a meander-y post, as is traditional
My tumblr and ao3 icon images are now a picture of my legs in stripe-y socks (green and purple, for my current otp, natch) with one foot up on my Linus bicycle's rear wheel, and ages ago I meant to change my LJ icon, but at this point it seems silly to bother.
I mean that LJ icon is me, naked on a bicycle--but the photo was taken in 2008! I haven't had that hat, bicycle, or messenger bag in yeeeeears. It's nostalgia at this point.
I should change my sticky post--so much of it just isn't true anymore.
WHO KNOWS, THOUGH. The new season of Sherlock starts ...well, technically today. WHO KNOWS.
Season three was okay--I watched every episode twice, but that was it. And then the fandom became a goddamn dumpster fire. And between that and not having a functioning computer of my own, I started spending more and more of my online time on The Toast. I watched The Abominable Bride all of once.
And then I started watching Steven Universe, and a few months later The Toast ended. I joined the Slack for it but stuck around less than a month. (I technically am the admin of the facebook group for the local Toast group. I should transfer that to someone who actually cares. I attended one meetup, about a year ago.)
I keep going to 221b con (I'm gonna buy my con pass for this year tomorrow), but it's mostly to see friends. I wish I'd suggested an SU panel for this year--good lord, they still have panels for Cabin Pressure and Kingsman and Merlin (which was canceled five years ago, and doesn't even have any Sherlock actors in it). I plan to bring my canon (as opposed to human au) Amethyst cosplay, though god only knows how long I'll manage to keep it on--that wig is heavy, and face paint and arm socks are such a pain in the ass. But I was standing up on a concrete floor nearly the whole time at Rose City Comic Con, so it'll be easier at 221b con.
I really like cosplaying Amethyst, but I have plans to put together a canon Peridot cosplay before Beach City Con in October, because all the Peridot cosplayers I've seen on tumblr--and there's not many--are Lapis/Peridot shippers, and I would fucking kill for photos of me in any Amedot photos, as well as Jaspidot (Jasper/Peridot) photos, plus honestly my body proportions are closer to Peridot than Amethyst. I know damn well some of the people planning to attend Beach City Con are into Jaspidot and i know of at least one woman planning to cosplay Jasper and I wanna photo of me, as Peridot, in a Jasper cosplayer's lap, DAMMIT.
Peridot is much trickier to cosplay. With Amethyst the actual outfit was normal clothes I messed with--I painted stars on the knees of the leggings, for instance. But with Peridot I have to MAKE her wig (I can't just slap one on and call it good), and the face paint is trickier, and good lord; her outfit is basically a (very specific) leotard and leggings!
(This is why not many people cosplay her.)
I've already decided to just pay my friend Nickey to make the outfit--she's got a lot of experience with both knits and cosplay. But she lives in Minneapolis so fittings are gonna be me sending her my measurements, eek.
BEACH CITY CON THO. I mean I was already thinking last year would be my last Sherlock Seattle (which usually happens in October); and then the person who runs it said she was probably done.
Beach City Con is in Virginia Beach. As in, the place I moved to Oregon from, over twenty years ago, in late 1995 just after I turned 16.
Fuckin' surreal. My original plan was to have Seamus come with me and rent a car for a day before or after to drive around and look at some of the places I grew up--I spent four years in Norfolk, then two and a half years in Iceland, then four years in Virginia Beach; and I literally thought there'd never ever be a reason for me to go back to south east Virginia aka "Hampton Roads."
But I dunno that Seamus actually wants to go. We got into SU together, but he's not in the fandom so to speak. I have plans to make an SU Cards Against Humanity deck that's heavily fandom in-jokes, for instance--and I don't think he'd get half the references. Also that whole "I wanna kiss girls at con" and "I wanna talk about SU fics and porn" thing. *shrug*
The one friend from high school who still lives nearby and whom I'm still actually in touch with--Kenny! My 9th grade boyfriend! Though he goes by Ken now--lives in the area and likes board games and stuff, and has promised me a game night with him and his wife if I'm in town. (He always was a sweetie, honestly.)
Do I want to show up a day early and still drive around alone and just take pictures? Maybe? I might have to rent a car no matter what--seeing as the area has no functional public transit to speak of and the con is on the fuckin' beach. But it's one thing to drive around with Seamus and chat about "oh wow this looks different now" and tell stories, and it's another to just...drive around alone and stare at shit.
My main fear about Beach City Con is that it's mostly gonna be, like, teenagers. 221b Con is mostly adults, chatting about porny fanfiction and fandom injokes and being a little tipsy. But the SU fandom just skews so young (for obvious reasons!). The entire crewniverse (aka the people who make the show), including the fuckin' voice actors! --are younger than me. I've found, like, a handful of women in the fandom my own age--literally 36 to 38. I've yet to meet anyone in the SU fandom older than that, whereas in Sherlock there are lots of women older than me, sometimes by decades!
That's what I get for getting to a goddamn cartoon.
ANYWAY two fics I'm following updated today so I wanna go read them.
ALSO I fucking finished one of my fics at like three am yesterday. Just over 19,000 words. Twelve chapters. It's a human au and requires no previous knowledge of SU if you're curious. And it's the most personal thing I've written so far. Also they fuck in the first chapter, hey-oh.
