this is a geek household

[rikibeth]

My teenager and eternaleponine are sitting here in the living room, side by side, trying to figure out how to tie bow ties.

Because they are BOTH dressing up as Eleven tomorrow.

The teenager has very kindly agreed to let eternaleponine carry the sonic screwdriver, because everyone at school tries to take it apart and find where the nonexistent pen is, so it risks breaking.

Teenager is wearing an olive tweed blazer that originally belonged to my dad and that I wore all through MY high school years, and a plain white buttondown; eternaleponine went to the thrift store this afternoon and found a brown suit jacket and a tattersall shirt. The bow ties originally belonged to shadowflyer -- I should know, I bought them for him -- but the teenager wears them more than he does, these days.

They are trying to learn how to tie their bow ties from YouTube. Apparently, it's problematic.

Still. Geek city.

Comments

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

From my random internet poking, it's appears there will be quite a few Doctor #11's running around on Halloween. I think someone needs to be daring (or would that be retro geek?) and break out the Tom Baker/4th Doctor scarves.

[bifemmefatale.livejournal.com]

Fantastic. :)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I don't knit fast enough.

Kid was GOING to be Castiel (because how easy is that? regular tie, buttondown, trench coat) until a friend said she was going as Amy Pond, so... Eleven times two.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I love your icon.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Back when I occasionally wore a bow tie (along with big round plastic glasses, high-top shoes and jeans with the cuffs folded all skinny) I tie it the way little kids tie their shoes - make two bunny ears and tie the ears together - but then you have to sort of adjust it so that the ends match up exactly to the bows, so you have one end behind and one end in front. At least, that's how I recall doing it. Not sure it's right and proper but it passes inspection well enough...

I wonder if anybody still has scarves that long?

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

On a side note, I love that females are choosing to dress up like Doctor Who. Not that it's hardly unheard of for women to dress as males for costumes, but it's still cool to me that they're choosing a male instead of a "traditional" female character. But I'm goofy that way.

I was thinking it would hard to dress as a companion (unless you're always standing with your Doctor partner) and have people know who you are because their manner of dress is so regular.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I passed this on to eternaleponine who is still having trouble.

Also, would it be safe to say you were a huge fan of Elvis Costello, back in the day? That outfit sounds Very Familiar.

Re: I wonder if anybody still has scarves that long?

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Neither of them is exactly what you'd call gender conforming, most days.

eternaleponine actually somewhat resembles Gareth David-Lloyd, and I've been trying to coax her into dressing up as Ianto, but Ianto without a Captain Jack next to him isn't very identifiable either.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

I am fond of Elvis Costello, but everything except the bow tie was pretty common then among geeks-who-like-college-rock. Uh, the boy ones; I was not girly until my 20s and later. And glasses were SO HUGE back then...(see http://www.flickr.com/photos/marydell/2737308108/ for a chuckle)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, I remember! See body of post about the blazer that belonged to my dad that I wore all through high school. I didn't often wear the bow tie, but blazer, oxford shirt, jeans, sneakers? Girls and boys both, absolutely.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

I had an awesome yellow plaid blazer that I lived in for years...I don't know what became of it. Probably fell to bits.

A bit of unrelated big-glasses humor/nostalgia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0TYun-Nq1Q

[marydell.livejournal.com]

This video from playboy actually is a really good bowtie tutorial - eternaleponine might have skipped this in her youtube search because of the bunny factor, but it has really good illustrations of the tie in all its stages. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbvjaUGiM4A (Cheesecakey but no nudity)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I had the olive tweed one and a black and white houndstooth, also my dad's. The houndstooth DID fall apart eventually, as did the amazing smoking jacket I snagged out of my grandmother's attic.

I remember wearing the houndstooth over a hugely oversized Mickey Mouse t-shirt and very tightly tapered gray jeans, with brightly colored cuffed ankle socks and little white Keds.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

All the ones they chose seemed to have English accents; the kid mastered it first, and coached eternaleponine through it. We have success!

Re: I wonder if anybody still has scarves that long?

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

Mmmm...Captain Jack...

*koff* Oh sorry. Drifted off for a second. ;-)

Re: I wonder if anybody still has scarves that long?

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I scored a blue double-breasted greatcoat at the military surplus store last year. Not the RIGHT coat, but certainly the right impression.

Ianto's the one I've got the crush on, though. He's so completely the Perfect Boyfriend. *sniff*

Re: I wonder if anybody still has scarves that long?

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

That's true enough. Won't argue!

[lovecraftienne.livejournal.com]

Bow ties are cool.

Also, fezzes are cool.

[eternaleponine.livejournal.com]

It should be noted that not only did the Kid allow me to borrow the Sonic Screwdriver, but also made us both Psychic Paper.

It's just unfortunate that I don't think anyone at work will have any clue who I am.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Holy cow. I looked at that, and all I could see was Harry Potter.

[gale_storm]

Wow. Geekicity indeed!

LOL

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

That is awesome.

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I should sell off the Tenth costume.
And, of course, bow ties are always cool.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Noooo, don't sell it, you look adorable as Ten!

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

I much prefer 9 & 10 to 11.

(It wasn't until you said "sonic screwdriver" that I figured out what you meant by "Eleven".)

[auspeople.livejournal.com]

It wasn't until I read the comment thread that I figured it out. But I haven't seen an 11 episode yet because I'm a total loser geek right now.

*cries*

Awesome costumes, though!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Our cable package has BBC America in it, so we watched Eleven on the US broadcast schedule. I'm pretty fond of Ten, but Eleven had eternaleponine hooked at... no, it's a mild spoiler, but a charming bit of eccentricity in the first episode, I'll say.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

The trouble with Nine is that I can't stand Rose. I have a soft spot for Ten.

[auspeople.livejournal.com]

The premiere got deleted from our DVR and we were never able to catch a rerun. I think we have all the rest stored up, though, so we need to actually look for Ep1 and get going on this.

Certainly wasn't not watching out of any kind of protest... just stupidity.