Star Trek ToS
S1E3: Charlie X
I’ve been hunting for Picture Day Operetta for about a month now, with a promise to myself that once I found her, I’d grab her then and there even if it meant a slightly scant weekend, moneywise, because I’m afraid of not finding her again if I pass her up.
Well, I still haven’t found her, but when I went to the Times Square Toys R Us tonight I found this cutie instead, and I realized that similar logic applied here. So, Twyla came home with me.
I don’t have any good display photos yet, as I’m actually finally getting my stuff out of storage on Staten Island tomorrow evening and my room’s kind of in flux as I prepare for this (I’m buying another set of wire shelves tomorrow at Target), so I had to hold her for these. She still sort of has box hair, I’m afraid, but that can be fixed later.
Obviously, one of the doll’s main strengths is that she’s based on a type of monster that doesn’t really have any fixed “look” (unless you count Pitch Black in Rise of the Guardians, and it does seem that he might have been a vague influence on her special abilities re: shadows and such, though the influence ends there). So, the designers were able to basically just go with their own ideas, and the results were pretty impressive and cutely tied together. She has a sort of closets/bedrooms theme (her diary mentions that yes, boogey monsters do hide under the bed and in closets in order to catch dreams and nightmares). Her earrings are little doorknobs omg, and the “shadowy” fading of her hands and the swirls on her legs are silver, not gray.
She does use the smaller doll body a la Howleen (demonstrated in comparison to Operetta), though she’s meant to be 15, the same age as many of the standard-height ghouls. (If only they’d made Draculaura this tiny too.)
okay I’m a little grossed out right now that Man of Steel using 9/11-esque imagery in a really harrowing, serious context is getting attacked when nobody seemed to mind about a quarter of Manhattan getting destroyed in a really gratuitous, “look what we can do” fashion in Avengers
STEELMAN: THE MOVIE
General feels: B+.
My usual spoilerful bullet point rant under the cut.
hey tumblr
next mother’s day and father’s day, can we please not act like the feelings of people who lost great parents and are having a rough time because they’re missing them especially hard are exactly the same kind of feelings of discomfort with mother’s/father’s day experienced by people with shitty abusive parents?
like both are valid reasons for being uncomfortable with the holiday spams, but they don’t need to be lumped together and it’s disrespectful to both sides to do so
(ALSO: speaking from experience: it can also be rough for those of us who have good parental relations but will never be able to be parents ourselves. Please consider that- as a separate motive- too.)
I don’t know why Deep Thoughts with Laurence Olivier as Richard III is suddenly a thing but I’m pretty okay with the fact that it is
I think one of my proudest moments on the Sueniverse in terms of meta stuff involved one of my characters making a passing reference to MCU!Loki not looking like “in the comics”and meaning the Sandman comics.
people on either side of it who think “fedora” as an insult actually, literally refers to anyone who wears a fedora hat
can I just say how refreshed I am, though, that the Hannibal fandom’s honest reaction is “oh my god someone please help Will Graham” and not like “hmm yes Will Graham’s suffering is delicious and nourishing”
it’s like everyone realized that the latter is exactly what Hannibal is doing and was like “we refuse”
