I bought my first Rainbow High doll the other day (big mistake, this is a gateway drug) and I didn't like her skirt (it matches her legs skin colour) so I bought an outfit pack to give her a new bottom but now I have a whole second outfit and shoes? So I thought 'there's a CHANCE there might be one at the thrift store' because sometimes there is! Very rarely though, as these are pricey motherfuckers.

But there was one! In a slip! So she had no new clothes that were going to give me problems!

I took photos of fun sculptures too, for a later post.

The two dolls I own now are Zooey Electric (bought new) and Ruby Anderson (needs a bit of tidying and brushing, but a perfect find).

In my heart I want Victoria Whitman but I'm being good and not buying her at the prices she is now.

I went to Winnipeg for a celebration of life of a cousin of mine for what would have been her fiftieth birthday and had pretty good conversations with my father's side of the family who I don't see much of because they view coming to my city two hours away as going to the godforsaken boonies where they will be picked off by forest people and eaten in stew but always expected us to drive to them at six am on fucking christmas morni--ANYWAY BACK ON TOPIC. It was a lovely celebration of life at one of my favourite places (a plant zoo called The Leaf) and I did not expect to show up in so many of the photos they were playing on the display.

So my relationship with this cousin was very much a 'and then we were adults and got along' but the fuller context is that I am the oldest of my siblings and the oldest of my local cousins and sometimes this cousin would come to stay with us for a week and she was ten years older than me and it was the closest experience I ever had to having an older sister or someone who pulled age authority on me and let's just say I didn't exactly handle the situation with grace.

Anyway, I miss her! She was great. I dream of her all the time.

The other thing we did in Winnipeg was go to the anime convention Ai-Kon under the initial idea of seeing a favourite voice actor of mine, SungWon Cho/ProzD before I remembered I have next to no interest in speaking to celebrities (no offence to Cho, he seems very cool but I have no idea what I'd say without a stronger pretext) so what we did instead was wander around in artist alley and go broke!

It was great! I got lots of nice art and stickers and some fun little plush toys.

Mom was determined to get a gift for my brother and all she knew that he liked was One Piece but she didn't know what anyone in that show looked like so she only zero'd in on the words 'One Piece' so I twice had to deter her. Once from buying a statue that was just Nico Robin in a very tight towel (she hadn't looked anywhere but the words One Piece) and the other time a knockoff Labubu of Luffy 'I don't think my brother would like that', I said. She did get a cat Luffy sticker and a One Piece cookbook because I had surrendered by then.

What I DIDN'T like about Ai-Kon was I was minding my own business trying to escape before I spent more money and this person walked right up to me in a fucking Harry Potter costume and much to my horror I made an audible 'UGH' noise that they heard and they looked genuinely hurt.

I'm working through my guilt by reminding myself that they were off topic anyway, as a British Book/Live Action Movie isn't exactly a Japanese Cartoon and I was ambushed. AMBUSHED where I thought I was safe to only have to wrestle with 'is Arcane an Anime? Are these all Genshins?' and a general 'read the room, jesus christ' as one of the things I noticed about Winnipeg is I couldn't turn a corner without seeing pride flags.

Turned out we knew some people with a booth there too! Did some visiting, saw other people we knew, la la la my province has 10 people in it.

Did I mention the other day that in the same breath I complained about Americans sometimes frustrating me about being overconfidently wrong/underinformed about my country (IT WAS ON TOPIC) an American called them Providences at me?

Turns out I can't wither someone to death with my tone, but I can try.

Hello! I'm Rosencrantz on Ao3 and thank you for coming to read my letter!

My likes: Adventures, ghosts, casefic, stuff that only works within the canon they come from, smut to gen.
My DNWs: Underage (-18/-18 sexual, -18/+18 anything), noncon or dubcon.

All my requests are for Fanfic.

1. X-Men: TAS


2. World of Warcraft


3. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation


4. Hellboy (Comics)

( the letter! )

I got into a Zinefest in town - that only uses instagram and facebook for advertising, so I'm sort of SOL when it comes to like, connecting to them in any way but I'll save that for feedback, I guess.

