Things that, surprisingly, annoy me

[liadethornegge]

• Blurry event photos. (Aren't all photos from events good??)
• Glasses and shades.
• Plastic waterbottles.
• Loose hair.
• Coronets worn tilted back like the classic beauty queen look. (OK, maybe not so surprising, but still. When you see a picture with a collection of tin-hats and there's only one who does this? You'd think she could glance around and notice something's wrong.)

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Lia's Resolutions:

• Do not upload blurry event photos. Ever. Even if that's the only photo of someone in the series. Blurry photos irk me! I want details! I want close-ups! I don't want to end up squinting.
• Yes, I do need glasses to get around, and in person my brain edits them out, but in photos? Oh yeah, they stick out like a sore thumb. Particularily when the rest of the person is so well put together. I try to be well put together clothing wise, clean my act up and put in the bloody contacts at events already! At least on the Saturday.
• Never stray from the bottle bag. It may be only an ugly tube of linen, but at least it's not screaming: CLEAR PLASTIC BOTTLE! LOOK AT ME! I'M MODERN! Better yet, get a nice period pottery jug.
• Put your hair up, braid it, stick a veil on, wrap it in a kerchief. I'm pretty good at this already.
• n/a.

Comments

[love3angle.livejournal.com]

ARRGH! After the last few flameouts, I always cringe when I see the word "glasses" in a post, LOL! Someone who wears them always feels attacked and gets their undies in a bundle. *sigh*

I greatly like your approach, though! You say what bugs you and then set your resolutions for your own conduct to combat these peeves. Nicely done! :-)

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

I always cringe when I see the word "glasses" in a pos

I know, I know. I just didn't think about it that way. I am so sorry ;) Although I wear them so I should possibly be afforded more leeway... right? Yeah, right. :)

As for my approach, really, what else makes any sense? I can't control anyone else, and if I am that annoyed by it in others I'd better pony up and do better myself. Also, the one good photo of me in my surcote is marred by me wearing my glasses. I want to kick myself still.

[folo1.livejournal.com]

"As for my approach, really, what else makes any sense? I can't control anyone else, and if I am that annoyed by it in others I'd better pony up and do better myself."

Heartily agreed. You can't switch the rules midway through the ballgame. at least not easily. But you can do what I--and so many others--have done: Form a new organization and firmly state the rules to begin with. Nope, it'll never be as large as the SCA and, to tell you the truth, that relieves me.

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

I must admit, I am still endlessly charmed by the bigness of the SCA. I found it in An Tir, after all, and am playing the same game (well, almost) in Drachenwald.

I can find my own little corner in all of this bigness though, and I rather like that :)

[folo1.livejournal.com]

"I must admit, I am still endlessly charmed by the bigness of the SCA."

No offense, but why? I've asked this question before, and I've never received a satisfactory answer. I always have more fun at the smaller SCA events.

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously, since you started a new group, no answer is going to satisfy you :)

For myself, I rather like the international aspect of it. I can go to nearly anywhere in the modern world and find a group of like-minded individuals who share a common ground.

I like the large events where I can be a small part of a big thing. I like my little corner of it, but if that corner is all there is I would be a little sad.

I like that there are so many different people involved, and for so many different reasons.

The diversity means I am subjected to many more things, I can look to my right and find a viking, then look to my left and find a renaissance man, and I can be inspired by both.

It teaches me many things, still, that I can benefit from learning.

I like the big open top, where there is no requirement that your stride must be 1.14 yards, consist of exact heel-to-toe ratio of 3:2, and the shoe you take it in must be made in such a way, and from such material. I would feel very put upon by regulations and inspection as a requisite for joining.

I rather like the feeling of being the subject of the Prince and Princess and the King and Queen, and all of that romantic courtesy, chivalry and pageantry.

I like it. I don't know how else to put it.

[folo1.livejournal.com]

"Well, obviously, since you started a new group, no answer is going to satisfy you :)"

I probably mispoke or didn't say enough. I've started a new branch of Regia Anglorum, which is part of an international group and which is part of a large movement with very similar standards, so that I could go almost anywhere and play. Look at Hastings a few weeks ago. How many thousand reenactors were there from all parts of the world?

I won't pick nits, I have found much of what you stated elsewhere, in other organizations. And of the ones you were dead on about, I love inspections and despise being in a group where I feel totally powerless.

Thanks for the response. The reasons you gave were, for the most part, totally different from the specious ones I've been given in the past! Thanks very much for not getting defensive and protrective of your hobby!