azurelunatic | Interesting Interest Theatre, Round III

aedifica asked about: blue hair, chaos, do another, dream treatments, mud cult, nevermore, s.oteri, stargaet.

blue hair: I never considered the possibility of having hair of an unnatural color prior to 1995, although I did try coloring my hen Aurora's white hackle with dandelion petals, because I thought she would look good as a blonde. (She would have, too: she was an Egyptian Fayoumi, and a yellow hackle would have made her resemble a Golden Campine.) Then I went to CTY, and someone (possibly pyrogenic) decided that we should go for blue hair. I immediately decided that the idea was glorious, and was all for it. Sadly, it did not come to pass, as one of the RAs got wind of it, and Josh was the only one who was confident that his parents would fax in permission for the alteration. I eventually did go blue in 1998/99, and I loved the look, but the bleaching and maintenance were not fun. I went blue again in 2000/2001 briefly, but had to dye it black for a job. I've occasionally overdyed my very dark brown hair with blue since, for a fun blue-glow-in-the-sunlight effect, but haven't been able to keep that up. I'd like to have permanent dark blue hair.
chaos: Both mathematical chaos and chaos magic(k) fascinate me.
do another: This is from Support. I was never part of the Schools team, but the phrase got tossed around some, and it was also a catchphrase at my old tech support job.
dream treatments: This is from the anime Darkside Blues. It's been quite a while since I watched it; I should watch it again.
mud cult: This was a CTY event. There was a rainstorm over a weekend, and everything turned to mud. A bunch of us started playing in puddles and having a mudfight. First they banned throwing the mud, so we started chasing each other with handfuls of mud and *placing* the mud on each other. Then we got shooed on from that, as we were too close to out of bounds and getting too muddy. We re-convened in the quad, where the volleyball court had turned to mud also, and had a barefoot, bathing-suit-clad mud dance (asking for more rain for more mud). There were mud-chants. Eventually it was lunchtime. We tried to go in the cafeteria all over mud, but were unjustly barred entrance. We staged a sit-in until we got too hungry, then went and got showered off and came back for lunch. It was delightful fun.
nevermore: Another CTY reference; this refers to people who a) are in their last year due to being too old to come back next year ("my nevermore year") and b)people who are now too old and will not be able to come back. It is sad to be a nevermore.
s.oteri: This is from Margaret Wander Bonanno's Preternatural series, a species of telepathic space jellyfish. The novel deals with a first-contact situation between the aforementioned telepathic space jellyfish (yes, it's okay to laugh) and a series of creative and messianic types throughout history, which culminates in contact with a novelist who has written tie-ins for a certain popular science fiction show, and the aging cast of that selfsame show, which is a thinly-disguised Star Trek (no, seriously, "thinly disguised" is an utter understatement, and Karen is the most delightful self-insert ever, and I love her (and Margaret) to pieces). For reasons that are difficult to articulate, the novel was a seminal work in my adolescent career. It remains a favorite, particularly the s.oteri named Azure.
stargaet: This is, um. Picture this: it's 20 hours until the end of National Novel-Writing Month, and you have about 12k words to go. What do you do? Obviously, you write crackfic about being naked in the gateroom. NUDE STARGAETS. OMG.

Blue hair is awesome but yeah, the maintenance is a PITA. My hair's dark enough that there's no point in bothering at all unless I use bleach (doesn't show up even in the sunlight to any extent). To my knowledge there *aren't* any permanent blue dyes, though I would love to know if there were!

I'm considering indigo.

Thanks! I'll do the return post within the next few days (maybe even tonight).

My association with blue hair is an 80s song by Missing Persons, "Words," which is about how nobody listens to each other anymore and includes the line "I think I'll dye my hair blue." After that I always wanted to dye my hair blue, and in my early 20s I finally did! It looked good on me, but the Manic Panic washed out pretty fast, leaving my hair a sort of sea-green color. I dyed it a few times (usually blue, once purple) but eventually I stopped. And yeah, the bleaching wasn't fun (my hair is dark brown too).

Oh yes. The green hair. First it's this horrible orange, then it's blue, yay, then it's green, it fades to bronze, and then you have to do it all over again. Orange and bronze look dreadful on me. I look jaundiced.

Mama thought the blue hair thing was a phase. :D

(The userpic is a wig.)

I've had good results with Special Effects, although it too is semi-permanent.

You're making me unpleasantly nostalgic for CTY. It's like, it should have been really significant and helpful but I don't think it really reached me the way it reached a lot of other people. No lasting difference.

(replying on LJ, bc I always read my LJ flist first *shrug*)

Awww, thinking about Nevermores makes me sad. I never was one because I only went two non-consecutive years and ended up doing other things, but still.

I missed my Nevermore year too. It wouldn't have been the same without Josh though.

I hope you do eventually find that same kind of transcendent experience somewhere, because it's something that everyone should have at least once.

CTY was transcendental? wow. What do you mean by transcendental anyway?

I don't think I want revelation-type developments in my life, by which I mean some outside force or experience causes things to change noticeably and quickly in a short span of time. I am used to/prefer slow accumulations of experience and knowledge, a steady constant pattern-making. Sometimes I look around and realize I'm somewhere else. I think it's picking up speed for me, but I'm still on the same trajectory of changing from who I was to - Well, I can't say yet.

It was another world. I was swept up into this alternate universe where time ran triple speed. If the classes had been interesting but not exactly paced to my learning speed, it would have been enough. If I had just not been an outsider for being too smart and not made friends, it would have been enough. If I had just made friends and they had not been obsessed with Star Trek too, it would have been enough. If I had just fallen in love and he hadn't treated me as a valued friend, it would have been enough. If I had just fallen in love once and had not fallen in love with the most beautiful girl in the world too, it would have been enough. If I had only been accepted and not been popular, it would have been enough.

It was like three months of heaven, or nearly that. Everything was more intense. It was what I'd always been wanting, but hadn't realized that I wanted until I had it.

I think the equivalent started happening late last semester, bc of the friendships which began developing then. It's both what I was looking for and waiting for, as well as something I was learning how to do. So it happened to me and I was finally capable of making it happen.

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