Wednesdays!

[azurelunatic]

Bookmark: http://azurelunatic.livejournal.com/4748402.html "Queen of Pain", a Young Wizards drabble
Software: http://pack.google.com/ Google Pack, a bunch of varyingly-useful applications.
Going: to writing group.
Dressed: black scoop neck top, black tiered skirt, blue stockings, black slip-on shoes.

Comments

[nalidoll.livejournal.com]

I knew you were the Bluestocking type.

;)

[azurelunatic]

*grin*

Perhaps it will set a trend if I keep wearing the blue ones instead of the black ones to my writing group.

[nalidoll.livejournal.com]

It is, really, the *perfect* place to make a statement like that, even if you were the only one to get it.

I'd be highly amused, even from a distance, anyway.

speaking of blue things... did you fill our my contact poll? I need to mail you something that I needed to mail you before. It just resurfaced in my sorting-of-things. I am going to be packing stuff for storage, and I want to send it before it disappears into another box.

(have I ever told you why this icon of mine amuses me so much?)

[azurelunatic]

In fact, I was aware that "Bluestockings is more than just a color of sock, look in the past in England," but I wasn't entirely clear on what they were. So I had to look it up after coming back home.

I have indeed filled it out, and I re-checked and nothing jumped out at me as Obviously Wrong, so it should be good information and so forth.

I don't think you have mentioned why the icon is so amusing, or at least not where I remember it.

[nalidoll.livejournal.com]

One of the authors associated with what became known as bluestockings is Mary Wollstonecraft (Thoughts on the Education of Daughters). I have always found it highly amusing that her daughter was Mary Shelley, whose novel is sometimes thought to be one of the first - if not the first - Science Fiction novel.

and my icon... it's not.

A girl, that is. 'Tis an authentic turn-of-the-(previous)century "female impersonator". Yay for vintage drag queens!

I find it appropriate for discussions of those who pushed the accepted bounds of society. (Not to mention just fun and ironic when discussing gender roles in any way.)

[azurelunatic]

Oho! Hooray for female impersonators!

(I should really make into icon format one of the recent photos of me with Sara. Because. Yowza.)

[nalidoll.livejournal.com]

I hope you liked the factoid about the Marys. I thought it a good one for you, considering the cross-over of subjects involved. I like thinking about the fact that some of the first really outwardly *forward* thinking on the subject of women's rights, abilities and education went into the development of the mind that was able to more-or-less give birth to new genres in literature (M. Shelley is also credited with 'mothering' the horror genre). yay for encouraging our daughters ("our" being general as a society)! I think teaching someone that they are capable of more than they are otherwise told is expected/accepted opens the doors for them to make even more leaps into the unknown.
As a parent, this idea motivates me greatly.

You can just imagine how thrilled I was, with my particular interest in that time period, to find the photo in that icon. I need to find a good one of a male impersonator, but they are more rare. I might have to come up with a modern one, using one of my friends. I can't do it myself, because I make an awful male impersonator. It is just impossible to make me look like a boy; it has actually been attempted by professionals. I don't have enough "yang", I think, to pull off the glamour needed.

I have been on an icon making spree, lately, but it keeps leading me to the conclusion that I need to take more photos. Heh. I guess I'll take my inspiration/motivation where it comes.

[azurelunatic]

It is indeed interesting. I hold ambitions of fostering a nest of creative types about me.

I wonder if Mama still has any photos of swallowtayle with facial hair. I was Very Startled one morning after a major camp dance to find a young man wandering into my room at home...

[nalidoll.livejournal.com]

I can imagine that would be startling!

I am happy to say none of my many brothers ever showed up in drag. There would likely have been less "startled" and more "in need of therapy" involved in this, as none of them were the physical type to pull it off as anything less than Just Wrong.

[azurelunatic]

There was almost shrieking and throwing things. Then I put on my glasses.

The situation was far more bizarre given that my, erm, "brother" was clad only in undergarments and a plaid flannel shirt. So a half-naked young man wandering into my room.

It was a very convincing illusion.

[nalidoll.livejournal.com]

and a Fabulous story!!!

Please do share pictures, if any surface.

[azurelunatic]

I e-mailed Mama asking if she could scan and send if she came across any of them (and Mama is notorious for keeping the albums organized) and sent some photos from my vacation via Dad for incentive.

Mama was very good about getting duplicate photos when we were small, and putting aside an album of kid-pictures for each of us.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Blue stockings. To writing group. *giggles helplessly*

Soooooo KYOOOT!

[azurelunatic]

And would you believe I didn't do it on purpose? ;)

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Well, I could *believe* it, I suppose. But that wouldn't be my initial assumption.

[azurelunatic]

In the future, I shall endeavor to do this on purpose, but this one time (and any times in the past I may have inadvertently done this) it was in blithe ignorance of the exact implications.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

You go, girl! :-)