[MR] submission form colors

[Shannon Smith]

Greetings, Alanna,

Thank you for that amazingly comprehensive and constructive explanation!  I
honestly tried to follow most of the thread (wading through our hundreds of
messages received while we were on vacation this week), but I found it
nearly impossible to translate the "heraldese" into something that made
sense to me.

I appreciate your point of view and am grateful for the lesson,
Sorcha de Glys  :)

> At 05:11 PM 6/8/01 -0400, Shannon Smith wrote:
> >You are joking, right?  Testing markers for stability is hilarious!
> Does
> >this mean that we are only allowed to use certain kinds of "red"?
>
> We prefer that you use certain cheap, widely available coloring
> mediums, yes.  Certain markers are not.  One submission was colored
> in front of senior heralds at a kingdom consult table with an art
> marker of some sort.  Those heralds reported later that at the time
> it was a deep golden yellow.  By the time I got it, a week later, it
> was looking on the orangey side of yellow.  I made a note on the
> folder and forgot about it until the meeting two weeks later.  At
> that meeting we pulled it out, and it was the color of Cheetos. Back
> it went, no argument.  The submitter did not find it hilarious.
>
> >Wouldn't
> >the heralds (and everyone else) figure it out by reading the blazon?
> >
> No.  That has been the whole point behind a week's worth of
> discussion, my lady.  We heralds are not allowed to "figure it out by
> reading the blazon".  We must go by the *picture* -- solely, only and
> ALWAYS the picture.  Half the submissions that hit my desk either
> have no blazon at all or one so badly garbled as to be useless.
> Blazoning them is my job.
>
> So if the blazon you have come up with says "azure" (blue) but the
> picture is vert (green), which is it and what do the Golden Dolphin
> Herald do with it?
>
> Normally I attempt to contact you to find out.  Have you just
> misremembered those odd blazonry words, and green is what you want?
> Or has your herald misunderstood what you want and colored it green
> when you really *wanted* blue?  [1]  If I can't contact you, then I
> have two choices.  I can change the blazon to match the picture [2]
> and send it up, thus risking the chance that Laurel will register
> something that is not what you wanted.[3]  Or I can return it for
> clarification.  After fielding more than one complaint that "You Evil
> Heralds *changed* my submission!!"  I will normally return it.
>
> What if it has been colored with something that is halfway between
> both green and blue?  Which is it? I can't tell and refuse to guess,
> as does Laurel Sovereign of Arms.  Back it goes.  The same if you
> have orange and you claim it is yellow (or red.)
>
> We heralds do what we do at kingdom to give your submission the best
> possible chance at passing the Society level.  If that means
> returning it because we *know* that Laurel will return it, then we do
> and take the flak.
>
> [1] Yes, this has happened.
> [2] Remember, we register the *picture*, not the blazon.
> ]3] I'm working with a submitter now, whose charges were reversed
> left to right from what she wanted.
> Alanna
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