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Twenty-something English graduate student in Alaska (ask me about it! I've lived here most of my life, including five years in Barrow, the northernmost community in the US) who seems to be in a holding pattern waiting for life to start--rather, less "waiting" and more "omg so busy I must be out of my miiiiind," repeat ad nauseum. Writer, reader, wannabe novelist, hopeful cynic, traveler (up to 15 countries! *fist pump*), Ravenclaw, Browncoat, Whovian (Ten will always be my Doctor), member of way too many other fandoms, proud geek and gamer girl, etc. (favorites so far include the Mass Effect, Portal, and Fallout series, and Red Dead Redemption). Politically conservative-to-moderate feminist (yes, it's possible). Living with clinical depression since at least 2004. Somewhere around the demisexual end of the asexual spectrum. Possibly a vampire.

You can find me in multiple elsewheres, in varying degrees of regularity: in my writing journal, mostly for fanfic and fanmixes; last.fm; and Twitter (same username for Echo Bazaar, where I misunderstood the character creation for some reason and picked the wrong gender), among others. I'm thestarvelingcat on PSN, which is mostly only relevant if you want to find me in Red Dead Redemption multiplayer, and 100indecisions on Steam, as well as at Playfire.

I also run F Yeah Fireflies and F yeah Raspberries, which are...pretty much what they say on the tin, as well as another one for one of my novels-in-progress, and I co-run the Red Dead Redemption blog the gunslinger's lament.

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30 April 12
visions-and-revisions: (via Steam Community :: 100indecisions :: Screenshots) MAH BOYS Yeah so I had this idea a while ago that Calli should go as a genderswapped Arcade for SDCC, and then I thought well, I’d like to be somebody from Fallout too, and I know genderswapped Boone’s been done at least once but it would be kind of great. Now I’m trying to figure out that outfit—I’ve got pants like he does and I might just do that, but I’d rather use skirts with my genderswapped outfits, partly because it would be cooler and partly because, well, genderswap. The beret’s the main part, I think…the shirt looks pretty basic, and I’ve got sunglasses, so that’s easy enough.

visions-and-revisions:

(via Steam Community :: 100indecisions :: Screenshots)

MAH BOYS

Yeah so I had this idea a while ago that Calli should go as a genderswapped Arcade for SDCC, and then I thought well, I’d like to be somebody from Fallout too, and I know genderswapped Boone’s been done at least once but it would be kind of great. Now I’m trying to figure out that outfit—I’ve got pants like he does and I might just do that, but I’d rather use skirts with my genderswapped outfits, partly because it would be cooler and partly because, well, genderswap. The beret’s the main part, I think…the shirt looks pretty basic, and I’ve got sunglasses, so that’s easy enough.

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7 March 12

I need your costume advice random tumblr peeps…

niemehr:

So. Assuming I have a mustard yellowish skirt, a brown vest, a burgundy blazer, blue argyle or lace tights, a brown and purple hat, and a 16ft long striped scarf that contains all of the above colours, do I get the burgundy or the brown shoes? I have been stressing about shoe choice for days now(polyvore did not help). I like the burgundy more for the costume, but Four wore brown shoes and I am more likely to wear the brown shoes later than the red and UGH! IT IS LATE AND I ASK THE MAGIC LAMP QUESTIONS!

Can’t reply to this because Tumblr’s being a brat, but I guess…it sounds like there are more pros on the side of the brown shoes? I’m trying to picture which would look better and while I’m inclined to say burgundy, for some reason I think the brown might actually look better with the costume as a whole.

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Posted: 8:56 PM

niemehr:

HAHA! FEMME!FOUR LADIES AND GENTS! This is(basically)my Four costume for SDCC. I am not wearing make up, need to iron the skirt rather badly, and will be wearing different shoes, and will have curly hair but this is the essentials. It was so pretty out I decided that I would just go for it and take pictures for y’all. I was going to wear blue argyle tights, but they ended up making me look even shorter. Since Four was the tallest or second tallest doctor and I am 5”3(if I round up) it seemed a bad idea and the purple tights looked better. Now I just need jellybabies….

