2026 Redo
I was lucky enough to buy a home in October 2025, and later get a puppy in early March of 2026. This is all a precursor to say that I have been woefully absent from the SCA due to the angst of maintaining a home and the horrors of a creature in constant need. After nearly a year of absence, I have desperately missed my friends in the SCA and all that I had enjoyed about it. Stuck in traffic on the way back from my daughter's puppy lessons at Petco, I thought about my friends, my mentor, my scrolls, and all the things I liked.
I do think I had burnt myself out. I told myself I would try everything, but my golden-retriever like need to be everyone's friend kept me going to things I did not even want to see or do, and the weight of obligation had me burning out energy faster than I could produce it. I am a man that needs to be focused on a task, otherwise I will zoom off or be listless.
When I was in Kindergarten, I told everyone that I would grow up and hunt Nessie. Later, I envisioned getting a ham radio license to interview people across the world on their paranormal activities like the late and great Art Bell. My parents took me on ghost tours since I was a child and I attempted to exorcise a random house at seven years old (it didn't work).
All that to say that I have had a laser focus upon mythology, folklore, and the supernatural, and I think I will want to use that sort of unnecessary excitement towards the SCA. I have looked over many bestiary in my time for research and fun, and I think I would like to use my abilities with scroll making to focus upon that -- A sort of travel diary, journal, bestiary thing from my persona. There may be embellishments for entertainment's sake, but I do really enjoy the research that goes into this sort of thing and the storytelling involved in it, as well as my own interest in theology.
I'm going to really ponder this, and likely make a miniature bestiary just to see how I enjoy it.