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Apr. 15th, 2013 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdI went to the Renfairie yesterday! It was fun. My poor brother got dragged along with me because I couldn't find anyone else to go with me. He had a good time though. I also had my dragon puppet with me. One of these fine fellows. Other than that I was dressed fairly normally.
After the fair we went to IKEA because my brother needed to pick some stuff up. I kept my dragon on my shoulder, of course, when we went there.
It was great.
I traumatized all sorts of people. The dragon moves his head via a wire control that goes down my shirt sleeve and I keep hidden in my palm. There's nothing that can give away the it'd being controlled. While my brother was browsing in sections, I would sit on something or lean against things and just have the dragon watch people walk by. I've gotten very good at making the head movements realistic. I base them on my bird's movements. He's good at cocking his head and just following people around.
And boy... people were startled. This one little girl refused to walk by me because she saw the dragon. Her eyes went as wide as saucers and her mother had to push her by. Another time this one woman stared at it and went "Is that a bird?" her friend replied with, "No, of course not, it's some sort of iguana." Because, you know, those critters I linked to look so much like iguanas. I got a few jumps and ohmighawds.
At the fair it was sort of expected, you know? People were walking around with the. People were walking around with other sorts of creatures. So there wasn't any shock value. It was just Oooh! Or Where did you get that?! (I got one of those at IKEA too.) But you don't expect such things at IKEA.
Which is half the reason why I did it.
After the fair we went to IKEA because my brother needed to pick some stuff up. I kept my dragon on my shoulder, of course, when we went there.
It was great.
I traumatized all sorts of people. The dragon moves his head via a wire control that goes down my shirt sleeve and I keep hidden in my palm. There's nothing that can give away the it'd being controlled. While my brother was browsing in sections, I would sit on something or lean against things and just have the dragon watch people walk by. I've gotten very good at making the head movements realistic. I base them on my bird's movements. He's good at cocking his head and just following people around.
And boy... people were startled. This one little girl refused to walk by me because she saw the dragon. Her eyes went as wide as saucers and her mother had to push her by. Another time this one woman stared at it and went "Is that a bird?" her friend replied with, "No, of course not, it's some sort of iguana." Because, you know, those critters I linked to look so much like iguanas. I got a few jumps and ohmighawds.
At the fair it was sort of expected, you know? People were walking around with the. People were walking around with other sorts of creatures. So there wasn't any shock value. It was just Oooh! Or Where did you get that?! (I got one of those at IKEA too.) But you don't expect such things at IKEA.
Which is half the reason why I did it.
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Date: 2013-04-17 03:15 am (UTC)LOL to all the rest of it. You are my very favorite Other Me. ♥
(Psst, in other news, were you planning on participating in the Milliways theme song plot before it's over? I just had this epiphany that The Fool's theme song would be Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. Because he would rickroll the bar. :D?)