBTTCH today (or this week) is just absolutely acing all of my law midterms and being able to see all of my family and my boyfriend for our big ukrainian christmas with our usual 12 courses and cousin gossip circle

I HOPE THIS HAPPENED FOR YOU i hope you eat all 12 courses and also please tell us all the cousin gossip

[levyfiles]

If there's not a Fast & Furious/drag racing au I need there to be immediately after that last W&WW ep

Well, if you haven’t found it yet, there is this!! Go get y’all engine juice.

Also just as an FYI for anyone who has dropped an ask here looking for a fic or asking for a specific genre, there is a knowledgeable legion of authors/readers at @skepticbeliever-bookclub who have been really killing it finding what people are craving with exhaustive lists. So feel free to pop by and share your needs. I promise they’re a lot more prompt than I ever intend to be answering.

[star-anise]

Hi! I know you're also from Alberta and do historical things- what Ren faires/historical re-enactments do you suggest? I'm trying to find one to bring my boyfriend to :)

Hmm, let me think… I’ll leave out things like Fort Edmonton, Heritage Park, and Highland Games, since paid interpreters and skilled competitors are kind of in a different class. Although like, I’ll definitely shout out to the Ukrainian village by Vegreville, those folks are excellent. I also know I’m missing a crapton of post-1800 stuff, both fantasy/steampunk/”whee let’s dress up!” and local history groups, since that’s not my area of interest. And I’m not even getting into science fiction/fantasy/anime conventions or LARPs. Once you scratch the surface there is actually a lot going on.

Demos and Spectating

June 13-14 2020, The Military Museums in Calgary are holding a celebration of 2000 years of military history. Which honestly I’d love to go to myself if I could get down there, since mounted combat is still pretty rare in Alberta, and they promise to have two separate cavalry units!  

June 14 & 15 - Vikings in the Streets Festival - Viking, AB holds a celebration of Scandinavian heritage, complete with re-enactors

August 1 & 2 - Days of Yore Festival - Didsbury, AB - A historical festival that draws everyone from American Civil War people to the Vikings to WWII re-enactors.

August 8-9, Brooks  Medieval Faire - Brooks, AB - the closest Alberta has to a renaissance faire where you can show up wearing whatever and soak in the atmosphere

Knights of the Northern Realm - Every so often they’ll announce when they’ll be out at a demo for things, usually in Edmonton

Early Music Voices and Early Music Alberta run concert series in Edmonton and Calgary

Starting a Hobby

Society for Creative Anachronism - Probably the broadest selection of time periods and activities, from swordfights to music, feasts to archery, etc. They’ve got branches and events all over the province; you can wander in to a weekly fight practice in your street clothes, show up to a monthly tavern night and put on a loaner costume, or go to a bigger event for the full experience

Western Martial Arts - If you want to focus on the excellence of your swordsmanship without the gentler arts, there’s a growing movement to practice historical combat as a separate athletic event. There are groups in Edmonton, Edmonton and Rimbey, Calgary, and Calgary again.

Fancier Getups

April 17-20, SCA Known World Costume and Rapier Symposium - Edmonton, AB - Alberta’s moving up in the re-enacting world! Hosting an international symposium, by god! It’ll be a weekend of classes about combat and costuming, and there’ll be a masquerade ball, and OH I’m excited.

SCA Avacal Quad War, July 31-August 3, 2020. Actually a wee bit over the Saskatchewan border in Marsden SK. This is an entire weekend of camping on a site people have been building on for 25 years, and one of the best local events to let you really forget the modern world exists and feel like you’re walking through a medieval village. Costumes necessary but they help you out.

Pride and Prejudice Ball - Several centuries later and much more expensive (baseline $120 to get in the door and you have to be costumed), BUT, kind of like a… luxury all-included re-enactment experience? This is a professional group that runs for-profit events, with very nice venues and music and food. None upcoming in Alberta at present, but in the past they’ve done events in Edmonton and Calgary.

[asparklethatisblue]

Just wanted to drop a note that I love and adore your HR angel. She is precious and your writing and drawing fits her so well, I love reading what you come up with.

Thank you! The shameful truth is that I have no idea what HR is supposed to be like at all, I never had contact with that kind of thing... but I really want to draw more with her! if I have ideas. Maybe even Hell HR, but that’d just be my self insert asleep on a chair 

[summerofspock]

I adore your fics (I use a different username on a03, but I'm commenting on the ones I read as I go). Your historical romance gives me so much joy, I've been rereading the parts that are up so far and it's so good!!!!

oh my goodness!! thank you so much! <3 is it Seducing the Serpent? that fic is so fun for me to write and im so happy people are enjoying it!!! im very excited for the upcoming bits and I can’t wait to share them

[wondersmith-and-sons]

I may be able to help with the 'you wore newspapers on your shoes'. It was a super common thing in the US/Canada back in the late 1800's to mid 1900's to either stuff your shoes with newspaper or wrap them with newspaper as an extra layer of insulation against heat/wet/cold, because shoes were outrageously expensive and many people couldn't afford new ones or even to patch them, thus, newspaper. So it implies that Steve was quite poor, which I thought was canon, but I don't follow mcu, so idk

oohhhh, that is canon, i assumed that Steve’s shoes were too big because he could only afford hand-me-downs or idk. Thank you for this info!

[nerdgasrnz]

Heya! Just to let you know, the post about the store owner who supposedly did blackface-that's not actually true. The store owner is a woman of colour (she has brown eyes, not blue), and that photo was taken from her Instagram where she was saying how racist the costume was. Sorry to be a bother, just thought you'd want to know

oh, thank you! D:

[secretsantasofolympus]

For quotharavennevermore! I was informed of this a bit late, so sorry for the delay, hope you like it! Have a happy New Year!