ah, the world of alternative crossovers...

[winterbadger]

from Issue 9 of The Scourer, the newletter of the British Lance and Longbow Society

a response to a question on the accuracy of information imparted by a reenactor...

I must, in all fairness, say that I have a lot of respect for re-enactors and I do get to meet a lot of them as there is a fair crossover between re-enactors and the British consensual adult S&M scene. [Many of the Lance and Longbow Society members already know that I am also ex-chairman of the SM Pride campaign for consensual sadomasochism]. (Ed. Barry, If they didn’t, they do now!). On the S&M scene we have several well-known Vikings, many Sealed Knot and other ECW society members [my friend Zoe the Goth is a musketeer!] and I was at the SM Pride Annual Ball in 1999 when two members of The White Company started lovingly unwrapping the polished sallet, bevor and pauldrons they had just collected from an armourer who was living just down the road. However one of Britain's most famous S&M 'masters' also freely admits to me that he completely invented the 'famous' Royalist Sealed Knot regiment of which he was colonel for several years! He even wrote a fake regimental history which none of the 'experts' on the ECW scene ever challenged! So one sort of fantasy can breed another!

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[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I hope these people aren't involved in other forms of crossovers, like fanfic. I could do without another "Harry/Snape slash" story...*shudder*