Hot diggity daffodil!

[sabinetzin]

1. I admit to skipping over a lot of Language Log's posts, but this post made me sporffle. Oh Geoffrey Pullum. Never change.

2. I am still in Fayetteville, with leiascully and coffeesuperhero! I ate the most glorious cupcake and petit four for breakfast. They were scrumptious. Now we are enjoying our rainy Saturday in the best way- sitting around on the intertubes and playing with the dog.

3. I have made a determination, flist. I'm totally going as Cally (the one from Blake's 7, not the one from BSG) to Dragon*Con this year. Specifically, I am going to make her bitchin green and white outfit from Horizon. It should be fairly easy, I'm thinking, except for the wings, which I think will just be a little fiddly. It's gonna be so sweet, y'all, y'all don't even know. Hopefully my hair won't be too long by then.

4. It may interest you to note that I have passed a thousand, yes, a thousand, links on my delicious account. They're all fannish, and most of them are fic recs, tagged by pairing, fandom, and plot elements. Enjoy them, won't you?

Comments

[gozer]

Cally! Good choice; such an awesome character! (But to tell you the truth, I like Blake's outfit better than hers in that picture. MmmmMmmm, buttery-soft leather!)

[sabinetzin]

I have to make a confession- that outfit of Blake's cracks me up. It looks like it's made out of gore-tex!

[gozer]

You probably already know this... but season 1 of Blake's 7, the costume designers shopped at Army-Navy stores for the clothing, which they minimally changed to make it look a little more science-fictiony. They came in under budget wildly. The season 2 costume designers were a whole other bunch of guys, and they went nuts with the budget, spending twice what they were allowed to. It was all-Italian-leather, all-the-time for them! Understandably, but hilariously, the theme for the crew of the Liberator was "Robin Hood." I think Blake could smuggle a quiver full of arrows in those sleeves, which *are* butter-soft Italian leather.

[sabinetzin]

I didn't know that, actually! That's awesome.

[chkc]

2. Cupcake for breakfast. Yum.

3. The outfit you have decided to recreate looks wearable in public if the wings are detachable! Cool. :)

4. Ooh, shiny! Will go check it out.