I've got a short comics collection of HamsterBandit Industry pages, a short story about Snow White's ghost, and two very small squares of an old story idea project I did and a series of ghost story drabbles. I'm planning on making another set of two square zines and also printing a 16 page Batman and Columbo comic. I've gotten lucky on the last part that my dad's agreed to let me use his printer instead of me having to use Staples. It has so little colour in the actual comic that it felt physically painful to pay the price at Staples to double-side print so many pages.

Meanwhile, I'm watching Murdoch Mysteries and 3 thoughts:

1) The genre of 'if you have any hobby at all, you will be murdered' is alive and well.
2) You can really tell that this show was cast around Murdoch actor's (lack of) height.
3) By season 13, they have run out of short actors in Toronto.

You can see the opposite effect in Father Brown, where Brown's actor is a goddamn giant. The actors, including the women, were all cast tall so they fit in the shot with him I think. Bunty was 5'11-6'. The 'tiny' Mrs. McCarthy is, according to my searches... 5'8.

My gf is 5'8, I'm 5'3. She is like a giant to me. It's awesome.

I messed up big time. Instead of movies, I started watching shows with my bff Elly. Next thing you know we're watching more shows. Whole series together.

I tried watching two new to me mysteries tonight and they were *so suited to her tastes* I had to stop the episodes and decide we would watch them together at a later date.

This is why I don't add sugar or milk to my coffee! I'm too afraid I won't be able to drink it again if I don't have the added ingredients on hand!

We're at Session 9 and I've now made 7 comics about our adventures and that was enough to start posting them to Ao3. Here's the link!

Here's what I've posted since last last first 2:

( 5 comics about a very tired looking orc )


You can actually watch Thonk's design simplify in real time.

me: I turn 40 this year, btw
dad: that means I'm an adult now, doesn't it

I didn't have much sympathy for his arrested development - I've felt like an old man for about ten years now. Of course, I also got to do that oldest (presenting female) sibling with four younger male cousins on top of it responsibility dance so who the hell knows what tilted the scales there.

Canada Post might have another strike so I marched out in 4 degree stormy weather to the post box to mail some postcards I wrote like, a month and a week ago (respectively), finally. I did see a lot of nicely flowering trees, a really nice part of spring. And two scottie dogs that looked like they would personally knife me if I approached their owner picking up their doo. 'That's ours! You can't have it!'

Cute though.

Saw the first 10 minutes of Murderbot with my friend Meli until her connection gave up on trying to share itself with a teen boy. We'll try again Sunday at 3 am.

My mom's birthday is tomorrow! She's 67! She's had cancer recently and is currently cancer free right now, so I'm treasuring this birthday.

Unsettling. I was doing some kitchen maintenance today and discovered all my teas and spices had expired in 21/22 and had a sobering realization that maybe my depressive episode had been a lot longer than previously believed.

Oh well. I'm just cleaning it all out and found a white board in my stuff to write down the 'use this by NOW' dates for the new stuff in the hopes it will at least help with meal planning.

All right, movie talk:

Marry My Dead Body - watched this with Elly, a rare modern movie for hamsters. It's a Taiwanese film about a cop who through a series of circumstances gets into a ghost marriage with a man and proceeds to solve said man's murder when the ghost starts manifesting.


Buckaroo Banzai - All this time I thought I was definitely not a fan but having rewatched it, I think I just wasn't sober the first time I tried. Very easy to follow, very fun. Enjoyed the aliens a lot.

A Touch of Cloth - not a movie, a series of tv specials. 3 of them to be exact. Source of an emotional Crisis when I shared it with Elly and it turned out she dislikes absurdist humour and prefers character driven. Taking it as a personal affront, I had a big baby episode (not in front of her) and then I got over myself and watched the other two episodes (including the third I had never seen before) with Ann and Vali, which was a better match. "A whole house of people dead because of me! For the fifth time this year!"

The Crow - Watched this like six thousand times as a teen, showed it to Vali and Ann for the first time as a special movie weekend. They didn't hate it! And to me, I was happy to see it actually stood up better than my memories.

