Re: Creating a persona

Noble Cousin!

Greetings from Solveig!

period music: some of the coolest stuff isn't period; like O'Carolan's
stuff, and anything from VeggieTales. I cringe a bit, but I don't
speak up; I don't want to destroy others' fun.

Why then you must not have heard much period music yet. There is a huge
variety of genuine period music out there. Of course I am biased, I
still recall hearing my first medieval music concert back in low AS
single digits. (ca. AS IV). They billed themselves as the New York
Pro-Musica or some such thing and had a portative organ and all sorts of
interesting stuff.

persona interference: I love persona acting by others....as long as it
doesn't interfere with practicality or them dealing with me as a
person. If you are so caught up in your persona that you're not
noticing anyone else around you, it's annoying, to say the least. I've
always felt that if I'm IN persona, the person should be no less
interested in others or practical as a REAL person would be. The
clothing and manners shouldn't be artificial.

Ahh. I'm not terribly sure what you are getting at here. I do not
understand how failing to notice other people is part of persona.
However, if someone is carrying on loudly about how their favorite World
Cup Football team is doing, then maybe folks should be ignoring them.

I mean, making a big production out of a simple bow (which is still
used in places), makes it feel "Oh, look at my bow; I'm doing a bow,
tee-hee; did you see my bow?" which is hard to handle; simple social
pressure will work for getting people to play along if you just assume
the bow is normal, do it, not making a big production out of it, and go
on.

There can be a lot more going on there. For example, Japan has three
levels of formality for standing bows and three levels of formality for
sitting bows. And these are all ordinary bows. There is also a word for
a sort of groveling bow. I studied tea ceremony in Japan. So I can do
all six ordinary bows without tying my brain up in knots over it.

Since I'm already changing my speech, doing it, again, for the SCA
isn't that hard; if people don't keep jarring me out of the idea....and
the DASANI bottles aren't the biggest jar, for me. But it's difficult
to make that transition, the way things are.

Some kingdoms have been trying to discouraged undisguised modern
beverage containers. Incidentally, I agree that unnecessary modern stuff
can be quite annoying.

The polite gesture is then a way for you to ignore me, in a way; you're
not really directing it at me, at all, and I'm barely noticed, since
you're so caught up in your own thing....so it's actually a way to
hmmm...separate us? sort of?

Some bowing is pro-forma, but quite important. Suppose the king passes
by wearing his crown and what naught. In this sort of situation, bowing
is like saluting the flag when it passes. It is an act of civic courtesy.

I've hung out with Legio II, the Glamfulk (spelling unknown), and
Silverstone's crowd, a little, and various other folks...and I'm
looking to make REAL friends (even if I run out of steam, socially,
halfway through the event), and if the pretending prevents it, I'll
just hang out with the drunks playing tablero...they're noisy, and
annoy the neighbors, but I like them, since they're genuine.

I am inclined to be socially akward and can sometimes feel quite
distressed at events. However, the Society has also done a lot of good
things for me. So best wishes with your quest to find friends in the
Society. I know that I depend on mine.

Your Humble Servant
Solveig Throndardottir
Amateur Scholar
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