New blog!

Hi Everypony! After much umming and aaahing I decided that I would change blogs. No real rhyme or reason to it, I just wanted a change. I'll be much more regular over there.

http://ourladyofcats.blogspot.com.au/

Don't be afraid to comment here or there giving me your blog address - it's a new account, so I don't have all my blogs followed.

Love!
<3

Another Outfit Post

Lol hay everypony. I know I said that I would be blogging more regularly, a month ago, but I've been alternating between busy and sick, I had a birthday, etc. If it's any consolation, I've been pretty freegin active on Tumblr lately. 

So, once again, a backlog of outfits!

 First up, my TARDIS dress! Yeah! And m hair. :P My hairdresser gets carried away. The hair picture was taken on the train because we have balls all light in the house and it wouldn't have shown up properly.

The TARDIS dress is made by Black Milk Clothing, a company I adore, and it is my first (and likely only) piece by them.I love it! It's scandalously short. :P

Then, Shaun had a day off, so we went to Werribee Zoo. It was blowing a gale, hence my weird facial expression. What I like most about this is you can see all the blue and green in my hair! I did rag curls for this, like I used to back in the olden days. I've found Lush's Goth Juice (sadly disconinuted) is a great curl setter. These curls didn't completely disappear until after I washed my hair.

The zoo itself was pretty fun. If you live in Melbourne, I really recommend joining the Zoo membership. It is so worth it, and it's a great experience.

And I'm also really pleased I got to wear my hat. :P I love that hat.

And then I went to see a production of Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters at Clayton Monash University. It was AMAZING! I wore my Dark Muse shirt and the frilly Amu shirt of frilly frilly doom. I also wore odd stockings because I couldn't find matching ones. :P
 Eeee :3

I also wore my black coat, since it matches the skirt. The shoes are Demonias, that I rather had to glue back together. XD I love these shoes!
:3

Other than that, not much to report. I hope to get back to blogging more.


I might be getting a job soon, so that might mean I'll have something to talk about again.

<3

Half-Arsed Outfit Post!

Hi everyone! I know I  said I'd update sooner, but Shaun keeps bringing home sick and I keep getting colds. The bastard.

Anyway, I have a backlog of outfit photos and selfies, so I thought I'd do a grand olde picdump. I'll also be just generally mentioning what i've been up to.

This first one is me at the Melbourne Museum, with my favourite prehistoric creature, the inostrancevia. Inostancevia is a Gorganopsid, a synapsid from the Permian era. Overall, the museum was okay. A nice day out, but there wasn't really much there. Although there was a huge collection of bad taxidermy. I will still go again, though.



This next one is a little further back than that. I went out with Shaun and decided to behive the shit out of my hair. Not much else needs sayin'. :P



 
This picture seemed a popular one. I dunno why. From the same day as the Museum.






I really like this picture. The dress was a present from Amy dearest, and I love it. It's so Queen Mother-ish.


 







This outfit was from a few days ago. The blouse is another Amy grab - my favourite blouse. The skirt, which is actually dark blue with white flowers (sunflowers, I think) and lace, was $20 from a thrift shop. All my suspenders - which I wear all the fucking time they're just so great - are from Visage and Vice here in Melbourne.





Last of all, today's stuff. I went out to see my brother, who is in town. I also bought a coat. A great thing, since I haven't owned a black coat in years! It's a lovely thing, too. Also feat. Ridcully being cute.

That's about all from Bedlam here. I'll check in early in the week.

It's my birthday on Thursday!
<3

Music Post - FLAG Review

Nuts to waiting, I'm going to jump right back into this blogging business.

Now, just a note: There's a lot of butthurt around this album. If you're planning to comment about how it sucks, just go away. If you didn't like it, good for you, but honestly?

Especially if you're just going to whine. It's cool if you just aren't big on it. But no "rar rar blar it is emotionless!" bullshit, alright? Good. Onwards.

I like it. I know. Most people didn't. Mind, most EA fans are psycho and obsessive. Here's a short list of complaints I've gathered about this album.

-"It feels emotionless!"

-"She sings all the parts herself!"

-"It feels rushed!"

-"She lied about scraping her knee once and that makes her musical ability bad!"

-"She's kind of a bitch right now!"

-"She doesn't play the violin!"

-"Daddy never came to my ball games!"

