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Sep. 30th, 2016 02:12 amAnyways, I didn't get home tonight until about 1:20 AM. Gosh Kat! Why were you out so late? I was out so late becausee.....
STAR WARS TOYS!!
You may recall that last year![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jere7my and I went out to a ToysRUs at midnight in order to buy some ForceFriday toys. As it turns out, the midnight release for Rogue One toys was tonight, and so we went ahead for more adventure!
Unlike last year, I couldn't be arsed to obtain a car, so we biked. It's starting to get pretty chill out --I will not want to do a six mile post-midnight bike ride any later this year, for sure! But the road was light on traffic and hills. As a bonus, almost immediately after we met up in Arlington, we got a "GET A CAR, FAGGOT" shouted out the window by an asshole driver. jere7my yelled back "have a nice day!" (in a voice free of sarcasm, because he's amazing) while I just started laughing like a mad thing. Our mutual amusement set the tone for a lovely night.
Last year we were about 50th in line, this year there were approximately twelve patrons total, and we were numbers 4 and 5. That means we got free swag t-shirts! (oo, ahh --except I grabbed a large instead of a medium by accident, and they're FunkoPop which is not my favourite, but if push comes to shove, maybe I can give mine to Wabbit and certainly I can use it as a pillowcase or something.)
This year, I actually went in with a vague goal --I wanted a Jin figure scaled to go with my Rey and Leia. She was easy enough to find, and while poking around, I also found a Sabine from the Star Wars Rebels tv show. I have seen basically none of this, but blue-haired lady character who comes with a freaking zipline and enjoys graffiti and explosions? Look, I'm totally comfortable in my status as a fake geek girl, I'ma spend my money on her too!
((I am, actually, completely comfortable referring to myself as a fake geek girl. Firstly, for the same reason Nick Zerhakker in the Violet Drone wears t-shirts proclaiming thus --I'm not a girl, so it amuses me that the fake part of the equation applies unexpectedly. But secondly because I'm a grown ass-adult who doesn't have any pride wrapped up in knowing everything about everything and being the TWOOEST FAN! Anyone who would non ironically call me a Fake Geek Girl is automatically someone who doesn't want me (or on a broader scale, any but TWOO FANS) to join their hobby, and that means they're a stone cold fool.
I mean, I recognize that I'm sorta biased in that most of my most serious hobbies are heavily dying, but honestly, why the hell wouldn't you want more people into the things you like? Don't chase people away, that's how hobbies die!))
jere7my got several awesome things, including one of the fancy new Rogue One robot, and one of the superfancy "black box" stormtrooper models. I wavered a bit on the fancy Jin sculpt, but ultimately stuck with the 3.5" model, since it was cheaper and in scale with my other girls.
Then we biked home, where we saw a deer chilling out about ten feet away from the path. It was big and doofy looking and I genuinely like seeing deer, even though they're extremely low on the list of mammals I care for. (rats actually rate higher, even though I'm phobic, because I don't dislike them any.) (pandas are basically the bottom of the list because fuck pandas.)
And on that classy note, have a lovely night!
~Sor
MOOP!
STAR WARS TOYS!!
You may recall that last year
jere7my and I went out to a ToysRUs at midnight in order to buy some ForceFriday toys. As it turns out, the midnight release for Rogue One toys was tonight, and so we went ahead for more adventure!Unlike last year, I couldn't be arsed to obtain a car, so we biked. It's starting to get pretty chill out --I will not want to do a six mile post-midnight bike ride any later this year, for sure! But the road was light on traffic and hills. As a bonus, almost immediately after we met up in Arlington, we got a "GET A CAR, FAGGOT" shouted out the window by an asshole driver. jere7my yelled back "have a nice day!" (in a voice free of sarcasm, because he's amazing) while I just started laughing like a mad thing. Our mutual amusement set the tone for a lovely night.
Last year we were about 50th in line, this year there were approximately twelve patrons total, and we were numbers 4 and 5. That means we got free swag t-shirts! (oo, ahh --except I grabbed a large instead of a medium by accident, and they're FunkoPop which is not my favourite, but if push comes to shove, maybe I can give mine to Wabbit and certainly I can use it as a pillowcase or something.)
This year, I actually went in with a vague goal --I wanted a Jin figure scaled to go with my Rey and Leia. She was easy enough to find, and while poking around, I also found a Sabine from the Star Wars Rebels tv show. I have seen basically none of this, but blue-haired lady character who comes with a freaking zipline and enjoys graffiti and explosions? Look, I'm totally comfortable in my status as a fake geek girl, I'ma spend my money on her too!
((I am, actually, completely comfortable referring to myself as a fake geek girl. Firstly, for the same reason Nick Zerhakker in the Violet Drone wears t-shirts proclaiming thus --I'm not a girl, so it amuses me that the fake part of the equation applies unexpectedly. But secondly because I'm a grown ass-adult who doesn't have any pride wrapped up in knowing everything about everything and being the TWOOEST FAN! Anyone who would non ironically call me a Fake Geek Girl is automatically someone who doesn't want me (or on a broader scale, any but TWOO FANS) to join their hobby, and that means they're a stone cold fool.
I mean, I recognize that I'm sorta biased in that most of my most serious hobbies are heavily dying, but honestly, why the hell wouldn't you want more people into the things you like? Don't chase people away, that's how hobbies die!))
jere7my got several awesome things, including one of the fancy new Rogue One robot, and one of the superfancy "black box" stormtrooper models. I wavered a bit on the fancy Jin sculpt, but ultimately stuck with the 3.5" model, since it was cheaper and in scale with my other girls.
Then we biked home, where we saw a deer chilling out about ten feet away from the path. It was big and doofy looking and I genuinely like seeing deer, even though they're extremely low on the list of mammals I care for. (rats actually rate higher, even though I'm phobic, because I don't dislike them any.) (pandas are basically the bottom of the list because fuck pandas.)
And on that classy note, have a lovely night!
~Sor
MOOP!