Okay I decided (though it may be a fight with autocorrect) that my first Evangeline and Mortimer will be Rosselle and Kaspar and I want the pair, I'm going to wait until I have enough money to pay for both, and I am going to play with them seriously, I want to do pretty fairy-like tattoos on Rosselle, who I see as Marie Antoinette inspired, and Kaspar is Nordic metal inspired, particularly Kamelot. I would do some cute tattoos on Kaspar also, hopefully some Nordic symbols. Changeable wig for Rosselle, and I particularly want to change her eyelashes for lime green or violet.
Today has been such a huge day for me, even though I haven't left the house and have just done work all day long. I went forward with emailing my prospective advisor about my dissertation topic on Korean literature, and he agreed to supervise this dissertation. Korean literature, and Hallyu 1.0, topics so important to me, will be legitimated as part of my scholarly identity. I feel like today is a kind of spiritual wedding day for my scholarly career (although the dissertation defense will more literally be that). My goal is to become a professor of Korean literature and that dream, as of today, is much closer. Almost fatefully, I happened to see this Soom Super Gem Girl sculpt that the vendor posted on Den of Angels. I was not in any danger of forgetting the elements of Korean imaginaries that make my blood run cold and my heart drop into the pit of my stomach. "Gross beauty," I have called it, but I really mean it in the nicest way. A number of Edgar Alla...
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