Birthday Doings.

Well, the first charity event of my birthday month came and went. Extra-life raised over $6-million for hospitals to help sick kids. The team I belonged had the goal of $250 and ended up raising $505! Good job team!

Not it's time for the next charity! As mentioned before I'm "taking over" Resurrection on my upcoming birthday. The event page has been officially posted, RSVP >Here<. It's video game themed so there should be sweet game music remixes and feel free to dress in your gamer best.

We're using the night to raise money for Planned Parenthood! If you can't come to the event please make an online donation or at least share this with someone who might be interested.

Apologies for the lack of pictures. I'll probably vine some of these events so follow me.

Using My Powers for Good.

First off, apologies for not posting any blogs last month. October is always super busy. Normally this would be an event post all about the concert I went to in Salem MA this past weekend: DARQ presents: God Module/Angelspit/Gothsicles/Voicecoil/Mordacious! I'd normally be showing off the outfit I wore, or talking about how it was the first time I had been to Darq. Or, I'd be posting about the outfit I plan to wear to Resurrection: The Gunpowder Treason this Thursday, but this blog entry is about other things this time. It's going to be long but bear with me.

My birthday is coming up, November 19th and I am having a HUGE celebration. I'm turning 28 years old. Now this isn't a significant number or anything, there's no thrill like when you turn 21. This birthday feels special to me though. It's a long story but basically, a lot of things happened in the past year, year and a half that impacted me and my life and I'm celebrating making it through and embracing who I am. I might get into more of that story in the future. To get more to the point, I believe in "using my powers for good." What better way than to use my social "powers" and my birthday? Basically, instead of giving me gifts, I'd like it if my friends or whoever else reads this blog to help one of the following charities:

First up is Extra-Life. This charity is dedicated to helping sick kids who are stuck in hospitals. I've been participating in this fundraiser on and off for a few years now. The idea of it is that you marathon games, whether they are video games or ones of the tabletop variety, for 24 hours, all the while getting donations from awesome people. The team I'm helping out is run by the nice people over at The Cardboard Republic.

Second up, Planned Parenthood. Sexual safety is very important to me. I think so many problems could be solved if everyone was just taught how their body works and understood how important sex is and how to be safe. Planned Parenthood has helped me so many times and helps so many other people. I think it's an invaluable resource. I have started a fundraiser page, but I am also using my party on the 19th at Ressurection to raise money. There will be raffles for fun baskets full of prizes and "Sexperts" from Planned Parenthood will be celebrating with us.

Next up, The Wayne Foundation. This was started by Jamie Walton and Kevin Smith. It's a charity specializing in helping women who are victims of the sex slave trade. A thing that still happens today believe it or not. Not going to lie, Kevin Smith is an inspiration towards my desire to "Use my powers for good." Well him and Batman, Another future blog topic meyhaps.

I emailed The Wayne Foundation because I was concerned about victims that don't identify as women and Jamie sent me a nice email telling me about their partner organization More Too Life which helps victims of sexual violence of all kinds of all gender identities. So you can donate to them too if you'd like.

So if you can't donate to any of these, please share them. If you don't want to share it, just do something nice for someone. Make someone laugh. Life is hard and shitty and upsetting. The least any of us can do is something, even something small, to help relieve someone else's pain or sadness.

And to all my friends who I like to make laugh: If you are lonely and need me to make you giggle, and I'm not around, watch some of my vines. :)

Belated Event Posts! Plague: A Mad Hatter's tea-party and Resurrection: #tbt

Last month I went to Plague up in Maine. We carpooled with Sawtooth who was DJing. It was Alice in Wonderland themed and was a locals birthday party. Definitely gave me some ideas for my birthday in a couple months. Instead of dressing in themed I just threw an outfit together and did weird shit with my make-up.

The next event was this past thursday. Rez. Sillah Made me hurt my legs. Saw a bunch of people I hadn't seen in a long time.  The theme was Throw Back Thursday meaning back in the day goth. They plaayed some classics from the 80's and such. I tried to go 80's goth style. I was going to tease the fuck out of my hair but I forgot my hairspray. Oh wells.

