Epic Quest Time!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

As of yesterday, acrossthelake has officially moved … well, across the lake. She is at school in Reading, where she will be studying English literature.

The day before that I gave her a subdued little sendoff—I’m never good with climactic good-byes, because it’s difficult to convince my brain that they will be gone when, in fact, they’re RIGHT THERE. So instead a prolonged and tearful farewell or an epic party we did a doll photostory and then I destroyed her will to live with a showing of Experiment #416, Fire Maidens From Outer Space.* Then we both sat around and thanked our lucky stars for the internet so’s we could keep in touch.

Oh, and I also did some more admiring of her birthday gift to me:



That’s right, my friends: I am now the proud owner of a giant handmade 4th-Doctor scarf. This thing represents six months of knitting and some of the best color-matching the 70s ever did. And I love the way it can act as a nerdwhistle—most people will see it and think MY GOD THAT IS A LONG SCARF,** whereas nerds will see it and think OMGTOMBAKERYAY. I may have to keep tallies of which kinds of compliments I get.

It’ll definitely keep me warm.

Anyway, good luck, acrossthelake! We here in SLC salute you!


*The movie is the typical sort of painfully padded misogynistic nonsense you get in those old B-movies, but this experiment was notable for the appearance of Timmy, the demon hellspawn who looks oddly like a silvery-black version of Crow.

** I took some creative liberties in the photostory, there—in reality the thing’s only about 57 feet long.

Comments

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

NERDWHISTLE

best new word ever.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Hee! I agree.

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

snobahr, from my friends list? Her mom was a Fire Maiden From Outer Space.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I think you'd mentioned that before. That's AWESOME. Did she do the awful liturgical dance?

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

Yes, I believe she did.

She was in several B movies, I think some of the Bert I. Gordon ones, maybe even a few of the Corman movies as well. One of snobahr's icons is as picture of her mom as a Fire Maiden. She keeps telling her mom that she should look into doing SF/media conventions and talk about what it was like working on those B movies. "Oh, nobody wants to hear what it was like working for Bert", I'd love to hear what those movies were like.

[firinel.livejournal.com]

fwiw, before I even read your post, I thought "WHOSCARF!" though I couldn't tell immediately which Dr's it was.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Dude, that doll on the left looks JUST like one of my RP characters. By which I mean Tracie Thoms but ya know.

[die-monster.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha now I ship Jack/Oscar Wilde. And want Four's scarf. YOU ARE BAD.

[sofish-sasha.livejournal.com]

It appears the world is conspiring to make me watch Doctor Who. I may have to do something about this.