I'm just going to tell you why most of these are bullshit: It's intended as a soundtrack to her book (which i will get my paws on soon!). It's intended to be a production. It feels "emotionless" to some because it has to be more or less a "blank canvas" for the performers to fill in with physical presence and their own acting. Shut up about this.

Why does she sing it all herself? If she got the Crumpets, or someone else, to sing other characters' parts, people would shit if they weren't the ones who played them in the production. Emilie Autumn fans are crazy. If Maggots, for example, sung a part on the album, they would all have a massive shit fit if she didn't play that character in the production. It makes sense, also, for a solo artist to sing all the parts. It's not that uncommon. Shut up about this.

Rushed? Hardly. Shut up.

She lied? Alright. Slow the fuck down. Firstly, Emilie is bipolar. You can argue and deny it if you like, but it's obvious that she's not faking it. She makes rash decisions. She changes moods quickly. She lies. That's sort of what it is. It's also not helped that she's made it quite public that she's changing meds a lot, especially while this was all coming together. Secondly, and I know this is hard for EA fans to grasp, Emilie Autumn Liddel is a character. Just like Lady GaGa. Just like David Bowie. Who they are in real life, and who they are when they perform are separate. All performers do this. ALL of them. Get over it and shut up.

She's bitchy? She's bipolar, and shit, if you apparently know so much about her private life right now, I'm glad you can say that she's just "being a bitch." Producing an album, with a legion of crazy fans at her throat, criticising her every move, I think she has a bit of permission to be "kind of a bitch." Shut up.

The violin. Seriously? She's a beautiful violinist - but this album is a soundtrack. Violins are there, she probably played them. But it makes sense for her to not play much. I imagine violins are in short supply in an asylum. Shut up.

And I know it hurts that your dad never loved you, but let's not take it out on musicians on the internet.

It's okay not to like an album. But it's just gone too far with this one. Calm your keyboard berserker rage. I know it makes these sorts of people cream themselves when they are overcritical and bitchy, but just...shut up. That all aside, let's move on to the actual review.

Overall, I think I would rate it somewhere around 8 out of 10. It's good. Really good. I like it. If you're not sure before you buy it, do what I did: Pirate, listen, and if you like it, buy it.

Let's break it down by song. I am going to be talking about it as a soundtrack album, and, remembering that I haven't read the book, I'm going to give my opinion on where I see them placed in the production.

1: Fight Like A Girl

The titular song for this album, dur. It's not my favourite of the album. But I still really like it. It has Emilie's usual vocal style, and the opening is similar to "Misery Loves Company," and has a few melody reprises, which I like. It sticks very well to the core themes of the album. I'm not sure where this would fit into the production - I would personally put it after "Goodnight, Sweet Ladies" as an end, full-cast number, post-story. I think it is a quite powerful song. I enjoy the melody and lyrics, particularly the line, "even if you're only a boy/You can fight like a girl." I think it helps dispell the "she's a misandrist" bullshit.

2: Time For Tea

Lol, I fucking love this song. SO MUCH. Just like the title song, I would place it after "The Key," and can imagine a lot of dramatic shit for the stage for this one. I like the references to "4 O'Clock" in this song, and it's why I'd place it as the climax song, right after "The Key." I can see it working amazingly in the production.

3: 4 O'Clock Reprise

I think this is a great opening song, either RIGHT at the start, as an overture, or just after the basic story beginning, say, when she is locked in her cell, or something. There's not much I can really say - it's instrumental. It's lovely. That's. That's about it. I could also see this working well if "4 O'Clock" were also in the musical.

It's over. Let it go.

4: What Will I Remember?

I admit, I haven't really listened to this one. Don't get me wrong. It's good. And it is very fitting in the production. It just. Slipped my mind, I guess. It is very Enchant-era-esque. If you were big on that era, you will likely enjoy that song. Maybe. Or you can just be butthurt that it isn't 2001 anymore and she changed as an artist. Just do it somewhere else, far away from me. It would fit in great, maybe on Emily's first day, or night. Some time where she can sit and angst a while.

5: Take The Pill

People need to take one about this album, honestly. I like this song. My version is not very good in quality because I pirated it (with intent to buy, calm your tits), so I have only listened to it a few times, but I really do like it. People have whinged, said that her complaint about having to go to sleep and wake up when told is not valid and it's a pissy complaint. It's not. It's all to do with bodily autonomy, which Emily-with-a-Y lost in the asylum. She doesn't choose when she wakes up, she doesn't choose when she sleeps. Furthermore, there are plenty of peole - Emilie, myself, and plenty of you, I bet - who find it not only impossible, but damaging to be told when you have to sleep. I've always been a nightowl, due to the assburgers, and going to school seriously messed with that. Shut up about this too, because you don't know. It would fit in nicely with Emily's first day, I think. Sinister. Great.

