Animazement
May. 28th, 2005 11:17 pmThere's a big difference between going to a con and staying in the same hotel and going to a con and staying at home. Namely, staying at home means that if you don't want to lose your parking space you had better stay at the con all day, and so you can't go off and hide for a couple hours when you get tired. It did not help that we were showing around a bunch of newbies who were determined not only to do everything today, but to do it all this morning. Yes.
In any case, I wore my costume today: a black tunic in a similar style to my green one, except that there's no wrapping involved, and it doesn't reach the floor even in my bare feet; with a ribbon around my left foot and something like a cloth shinguard on my right leg, and a pair of my favorite shoes added because of the dangers of being caught, literally, under foot; a faded-opalescent on black skirt underneath to provide something like decency; and elaborate makeup like I sometimes do, coming from both eyes and covering both cheeks, and sprawled over my chest as well, with lipstick (that old thing) and a red "third eye" diamond-ish red gem-thing in the middle of my forehead, and hair so bright a red that I'm going to have to break my own rule and use it as an icon because it fits my theme much too well. As seen.
I actually too this just now. Yaaaay!
Anyway, I was thinking, and the third eye just kept on making me go back to Buddhism, because of course I have an obsession with it or something. So I thought, why not a bodhisattva (since people asked me "who are you?" and I didn't have an answer) - and so I chose a name and everything, and promised myself to look it up.
Death is my other thing, so I wanted that. But aside from Kstigharba (Jizo in Japanese) and some other dude who became the "conquerer of death" or something that that, there was NO bodhisattvas that dealt with that. And I won't do Kstigharba.
So: Avalokitesvara. These days, usually seen as female, and one of the tops: maybe you'd recognise the name Kuan Yin or Kannon better? I'll stick with Sandskrit, though. And, after all, (1) who says compassion can't come in red and black? and (2) what makes you (the speculative skeptic) think that compassion comes in the way you envision it?
The costume still needs some work - that is, it's finished, but I want to elaborate on it - and I'll be using it a lot, I think. It makes a wonderful hall costume.
In any case, I wore my costume today: a black tunic in a similar style to my green one, except that there's no wrapping involved, and it doesn't reach the floor even in my bare feet; with a ribbon around my left foot and something like a cloth shinguard on my right leg, and a pair of my favorite shoes added because of the dangers of being caught, literally, under foot; a faded-opalescent on black skirt underneath to provide something like decency; and elaborate makeup like I sometimes do, coming from both eyes and covering both cheeks, and sprawled over my chest as well, with lipstick (that old thing) and a red "third eye" diamond-ish red gem-thing in the middle of my forehead, and hair so bright a red that I'm going to have to break my own rule and use it as an icon because it fits my theme much too well. As seen.
I actually too this just now. Yaaaay!
Anyway, I was thinking, and the third eye just kept on making me go back to Buddhism, because of course I have an obsession with it or something. So I thought, why not a bodhisattva (since people asked me "who are you?" and I didn't have an answer) - and so I chose a name and everything, and promised myself to look it up.
Death is my other thing, so I wanted that. But aside from Kstigharba (Jizo in Japanese) and some other dude who became the "conquerer of death" or something that that, there was NO bodhisattvas that dealt with that. And I won't do Kstigharba.
So: Avalokitesvara. These days, usually seen as female, and one of the tops: maybe you'd recognise the name Kuan Yin or Kannon better? I'll stick with Sandskrit, though. And, after all, (1) who says compassion can't come in red and black? and (2) what makes you (the speculative skeptic) think that compassion comes in the way you envision it?
The costume still needs some work - that is, it's finished, but I want to elaborate on it - and I'll be using it a lot, I think. It makes a wonderful hall costume.