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Patty downloaded a bunch of her trip photos from her camera to her computer last night. Many of them are stunning to a breathtaking degree. I'm hoping she posts hers soon. I still have several islands worth to share with you all, but am a bit swamped right now.

Headshots February 5th. Okay, actually more like headshots, compcard, genderqueer author promo shot, and a video headshot slate thing. Look, I've needed to do it forever. That's all I've got to say about that. I'm having another neurotic convo with the photog today (me being neurotic, not him).

In recognition that my life does its awesomest shit when things become oddly circular, I'm now feeling ridiculously sanguine about something that was making kinda hysterical and edgy yesterday.

This is the item about which I have nothing to say.

Consweet!

Meanwhile, I love when I tell people what to do, and they do it, and then everyone gets what they want.

Lots of new updates on the Gallifrey schedule. I'm now on three panels. I suspect this is relatively close to final for me and everyone else now. I'm pleased by everything except that I'll be missing Tony interview Georgia Moffett, but then who the hell ever went to Gally for what happens on stage? So I have the death/mourning panel, immediately followed by the crossplay panel. I've said since the beginning that I simply will not cosplay at the death/mourning panel both because it's too weird for everyone and because it's a distraction from the material and because I feel like it's all sorts of disrespectful and I also might cry, but if I don't, then I'm not in cosplay for, you know, A FUCKING COSPLAY PANEL THAT I REALLY CARE ABOUT.

Another review of my play. This one awful. But not in a scathing precise awful way that I can actually take to heart, just in a "it's about whores and a retard and I don't get it" way. They also didn't get a spoof of Othello, so it's cool.

help_haiti auctions are winding up. Items with no bids yet are here.

hakeber continues to follow the earthquake swarm. Generally, aftershocks continue to go down in magnitude. So the 6.1 that hit Haiti today? That's extra alarming.

Starting in 2011, NYTimes.com will charge for access to articles over a certain quota per month. I can tell you right now, this isn't going to work.

Sexual transgression and digital armies -- when technology makes it easy for everyone to catch anyone, in which directions are our values going to shift? Hate the tone of the piece, love the question. Fanfic and original fic writers looking at how we get from our current values to a different set of sexual mores, look here.

Men, women, success and marraige:

Ms. Zielinski, the fashion stylist, said her best friend, a man, told her once: “ ‘You are confident, have good credit, own your own business, travel around the world and are self-sufficient. What man is going to want you?’ He laughed, but I found that pretty depressing.”

Robert B. Parker has died. He's the dude who brought us the Spencer books. I got into them for a brief while, because my ex was really into them. They were airport books for me and of interest because of gender -- men were men and women were women and maybe I could figure out how to do _something_ from them. I didn't. And then I got bored. But I was fond of them, and they were friends when I needed them.

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[marchek.livejournal.com]

So I have the death/mourning panel, immediately followed by the crossplay panel.

Do you have like 5-10 minutes in which you might be able to do a quick change? I'm assuming you'll be going from a basic suit into your Jack ensemble in which case you'll already have you chest bound and your hair done. If you wear the shirt you plan on wearing for Jack all you need to do is change your trousers and shoes, throw on the vortex manipulator and The Coat you're done. I'll be at both panels if you need someone to hold all the stuff.

[rm.livejournal.com]

No time. None. I think my thought is that that's the day I'll wear the green shirt (which I think Jack wears in canon all of once), and quickly ditch the accessories between panels and then try to be funny about it right off so we can just move past it, like immediately. But.... yuck. I think I'm going to build in some "hide in the room" time immediately after those back to back panels finish, as I'll probably feel really weirded out by then.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

Are there any aspects of crossplaying that you'll need to be wearing in order to demonstrate any of your points such as posture, fit, accessorizing?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Nah, although maybe I will bring one of the suit jackets down -- because the suits are not for cosplay, but damn, helpful to other people.

Oh god, I didn't tell you how I wound up talking to some British guy about Torchwood on the cruise and only like ten minutes later realized I was wearing the pin-stripe suit and the brick shirt. I wanted to die.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I bet he didn't even notice. I think we're more conscious of those things than other people.

I just found out last night that one of James' friends gave him a Torchwood wristwatch for Christmas even though he's never watched the show. They figured since he's a Whovian he must be a fan.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Bwah!

I think he didn't even notice either, but seriously, there we were, talking about mourning rituals and fandom:

Him: "Children of Earth, bloody fantastic that was! Oh, I used a bad word, sorry!"
Me: "Right, so, you know people started leaving flowers at Mermaid Quay, where the tourist office was, right?"
Him: "No! Brilliant! We're up north now, so..."
Me: "So I started wondering, not why does this happen, but why doesn't it always? Why's Ianto special? And of course, he's not... there's all these other characters it's happened with too."
Him: "Goodness. Dumbledore, right!"
Me: "Well, all sorts of stuff went on with Harry Potter!"
Him: "This is exciting"
Me: *gesturing a lot and noticing my cuffs* Oh FucK.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I love how the conversation so easily flowed from Torchwood into Harry Potter.

Pin stripes and brick dress shirts were fashionable before Ianto Jones but he does make them more awesome. . .and complicated.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I kept telling myself that. Over and over. But I was like.... "oh god, time to eat my dinner now, shit shit shit" in the moment.