6: Girls! Girls! Girls!

Another of my favourites. Yes, she does all the different voices here. Yes, she puts on British accents. Let it go. It's a good song, jaunty, fun, historically accurate. Yes, they actually did this shit. It's messed up. It's all essentially my style. Also, they performed it on the Fox morning show in Detroit. This amuses me to no end. It's more fun live, but it's great fun to listen to. Having not read the book, I'm not sure when to place this, but it would definitely be in there. EDIT: I did remember one thing that annoyed me. "Conversate" isn't a word. "Too much serious conversating" should be "conversing."

7: I Don't Understand

This song, you guise. You guise. You guise. This song. I think it's a great song for a musical. It has the two characters talking to each other, interacting. That's how this shit works. I think it's fantastic. It is emotional, without being melodramatic. Good stuff. It's a moment of affection and tenderness in an otherwise quite horrible situation.

8: We Want Them Young

This is the one I don't have. I have to say, though: yeah, it'd work excellently. Given that I have only listened to it a few times, I can't say anything more in-depth. It sounds good and you will like it in your ears. First night song, I think.

9: If I Burn

Out of the songs I really like, I probably would place this at the bottom. I still like it. It's not my favourite, but I still like it. It's part of the story. I can imagine Emily singing this during torture. It's so threatening. It would give any psychotic psychiatrist pause, I think. I would possibly put this somewhere around halfway or just before intermission, and possibly tone the vocals up a bit, make them angrier.

10: Scavenger

This is the song I don't like. I think it's really just because I haven't read the book and don't have the context. I'll leave it at that and update it when I've read the book. That sounds fair.

11: Gaslight

This is my second favourite. I love this song. It is beautiful. It's not optimised on the album, I imagine because it's a song to be performed, not just sung - but even so, it is VERY easy to imagine this performed just before the climax, the part where she is "pushed over," or even just after "We Want Them Young," if placed when I suggested. It's lovely and reminds me a bit of "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Mis. It's probably this production's version. I would also possibly put this as just before intermission, as well, depending on the placement of other songs, to make room for the instrumental reprise.

12: The Key

This song is also one of my favourites. Some think it wouldn't work well on stage, but I wholeheartedly disagree - yes, it narrates what's going on. Musicals do that. Anyone who thinks it wouldn't work needs to read opera lyrics, because this is what most of them are. Having her singing with the other characters acting around her would be very visually and stylistically consistent, and it's a great song. As stated, placing it just before "Time For Tea."

13: Hell Is Empty

Nooot really much to say about this, but I really would put this after "Time For Tea," with that song as the girls preparing for a fight, ending in the first death, and this one as death is sort of going on around the place.

14: Gaslight Reprise

Another instrumental. Where I would place this, I'm unsure. Possibly as overture music from the intermission. It would depend on the placement of the other songs, I suppose!

15: Goodnight, Sweet Ladies

This is my favourite. I think it's beautiful, and a perfect finale. People die in this story, dude, and it's a great song to gather the surviving girls and have them join in freedom or some hippie crap like that. It's perfect for the finale. That is all.

16: Start Another Story

Another one that I don't have a good version of. I will update this along with a purchase of the album.

17: One Foot In Front Of The Other

While I don't have a working version of this, either, I think this would be a great song to tack onto the end of "Goodnight, Sweet Ladies", and attach "Fight Like A Girl" too, and just make it a medley. I can't see it working any other way. Good song though. Tops.

And thus ends the album. It was smashing. Really. I loved it. I hope to be in the UK by 2014, so....hopefully I can go see the stage production!

I hope I can update the bits when I get my book and CD, and this review will be finished. In the meantime, I think I did a pretty good job! I really hope the production goes well for her and people will just shut the fuck up instead of trash talking her on the internet.

Much love,

-Kitty

 

Remember Me?

Oh hey look it's me!

Yes, I'm back! Hopefully for good this time!

I have missed blogging. Yes, yes I have. But what happened? Well.

