Not a mermaid.

[kiya]

Went to the Summer Flea with arawen and whispercricket today. My second public outing in a state of formal collarage (the first being dinner last night).

Puttered about for the shopping. Looked at things. Poked at things. Was hit with a few things. Successfully managed to meet maymay and Eileen for a couple of wave-bys. Found flogger that is functional for the ritual purposes that I wanted one for, and is gorgeous.

Was mildly baffled by a vendor who asked me if I was a mermaid. Er, no? (Yes, I am wearing blue. Nonetheless, I do not have fins, and I do have genitalia. People are strange.) (Did you know mermaids are one of the classic symbols of sexual frustration? Hence my using a sculpture I was already making as a presentation piece for the cross-disciplinary Madame Bovary English presentation ....)

Went to late lunch/early dinner at an Ethiopian place right across from the Flea that whispercricket had heard of. It was good. Stopped at the Alewife Whole Foods on the way out, which was less hellish than the last time I was there.

Home now. Very tired and blurry. I will probably manage dwarves for a while now to decompress.

Comments

[thastygliax.livejournal.com]

Ah, mermaid = sexual frustration...that might explain a lot about my Triton Mystic-turned-Siren's current descent into madness...

[kiya]

"From her haid to her waist she was just my taste but the rest of her was a fish."

[kiya]

Only better spelled.

[wednesday]

In aspects of my life not well suited to public posts, it comes to mind occasionally that I do not manifest astrally as any sort of mermaid.

This only confused me the once. It was then explained to me that the mermaid has no cooter, thus it would be suboptimal to be one.

I concurred.

[kiya]

It was quite odd.

I of course immediately went mentally to, "I have no elemental affiliation with water, and none of my gods are oceanic or even river-affiliated, and the one most relevant to a BDSM gathering is a desert god ... the jeweltone blue has much more to do with the Lady of Turquoise than water, really" but this is not something I felt like babbling at a stray vendor. Let alone the bit about, as you say, the mermaid has no cooter, so asking someone if they're one at a sexuality gathering seems rather perplexing.

So I pointed out that the blue matches the collar, instead, which is equally true.

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

Mmm, dwarfort...

[ashlupa.livejournal.com]

...I still get the occasional person who asks if I'm an elf.

Still no pointy ears, distinct lack of ethereal aura...