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Inflicting it on myself
Last year for yuletide, I wrote a Kamikaze Girls story about Ichigo giving Momoko a recast of this doll for Christmas.
I blame that plot bunny entirely for the fact that,. a year later, I'm giving in and buying one myself. I'm not even convinced the sculpt is pretty instead of weirdly alienesque. There are plenty of more attractive dolls. But the ( Read more... ) -
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Or I could not sign up, and just spend hours reading strangers' Dear Writer letters instead. *uses my day off productively* -
Resting
Sometimes I feel really guilty about going part time - it's not like the full time money wasn't useful. But after coming home yesterday in tears because I'd spent all morning being sick, and then all afternoon working with the auditor - and having to abandon her every so often because it was a "not even water" day - I am exceptionally grateful to ( Read more... ) -
Very sad. :(
The new Jem doll line is really disappointingly rubbish. They not only have the fugly hard-featured Integrity Dolls faces, but what on Earth is the point of a non-transforming Jerrica? And why would Synergy make it to a first limited release instead of Pizzazz or Kimber?
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Maria-sama ga miteru
Sorting through what to offer for yuletide (so much harder this year than requests) I remembered why we only managed to get halfway through our Season 2 Maria-sama ga Miteru DVDs and won't make it to the extra seasons ( Read more... ) -
Dear Yuletide Writer letter 2.0
(ETA: This post keeps eating my paragraph breaks. I keep fixing it, coming back a day later, and it's stuffed again. So weird. So I apologise if it's still a wall of text.)
(ETA2: Thank you, pinch hitter. You rock.)
Dear Yuletide Writer,
Thank you so much for offering/pinch-hitting one of my fandoms and writing for me! I've done Yuletide every ( Read more... ) -
Feminist RAGE post
The very next time anyone reacts to anything our precious baby does with "It's because he's a BOY!" I will scream.
HE'S A FOETUS.
Example: he doesn't have any idea what the heck gunshots in a movie represent. No, really.
I wish I could believe people are joking, but it;s just the most blatantly stupid example of how they are absolutely desperate to ( Read more... ) -
Supporting lesbian books - at what price?
I've been reading, come some reason, old blog posts on the whole straightening of YA debacle from a while back. Not really in the mood to engage with all the she-said she-said only to note that I have no problem believing that it's harder to sell books with gay main characters, especially when I see people saying that characters shouldn't be gay " ( Read more... )