Sleep, emo-in-eyeliner, rec

[wildestranger]

My sleeping issues seem to have sorted themselves somewhat - I am still tired as fuck but at least I can get up in the morning. Yay for mornings. Especially now that they have fixed my shower and I have actual hot water. So much yay for hot showers.

In other news, I have recently purchased two albums of both Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance. I have also purchased some eyeliner, hair gel, and three pairs of skinny jeans. I fear these events are not unrelated. *hangs head in shame* I should be too old for this shit.

Especially since I am not a boy, and therefore wearing eyeliner doesn't quite have the same subversive queer panache. Also, it makes me look like an underaged prostitute, or possibly Avril Lavigne, neither of which is a look I wish to cultivate. Although this might be because I'm just rubbish at putting on make up.

Anyway, I'm far too old to try to look trendy - how can I look down on undergraduates if I can't call them shallow and maintain a superior stance through dress code? - but there is just something about pretty boys in eyeliner that makes me aspirational. Wah.

Okay, enough self-indulgent whining - I draw the line at actually behaving emo. Here's a fic rec, and look ma, it's HP! Apparently I am still reading it. And oh, there should be Adventures this weekend.

A bright particular star by flambeau Remus/Sirius, NC-17

Their last Christmas at Hogwarts, with a lovely slow pace and a delightfully happy Remus. Not to mention some somewonderfully awkward and warm sex scenes. Go read!

Comments

[fleshdress.livejournal.com]

You're scaring me just a little. Are you going to be too trendy to talk to me? Because I remain a Very. Old. Lady.
♥

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

Oh darling, don't worry. The whole point of me looking "trendy" is that I get to look down on other people doing it while looking better than they do in the skinny jeans. Smug superiority on fashionable people is the name of the game. ;) *snuggles*

[spikeyboots.livejournal.com]

Do we get photos? ;) *smacks sleazy part of self*

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

Photos of me looking like an underaged prostitute? Probably. ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_emeraldgreen/]

I must admit to being rather jealous as you know I'd totally be dressing up in skinny jeans and eyeliner if I could! So I am supporting you fully in the not being too old. Pretty boys in eyeliner...I feel like a pervy old woman most of the time, but just, yes. :)

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

I've seen your eyeliner - I'm still in awe of it three months later. No one does green like you, baby!

But yes, boys in eyeliner. Mostly I feel smug (well, okay, mostly smug is my default position) because I have the look them boys are aspiring to. Even if it isn't that transgressive on me. But skinny arse and underaged prostitute look I can do. ;)

[saturnalia.livejournal.com]

Haha. Bandom, man- it gets you doing all unexpected crazy things. (Like, uh, buying tickets to go see My Chemical Romance live? That was my bandom moment of the week, really. Given that I couldn't stand their music a year ago, this is kind of a Thing.)

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean - I may have, um, checked out how much the tickets to their concert cost. Luckily, they were sold out so I don't have to think about how much money I want to spend to see Gerard Way. ;)

[georgierae.livejournal.com]

Also, it makes me look like an underaged prostitute, or possibly Avril Lavigne, neither of which is a look I wish to cultivate.

actually quite happy to hear i'm not the only one that happens to...!