I have a hard time accepting compliments, and am in the habit of what often is basically someone saying "Hey, I like your armor" and I start on some rant like "Thanks, yeah, I think the legs are sitting a little funny, I need to get some better footwear, I'd really like an Albion sword instead of this one, and the shoulders keep catching on my breastplate, but, I guess it looks fine to other people, I'm just not happy with it. So-and-so makes a great set of pauldrons, but they have a 6 month waiting list, and I ordered a set from whoever that hasn't made or shipped them for 8 months, so I doubt I'll ever see that armor or money back, and I don't want to pay somebody else for something that I should have from before, and I can't find anywhere that makes good period scabbards for a reasonable price, and I don't want to pay a lot of money for a scabbard I'd have to glue a sword into just to get it here into MDRF. Maybe I should just run around yelling 'lightning bolt! lightning bolt!' with some elf ears. It reminds me of D&D, and I used to like that when I was younger, but never really had much chance to play. Except for the PC games, but our computer was too slow to run it, and I was always fighting with my sister for who gets to use the computer too........................" at which point I realize I've gone off on a horrible tangent, stop at a completely random sentence, and kind of stare blankly as my brain starts going "WTH did you just do??"
Almost. Every. Time.
Hah! I've done that. Not usually so far off topic, but I'm extremely critical of my own gear.
The first time I met Christian Tobler (this was at WMAW, in 2007), he recognized me from my websites, which I thought was a nice compliment in itself. At the end of the event, he said something to me like "Hey, you should come up and visit us and bring that beautiful harness". I cringed, visibly, and I could see that he had a look on his face like "what did I say??". I apologized to him later and said that the thought that flashed through my brain was about how ill-fitting it is, with non-historical shapes and so on, and because I had this hero-worship thing going on I felt embarrassed to show it to him.
All a huge mistake. Take the compliment for what it is.
heres 1, at our faire we have about 4 girls dressed as faries, they dont talk, they walk really slow and weird. I find it errotic for some reason lol
Heh, I'd use the word "alluring", personally. But yes, cute fairies are cute, yes?
