From 4b054db1b8347b76325ea5a2103a6b945ece1199 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 22:53:45 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] SF Fan Expo bullet points MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Seems fine to do a quick post about this, as long as it's quick—out the door tomorrow night (I had hoped to finish and publish "Multi-Product Review" before this, because it describes the mask purchase, and then I thought about delaying this to finish "Multi-Product Review" first, but that's a terrible idea; this isn't interesting enough of a post to be worth an extended writing and editing process; the excuse for publishing a less-interesting post is that it's cheap to produce and shove out the door fast while it's still about a recent memory) --- content/drafts/context-is-for-queens.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/context-is-for-queens.md b/content/drafts/context-is-for-queens.md index abb0de5..fdef8dd 100644 --- a/content/drafts/context-is-for-queens.md +++ b/content/drafts/context-is-for-queens.md @@ -4,10 +4,31 @@ Category: other Tags: anecdotal, cosplay, Star Trek Status: draft -the plot point about the mirror universe people being sensitive to light seemed _so dumb_, but it's actually the perfect premise for this costume!! +Tom Paris 13/50 epigraph!! -last time: /images/tilly_cosplay.png + * despite the fact that conventions are boring, I went to Fan Expo SF to reprise my Ens. Tilly cosplay with my Crea FX mask and hip pads—would it make a difference? + * I was disappointed to learn that one-way glass isn't actually a real thing that you could use to make sunglasses out of; what exists are _half-silvered_ mirrors + * the plot point about the mirror universe people being sensitive to light seemed _so dumb_, but it's actually the perfect premise for this costume!! + * encountering the author of Transcat, the "first" transgender superhero, in the vendor hall; "whose appearance I will not describe"; the art looked bad; "There's so much I could say that doesn't fit in this context", then I added, "Probably not what you're thinking" "Oh no" said the author + * got an autograph from Brent Spiner for $60; told him that I thought the forward to _Fan Fiction_ should have been more specific about which parts were based on a true story; he said, That's the point, you don't know what's real; I was reading it as a decent detective novel, and kept being like, No way this happened, and he asked which parts, and I said, the part where the bodyguard woman has an identical twin and you're dating both of them, and attack the killer + * I gave my name as "Ens. Sylvia Tilly, U.S.S. Discovery" + * autograph: "To Sylvia / A fine human!" + * I don't think I fooled anyone—not up close + * a woman in a Wonder Woman costume wanted a photo with me, rapport at the Star Trek meet; I feel like I got "Man Pearl Is Best Pearl" vibes? + * I explained the mask choice to a fellow Star Trek Discovery cosplayer + * wig was falling off at Star Trek meet + * the photo up was assembly-line as expected, Spiner said, "Sylvia, right?"; COVID theater + * I did get "ma'am'ed" on my way out + * I was tired and wanted to go back to my hotel room and masturbate, but I decided to stop by the vendor hall and buy Transcat; I wrote "unremediatedgender.space" on a scrap of Moleskine paper, as I bought Vol. 1 (issue 1 $5 was sold out, and I said I'd take it for $25 when Vol. 1 was pointed out); I said I was disappointed that our Society has settled on a "trans women are women" narrative; author said there was more enthusiasm in 2016, but stopped going to conventions because of COVID, and public opinions seems colder now, and she's worried; I asked if she'd heard of the concept of autogynephilia, and she hadn't (!); I said I had some heterodox opinions, but that I had a blog, and handed her the slip (as if implicitly proposing a trade; I'm reading your stuff, you read mine?) + * when the author asked my name, I hesisitated, sensing my discomfort, she asked, Who should I make it out to; I said, "Ens. Sylvia Tilly, U.S.S. Discovery" + * masturbating in the hotel room; the mask with no wig; imagining being a butch lesbian with a shaved head + * Transcat is really bad in the expected ways + * a slight tear in the mouth of the mask, the nostrils look kind of ragged? -(I was disappointed to learn that one-way glass isn't actually a real thing that you could use to make sunglasses out of; what exists are _half-silvered_ mirrors +Side life things to note— + * need to be more careful with money because contract ending soon + * memoir progress -I had already used "Context Is For Queens" as the title of my Facebook photo album for 2018 Comic Con, so I went with "Crossfield Class" \ No newline at end of file +last time: /images/tilly_cosplay.png; art history class at the academy—David Xanatos + +I had already used "Context Is For Queens" as the title of my Facebook photo album for 2018 Comic Con, so I went with "Crossfield Class" -- 2.17.1