I think we left off just after I moved house. Since then, my health has rapidly declined. No, I haven't got any better. I basically breathe through an asthma puffer, I am in near constant pain, and my eyesight has gotten worse. But for now? I'm fine.

A lot has changed! Mostly, my hair. Shit, my hair changed. When I left you all, it was this:

 Then, it was this:

And now, it's this:

Shit, sorry.

You can see how I got confused.

Anyway, other than that, things are the same. Heather has moved in, it's my birthday soon. I'll be up and running with more interesting things this week (if you remind me.)

I'm not going anywhere now. I promise. And remember kids:

~Kitty

Moving! :3

Hi everypony! I have been so bad lately. Anyway, just updating to let you know that Shaun, the Bedlam Brothers and myself will be relocating from Sunshine to Newport, which is much closer to the city than we are. Two-bedroom flat, really lovely - I'll get photos when I can. Shaun will get his first pay on Thursday, and hopefully thereafter I can return to my regular posting! I just have not been well enough to do much. Some therapudic shopping should do...

Until then, I will just love and tolerate the shit out of you.

Ridcully the Tabby, doing what I can only assume is serious
wizarding business.

PS: Do you like ponies? Of course you do. Check out Ponyhoof on FB - install it and you will regret NOTHING.

 

A Forum! +some life stuff and cats!

If you're as much in love with Dani Deathbiscuit as I am (she routinely propositions me in broken Dutch), you would have heard about our forums. The oh-so-talented Laura, aka Sheridan, went ahead and made a forum instead of getting ready for school one day, in between teaching me how to ask people if they wanted to see my tits in Dutch. It's still being worked on, but I wanted to extend the invite!

As you can see, I still look fine. ;DFunny story. I don't actually
look like this in real life. I don't know what happened!

And as for what's going on in my life, I'm afraid my health has taken a turn for the worst. Constantly uncomfortable, knees killing me (I got out of bed and ended up at a pro-gay marriage rally in Melbourne today!), back killing me, horrible vomiting feelings. It's at least nice and chilly here at the moment. I've been trying to help my health with huge doses of Chip Coffey (from about 7:00 onwards is where the magic happens) and My Little Pony. Seems to have helped.

Shaun has finally found some secure employment, Heather is moving down, and the cats are happy and healthy and being the best of company. We will be moving oh so soon.

Apart from my heath QQ-ing everything, life is good! 

 Here are just a couple of pictures of my darling Bedlam Boys. Although a bit bored because we can't let them out of our room most days, they are quite happy playing with each other.

Came home smelling like dogs today, as I stopped to cuddle with so many! One labradour nearly killed his owner dragging him along to run up to me. They rounded a corner, the dog spotted me and ran STRAIGHT over. I don't know why, but he was a very cute 6-month-old!

 Because it's been so cold, the cats have been mostly sleeping under the blankets with me all day. Shaun works five or six days a week, and they are fantastic company.  

 As soon as we find a place, they will get more room, and some little foster kittens to join us! Finally...something to do!

Sorry I have been so lacking lately. I've been so ill and boring - I haven't got much to say!

Much love, always!

-Kitty

PS: I hugged a fursuiter today. Jealous?

That is all.

That's all I wanted to share. From Dopey Discord (Friendship is Magic) to whom I award the whole internet for this.

Interview - Lucy from Lucy's Corsetry

A little while ago, drunk on my own power, I finally worked up the courage to ask Lucy, one of my all-around favourite youtubers, for an interview. She obliged (yeah, I don't know why either!) and I am ever so excited to finally get around to posting it up!


Kitty: To satisfy my own curiousity, I would love to know your ethnicity - you are just so lovely-looking and unique, I can't pin it down for the life of me. That probably sounds really creepy.

Lucy: In order of largest percentage to smallest, I have the following ancestry: African (I guess you can say "black", like from Ghana), Caucasian (western Europe including English, Scottish, German, French), East Indian, Chinese, and Native South American (Aztec). Since there are some adoptions and some lost papers, there is a small percentage of unknown lineage. All my ancestors ended up in the Caribbean for one reason or another, and I was born in Canada. I identify myself as Jamaican-Canadian. 

 
Kitty: Tell me about your corset experiences - best, worst, favourite, and your first.
 

