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prillalar ([personal profile] prillalar) wrote2004-05-26 09:59 pm

Represent

So the Gryffindor Brat was at the bus stop again today and it's too warm to wear my scarf, so what can I do to show my Slytherin colours, perferably whilst not looking like the sort of person who writes stories in her spare time about Ginny Weasley being ravished by plants?

The Boy wants to go to PoA dressed as Hagrid. He suggested I get some sort of big black cloak and go as a Dementor, because then I'll also be set up for a Ringwraith or Sith Lord costume. I suggested that perhaps I wouldn't.

Are you dressing up for PoA? Do you have any freaky fan items that you wear about your person? [livejournal.com profile] amanuensis1 posted about making a fannish Brag Bracelet but I know if I tried to do that, it would get filled up with FMA pics. *g*

I have lots of HP LEGO, but I don't carry that around with me. Hmm.

[identity profile] laurashapiro.livejournal.com 2004-05-26 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I suspect I got the costume thing pretty much out of my system with all those years in Rocky Horror. In my teen years, I used also not to be above wearing a fannish pin or button every once in a while. I still have three DS buttons but I only wear them at cons. In recent years, the only fannish regalia I have worn has been in the form of T-shirts -- do those count?

[identity profile] laurashapiro.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
I just have my RHPS shirt and a fan-made XF shirt ("X-Philes: The truth is online") these days. I'd like a Buffy shirt at some point, I think.

I am as usual amused by your choice of objets de lust.
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[personal profile] florahart 2004-05-26 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I'll just take my trusty notebook so while I sit there in line waiting to get in at midnight, I can write smut longhand.

:D

[identity profile] laurakaye.livejournal.com 2004-05-26 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I would dress up if I had friends who also were. I'm good with being one of a crowd of freaks... not so much with looking strange all alone.

Note: On Halloween I wore my Ravenclaw costume and was madly flirted with by both my waitress and a random boy in the DVD section of Best Buy. Hmmmmm. *g*

I have a fair amount of fannish stuff that is only fannish if you *know* about it, like my Chicago keychain and my Musical Ride lapel pin (received from the hand of an ACTUAL MOUNTIE.)

Most of my fan swag is in the form of paperweights/magnets/toys and other cubicle/desk decorations rather than something to wear. I have thought of making fannish charm bracelets, though- think of the possibilities! (Sentinel: jaguar, wolf, basketball, glasses, gun, police badge, book. Due South: maple leaf, Chicago commemorative, car, wolf, snowshoe, handcuffs, glasses, turtle, stetson. That sort of thing.)

[identity profile] laurakaye.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I wear my Ravenclaw scarf all winter. It's lovely. Warm, pretty, AND fannish.

[identity profile] phoenixw.livejournal.com 2004-05-26 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you dressing up for PoA?

While I have dressed for events in the past - my 50+ attendences at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, for example - and while I enjoy other people's creativity, I don't imagine I'm going to be dressing as Professor Sprout any time soon (the character I most closely resemble).

Actually, I'm looking for a black Harry Potter t-shirt but am holding out for one with an image of Remus Lupin. So far, my search is in vain.

[identity profile] bethbethbeth.livejournal.com 2004-05-26 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Like others, I got most of my dresing-up urges out of my system in my Rocky Horror Picture Show days, but I think it's cool when other people are in costume at these kind of events. Quite a few people were costumed at the PoA premiere here in New York (and no, I don't just mean the 14 year olds with the words "I love you Dan!" written in lipstick on their cheeks *g*), and some of the costumes were excellent.

My only nod to fannish dressing up these days is the t-shirt I bought at ConneXions with a big slash sign within quotation marks. Totally subtle in the sense that only other slashers seem to notice it. :)

[identity profile] ekaterinn.livejournal.com 2004-05-26 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm dressing up as Remus and have convinced a friend to dress up like Ron. Have got a robe, brown eyeliner to make a moustache, and some semblance of a wand. Now, if I could only figure out how to grey my hair...
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[identity profile] pinkfinity.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
They have leather slytherin wristbands at Hot Topic.

