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(sorry, sheep on the brain again)

From [livejournal.com profile] stormkpr: Explain Your Live Journal Name and its Meaning meme. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name.

I'm not going to tag seven people - that feels a wee bit like chain letters. Although if you really think you'll have good luck for the next seven days and you will get an unexpected surprise (what other kind is there?), please, feel free. :-)

Anyway, this is a very long and tedious story. A certain friend (and ex-lover) of mine looooves to tease me on my less-than-girlie presentation. I think her mission in life is to get me into a skirt. But her mission is doomed! DOOMED, I tell you! Muahahaha! Unless a lavalava (sarong) counts, which it doesn't.

So, she and some other friends decided, during a night of semi-drunken ribaldry, that I needed to develop my non-existant girlie persona. They suggested that a fringed pink satin rhinestone-studded cowgirl outfit with high-heeled white boots would be the thing, accompanied by bracing renditions of Stand By Your Man from Tammy Wynette (I suggested D.I.V.O.R.C.E. might be better, but that was shouted down). And to go with this lovely vision of womanhood, the appropriate name for me would be Fifi Trixibelle. If I did drag, I mean, dressed up as a real woman, that would be my drag name.

This lovely ex of mine still calls me that in not-too-public situations, so I decided to borrow "Trix" as my internet handle. Since there are now about 6 quintillion Trixes on the internet, I needed another name that was reasonably unique. Thus the Trixtah was born.

Additionally, and more tangentially, I have Mercury in Gemini, my favourite Tarot card is The Magician, and I really enjoy the trickster trope in mythology. Maui, of course, being the first one that I was aware of, but I also read Andre Norton's Fur Magic at the age of about 7/8, which has the Native American Coyote as a major figure. Thus, an Interest was born. And why The Trickster as an archetype I particularly enjoy? Something about catalysers perhaps. My life changes have never been gradual and evolving ones. Some individual has always catalysed things in one sense or another for me; I have fulfilled that role for a number of other people.

So there you go - practicality and wankitude, all in one package. :-)

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Date: 2006-05-18 08:27 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] trixtah.livejournal.com
No, I haven't seen that movie, or even heard of it, alas. If it's depressing overall, I think I might give it a swerve. I tend to like happy endings myself.

And, if you feel inspired, I'd like to see how your nick came about too! :-)

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Date: 2006-05-18 11:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladylamia.livejournal.com
it definitely is depressing overall, though there are some funny parts. i'd say steer clear if you're a happy endings fan. it's about a bisexual polyamorous former porn star who's dying of aids. but salma hayek is hot and i personally like depressing films. kid joey (the drag queen character i mentioned) is the only comic relief and he gets bashed and then dies.

you do like happy endings though so i'm going to highly recommend two of my fav films, if lucy fell and big eden (the 2nd is about gay guys but it's so cute!!!!)

i think i will do the meme, i was thinking it sounded like fun!

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