If I were an Orion Teenager on Earth.

If I were an Orion teenager who was adopted and went to High School on Earth - my friends and I would wear sailor shirts, shave and dye the sides of our heads, and listen to Klaus Nomi, Public Image Ltd and the Manic Street Preachers while making zines and pea soup.

Now that I stop to think about it, that is pretty much my life now. The only differences are that I'm not adopted, and I am human. Oh, and I don't have any friends who listen to any of those singers/bands or make zines - so I just sit here with my laptop and have my own private party every night after work. 

"What about Star Trek?" Well, obviously I still watch and read and immerse myself in Star Trek. The reason why this was omitted is that if I were Orion, I would be part of the Star Trek universe and thus there would be no Star Trek shows.

But I digress. If I were an Orion teenager who was adopted and went to High School on Earth, this is what my yearbook photo would look like:

Of course, I would rather be a Vulcan or Human (or even Romulan) teenager going to school on Vulcan.

My skin is so light in this photo (as opposed to the deep Orion skin tone) because the photo finishing companies that do school portraits always do strange smoothing/lightening things to skin for some reason.

This has been a post.

Sherlock Gnomes - From Vulcan to Romulan - Old Costume Dress-up

I have not been spending a lot of time with some of my friends, being so busy and being such a procrastinator. They live so far away that I actually have to plan an entire day around them, and it doesn't always work out. This will be remedied.

One of those friends, who has made an appearance on this blog before, is the one and only "Sherlock Gnomes". The one time I had her over to my place (about half a year ago), I dressed her up quickly in a pair of my ears and my Vulcan headdress (and some green eyeliner, because that is all I had at the time):

She is standing in front of my closet door, which is covered in Star Trek pictures.

I took the headdress of of her, but kept the ears on - and she looked like an adorable Romulan girl. One might expect to find her roaming the high school hallways on Romulus (above). After scrubbing off the eyeliner and putting away my costume, she went home. I may see her again at the Comic and Toy expo this weekend - and I will bet anything that she has an amazing home-made costume. She is my Cosplay Queen.