I knit, I sing, I jingle

Honourable Lady Thalia's SCA journey * Barony of Madrone * Kingdom of An Tir

[malyssmakneile]

Having some feelings right now

I received an award tonight, the Grace of An Tìr

So many gd feelings

[malyssmakneile]

Also @thaliademaccuswell it’s Really Weird not seeing you behind the thrones all day err day

[thaliademaccuswell]

hahah it’s weird for me too, tbh. It’s weird to have no idea what’s happening with awards and peerages and yadda yadda.

And OH EM GEE do I wish I’d been there for this one. :all the creys: So deserved and awesome. <3 <3 <3

[womaninshiningarmor]

[thaliademaccuswell]

#GOALS 😍

[scalochac]

Their Majesties, Felix II and Eva II at their recent coronation 🤴🏻👸🏻 #mysca #lochac #royalty His Majesty proposed to Her Majesty after winning the Crown Tournament in November #magicmoments #romanceisnthistory #love #medieval #reenactment Photo courtesy of Phil Abrahams https://www.instagram.com/p/BsrPas3Hd9g/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mwlie98v2odj

[norsesuggestions]

Bockstensmanen, a medieval person who happened to die in a bog which preserved his clothes (and more), clothes like hella comfy??

Like seriously. Comfy and warm wool clothes!

(yes this are pictures of his actual outfit, not reconstructed clothing. They were very well preserved in all except colour. The bog gave everything that yellow shade, i suspect)

Picture from: https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/kladerna/

[norsesuggestions]

His kjortel (the clothing for his upper body)

He got a mantel that resemble a poncho

It goes around the entire body! So perhaps not quite a mantel but.

A got a little hood with a fashionedble long thingy at the end

Warm that too! There is no openings for wind or anything, so like. Just pull hood over head, get warm!

Warm socks! Gotta keep em feets warm (and just like in english, the swedish words for trousers, byxor, is in plural in its normal form, just because the medieval version of trousers consisted of two separate peices like here.

Somewhere, there should be something for hos upper legs but idk were that one is)

Anyway! I do think one can tell that keeping warm was an important part of the logic behind bockstensmannens clothing. Not odd that, when he lived in Scandinavia and all…

All pictures from

https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/kladerna/

[norsesuggestions]

When we already at it, with listning his entire outfit. Here his this shoes

[norsesuggestions]

Reconstruction in how he might have looked like in life. The musuem points out, that his skull was very smashed when found, werehas it might be a bit so so with this dolls facial similiarity with bockstensmannen in life. And his hair colour we know not, the bog will colour most hair red with enough time.

But that hairstyle! That he really had! Bockstensmannen wore like Peak Fluffy Medieval Hair Fashion in life

The entire doll wearing bockstensmannens reconstructed clothing

Source: https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/bockstensmannen-far-ett-ansikte/

https://www.museumhalland.se/utstallning/bockstensmannen/

[tumblunni]

Holy shit forbidden fashionable bog man

[soaringsearingphoenix]

@glumshoe This but colorful

[apricops]

I’m gonna pitch a show as “like Game of Thrones but even more gritty and realistic” and then it’s nothing but a baron handling land estimates and organizing road repairs and stuff. There’ll be an entire episode about how a peasant gets brought to court for letting milk cattle graze on communal pastureland even though it’s supposed to be reserved for draft animals.

[thetasteoffire]

