No shoes for you!

[blamebrampton]

Thanks to everyone who gave shoe suggestions yesterday. I now have a list of brands to look out for. Alas, Sydney really is not a place to shop for shoes, I think because everyone wears decorative flip flops or, for the mad, ugg boots.
 
But the next time I am in Melbourne I will be heading to Sole Devotion, 1 Degraves St Melbourne and 124 Greville Prahran, open seven days. They have Trippen and Fluevog and EVERYTHING! pushdragon and meredyth_13, you should go!

Alas, the shop that alleged to have Trippen in Sydney did not. But they did have Alistair Trung clothing. If I was tall and rich I would only wear his clothes, and if I was just rich I would still wear several pieces. Asian-inspired deconstruction in lovely fabrics. Yum! I may not wear an awful lot of fashion, but I appreciate it when it is well made. (And to be fair to him, the prices were steep but not awful given the amount of handwork, which is all done by accredited labour.)

My shoe shop experience went like this.
me: Hello, I would like some shoes
nice shoe shop lady: Certainly! Wander about the shop with me and point out styles you like.
me: I have stumpy manky feet, BTW.
nssl: Easy, we have loads of brands that cater for people like you.
me: Yay!
nssl: Right, I have an idea what you like. Let's measure your feet. Hmmm. Gosh, they are stumpy.
me: It's true.
nssl: Not to worry, I'll go and pull a few pairs for you. [comes back, sad face] There's only one pair in your size! [tries them on] Oooh, that's not good.
me: I look like a Mormon.
nssl: I was gong to say Amish. That's not the look we're going for here. Sorry.

She was a very nice shoe shop lady, though. I'll hold off until I can get down to Melbourne.

In other news, Georgia is still immensely depressing, and while Michael Phelps may have won the most gold medals, it is my considered opinion that he is not the Greatest Olympian Ever. Jesse Owens leaves him for dead for a start. Call me an old grouch, but being an Olympian used to mean a great deal more than just winning. Pierre de Coubertin would argue my point, I feel.

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

God no! I like you people!

The right one is always a bit swollen, has a huge scar running down from the ankle to nearly my big toe where they went in to rebuild my navicular (and a little scar on the side where the screw went in), my little toes are both crooked, there's a bump over my right navicular (the bone your foot pivots off) and my toes are splayed in a manner that harks back to a childhood spent kicking off my shoes at every opportunity.

I find it's best to put shoe sellers at ease rather than have them have to pretend I have attractive feet. I have magnificent hair, so it balances out ;-)

[empress-jae.livejournal.com]

great. now the picture in my head is terrifying. :P

you know, there could be potential for albus/scorpius foot porn with all of this.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

My left foot isn't so bad ;-) but the right one is kind of anti-porny.

I have actually just cheated for the very first time and written one of my accidents into a fic, but it's for darkfest so it won't be posted for ages. however, if anyone says "Oh, that's not what happens!" I will post photos and X-rays.

[empress-jae.livejournal.com]

awesome! well...at least i now know which fic will be yours. :P

i've always wanted to use something that's happened in my life for fic, particulalry my kidney transplant, but i haven't figured out how to make it magical. there's no WAY draco would allow anyone to slice him open with a scalpel to remove an organ. how barbaric.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You know, he might if it was the only thing that would keep someone he loved alive, but you're right, it would come with a raft of issues that would be fascinating to write about. And you have both the talent and the experience to make it brilliant.

[empress-jae.livejournal.com]

aww...thanks, but...if i did it (and that's a big if right now) it would have to be humorous. my idea is that magical surgery is uninvasive (is that even a word) enough that the patient is awake during the procedure. i can just see draco snarking and mouthing off on the operating table, telling the mediwizard or witch how to do their job and how awesome he himself is for giving up an organ for harry. who's the hero now? :D

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I would SO read that!

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

Sorry for butting in but...

there's no WAY draco would allow anyone to slice him open with a scalpel to remove an organ. how barbaric.

If there's a will, there's a way! XD

hm lessee... amnesia? Forced to live as Muggle? No magical cure and his mother cried! Kidnapped by organ dealers? He's been in an attack, got Petrified, and the Muggles thought he was dead and removed his kidney because they needed a donor and then Draco woke up on the operating table with his stomach wide open... so they needed to give him another. Actually, I think there was a movie in which a white bloke got the heart of a black bloke (or the other way 'round?) and was forced to endure his ghost and change his opinion about other races or something? Just because Draco could get a Muggle's organ... :P

But yea, I second BB. I'd totally want to read that magical operation fic, too!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

PS, no you won't - it's dark fic! People will be smashed, bashed and slashed all over the place!

[empress-jae.livejournal.com]

well, yes, we know characters will be slashed. ron/harry...draco/harry...lucius/percy...oh wait. you mean sectumsempra slashing! got it. ;)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Heh!

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

You've already started the darkfest fic? I'm still waiting for my quote.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I'm cheating a bit. I have a few scenes I know I want to write, and which are adaptable to a number of storylines. So I am writing those scenes while I wait to find out what the story will be. This is not as bad as my AS/S fest fic which I wrote entirely around a single joke, modifying everything else to fit the giftee's list.

As a professional editor I am duty bound to say that This Is Not A Good Way To Do Things ;-) (but I don't care!)

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

Hehe I do that, too, sometimes (not this time) but those scenes usually don't feature in my final version - not for lack of trying. There was one time I've tried (too hard) to fit them in and I know it's a baaaaad thing. The result wasn't pretty.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I have my fingers crossed for a prompt that will fit one of the three our four stories I have in my head that will fit these scenes. Otherwise I'll fit them into the Remus/Sirius epic that is fermenting in the back of my messy brain!

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

Funny thing is, I don't think I've ever read an R/S fic. But I think I'd read it if it were by you.

I'm still waiting for the reveal at the ass fest to be able to read your fic. I've realised that AS/S is all right as long as I don't have anything H/D to read, but I just can't connect with the next gen characters on the same level as with H/D, so I've given up wading through all those fics until I get to yours. And, btw, I blame you alone for getting me into the GO fandom - however inadvertently - which has occupied the majority of my reading time for the last two or how many months and it doesn't look like I'd get bored of it anytime soon. :P

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I'd feel guilty about that, except that too much Good Omens is never enough! (I should probably read some fic one day, but I know it would eat my brain, too.)

The ASS fest reveals are any day now, I'll repost here once they come out. I feel as though I've been waiting for months ... but I've read some truly brilliant ones by others!

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

Want some good recs? ;)

Yes, I feel as if I'm missing some really good fics but the sheer number of fics posted in that fest is just too daunting for me to brave it. I haven't even finished reading Big Bang. :/