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I'm feeling perfectly foul and panic-attacky, so here's everyone's favorite LJ cliché photo post, the book and video shelves! Yayayayay! *Kermit flail*

Apologies for the yellowing and blurriness. ( cut to spare your flists and connections )

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Black Books season 3 gets a Region 1 release on November 15, it says here.

Howdy!

The posts in this series should give you enough information to make your very own Black Dolls. Or enough to injure yourself very, very badly. Like that time I was customizing an action figure, and that tube of Superglue gel exploded right in my eyes and the X-Acto Knife slipped and...just don't work when your tired, kids. Trust me.

Also, always keep the Poison Control Hotline number handy, just in case. On speed dial, if possible, because it's hard to make a call if your hands are glued together.

I'm just sayin'.

Today we'll start with what you'll need, and basic patterns.

Please don't hesitate to ask questions, or tell me if something is hopelessly unclear.

This is an image-heavy post, beyond the ( LJ CUT OF DOOOOOM! )

Dolls are done. No finished pics yet, but here's a teaser:

Manny got very upset whenever a copy came in. In the end, it was easier not to stock it at all.



_{Media: Fuckin' useless book, black electrical tape, that string I found in back of the kitchen drawer when I was looking for a bottle opener, a copy of Sticker Nation.}

Still working on the Black Dolls, and photographing them as I go along in hopes of making some sort of tutorial or, more likely, chronicle of Nixonian failure. For example, I laid the patterns out on the fabric exactly 90 degrees in the wrong direction, so that the stretchousness (technical term) is sideways rather than uppy-downy (stop me if my terminology gets too arcane here), and Fran and Manny are currently bald little soft-sculpture hammers with eyes. Easy enough to adjust on Fran by padding her hair. But Manny...I really wish he wore more hats. Then he could be Manny from That Episode Where He Wore the Hat.

Bernard looks like a very angry starfish, so he's coming along fine.

Meanwhile, the new issue of Newtype has a DVD with the first episodes of Peach Girl and Le Chevalier d'Eon. Peach Girl is a faithful (so far) adaptation of the manga, so if you like one you'll probably like the other. Le Chevalier d'Eon seems to start with the second or third episode, but both disc label and episode credits swear it's episode 1. But if you don't mind the choppy storytelling and aren't a historical purist (d'Eon was a real guy, but his genderfuckery was, as near as anyone can tell, due to personal preference rather than supernatural hi-jinks), the animation is gorgeous and the story compelling. If you dig that whole BeruBara/Utena scene, this may be your bag, man.