I wish my dad had an interest so I could get him a Christmas present based on it
Get him a sword
I'm a scifi writer what makes you think I have sword money
You could check in your area, or online, and see if there is a liquidation shop near you. Up in my part of Canada we have a liquidation chain (Bianca Amor) where you can get liquidation swords for very affordable prices.
If your shop don't have cheap swords, you never know what other weird/neat gift ideas they may hold.
I GUARANTEE THAT MY AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY TOWN DOES NOT HAVE SWORD WAREHOUSES WITH EXCESS SWORDS ON SALE
IF PEOPLE WANT SWORDS THEY GO ONLINE OR DRIVE SIX HOURS TO THE CITY
what about learn how to make them, are there any hobbyist blacksmiths do you think
I need you to understand that all the nerds in my town move to the cities after high school. There's me, a few guys who run the comic shop, and a legion of Warhammer-playing teenagers waiting out the last few years of high school so they can move to the cities. The medieval fair happens once a year here and that's the one day a year that the women all get excited to put on longer-than-normal dresses that they wouldn't wear otherwise (that's be weird, people would stare!) and buy knockoff versions of Disney products sold by vendors who drove here from the cities.
I was stage manager for one of my dad's plays a couple of years ago and I had to explain to the theatre group what larp was. To the theatre group. The THEATRE GROUP didn't know what larp was.
I explained and they DIDN'T GET IT. I then had to explain the basics of a tabletop rpg (I just said 'dungeons and dragons' because most of them recognised those words) and didn't get particularly far.
The "nerdy" girl in the theatre group asked me if I'd ever heard of this new thing going around called "superwholock". (This would've been around 2020 or 2021). My only response to Superwholock being called this new thing was a sort of stunned "uh, yes, I'm on Tumblr." She then asked me what Tumblr was.
Do you live in the smurf village
I live in one of the many, many locations on this planet that is not a major city