Have No Fear!

[mrissa]

I found a safety pin and managed to wrestle my purple wrap dress into submission with it. It looks to me like the sort of dress a superhero circa 1980 would wear out in the evening as her mild-mannered disguise over her superhero bra and panties, like if you cast Topol as one of the sidekicks in her movie nobody would be surprised. The safety pin is allegedly to keep the other theater-goers from seeing more of my bra than they perhaps wanted, but really it's there so if a supervillain shows up, I am not tempted to fling off my dress, throw back my shoulders, and declare that the said supervillain has met his match, for the Great ComplicaTOR is here. Some other superhero can cover this one. That safety pin was hard to get placed right, and I'm supposed to be taking it easy.

I do wonder what kind of supervillain crashes a Somerset Maugham play.

I suspect that getting dressed is less complicated for other people.

Comments

[ladysea.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Now I will have the image of you flinging off said dress in the middle of the movies. Super 'Mrissa! You have to have the shoes, like American Maid does. The perfect weapon.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I'm afraid Sensible Shoes Girl is one of my alternate superhero names, so they're more bludgeoning weapons than projectile/sharp ones.

[ladysea.livejournal.com]

hehe. That works. =) You can have Superhero Sensible Shoes. With hidden tricks.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I used to have the Brown Shoes of Death. They were awesome. They were chunk-heeled Aerosole sandals, so they were comfortable as all get-out, and I was tall in them, and stompy. The only pair of heels I ever loved. They would have had plenty of room for hidden tricks in those chunk-heels.

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. No, I'd say I have similar issues.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

If that many women are out there with flinging off their dress in superhero mode as a real presence in their thoughts, perhaps I should start dressing in ways to convey "Supervillain !" Probably not in the Doctor Doom/Golgoth direction, it's big and clunky and does not admit of much fun... I could probably do something interesting in Casanova Frankenstein mode though. OTOH, I might well end up getting beaten up by said dressless* women. Maybe I could set off the "Supervillain !" reaction by having appropriately costumed minions follow me around in droves, instead. Dang, why did I have to have this idea at the end of summer when it's starting to get cold again ?

*"undressed", while technically exactly the formation I want, seems a bit sweeping in general use for the concept desired here.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

How is the cold again thing your problem? It's really more the superheroes' problem, and they can wear their extra-strength winter capes.

Roo entirely rejected the idea that anyone might wear a cape for warmth. Capes are for superness and flying, period.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

How is the cold again thing your problem?

In persuading potential minions to costumes suited to my standards for minioning. Minionhood. Miniondom. Dominion. Whatever.

[redbird]

Can you get them to minion in the Great Underground Empire?

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

That's a thought. I'm not sure it connects up with the Aldred Building (http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/planlum/images/aldred1.jpg), though, which is where I want my Supervillain Lair.

[redbird]

Clearly, you need to send your minions out to dig tunnels.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You need minions to dig tunnels, you need tunnels to attract minions...it's a very sad world.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I had no idea you were a superhero! Why doesn't anyone tell me these things?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have brought it up a dozen times, I'm sure. Haven't you seen my powers of complicaTION in action?

Also I have another superhero name, but it's not for a "family-friendly" journal.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I would think not, if your superhero uniform is taking off your outerwear. :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That part is not my fault. Every superhero has to take off their outerwear. Nobody puts on a coat to be super.

...

*Goes and revises Minnesota superhero list*

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Yes, but mostly they have extra outerwear underneath, or replace the missing ones.

Not that many superheroines' outfits cover much more than undies. :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You cannot tell me that Wonder Woman is usually wearing some other foundational garments and quick puts on the spangly ones when they're needed. Well, you can, but I won't believe it.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

She might not be. Spiderwoman, on the other hand, is probably wearing something under that big jump suit.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would make an extremely unconvincing Spiderman.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

True. The lack of wall crawling generally does it.

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

Well... there was that awful Jackie Chan movie with the super-tuxedo.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That movie does not exist. Lalalalala.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

The girls loved that movie. The little ones, that is.

[seagrit.livejournal.com]

That's Jeff's next movie night movie. Apparently we've gone throught all the good Jackie Chan movies already.

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

It would be any supervillian that would like to see you in a bra and panties :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I suppose now that I've put it on the internet, that's true. Otherwise they couldn't know: I don't generally attend all Somerset Maugham plays.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

I suspect that getting dressed is less complicated for other people.

If it weren't less complicated for other people, I suspect there'd be a lot more naked people running around.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Cold trumps complicated a good deal of the time.