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Woot! Have achieved both literacy and hygiene in one easy trip! ::flourishes coursepack and replenishments of deoderant, shampoo, and toothpaste, which were running low:: Also, I have discovered a comic book store on 40th street, a little over half a mile away from my dorm. Yayfun! The comic book store just opened this summer, so everything is still getting settled, but I talked to the manager, and he’s ordering a copy of Sandman: Endless Nights for me. Hurrah! It was so amusing. When he saw me, for a split second, he had one of those “Wow! A girl in a comics shop!” looks that amuse me so, but then all was nifty and he didn’t look unsettled or wary like the employees of Lone Star Comics back in Dallas. Yay!

Now, class. Cave, Molesworth! Cave!

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Some were curious about said artbunnies. Clues within.

Pris: Wah, Kurt looks like Bat Boy.

Pris: Wah, Kurt looks like a combination of Bat Boy and Frank N Furter.

Renata: oops, sorry.. stepped out for juice and forgot to put up an away message

Pris: no worries

Renata: 1. i have a feeling he doesn’t look anywhere near as bad as you think! and 2. that sounds really cute ^_^

Pris: it’s scary, that’s what it is.

Renata: meh

Pris: *is pleased, because her Cyclops is looking delightfully like Evo!Scott*

Renata: yay!

Pris: *unfortunately, this is only in the costume sketch idea page, and will not appear in the final. wah.*

Renata: *sulk*

Pris: *flips back to BatBoy/Frank!Kurt, screams, and turns back to Scott*

Pris: *goes to the keen nifty POTC screencap website to find costume inspiration refs*

Renata: i feel that kurt should have a puffy shirt

Renata: which rhymes.

Pris: which makes the puffy shirt all the more necessary

Renata: yup.

Pris: because puffy shirt = hold me back

Pris: of course, it’s also quite fun to translate the silly Marvel costumes into piratey garb, which is why I liked the red vest Mad gave Kurt. It was remniscent of the red triangle thing on Kurt’s uniform. *wonders if Mad was aware of this*

Renata: teehee

Pris: kinda like what I think 1602 should have done.

Pris: that would have kicked major heiney

Pris: have you gotten the 2nd issue yet?

Renata: no. *frowl*

Pris: I think there’s something you’ll really, really, really be pleased about

Renata: eexcellent.

Pris: hmm… how to play with Logan’s absolutely hideous and hilarious uniform…

Pris: I mean… who the hell expects to be taken seriously as a prod-buttock fighter while wearing YELLOW?

Pris: “Because I like the smell of daisies, BUB”

Renata: you have to be supertough to pull it off.

Renata: and he does. kinda.

Pris: I bet he gets in half of his fights because of people making fun of him

Renata: i read this article about costuming for the movies

Renata: and originally they were going to try to stick with comic costumes

Pris: hee

Pris: *imagines Hugh Jackman in yellow spandex and dies laughing*

Renata: but one of the big problems was logan- i believe the designer said something like ‘we couldn’t figure out a way to not make him look like a tropical fish”

Pris: *snorks*

Pris: I can imagine Logan trying to come up with a name for himself. “Hmm… Kickbutt Sunflower? Badass Tropical Fish? Irate Teletubby? Oh, I know! Wolverine!”

Pris: *is glad they came up with new costumes for the movie*

Renata: *vastly amused*

Pris: I think that UPenn’s mascot should be changed from the “Fighting Quakers” to the “Ugly Fish”. Because the dolphin (the fish, not the mammal) is on our crest, and it’s really ugly. So we could strike fear into the hearts of the enemy with our Ugly Fish!

Renata: our crest is leaves

Pris: What’s your mascot?

Renata: it’s weird. i think it’s supposed to be corn

Renata: the pioneers

Pris: *dies*

Pris: For a second, I thought you were saying your mascot was corn. And that would just be sad.

Renata: but we don’t really.. like.. our teams aren’t really called the pioneers

Renata: hey, you were the daisies

Pris: Yeah, but…. corn!

Renata: daisies!

Pris: Yeah, but daisies are so pathetic and girly that it works. Corn is just… corn.

Renata: we here in the heartlands take corn very seriously, priscilla!

Pris: I’m sorry, I apologize. I didn’t mean to offend. *bows meekly*

Renata: that’s better. *stops pouring ethanol around your dorm; hides matches*

Pris: Of course, corn is another yellow thing. Maybe Logan really likes corn, and so he eats it a lot, really messily, and he kept getting corn all over his clothes. So he gave himself a yellow uniform so that people couldn’t tell he spilled corn all over it.

Renata: teehee

Pris: And, you know, if he ever felt like wearing a crown of daisies in his hair, he would color-coordinate.

Renata: it’s true

Renata: or sunflowers

Pris: yeah. but sunflowers are big. they make shoddy decor.

Renata: not the mini ones

Pris: true

I shall say nothing more.

But I shall further observe that nothing brightens a dreary day faster than Nightcrawler pants. *dances about*

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*shakes head* Wow. Sometimes my ridiculousness amazes even myself. I decided not to subscribe to 1602 because of shipping costs and the annoyance of getting it a few days late. I neglected to factor in that getting it myself requires blocking out the 45 minutes necessary to make the trip to the nearest, most convenient comics store, $4 for public transportation (there and back), the necessity to know when the issue is coming out, and the risk of the store being sold out. I am T00b to the max.

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Currently drowning my sorrows in Cooler Ranch Doritos and a bunch of downloaded episodes of “X-Men Evolution.” Am very, very amused. Why does Kurt sound Jamacian?