Joyful Penpal Seeking Same

[pinkplasticpen.livejournal.com]

Name: Patti, Patti-Lou-Who, or Hey You

Age: 19

Location: Conservative Central, Utah (thankfully surrounded by a generous circle of more liberal friends)

How do you identify?: Bisexual, feminist, foodie, fattie. I'm your BFF BFFF. :D


Interests/hobbies: I love creating all sorts of things, but I especially love cooking and costuming. I make many of my own clothes and do costuming work for my college's theatre department, as well as whenever my sewing machine has been dormant for too long. I can be fairly shy in person, but I love to have long, in-depth conversations about anything from Lady Gaga's supercharged image evolution to the causes and repercussions of the Vietnam War. English is my one true love (frequently joined by her attractive yet anal-retentive sisters, Grammar and Punctuation), but I'm learning French and Italian and would love to expand to even more languages.

I am a happy, positive person who can find the sunny side of nearly any issue, and thus have a difficult time with negative people. I sometimes hate writing mini-bios of myself, because almost every sentence ends up starting with I and then I feel self-centered. Sometimes I have issues like this. :)

Favourite books: I'm a huge Harry Potter fan (and have been in fandom for almost 10 years now, holy poop!) and will read nearly anything in the fantasy genre. My particular favorites are the Jacky Faber series, Good Omens and anything else by Neil Gaiman OR Terry Pratchett, copperbadge's Nameless, The Mastery of Love, and The Vagina Monologues. My copy is falling apart at the binding, the pages annotated and scribbled on, and my favorite pages dog-eared and soft.

Favourite films: I love old movies and foreign films (subtitles, please!), but I'm a sucker for any movie-musicals, from Chicago to Disney movies to Into the Woods to the concert version of Chess. *theatre!dork* I will watch nearly anything if the characters sing.

Favourite music: Almost anything - I'm continually cycling songs out of my 8 gig ipod because I keep finding fabulous new things and can't fit anything more onto it (and as a college student, am more concerned with buying food than buying a new ipod). I love foreign pop music and will dance to absolutely anything with a beat. The only thing I really dislike is hard country and rap - I'm game for anything else!

What would you like to send/receive?: I would adore getting some snail mail, especially if it's handwritten. My mailbox is usually empty, and I've been known to subscribe to cheese catalogs just to find something when I make the trek to campus to check my mail. Also, mix cds. I would love to swap music.

Anything that you would particularly NOT like to receive?: I hate chocolate more than I hate the oil spill in the gulf. Please don't send. :)

What would be in your dream letter or package?: A handwritten letter, a mixtape, favorite recipes, inspirational trinkets, anything that fits in a box.

Picture:

I hand-dyed this wig and wear it all the time. Blue hair is cooler than blonde.

Comments

[dclarion.livejournal.com]

Oh my! I just got dizzy! It's the hair, I know that it's the hair, but... There are very few times that I wish that I were 35 years younger; this is one of them.

:o)

[pinkplasticpen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I know I only have so many years of youthful exuberance left, so I try to make the most of them. :) (And if you'll forgive my late-night-inspired-confusion, what's the hair, that you know is the hair? I feel frightfully silly but my mind is just not wrapping around that bit tonight.)

[dclarion.livejournal.com]

Hee. She states, with a sudden shyness, that the wonderfully blue hair framing your face made you look absolutely delicious. I'd probably have creamed my jeans, were I wearing any.

So there...

:o)

[pinkplasticpen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I was really proud of that one - I may have killed one too many brain cells with the fumes of the dye, but it sure turned out gorgeously. :) It was originally for a Sailor Mercury cosplay actually, though I haven't worn the costume in ages and just wear the wig instead. I love meeting fellow cosplayers, have you been doing it long?

[dancing-hat.livejournal.com]

Blue hair and a Harry Potter fan? I think I'm in love. Except, I work at a chocolate shop..... but don't really like chocolate.

Do you use your wig for cosplay or anything? Or is it just to look awesome?

[pinkplasticpen.livejournal.com]

A pink batman icon, an awesome username, and an equal love of HP? I think I may be able to reciprocate, purely based on that. I could work around the chocolate shop bit - they usually sell plenty of delicious things beyond stuff contaminated with cocoa. Caramels, white chocolate, dipped pretzels, cheesecake....(once, I saw chocolate-dipped cheesecake on a stick. It was amazing.) My problem with it is mostly the smell; I have to get other people to go INTO the shops for me to buy things or I end up retching. It's desperately tragic. :) How did you end up in a chocolate shop if you're not all that fond of chocolate?

