[Caelum's Scrapbook] Use Your Words.

[Gossamer]

I just sat quietly after reading this. There is no true response, nor do I suspect one is expected. So I'm just going to sit quietly some more and think about what you said.

[Caelum]

A note on (in)appropriate attire. First, thank you Taylani and Gossamer for the kind words. They helped. Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of connection and compassion. In the vein of graveside humor, I give you this. Tonight is Joey’s viewing at the funeral home. I’ve been enlisted to help with a few things before it officially starts so have to go there straight from the office. Last night I began digging through my wardrobe for two separate outfits that would be appropriate, the first for tonight and the second for tomorrow’s funeral. Both outfits I need to be able to wear to work too. This shouldn’t have been so difficult. I mean, standard business attire is generally acceptable for viewings and something a little more dressy for the type of church funeral service. The problem is that I have lost weight in the past six months and my office is ultra casual as it’s not the sort clients come to. I usually wear jeans and sneakers and end up being better dressed than about half there. This means that most of my nicer dress up clothes are old and don’t fit. Solution! I found a pair of black slacks that are in good shape (no hems falling out, etc) and a I have pretty new sweater to pair with it. Add high heels, pearls, and make up, and I’m good to go for the viewing tonight. For tomorrow, I ended up deciding on the dress I wore to my cousin’s wedding earlier this year. It’s black lace, but the length is to the knee and with a camisole underneath I can transform the neckline from sexy-night-time-wedding to somber-day-time-funeral. The humor comes in when I arrived at work this morning in the first outfit and within ten minutes at least nine people were like – high heels? Cue wolf whistle. Commenting on where I thought I was going looking all fancy, etc. lol. It cracked me up. The kicker, though, was when one of the inspectors while pouring coffee with me asked who had died. *face palm* I felt so bad for him when I had to tell him that someone actually had. Like, he genuinely had no idea. He was just being silly. The guy stuttered and turned red and… Oh, man.

[Taylani]

Excuse me while I now am picturing the perfectly beautiful Ethaefal male in heels and pearls..Dang it another man that would look better in my clothes then me...




All humor aside, I wish I could help as I could take in a lot of those slacks and shirts for you, and think that I would be pants at trying to explain how via the internet..perhaps if I jumped into the new millennium and learned how to work a web cam (that that I would be able to view the video I post because of bandwidth constraints) then I might have been able to help.

However it sounds like you found a good solution.

[Caelum]

Caelum looks better than everyone no matter what he is wearing. That is basically what I’ve determined of him between being a super shiny eth and now having the extra divine allure that ranuri grants its bearer. It’s a little bit disgusting. Like, I even try hard to not play it up too much in threads with other people because I feel like the whole time I’d just be going, “He is so pretty bow before him drool-drool-drool”. And how annoying would that be? Obviously I set out to have a pretty character. I mean, hello eth. But I didn’t even realize the ranuri gnosis came with even more physical allure until after Caelum got smacked with it. I’m pretty sure I cursed a little under my breath. And maybe blushed. Yeah, I probably blushed. I wonder if I can find a decent how-to on the taking in the pants and whatnot somewhere on the interwebs. That’s a good idea. I have a good seamstress I’ve used before for bigger projects, but I’d hate to spend money on something I can do myself.

[Abstract]

I keep forgetting you're not a guy... the avatar keeps confusing me. Too shiny. When you mentioned heels I was so confused... then I remembered XD

Ouch... poor coffee guys. I mean, it's just a joke, but... ouch... *winces*

[Caelum]

I should have been an accountant. Three words: Open caskets suck. Yet, in the middle of all the suck at the funeral home, I found myself standing off to the side while my mother was still talking with Joey's father. My father is on an overnight research cruise and won't dock until dawn and my husband got stuck at the store. So my mother and I were each other's hands to hold. I couldn't just step outside and leave her. The point is that while I was standing there, finally not crying, I completely on accident looked at the open casket again and, therefore, Joey's corpse. My gut clenched and I was oh-so-determined not to cry again (I'm the sort of person who can't not cry when someone else is crying at me, on me, etc), my mind sort of flailed about for something to distract it. It landed on Mizahar and the abruptly ironic PM exchange I had earlier with the wonderful DS of Riverfall regarding a thread idea. The thread idea involves having Caelum perform an autopsy for a slave at Rattling Chains. There's a whole lot of beautifully dark plot gems in that idea considering Caelum's ranuri and history with slavery et cetera. Anyway. I'm staring at the casket and the body in it trying not to be an idiot and the thing I think of is that, hey, I've got some really fresh visuals of what a dead body basically looks like to write this thread. I should have been an accountant. Us writers are sick. I need a drink. p.s. Abby, I'd make a real pretty dude.

[Taylani]

Funerals tend to suck all around. I was spared the open casket for every single funeral I have had to attend, so I can't commiserate with you there. I can commiserate with the being a crier when other people are crying, I can't not cry either.


Now on to Mizahar...


I am super looking forward to Taylani and Caelum's thread...I am also kind of ...super interested to see how Taylani would react if she realized that Caelum was a Drykas by night...

plotting plotting goodness.

[Traverse]

I sometimes find myself drifting off into Miz thoughts at strange times. The other day I realized the only skill I have probably mastered in terms of Mizahar points is whistling... whistling. Also simply head nods to the sentiment that opens caskets suck, I understand their purpose, but it never makes it easier to see someone like that.

[Caelum]

Uh, guys. I just found out that Caelum’s model has a facebook page. And there are totally racy pictures on it. Like, really racy. Tell me not to use one to photoshop on his ranuri mark. Tell me not do it. Aw, hell. You know I’m gonna. Now I have to figure out how to do horns plus the gnosis marks. SEXY PICTURE BEWARE : post script: I can’t wait for Taylani and Caelum to meet either! Should be super interesting. And whistling? I thought I had it bad. Lol.

[Eida]

You will get unfair advantages! Just sayin