Maru's Mun Journal

I wanted something a bit wilder this time:





The bloke in the mirror who is taking my picture is the hairdresser who cut my hair. He's a bit of a wild, original, creative type who uses special scissor made from folded Japanese steel. We cheerfully talked shop about sharp and pointy things while he did my hair.

Eeeeeeee crossbows!! But such big ones...

When nazgulwears and I go to medieval events, we go for three things: a) to invest time and research in our costumes, make them, and wear them; b) to see the market stalls, eat, drink, and be merry, and perhaps buy some nice medieval things and c) see the show they put on.

We found Maxlrain 'the better middle ages' than the big event in Kaltenberg, beause it was less commercial, and there were lots more people in period costumes, period however counting as 500 to 1500, with some un-historical elves and undead on the side. Too many people wear black and dark red, too, if you take into account that there was no reliable black dye, and dark red (= purple) was costly in the middle ages. But it wasn't mostly mundanes come to gawk and see the show, and the market stalls were to the point, instead of selling cheap stuff for kiddies. They carry that too, but we could have found trim there, and I did find a sensible, working sahs just as I wanted.

( See Maru and the Nazgul being big-G Goths! )

( See a medieval market in torchlight! )

( See a show with horses! )

Thank you, but no thank you. I already have an axe. I don't need a designer one to carry to the door when the potty religion salespeople come calling...

But I like the idea.

(via Seth Godin)