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I gauged my ears!

Octavia — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:20:19 GMT

From a 9 to a 6! and it sucked big hair monkey testicles! Mostly because I thought I had 8s in my ears originally, not 9s. Secondly, I usually go up a size simply by applying rubbing alcohol. But people have been advising me to get in a nice toasty shower and massage my ears and then do it. Well, now my ears are KILLING ME! And not the infected ear either, the totally healthy happy ear HURTSES!!!! But I am the awesome, one size closer.

Holy CRAP!

Octavia — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:48:22 GMT

I thought everyone needs to know about this: I went searching for answers as to surface piercings. All I did was type in piercings under tribe browsing, and wound up with this: http://tribes.tribe.net/surgicalbodymods/photos/3d42dbbe-973d-4898-ba06-573d7d5696d0 WHY!?!?!?!? the description of the tribe is simply surgical body mods, and all they ever post about is electronic simulation, and have a few pictures of guys who have so mutilated their genitalia I imagine any woman who doesn't suffer EXTREME mental disfunctions would run away. I couldn't even react at first, my brain just kind of blipped out. like when old TV's turn off.

On to the other stuff!

Octavia — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:00:48 GMT

freakish anger aside, I HAVE SETTLED ON A PERSONA IN THE SCA! LET THE WORLD REJOICE! So SCAdians are aware of the "traveling" persona, people who magically transport through space and time to keep wearing the garb they want, instead of just adopting different personas per each different era. Well not I! said the Occi, no, no, that's is of the most lame excuses. BUT! after deciding i was going to hunker down on the internet until I settled on a persona, long as it takes. Well, I am proud to announce that I have a traveling persona that is neither lame nor does it call upon the magical realm to excuse it, NOR does it even begin to stretch the imagination, in fact it seems rather plausible. I GIVE YOU . . .my story, in funny chunks To have my dude-friends name be plausible (because he never worries about this stuff, but I do, and I will not suffer myself to be next to a horridly dressed, non-documented dude) His name is Etana (Eytana) an OLD hebrew name. How would that get into Greece, you say? well here it is. His father was a high nobleman who lived in Some-major-city, Egypt, sitting on his laurels at 37+, when one of his lesser Jewish wives gave birth to a son. Seeing as how it was a younger son, the father let mother name baby whatever she wanted, and she gave her child the name of an ancient high king, hoping it would give him somehow a better future than he was destined to have. However, as fate would have it, this man lost his older sons to war, disease and the monastery. Etana now being the oldest boy, his father adopted him into high society, as a last ditch effort to have a political heir. Now then, on to a more present era. A new emperor has seized the throne (right after alexander) and not wanting to kick out all the old favorites and cause a political uprising, he assigned them satrapies at the ends of the Earth. We left greece on a satrap's caravan. Now it has been much documented that conquering peoples adopted the local culture. So while in India, we stretched our ears, dreaded our hair, and I stopped dyeing my hair blonde, which was popular in Greece. But as time went by, this emperor gained more active enemies, and totally forgetting about the nobleman whom we left with, gave someone else his satrapie. So, banished and with no where to go, we moved in with my brother, who used to be a prominent librarian at alexandria, and had retired to Nubia. Hence, some egyptian clothes, and tattoos! mostly harquus. NO time-traveling, no covering up my mundane body mods, no wearing ugly clothes, and much jewelry for all! What does everyone think?

Have two rants

Octavia — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:40:20 GMT

well, one's a rant, one's an "AHA!" By-jove-i-think-she's-got-it, thing. AT ANY RATE! I am going to expunge on the awfulness that is "professional bellydance" take no offense, those of you who feel like flaming me, because I'll just mock you and your sensitive ego anyways. MAJOR POINTS 1: the uneven timing and individual expressions of troupes 2: Individual non-layering, and THEN getting praise by the community as having impeccable technique 3: using bellydance as a catch-all for fusion dance 4: purporting the burlesque stereotype on bellydance, which originally, was only attached to cabaret Alright, on to point one. Take a moment to visualize, a clip from any large production ballet you've ever seen, even if it's just commercials for Cats. Now visualize next to it, in a split screen manner, a proffesional tribal troupe. Not amateur night at the community center, but troupes that perform at tribal fest, and other such places. Notice anything? aside fromthe obviously different styles, notice the extent of each group's technique. We see the Cats doing everything ontime, with perfect timing, without a single tale out of line. if we put tiny motion tracker dots on them, each one would come out with the exact same reading. Now look at our troupe. The timing is a bit off, each person does each move a little different, each person has a different percentage of eyecontact and flirtation with the audience. Well, dance is about individual expression, you say. SOLOS are for individual expression. GROUP choreography is about creating a resounding image by causing many to act as ONE. troups don't practice near as much as ballet, the Rockets, any other group of dancers that hit HUGE stages, get viewed by dignitaries and world leaders. Why? Not because all worl dleaders are prudes, you morons, but because we, the bellydance community as a whole, do NOT put of an air of professionalism. We flaunt our after parties, our public sexuality, and we make it part of our public image. If we were half as spot-on, dedicated and hard working as some repressed 95 lb ballerina, we would be able to book real stages, not ones attached to bars, we would be advertised in hoighty-toighty art magazines, not home-printed posters on walls. Point 2 individuals who perform AS individuals, but do only one thing at a time, and then get attention lavished on them by everyone else. single-tasking ISN'T hard, end of story. Point 3 Now, there are some very famous offenders here.Although I shan't name names, everyone is aware of those among us who are "bellydancers" but include in their performing choreo jazz, burlesque, breakdancing, YOGA, and other such things. It's whole title is "SOMETHING Fusion". Bellydance is a specific school of dance, with specific moves. Don't use it as a cheap phrase to describe your tawdry musings to make them seem more "exotic". I get very infuriated by this, as it yet MORE degrades bellydance as a whole to a skanky sideshow, where one can get cheap twat shots and girls in tiny outfits doing strange things. The more popular name is "traveling strippers". So fucking there Point the last This is a subcategory of point the almost last. People who use the burlesque aspect outside of dancing fetish balls. It's one of those things that make taking bellydance serious even harder. No one takes stripping as a high art, and with the conotations dancers are attaching to bellydance, how is it going to get any farther than a trendy sideshow, that no one will remember twenty years from now? So there, challenge if you feel like it, but the higher intellectual knows I'm right!