More Randomosity!

[capri0mni]

• If I ever go to another Sci-fi/Doctor Who convention (not likely, but): The problem with using a wheelchair is that it really gets in the way of participating in costuming -- no matter how fabulous or accurate a costume may be otherwise, the first thing people see is the chair. If I want to dress as a character, that pretty much leaves me limited to Davros, and I don't like him at all.
  
  So I was thinking (since the person I'm most suited to being is myself, anyway): What if I went as a "Mary Sue" -- a Doctor Who companion from between existing stories? I could wear one of those "Hi, my name is:" name tags with Mary Sue written in, do my hair in cute-little-girl pigtails, paint a pink heart on one cheek, and a glittery blue tear in the corner of one eye. I could have a friend make an "alien Teddy bear" like the one pictured above, maybe, to carry under one arm/on my lap. Do you think many people would get the joke? Or is the idea of "Mary Sue" still a small niche in general fandom?



• Too many people use the word "Theory" when they really mean "Hypothesis." I'm trying, in my head, to break myself of that habit. I also have a half-baked hypothesis: That human consciousness is merely coordinated by the brain, but it's generated, holistically, throughout the entire body. And that the heart evolved before the brain, and (in a totally unscientific way of thinking) that the brain is more a servant to the heart than the heart is servant to the brain. I hate cultural cliches of "Romance," but I am still a hard-core romantic, in my own way.



• You know about the Honey Bee Crisis, right? Well, I haven't seen any wild bees or wasps all summer, either. This depresses and worries me.



• I picked my current default icon () at the end of last year's naarmamo. Another month of art-making has come and gone, and I have 7 new icons to show for it. Is it time for an icon change? Do you want to vote in a poll? Or do you trust my judgment? Or both?



• I had a weird dream, this morning (is there any other kind of dream, really?): I dreamt I was watching a Waltons-style family drama movie (in a theater, not TV), about life on a farm. And a few minutes in, I morphed/merged into one of the characters: the cute youngest girl, of about 5 -- just learning to count, and learning about money. I remember talking to my older brother it... There was also a plot in the movie about a thwarted romance in the family, and the lovers trying to get together across a dark, muddy battlefield (crawling on their bellies) while escaping the mustache-twirling-type villain (though he didn't actually have a mustache, he was just that sort of character). I was watching this last plot bit partly as an audience member in the theater, partly as the concerned little sister who only kind of understood, and partly as one of the lovers, trying to escape. ...I think I have some generalized anxiety going on in my head, don't you? (Oh, and BTW, LJ's spell-checker doesn't believe that "dreamt" is a real word. I find Google is turning out to be the best spell-checker of them all)



• Would you like me to, occasionally, retell my favorite fairy tales in this journal space? Would you like it to be on a special filter? Would you like to be on that filter?

Comments

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

I think you could get away with Mary Sue, fans are fans after all:).

And hm, at Redemption someone came dressed as a TARDIS. It was fucking awesome. I think she used one of those cloth wardrobe TARDISes you can get now.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

They make cloth wardrobe TARDISes? *Boggles.*

Really, though, the main advantage of dressing as a Mary Sue is that I could wear my ordinary clothes, mostly, and not have to worry about the mechanics of going to the bathroom quickly, or fitting through a doorway, or eating, around a complicated costume. (also, I was thinking the costume would include a fishing vest, and that I could fill the pockets with random "alien artifacts" that I could pull out and use as conversation starters (or play with, myself, if I got stuck in a corner, somewhere).

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I don't go to cons so I never think about costuming but I think you can go as almost any human character in a wheelchair because a lot of adventurous people become either temporarily or permanently disabled at some point in their lives.

One of my friends costumed as Oracle, the DC comics character Barbara Gordon (who used to be Batgirl too), in her wheelchair. I've seen Professor X around too in con photos too.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm only really interested in dressing in costume for a fandom I'm familiar with, rather than just picking a character because they're in a wheelchair. I'm not all that fond of the Batman or X-Man universes.

Though, since I'm a fan of Greek myths, I have also considered cross-dressing as the god Hephestus, and getting a male companion to cross-dress as one of his golden handmaidens...

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I'm only really interested in dressing in costume for a fandom I'm familiar with, rather than just picking a character because they're in a wheelchair. I'm not all that fond of the Batman or X-Man universes.

Of course! I was only randomly dredging my few memories of costuming. Oracle is fresh in my mind because that was this year and thinking of comics automatically makes me think of the X-men because they were the objects of my first superhero fannishness.

As someone who's been unwell a lot I'm very aware that "able-bodied" is a temporary state for most people so I found your question more generally applicable than perhaps you intended. :-)

As you know, I have a very wrong sense of humour so I think it'd amuse me to go dressed as Sarah Jane* and tell everyone that I needed the wheelchair because I'd twisted my ankle, heh.

* Or any other companion who fills the ankle-related requirement while wearing distinctive clothes.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

* Or any other companion who fills the ankle-related requirement while wearing distinctive clothes.

I would go as the Fifth Doctor from Castrovalva, except, that, you know, I have a snazzier motor chair that actually works. ;-)

[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

Castrovalva Five is a very good one.

There's also Dr Judson from Curse of Fenric, but I imagine he wouldn't be a terribly pleasant person to play.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

That's the problem with so much genre fiction (from James Bond to James Barrie, and everything in between): Physical deformity/disability is often used as a metaphor for spiritual weakness, and are often reserved for the villains...

The cop Ironside is one exception, as is Professor X, but my choices, if I stick with existing characters, is still pretty limited. That's why blatantly making up my own character is so appealing...

[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

So long as you don't mind continually explaining to people who you are and bearing the snobbery of those who think your costume doesn't count.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Werl, at least then I'll easily know who the people who are fun to hang out with... I want to stay as far away from fans who can't laugh at fandom as possible.

[scarfman]

If you put a filter on telling fairy tales, I'll be in it.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Duly noted. Thanks.

[jekesta]

I do like fairy tales, if you filter then I would like in, although I don't always read story type posts at the time they're posted, I memory them for later, so I will probably be bad at commenting - at least at timely commenting.

I have voted in your icon poll:)

It's horrible about the honey bees. I was going to say that I've seen far less flying things this summer than normal, but actually over here we've had a barely ever warm summer and I have spent ALL OF IT indoors, so there are probably reasons:) Hedgehogs have recently been put on the endangered animals list, though, and this has upset me greatly, because when I was young there were millions of them EVERYWHERE and I should not be old enough for that to have been 20 years ago and for things to have changed. Dude.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Hedgehogs have recently been put on the endangered animals list, though,

*Hugs you, and (very carefully) hugs the hedgehogs and the honeybees*

When I was small, I would hear whipoorwills singing all summer night long. I haven't heard a single one in ages, and ages, and ages... That was close to 40 years ago, though...

*sads*

I saw that you voted in my poll.

*glads*

[barbarafett.livejournal.com]

Yes, I would read the fairy tales if you posted them. Yes, I think Mary Sue is a good costume choice. At least some of the fans there would get it, I'm sure. :-)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

'kay! (and I really like that moon icon, btw)

[barbarafett.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I picked it because it seemed appropriate for a 'fairy tale' atmosphere, but it's more subtle than my "Pirates of the Caribbean" icons.

[clamnebula.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't know about the honey bee crisis. I knew that there was a mite infection that had hit them a couple of years ago, but I didn't know about their current problems. I'm a big fan of honey, and since they also pollinate 80% of all other crops, I think we really need those guys around!

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I'vw heard the statistic a few times that one third of all the food we eat is in our diet thanks to bess.

I'm not ready to restrict my diet by that much!