[identity profile] wickedcherub.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
I was going to suggest this. They also have pins as well :)

[identity profile] alfirin-kirinki.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oooooh! Sounds so cool!

What's Hot Topic?!

.a.

[identity profile] pinkfinity.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
It's sort of a teen-store in the US - you can find their HP page here (http://www.hottopic.com/store/nodepage.asp?LS=0&BRAND_ID=51&START=1&OTH=F&MG=&ITEMCOUNT=29&SB=1) and MaybeTheMoon posts about new stuff here (http://www.fictionalley.org//fictionalleypark/forums/showthread.php?s=ee14aebe6d4bee3c8143f5e521146631&threadid=61638).

[identity profile] alfirin-kirinki.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
oooh! Thank you!

.a.

[identity profile] amanuensis1.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! Thanks for linking people to a pic of the Brag Bracelet. I didn't think of doing that. Guess because I figured I was the only one loony enough to take an interest. ^_^

[identity profile] chinawolf.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Not dressing up. I may, however, be wearing my Slytherin scarf. :) Depends on the weather, really...
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[personal profile] semielliptical 2004-05-27 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
I have lots of HP LEGO, but I don't carry that around with me. Hmm.

You could take an extra LEGO Draco or Snape or whoever and attach a pin, so you could wear it. Or attach them to a bag - they might look cute riding on the strap.

I've been thinking of knitting socks in house colors, those could be worn more often than a scarf. Not highly visible, though.

[identity profile] alfirin-kirinki.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
I'm going to stand outside the London premiere on Sunday wearing Slytherin uniform - although, without the robes.

The fact that I am blatantly Gryffindor - or at worst Slythindor - is irrelevant, as I actually get to wear the green and siver striped tie from my [brother's] old school uniform. They've changed the ties to just plain green with the school emblem, now, but once upon a time we were all Slytherins who travelled to school on the [yes, really] 666 bus.

I kid you not.

.a.
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[identity profile] isiscolo.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
I have the ball cap that says Order of the Phoenix that I won at the OotP midnight release party. And a cool Gryffindor badge I bought at Connexions. That will probably be the extent of my dressing up.
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[personal profile] silveraspen 2004-05-27 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
Not planning to dress up for the movie due to time of planned attendance, etc., but I did dress up (as did friends) for the OotP release.

We had a McGonagall, a Sinistra, and I went as Narcissa.
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[personal profile] codyne 2004-05-27 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
I have a Joey (Yu-Gi-Oh!) keychain that I wear *constantly,* clipped to the belt loop of my blue jeans. Whenever I switch jeans, he gets switched to the new pair along with my pocket knife and keys. Most of the time he stays in my pocket, but whenever I want I can pull him out and sigh.

I also have several Yu-Gi-Oh! tee-shirts (one is a child's extra large, before they started making them in adult sizes), one of which I will certainly wear to the premiere of the Yu-Gi-Oh! movie in August.

And, of course, there's the hot pink Yu-Gi-Oh! stocking cap I sometimes wear to cover my bald head. People smile at me when I wear it.

Actually not obsessed. Really.

[identity profile] ladyvyola.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think we're going to wear them to the movie but all of us except [livejournal.com profile] sunnys (she's on the right, in a costume I made for her, I'm on the left) are taking 'em to Balticon this weekend. This picture was from Farpoint in February, when the weather was much more conducive to layers and layers of layers and layers!

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[personal profile] maidenjedi 2004-05-27 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
My X-Files watch has to count as a freakish fan item, even though it's the wrong fandom.

Umm...as soon as I get to Hot Topic, I'll pick up their Slytherin patch and sew it on my backpack.

If I were going opening night, I would probably wear my Gryffindor robe from Halloween. Maybe my whole Hermione costume, even. Just because.