[antir-heralds] Question re submission forms.

[Britt]

Can't anyone actually draw their armory anymore?  Are we going to put
computers at events to display people's arms because it's too much
trouble to use a pencil?
</pained tone>

Sorry, but I've been doing this a long time and if I have to look at
that Fox-Davies almost-horse unicorn that's one of the biggest
problems we have regarding people drawing unicornate horses instead of
goatlike unicorns I might start needing Tums at the consult table.

Okay, overstatement, but if someone can't run off ONE copy of their
armory by hand and copy it for submission forms, I'm willing to make
cash bets that the only place their armory ever shows up is on that
submission form and maybe some online roll of arms put together with
even more Victorian clipart.  We're in a Society where we embroider
our own trim and beat metal into armor but it's perfectly acceptable
to never put a personal touch on our heraldry.

I heard tale of a barony in another kingdom that was producing their
award charters on an inkjet printer. From clipart. I'd smile, thank
Their Excellencies, and head into the biffy with such a thing and make
the abomination have at least one practical use.

Why are we so complacent about our heraldry?  People calligraph
applications for branch officer positions. But they cheerfully brag
(yes, brag, it's happened to me often enough I've perfected the
plastic insincere 'I'm not really listening' smile to deal with it)
that they can't draw their arms and don't need to and don't care to
learn.

Okay, rant over.  I just had to say it.  When I see a submission
that's hand-drawn with slightly wonky lines I have been known to
actually cheer.  Honest heraldry, a dying art.

- Teceangl