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I like the whole making plushie hair thing. If you use fleece, it's really soft and forgiving and can be shaped in the most amazing ways. Anthy's roll-up 'do is basically a big purple doughnut wrapped around her head, then needle-sculpted(!) to make the lumpy bits. And it's the easiest thing in the world. Dayamn. Vampire Willow's got the straight parted dealie, of course, and I get to do all these little darts and tucks and lines to make it interesting. And it's easy, because unlike a straight weave, or stiff felt, THE FLEECE DOESN'T CARE! It just lies there and takes it! Ahahahahahahahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaa!

The frequent needle-jabbings, however, are getting old.

Note to Phil Collins: Thanks for making Tarzan suck so much, you asshole.

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Dear God:

Please get the Dragnet theme out of my head. Thank you.

Your pal,

Ann

guess what i did this afternoon!

There's a lot to be said for monochrome art.

The most annoying, fan-wankiest thing I am regularly required to do - and it has to be done several times a year, what with one thing and another - is find out what color eyes various characters and actors have. Now, yer anime characters, it's obviously not too tough. But the real folks, unless you're fortunate enough to have a calendar handy (Frank the Pug's eyes are brown, by the way), are a huge problem. Video images rarely do the job. Unless there's a well-lit, extreme close-up, everybody on TV has black or hazel eyes. Photos that aren't processed with care or are from old negatives skew red and dark. Google image search makes the whole business much easier - if you can find pictures larger than 100x100 pixels, that haven't been messed with by somebody with Photoshop, and don't suffer from any of the other problems listed above. And of course you feel like a total tweenie surfing for close-ups, dreading that voice over your shoulder that says, "Whatcha doin'?"

Still, better than schlepping to the university library.

Anyway, thanks to everybody who's helped me out on this (and without asking questions!) over the years. It's a small thing, but it matters to me - if only to prevent some fangirl buttonholing me in a hotel corridor to tell me, "You drew his eyes the wrong color! Unclean! Unclean!"

So thanks, y'all.