Shoes

This is a random very short story i wrote for a friend, to help her with her end of year project (called Culminating). She gave me the prompt of: "A red Converse is sitting in the middle of the road." This is what I did with it. (ps: everything below is copyrighted by me.)
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Shoes. Nobody sees them, not really. Oh, they’re pretty, they’re fashionable, they’re practical, but no one looks at a shoe and sees—a shoe. It’s a work of art, a fashion statement, a block of practicality, but it’s not a shoe. Never just a shoe.

Look at my shoes. Can you see them? Can you really see them? You think you can, but you can’t, not really. Neither can I. It’s society that’s doing this to us, conditioning us to see something as strange as an artificial hoof as ordinary, normal, expected, even. But I’ve been watching them. Watching the shoes. And I’ve noticed something. You can tell a lot about a person from their shoes. Look at mine. Black sneakers. Streamlined, not blocky. Running shoes. Hiding shoes. Tells you who I really am.

Look at yours. Converse. Red. Worn, yet unscuffed. Wearing them to be part of the cool crowd. Wearing them to fit in and yet expecting to stand out. The red, you see. Thin soles. For walking, not running. For inside, not outside. And skinny skinny shoes. Your feet can be what you want to be.

I never expected it to be so easy. To learn, I mean, to learn to single them out, the people like you. Expected there to be outliers, people wearing shoes they’re not used to, wearing new shoes, old shoes, shoes they don’t want to wear. But it’s easy to tell those apart, easy to single you out.

Shoes say so much about you because you don’t think about them, not really. You buy them because you like their look, their meaning. Because they speak to you. You wear them without thinking, because you have to, because it’s what society expects of you. Maybe you match them to your outfit. Maybe you don’t. I watch and I watch and I notice these things but no one ever notices me. Just another wallflower. Just another fly on the wall. So don’t think I’m going to get caught. Don’t think I’m going to be stopped. The police won’t even notice me. Won’t even look twice. Look at their shoes. Have you seen them? Shiny and formal, from a decade past. Not for running. Not for hiding. For flashing around and looking official. Men like that won’t ever find me.

Can you take your shoe off for me? It’s easier when you do it. No? Alright. Any words? Well, that’s not terribly polite. Are you sure—okay. Okay. I get it. Sit still and close your eyes, if you want to. It’s a little bit frightening. Or so I’ve been told.

There was a red Converse sitting in the middle of the road.

Awwww...

for a little while, there was someone actually talking to me on here, and now they're gone. :**( ah well i'll get over it.

Firefly

And no, i'm not talking about Owl City's song (altho i do like it)

Firefly the tv series. with the big shinys. spaceships. whatever.

yeah, so i'm rewatching it in preparation to convince a friend of mine to watch it, and i just realized how much they hinted about Liora being in love with Malcolm ;D it makes me very happy! Also, if i ever get a spaceship, it's going to be a Firefly class. it's so PRETTY!!!!! and the way "shiny" is their equivalent of "cool"...well, that's just...shiny.

:D well anyways it's putting me in a very good mood despite everything i remember is coming up next. And i like Jane a lot more this time around, he's hilarious! I can't wait till the bit where they go to his hero-worship town...;D but Kaylee (prob spelled that wrong, whatev) is still my fave. she's pretty much the girl i would very much like to be: happy, mildly naive, and very good with mechanical workings. She reminds me more of one of my friends, tho ;)

Talk to Me

Yeah, you know what this is about.

I feel like talking anyways! Hey, you remember that Trader guy i mentioned in passing earlier? well i realized that if i combined him with my Silent Prince character, he would be complete and totally awesome! Of course that means he's just kind of a shapeshift of the Silent Prince, but i like the Prince enough (or at least the Trader version of the Prince) that this doesn't matter. And it explains everything about the Silent Prince and the Trader at the same time! which makes me very happy! :D :D :D

yeah. well. i guess no one else has any idea what i'm talking about. But that's okay, i figure it's probably absolutely normal for this blog!

Oh! and i finished reading/rereading D.Gray-Man up to its current chapter. it gets a little weird after the author dude takes his break, but it's a lot less depressing, which is good. i'm thinking about looking up the anime on youtube, but i'm a) in the middle of homework and b) unsure exactly how they would have typed D.Gray-Man so i'll probably wait a while.

And all this snow! crazy, innit? i'm not sure if i'm happy or sad i'm going back to school. i'm certainly not happy that i have to do all my homework! :(

Season 5

aaaaaaaargh why can't season 5 of Doctor Who come out already?!?!?!? omg i'm so excited but it's gonna take 4ever! like The End of Time, that practically killed me with all the waiting. but it was totally worth it. i hope it's the same as that. :D

Woah...

I got contacts! :D but they're making the bright colors on this page seriously trippy and not fun. might have to change that.

Also...I may conglomerate that old story from the cgsemailblog on here, cuz it was a lot better than i thot it was. and it had Murter, who is to date my favorite actually-written character. Well, maybe except for the Trader, but no one (not even me) knows much about him yet.

Oh! and i'm working on a series of "The Wizard of Oz" parody pics, based on some of my own characters... they're turning out pretty good, despite the fact that only i will get all my refs. :( But they're still above average for my quality of art, so i'm pretty proud of them. The first one's (which is finished) is of a character named Kwin, a human/cat cross (from a world where this is possible in labs although not normal) with the caption, "Courage of a Lion." The next one i'm gonna do is of these blonde twins, Mugin and Morgan, with the caption, "Brains for the Heads of Straw" (cuz blonde hair looks like straw and they're child geniuses). There's one more, actually the spark of the idea but the pose didn't work out so i scrapped it and moved on the Kwin. It's of the MC, a dude with a clockwork heart, w/the caption "The Man with a Heart of Tin." (they're all semi-dressed up in char, except for Kwin). Oh, and the last one's gonna be a splash of everyone, with the two passengers/noobs in front, a brother/sister, with the sister as Dorothy and the brother as Toto, with a caption of "Jup, I don't think we're on Terra anymore..." (Brother's name is Jup, and it's a sci-fi, so they're traveling on a skyship.) I might put them up on here when I'm all finished.

And for all of you multitudes that read this blog (cuz i kno there's gotta be someone) i'm kinda frustrated at the Iron City Stories blog, mainly cuz no one posts on the story and all they do is play the games, and there's annoying ads which locked my brother out of his primary account, same way they locked me out of mine (long story). cgsemailblog was worth five of those.
But then again, i guess it is exam week. *sigh.*

I scanned a pic into the compu just recently...i give it five weeks before the computer eats it, too. :D jk. just kinda bored and sad and lonely. Gotta cheer myself up. I'll go watch Tennant some more before this turns into a moany board.

Inspired by Captain Jack Harkness

(and i don't know why he inspired this, so don't ask me, but it's got a whole entire song-verse that goes with it, round and round in my head.)

The things I get into
Well, it hardly seems to matter
The things I say and do
The hearts I break for matter