azurelunatic | Trenchcoats as Birth Control

That's odd.

ras_sinister mentions that a friend of him thinks that you can't get laid if you wear a trenchcoat.

Something about trenchcoats on men, especially black trenchcoats, is inherently attractive to me. Given guy in trenchcoat and his twin brother out of a trenchcoat, I'll pick the one who's got the trenchcoat. Same thing with glasses. Most of my boyfriends have worn glasses. The "geek" look has usually gone with intelligence, almost a guarantee of it in some cases. You pick Mr. October from a pin-up magazine, and what has he got? Muscle. I don't want muscle. It's nice in its place, but I'd rather find it under a trenchcoat, hidden until you can get him out of the trenchcoat, than displayed right out in the open.

There's a bit of an air of mystery about trench coats. There's something hidden under there. Is it weaponry, a person hiding from the world, a person hiding from the cold and weather, a Really Boring Person... what? It's usually worth my while to find out, especially if it's a man with glasses and a thick book. The men who hide from the world, the ones that are worth knowing, are often really worth knowing, once you get to know them.

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I am wired for geeks. Perhaps it's some evolutionary response to intellect correlating to the ability to support a family -- but more likely it's just my whole odd psychology.

Skinny,
long-haired,
glasses-wearing,
goateed,
trenchcoat-clad,
geekboys!

Each of those traits is worth a number of points, and not all the people I'm attracted to are all of those things, but each characteristic helps the score.

martial-arts wiry
long-haired
blond
glasses-wearing
computer geeky
trenchcoated
scruffy
ironic
sarcastic
punnish
atypical
arcane
sf/fantasy reading
...
MEN!

I've been refusing to date mundane men lately. Darkside fits the profile perfectly, except for liking me...

Yeah, I didn't list my personality prerequisites for men, at least partially because I was thinking of one particular person who fits most of my Nifty Geekboy chart, and he's married. Polyamorous, but both of us have big crap going on in our lives and so the situation is a bit saddening, and if I can't explain it all to myself, what am I doing posting it as a comment in somebody's LJ?

To be "relationshippable", a man has to be familiar with certain large categories of the memes that occupy my mind on a regular basis, so I can converse with him an' stuff. Gaming, mainly, and paganism, and some amount of good music, as well as a few key items of literature. But if there's any personality quality that causes me to develop crushes, to be attracted to someone on a more immediate level . . . it's a mental affinity with chaos. I'll have a small helping of insanity, please, topped with generous dollops of non-linear genius. All my roleplaying characters seem to go for madmen, too (whether I intend it or not) but they go for the dangerous ones, while I merely become smitten with benign eccentrics.

I think the last time I dated a mundane was when I was . . . oh, thirteen years old or so. But then, I'm in California; it's not hard to insulate myself in a proper bubble of strange.

"non-linear genius".

Yep.

There's the one guy I have fallen for, yes. he's the one who's become the baseline for my choice in men.

I'm getting into learning more about chaos, mundane and otherwise. Always been a Malkavian. Saned up, rather, lately...

. . . that that's the very word which drew me here in the first place, didn't I?

I've been fascinated with madness for a very long time, and not entirely sane myself. White Wolf Games just made me lightbulb on the fact that it was madness itself that interested me -- I'd figured out bits and pieces that sort of pointed in that direction, but hadn't gone right out and found the right meme.

By the way, for gaining a better understanding of chaos rather than just splashing around in it, read the Illuminatus! trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea -- I can't recommend it enough. Especially if you read the last book of it in an altered state of consciousness. (Well, in my case, the altered state was intentional, but finishing the trilogy while in it was not . . . 'spose that's what happens when I toast Eris with acid and apple cider. But that's another story.)

For chaos magick specifically, there's also "Liber Null & Psychonaut", two books in one volume by Peter Carroll -- at least I think that's his name. I'm of two minds about that book; it's very practical, but more hardcore than me, and also overly focused on left-hand stuff. Still, worth reading.

Hoo boy, I'm the tangent monster today.

Yeah, you mentioned that.

I think most of my madness manifested a little earlier than I discovered White Wolf, though -- I read a biography of the woman that The Three Faces of Eve was based on... and promptly wound up with a few developing multiple personalities of my own, mostly out of boredom.

Regrettably, I've only read the Illuminatus! trilogy twice, and my copy currently resides with none other than the incomparable Darkside. The altered state of consciousness in my case was a result of flying a few hundred miles (Alaska to Arizona) on Samhein while reading it.

I have a different Carroll book, and my roommate's got one by Phil Hine, one that doesn't seem to be showing itself on the bookshelf today.

I have been assured that I am weird enough without chemical influence stronger than caffiene.

Hmm...*mental note to get pics in my glasses and leather trenchcoat*

Oooh!

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