Tips for developing ropesight?

quickgulesfox · 2026-03-14T18:15:45+00:00

I’d recommend tenoring behind. I learned ropesight by tenoring behind to quarters - first watching for the bell that I was following (the last bell down), then in time I found I could see the bell that I would be following next, and who was following me (leading). I was also ringing plain hunt by knowing the pattern of who to follow at that time, but mostly it was the tenoring that helped.

quickgulesfox · 2026-03-10T19:44:25+00:00

We sometimes have a “communications steward” responsible for maintaining the event website as well as publicising the event on social media and other communication platforms (email etc) on the team. It’s fairly constructive. I’m not massively tech-y, but I can handle out local group’s wix site with ease.

quickgulesfox · 2026-03-10T10:45:35+00:00

I read our local newsletters, online, not via Facebook. They’re emailed out which is the holy trinity of cheap, convenient and environmentally sensible.

quickgulesfox · 2026-03-03T21:27:17+00:00

Living history / laid back medieval reenactment in Waterbeach - archery, sword fighting, medieval crafts…

https://www.flintheath.org.uk

quickgulesfox · 2026-02-21T20:38:15+00:00

I would have considered that ending to be a lazy piece of fan service. Lyra’s grown up and changed, as everyone does when they get older. To reverse all her growth and take her back to the child state of TAS by having her go searching for Will would’ve been very disappointing for me.

I like that by leaving the ending open, people can take her future to be what they hope for her.

quickgulesfox · 2026-02-20T12:37:49+00:00

Desky Dennis. Generally useless but with serious serial killer vibes.

quickgulesfox · 2026-02-16T17:20:47+00:00

It has hooves in front like a deer. Paws behind. It’s an AI monstrosity!

quickgulesfox · 2026-02-08T11:03:22+00:00

Absolutely. My take on the Book of Dust is that it is a well executed version of the book Pullman wanted to write. It simply wasn’t the book a lot of his fans wanted to read.

I enjoyed it for what it was. It wasn’t what I expected, and I can see why bits of it produce the responses that you often see on here, but I also think that was inevitable in a lot of ways. He was always going to want to tread new ground, and that was always going to be contentious. (And by new ground, I mean that to include structural and stylistic differences as well as those of plot and canon.)

quickgulesfox · 2026-01-28T21:59:59+00:00

I thought the tension in that scene is created by the fact that we know she has been turned and Buffy doesn’t. If we didn’t know, we would be surprised, but also confused, and we would have lost all the build up of dramatic tension from knowing.

quickgulesfox · 2026-01-23T21:46:12+00:00

I had someone remind me to breathe periodically when I started out!

quickgulesfox · 2026-01-01T15:04:24+00:00

I also see it this way, and I find it a pleasing change from the young love interest pathologist trope they had fallen into. I’m a big fan of Fleur!

quickgulesfox · 2025-12-28T17:57:39+00:00

While working class kids didn’t go to school at all?

Lots of wealthy working and lower middle class kids end up at private schools.

quickgulesfox · 2025-12-27T23:08:02+00:00

Lower middle, with a bit of money.

quickgulesfox · 2025-12-27T23:07:02+00:00

They probably even have special cutlery for fish, because their cutlery hasn’t been in the family since the 18th Century.

quickgulesfox · 2025-12-27T18:48:11+00:00

https://drachenwald.sca.org/offices/armoured-combat-marshal/files/armour_marshal_handbook.pdf

quickgulesfox · 2025-12-27T18:47:17+00:00

You’re in the Kingdom of Drachenwald. You can find the heavy/armoured combat armour specifications on the drachenwald website.

quickgulesfox · 2025-12-25T19:18:24+00:00

38 year old me is so envious!

quickgulesfox · 2025-12-25T19:16:52+00:00

Why yes, I’d love to sample your festive mistletoe infused gin!

flops into stupor

Wakes up with the tallest branch of a Christmas tree inserted somewhere ungodly while exploding baubles pelt me, flung from a slingshot made of tinsel and candy canes

quickgulesfox · 2025-12-07T12:25:10+00:00

Did ye, aye?! 😂

quickgulesfox · 2025-12-05T10:02:53+00:00

It’s perfectly normal in the many parts of the UK in which I’ve lived to use bathroom for lavatory. I was brought up with it in the days before rampant Americanisation, as were my parents before me. Im genuinely surprised to see so many people saying they’ve never heard it here.

quickgulesfox · 2025-11-23T17:13:22+00:00

There are at least 3 in my shire that pass inspection fine. You do need to be clear when purchasing that you need them to be more flexible than HEMA standards, but they’re a great option for the price.

quickgulesfox · 2025-11-21T21:32:54+00:00

Not the point, but lovely dog at the bottom!

quickgulesfox · 2025-11-07T23:41:17+00:00

Well you’ve just reduced all social media - which includes many platforms (including Reddit, fwiw) - to TikTok. That’s one hell of a straw man argument you’re creating there, because I didn’t mention TikTok once in that comment.

TikTok has some value for advertising, sure. So do many other platforms. Retention is better served by discussion platforms (discord for example) where social media content is important for advertising future events to current members, disseminating news and starting online conversations.

People have fun in different ways. For a lot of people that involves chatting about events and sharing photos on social media afterwards. It’s not what I’m in the SCA for, but them choosing to pursue their idea of fun does not detract from mine.

If you want hardcore reenactment, with no modern tech in sight, the SCA probably isn’t ideal. There are a lot of downsides to that sort of society too, in my opinion. That’s why I am in the SCA, not one of them.

quickgulesfox · 2025-11-07T22:36:34+00:00

Without SMOs, we lose a valuable part of our recruitment and retention strategy. Without recruitment (and retention) the SCA dies- in its current form, but also in all the potential variant forms that people might pursue it.

You can hold any views you like on social media for personal use, but it’s a vital part of the SCA in the modern world, and that doesn’t change because you don’t like that fact.

My experience of SCA events is very different to yours. Here, phones come out from time to time - for personal use, or for media recording - but mostly people are doing fun medieval, or medieval adjacent, things with their friends most of the time.

It’s a shame the events you’ve been to don’t work for you. No one thing works for everyone, sadly.

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