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11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +10 points

Hot Topic has completely, completely morphed into a nerd store. There's still some pseudo goth/punk stuff at the back, but it's like 95% Adventure Time leggings and My Little Pony Merchandise. I have no idea when this happened.

(I have a longstanding Hot Topic fascination stemming from a childhood as a city kid. I still think malls are exotic.)

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +68 points

In middle school, I became aware of the grunge look. Flannel shirt, jeans= Angela Chase. A no-brainer. Except I disliked jeans, and didn't own any. I did, however, own a scoop-necked short-sleeved denim blouse, and a pair of plaid joe-boxer long-johns that a slightly older, cooler fictive cousin had given me for Christmas. Denim + flannel= effortless cool, right? Never mind that the long-johns nipped in at the ankle and the cousin in question had given them to me as sleepwear, I decided it was An Outfit.

The first day I wore it to school, my classmate T. (once a social outcast, but now extremely popular because the boys admired her taste in music) looked at me and said "Reina, are you wearing LONG JOHNS as PANTS?"
I nodded. She leaned over and high-fived me, saying "Reina, don't ever let anyone tell you you're not cool."

I took T.'s benediction as fact and continued wearing the Outfit whenever I wanted to come off as particularly cool, and relaxed and with-it, like when I visited fancy high schools as a prospective student. Because my self confidence was limitless, and my clothes were genuinely insane, it's possible that I was projecting the exact image I desired. The world will never know.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +10 points

"When little Keisha finally moves to a house with a yard, she's heartbroken to find out that the landlord doesn't allow pets. But Keisha doesn't know that her new house already has a dog... the sweetest, bravest and most loyal dog in the world (and the underworld), GHOST DOG!"

"Who is Ghost Dog? Why is she here? What past tragedy has made the landlord such a jerk? Can Keisha help Ghost Dog finish her mission... even if it means that Ghost Dog has to leave? Find out on the exciting season finale of GHOST DOG!"

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 3 replies · +36 points

Shit girl, I'd MARRY myself.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +26 points

I skipped the consent article and went to the Perkins essay instead. Why eat crap when you can have sorbet!

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +3 points

So, I'm psyched for this "A Brief History of Time Travel" documentary, but I just wanted to let any fellow time travel junkies know about this existing movie called "The History of Time Travel" (screening at the Austin Film Festival this month, the only reason I know about is that I was a pre-screener, but I just loved it so much).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJfSCDTf4eU

Essentially, it's a time travel story told in the form of a crappy TV documentary. It was a student thesis film, it has almost no budget, it's all storytelling and moxie.... and it has some amazing structural tricks up its sleeve that I don't want to give away, just in case it goes on netflix or youtube someday.

11 years ago @ The Toast - "Like Quiz Bowl": Winn... · 2 replies · +11 points

PLACET!

11 years ago @ Equestria Daily - MLP Comic Writer Ted A... · 0 replies · +2 points

Hold me, Scoots2. I feel so sad and alone. You have no idea how hard I defended this fandom.

11 years ago @ Equestria Daily - MLP Comic Writer Ted A... · 27 replies · +3 points

Oh my gosh, say it's true and prove it! This whole thing has been making heartsick and scared as a creative.

I mean, the baying for blood in this thread is still heart sickening but at least it would mean that it wasn't affecting a career. But man, I loved this fandom once....

11 years ago @ The Toast - Dirtbag Hans Christian... · 0 replies · +14 points

I'm not sure about that. HCA lived in a world that was genuinely unjust to him, while the times catered to the sexual appetites of Charles Dickens. I find it hard to knock him for failing to be straightforward with women when it seems like he had no real desire to have heterosexual sex. Excessive chivalry seems like a useful refuge. (Also, HCA wins the effed-up childhood sweepstakes, despite stiff competition.)

And his thing about Jenny Lind? He thought he WAS Jenny Lind- not without justification. Their lives were weirdly similar (started out as indigent child performers, ended up as international art stars). Lind seemed to tolerate it- she had to have known. And here's me mega-projecting, but she had to have at least thought about the possibility of being half of the world's most famous Scandinavian power couple, which is why I imagine her rolling her eyes and saying "Hans is a Dear but I just don't think it's going to work out."

That said, if you wanted to hang out with one of them, Dickens. Dickens threw great parties.

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