Lucy: My first corset experience was when I was about 15. My mother made me a black Victorian gown for Halloween and also a makeshift corset (a modified longline bra) and petticoat to go underneath. Since I was a stick figure at that age, I was thrilled by my new hourglass figure from the corset, and I loved the feeling of being held. I thought it was the coolest feeling to relax and "lean back" in the corset, and still be sitting ramrod straight. :D

Tibby, Lucy's
self-appointed "helper"

My worst corset experience was probably early on in my daily waist training about two years ago, and I was boarding the bus home from university. The bus took off before I was able to sit down and the inertia knocked me off balance - I engaged my core muscles reflexively to regain it, but since I was in my corset I ended up pulling a side muscle pretty badly. I had to take a week or two off training for my oblique muscle to heal.

My favourite corset experience... I'm not entirely sure I have a favourite! Wearing a corset to a formal event and having some ladies gasp and fawn over my outfit is always fun. (Men never really comment on my attire but I sometimes receive buggy eyes.) My first corset photoshoot was also a great experience! However I'm sure I will have even greater corset experiences in the future, so I'm holding out on that "favourite" moment. ;)

 
Kitty: Going off that question, the corset that you wear the most? I haven't gotten around to watching your collection video yet, but I want to bet you have over 9000! Is it ever hard to pick just one?

I just thought this was a lovely
photo.

Lucy: Haha, not quite over 9000 Vegeta, but somewhere between 30-40. The plan WAS to have a different corset to wear every day of the month, but not all corsets are that practical to wear. It's very difficult to pick just one at times! Of course, I have some that I wear more often than others. 

At this time, I wear my waist training underbust from Heavenly Corsets or my Josephine underbust from Isabella Corsetry a lot in the daytime, and my WKD Baby cincher at night (if I choose to corset at night). On the days that I focus on getting a lot of sewing done, I don't corset at all. Therein lies the irony - I can't wear corsets while I'm making corsets.

 
Kitty: Do you have any corsets that you just feel are too precious to wear? Like the antique one I linked you to a little while ago. How about ones that look pretty on display, but terrible on?
 

Lucy: I have a few corsets like that - although I don't have any antique corsets, my "couture" overbusts are precious to me - these are the overbusts by Electra Designs, Puimond and Sparklewren. Sometimes I feel that I don't quite do them justice when I wear them, or that I need a special occasion to wear them. 

Some of them have an extremely deep plunge and as such they're not suitable for casual attire and wearing a shirt underneath some of them just looks ridiculous. I also rarely wear them because I'm absolutely paranoid about spilling drinks/food on them, wearing them on a day where there's a chance of rain, etc.

An afforementioned Electra Designs corset

Kitty: Corset regrets - do you have any? The one that cost way too much for bad quality, youthful over-keen purchases where you bought a plastic boned one and thought you were just the coolest thing (you are)?

Lucy: Oh God, too many regrets to count. What I thought was my first "official" purchased tightlacing corset so many years ago ended up being a cheap plastic-boned thing from Burleska.

I still have regrets about some of my recent purchases though, such as my hasty bulk order from CorsetDeal when they came out with their new collection. I'm now out by several hundred dollars and own several relatively ill-fitting corsets.I have also purchased corsets from some companies like Orchard Corset or Gallery Serpentine solely on the requests of some viewers - I wouldn't have made the purchases if I hadn't been pressured by so many to do reviews on them, and I had severe buyer's remorse. 

Some people don't realize how much of my savings I've spent just on filling requests on my Youtube channel. However, by doing reviews on those corsets, I've been told I've saved hundreds of other people from making the same expensive mistakes, so I try to think altruistically and say that it wasn't a total waste.

Kitty: How did you get into corsetry, and could you explain the tightlacing method you use? Are there any mistakes you made that you would like to share, or things that seemed a great idea at the time but were really quite terrible in retrospect?

Lucy: How exactly I got into corsetry is a very long complicated story, but basically I started getting serious about corsetry around the age of 18 or 19 when I was getting more into anime, manga and cosplay. It was at that point that I made my first Victorian corset and started "waist training" in a sense. My naturally ridiculously long hair and small waist made accurate cosplay very easy for me.

This photograph was accompanied with the following text:
"I unfortunately haven't been figured out how to make a
sarcastic face and a duck face simultaneously."

Once I purchased my first custom-fit waist training corset around 2 years ago, very early on in my training, I was impatient and I tried to tighten the corset as much as I could and wear it as long as I possibly good, simply trying to "bear up" when it became painful. That was a terrible idea - not only did it cause discomfort that prevented me from training for weeks after that incident, but I also became discouraged and formed a negative attitude around corseting.

