I almost went to the fancy bra store this weekend, but I was hot and sweaty when I was walking by, and figured it wasn't quite the right moment.
'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.
River ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - May 21, 2007 12:03:43 pm PDT #8539 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jessica - May 21, 2007 12:04:32 pm PDT #8540 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Top Ten Futuristic Luxury Hotels. Soooooooooo pretty.
Burrell - May 21, 2007 12:05:59 pm PDT #8541 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
There's helicopters looking for criminals in my neighborhood again. Annoying.
Trudy Booth - May 21, 2007 12:22:01 pm PDT #8542 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I do kind of hate the word "cosplay" while often admiring the costumes. It makes me think of Jello pudding.
It would bring a whole new wrinkle to Picture Pages.
JZ - May 21, 2007 12:26:04 pm PDT #8543 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
All I know about cosplay I learned from Venture Brothers, so every time I see the word I hear the Monarch in my head saying huffily, "I am into costume work."
§ ita § - May 21, 2007 12:26:45 pm PDT #8544 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love the word cosplay. Maybe because it sounds dirty and isn't, or maybe it's just when I say it that it does.
Raq, I guess for me if you're learning Klingon and making bat'leths by yourself, you're a fan. When you start speaking it to someone (who doesn't think you're crazy) or fighting someone else, you may very well be in fandom.
Zenkitty - May 21, 2007 12:31:11 pm PDT #8545 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
If my boss's office were close enough for her to holler at me, she would. She will walk to my desk to ask me questions (she's shorter than the cubicle walls, so she just appears like Beelzebub), and worse, to ask me to come into her office so she can ask me questions that I have to go back to my desk to get the answers to. She won't use the phone or read her email. If she's forced to send an email, it takes her 15 minutes to write it and it still has mistakes. She works like she did twenty years ago before we had computers and the department was only seven people.
shrift - May 21, 2007 12:31:32 pm PDT #8546 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
It probably comes as no surprise that I have been around a lot of cosplay. Some of it truly excellent, and some execrable. I don't do it, myself. I loathe having my picture taken.
-t - May 21, 2007 12:41:46 pm PDT #8547 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Maybe because it sounds dirty and isn't
It doesn't sound dirty to me, it sounds icky. And it's neither, so I don't know why that should be.
Changing the subject to another that is on the table: The public perception of male fans is that they are loners who even if they do congregate together do so more becaus ethey are rejected by everyone else than because they want to be a community. I don't think that the difference between primarily-female and primarily-male groups of fans is in the gregariousness per se, but I think the way the members of the group think about the group is different. Men tend to form societies while women tend to form communities. I'm not entirely sure what I mean by that, but it's tickling something I picked up studying 18th century Europe that makes me think i might be on to something.
§ ita § - May 21, 2007 1:02:08 pm PDT #8548 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
they are loners who even if they do congregate together do so more becaus ethey are rejected by everyone else than because they want to be a community
Huh. I must ponder this revelation. And ask some of my male friends who, say, gathered with (existing, and therefore not a proto-fandom as such) friends to watch Buffy every week, but left it at that, without seeking more people to share the experience with.
I'm glad we've got the guys we've got. But we really are a chickfest.