brought to you by an excess of enthusiasm
Am possibly going to a Harry Potter costume party. In...more than five weeks, but it's a lot more fun to think about than the other things I have to think about. I am sad because it would be way a lot of work and require way a lot of the kind of imagination I don't readily have to go as one of the cool characters. Meaning the ones I like, or that are totally odd ball/extreme/ridiculous. So that means that to make life easy, I should go as a South Asian type character. Which means either Padma or Parvati NEITHER OF WHOM I CARE ANYTHING ABOUT. I mean, it'll be a good reason to finally finish that Gryffindor scarf I started in grade 10, or an excuse to make a Ravenclaw one. BUT IT'S NOT FUN.
Hermione and Luna are taken. I am not y-chromosome'd, or Roman-nosed, enough to pull off Snape (though how I do adore him) (also not exactly the image I want to project in this group of people new to me). Don't want to be a Quidditch player. Would prefer to leave the Malfoys to the natural blonds. Bellatrix is taken, too, and I sure hope the girl who picked her does justice to the potentiality there, seriously. Umbridge-esque I could probably do but again, wrong image. Rita Skeeter I wouldn't want to do, and she's taken anyway.
What this really boils down to is reason to lament the lack of South Asian type characters in Harry Potter (or to lament my imagination, but nevermind). But actually I don't much care. I just need to get over myself and find a fun way to be Padma (because Parvati sends the wrong image, too)...right.
Oh no right what this really actually boils down to (I do not like this phrase and yet so apt it is and gaaah) is that I wish my costume were harder than throwing on a sparkly kameez and some gold earrings and blue bangles and calling myself a witch. OH maybe I will make a wand.
And maybe I will get back to the things I'm supposed to be doing, like collecting receipts for insurance reimbursements. Hah.
Am I enough of a hardcore fan to go for Libatius Borage (treacherous textbook author) or Bathsheba Babbling (Ancient Runes professor)? I don't know. I guess I'll have to ask myself again in November....
In other news, depression makes you do weird things. Like wanting other people not to think about you, and changing your Facebook settings so people don't wish you happy birthday. I thought I was just being, I don't know, some kind of modest. Silly. But that was a year and more ago. Progress.
Hermione and Luna are taken. I am not y-chromosome'd, or Roman-nosed, enough to pull off Snape (though how I do adore him) (also not exactly the image I want to project in this group of people new to me). Don't want to be a Quidditch player. Would prefer to leave the Malfoys to the natural blonds. Bellatrix is taken, too, and I sure hope the girl who picked her does justice to the potentiality there, seriously. Umbridge-esque I could probably do but again, wrong image. Rita Skeeter I wouldn't want to do, and she's taken anyway.
What this really boils down to is reason to lament the lack of South Asian type characters in Harry Potter (or to lament my imagination, but nevermind). But actually I don't much care. I just need to get over myself and find a fun way to be Padma (because Parvati sends the wrong image, too)...right.
Oh no right what this really actually boils down to (I do not like this phrase and yet so apt it is and gaaah) is that I wish my costume were harder than throwing on a sparkly kameez and some gold earrings and blue bangles and calling myself a witch. OH maybe I will make a wand.
And maybe I will get back to the things I'm supposed to be doing, like collecting receipts for insurance reimbursements. Hah.
Am I enough of a hardcore fan to go for Libatius Borage (treacherous textbook author) or Bathsheba Babbling (Ancient Runes professor)? I don't know. I guess I'll have to ask myself again in November....
In other news, depression makes you do weird things. Like wanting other people not to think about you, and changing your Facebook settings so people don't wish you happy birthday. I thought I was just being, I don't know, some kind of modest. Silly. But that was a year and more ago. Progress.