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If wishes were horses.....
Oct. 19th, 2011 09:53 pm....my knees be damned, I'd learn to fight and ask ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hrj to be my consort, just 'cause. Yes, I'm straight, but she's inspirational and would make an amazing monarch.
Congratulations are in order for the Gentlemen Barons of Gyldenholt. The Board is developing the venues for further discussion on same-gender leadership in the SCA. http://www.scatoday.net/node/21565 It's a start.
Here's the tangent MY brain went off on, however. I am Inspirationally Unequal. Technically. (My apologies to anyone who thinks I am trying to co-opt their cause. I have somewhere I am going with this, honest.)
Gaius (who's either trying to email me from The Beyond this week or , most likely, whose account has been hacked by spammers) once told me I'd make an excellent queen. That statement was worth a couple of halfhearted fight practices and a hearty "I'm too old for this shit." I've been playing in the SCA since autumn of 1995 and I don't fight and I don't have someone willing to fight for me. So much for teetering on a pedestal and being someone's potential Queen of Love And Beauty (TM), right?
The truth is, many of us don't get to be part of the monarchy pool as it is. We're not part of the fighter/consort population of the SCA for any number of reasons having nothing to do with gender: health, age, different interests within the game, you name it. So why not let the ones who do want to fight or be fought for go forth and do so? Bad reigns? We get 'em already. "Gaming the system?" We've got every-other-reign dukes already. And we get through it.
This? Oh, that's the rose that His Highness sent me on Saturday. It's hit its peak today and smells heavenly.
Inspiration is where one finds it. It doesn't need to be on a pedestal, or sitting on a throne. It can be anywhere and anyone.
Your mileage may vary.
hrj to be my consort, just 'cause. Yes, I'm straight, but she's inspirational and would make an amazing monarch.Congratulations are in order for the Gentlemen Barons of Gyldenholt. The Board is developing the venues for further discussion on same-gender leadership in the SCA. http://www.scatoday.net/node/21565 It's a start.
Here's the tangent MY brain went off on, however. I am Inspirationally Unequal. Technically. (My apologies to anyone who thinks I am trying to co-opt their cause. I have somewhere I am going with this, honest.)
Gaius (who's either trying to email me from The Beyond this week or , most likely, whose account has been hacked by spammers) once told me I'd make an excellent queen. That statement was worth a couple of halfhearted fight practices and a hearty "I'm too old for this shit." I've been playing in the SCA since autumn of 1995 and I don't fight and I don't have someone willing to fight for me. So much for teetering on a pedestal and being someone's potential Queen of Love And Beauty (TM), right?
The truth is, many of us don't get to be part of the monarchy pool as it is. We're not part of the fighter/consort population of the SCA for any number of reasons having nothing to do with gender: health, age, different interests within the game, you name it. So why not let the ones who do want to fight or be fought for go forth and do so? Bad reigns? We get 'em already. "Gaming the system?" We've got every-other-reign dukes already. And we get through it.
This? Oh, that's the rose that His Highness sent me on Saturday. It's hit its peak today and smells heavenly.
Inspiration is where one finds it. It doesn't need to be on a pedestal, or sitting on a throne. It can be anywhere and anyone.
Your mileage may vary.
