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Incoming!
So hi there! My name is Mekatra, you can call me Meki if you like. I joined here because I'm a member of another avatar site that is unfortunately very inactive. I prefer forum style chatting to the fast paced world of instant messages. Hopefully I can get this place figured out fairly quickly and find some new friends to chat with.
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Hello there! ^^ Yeah, I understand what you mean, I love forums myself, and would hate to see them die down. D:
Anyways, this place is easy to figure out. :) Hope you enjoy it here! |
Hello there! Welcome to Trisphee! ^.^ Just ask if you have any questions <3
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Thank you both! Luckily it really does seem easy to figure out. There's a lot more avatar options available than I am used to, but that's a very good thing. May take me a bit to decide on a direction to go for an avatar. Hmm..
No questions that I can think of right now, but I'll be sure to let you know if I think of any. :) The achievement system on here is a neat thing I haven't seen other places. |
What are your hobbies? : D
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Thank you so much for the tree thing and the coins!!! (I've already forgotten what the currency here is called...)
What isn't my hobby? I am part of a group called the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) and we do historical reenactment of pre-1700s eras and my husband and I also work a couple renaissance faires throughout the year. We do chainmaille jewelry to sell, but I also spin yarn, tablet weave, embroider, occasionally make lampwork beads even though I'm crap at it, woodburn and make period appropriate food. We have a ton of fun with it, and it usually keeps me really busy in the warmer months of the year, but there aren't a lot of events that we can go to in the winter time. Other than that I try to do some writing every once in a while. I was participating in NaNo this year but my laptop hard drive corrupted so I lost everything I had done. I was so irritated with it that I quit entirely. I keep telling myself that is a crap excuse and to get back to work but I'm stuck on my husband's laptop and its keyboard has a lot of issues that make it hard to type. Okay, wow... long post. Sorry. |
Hello there and welcome to Trisphee! I hope you enjoy this place as much as I have, and feel at home soon. |
Thank you! So far it has been a really nice place. People seem really friendly here. :)
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Heyo, welcome to Tris.
Question: I know you don't have a set direction for your avi yet, but any idea what items/colors/whatever you like? |
I'm fond of greens and purples, but oh my goodness I've been donated so many items and currency already. O_O People on this site really do like new people. I'm eternally grateful!
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Eh, there's never such a thing as too many items.
And we kind of just like people in general. |
Thank you! Man I have never had so much stuff just given to me before and that even includes my birthday haha!
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"A NEWBIE!" -everyone buries the newbie under a pile of items-
That...seems to be commonplace around here. |
I am most certainly not complaining though. There are a lot of communities that are willing to let new people just sort of figure it out themselves and they even make it difficult to get involved so good luck getting any items on your own either.
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what is lampwork beads? :O oh i want to see pictures!
There is a hobby hangout that I bet you'd have a blast in ouo |
I don't make lampwork beads very often because I don't have a kiln to put them in for cool-down. They usually crack because the only cooldown method I have is a slow cooker/crockpot thingy full of pearlite. XD I will see if I can dig up pictures of some of the beads I have made.
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ok i'm really excited to see!
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Pictures are on my husband's desktop so it will be a little bit until he can get a chance to send them to me. I'll post them up as soon as I can though
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I am ever so glad to hear of your lovely welcome, and that you are enjoying it here already! I too look forward to seeing these pretty beads! Your avatar is also giving me and my son the giggles. He just keeps yelling "PUPPY HOT DOOOOOG!| Haha! |
Lemme remind my hubby to send over those images. I'll have him send some of the other stuff I've made too.
I'm so glad your son is enjoying it! haha every time I see it I giggle too, so he's not alone. I just realized how new you are to the site too! Seems like people settle in here pretty quickly. I'm excited because I convinced my sister to check the site out. |
it's usually pretty immediately obvious who intends to stay based on how rad their avis made from gifted items turn out
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Of course the ONLY image I can find of my beads is the ugliest ones I have made lol.