THIS IS FAB AND YOU ARE FAB

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3 March 12

niemehr replied to your post: omg it’s actually happening

YAY!! *bounces* I am so excited today! I have put off getting plane tickets cause I needed to KNOW I had badges before buying them, But I can do that this next week or so and bang out the rest of the costumey stuff and be done!

Yeah, I probably should’ve waited to get my plane tickets until I had a badge, but I wanted something to be official before, and it looked like prices were going up…so I went for it a while ago. But now I can REALLY plan. Also there may well be enough room left on the flights I booked that we can at least be on the same flight—I think I said somewhere in the email thread what my flight times and numbers were, but I can forward you something more specific.

Posted: 9:35 AM

plenilune replied to your post: omg it’s actually happening

I…. do not have plane tickets yet. but otherwise. (Hannah just got hers, I’m freaking out about money??????, but I want to go with her so I need to get them quick so I can follow the same itinerary OH GOD PLANS *clutches at throat*)

Do you have a credit card? If not do you think you’d be able to get one? That gives you more time, anyway, especially if you can find something with a 0% introductory APR. Or we could maybe use one of my credit cards which would also be useful wrt buying some time, although I’m freaking about money too…

plenilune replied to your post: plenilune replied to your post: plenilune replied…

news from Computer Whisperer thus far: RAM is fixed, my files are off and safe, hard disk is probably a mess? I guess he’s going to fix/replace that? but haven’t heard more on it. I NEED MY COMPUTER FOR WORK DAMMIT.

Wow. Does he know what actually happened to it? That sounds like…pretty comprehensive, catastrophic failure for such a new machine. Did it have any kind of warranty?

Posted: 9:20 AM

plenilune replied to your post: plenilune replied to your photo: plenilune: James…

no except netbook still. :( and yeah we have plans for musicky things. I HAVE TO FINISH MY HEX SONG.

Riiiight. You might actually manage to watch something on Livestream on your netbook, if it can handle Youtube, but yeah, I manage you wouldn’t be able to run anything. Still haven’t heard from the Computer Whisperer?

renkris replied to your post: omg it’s actually happening

Congratulations :D

risk-of-being-free replied to your post: omg it’s actually happening

It. Will be. Amazing.

:D I imagine so! Do you know much specifically about what/who will be there? I know Kate Beaton will be, and I’m absolutely going to Nerd HQ (Zac Levi/The Nerd Machine…stuff), but I guess they don’t release info on panels and such until closer. Figure you might have heard more, though?

Posted: 8:10 AM

omg it’s actually happening

I couldn’t get into the Comic-Con waiting room and was freaking out, but Calli got in and helped us get all our badges, so…I’m actually for sure FOR SURE going. I have my plane tickets, I have my badge, we all have our badges, it’s ACTUALLY HAPPENING. omg I don’t know what to do with myself.

Tags: SDCC 12
Posted: 7:40 AM

plenilune replied to your photo: plenilune: James McAvoy as a confused baby…

OMG ILU AND ALSO WE NEED TO WATCH THIS STUPID SHOW FORTHWITH SO YOU AN AT LEAST FIND SHIT TO RAGE ABOUT SO IT’S A PARASITE RESPONSE PROPER #come to the dark club #we have pomegranates

We really do…and we also need to Livestream The Final Sacrifice so anyone in our group who hasn’t can see it and have any idea what Calli and I are going on about with Troy and Rowsdower…and Breaking Dawn pt. 1 now I have the RiffTrax…actually since we’re all up we could conceivably do one of those now, although I imagine you guys have more interesting plans that…might even involve leaving the house. >_<

(also semi-sentient houses because what is the point of the Hex parasite if not to allow MASSIVE SELF-INDULGENCE)

27 February 12
reading-angel answered your question: Cosplay question: now that I’m not going as River,…
I like the shoes, but the socks are too colourful/patterny. Nine was very bleak/dark/plain, costume-wise.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.