After that, I purchased the book "Corset Magic" by Ann Grogan and followed the "rollercoaster method" explained in that book - the basic outline for that training process is to pick an initial reduction (say a corseted measurement of 24") and over a number of weeks, staying at that measurement but slowly working up the number of hours until you're comfortably able to wear your corset at that reduction all day. Once that occurs, then you may further reduce your waist (say, to 23.5") but then drop the number of hours worn at that reduction, once again working your way up to wearing it all day. I've found this method makes the most sense to me.

Kitty: One last question, and I'm desperate to know the answer: Your HAIR. How do you manage to look after so much lovely hair - or end up with that much of it?! I have a thick head of hair, but I've taken the "I can do what I want with it, I'll just wear a wig if it falls out" approach.

Please, PLEASE click to view larger.

Lucy: Being able to grow long hair is very easy for both women and men in my family - even my cousins with extremely curly hair (remember the African lineage) have been able to grow their hair easily halfway down their backs and longer. I'm very fortunate to have loose curls in my hair so I haven't had to chemically straighten my hair and I very rarely use heat on it (I'll flat-iron it maybe a couple times a year) - I simply put it up in a protective hairstyle like a bun or a braid, and it keeps my hair out of the way. When I take my hair down, it will end up fairly straight or with some nice waves.

People ask me all the time what kinds of products I use for my hair, but I will always say the same thing - which shampoo you use will be absolutely useless if you don't first START with healthy hair, and that comes from eating healthy and taking care of your body. There are no shortcuts in this respect.

Tibby, helping with, and not at all hindering, corset surgery.

And there we have it! Thanks so much to Lucy for letting me interview her. She is honestly one of the greatest and most lovely people, and I can't resist trying to spread her knowledge around the place. Her youtube is here, facebook here and her blog is here. She does make corsets, too, the info is on her blog. Her beautiful photographs were used with permission!


Much love,
Kitty<3 

PS: the batcats are go

Househunting - Moar Makeup and General Life Update

The pics on this post are pretty dodgy, so let's just start with a lovely one of Sunday.

awwww. :3

 Anyway, today we went to look at an apartment up the road. It's small but nice, I really like it. Hopefully we'll be able to get it. Here's what my face looked like. My webcam dislikes unnatural light, so it just sort of went "no". Shaun had to hold the lamp up to me. :P

Foundation - Illamasqua Skin Base SB002 and Illamasqua Pressed Powder in PF002

Eyes and brows - Manic Panic Cream and Shadow duo. Yeah, for once I actually did that black eyeshadow thing you young whipper-snappers are always on about.

Cheeks - Nabi blush in "Lilac".

Lips - Manic Panic "Blood Red".

I also actually did something with my hair, as I was too shakey and running late to tie my headscarf. I just sort of put it in a bun and wave-efied some of the side bits. :D

Observant readers would notice that there's something new on the bell on my neck - it's a gold ring with cat ears, sent to me by the darling Dani Deathbiscuit of Confessions of an Australian Goth. She saw it and just KNEW I had to have it.

As for my back pain, things seem okay. The pain pills seem to be working although they have done nothing for this migrain! The weather seems to, though, as it has gone from "a bit sunny, occasionally" to dreary and wonderful. I've been able to walk around for longer, and with less pain. Shaun says I'm less moody too, but what does he know?!

Using my phone as a lamp, yay! XD

We're getting along fine, though. Things are better this week, although we still have nowhere to move. XD

I wish I could post something more interesting! Blar.

I was thinking about putting a "donate" button up on the sidebar and setting that up. I might still do, if we need it. All blog money will of course go towards cats, our own and street cats, and if we manage to get our own place, it will also go towards foster kittens.

Anyway, my darlings, that was our day. How are you all? Do check in with me every once in a while, you are all always on my mind.

Much love.

-Kitty

PS: That jacket? Y'see that jacket? That's the jacket Jillian Venters AND Amy both wanted. It's mine, bitches, do you hear? MINE.

Makeup Post + Trip to the Doctor's

I boredly took some photos of myself yesterday because I liked the way my makeup looked. I did record a vlog but my computer ate it. 8c

 Foundation: Illamasqua Skin Base SB 002, Illamasqua Pressed Powder PF 002

Eyebrows: Shiro Cosmetics "Rattata" (now "Team Rocket")

Eyes: Manic Panic Creme Liner+Shadow duo, Illamasqua liquid liner in "abyss".