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Oh uh sure, ask me anything. I don't do too much elaborate costuming because I don't have a sewing machine and we don't play higher than peasant/occasionally lower class merchant class, but I have friends that play nobles and royals.
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Welcome, Mekatra <3
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Is your troupe as stickler about making stuff by hand as the one in NC is? Cause OMG they are strict even if it is an under layer they want it hand sewn. We are making Stays and it is so hard to make the lines straight and tight because it is all hand sewn.
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Oh man, no not at all. We have a "10 foot" rule which means if you look passingly authentic from ten feet away that is acceptable. We strive to be as authentic as we possibly can, but we do several faires that are different time periods so expecting everyone to have five or six sets of garb that are all hand made would be... well no one would be able to do anything. I have a goal to have all our stuff spun, woven and hand sewed by me, but that's going to take a long time since I am really bad at spinning flax.
But yeah, jeeze, that sounds WAY rougher than my group. Then again, I don't actually get paid to do it so... |
Mannn you seem so crafty and creative! I'm jealous! Also welcome and hope you like trisphee!!!
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Don't be jealous. You too could be crafty, all you have to do is completely sacrifice your social life and concentrate only on making things. Also any time you think you want to buy something, you are wrong. You have to research how to make it yourself.
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*Makes an appearance* Cus I can!
Hello Hot Dog Pupper! Tiva I really like your avatar. I like unicorn type things ._. |
We don't either but they are just so strict that it dives me nuts I could do so much more with out the restrictions.
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Tiva, is this a renaissance faire group, reenactment group from a specific period or an organization like the SCA?
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Civil War Reenactment group! (I am form the south sooooo hard here) We do a lot of non battle stuff like showing off daily life, spinning and carding wool. One guy is a Tanner.
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Ah, yeah they tend to be a lot stricter for some reason. You're not the first person I have heard that from to be honest. Do you personally spin? (I hate carding wool. I know it is a necessary evil, but I get a desperate "please don't make me do this" feeling when I have to do it lol)
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Hi Mekatra! I am Uma, nice to meet you. I used to go to the Ren faire in N. CA but that was a long time ago. I have heard of the SCA but otherwise do not know much. :) I have heard that there are "territories" with "nobility" too? What kind of clothes do you wear if you don't mind my asking?
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We actually have Kingdoms in the SCA and each Kingdom has their own King, Queen, Prince and Princess. There are also Baronies within the kingdoms that have Barons and Baronesses. There are a lot of other smaller territories within the "known world" too, but they don't have rulers, just local chapter leaders called Sceneshals.
I personally have a 14th century gown officially known as a sideless surcoat, but has the lovely nickname "The Gates of Hell" because it has very wide open sides that show my underdress. Apparently it was condemned as sinful by church. I also have a tunic and breeches that I wear. They're kind of ambiguous in period since the tunic style is really simple. |
I do but I don't enjoy it. I volunteer to do the embroidery and mending because I enjoy it more, at least over the spinning and carding. There is a group of us thought that meet up outside of the events and do it to get enough done so we don't HAVE to during the events.
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Ah kingdoms, that is very cool! Wow I looked up those sideless "surcotes" and ended up looking at a lot of pictures of them both from old drawings or paintings and also some modern ones. It's an interesting garment. Looking at the old pictures...just makes one think...about sewing and all the things one had to do by hand. Well that is what it made me think of. ^^ I could not live back then. It's great the SCA gives you the opportunity to revisit that time. :)
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We always joke that we recreate the best parts of the middle ages, minus the fleas, plague and death. :) It's a lot of fun.
I don't blame you. We get together for Arts and Sciences nights to do things like that. We don't do a whole lot of demonstrations in he SCA though. It's more of a playing for the sake of playing but while staying as historically accurate as possible than it is a showing the public cool stuff from the past kind of groups. |
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