Tits and Eyes and Trips to Lowell

[matrixrefugee]

I seem to have finally found a way to get over my body-image problem, namely, fuming over the fact that I'm flat-chested. It dawned on me that the fact that I *am* so under-endowed makes it a hell of a lot easier for me to cross-costume at sci-fi conventions. Currently I'm juggling ideas for Arisia/Boskone this winter (I'm trying to find one earlier in the year, just for the heck of it): either the movie-verse version of John Constantine (helps that I'm dark and I habitually forget to comb my hair; only one catch: I don't smoke, and certainly not like a chimney), or -- yep -- the Merovingian, which is the harder of the two, since I'm not having much luck finding a reasonably-priced replica of his frock coat-jacket... As silly a reason it might be, you have little idea how emotionally liberating it is.

And I've been giggling over some snarkage about "chocolate brown" eyes on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Mary Sues, which put me in mind of a silly "Matrix" Sue, who also had chocolate brown eyes, but was allergic to chocolate, much to the chagrin of the Merv when he tried slipping her the special dessert... I remember thinking, "God, with those chocolate brown eyes, she must need Visine all the time."

Of course, this talk about chocolate eyes has the Merv, as I know him, sniggering in my headspace. ::Turns up the volume control on the Houseparty's radio transmitter::

tM: "Come now, stop talking about chocolate eyes: zis is making my mouth water and zere is nozzing to put into it." ::Licking his lips::

MR: "I suppose now you want Puck to bring you the eyes of the Sue and you'll help her get out of that self-insert she's writing?"

tM: "Per'aps... if zey are chocolate brown ones, I shall grant 'er zis requested favor..."

MR: ::Waiting for the nausea that usually accompanies anything relating to eye trauma, since thanks to the eye surgery she had, this is one of her major, major squick buttons:: "Okay, this is wierd..."

tM: "What, if I may ask, strikes you as being wierd?"

MR: "I'm not getting squicked out."

tM: ::Proud little smirk:: "I zink zat effect 'as been prevented since we 'ave been tempering zis exchange with... snarkazhe."

Flood: "Oi, I believe *I* am the snarky one around here."

tM: "And what, might I ask, gives you cause to zink you 'ave a monopoly on ze snarkazhe around 'ere, M'sieu Flood?"

MR: "I think it's because it involves eye-trauma inflicted on a Mary Sue, and we know how I *hate* those creatures!"

In other news, I nipped into Lowell to take care of some computer business... including making a new LJ icon based off a picture of me, for those of you who wondered what I look like: http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/32610327/1917925

I also nipped into the Lowell library for the first time in weeks (since they burned me with a phony library fine...): Got out Joan Gould's "Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal about Transformations in a Woman's Life", which I think Becca had reccommended me some time back. Excellent stuff! I haven't read anything as good since Clarissa Pinakola-Estes's "Women Who Run with the Wolves". Of course I gravitated to the chapters on "Beauty and the Beast", which has to be my favorite fairy tale (though "Sleeping Beauty" is a close second)...

Comments

[crowdog66.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm glad you've found a technique that makes you feel good about yourself. So glad to hear it! :-)

Neo: "Hey... I have brown eyes."

Crowdog: "Yes, dear, but they're more like mahogany than chocolate."

Neo: "Well, that's a relief..."

[(Anonymous)]

You only just figured that out? It occured to me ages ago, admittedly mostly because of a slight case of envy on my part. It's not silly, it's just one of those things that other people may not get but are still important. With regards to the costume, you can always get a plastic cigerette and just have it hanging out the corner of your mouth all day.
~Weaver

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Y' know, I think I unconsciously knew that my flat-chestedness gave me an advantage, I just hadn't gotten it to the front of my brain where it belonged. ::Grins::

[veilofveronica.livejournal.com]

nice pic, you're a cutie pie!