I made a vine of it. Look! -> https://vine.co/v/eTrVKpVWmti

Here's what I wore!

Updates updates!

A lot of things going on in my world. I had planned this big epic team post with my sister but we ended up just having sister time together. It was wonderful and I had a great time. Sadly for you guys though it meant less posting from me. Which is upsetting since I did wear me some nice outfits you all missed.

I know I keep saying this every few months, but this time around I am seriously going to make an effort to post more regularly. I'm back in school again but I think it'll be easier to post more regularly with a consistent schedule.

I don't have anything clothing related in this post but I'd like to take this opportunity to share other things I do you might not know about.

I'm a huge fan of Let's Plays and video games in general, so I've been experimenting with doing it myself. SO far I haven't done much outside of play Hearthstone but I'm trying. You can check that out here: http://plays.tv/u/Puck

I also started a Vine. I should have done this forever ago. I've been having a great time making silly little videos. I can't wait until I go to a club and can record some of the great grafitti I find or something. That is here: https://vine.co/u/1249902513080664064 (I'll eventually have a nicer url.)

I have a couple other Youtube channels. I thought about starting one for this blog where I show things like what my closet looks like, shopping vlogs etc. but I'm just going to use the one I originally did for my daydream Let's Play Channel. I can have video games and clothes on there. It's my channel. Anyway, that's here: (Forgive the emptiness, needs work) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjlTUgDfYFXI1dQ8_IFOBA

+I've had a Twitter account for years but I haven't used it consistently for awhile. I recently reactivated it for the millionth time. It mostly just has Vine postings but I might start posting when I update my blog for example. Find it Here: https://twitter.com/ZA_Shojogamer

+Last two with be somewhat fashion related. I already did a blog entry about this but May as well mention it again. Pinterest! I don't think I need to explain much about that site. Here it is: https://www.pinterest.com/manbatgirl/

+Last but not least is Keep. Keep's like Pinterest except you can only "pin", to borrow pinterest's terms, items that can be actually bought. So the "pin" is connected to the store. Example: you see an awesome shirt but you don't have any money. You put it on Keep. You forget about the shirt. A few weeks go by and your bored and go on Keep. You see that shirt again and have money! You click and buy it through the site. You can also earn money through the site and discounts and things so you might get that shirt for free if you play your cards right. Oh and you can connect it to your Pinterest and get multiple things done at the same time. It is here: https://keep.com/u/alicia_puckery/

Oh and there is now a Facebook page for this blog if you prefer that. Here: https://www.facebook.com/ShoestringGoth

That's it! If I get more things I'll make an updated post. I've had some Tumblr's but I dunno if I'll revive that or not. My next post will probably be Friday.

BYYYEEEEE!

Event post: Star Wars birthday! (private event).

Going to a summer Star Wars birthday party. I own a few Star Wars shirts but I decided to go with my Bulbasaur/Boba Fett mash-up shirt. And my galaxy shorts under short shorts. Myep.

Hair!

Event Post! XMortis: the Last Event at TT's :(

Today's event is a sad one. It's the last night of a night that's been around for awhile, X-Mortis. This wasn't a night I went to often, but the few times I've gone have been memorable. The first night I went was in the summer. I remember sexy beach pirates. I tossed a beach ball around with the handful of others who had come early. I grabbed a drink walked around. Then at a certain point it was overflowing with people. It was an explosion of shades of black, arms and legs kicking, people in their own worlds. It was interesting.

Despite first making out with my husband in a club, he doesn't go to many nights. He liked that night when he went though, he has a thing for pool.

I am anticipating a crowd. I'm expecting to sweat. I will be dressed accordingly.

Event Post - Resurrection: Sci-fi Picture show

I'm going to the next Rez with a new spiffy outfit! As you may have figured out from the title, it's a Science Fiction themed event. I recently got an awesome shirt from an awesome lady featuring one of my favorite characters from one of my favorite Sci-fi shows. Since it was really big for me I "altered" it to look more like a tank dress. I am then wearing these boxers underneath that feature nebula and space stuff with some similarly styled knee-high socks. And since the fourth of July is coming up. I threw on some red white and blue.