Anno Societatis M

[jamesq]

I've always wondered how the SCA will evolve if it continues. It still exists in the time span of a single human lifetime, so there's no guarantee that it won't be a flash-in-the-pan. I hope it goes on.

Will we extend things forward? Make it so that the "end date" for in period being 500 years in the past? That would be cool I think. There would come a time when we could include the Regency period, then the American Civil War, eventually we'd get to our own modern era. Maybe those future SCAdians would make a conscious decision to not become recursive by restricting period to May 1st, 1966 and earlier. Otherwise it would be weird to parse:

"So you're a 9th century Norman?"
"Nope. I'm a 20th century American pretending to be a 9th century Norman."

Imagine the problems of research:

"You're a 21st century Canadian? Oh, that's too bad - we have no pictures from that era because they saved everything to digital media and it was all lost during the great silicon plague of 2155. It's much easier to find photos of the 20th century."

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[garething.livejournal.com]

One of David Weber's 'Honor Harrington' books has a minor character in it that is a member of the SCA in the year 4100-and-something. His 'period' of recreation is 20th Century North America...

[ashti25.livejournal.com]

I tell baby costumers to imagine someone recreating the 20th century by wearing various improbable clothing combos.... you know, bell bottoms and an army rifle...

but you know, we are recreating a 14th century fad for recreating the days of King Arthur.

Just sayin'.

[catalytic.livejournal.com]

"It still exists in the time span of a single human lifetime"

Yeah, mine in fact. The SCA was founded the same year I was born. :-)