It's Been Years Since I Played An LJ Game (Part 1)

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[personal profile] muccamukk picked "sexy librarian" (which I'm using for this post) as well as "blessed are the whores and witches" and "tarot icon 1". I don't know how to add media here, so I'll just post them one at a time and use the icons in question when I do.

So. About nine years ago I took part in a pin-up calendar. It was some sort of fundraising thing for an punk/art website. I don't even remember now. It might not even exist now. But I was trying to build my modeling portfolio, had just done a burlesque class, and was Very Excited about working with a queer-looking lady photographer.

It was a fun shoot. I got to be a vamp and joke with the photographer. It wasn't paid (other than t4p) but it felt good and I got to practice flirty eyes with someone who wasn't going to expect me to go anywhere with it.

This icon is a crop of the image that went into the calendar (I think I was Ms March).

It's Been Years Since I Played An LJ Game (Part 2)

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[personal profile]muccamukk picked "tarot icon 1" (which I'm using for this post) as well as "blessed are the whores and witches" and "sexy librarian" (part 1). I don't know how to add media here, so I'll just post them one at a time and use the icons in question when I do.

This is a picture of the High Priestess card (herein called "Inner Voice") from the Osho Zen tarot deck.
It's the deck I've been reading with for a solid ten years now. It has its biases - as all decks do - but it's beautiful and colourful and not super hetero and has a lot of PoC in it, all of which is nice when you don't know who you'll be reading for. I also like that all of the cards have a name - "Inner Voice" is one, sure, but, for example, the four of fire is "participation", the knight of earth ("rainbows" in this deck, for some reason) is "Slowing Down" - which made it way easier for novice-me to get the hang of what the cards were about.

I made this picture into an icon because - for a very brief while, at the beginning of 2016 - I was doing a "daily (ish) card" thing where I pulled a card out of my deck and then blogged about what that card meant in my own understanding. I think I just happened to have a good picture of this card in my files already - took it for a reading I'd done at the end of 2015, I think - and went with it.

It's Been Years Since I Played An LJ Game (Part 3)

Reply to this post with "EWOKS!" and I will pick three of your icons for you to talk about in your own journal, and then keep the meme going by making this offer on your post.

Muccamukk picked "blessed are the whores and witches" (which I'm using for this post) as well as "sexy librarian" (part 1) and "tarot icon 1" (part 2). I don't know how to add media here, so I'll just post them one at a time and use the icons in question when I do.

This is a picture of me and my now-wife, Ghost, at Toronto Pride 2010. Our first summer together. We're walking in Dyke March, wearing matching ensembles of Not Very Much At All. I'm carrying my red umbrella (sexworkers' rights symbol). She has a cutting on her sternum that I did that morning in the (accidentally very fancy) hotel we were staying at.

This picture is one that we downloaded off the internet, because it was taken by a sun media photographer for their web coverage of the march. We were internet!famous for a day and were asked to pose for group pictures with a LOT of tourists. (I sort of suspect they thought we were drag queens?)

I think this may have been the weekend that our "glamazon twins" thing (also seen at Annie Sprinkle's Wedding To The Snow) came into being.

The name of the icon (that is written on the icon) is a line from a Cathrynne M Valente story (from the Omikuji project). Ghost has those words tattoo'd down her side. We liked it, because it's us.