I have used it for cosplay - it was originally a Sailor Mercury wig, and then I dyed it as part of a Dark Sailor Mercury cosplay (the live action sailor moon series? delicious, frightening, wonderful crack.). These days I just wear it to look awesome, especially on bad hair days. Other people have hats? I have wigs. Muahaha.

What Harry Potter ships do you ship? How long have you been around fandom? What other fandoms do you like? Call me curious indeed.

[dancing-hat.livejournal.com]

Oh don't get me wrong, I like chocolate, but I've been put off it a lot since working there because it's just.... everywhere! Thankfully I'm so used to it now that I can't smell it, it's pretty sickening at first. So, you can eat it if you can't smell it?

Tha'ts so awesome XD I got a pink wig for a cosplay last year, this year I'm going out on a limb and just dying my real hair purple and hoping for the best. Did you make the rest of your costume yourself?

Hmmm I got into Harry Potter when the third book came out and I saw it on the 'new book' stand at school. I read it, didn't get it, then found out there were two other books and then fell in love. So probably around 11 years or so? I had an extreme obsession when I was younger (I'd planned my life around marrying Daniel Radcliffe) but now I'm a bit of a closet fan since I don't know anyone cool enough in real life who likes HP. I don't know about ships, I was convinced until the end that Harry/Hermione would happen and then Ginny ruined that for me.
What's your fandom story?

Have you seen the new trailer? Excitement overload.

[serious-chizz.livejournal.com]

You seem mighty rad. ^_^ (Sorry if that sentence sounded...yeah.) Theatre dorks unite! Have you seen Newsies, by any chance?

Maybe check out my post and drop me a line. (Metaphorically speaking...drop me a message really, but that just doesn't have the same ring to it...)

http://community.livejournal.com/queermail/165549.html

[pinkplasticpen.livejournal.com]

Newsies was my childhood, man. I think if I tried hard enough, I could still do most of the choreography. (I'm certain I could do Seize the Day right this moment if I could be bothered to get out from under my covers in my bed.) What are your favorite musicals? I'm trying to save up enough money to get to NYC and see La Cage aux Folles before it closes, but I don't know if I'll be able to see my favorite show. D:

Theatre dorks unite indeed! If you can't drop into an accent, burst into song or being monologing at the drop of a hat, I'm still going to be nice to you, but it's not half as likely that we'll be friends. ;)

[serious-chizz.livejournal.com]

Well...my favorite musical IS Newsies. Others are Little Shop of Horrors, Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog, the Rocky Horror Picture Show...ok, so mainly movie versions, and there's a lot of horror flying around, but yeah...

[bloodfearfury.livejournal.com]

i agree, blue hair is definitely better than any other color, really. i used to have blue hair...but i can't really have blue hair any more.....*sigh*

you sound interesting, so if you want, you could give me your address and i'd be happy to write to you. :D

[jadeeyedkitsune.livejournal.com]

I must agree. Blue is much more interesting then blonde (though I'm sure you would look just as cute) and it really suits you as well!

[magrun.livejournal.com]

I recently learned the word foodie and I'm one of them! Just thought I should point that out. We could trade recipes or just talk about food or whatever.
Oh, and totally agreed reason as for why you don't like mini-bios. Yup.
And we should be friends because you're the second person (first one was very awesome) to mention The Vagina Monologues.
Am I really trying to convince you here? Oh dear.
Well, anyway, I wanna be your friend! ♥
Mostly because I could have copied 99,9% of your introduction and posted it as mine but then again, plagiarism is bad, so let's just pretend I did that.

(me: http://community.livejournal.com/queermail/34912.html)

[collar-blue.livejournal.com]

haha i must confess to also subscribing to catalogs just so i have something to come home to. people just don't write letters anymore ;____;

and you sounds pretty awesome, so we should chat. yes/yes?

i tried to refrain from being creepy and saying i will send you wigs in the mail and obviously it did not work BECAUSE I WILL TOTALLY SEND YOU SOME ANYWAY.

[chimaerandi.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I feel like we could band together with our awesome "queer in conservative america"-ness.

Here is my intro:http://community.livejournal.com/queermail/133086.html

Do you like me? Check Yes or No. Or PM me. Which is probably easier.