Willow - Part of the double feature with the Crow, watched this one with just Vali for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture. Also lived up really well to my childhood memories and Vali loved it, especially the Nelwyns. Willow's tiny tiny children were so cute. Elora was also a very expressive baby. Vali said she understood why Warwick Davis was an early crush of mine.

Teen Wolf - terrible soundtrack. This is a movie about basketball, the werewolf thing doesn't really register. Easy to watch it with the earlier stuff happening to Michael J Fox's character being that he's a trans man and meant I got to make jokes about fangs being part of taking testosterone.

The Marlow Murder Club - tv show I watched with Elly. We loved the three leads and I got to do a 'OH THIS IS THE SOLUTION' when it clicked before the characters. We were, however, surprised to find out it was a miniseries and not separate episodes. We endured.

Missing Link - saw this with Ann. Absolutely beautiful movie by Laika, the entire purpose of it seeming to be about making gorgeous sets. I enjoyed how they didn't follow familiar tropes for the emotional journey of the main characters, but am sad that the main woman character's story was backseat to being the narrator of the male lead's emotional journey.

Amityville Horror - I enjoyed how the director made sure to include the details from the original telling by the family that made you go 'oh yes, this was absolutely a hoax'

The Silence of the Lambs - Saw this with Ann, it was about as scary as your average Criminal Minds episode, by which I mean not at all, but it was compelling. The lady in the well was my favourite and I enjoyed her can-do attitude.

Hot Fuzz and Bon Cop Bad Cop - a double feature I've wanted to run for YEARS, with Ann and Vali (who had not seen BCBC) and it was a hit! Hot Fuzz is a delight of foreshadowing and BCBC is like rolling around in maple syrup.

In the Mouth of Madness - another Ann and Vali joint, this was extremely meta and the villain looked a lot like Neil Gaiman and Neil Gaiman's twee little quotes about 'a book is a dream you hold in your hands' actually fit in perfectly with this dude's evil speeches. Try it yourself.

They Live - Ann and Vali had seen this, I hadn't, the extensive punchout scene was a fever dream in how long it went on and 'I think they're married now?' - They made fun of me because I thought Roddy Piper was Kurt Russell but they both had big beautiful mullets and manly jaws, okay. I can't be expected to identify people beyond that.

Minding my own business when someone I dislike makes a declaration about something I don't give a fuck about and I am STILL like 'you're not the boss of me! I'll fight you! On the beaches!'

Just letting that feeling pass through me and move along.

Sometimes when the world gets out of my control I'll do little things to let me feel like I have a grasp on my existence, like look up a topic I have feelings about (not the above) on bluesky and block everyone who crosses me. Lately that search topic has been Neil Gaiman. I'm not sure if it's the result of my frequent blocking but I do hope the reason I find so few people to block is because not many people want to defend him. And that I got rid of all the 'haha I'm superior because I have never liked a bad person in my LIFE' early on. Your hubris will not save you.

Depressingly this is not effective with J K Rowling because there's too much everything that just kills my will to live instead of a satisfactory 'off to the shadow realm' feeling.

If this doesn't work, I buy tiny plastic horses (schleich) because buying + gazing is a powerful two punch of dopamine.

It's not so bad right now though - I'm not spending my day in bed, I've been going on walks, I'm planning to go back to the gym, I got new blue shoes that fit, I'm spending more time with friends, and I'm gonna see if I can successfully bake cakes in my big toaster oven.

I also have MANY tiny plastic horses to gaze at.

Looking for a good time?

Image search:

- Gloster Canary
- Viscacha (I mean the mountain one, but the plains one has much to recommend it)
- Tibetan Fox



I've gotten onto a new little bit of entertainment after seeing advice that to draw a medieval cat, all you do is draw a regular cat and give it a human face. So I did it with my cat and found it to be acceptable. And then I did a large portion of the cast of HamsterBandit Industries and giggled madly at the resulting Elly the Elephant and I'll be doing more later. Look forward to seeing medieval Guineamom.

I've passed my courses for this term and now I only require one more religion 200 course to get my degree. I'm an anthropology major/religion minor!

I get to register for my next courses on the 29th. I'm either going to be taking drug-induced spirituality or Buddhism.