How to get a notebook made if I supply the paper?

[ScottT]

On 11/30/2025 at 4:57 PM, inkstainedruth said:

In some ways it's like a Rennfaire.  And there is some crossover -- the guy who played Little John and was one of the jousters at the Rennfaire across the river from where I grew up later joined the SCA and I think he was elevated to the Order of the Laurel (the top A&S award in the organization) for doing bardic stuff.  But the major difference is that if you go to a RennFaire, you're "audience".  If you go to an SCA event, you are expected to dress in some attempt at medieval clothing, and to act accordingly (such as bowing to Royalty, and not talking about mundane stuff like what you saw on Facebook the night before).  And to actually participate.  And that includes stuff like helping to clean the site up at the end of the event, and stepping in to help people carry stuff, or to wander into the kitchen and ask if the person in charge if there's any help needed, like my husband did at his first event (he didn't know the guy running the feast from a hole in a wall except that he and the people who he went to the event with were crashing with the guy).  And didn't realize that the guy was the Kingdom Senseschal (effectively "regional president").  And when asked if he knew anything about cooking, my husband told the guy, "No, but I'm strong and can follow orders...."  And Bish said to him, "YOU can stay!"  But kicked a lot of other people OUT of the kitchen because they were trying to suck up to him, apparently.  And mostly my husband wanted to hide in the kitchen because he didn't know what was going on (it was a Crown Tournament, the winner of which would become Crown Prince/Heir to the Throne, with the person being fought for being the respective Consort), and because it was apparently really crummy weather that weekend.  

The first year I went to the big camping event (and I'd been in for a couple of years at the point), there was a bad stomach bug going around the campsite.  So ended up working a couple of shifts "crying the camp" (making announcements along one route around the campground) and a shift at the check-in point.  And at one point, saw a woman stumbling up the road in front of the tent I was in (I'd met her at a "post-revel" at someone's house after an event) and I asked her if she'd had "the plague" and she said, "No, but for three days I was the only physician on site licensed to write prescriptions in PA!"  

The first year I went to that, I was sort of overwhelmed because it was sooooo much bigger than any other event I'd been to at that point.  And last summer?  The overall head count was over 3 times as many people (Pennsic 13 was something like just under 4000 people overall).  This year (Pennsic 53) was I think over 13K -- although I don't know how many people were there for the full two weeks, and of course I've been commuting back and forth because of allergies the past several years.  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Ouch, to be in a group like that and then have to suffer 'the plague'.  That's got to be tough.  But thanks for describing it, I can see what you mean by being different from a renfaire.  I don't know if it is just me, but it does sound like it can get kind of political at times, I guess the same can happen anywhere, unfortunately.  But 13K at one camping site for two weeks!  That sounds like it has the potential for being awesome and scary at the same time.  As for allergies, I moved to a place that definitely has them in spades, so best wishes whenever they strike you.  One last question: where do you find/source all the things you need?  I know a lot must be from the community and those who learn to craft things, but what of the rest?  I run across sites now and again that would seem to offer such things, but they don't give off the right vibe I suppose.  Are there some that all know to go to?  

[inkstainedruth]

Yeah, a guy my husband and I used to know shared a place with some SCA people and while he got along with his housemates, he also said that he saw way too much in the way of "small group dynamics".

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[inkypete]

Off topic but playing on the title. I hate graffiti but I saw some years ago that made me laugh. Someone had painted on the side of a building - my mother made me a homosexual. A while later someone wrote underneath - if I pay for the wool will she make me one too?

[inkstainedruth]

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ScottT]

On 12/3/2025 at 9:54 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Yeah, a guy my husband and I used to know shared a place with some SCA people and while he got along with his housemates, he also said that he saw way too much in the way of "small group dynamics".

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Ouch.  I can only imagine.

[RedPie]

On 12/3/2025 at 10:51 PM, inkypete said:

Off topic but playing on the title. I hate graffiti but I saw some years ago that made me laugh. Someone had painted on the side of a building - my mother made me a homosexual. A while later someone wrote underneath - if I pay for the wool will she make me one too?