Didn't need this first thing on Saturday Morning.

[gurdymonkey]

http://community.livejournal.com/sca/757193.html has completely put me off the desire for breakfast, which I still need to eat given that yesterday was a fast day.

I feel terribly sorry for people who have to put SCA before real life and put household before family. MY life is not mundane, thank you. MY family is not less important to me than a group of people I socialize with a few times a month or once a year, however fond of some of those people I may be.

We are a bunch of geeks in funny clothes playing a game on our off time. We cherrypick history and make the rest of this shit up to suit ourselves and that is not a sacred trust by any yardstick that matters. 

Quit Dreaming.

Get real.

Comments

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Ah, protected entry.
Reader's Digest Condensed version?

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

We Are Speshul Snowflakes That Nobody Who Is Not Us Can Understand. Blah blah Dream. Blah blah Wonderful. Blah blah use of "mundane" as a derogatory term for people and things one has to do when one is not Living The Dream (TM).

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

Oh, Ghod, I hate that sort of claptrap. You have my sympathies....

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

"Complete rapture...at court...knowing you're part of a group as enthralled as you are..."

This person hasn't been around very long, has she?

[katerit.livejournal.com]

I'm allergic to most of the Dream rhetoric, and my family certainly always comes first - but I have a really cool family, do not feel socially outcast, and have other interests. Some people do not have these things. This is a bit more than a hobby - it is a social subgroup, and for some it is more than that. That doesn't mean the statements don't give me hives, of course (and no, I couldn't read the post either.)

[la-peregrina.livejournal.com]

Makes me glad I was not allowed to see the protected entry. In all honesty, I can't throw the "arrested adolescent" rock too hard, as I resembled that remark well into my mid 20s. But ay-yai-yai! Some of us grew out of that the hard way, but we did grow out of it.

[saiaiko.livejournal.com]

(turns in her imagination, soul, heart, aspirations, ethics, creativity, and just about everything else that makes her human, and turns her face to the cold winter sunlight and slow decay of a "real" world in which she can find no solace in the bitter-tasting musings of other adults who "know better".)

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

If you don't use those things in the real world, you deserve a real world that is cold and empty.

[saiaiko.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. Good luck to you all.