#parfe

[jasmine7031]

Shine Muscat parfait was so heavenly!!!

[rattoenailclippings]

How I sleep after yapping to my friend about muriels route for 36 minutes straight

[spkyart]

A kitten (with a gun)

[highway-stars]

You're just jealous cause the ever brilliant goldmask trusts me with his divine knowledge and not you :/

[parf-fan]

And that's a wrap for the 2024 season! For my part, I enjoyed the hell out of the season and did not end it with closure (through no fault of my own, for once). The only reason I'm not in a rotten headspace about the lack of closure is reflected in my choice of phrasing for the opening of this post: the sheer amount of footage I captured this year and the anticipation of finally getting to sink my teeth into it, putting together that cinematic edit I've been dreaming about since 2017.

Final count: One-hundred and nineteen (119) shows. Three-hundred and twenty-three (323) gigabytes. Seventy-one hours, twenty-five minutes, and thirty-nine seconds (71:25:39) of footage.

As part of reviewing all this footage to begin work on those cinematic edits, I'll get started right away on posting the raw footage to the PARF-fan Facebook. This will not, I fear, be a swift process. It took me twenty-one days to get through the twenty-six videos from 2022, which I cared about significantly less than these.

As a compromise, I've begun posting individual one-off numbers from Finales in Song to the PARF-fan Highlights youtube channel. If there are any particular moments you would like access to sooner, message me and I'll toss 'em up there. I recorded every single Finale from the Saturday of Viking Weekend through the end of the season, with the exception of both days of Wizarding Weekend (as I was ill at the time, no I will not stop being salty about that). I also have the Saturday Finale of Pyrates' Invasion; as well as Off The Cuff on 9/21, 9/29, 10/6, 10/12, 10/19, 10/20, and 10/27; and Whose Jest from 9/21 and 10/13. (For that matter, I have the 2023 Finales from 9/30, 10/1, 10/14, and 10/22; and 2023 Off The Cuff from 10/1 and 10/22; and 2023 Boarshead Brawl with its multiple endings from 9/16, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/14, 10/15, 10/21, 10/22, 10/28, and 10/29; and I'd have more if I'd realized sooner that the ending changed daily rather than weekly, and also if it hadn't rained so blessed much.)

[cvt2dvm]

[katestrunkshop]

Some necklaces that’ll be going up for order within the week. Currently only available in person at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire.

[sovereignzofdarkness]

tierlist 👍

[regret-breathing]

imma be real right now i truly think the reason palisade is so hit or miss is *just* because they dont have a new frank ocean tape to orbit around like they did with blond.

[catgirlsupremacist]

Randy Orton being cowardly, peice of shit because of him being so annoying the military did not want him is worse than being a war criminal confirmed people !!!

[wibblyparfait]

ARTFIGHT 2023 DUMP BAYBEEEE (1/2)

HAII I DIDNT FORGET TO POST DW ALSO IM GONNA BE TAGGING EVERYONE'S CHARAS + THEIR TUMBLRS (or link their AFs if not available) INVIDIDUALLY CUZ I HAD SO SO MUCH FUN COMING BACK AFTER 2 YEARS OF NOT JOINING AWOOOO 🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺

anyways so sorry for tag spam BUT!!!!!! UWAH LONG POST OF AF PIECES N PARF ART IN GENERAL UNDER THE CUT BE UPON YE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Five by @berryori!!!!

Emily by @/homostasis on AF!!!!

Bounty (on the right!!!!! the left is my own FKDJGDF) by @/Iaviaceae on AF!!!!

Anko & Katyo by @aquariiium!!!!

Mercury Ione by @starryflowered!!!!

Ice Manticore by @weretiigers!!!!

and the rest didnt fit i'll make a pt 2 in a sec KJFDGKF

[tragedykery]

everybody say thank you elfdict.com

[starlightlilycosplay]

Off to Day Three of @Zenkaikon! Only staying until 1pm (alas) & then we’re driving home, so I’m wearing a #cottagecore/ #morigirl / casual #RenFaire outfit of @holy__clothing! (I’ve also just realised this could possibly work as a #Rapunzel / #Tangled #closetcosplay / #DisneyBound—maybe with a different chemise/blouse?) 💖🌸🌿🎀 {Danu dress & Angeline dress by #HolyClothing; flower crown from @parenfaire; ring belt by #MyFunkyCamelot on Etsy; bag loops by @wordsremember; boots by @timberland} (Yes, this is a whole row of the *exact same* pose in different costumes. I do not know how to pose. Send help please.) #PARenFaire #PARF #RenFaire #PennsylvaniaRenaissanceFaire #RenaissanceFaire #Fairelife #RenFairegarb #adventuresincosplay #cosplaylife #WordsRemember #Zenkaikon #StarlightLilyCosplay https://www.instagram.com/p/CqQTiouubcV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[xiroo]

Parfum

[highway-stars]

PA renn faire was nuts - didn't even get to see everything in the 8 hours I was there. I'll be back again in a few weeks

[parf-fan]

Masterlist of recent PARF videographers

Inspired by a comment on my update of sorts in which the commenter stated that it had never occurred to them to see if anyone had filmed PARF, I present to you a post I have been intending to make literally since starting this blog.