Posted: 3:46 PM

niemehr answered your question: Cosplay question: now that I’m not going as River,…
What size shoe do you wear? Cause I am taking a pair of size 7 combat boot to wear in a Rogue costume that you could use for Nine…

8.5, sadly. I might decide in favor of the boots anyway because they’re nice boots (well…nice for reasonably inexpensive Forever 21 boots, but I like them) and they don’t take up that much room, but the other shoes might be more like Nine’s, I’m not sure.

Posted: 3:31 PM

Cosplay question: now that I’m not going as River, I can’t double up costumes with the boots I was planning to wear as Nine, so while they’re great boots, they’d take up a bit more room in my suitcase. Thoughts about these shoes? I can’t actually remember what Nine wears, although obviously with the boots I was ignoring that and going the combat-boot route. Also I’m thinking of these socks—that’s the set they came in, so it would be some combination of the ones shown—which is what I really want opinions on, because is that too much pattern/decoration for Nine even if I’m already emphasizing the military-ish aspects of the costume?

1 February 12
the-night-and-the-storm: vulpesinculta: Veronica and Arcade by Gobeur I”m thinking about going as genderbend Arcade to comic con this year, so don’t mind me as I post reference pictures… Oh right, we&#8217;d have to figure out something for&#8230;whatever that is on his coat. Probably could find something cheap in the electronics section (such as it is) at Value Village), like&#8230;I don&#8217;t know, a battery charger or something.

the-night-and-the-storm:

vulpesinculta:

Veronica and Arcade

by Gobeur

I”m thinking about going as genderbend Arcade to comic con this year, so don’t mind me as I post reference pictures…

Oh right, we’d have to figure out something for…whatever that is on his coat. Probably could find something cheap in the electronics section (such as it is) at Value Village), like…I don’t know, a battery charger or something.

(Source: ruthlesscalculus)

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30 January 12
the-night-and-the-storm: risk-of-being-free: plenilune: oh look it is me and some of my favourite people. we are going to take california by storm this summer. I notice that you chose to screencap a moment when you were smiling alluringly into the camera with your face tilted just so, whilst the rest of us are looking slightly askance. It’s as though you said something oddly outrageous (well, outrageous for us) and we all paused in confusion whilst you cackled. Except me who is a microphone apparently. Guess my secret is out I knew you were actually a cyborg!

the-night-and-the-storm:

risk-of-being-free:

plenilune:

oh look it is me and some of my favourite people.

we are going to take california by storm this summer.

I notice that you chose to screencap a moment when you were smiling alluringly into the camera with your face tilted just so, whilst the rest of us are looking slightly askance. It’s as though you said something oddly outrageous (well, outrageous for us) and we all paused in confusion whilst you cackled.

Except me who is a microphone apparently. Guess my secret is out

I knew you were actually a cyborg!

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24 January 12

plenilune replied to your photoset: So this is the Tonks costume I wore to Deathly…

YOU ARE MY FAVOURITE :D :D :D :D :D also i want your gloves.

They are pretty great gloves! Unfortunately gloves of any kind drive me nuts after a while and I keep tugging at them, or they help make me really hot, which was definitely a problem in a hallway full of people—like, I was thinking okay, it’s a skirt and a t-shirt, surely I won’t get that hot, but with the wig and the hat and the socks and the gloves and also a crowded hallway, I was…not comfortable. Which is partly why I’m paranoid about getting overheated really easily at SDCC, just aside from the fact that I’m, y’know, Alaskan. Even the bitty local cons I’ve been to, I got way too hot. But…cosplay. I don’t know.

Posted: 8:13 PM

So this is the Tonks costume I wore to Deathly Hallows 2 this year and for some reason never got around to posting. Well, I know why, it’s a lot because I wasn’t entirely happy with it—as usual it looked better in my head, and all these bits that said Tonks to me were…less than the sum of their parts? Because I don’t so much look like Tonks as like…a homeless person. Or Sibyl Trelawney. I was planning to do some variant of this for Comic-con since I already had it figured out, although probably pretty different, with a pink bobbed wig and an attempt at an outfit more like how she’s dressed for the battle in OotP, but…others that didn’t include wigs or awesome-but-kind-of-heavy coats were more appealing.

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh