It seems that the burroughs are active in bubbles. A person who is truly interested and vested in having an SCA group on campus gets active and somehow supercharged by the barony who wants that to happen. This person acts as a semi-permeable membrane for burrough members and encourages such activity in others. Because the person is there, the burrough members feel safer, and yet the person allows them to do things they wouldn't do otherwise.
The model for burroughs seems to be find the leader and get them to lead, turn them into the doorway. I'm not sure that is a good or self-sufficient model, but it seems to be how things have operated. We simply have hoped to sumble on enough leadership types interested in our game.
The physical closeness is a weird thing. I am not an extremely huggy person unless I am very comfortable with people. For the most part, others locally seem to respect that, so I wonder if this isn't specific predatory folks or a general culture thing. Additionally, newer people might see people who are 20 year old friends hugging, but not realize the cause for closeness.
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Date: 2005-08-03 01:08 am (UTC)The model for burroughs seems to be find the leader and get them to lead, turn them into the doorway. I'm not sure that is a good or self-sufficient model, but it seems to be how things have operated. We simply have hoped to sumble on enough leadership types interested in our game.
The physical closeness is a weird thing. I am not an extremely huggy person unless I am very comfortable with people. For the most part, others locally seem to respect that, so I wonder if this isn't specific predatory folks or a general culture thing. Additionally, newer people might see people who are 20 year old friends hugging, but not realize the cause for closeness.