Tapdancing the Eclipse thang

Officially dead but still on a high.

Have cheerleaded, porno danced (I miss my Kat...), sulked as after Friday they wouldn't let us dance on the tables, heckled in a polite way (aka yelled out extras to answers from the guests), had my photo taken and had far too much fun.

Talks - well, George Hertzberg is brilliant as usual, Danny Strong is v. funny (Room 706), Charisma - good, but not as confident and more guarded than the guys (we've all decided to hate FHM on her behalf), Robin Sachs is exceedingly dirty minded - classic line was 'Ask me anything, especially about sex', but we let him get away with it because he's just... brilliant. and very, very sexy. Tony Head, who did arrive on Sunday (damn Creepcon) against all the odds, is hysterical and cannot stop giggling. Him and Robin as a double act are evil and fantastic.

Fancy Dress - well, we've discovered that wearing very little will get you prizes, though first went to a v.good Scooby Gang with mystery machine. The Women of Chaos Comics (note for non-readers - demonic-based comics with very scantily clad - ie, lucky if it's a bikini - large breasted women for teen boys who've yet to encounter sex) got third place, Princess Cordy got second. Cheerleading is far too much fun and I want pompoms, dammit. Apart from the bastard who was taking photos of my knickers during Surfing USA. Oh, right, the fact that they're not going up on the net is going to really make me feel better. Permission first, mate.

Highlight of the auction, though, had to be the blokes selling gropes of their arses. (all for charity - damn good cause) Danny's fetched £75, George's £80, Robin's £100 and Tony's £150. And oh, the expressions...
This whole thing was started when J August suddenly decided to auction off a grope of George's arse at Noc3k last year. Maybe we've created a new and entirely enjoyable trend at Buffy cons...

(yours truly already groped Robin's arse during the photo shoot by accident, but he said it was quite alright :g:)

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Political Stability, marriage and Lord of the Rings

Posted this on the blog, but you need it in your lives as well....

Was thinking about the marriages of heads of state in medieval times, and how almost all of them were for political reasons, or stability - for example, Henry VII married Elizabeth once he'd taken the throne from Richard III to reinforce his claim on it - Elizabeth was at that time the closest thing to an heir that the Yorkists had considering her brothers, uncle and father were dead.

That in mind, my thoughts naturally turned to Boromir/Aragorn, and started thinking about what would happen if Boromir had never died and Aragorn had given Arwen the boot, or had to start considering the implications of his marriage re: relations with his subjects and the court.

And... Boromir made much more sense than Arwen, politically. here cometh reasons:

King Estel taking the steward of Gondor's son and heir as consort would ensure political stability as a sign of re-inforcing his bond with humans and the rulers of Gondor rather than being seen as someone whose loyalties lie almost entirely with the elves, a race most of the humans distrust to a certain extent due to their isolationist lifestyle. There's been rumours of the elves leaving these shores, or at least planning to. Allying yourself with a people who aren't going to be having that much influence on world affairs soon enough would be a rather short-sighted policy. Then you have the fact that Boromir is a known and respected quantity by a large proportion of the human world - unlike Arwen, who may feature in a few ballads, but otherwise has little contact with the human populace.

Who, me, think about this far too much?