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.
There's more than one way to skin a cat. And I happen to know that's factually true.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
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
-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.
§ ita § - May 21, 2007 1:03:40 pm PDT #8549 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Possibly Alpen:
Went to the doc about the finger. He squeezed it many times, failed to identify or diagnose it, and gave me a referral to a hand surgeon.
Harrumph. But he wants me to wait before I make the appointment. Harrumph again.
Polgara - May 21, 2007 1:05:29 pm PDT #8550 of 10001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
ita, not Dr. Z?
§ ita § - May 21, 2007 1:07:44 pm PDT #8551 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nope--my new insurance requires me to route everything through my PCP. Z would have stuck me right there and then.
But I don't want to see him anymore--primarily because of the grief his front desk gave me every single time. I always turned out to be in the right, but that didn't mean they'd not start again on the very next visit.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 21, 2007 1:07:48 pm PDT #8552 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm not sure if it's an overall evolution or just a trend of the particular fandoms I've chosen to associate with, but it seems to me that things are more heavily weighted towards the female than they were seven or eight years ago.
General comics fandom seems to run counter to this, though I've been gradually reducing my contact for years.
Dana - May 21, 2007 1:21:17 pm PDT #8553 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
From Salon:
Last year, the average American [wedding] ceremony cost $27,852; the average dress, $1,025.
Yikes almighty.
sumi - May 21, 2007 1:24:32 pm PDT #8554 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Man, that is insane.
Kathy A - May 21, 2007 1:26:08 pm PDT #8555 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My sister got a deal on her dress--it was a floor sample, so it only cost $800, instead of $1300 if she had ordered it. She and her fiance are keeping the wedding small (only 75 guests at most, though that's expanded from their original goal of keeping it to 50-60), so they're hoping to keep the costs under $6000.