Andraste

So, in addition to spring cleaning (I have conquered the wardrobe, and the desk is falling before me!) I have spent parts of the past week shopping. My spring wardrobe is now all up-to-date, with the addition of a couple of big tops and several pairs of brightly-coloured leggings. I loved this fashion trend when I was fifteen and love it even more at twenty-seven. Great legs + tummy means that this look really, really works for me. I've been getting compliments every time I go out in one of my new outfits.

I rarely wear make-up, which means I almost never buy it, but I've got a big event coming up in a few weeks and decided that this called for new foundation. So I was in the Body Shop getting goo all over my hand when an employee took pity on me. He quickly found me the right shade - I'd predictably managed to cover myself with the wrong one - and did an excellent job of applying it. If you're ever in the Bourke Street Mall in Melbourne, his name is Geoff, and he will do a great job of making you pretty. Tell him a crazy girl from the internets sent you.

In Very Expensive Plastic news, the movieverse Robot Heroes have finally been released in Australia, hooray! Or at least they have at Target, haven't seen them anywhere else. I am now the proud owner of Megatron, Ratchet, Jazz and Frenzy. I cannot decide if Frenzy is adorably terrifying or terrifyingly adorable.

After I'd bought them, I spent a good ten minutes in Comics 'R Us trying to talk myself out of buying three Doctor Who action figures. As I brought the Doomsday set up to the counter, the guy serving took one look at it and said "it's the 3D glasses, isn't it?" And it was indeed the 3D glasses that defeated me. The Doctor is currently being menaced by Dalek Sec, a Cyberman, and a Clockwork Man. But it's all right, because he has his little rubber sonic screwdriver and 3D glasses!

I just need to find him a companion now. Martha has tragically sold out around here, so it might take me a while to acquire her, but I've read that new series Sarah Jane should be out soon. I refuse to buy Jack until they produce a version wearing the coat. (OK, I would totally buy Defabricated!Jack. But somehow I don't think the BBC would authorize him.)

In other happy news, my laptop doesn't have a hardware problem at all. There's some kind of problem with my video drivers which has caused a couple of crashes as well as the wacky display errors. Reinstalling hasn't fixed it, so I've grumbled and paid for a registry cleaner to hopefully sort out whatever conflict is causing the problems. (I hadn't installed anything recently when it started giving me strife, so I wouldn't know where to start fixing it by hand.)

All of which brings me to the subject line: yesterday I was also looking for a geeky t-shirt for occasions when I want to proclaim my fangirliness to the world at large. Except it's almost impossible to buy geeky clothes in women's cuts around here - the only thing I found was a t-shirt with the Superman symbol on it. (The lable assured me it was a Supergirl t-shirt rather than a Superman t-shirt, too. Grrrrr.) Does anyone know a good place online to buy geeky clothes in women's styles? I take an Australian size 12, if that helps any.

Rating: R

Warnings: Potential squick dead ahead! And I don't just mean the giant robot slash.

Author's Note: Oh, god, I can't believe I wrote this. For springkink.

( Forward Planning )

Notable quotes from tonight's pre-RPG discussions:

"The porn is a metaphor for the church?" - lokisrose

(We were talking about The Song of Solomon, so it did make sense in context.)

"You're racist against Jedi!" - eldrad_ulthuan

Then we actually started our game. At the moment, we're playing Vampire in a WWII setting. My Ravnos went out for dinner:

"Mmmmmm, tasty Nazi." - andrastewhite

"Nibble Nazis Nuts!" - Fi

And then the Brujah picked up a snack at the bar:

"Do you want to come up to my room for a special drink?"

It looks like I'll be running the Transformers game I've been toying with (no pun intended) at leas for a day in August. That's assuming I'm right in thinking that apathocles wouldn't mind spending an afternoon playing TF while she's in Melbourne ;). I have two players lined up, yay! Running off Big Eyes, Small Mouth since it's good for mech stuff and I know the system.

Working out the ground rules now. Thinking out loud:

- It's G1 'toonverse continuity, post-Season Three. The Rebirth never happened. (Hey, if the Japanese can ignore it, so I can.) Optimus is alive, Galvatron has been cured of his insanity.

- Autobots and Decepticons are both allowable as PCs. (There's an explanation, but it would be a spoiler.)

- Femme Autobots more than welcome. No Deceptifemmes without a damn weird backstory to explain why they exist in the first place.

- There's a simple ground rule for choosing an alt mode: if it's stupider than turning into a tape deck, you can't do it.

- Also, no PCs the size of buildings, because the mechanics of getting them to interact with the rest of the cast make my brain hurt.

- The rules of physics are more what you'd call guidelines.

There are a whole pile of Attributes/Defects/Skills that won't be allowable. (Funny as a Wind Powered Transformer would be, it's not very practical.) Also combing the net for more to add to make up for those I'm deleting. So glad enterprising players have already made up rules for characters being Hyperactive, Grouchy and Insane *g*.

I should not be allowed to invent NPCs while in the midst of an obbession with certain other shows. There's this one Autobot who turns into a green 1971 Buick Riviera ...

Rating: Uh, I guess R. From one perspective, no more explicit than plugging your mp3 player into your computer. From another, unusually kinky even for me.

Disclaimer: I do not own any evil robots. Probably just as well, since I don't have anywhere I could park a bitchy F-15 fighter jet anyway.

Continuity: Between Season One and Season Two.

Summary: Starscream does maintenance.

( Warning: not actually very porny. )