Guys and Dolls

Neena Jaydon: Author of M/M romance, avid collector of Asian Ball-jointed Dolls, and aficionado of things Japanese.

[neenajaydon]

I noticed at least two other people masked at the college today, after generally being the only one the previous two semesters. People may be getting worried (rightfully so) about the next wave.

[neenajaydon]

Since submitting my 3 Day Novel manuscript, I have not written a word. Mind you, I lost Bouncealot the day after and then my classes started for the new semester, so it’s a definite transition. Don’t like my brain wordless, though 😮‍💨

[awallofswords]

[evilwizard]

*at the door to the selkie convention* good evening, ladies—allow me to take your coats

[evilwizard]

QUICK UPDATE: i am paying 182 alimony checks

[kawaiimon]

Shop closing down

All the issues on Etsy have been giving me a headache of late. While I haven't really felt the higher fees issue (when I opened my etsy shop 12+ years ago I was paying 5% conversion fees through paypal, so my prices were shielded from a lot of changes over the years), but I have been having issues with bots deactivating listings for the wrong reasons with no recourse. Also I've seen multiple people post that they won't buy from Etsy which makes things hard.

But Etsy is the only place I have found so far which manages all the varying international tax obligations for you, and it's been a large part of why I have stayed. Also I generally don't make enough sales to justify the larger upfront fees of some other sites, so it makes it not worth my time.

So I'm planning to go on hiatus for awhile. I'll be closing my shop at the end of October, and taking some time out to just sew for myself and work out my next options. I will be back selling bjd clothes, even if it's just one off designs, I'm just not quite sure how that will look.

Sales haven't worked well for me for a number of years, so instead I'm offering free shipping for orders over $100 AUD. That's $65 USD, or 60 Euro. I've never really had a following that sells things quickly, so any help getting the word out would be greatly appreciated! I'll no doubt be making a number of posts over the next couple of months.

Shop link: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/dorsetclothing

[neenajaydon]

Brittlestar (@brittlestar) on Threads

TECHNICALLY IT'S STILL SUMMER

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[janmisali]

wow pluto reclassification discourse is exhausting. here I thought doing a poll that highlights some of pluto's cool lesser known dwarf planet friends would put things in a context where it can't possibly go in that direction but nope a bunch people really do just hold a hard stance against a classification system entirely out of a sense of nostalgia

[janmisali]

"the planets" aren't this exclusive club where all the astronomers' favorite celestial bodies go. the definitions used in astronomy are descriptive, they refer to the dynamics between objects and the properties they have. if you feel bad that pluto isn't considered a planet anymore and think it should be an honorary planet anyway, good news! that is literally the reason why the category "dwarf planet" was created. it's for things that don't have the same type of role in the dynamics of the solar system as the eight major planets, but are still physically a lot like little planets

[wifestre]

>>"the planets" aren't this exclusive club where all the astronomers' favorite celestial bodies go.

that's exactly what they are, and my favourite rock deserves to be counted amongst them.

[janmisali]

see what I'm talking about.

the set of celestial bodies the average astronomer thinks are cool is significantly larger than the nine planets you memorized in elementary school. if this were literally how it worked, there's no way the moon or europa or titan or ixion would have been excluded.

[strawberry-crocodile]

OH SHIT ITS JAN MISALI

anyway yeah i had a similar post where i was like "hey its kinda objectiely anti-science to loudly state that your personal preference supercedes scientific professionals" and people got PISSSSED

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

palaeontology-astronomy solidarity over people interpreting changes in classification for well defined functional reasons as being some sort of bizarre value judgement of their nostalgic favourite thing and getting unreasonably mad about it.

[tunameltd0wn]

last week when running bar trivia I had a question about what planet is the smallest in our solar system and one of the bartenders joked about like "I know the answer but I don't like it" so I took a moment when I told everyone the answers to explain that as scientists having classification criteria is important, and Pluto wasn't randomly just too small, I told them the criteria and how Pluto has not cleared the other similar size objects from the path of its orbit but that it was also the first instance of dwarf planet being used for a celestial body which I think is really cool for Pluto and now hopefully more people in the world will be able to explain why Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet!!

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My very modest haul from the local fibre festival because I am getting very broke waiting for my semester funding 😅 But I collected business cards like mad because there were lots of lovely things to tempt a spinner. I got a romney/silk batt because it looked like it might go well with my precious single pink ball of romney, a welt-felted glasses case because pretty, and 25g of bamboo to try with some of Woolsley’s Angora fibre

[neenajaydon]

I just got on an empty bus so . . . First?

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50% off my titles at Smashwords for the month of July!

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Neena_Jaydon

Now is your best chance to find my entire ebook collection for a promotional price at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my books and many more at https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/ all month! #SWSale2023 #Smashwords

[neenajaydon]

T_T;

I thought the reason I wouldn’t be able to stream Dragon Age II was because I couldn’t figure out how to find the game I bought years ago (still have the character data, but just cannot find a launcher in my archived stuff). As I looked it up, I learned that it’s a moot point, because it’s 32-bit game and my new 64-bit mac mini won’t run it anyways. 

I’ve never owned a PS3 so I can’t play it on console either. An Origins and II remastered bundle I could play on my PS4 would be SO helpful, Bioware . . .

[serphena]

Portrait of Josephine Cherette Montilyet, Ambassador of the Inquisition

[neenajaydon]

Man, those Anime OPs and EDs

I keep getting surprised as rewatching anime reminds me off all the anime theme songs that go so hard. 

E.g.,

The Angelique anime with a Granrodeo OP “Infinite Love”  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8MS-cewH-Y

2Hearts ED “Dearest You”

The Harukanaru Toki no Naka de OP “Haruka, Kimi no moto e”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYAQ8AKhtKQ

Legend of Basara OP “Endless Loop” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jxYuxqFA68

ED “Purumeria no saku basho e”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwXTVTZtX_Q

Jyu-Oh-Sei OP “Deep in Your Heart” by Domoto Kouichi (like seriously, one of the Kinki Kids)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICbhJ9jGe3w

[neenajaydon]

Everybody loves hearing about dreams (especially dreams about voice actors), right?

I’ve been nostalgically getting back into anime and manga lately. I was checking out Hanasakeru seishounen, because I really love the mangaka Itsuki Natsumi’s other series Yakumo Tatsu and also liked her Jyu-Oh-Sei. Well, Seki Tomokazu plays an American in Hanasakeru seishounen, so occasionally speaks English (and I’ve heard worse from seiyuu tbh). 

The reason this made me chuckle is I used to, in my Weiss-obsessed days, have a recurring dream where Seki Tomokazu came to a party I was hosting(?), and I was so excited to be his interpreter, but then he’d start speaking perfect English . . .