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Fake research: real writing recap

02 Saturday Apr 2022

Posted by aethgazette in Arts & Sciences, Humor

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Aunt Æthel and I would like to thank the Ærtisans who devoted their time and creativity to the Fake Research – Real Writing challenge. If you have not read the entries, please head over to the Æthelmearc Gazette and take a gander. In fact take two ganders. We have too many ganders; take as many as you want.

So, our entries were:

  • “Were Medieval Nobility Hunting with Birds – or Spying on Their Subjects?” by Elska á Fjárfelli.
  • “The Sutton Hoo Textile”, by Mord Hrutsson
  • “The Fair Youth of William Shakespeare’s Sonnets” by Maggie Rue
  • “Roman Dodecahedrones: To Hear or Not to Hear” by Éadaoin Ruadh
  • and “London Destroyed by Kaiju” by myself, which I entered just for fun.

There was a submission that was entered but rejected: “It’s Gooshy Food O’Clock and My Horrible Hooman Is Nowhere to Be Found.” by Deckster. The requirements of the challenge was to limit the paper to around 1000 words and keep it family friendly, and Deckster did neither.

My paper was, of course, not judged. Elska’s high flying paper about falconry used to spy on peasants was fun. Mord’s paper about an unexpected historical find really cleaned up. Maggie’s paper on the secret friend of Shakespeare was a delight. (Although, the requirements of the challenge stipulated that you could not use Leonardo da Vinci, you did through the Kevin Bacon principle. I would remind you that in “The City of Death”, we are told that The Doctor was a good friend of Leonardo.)

But, Aunt Æthel and I agreed that Éadaoin’s paper on the true purpose of Roman Dodecahedrones is the winner of the AS56 April Fool’s writing challenge. Your paper made us laugh out loud more than once. Aunt Æthel enjoyed the puns and I hit your reference to “What Does the Vox Say?” like a bag of soup hitting a wall. I can never watch a gladiator movie again without thinking of what does the Vox actually says. “Citizens of Rome, what say you?” “Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!”

Lord Éadaoin. You stand… Well, you’re probably sitting as you read this. Lord Éadaoin, you sit before the Virtual Kingdom as our winner. Your prize is bragging rights for the next year. And I owe each and every one of the entrants a token.

Thank yous go out to Elska and the entire Æthelmearc Gazette for collecting, formatting, and posting these papers. And I would like to remind the populace that the Gazette is always looking for content.

Yours in service,
Baron Caleb

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SCAdian Steps Bravely into Void Left by Statue Incident

11 Sunday Dec 2016

Posted by aethgazette in Humor

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photo by Kaitlyn Sweeney

Sadly, the town of Pittston, PA (in the Barony of Endless Hills) suffered a great loss this week when a car demolished their statue of Christopher Columbus, necessitating the removal of the statue until it can be replaced.

Lord Cormacc mac Gilla Brigde from Endless Hills stepped bravely into the void until the northeast Pennsylvania cold forced a retreat.

His feat was even picked up by local news, and he was later interviewed about his “shenanigans” both by an online newspaper and a local radio show. 

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Two Medieval Monks Inventing Things

17 Saturday Oct 2015

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2monks1If you have not yet seen the web series “Two Medieval Monks…”, go hence and enjoy some delicious illumination-based humor!

You can find the complete archive here.

With titles like Two Monks Discover How Tall Women and Horses Are, Two Monks Invent Religious Iconography and Two Medieval Monks Invent Dinner Parties, how could you go wrong?

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Pennsic Needs Princes! Disney Princes, that is…

14 Thursday May 2015

Posted by Lis Gelatt in Aoife's Links, Pennsic

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The current gamut of Disney Princes, courtesy of http://disneyprincess.wikia.com

The current gamut of Disney Princes. Could YOU reliably play a prince for a few hours?

This post is shared from the East Kingdom Facebook list:

Pennsic needs Princes! No, no, it’s not that Adam Brennan (Prince of the East) is insufficient, but they need DISNEY Princes for the Children’s Fete. (There are usually many Princesses, though the organizer would be glad of more – she’s trying to not have overlaps.)
Anyone interested in being a period Disney Prince (or Princess) for the Children’s Fete should PM me and I’ll connect you with the organizer.
It’s about 4 hours and you don’t have to be there for the whole time. I went as medieval Merida last year and it was a hoot. Loved every minute of it. I strongly suggest it!

Contact Monique Bouchard (Aneleda Falconbridge) on Facebook to volunteer or for more information. For a better idea of what happens at the Fete, please see last year’s Pennsic Independent article.

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Photo Caption Contest #2

18 Sunday Jan 2015

Posted by in Gaming & Fun, Humor

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Greetings Most Awesome Kingdom in the Known World,

Before announcing this months contest.. It’s the winners from last month:

I am pleased to announce the winners from last months contest. Though we do not have awesome prizes you do have the right to put this on your SCA resumes and lord it over the heads of your friends who did not win.

Third Place:
Robert Peterson: ““My noble lords, I do not see any giants. All I see are windmills.””

Second Place
Arianna “Come on, let’s keep looking, there has to be a better candidate for the fourth horseman. This guy just doesn’t have the right vibe for Famine…”

And the Winner
Aoife: “Does this duck make my butt look big? Seriously, guys, are you even looking? Pay attention. Does this duck make my butt look big?”

Congratulations.

This month features two of Æthelmearc’s best; Duke Maynard and Sir Stefan Ulfkelsson. Please use the reply function to add your caption. Last month we had over 17 entries and a whole lot of viewers. Lets go for even more this month! Please make sure you hit like next to the captions you like as they count as votes. You can vote for all of them.

YIS,
That Guy Phil

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Grendel as Grinch

22 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by in Arts & Sciences, Gaming & Fun, Humor, Poetry & Prose

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For your Yule-tide entertainment, a re-blogging of a piece from 2012, written by Ross Peter Nelson, and originally blogged at The Heretic’s Mirror, which you can see here.

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Photo Caption Contest #1

16 Tuesday Dec 2014

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Greetings Most Awesome Kingdom in the Known World…. It is I, your happy go lucky Maestro De Giocco, or That Guy Phil with the 1st Photo caption contest of the Æthelmearc Gazette’s short existence. Today’s subject to be lampooned is yours truly sharing some cyber space with three of the most famous bogatyrs, Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets and Alyosha Popovich, who are represented together in Victor Vasnetsov‘s 1898 painting Bogatyrs and a duck. The painting photoshopped was found on Wikpedia and claims to be available for sharing, and manipulation. I am doing both. Neither ducks nor Bogatyrs were harmed in the making of this.

I am thick skinned, so please have fun and let the jokes fly. Leave your captions in the comment boxes below

philduckdiedreibogatyr

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