Cheeks: Illamasqua powder blush in "Nymph"

Lips: I brushed on Illamasqua's "Box" lightly as a base, then added Manic Panic "Blood Red" over the top. I topped up throughout the day with MP and some Illamasqua Intense Gloss in "Besotted".

So anyway, yesterday I FINALLY made it to the doctor's about my crippling spine and leg pain. I was running late, and felt REALLY bad about it (I apologised over 9000 times) - and I proved to the girls over at the facebook group why I should never ever ever be allowed out in public.

I have a MASSIVE key chain. I own a total of three keys. The key chain is huge because it contains some Monster High bits and bobs, a TARDIS that lights up and wooshes, and a cyberman head that talks to you. The cyberman is a bit old, and was sent to me all the way from England, and so he goes off at the lightest touch. I was moving my bag so a family could move past me, and he went off. "You will be upgraded," he said. "Or you will be deleted."

The room fell dead silent. Sixty people stared at me. The most rational response was of course to say, "Cyberman, that is not how we talk to people! You can be so childish sometimes." BECAUSE THAT'S NOT WEIRD AT ALL GODDAMMIT.

Anyway, two prescriptions and a dozen x-rays later, I managed to worm my way into putting off getting a blood test until Monday. Hooray! I also have extremely strong pain killers to take, which seem to kill zero pain but instead make me not care about how much it hurts.

With my headscarf and traveller's cross, both of which I neglected today
out of lack of concentration. 

 Headscarf worn in memory of Shaima Alawadi, a murdered Iraqi-American woman who was beaten to death in her home for the crime of wearing her hijab. The facebook page, One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi can be found here, and it's something I encourage everyone to try out just once.

That's all for now. Space cadet cat is out. XD

Endangered Felidae - The Snow Leopard

Although this cat has yet to be featured on my blog other than zoo pictures, here is an interesting article on the importance and effects of saving the snow leopard. hopefully some food for thought!

Endangered Felidae Followup - the Iberian Lynx

Found this about an hour ago. Erroneously, SOS Iberian Lynx Man refers to the lynx as a big cat (it's not, it's felinae not pantherinae) but they are trying their best to save this precious cat.

Read it, watch it and spread the word.

Filty Victorians stuff + blog change again

Well it seems I just can't settle!

Anyway, this is really just some more Filthy Victorians stuff. I know. I've been a shit blogger and I am really upset I didn't get to go through with the plans for the year. It really upsets me that i didn't get that chance. With my health absolutely falling apart, having had to stay in bed for pretty much the last few weeks with chronic pain, fatigue and emotional stuff, and the fact that our housemates are crazy and we are getting evicted because we...are nice and tidy up after them apparently (sin of sins) i just haven't found the energy to dress up and be lovely and my usual self.

Honestly? I feel lonely. I feel like no one wants me around or wants to talk to me. It seems like people who were talking to me only a few weeks ago are avoiding me.

Having Heather down for all of last week was a nice break. She's moving down soon. But in the meantime I am just not coping.

I feel like I'm alone. All the time. I know I'm not, I know I'm never really alone but, still, everything seems to be getting away from me. I feel vague and on the outside of everything.


Do you all just want me to go away? Because I will, if I'm not wanted around anymore. It's okay. Please just someone tell me what I'm missing and what's going on.

YAY

Finally, a break from being sad and trying to find a new house, to tell you all. Heather, my bestestest friend in the world, who was down all last week hence the no-posting, is moving down with us!

Holy New Blog Stuff, Batman! +why pastel goths why?

So yeah, I've just gone ahead and changed my entire blog to varying shades of pink.

With my eyes going on that downward slope I was having trouble reading my own fucking blog. So no more black backgrounds! Plus I like pink.

Now, this is going to take a turn for the worse. Pastel goth.

One of the items for sale on pastelgoth.com

 I think pastel goth should be, oh, I don't fucking know, goth but pastel? Not "goth with kawaii" (don't. even. go there) or "How about we just make a denim vest with a floral inverted cross on the back! Call it goth!"

There is nothing wrong with a lot of pastel goth fashion. A lot of it is cute. But that doesn't excuse the gallons and gallons of crap oozing from the subculture.

Real pastel goths, goths in pastel, stand the fuck up and just say no.