#the sca

[topsecrettea]

It's not every day that a meme falls into your lap.

[idohistorysometimes]

Hate Symbols and Heraldry: A guide to avoiding modern hate symbols when doing Living History

What makes a symbol bad to use even in a historical context like at a Living History event? This is a line that is hard to toe, especially i

I redid an old article because it was fucking awful so I made it better. Boom. No more being accidently racist.

[theacornsca]

Hey did you know that theres a pennsic tournament happening for SCAdians 18-25 (or currently enrolled in some post-secondary education)

[because-ifuckingcan]

[theacornsca]

Hello friends!

Are you a part of a college-SCA group or are a SCAdian who is currently in college? Consider joining the SCA College Network on Discord!

The SCA College Network is a server created by college students for college students dedicated to connecting both SCA college groups and SCAdian college students of all degree levels all over the known world and providing support and a method of inter-communication between groups. The server is open to all students currently enrolled in:

An Undergraduate program

A Graduate program

A post Graduate/Doctoral Program

Trade School

College groups who wish to join the network can either be officially recognized SCA organizations or organizations that exist unofficially within the SCA. As long as it is a student organization and is involved with the SCA in some way; its fair game.

See you all there! We are stronger together!

Check out the The SCA College Network UNOFFICIAL community on Discord - hang out with 79 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[idohistorysometimes]

Why Living History is dying: the problems and solutions

I think it should go without saying that Living History and Living History groups such as the SCA and various civil war reenacting groups ar

Less tutorial, more observations I have about the community at large and how to improve it

[idohistorysometimes]

PSA to all of my SCA and SCA adjacent friends: be careful buying items with symbols and or runes on them.

A good friend of mine purchased a sword from Pennsic not knowing the symbol on the pommel was a symbol commonly used by neo Nazis. Yes, it did have historical use unrelated to the Nazis, but now it is used as an identifier for many neo Nazi groups including the Azov battalion and Aryan nation. He has since found a way to grind off the etching and replace it with something else but he was still pretty shaken given what the symbol was.

Sadly, a lot of once benign symbols have been hijacked by some pretty scary and horrible people. Norse paganism was hit the hardest by this but other things were taken as well. Please be vigilant in terms of what you are buying and what the symbols are on the item. The ADL and logic wiki has a lot of good resources in terms of what these symbols and dog whistles look like and what they mean.