Thanks Rob, Star - I do appreciate it. I hope you'll also forgive me for this one - it's not an "everything is awful" day, and really it's something incredibly old and petty, but...
Well, picture this. You're on the judge panel of a Halloween costume contest, and one of the oldest entrants parades up in front of you in a full-body suit made out of neon green fur with red on the front and legs, two extra pairs of big plastic eyes on the headpiece over the eyeholes in a green mask, and facepaint matching the red fur on the lower half of their face, and swishes three long brush-tipped tails at you on the turn around. This is no store-bought stuff, the kid and parents obviously went all out; it's looking like a lock for "Most Creative Costume" ... but what will you announce it as when it's time to give out the prizes?
a. Dunno, ask the kid
b. A... space alien?
c. A wonderwhat. Sure, the kid probably calls it something different, but it's a costume contest anyway, it'll just be a laugh line.
d. Big Bird.
I'm sure you can guess what actually happened by my emphasis, and I cannot believe that this is still bothering me thirty-ish years later, but it's the thing that got dredged up by the last bits of whatever I was dreaming and started me off in a bad mood today. Gaah! What kind of idiot sees green fur and thinks "Big Bird?" What kind of asshole thinks a kid old enough that this is probably their last Halloween in costume (and if it was planned that way I don't remember, but it sure fucking was after that contest "win") would dress as Big Bird?
Petty.
Stupid.
Still makes me angry thirty years later.
Gaah. I can only hope that putting this on display will let my stupid brain finally just let it go. Powers know there's next to nothing I actually want to remember in more than the most general terms from before I escaped high school, and it's one more grain in the "people are useless morons and the world is not worth dealing with" pile on those "everything is awful" days.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Well, picture this. You're on the judge panel of a Halloween costume contest, and one of the oldest entrants parades up in front of you in a full-body suit made out of neon green fur with red on the front and legs, two extra pairs of big plastic eyes on the headpiece over the eyeholes in a green mask, and facepaint matching the red fur on the lower half of their face, and swishes three long brush-tipped tails at you on the turn around. This is no store-bought stuff, the kid and parents obviously went all out; it's looking like a lock for "Most Creative Costume" ... but what will you announce it as when it's time to give out the prizes?
a. Dunno, ask the kid
b. A... space alien?
c. A wonderwhat. Sure, the kid probably calls it something different, but it's a costume contest anyway, it'll just be a laugh line.
d. Big Bird.
I'm sure you can guess what actually happened by my emphasis, and I cannot believe that this is still bothering me thirty-ish years later, but it's the thing that got dredged up by the last bits of whatever I was dreaming and started me off in a bad mood today. Gaah! What kind of idiot sees green fur and thinks "Big Bird?" What kind of asshole thinks a kid old enough that this is probably their last Halloween in costume (and if it was planned that way I don't remember, but it sure fucking was after that contest "win") would dress as Big Bird?
Petty.
Stupid.
Still makes me angry thirty years later.
Gaah. I can only hope that putting this on display will let my stupid brain finally just let it go. Powers know there's next to nothing I actually want to remember in more than the most general terms from before I escaped high school, and it's one more grain in the "people are useless morons and the world is not worth dealing with" pile on those "everything is awful" days.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows