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more pictures!

drove up to Lion's Gate (just across the border into Canada) for the Baroness' Inspiration Tournament this weekend and had a fantastic time! there were 13 fighters in the Iron Rose tournament (for women and gender minority fighters only).

my only loss was against the same person who beat me last month at Rose and Thorn, and he went on to win the tournament, so I'm pretty happy with that!

there were a whopping 60 fighters in the second heavy tourney, which was an unbelted prize tournament. I did very well there as well, only 3 losses on a round robin of ~15, one point away from making it into the semifinals. shocked that I didn't run out of energy during the second tourney tbh.

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drove up to Lion's Gate (just across the border into Canada) for the Baroness' Inspiration Tournament this weekend and had a fantastic time! there were 13 fighters in the Iron Rose tournament (for women and gender minority fighters only).

my only loss was against the same person who beat me last month at Rose and Thorn, and he went on to win the tournament, so I'm pretty happy with that!

there were a whopping 60 fighters in the second heavy tourney, which was an unbelted prize tournament. I did very well there as well, only 3 losses on a round robin of ~15, one point away from making it into the semifinals. shocked that I didn't run out of energy during the second tourney tbh.

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no photos from this year, but I placed second in the tourney! there were about 8 of us in the heavy tournament this time.

went to Rose & Thorn over the weekend! it's a new(ish) SCA event focused on women and gender minority fighters! (this was the second year it's happened, I went last year as well)

lots of cool classes and panels. the tourneys were restricted to only women and gender minority fighters, though plenty of other folks showed up for pickup fights and classes and whatnot as well. it was bigger this year, 2 days instead of 1, with some instructors coming in from out of kingdom.

I love having a space of our own 💚

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please do look it up if you dont know the date bc there may be at least an approximate answer and otherwise the last option will completely dominate and this poll will be boring.

and dont be like 'but i cant sing'... just answer the earliest tune you know well enough that you COULD sing it

periods of western classical music provided only for reference

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to be fair though, at least in my community, kid garb gets passed around for YEARS once the original kid grows out of it. I still see kids that I've never met running around at events wearing garb I used to wear, and I grew out of it like twenty years ago.

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smiled & nodded my way through half of the "you're so brave, oh i could never" conversation today with older white office lady before i realized she was talking specifically about my sideshave haircut & not like, my entire trans self

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oh right, I never posted the photos from last year! the pics from Rose & Thorn last year turned out fantastic:

went to Rose & Thorn over the weekend! it's a new(ish) SCA event focused on women and gender minority fighters! (this was the second year it's happened, I went last year as well)

lots of cool classes and panels. the tourneys were restricted to only women and gender minority fighters, though plenty of other folks showed up for pickup fights and classes and whatnot as well. it was bigger this year, 2 days instead of 1, with some instructors coming in from out of kingdom.

I love having a space of our own 💚

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went to Rose & Thorn over the weekend! it's a new(ish) SCA event focused on women and gender minority fighters! (this was the second year it's happened, I went last year as well)

lots of cool classes and panels. the tourneys were restricted to only women and gender minority fighters, though plenty of other folks showed up for pickup fights and classes and whatnot as well. it was bigger this year, 2 days instead of 1, with some instructors coming in from out of kingdom.

I love having a space of our own 💚

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Apparently viable and attested Medieval names, according to this list I found

Seafowl

Infant

Winegod

Tallboys

Sinister

Bono

Latino

Ratbert

Grimhard

Wulfsy

Frodo

Savory

Boguslav

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have a couple medieval dance tunes, feat. my hammered dulcimer and me in my pajamas since I have no reason to leave the house

edit: I have a ko-fi now! if my content makes you smile and you feel like tossing a coin my way, feel free to do so!

edit: I'm on youtube now too!

edit: okay I know it's been like 3 years but maybe if I respond in the original post people will stop making the same comments:

I'm not a girl. I use he/they pronouns. Stop saying you want me to be your girlfriend, that's just weird.

The songs I'm playing are Tourdion (first published by Pierre Attaingnant in 1530) and Goddesses (published in Playford's Dancing Master in 1651). Yes, I'm aware that makes them Renaissance not medieval. I didn't bother to specify in a post I didn't expect to break a dozen notes.

Apparently the band Blackmore Nights incorporates Tourdion in one of their songs. That tracks; Tourdion is one of the most well-known Renaissance dance tunes in the modern day.

Yes, the hammered dulcimer is a medieval instrument. It's been around in the Middle East since about the 10th century, in Europe since the 12th century. Hammered dulcimers like mine, with additional bridges to create more courses, have been around since the 16th century.

More sources under the cut:

Detail from "The Rutland Psalter", medieval (c1260), British Library Add MS 62925. f 73v

Birth of Christ (detail, 1512) by Jacob van Oostzanen. Naples, Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte.

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Ask not for whom the gurdy hurds. It hurds for thee.

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"There is a secret level to the drinking with white people game ... and it's called the SCA."

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Heck I finished the embroidery.

Now gotta wash it and then make a bag out of it

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Admittedly not the most period fabric choice, but sometimes we get to put the "creative" in SCA :P I debuted this at the Blue Feather social at Lilies a couple of weeks ago.

The tunica is a linen gauze and the beads on the sleeves are little moonstone clouds, for maximum cuteness.

The belt was brand new and made for me by a talented and awesome friend.

The necklace I made a while ago. I like the idea behind the rainbow chains and stuff that have been going around, wanted a more period option for myself. I've never seen an example in this kind of color configuration, but the general design and all the stones/glass are period for me.