● Michael Ulrich – PARF footage as far back as 2004, hitting stride around 2015, stopping at the end of 2022. Most of the older stuff is scattered in amongst the 2018 footage and again between 2020 and 2021. An excellent source for a one-off example of most in-house shows each year. Quite important for reviewing the Megan-Zach-Mary 'verse. Some of the highest-quality footage. ● Renaissance Road Trips (formerly known as maddog015) – PARF footage as far back as 2007. More out-of-house stuff than in-house, though they've been expanding to include a little more in-house in recent years. Contains footage from many different Faires, so sifting will be required if you are exclusively interested in PARF. Divides shows up into many pieces, which is handy if you want to reference a specific moment, but cumbersome if you want to just watch a whole show. Footage quality is perfectly reasonable, though not professional-level. Home of THE Halloween Finale of 2017.

● PARF Performers (formerly known as wavking) – PARF footage from 2011 through 2021, excepting 2014 and 2020. Filming is somewhat scattered and not systematic until around 2016. Occasional videos from NJRF and from non-Faire events taking place on PARF grounds. Overall the best source for Finales and an even selection of everything else for 2016-2018, petering off in 2019. Indispensable for reviewing the Megan-Zach-Mary 'verse, though less so the Mary part. Footage quality is perfectly reasonable, though not professional-level.

● Steve Kossor – PARF footage as far back as 2013. Very little in-house stuff; mostly focused on the artists who fall under the heading of “musicians of the shire”, both individually and as a whole. Plenty of stuff from other Faires, too. Most videos are clearly labeled. If you never got to witness the actual Pub Sing from the Before Times, this is where to look, particularly 2019. Very fancy filming, often including multiple cameras at different angles on the same day (goals tbh). Occasional interviews and such. Scattered throughout are videos completely unrelated to Faire, 'cause he's gotta put 'em somewhere.

● MerlinWinchestr – PARF footage as far back as 2013. Hits stride in 2016 (I think), at which point she carefully archives one example of each main-season plotline show, and sometimes Halloween, as well as scattered highlights. Literally the only person besides me to actually bother with non-Halloween plot before 2018, for which I owe her a small portion of my soul. Indispensable for reviewing the Megan-Zach part of the Megan-Zach-Mary 'verse. Nothing from PARF in 2018 or 2019 due to moving to a different state, but filmed stuff from other Faires in the interim. Picked up again in 2020, and expanded the number of shows filmed. Recent videos are carefully labeled. Footage quality is perfectly reasonable, though not professional-level. Scattered throughout are many clips from various unrelated concerts and cons and sometimes reenactment, as well as quite a lot of fandom edits of (predictably) both Merlin and Supernatural.

● Joseph Germano – PARF footage as far back as 2015. Almost entirely in-house; largely storyline, combat, improv. Initially filmed things exclusively for himself and his family, not listing the videos publicly for years. As such, the quality of camerawork can occasionally leave something to be desired (though much less, in my opinion, than he claims), hence his playlist called “MeadVision”. Filled the void left by PARF Performers's petering off, and is owed a small portion of my soul for archiving so much Disasterpiece in 2019. Footage quality is perfectly reasonable, though not professional-level. Chronology is a mere suggestion until 2021.

● PARF fan – If you're interested in 2017 plotline and combat, I've got everything I filmed up on the YouTube except for Halloween Joust and Halloween Finale. I've also got loads of raw footage of in-house stuff from the first half the 2020 season over on the Facebook. Effort is made with cinematography, though it sometimes backfires. Videos are carefully labeled, but only in the titles, not the thumbnails. Footage quality is perfectly tolerable, though far from professional-level, and the sound is sometimes bad (didn't have a fancy camera until the 2022 season). Indispensable for reviewing 2017, frankly.

● PA Renaissance Faire – PARF footage from 2018 only. One each Court, Melee, Bloody Best, some of the main-season individual Chess fights, Halloween Court, Halloween Chess, and a whole bunch of in-house songs from sundry Finales, many of which were not archived in any other form elsewhere (that I know of).

● Ren Faire with Rose – PARF footage as far back as 2018. Nigh-on exclusively in-house. Mostly highlights rather than entire shows. Features occasional streetwork, particularly from 2019, which is beyond value. Mostly chronological, but 2022 and 2023 and 2024 are intermittently jumbled. Tbh, I haven't gotten around to watching enough of their footage to comment on the quality of camera or camerawork.

● Dan Gualtieri – The newest member of this “team” (none of us actually coordinate or otherwise work together, though we should). Videos from 2022, 2023, and 2024. Mixture of highlights and full shows. Has already filled several gaps. I haven't actually watched any of his videos yet, so I cannot provide comment on camera or camerawork.