Fry Day

[bironic]

Managed to have dreams last night about House (House had stitched up an internal injury on himself and now he was morbidly obsessed with seeing how the sutures were healing, so he kept doing self-destructive things to try to incur an open abdominal wound and take a look, and Wilson was tearing his hair out trying to stop him), Inception (something about Arthur and Eames; don't remember) and Project Runway (Anya was saying she and Joshua weren't getting along because they'd slept together earlier in the season). I don't even know.

This week has been a bit of a roller coaster. Let us focus on the good things. Like having made several donations; everyone and their brother seems to be doing pledge drives this week. Or how catilinarian emailed from the UK slash con Connotations to say "They Want More" appeared in the vid show! Or how I love my Festivids assignment and there are also two possibilities for treats. Or how I will totally be making these Oreo turkeys for Thanksgiving gifts. Or how I discovered this amazing, if possibly permanently incomplete, Doctor Who noncon/dubcon tentacle slavefic PWP with Amy/alien and past Amy/dom!Eleven. You're welcome.

Renaissance Festival turned out to be lots of fun last weekend. It was large and nicely shaded, the weather was great, and I was impressed by the quality of many of the arts and wares for sale—dresses, capes, vests, masks, intricate metalwork (helmets, goblets, battle axes, chain mail, jewelry, etc.), leather-bound journals, mead, spices, musical instruments. (I got to play a hammered dulcimer! Took a little while to get used to the way the notes are laid out on the board.) Not only meat but a whole array of foods available on a stick, including chocolate-covered cheesecake and macaroni and cheese. There was a large intersection with Harry Potter themes and fans; magic wands for sale, Hogwarts outfits, that sort of thing. A couple of girls next to us in one costume shop were having a conversation about how cool it would be to wear item X to the Quidditch World Cup that is apparently coming up in NY or somewhere.


Some particularly awesome art





Neo-Tudor parody foodstuffs





Strangely absent of stupid hat-wearers





Sample costumed attendees





S&M wear





A neat roof







In conclusion: By Jove, I will either finish this House Halloween-themed WIP from 2007 by next Monday or I will amnesty-post it as is and stop thinking about it.

Comments

[synn.livejournal.com]

ooh, love the spider lamp.
did not know about the hp themed area, that's fun.
but I am disappointed by the lack of stupid-hat wearers

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, whoops, I didn't mean a physical intersection, I meant like an overlap between HP fans and Ren fans, so some of the Ren fair shops had HP-like items, and some of the festival-goers were done up in Hogwarts costumes. Ya? Ya.

That lamp was totally excellent. The whole shop was full of stuff like that. Looked like they were going to start crawling over the countertops. The shopkeeper/designer said they only do that at night.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

Halloween-themed WIP?

*ears perk up*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Now to just sit down and get it done, arg, I think it dates back two jobs and a grad program now. The fellows have been replaced twice!

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I love Ren Faire! I haven't been to one in a long time.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

It was really a fun time, and I have a lot more respect - well, I should say "even more respect" - for the fans who run and attend it. Hope you have an opportunity to go to one soon if you want to!