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[sebastienne]

New shoes!

They are subtle. Which is to say that they go "hi I am a big Lesbian" only marginally more than my birkenstocks or my stompy purple boots or black DM mary-janes (which are both now sadly dead, thus necessitating my quick purchase of something I could get away with wearing to work).

Also, new icons! I've been throwing the "notebook" one around for a little while - it's from John Smith's diary in Human Nature / Family of Blood, where Smith is dreaming/remembering being the Doctor, and taking sketches from these dreams; it's his interpretations of the 7th and 8th Doctors (my favourites!). This new one? Is the lead singer of Borderville. Oh dear. Oh very dear.

My little sister is in Oxford for the next few days - cleaning the house. I am buying her food and hennaing her hair, so I feel very little remorse for this shameless abuse of her obsessive-compulsive tendencies.

And I'm reading a 250-page love-letter from Alan Turing to the Doctor - and Robbie Ross' Masques and Phases has just arrived in the library on stack request - and it's just about enough to make me stop worrying about the possibility that no-one will ever employ me...

Comments

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

I would love some shoes like that. Where did you get them?

Do they really say "Hi I am a big lesbian"? More than just wearing shoes designed for dapper men? Perhaps I have gay feet.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

I got them in a shoe shop in Camden Market (1/3 off at the moment!) it's on the right-hand side of the road as you're walking from the station down to the markets, and it's relatively far down towards the railway bridge. Definitely worth a look if you're down in London, which I seem to remember you are / will be?

I think that comfortable shoes on women always carry an overtone or suggestion of lesbianism - perhaps because it's connected with the feminism implicit in choosing comfort over looking pretty? But these ones have rainbow stitching, which I think is a fairly universal signifier of queerness (not that one has to be queer to wear rainbows! but I like to interpret them that way myself).

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

I see a plan forming... have just quit job, much lower income not starting till Oct, so clearly a Camden shopping-spree is the way to go.

Agree that wearing self-consciously flat shoes is a rather feminist thing, indeed I have rather boring rants on the subject occasionally when drunk and having recently tried to buy shoes. And with my fit pretty men's shoes I think my feet might be a bit more gender-queer than the rest of me. I quite like the thought, anyway.

[ktroo85.livejournal.com]

Hmm I wear flat shoes because I feel self conciously tall in any heels (doesn't help that any time I do wear heels pretty much the first comment I get is "Wow" you are so tall in those shoes!") I've found that most ballet pumps are fairly comfortable though I tend to have to buy the Mary Jane style with a strap so that my arches don't ache (high arches means that with no strap my toes have to grip the shoes on). On the otherhand this makes my shoes look even more like dance shoes which keeps me very happy (I like to play the girlie girl image). Schuh is currently my favourite shop as they have loads of lovely cheap flat shoes. Also New Look does suprisingly good shoes too. They tend to be round the £15 mark but my mum, sister and I all have at least 2 pairs from there

[r-e-mercia.livejournal.com]

Yup, I will second you on the "New Look does good shoes" line! And Next, actually.

[vass]

The shoes are awesome.

And I'm reading a 250-page love-letter from Alan Turing to the Doctor

Is this fanfic? If so, can you give me a link? Or if it's a book, title please?

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

It's an 8th Doctor novel called The Turing Test, and it's by Paul Leonard. When I was buying it on Ebay, I seem to recall a "similar items from our international sellers" link to a copy being sold in Australia...

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

Omg want the shoes. I need new library shoes to store at New!work...

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

I want some shoes that actually say "hi I am a big lesbian" umm even if I am not in that rainbow thread. :D

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

I am thinking hollow out the heel, put a pressure sensor in, tune it a bit, and get some kind of cheap greeting-card-ish speaker tangled in the laces. Stamp the heel down hard enough to set it off, play clip. repeat as need be.

Main problem would be the volume.

(I can't believe I just seriously considered this)

[ex-leighwoos982.livejournal.com]

More like: 'Hi, I am AWESOME.'

[janetmweiss.livejournal.com]

They are gorgeous. *totally wants to lesbian!date your feet, now*