Eccentric Flower talk:200910/Nerd-Con

Thomas:

Now I am tempted to make a comic strip ( not on my own idea, but someone on LJ had an idea to offer. He may insist it is just an idea and not something that happened to him, but I have different view of the issue! )

-- 17:11, 28 October 2009 (GMT)

Mrissa:

I am so not you that this hardly ever comes up.

But I had the identical expectation/reaction to panel three of QC.

-- 17:24, 28 October 2009 (GMT)

Iain:

I just find it wildly improbable that Hannelore, with her neuroses specifically involving being touched, would go to the crammed site of a con. And heaven help her (or possibly everyone else) if it's one like the "open source boobs" thing they had at Penguincon last year. (In practice, it seems to have gone shockingly well; that said, it could have gone disastrously wrong right off the bat.)

I do like Subnormality, but every once in a while, he really does throw up one of those "walls of text" he says people complain about. I looked at this week's on Monday and as soon as it loaded, promptly wandered away because I just wasn't up to it right then. (Also, pretty sure that sort of surprise wouldn't really result in six orgasms.)

-- 20:28, 28 October 2009 (GMT)

Mel:

Have you seen anime Marigold? (complete with Totoro hat): http://qcjeph.livejournal.com/109775.html (your system seems to think this is spam and won't let me link it, btw)

I immediately made it my wallpaper.

Also, I agree with Iain about Hannelore's recent bout of very social behavior - it doesn't fit very well with her personality as previously established. (I think it started before the introduction of Marigold, didn't it? First I remember is the drunken sledding business last winter, and I thought it was a bit out of character even then.)

-- 03:23, 29 October 2009 (GMT)

Columbina:

Well, the thing is, Hannelore was not exactly antisocial even from the beginning. (She first met Marten in a bar and it was revealed that she was actually Marten's upstairs neighbor and knew way too much about him already. And remember, she nearly made her mother cry with joy when she found out they had the common bond of both liking dry martinis - a personal favorite strip of mine, for obvious reasons.) She has OCD, yes, and it manifests mostly as extreme germophobia and not liking physical contact, but she's always been capable of interacting with other people, and she's loosened up gradually as she has gotten to know the gang. Marigold is a different story - different set of neuroses.

-- 15:06, 29 October 2009 (GMT)

Columbina:

I like the manga Marigold, but I am afraid I like the Badtz-Maru pic even more.

-- 15:09, 29 October 2009 (GMT)

Mel:

Because I am obsessed, Totoro hats: http://www.jlist.com/PRODUCT/HAT-TOT2GREY http://www.jlist.com/PRODUCT/HAT-TOT1BLUE and a pattern for a knitted one: http://www.helloyarn.com/topdownbonnet.htm

-- 16:52, 29 October 2009 (GMT)

Nonelvis:

Ooh, thanks for the Totoro pattern, Mel! I think I might have to make one for my niece.

-- 17:00, 29 October 2009 (GMT)

Columbina:

Incidentally, I guessed correctly in the Girls With Slingshots cartoon I linked above. (Everybody has to go to the Hallowe'en party dressed as an internet meme. To find out what Jameson is dressed as, see the preceding strip.)

-- 13:55, 30 October 2009 (GMT)