HAPPY 2017. THANK FUCK.
I mean that LJ icon is me, naked on a bicycle--but the photo was taken in 2008! I haven't had that hat, bicycle, or messenger bag in yeeeeears. It's nostalgia at this point.
I should change my sticky post--so much of it just isn't true anymore.
WHO KNOWS, THOUGH. The new season of Sherlock starts ...well, technically today. WHO KNOWS.
Season three was okay--I watched every episode twice, but that was it. And then the fandom became a goddamn dumpster fire. And between that and not having a functioning computer of my own, I started spending more and more of my online time on The Toast. I watched The Abominable Bride all of once.
And then I started watching Steven Universe, and a few months later The Toast ended. I joined the Slack for it but stuck around less than a month. (I technically am the admin of the facebook group for the local Toast group. I should transfer that to someone who actually cares. I attended one meetup, about a year ago.)
I keep going to 221b con (I'm gonna buy my con pass for this year tomorrow), but it's mostly to see friends. I wish I'd suggested an SU panel for this year--good lord, they still have panels for Cabin Pressure and Kingsman and Merlin (which was canceled five years ago, and doesn't even have any Sherlock actors in it). I plan to bring my canon (as opposed to human au) Amethyst cosplay, though god only knows how long I'll manage to keep it on--that wig is heavy, and face paint and arm socks are such a pain in the ass. But I was standing up on a concrete floor nearly the whole time at Rose City Comic Con, so it'll be easier at 221b con.
I really like cosplaying Amethyst, but I have plans to put together a canon Peridot cosplay before Beach City Con in October, because all the Peridot cosplayers I've seen on tumblr--and there's not many--are Lapis/Peridot shippers, and I would fucking kill for photos of me in any Amedot photos, as well as Jaspidot (Jasper/Peridot) photos, plus honestly my body proportions are closer to Peridot than Amethyst. I know damn well some of the people planning to attend Beach City Con are into Jaspidot and i know of at least one woman planning to cosplay Jasper and I wanna photo of me, as Peridot, in a Jasper cosplayer's lap, DAMMIT.
Peridot is much trickier to cosplay. With Amethyst the actual outfit was normal clothes I messed with--I painted stars on the knees of the leggings, for instance. But with Peridot I have to MAKE her wig (I can't just slap one on and call it good), and the face paint is trickier, and good lord; her outfit is basically a (very specific) leotard and leggings!
(This is why not many people cosplay her.)
I've already decided to just pay my friend Nickey to make the outfit--she's got a lot of experience with both knits and cosplay. But she lives in Minneapolis so fittings are gonna be me sending her my measurements, eek.
BEACH CITY CON THO. I mean I was already thinking last year would be my last Sherlock Seattle (which usually happens in October); and then the person who runs it said she was probably done.
Beach City Con is in Virginia Beach. As in, the place I moved to Oregon from, over twenty years ago, in late 1995 just after I turned 16.
Fuckin' surreal. My original plan was to have Seamus come with me and rent a car for a day before or after to drive around and look at some of the places I grew up--I spent four years in Norfolk, then two and a half years in Iceland, then four years in Virginia Beach; and I literally thought there'd never ever be a reason for me to go back to south east Virginia aka "Hampton Roads."
But I dunno that Seamus actually wants to go. We got into SU together, but he's not in the fandom so to speak. I have plans to make an SU Cards Against Humanity deck that's heavily fandom in-jokes, for instance--and I don't think he'd get half the references. Also that whole "I wanna kiss girls at con" and "I wanna talk about SU fics and porn" thing. *shrug*
The one friend from high school who still lives nearby and whom I'm still actually in touch with--Kenny! My 9th grade boyfriend! Though he goes by Ken now--lives in the area and likes board games and stuff, and has promised me a game night with him and his wife if I'm in town. (He always was a sweetie, honestly.)
Do I want to show up a day early and still drive around alone and just take pictures? Maybe? I might have to rent a car no matter what--seeing as the area has no functional public transit to speak of and the con is on the fuckin' beach. But it's one thing to drive around with Seamus and chat about "oh wow this looks different now" and tell stories, and it's another to just...drive around alone and stare at shit.
My main fear about Beach City Con is that it's mostly gonna be, like, teenagers. 221b Con is mostly adults, chatting about porny fanfiction and fandom injokes and being a little tipsy. But the SU fandom just skews so young (for obvious reasons!). The entire crewniverse (aka the people who make the show), including the fuckin' voice actors! --are younger than me. I've found, like, a handful of women in the fandom my own age--literally 36 to 38. I've yet to meet anyone in the SU fandom older than that, whereas in Sherlock there are lots of women older than me, sometimes by decades!
That's what I get for getting to a goddamn cartoon.
ANYWAY two fics I'm following updated today so I wanna go read them.
ALSO I fucking finished one of my fics at like three am yesterday. Just over 19,000 words. Twelve chapters. It's a human au and requires no previous knowledge of SU if you're curious. And it's the most personal thing I've written so far. Also they fuck in the first chapter, hey-oh.
HAPPY 2017. THANK FUCK.