Pirates and Renfaire - Your Thoughts.

[Seamus Ex Machina]

I've met some very nice, sexy, cool pirates so I know you are out there!

Why, thank you....

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Since I caught some flack from my post, let me just say:
NEVER did I say ALL pirates are bad! I just said I'd had some bad run-ins with people who can't always distinguish the fantasy of faire from reality, taking things wayyy too far into the real world where it has no place to be. By all means, dress as a pirate (I do for the pirate events in my state, would at the Ren events if I hadn't just gone through a custom order nobility ensemble that a. cost a lot and b. I love) if it suits you. Just be nice about it. I've met some very nice, sexy, cool pirates so I know you are out there!

I think I know what you mean, Kathryn, and I agree with you.  Yes, dress like a pirate and have fun.  Even though pirates in those days were swashbucklers who got away with stuff because they were pirates, and who knows how much of it was myth and legend and how much was really true, you are NOT a pirate.  You are a person dressing up like a pirate.  And conventional laws of behavior for this century demand that you act like we expect you to, and not do what you normally wouldn't do under the excuse that a pirate can get away with it.

Is that what you're saying Kathryn?  Because that's how I feel.

And I love pirates at faire!  After all, sometimes Lady Renee Buchanan becomes the dreaded pirate Redbird Annie Cardinal, keeper of the parrot on the Ocean Motion.   

[Capt Robertsgrave Thighbiter]

NO EXCUSE FOR ACTING INAPPROPRIATELY !  Wet faires have a responsibility to the patrons in general to remove those who are past the point of public intoxication, just like any bar or club.

If the excuse is 'Pirates were nasty guys and we're just acting like pirates", call them out on thier garb. Chances are they are typical Renn-Faire pirates and have zero to do with historical accuracy.   If they actually looked like threadworn, dirty, smelly and unkempt seamen, on shore for a short bit before returning to thier smelly, dirty, threadworn and frequently wormridden ship, then you could easily avoid them.

[Celtic_Fae]

Since I caught some flack from my post, let me just say:
NEVER did I say ALL pirates are bad! I just said I'd had some bad run-ins with people who can't always distinguish the fantasy of faire from reality, taking things wayyy too far into the real world where it has no place to be. By all means, dress as a pirate (I do for the pirate events in my state, would at the Ren events if I hadn't just gone through a custom order nobility ensemble that a. cost a lot and b. I love) if it suits you. Just be nice about it. I've met some very nice, sexy, cool pirates so I know you are out there!

I think I know what you mean, Kathryn, and I agree with you.  Yes, dress like a pirate and have fun.  Even though pirates in those days were swashbucklers who got away with stuff because they were pirates, and who knows how much of it was myth and legend and how much was really true, you are NOT a pirate.  You are a person dressing up like a pirate.  And conventional laws of behavior for this century demand that you act like we expect you to, and not do what you normally wouldn't do under the excuse that a pirate can get away with it.

Is that what you're saying Kathryn?  Because that's how I feel.

And I love pirates at faire!  After all, sometimes Lady Renee Buchanan becomes the dreaded pirate Redbird Annie Cardinal, keeper of the parrot on the Ocean Motion.   

Exactly, Renee!

[Jay Byrd]

I take exception to the "Fairies and Elves aren't real" thing.  I've seen them, haven't you?  So to the Fae and Elves some of us know that there you are out there.  I do belive in fairies...

Jay Byrd