Infected Ren Faires - nerd cringe but olde timey

[niggers]

so this is just going to be a thread of fat cosplayers outdoors.

carry on, then.

 

[Gagamaru]

if it was just proper historical type thing then i'd say not so threadworthy, but if we're talking about ones that are dogfucker-friendly, have sexy orcs and gindorf the ethnic wizard, then thats another thing.

 

[Cunty Boo Boo]

Re: steampunk, Time Lords, etc cosplay

Some Ren Faires devote specific weekends to themes. The NY Ren Faire did like a time traveler weekend, and so people dressed up as the Doctor and other stuff.

Maybe it's because I love the Ren Faire, but I don't honestly see it as too lulzy. Unless you just like laughing at fat people in costumes (which, fair dues). I get the criticism about it not really being Renaissance, though. Even if you take out the fantasy stuff, it's really more medieval than Renaissance.

 

[c-no]

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Truly the wizards must really of remained virgins to don the robes of one.

They should just call it the "Fantasy Festival."

When you have fursuiters, people in steampunk, and wizards, the word "renaissance" wouldn't really be applicable since wasn't the renaissance was more around 1400's or 1500's.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

"Well commander, it seems as though we've landed in two different time periods."

Spoiler

 

[Checkered Spotlight]

Wizards, LARPers, furries, all the autism in one convenient place.

 

[Android raptor]

Re: steampunk, Time Lords, etc cosplay

Some Ren Faires devote specific weekends to themes. The NY Ren Faire did like a time traveler weekend, and so people dressed up as the Doctor and other stuff.

Maybe it's because I love the Ren Faire, but I don't honestly see it as too lulzy. Unless you just like laughing at fat people in costumes (which, fair dues). I get the criticism about it not really being Renaissance, though. Even if you take out the fantasy stuff, it's really more medieval than Renaissance.

Yeah, my local one has themes most weekends I.e. cosplay, pirates, time travel, etc.

I work for mine (kiiinda), but don't have and stories (other than OT stuff about animals being goofy).

 

[Ariel]

They are good because its one of the few times you can go somewhere to laugh at lolcows IRL without looking like a complete dick.

 

[RM 810]

Ren faires aren't really a thing in the UK, so all I know about them is from American friends bitching about all the gadje who go to them dressed up as gypsy princesses. Glad to see they're much more stupid than I thought.

 

[Enjoy your spaghetti]

Ren faires aren't really a thing in the UK, so all I know about them is from American friends bitching about all the gadje who go to them dressed up as gypsy princesses. Glad to see they're much more stupid than I thought.

Of course ren faires aren't a thing in the UK. You've always had real castles, nbd.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

I work for one. Some of you can probably figure out which one. While I'm not some fake-ass Roma activist like LeighannaScarletJusticePrincessWetflameRonaldMcDonald, I do cringe pretty hard at the ones who cosplay "gypsies" because they dress kind of like Ronald: they slap on pounds of colorful shit and call it good. But I don't say anything because one of them has been my direct supervisor two years running. Boots aside because flat feet, my costume is pretty damn historically accurate -- I even checked with a historian in the country I pretend to be from. That face when I get everything just so, I'm not wearing any metal grommets or modern jewelry... and then it's Time Travellers' Weekend and chicks wander in wearing those TARDIS-printed tank-top dresses and there you have it.

My specialty is working the ticket line that's paved for strollers and wheelchair users, and for whatever reason -- possibly because I actually do Customer Service Smile Face, who knows (and I know where the closest ATM and bathrooms are) -- I get regulars: people who will stand in my line even if the next one is wide open. There are at least two very sweet gentlemen who are well into their golden years: one who has this long, snowy white beard with waxed mustache tips, and seems to dress as some version of Mughal India, and one who always decorates his walker with doodads related to the theme of the weekend. For example, on Pirate Weekend, he hangs little toy muskets and Jolly Roger flags off it. On the last day of last season, he took a plastic rose and gave it to me, saying, "A red rose for a lovely lady." I nearly cried.

Season pass holders can be... interesting. Captain Jack Sparrow is kind of a dick. On the other hand, the Dragonborn is extremely courteous and always sort of tips his helmet at me. Captain Grumpy, a pirate who is an actual-not-pretend amputee and uses a Hoverround scooter, was finally impressed when I memorized the names of all of his stuffed parrots.

Lulziest story: Without a doubt, the day I got sniffed. It was Heroes of the Realm Weekend: people with military ID (current or veterans) or police, first responders, etc. got in free. Two veterans, wearing what I think of as normal camo (not military myself, so I don't really know), sauntered in. The second guy, as I was scanning his ticket (yes, we get a lot of shit for being in costume but scanning punters' barcodes with iPods), leaned over and sniffed me really loudly. He asked me what my perfume was called. It was "Smut" but I wasn't about to say that to a guy who was leaning into my neck, so I squeaked out some made-up name. He said, again really loudly, "That smells reeeeeeal goooood." Fortunately, by this point, his buddy -- who probably knew there was something a little off about him -- rescued me, grabbing the guy's arm: "Come on, man, let's go see the fair." But you know, of all of the things he could have commented on, I'm sure I got off lightly.

