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Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2018-09-25 02:33 pm

Stacy's Mom Has Got It Going On.



(I drew this on a napkin and photographed it in poor lighting, so I'm afraid it looks a bit blurry.)


Yuffie, a friend I must have known for close to nineteen years, got married on Saturday! I was overcome with love for my friends when we were dancing to 'Stacy's Mom' after the ceremony, which is nice but does, bizarrely, mean that 'Stacy's Mom' now has deep emotional associations for me.

(I have to respect anyone who's willing to put that song on their wedding playlist. I personally added 'Cotton-Eye Joe' to the playlist, but sadly I had to leave before it came on, so I didn't get to see how people reacted. Still, there's reward in just knowing that you caused 'Cotton-Eye Joe' to happen somehow, somewhere.)

I was the ringbearer, which is apparently a role traditionally given to a nine-year-old boy or an owl (or a hobbit, I suppose). I am none of those things, but I managed not to attack the best man, so I acquitted myself better than some notorious ringbearers.

Rei's father, who I hope is ashamed of himself, made the following contribution to the guestbook:

There was a young lady named Yuffie
Who never was pompous or stuffy.
She got off with Chris
And it's all come to this
And I think that I've wrote quite enoughie.


Overheard during the wedding meal: 'How many times in your life have you thought, "I wish I could shit my pants and get away with it"? The problem is that you can't shit your pants any more without people getting upset about it. Society.'

It was a good day!


We were all asked to create something for the wedding, if we could, so I painted a photograph Yuffie had taken:




('I've really fucked up the left-hand margin,' I said in alarm to Ginger while I was working on this. Ginger's response was 'Fuck up the right-hand margin as well and it'll look intentional.')

It's just as well I started painting, really. If they'd asked me this time last year, I'd have been forced to write wedding-day fanfiction.
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[personal profile] wolfy_writing 2018-09-25 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Man-Spider! He is the greatest!

It sounds like an awesome wedding, with wonderful friends!

People have owls as ring-bearers? That seems like it would take a lot of rehearsal. (My niece was a flower girl when my brother and his wife married, and wrangling a toddler was complicated enough.)

Nice painting! And it looks very intentional!
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[personal profile] wyomingsmustache 2018-09-25 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
The fucked up margins gives it a weird sense of perspective, so it actually makes it work.
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[personal profile] wyomingsmustache 2018-09-26 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
There comes a point where you fuck it up so hard you loop around to doing it right.

(Example: on the latest Critical Role they had so many things go wrong that they accidentally stole a boat and now they have a boat.)
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[personal profile] magistrate 2018-09-25 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The question I immediately have is: did Man-Spider get eaten on his wedding night?

[EDIT] Also, you've reminded me of this, for which I thank you.
Edited 2018-09-25 18:37 (UTC)
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[personal profile] magistrate 2018-09-26 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
That video is amazing, and now I'm remembering how some of my early forays into vid-making were literally "What happens if I take any song about the same length as the FFVIII intro and lay it over the intro movie with no editing whatsoever?" ...I wonder if I still have those on some hard drive somewhere.

...and now I'm thinking of this phenomenon, which I think only came about because the internet is weird.
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[personal profile] newbie1990 2018-09-25 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Both those artworks are incredible in very different ways - the perspective works really well. (The purple painting from the earlier post was lovely too!)
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[personal profile] jekesta 2018-09-26 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
The spider napkin is a marvellous napkin.

[personal profile] nixwilliams 2018-09-27 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
SHE'S JUST A SPIDER
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[personal profile] apiphile 2018-09-27 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
'Just fuck up the other side so it looks intentional' is incredibly solid advice!