It's the 11th of March.
On this day in 2020, Tom Hanks announced he had COVID and suddenly the media started taking the pandemic seriously.
On this day in 2011, a 9.0 earthquake shook the east coast of Japan, the tsunami wiped out whole villages, and a nuclear plant started melting down.
Not to mention the fact that his premise is false at its core. Modernity brought us industrialization which brought mass production of goods. Modernity brought a sameness to available products. Before the sewing machine, all clothes were made by hand every step and customized to the wearer.
I was in friggin' Tokyo at the time and when the election was called, people started yelling Obama's name across the street to each other.
And then I finished episode five. Holy SHIT, this show was surgically calibrated for me. Well, really, if the Bluesky crowd is defined as elder millennials who love DS9, then the show was calibrated for *us*. Hey Bluesky, where are the Starfleet Academy fans?
Okay, so I posted this because I've started watching Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (which has gone weirdly under the radar this season) and I was amused by how so many different shows now have used "can hang with the Klingons" as shorthand to signify a cool, tough woman in such similar ways.
There's a masters thesis to be written about Star Trek and the female characters who get along with Klingons across the decades.
But I am very willing to believe toxic masculinity is a factor. Or at least, that "rugged manliness" is what leads a geologist to think he's different, and the freezing cold, speeding boulders won't take *him* out at the knees and sweep him downstream.
I was told this is fundamentally because of laziness - crossing the (fast, freezing, full of boulders) glacial outflow stream is faster than walking around, up the toe of the glacier, and back down again. Especially after a long day of sampling, it can be tempting to get back to base camp ASAP.
One of my favorite geology facts, that I tell my friends over and over, is that glaciology is the deadliest field of geology. Even more deadly than volcanology, and that's a field where you might end up interacting with fresh lava!
Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo
Not to mention Joss Whedon and Adam Baldwin are both misogynist pricks and I never want to see either of them or anything they work on ever again. Sigh.
Everyone else is messing around in a Sears portrait studio, but Ensign Harry Kim appears to be auditioning for some sort of ski resort-based action hero role.
He's done it. He's figured out a way to overwrite my memory of his cover of Time. Incredible.
That's *amazing.*
Ha, I hear that. I hiiiiiighly recommend putting it away for at least a month before you start editing. That distance really helps you gain some perspective.
Ahhhhhh, congratulations! Does it feel amazing?
I just used a website's own PDF button to pull an receipt for my manager, and the PDF included the stupid AI chatbot in the corner, which covered the total amount charged and made the whole document completely pointless. I have... no words.
Managing editor Holly Lyn Walrath standing at a table of books with IFP logo planet and ring
We are at #awp26 this weekend! If you see our managing editor Holly make sure you pitch her something weird. She likes that. 👽
Not to be all self-promotional at you, but the post-apocalyptic novella I published in January has a subplot about pregnancy, and I promise no one dies.
Greg Davies: Simple task - walk into the underworld, grab Eurydice, don't look back.
Alex Horne: Absolutely. Want to see Orpheus doing *almost* that?
(Let me add a disclaimer here that I am a giant weeb and I do, in fact, love the idea of a pink-haired catboy maid just as much as the next fujoshi. I just. I wanted something else this time, and the catboy maid is standing in the way of getting it. >.>)
Photo of the same dragon figure showing off his profile.
Photo of a side shot of the same dragon figure.
Eee, thank you! He's definitely a prototype, but I am very happy with him. :D
The market rate does seem to be about twice what I paid, which is cool! I'll give it a few days to see if anyone bites on a trade first.
His name is Ariel and he keeps me company through the day. :D
His head and feet are sculpey, and he's built from wool batting around a copper wire armature. I cannibalized an ugly pillow cover for the fake fur!
I'm planning to make a second version using a more resilient clay for the thin bits.
So anyway, if anyone out there has the rising star or the tattoo artist, specifically, I'd be happy to trade.
Stupid useless blind box luck. Frick.
NOT ONLY is there no way for me to turn a stupid frilly maid outfit into a tight tanktop and loose, flowy pants, but I'd feel guilty if I tried, because it's rare and I know there are probably people out there who really want it. If I paint his dumb pink hair black, I'm going to *angst* about it.
Ladies and gentlethems, I got the chase.
So long as I didn't get the chase doll, I'd be happy. The chase doll is a dumbass catboy maid, whereas all the others have pretty cool outfits that I could work with. And what were the odds I got the chase doll? Literally 1 in 72, it says so right there on the page. I wasn't going to get the chase.
So it wasn't a huge leap to look at those relatively cheap BJDs and think about customizing them. In fact, a lot of them are already halfway to looking how I envision Sid, the main character of my fantasy WIP, to look. I figured I'd take a chance, buy one, and have it lined up as a future project.
