#what is SCA

[citricjoy]

like who are we fucking KIDDING at this point

[pixelshiftexe]

Sigil of House Tarth

Hand Embroidery

(Field; Bayeux stitch

Emblems; Split Stitch

Outline; Trailing Couch Stitch)

[lunarlagomorph]

since no one else on here has read it i can confidently tell you that sakura no uta is a forcefem eroge

[iwantmochisoup]

guys... i caved in and made a bluesky acc qwq IF you wanna follow me there, same name! LINK here ya go: iwantmochisoup

jhdsagkfjhg i wanna say please guys and moots join me i'm super scared, but that sounds super dumb but haha qwq ANYWAY maybe i see some of you there (i'm gonna cry /pos)

[jeanjauthor]

nice fake knife story, but EMTs will never pull out an object that's impaled in somebody on the scene. Stab Wound 101 is literally "do not pull the object out".

As I said in the original post, it literally was NOT impaled in his body. It was stuck in the chainlinks, and it was OBVIOUSLY not embeded in the man, because I'm quite sure the EMT could see the curve coming to the point. Chainmail links are usually a circumference that fits around a pencil, which is then further taken up by 4 to 6 links interlinked with it, depending on which pattern the maker used (I don't know which one he used; I didn't ask).

The majority of that tiny pencil-thick space is taken up by the thickness of the OTHER links' wires. You literally cannot put a pencil through chainmail once it's been woven together, because there is no room. The most penetration you'll get with an average-sized knife is maybe a third of an inch / 1cm tops. What you WILL get is a knife tip that is very thoroughly wedged in the links, but ONLY the tip of the knife.

Here is an image of non-riveted chainmail with human fingers in the picture for scale:

This stuff would not let more than the tip of a knifeblade through unless you were in a position to really drive home the blade. Reaching over a counter does NOT give a person a massive amount of leverage force, because they cannot put their full weight behind the blow (most folks will hit the counter with their waist or hips, which will absorb some of the incoming force).

Of course, it is true that abutted (not-riveted) chainmail CAN pull apart if you thrust with enough force. However, what the guy had made was RIVETED chainmail.

Literally, riveted chainmail is made up of rings that have flattened ends with holes through which a rivet has been set and hammered into place, so that the links CANNOT come apart so easily.

You can absolutely wedge the TIP of a knife in that stuff without actually penetrating deeper than a mere scratch...but you'd practically have to be charging at a dead run with the full weight of your body at the back of the hilt to have any hope of breaking through riveted chain deeply enough to penetrate with a mere knife. That dude had a convenience store counter in the way.

A regular shirt, man would've been shanked.

Chainmail under the shirt, absolutely not.

But it would look like he'd been shanked.

And did it not occur to you that when the EMT put his hands on my fellow SCAdian's back when trying to hold him still to exam the supposed wound...that he would FEEL THE CHAINMAIL under that work shirt?

Because abso-damned-lutely, you CAN feel chainmail through a shirt. Hell, you can even feel it through a puffy down jacket! Especially when you are trying to touch the body to stabilize a potentially injured person who is moving around, trying to demonstrate what had just happened.

EMTs don't diagnose patients hands-free. It's not a video call of a doctor's visit. They're very much hands-on-the-patient.

[sca-nerd]

Here we have a perfect example of SCA Chosen Family Dynamics.

1. Household Sister

2. Knight

3. Squire Nephew

[skylarkspinner]

first attempts at nalbinding. it's.... fine

[serethereal]

do not grab my phone and shuffle my playlist and then act surprised when it lands on a 5 hour recording of cats purring.

[delightfullyatomicfest]

John = Lew Grade

George = Dick James

Ringo = ??? Dee

Maybe Dave Dee who left his band to go solo in Sept 1969, as referenced by George when recording I Me Mine without John in Jan 1970?

Or Simon Dee who was a radio DJ and had a BBC chat show (the one where Jane announced she and Paul had broken up) but he fell out with the BBC over salary (and was hard to work with?) and left in Dec 1969. He went to ITV* in Jan 1970 with The Simon Dee Show but it was a ratings disaster and he fell out with David Frost who was on just before him. It’s most remembered for when he had George Lazenby, John and Yoko on in Feb 1970. Lazenby rambled about JFK conspiracy theories which was probably the nail in the coffin for it and the show was fully dropped in June.

Or maybe I’m missing an obvious Northern Songs person.

[kansasjustgotgayer]

I wish i could have fancy cheese blocks…..

[waveridden]

said it before will say it again. the fact that there aren’t six million animatics to hope in the air by laura marling is disgraceful

[knight-of-ashes]

my friend Faraulf threw this bardcore filk of Old Town Road together in about an hour last week for a bardic competition over the weekend and I think y'all need to listen to it

[lunarlagomorph]

also i took this a couple days ago but after subahibi this shot makes me suspicious of these two being part of a system

[anxiously-awaiting]

lovewhen my brain wakes me up out of nowhere and makes me insane for no reason

[sissytobitch10seconds]

It’s a week before I leave for my vacation so I have an announcement!

I’m going to an SCA event with my family and the site that we’re going to be at doesn’t have service. That means that the Year of Fiktor and Our Love Died uploads will be delayed until I have service, most likely on the 3rd of July. I also won’t be able to reply to messages/asks/mentions during that time so don’t be concerned because I’m fine and I’m not ghosting anyone!

[navelgazed]

Am I going to wake up on my day off tomorrow at 7 am so I can drive four hours, spend 10 hours in the summer heat, then drive two hours to crash on my brother's couch where I will have to wake up at 7 am on a Saturday to drive another two hours home?

Maybe.