Life and Gender and Movies OH MY!

Whole lot of BLAH on my end, whole lot of hurry-up-and-wait, a whole lot of cold showers courtesy of no air conditioning in my apartment (which I wouldn’t mind, if there was only a GOD DAMN CEILING FAN), a whole lot of trying to get things done, and only getting a whole lot of things partially done. C’est le vie.


FYI, Hip Obscurity’s Gender Bending Trivia & Beer Night fundraiser is this Thursday! I’m MCing the Trivia portion of the festivities (AND in my Trek tie as tradition dictates!) because if I were a contestant I’d sweep the board with my ridiculously USELESS knowledge of genderbending/trans/drag tidbits, and I really need to stop winning at these fundraisers. Those grand prizes need to go to other people, dontcha know.

Oh, and AFTER the Trivia—

District 9.

District 9.

DISTRICT 9.

MIDNIGHT SHOWING IN THE UNION SQUARE THEATER—WHO’S WITH ME???

SERIOUSLY WORLD, WHY MUST YOU BE SO SMALL??

So, I was at mirroriste's place today after work; watching Trek, knitting, and generally hanging out. We were chatting about this and that, and in ANOTHER case of my world being AN INSANELY SMALL ONE, I came to the startling realization that I had run into her once LONG before ontd_startrek.

The Time was Summer 2008. The place was NY Comic Con. I was still living with my parents on Long Island, and that morning I had made plans for a lazy summer's day, one of pool and gardening. That was when I got the call from Lindsay; "If you can get to the Javits Center by 3 pm and be my camera bitch, I can get you into Comic Con for free. You could catch the Hellboy 2 panel!" said she.

With a quick shower and a mad dash to the train station, I made it to Comic Con in time! And after enjoying various panels and things, I paid my pound of flesh by being Lindsay's camera whore as she video-interviewed various people about their cosplay costumes for a website she was interning for.

mirroriste WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WE INTERVIEWED.

For the LIFE of me, I had been trying to figure out WHY her voice and face were so familiar! But as we discussed our respective fandom histories, she brought up that she had been in the Kingdom Hearts fandom, and a little light bulb went off in my head.

"Do you cosplay?" I asked. Yes. "Did you go to Comic Con?" Yep! "...Were you King Mickey Organization XIII style?" ...Yea?

THE INTERVIEW'S EMBEDDED BELOW! GO AND WATCH!! Clips of her are interspersed within the vid!!

OMG THE HELL? FANDOM DESTINY, STOP FUCKING WITH ME.