Ren Faire by Mya Applesauce
Shaenon: Thank you so much to Mya Applesauce for drawing cast members dressed for a Ren Faire. After a year of quarantine I’m dying to go to a Ren Faire, something I haven’t done in about ten years, and buy stuff with dragons on it and eat a turkey leg.
I assume Jeff would do the same but buy stuff with unicorns.
Channing: Ah, yes, that classic food staple of the European Renaissance, the (checks notes) North American wild turkey. I, too, have been absent from Ren Faires for the better part of a decade, and 2020 wasn’t really the year for it. Perhaps it’s just as well, as I would probably waste all my time looking at, but not purchasing, well-out-of-my-price-range merch in the broad categories of (a) swords and (b) unicorns.
Perhaps a sword with a unicorn on it.
Anyhoo, thanks so much, Mya! Lovely work on this. It’s great to see the cast so happy, though it admittedly is easy to be happy when you’ve got a ginormous battle axe.
Totally steak on a stake for me.
Ahh! Cute!
I love the way Mya drew Virginia.
Wonderful picture.
I’ve never been to a Ren Faire (there’s a bit of dressing up and pseudohistorical stalls at the Inverness Marymass Fair, but mostly it’s just a regular fair – I don’t think the UK has Ren Faires much because, well, we’re already the UK), but they sound like fun.
I do wonder, though, what the veggie option is. Boiled turnips? Pottage?
It’s been much too long since we’ve Unity in-comic. Happy for this.
Perhaps:
A unicorn with a sword for a horn?
Mike
When I went over to the fairgrounds to get my vaccination last week, they still had posters up for the Renn Faire my SCA group demoed at back in February 2020, with pictures of some of my friends in armor. I think it was the last event held there before the fairgrounds got shut down and converted to a testing and then vaccination site.
We’re looking at finally re-starting fighter practices next month. I’m both looking forward to it and kind of dreading it. I haven’t even had my armor on in almost a year and a half, and I’ve gotten so out-of-shape, and I don’t snap back as fast as I did twenty years ago. And I got a bunch of fighters half my age to keep in line.
A Renaissance Faire is a kind of event for some geeks to unwind. It’s different this year, different chopper to fear, of our Unity’s axe out to grind.
… never any Stimpy faires… sigh…
eat… a… unicorn… leg.
Okay, got it.
” that classic food staple of the European Renaissance, the North American wild turkey.”
Actually, Turkeys were being imported into Europe from Mexico by the Spanish in numbers as early as the 1510s, and had spread out as a delicacy into France & England by 1530. Henry VIII and the Lord Mayor of London’s formal banquets during the period included roast turkeys. They were referred to as “turkeys” largely because they were similar to the guinea fowl imported through the Turks and called turkey-cock or turkey-hen. While not a peasant or market fair dish, they were certainly available during the English renaissance period.
Very interesting, thank you! Despite the name “Renaissance” it is admittedly difficult to nail Faires down to a certain historical time period (the overwhelming aesthetic being “old timey like in that one fantasy book”) but it’s good to know that this detail, at least, checks out with the name.