So, @gothiccharmschool, I wanted to let you know that you inspired my LARP costume (and my character, somewhat).
Specifically, my LARP, Catalyst: the Lucid Dream, allows characters who are from an alternate-universe 1980s that… still mostly resembles our own. My initial idea was that I wanted to play someone who worked for TSR, Inc., on Dungeons and Dragons, but the idea wasn’t quite complete.
Then I found the old photo of you working for Wizards of the Coast in the early 90s and went “Wait, YES! She’ll be a goth too!”
So my costume was directly inspired by your look from your WotC days:
I’m a LITTLE messy in that photo as I’d been fighting dudes, and I don’t have my makeup on, AND you can’t see the really awesome sleeves of my shirt + my gloves because it was raining so I have a raincoat on. I’ve got a lace shirt over a tanktop, and then over that this kinda 80′s wide-neck thing with these sort of transluscent cape sleeves, and then shoulder-length fingerless spiderweb lace gloves. You can kinda see how I usually do my makeup in this photo (no skirt in this one, still can’t see my sleeves):
The big weird bag in the first photo is for holding spell components – she ended up a Ritualist, so I need chalk & string & all kinds of other stuff.
The outfit’s interesting because it has to hit a nice point between “80s goth” but also “this needs to be practical for running around in the woods hitting people with a foam sword”
Personality-wise… unfortunately she’s kind of the opposite of you XD She’s a bit of a jerk who always speaks her mind. Very impolite. Whoops.
OH MY G-D THIS IS DELIGHTFUL. And I totally approve of “this needs to be practical enough for running around in the woods hitting people with a foam sword”.
I miss LARPing. No time for it these days, but I do miss it.
centrists: i don’t believe in genocide, but i’ll defend to the death your right to organize, recruit, distribute propaganda, and make clear statements saying that you are about to commit genocide. i don’t believe in it though and i don’t understand how it happens
i hate how fast october is going there’s only like 11 days until halloween and i’ve done literally nothing festive. haven’t watched any spooky movies, haven’t carved a pumpkin, i don’t even have a halloween costume yet… this is so problematic i’m dragging myself right now
in high school I started my first real relationship, but neither of us were vocally out. one of my friends was a sweet dude whose parents had been missionaries. back then, he was easily scandalized by gay shit, and had somehow not noticed that all of his friends at school were gay. it was pretty obvious to absolutely everyone else, but this poor kid… this poor kid had no idea.
shortly after we started dating, I was sitting with my partner during lunch. we were holding hands and I was gently stroking the back of their hand with my thumb. my oblivious friend came over to hang out and sat down across from us. he saw us holding hands, and so he… he… he thought it was just the hip the thing to do? the next thing we knew, he was holding my partner’s OTHER hand and stroking it with his thumb while we sat there stiffly, petrified by overwhelming social awkwardness.
I love him and he’s a good guy but I really, really, really, really want to know just what the fuck he thought was happening.
OMG he just sounds so sweet and naive! What happened when he found out he was the only straight in the friendgroup?
I don’t know if he ever had a “HAROLD!” moment or if he just slowly realized over time, but he has only been respectful since and if he’s got a problem with anything, he keeps it to himself.