my ten-episode plan from the writer’s room of this blessed show: -ep. 1: meet the accounting staff of this magical kingdom in a far-off land -ep. 2: land estimates, plenary powers of wizards employed by the office of the royal treasury, and how tax code intersects with succession laws of absolute primogeniture when the lineage in question may have extra-planar ancestry -ep. 3: a full-hour hearing with flashbacks on how mrs. Jones’ cow grazing actually violates three local statutes, is in line with a conflicting royal decree (potentially issued under ensorcelled compulsion), and is entitled to binding arbitration via fey courts. mrs. jones is not entitled to said arbitration, the cow is.  -ep. 4: how land rights and taxation applies to druid circles and sentient treefolk, especially when said land is technically owed fealty to both a human and inhuman entity. we never see any treefolk. -ep. 5: the differing rights and responsibilities of yeomen who freehold land near a lord’s manse vs. yeomen who freehold land held by the lord’s vassals vs. burghers in cities surrounded by forty-foot high gilded walls inscribed with runes so terrible they will burn a man’s flesh just from touching. extensive tax comparisons are made based on type of property held and crop status (cereal crop taxed x, but fiber crops taxed y). -ep. 6 - 9: ep. 3 but for a host of other problems: conflicting tax status for nobles who hold different positions (especially if they technically owe themselves fealty), bridges (just like…in general), a revolt started by a miller, and tax-deductible status for magical family heirlooms and whether or not being part of a dragon’s hoard can be considered “held in escrow.” -ep. 10: the queen kills the king. this is never explained but on a rewatch, isn’t surprising. it does rattle the staff as they look to cook the books and make sure they get paid as revolution sweeps the land. a brief aside is delved into concerning mercenaries. this takes less than five minutes; the rest of the episode concerns a detailed archive of back-taxes owed by the rebel dukes. 

[thaliademaccuswell]

🤣🤣🤣

I'm here for this.

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

Codex Gigas or Devil’s bible, 14th century, Czech Republic [980 x 860]

[thaliademaccuswell]

I...just watched a movie that featured this and now here it is, in reality! Presumably not with any lesbian sex happening on top of it, although who the heck knows.

(The Girl King, 2015)

[wearepaladin]

Turid the Paladin by Bergholtz

[its-spelled-maille]

This is great !!

-mod Burgonet

[thaliademaccuswell]

!!!

[idiotxwizard]

Nothing to see here, just a trans boy getting worked up about his amazing SCA family

[malyssmakneile]

Yup I have had amazing amounts of acceptance from these nerds also

[thaliademaccuswell]

I started to write 'I especially like the bit about' but honestly a) I like all of it and b) I could not say it better.

"There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than." - Mignon McLaughlin

[medieval-castle]

Stokesay 1575 - 04 by John Horton 

[malyssmakneile]

For @hrathe3rd - ornaments on my bycocket hat 😂😂😂

[thaliademaccuswell]

#14thCenturyMafia

[shezze-blog1]

I’m upset because I want to change the world but the world is too big and people are too mean

[wufflesvetinari]

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” - Rabbi Tarfon

[mangozetango]

I needed to hear this

[thaliademaccuswell]

I know this is not SCAdian but it's also very SCAdian

[ickaimp]

At an East Kingdom ‘Iron Scribe’ competition.

…Kinda broke the judges. They didn’t account for someone finishing more than one illumination in 3 hours in the rules.

I tied for Second. ^__^

[thaliademaccuswell]

This is bomb dot com. Well done. :D

[sartorialadventure]

Medieval hats, hairstyles, and helmets from Ruth Turner Wilcox’s  The Mode in Hats and Headdress: A Historical Survey with 198 Plates.

[english-history-trip]

Holy yes

[andro-womeninarmor]

Beautiful work by TB Choi Found here

[thaliademaccuswell]

We took a walk on the beach in the middle of the seven course eating marathon that was Kingdom Feast. Long, sad day, so the wind and sun were welcome.

#BelieveWomen

[thaliademaccuswell]

"Basically my life rn," was my only comment on this picture, taken by HL Sibylla de Waryn at Emprise of the Black Lion 2018.

(I'm in the dark blue dress with the encompassing white veil, third-ish from the left, court coordinating like a boss.)

[i-knit-you-not]

DPNs, also known as where the hell did I left the fifth needle

[iknituknot]

also also known as “did that set originally come with four or am I missing the last one?”

[61below]

“Did you know you have a stick in your hair?”

[mochuelita]

And once you’ve given in and bought a second set to improve your chances…mysteriously there are still only three needles in the drawer.