bluestocking

[dragonlady7]

Heh. I haven't really anything to say to this post of jennnlee's, being as I haven't owned a TV in about 3 years (4?), but her discussion of being a Geek Girl has awoken in me a strange hankering.

I have a lovely girdle that has excellent, metal, sturdy, functional, and long enough clips for real stockings.

I would love a pair of blue stockings. And not subtly blue, no; not navy enough to almost be black so people would think I'd just bought the wrong pair by mistake*-- really noticeably blue stockings. Can anyone find me some?


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* which, I assume, is the origin of the term bluestocking, as in the bookish girls earning the term were so ignorant of / disinterested in fashion they couldn't tell navy blue from black? I do have that trouble sometimes.
Anyone more knowledgeable about the term, please do correct me.

edited: Apparently the term originated with a man wearing worsted blue stockings, which is interesting. My theory is wrong. But-- to be a true bluestocking, I should indeed have bright blue stockings, so my quest persists!!
Thanks to jennnlee for making the effort to look it up on encyclopedia.com. ^.^

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[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

From encyclopedia.com: Boswell, in his Life of Dr. Johnson, states that these “bluestocking clubs” were so named because of Benjamin Stillingfleet, who attended in unconventional blue worsted stockings rather than the customary black silk stockings. In time the name bluestocking was applied solely to women of pedantic literary tastes. What this has to do with my post, I have no idea.

And our TV is currently for watching DVDs and playing Xbox. We haven't watched a show since Buffy went off the air.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

> women of pedantic literary tastes

i.e., the original Geek Girls.

I dunno, I was thinking of the geek hand thing. It made sense in my head.

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

Ah. Okay then.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the definition, btw.

I just haven't been a watcher of TV since before I went to college, really, so I'm hopelessly out of touch with all the wonderful things Fox has cancelled. I'm sort of excited on behalf of like my entire friendslist about this movie or something that has like spaceships and, um, cyborgs and guns? in it (and also many funny lines of dialogue apparently (and dinosaurs?)), but I've really got no idea what they're talking about. ^.^ Have fun, though.

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

I've never really been a watcher of TV either. Like I've said in my journal a lot. I got out of the habit in college, where I was too busy going to rehearsals and running shows and pledging fraternities to watch TV. After college, I just never got back into it. I'd try the occasional show, and it would get cancelled. Firefly was me giving TV One Last Chance. And we see how that worked.

Serenity: No cyborgs, but yes spaceships. And guns. And dinosaurs, but of the toy variety. And swearing in Mandarin. And space hookers. And brilliant writing. The series is at least worth the slots on the Netflix queue if nothing else.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I've just never been a person of habits at scheduled times. I tried, in college, to get in the habit of watching shows, but I could never quite keep track of such mundane concerns as 'times' and 'days'. ;D
I have the trouble at work that when I say I don't watch TV people assume it's because I'm some sort of intellectual snob and am above it. Which is annoying to attempt to explain...

No cyborgs, huh? Well, then, I could keep guessing... there seems to be at least one character that's not precisely human like the others, but maybe she was just raised in a sheltered existence or something?

Ohhh, Netflix-- you know, I've had the same three movies sitting on the desk in the basement now since April, so I really ought to either cancel it or do something clever like watch a series. Good idea.

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

TV shows through Netflix is awesome. We can watch an entire season in a couple weeks, and turn it on and off when we want to. That's another reason we stopped watching TV - we're not good at remembering when things are on either. We watched about half of the first season of Alias, but then it would be Sunday night (I think) and I'd say "didn't Alias come on a half-hour ago?" And Morgan would say "Shit!" and finally we just gave up.

And since we live in the sticks, we have maybe one channel that comes in, since we refuse to pay $50 for cable (which apparently is akin to not having electricity, according to my mother in law). So if a show we hear about looks interesting, we wait till it starts coming out on DVD and put it in the Netflix queue. Mail-order movie rental is awesome when you live in a small town.

River is the "different" character. She's a genius who went to a government-sponsored academy, where her brain was tampered with and was turned into a programmed assassin. So yeah, she's a little messed up.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I can watch TV when other people are in charge of remembering when it's on.

Netflix is awesome, sure, but I have a kind of binge mentality, so I'll watch all three movies in a day and want another one, and send them all back, and get some more and not be interested in movies anymore. And I really haven't wanted to watch a movie in months now. Z and I have been saying "Let's go see X movie" since before summer began and when it comes down to it we're never actually in the mood to see a movie when it's time to do so. I don't know why.
And the other problem with Netflix is, of course, that Z and I don't actually have the same taste in stuff, but I prefer not to watch movies by myself. He doesn't like SF or fantasy, or historicals really, so most of the shows I'd want to watch, I'd be on my own for. Eh well. Maybe I should try it anyway-- he is somewhat amusing to listen to as he provides running snarky commentary on the inherently ridiculous parts of everything I hold dear. ("So... this Gandalf dude can do magic, and yet... the eagles have to save them?")

>"different" character

Am I good or what!!! I'm so proud of myself for guessing that. :D

Yeah . . .

[(Anonymous)]

. . . I know a place. (http://vickisnylons.com/Full_Fash/fullfash.htm)

- Z

Re: Yeah . . .

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

You know I love Vicki -- oh how I love Vicki-- but they're navy and I think they'd be sort of subtle.
I'd love a pair, because who doesn't want to be subtle sometimes? But I'm still looking for like jewel-blue ones, so it'd be like "Wow she's wearing blue stockings.

Actually I think I just have to start amassing a larger collection of stockings, as I do love them so.

blue stockings

[(Anonymous)]

http://stockingirl.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=miccina&Product_Code=LTB393&Category_Code=catS&Product_Count=28


Really blue