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the making of bjd!seimei, part 1
Part 1 because he doesn't have his ears or tail yet, and we really need to get him a better wig (we... fried the original one trying to curl it, eheheh. Short, curly wigs for MSD boys are so hard to find).
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build-a-soubi
So I was at Tenshi-no-Sumika yesterday, on a quest to build a custom Soubi doll. It's an incredibly awesome and fun place to be at, as long as you have insane amounts of cash to spend on ball-jointed dolls. I'm surprised just how enjoyable the salespeople make the experience: you really feel like they care about the character that you're putting ( Read more... ) -
catharsis versus progressiveness
This is the kind of thing I was talking about, with those last two essayish posts ( Read more... ) -
transgression vs. social responsibility, redux
A simplified version of the previous discussion, because perhaps it needed it:
Fandom has historically been a place that teased the subversive and transgressive possibilities out of fiction, and thrived on trangression, corner cases, and dangerous and controversial characterisations or setups. There is nothing fandom likes, loves to dissect, and ( Read more... ) -
a sociological analysis of fandom through the lens of the Loveless fan community
Sadly, this post is not, in fact, that analysis. I don't feel I have the skill to thoroughly deconstruct the subject in a way that would do it justice ( Read more... )