 

[millais]

When I visited a "renaissance fair" it seemed like just an excuse for people to dress up as pirates and guzzle draft beer in a pewter mug during a month other than Oktoberfest

 

[Zeorus]

My wife's father and stepmother are into the historical side of ren faire type stuff (he does thrown weapons and leatherworking, she's into archery and equestrian events). Most of the people I've met through them are perfectly reasonable, normal people who happen to know all of the most popular ways to shank a bitch 13th-century style. I can't speak for the fantasy side of things since they have both decided they're too old for that shit as of about six years ago.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

I have always thought that it was strange how they seem to lump in all the middle ages and the renaissance and high fantasy and furries and katana-toting weebs together and call it "the renaissance"

Fixed.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

Ren faires aren't really a thing in the UK, so all I know about them is from American friends bitching about all the gadje who go to them dressed up as gypsy princesses. Glad to see they're much more stupid than I thought.

Germany does have them, they're called "Mittelaltermärkte" (Medieval Markets) here. Unsurprisingly, they exert a strong attractive force on edgelords, BDSM spergs, Heavy Metal lolcows, goffic goths and fantasy tards. In between you find autistic medieval purists who throw a hissy fit as soon as they see something which is not sufficiently TRUE and HONEST medieval (including fabric that is made in a way that did not exist before industrial textile production).

 

[neverendingmidi]

Germany does have them, they're called "Mittelaltermärkte" (Medieval Markets) here. Unsurprisingly, they exert a strong attractive force on edgelords, BDSM spergs, Heavy Metal lolcows, goffic goths and fantasy tards. In between you find autistic medieval purists who throw a hissy fit as soon as they see something which is not sufficiently TRUE and HONEST medieval (including fabric that is made in a way that did not exist before industrial textile production).

Doesn't Germany also have something like "Old Wild West" style fairs, with people dressed in "(American) Indian" clothes and so on?

 

[Fiddleford]

I got dragged to one a couple years back and all I remember is several separate fat bearded men with no shirts wearing viking helmets and drinking from flasks, shambling about and yelling at nobody in particular. Each with their own distinct odor.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

Doesn't Germany also have something like "Old Wild West" style fairs, with people dressed in "(American) Indian" clothes and so on?

This did exist and was very popular for a long time, but by now it's more or less a thing of the past, although some events of this nature still take place.

Germany sort of pioneered the "Wild West Adventure" genre through the author Karl May, who invented the famous characters Old Shatterhand and Winnetou. Karl May was hugely popular in the 19th and 20th century, and conventions were held in his honour, complete with stage production of his adventure tales -- the so-called Karl May Festspiele ("Karl May Proms"). Numerous movies were produced, based on Karl May novels and independent stories set in the Wild West. West German productions usually styled the Indians as baddies, East German productions presented them as the good guys, as they were seen as victims of imperialism. There were indeed fairs with people dressing up as Indians and cowboys, as well as "Indian clubs" trying to research these cultures in earnest and re-create their way of living.

Spoiler: Comrades of the Great Plains

Some Tipis and a Trabant aka Trabbi, the famous proletarian car of People-Owned Factory Sachsenring.

This was also a way to bring some Hippie flair to the GDR. Hippies were frowned upon as they were seen as "anti-social parasites", but Indians were a-okay, because Indians = victims of imperialism.

The "Mandan Indians Cultural Interest Society" celebrating a Buffalo Dance.

"Indianists" of the Free German Youth at the National Youth Festival 1984 in Berlin.
Note the proletarian prefab highrise building and the GDR flag in the background.


More photos of Marxist Indians.

In the 21st century interest in this topic seems to be declining, it is mainly a hobby of an older generation. People younger than 50 prefer the genres of modern American cinema, that is, fantasy and scifi.

Spoiler: The Karl May Proms are still celebrated, though

PS. I'm aware that the term "Indian" has fallen into disuse in America, is considered racist by some and "Native Americans" is preferred, but since "Indianer" is the generally understood German term, I have used the older word here.

 

[Linako 2.0]

I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE

 

[AnOminous]

PS. I'm aware that the term "Indian" has fallen into disuse in America, is considered racist by some and "Native Americans" is preferred, but since "Indianer" is the generally understood German term, I have used the older word here.

It's mostly white liberals who get offended by "Indian."

"Redskin" is an example of an actually offensive term.