When real things happen to imaginary people

Everyone, please go take a look at the LJ comm savesnowssanity. snowcoma is a delightful person who is in a horrible situation. There are all sorts of interesting things that are being auctioned off to help raise money for her medical bills; I'm offering a personalized, signed copy of the Gothic Charm School book: http://community.livejournal.com/savesnowssanity/6091.html

Thank you for any taking a look at the auctions, and for any help you can give.

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The quote that best sums up my evening: "Head for the giant flamethrower, then turn right at the chainsaw-wielding clowns." We went to Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights with pix_kristin and noisedesign! Many, many actors, dressed in scary costumes. With prop chainsaws.

"But Jilli!" I can hear some of you thinking, "You are notoriously easily startled and scared, even though you love the horror genre! How on earth did you deal with the packs of roaming fiends determined to terrify the guests at the park?" Good question! By deciding that hey, aren't they cute! Look at them, being all Grr! and Graaaaargh! Let's blow kisses at them! Most of the monsters seemed amused by this, and one said "You're like, a dark Mary Poppins!"

( Mazes. )

There is no jaunt to the Kingdom of the Mouse on this trip; the Stroppy One is Disney-ed out right now, and I sympathize. (I mean, I am always up for a trip to Disneyland, but I understand that it is not everyone's favorite place to go.) I will miss visiting my spiritual home of the Haunted Mansion, but I'm okay with it. There will always be other trips home; maybe someday they'll give me my rental agreement when I ask for it.

We went and saw Zombieland this afternoon. Wheeee! I loved it. I now have "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Metallica stuck in my head, and I want a Twinkie. A note for the squeamish: this is a gory, blood-spattered movie. If you don't do well with gore, you might want to give this one a miss. I, on the other hand, cannot wait until I can own my own copy of it.

Clicky-links!

If you wander over to the blog of Miss K of Aromaleigh, you can read all about how you can donate to a worthy cause AND get eye shadow custom-made for you. I think it's a great cause AND a tempting incentive. (I chose the school asking for books as my donation recipient, because books! Everyone needs books!)

The Victorian Dress-Up Doll for the novel Soulless! I love these sorts of online paper dolls (okay, I love paper dolls in general), and the fact that it's for one of my favorite new books is a bonus. (I'm also a smidge envious and coveting, because it's been a long-cherished dream of mine to eventually do some sort of Gothic Charm School paper doll thing. Someday, someday ...)

The Raven skirt from MorriganNYC. I covet this skirt SO MUCH. I'm waiting to hear back from them to find out if they have any of the black with silver print left in stock. I need to find someone who is capable of doing finely-detailed screen printing and talk over some ideas with them. But until I do, I'm going to be keeping a close eye on the offerings from MorriganNYC, yes indeed.

Dear Self,

Where did you hide the stage blood? It is necessary for tomorrow's Zombie Walk outfit.

Back to rummaging through drawers, yes indeed.

EDITED TO ADD: Found it! In the drawer with the makeup brushes. I don't remember putting it there, but okay. Also, deliberately and artfully destroying clothing for a zombie outfit = strangely soothing.

You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:

1. one weapon.
2. one song blasting on the speakers.
3. one famous person to fight alongside you.

* Weapon can be real or fictional; you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional.

1. Pulse rifle. Just like in my stress nightmares, when I'm trying to fight off an invasion of the critters from the Aliens movies.

2. I can't decide between "This Corrosion" by the Sisters of Mercy, or "Thank You For The Venom" by My Chemical Romance.

3. Ripley from the Aliens movies. If I have to fight swarms of Horrible Things, I want Ripley on my side, thankyouverymuch.

(Hey, look at that! I already had a tag for "zombies", hee!)