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So this morning I dreamed that I was in a collectibles n cards type of store rummaging through a bin of old eighties era plastic toys and I found a Sweet Secrets locket. Anybody else remember those? They were big chunky plastic bits of jewelry with a big gaudy acrylic jewel in the front, and if you opened them up you'd reveal a cute little animal (you'd fold out the head, arms and legs and reclose the thing so now it was a big gaudy animal you were wearing. It also contained a thing of lip gloss or eyeshadow or something. I remember I had a purple heart necklace thing that folded out into a cat and had grape lip gloss inside. Anyway, I really have no idea why the spirit of the eighties was haunting my subconscious but there you go.

You know you're getting old when you start getting a weird kind of superiority complex about your childhood and how much better/more wholesome it was than whatever generation is creeping up behind you. I caught myself doing that in the aftermath of this dream... I mean, the eighties was full of scary ass stuff (teddy ruxpin still scares the holy bejeezus out of me), but I think I definitely did prefer the flavor of girl toys available back then. Strawberry Shortcake. Rainbow Brite. She Ra, Princess of Power. I mean, even frikken Barbie was at least heading into space in her spare time (even if her space suit was a shade of pink glitter that NASA certainly didn't approve of). It's a lot less scary than the Polly Pocket Spoiled Whore Airplane (batteries not included. may contain lead) or the Prostitots Bratz. I also find myself a little terrified by the fact that I've got thongs less revealing than some of the toddler sized swimwear available.

I don't really know what my point was really, it was a lot clearer as I was rising from the groggy fog of half awake. Something along the lines of how messed up a society is that tries to hypersexualize little girls and at the same time condemns adult women for "putting it out there." Way to mix your messages, there....

This again; sure what the hell.

Comment on this post. I'll choose seven userpics from your profile andyou'll reply here (or you know, your own journal, whichever),explaining what they mean and why you're using them.

tobysionann picked the following:

nine naked men - This is from a short called "A Heap of Trouble." I'd recommend trying to find it on Atomfilms or Youtube, it's pretty funny. Basically, as the icon pretty much conveys, a line of nine men march through a suburban neighborhood completely naked except for their shoes, singing "nine naked men just walking down the road/ would cause a heap of trouble for all concerned." Mayhem ensues. I use the icon mostly for snark or mischief posts.

still life with yoda - this was from a picture I took during one of our New Years Eve celebrations at Quadtower in Amherst. I really liked the composition of stuff on the coffee table, with the candle and the Jones soda and the Yoda doll knocked over and the bag of candy that made us all kinda sick in the background. I use it for thinky i-dont-really-have-an-icon-that-fits posts.

sweeties - this is the only extant picture of me with both morlock and sundart. inle_rah took it at Haven when all of us were there for our respective birthdays in... 2004? jesus, that was a while ago, wasn't it.

Valentino - My dumb ginger boyfriend in his natural habitat. Aka a laundry basket. The cat loves enclosed spaces. He'll sit underneath an upside down laundry basket and purr for hours. But he'll sit in empty boxes, baskets or anything only a little bigger than he is. Lately we've been finding him in the little piece of furniture we keep towels in, which is about the size of a good sized box. Use it for cat and/or cuteness related posts.

bad mutha - I was a groomswoman MANLY CHICK at morlock's wedding. And I looked so damn good in a tux that I needed to immortalize the moment with an icon and the Samuel L Jackson assessment of self. Need to find another occasion to wear one soon. That was way too sexy to not do again. Use it for "yeah I'm awesome" posts.

Smith Fountain - I forget what the actual name of the fountain is at Smith, but it's the only one there, so Smith Fountain it is. It's a very pretty place to go sit and think or chill out, provided you don't go just as class is letting out in the Science quad, which it's right next to. This was taken in the early fall, when I was working on an unrelated photo project of sundart up at Smith, I took this picture cause I thought the reflection looked neat. I use the icon for quiet contemplative posts.

lorem ipsum - From lipsum.com: "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged." Yeah, essentially it's totally fake Latin and doesn't actually say anything. I made the icon by generating a paragraph of sample text and feeding it to minifesto. Mostly used to completely confuddle classics majors or to comment on work, since I use Lorem Ipsum as text filler when I don't have copy for a page yet.



I like this game. Someone give me more icons to explain.