Lady Mariota

She/they | SCA (Lochac) | Queer I want a sword ⚔️ I post a mix of medieval, historical, nature, and fantasy stuff, depending on my current fixation

[the-merry-otter]

🦦 Blog Guide 🦦

Hello!! I am the Lady Mariota, hailing from the large kingdom of Lochac.

My blog is largely focused on SCA & medieval reenactment related content, with probably some fantasy & nature stuff sprinkled in sometimes. There will be the occasional unrelated post (if I see an otter it will end up here), or me rambling about my life. I reblog a lot, but will also post about my reenactment doings and similar.

My interests within reenactment lie heavily in the costuming area, so you’ll see a lot of posts of my current projects (when I have time for them). I also occasionally post tutorials or information dumps/rants when the mood takes me.

#merry words indeed is for spontaneous posts, casual conversation, random thoughts, etc.

#I’ll be on my merry way now is my original content tag, for posts I’ve put slightly more thought and effort into.

#otterly irrelevant is for posts that aren’t medieval or SCA related

Thank you for reading, and welcome to my blog!! Feel free to send me any questions etc, or even DM me if you want to have a conversation :D

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[fluentisonus]

hose propaganda

[romanceyourdemons]

an interesting thing about clothing in late medieval and early modern europe is that, while lower class people generally did wear brightly colored clothing instead of muddy brown clothes, there were very distinct differences in the color of clothing people of different classes wore. clothing was done with all natural dyes, of course, but they were either dyed locally with cheap and easily accessible ingredients, or they were dyed in holland, italy, the ottoman empire, or even further afield using a jealously guarded secret combination of difficult-to-access ingredients, including (crucially) better-quality fixatives. this means that not only did expensive imported fabrics maintain a dark, rich tone much longer than a locally dyed one, which would get a washed out look after a couple of years, but there were also certain colors that a working class farmer literally couldn’t afford to wear, and even though the difference between a cheap local lincoln green and an expensive imported popingay green might seem subtle to us people then seem to have been very sensitive to those differences. that’s also why the colors puritans tended to wear seem uncharacteristically bright to our modern eye—black was such a rich and expensive color that it would be inappropriate to wear to anything other than a portrait sitting, but the colors orange and kendall green were deeply humble in their origins

[socialmaya]

[confirmed-and-contorted]

slamming your knights visor down when you’re finished talking to them, like slamming the phone back on the receiver.

[alp-temyr]

Fallen.

[tiredvangogh]

Get punished, Idiot!

Inspired by an actual drawing I saw in a castle chapel in Italy

[ducissatenebrarum]

[victusinveritas]

For me it's got to be the heart-shaped box of Duchess Anne of Brittany.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

nice medievalism you’ve got there. why is it entirely in shades of grey and brown

[werewolf-transgenderism]

someone remind these guys that the concept of color existed prior to the 17th century

[werewolf-transgenderism]

basically every illuminated manuscript has got everyone from nobility to regular fucking guys in colorful clothing that frequently gets over the top like this guy’s helmet and his fucking horse’s outfit, but every recent medievalism is like hey let’s desaturate it all and make it grey for no fucking reason

[11thfempachi]

Girls just wanna have fun

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Page from Prayers Written at Vailima by Robrt Louis Stevenson

Finely printed and highlighted with metallic gold ink 

[the-punforgiven]

[horseavoider-deactivated2025020]

taste my steel

[dbkcustomscabbards]

A pictorial journey through time of scabbard style, and when that style was used.

[midgarders]

[victusinveritas]

Could be Worse Comic

[the-merry-otter]

Me usually: I think it’s really cool how historically, garments would be mended when they broke rather than just thrown out. I can’t wait to do that to my reenactment garments!

Me when I have to repair my garb: this fucking sucks

[justgarb]

[the-merry-otter]

LISTEN-

[oddlittlestories]

I love visible mending because it is a New Project and Personalized

I am Annoyed by invisible/simple mending

Though maybe if I get my sewing machine out...

[justgarb]

...you can start on that new and completely unrelated project, as a treat! You deserve a treat, that mending can wait

[the-merry-otter]

You say such nice things to me 🥹