Saturday! The happiest day of the week!

I have to go out, get a new supply of anti-depressants for the cat and hit the markets. Then it's back home to write the kiss meme fics.

Something else about Toph/Azula that I meant to say the other day: an extra-textual level for shipping it is that it bugs me when art (and fic, but mostly art) portrays Toph growing up to be conventionally slim, feminine and straight. Like this. (The girl who commissioned that has her own thoughts on the matter. Agree or disagree, though, you should totally go through her commissions tag, because even where I disagree with the characterisation, the art is amazing.)

(Also, Toph/Zuko? Really?)

(Clearly, I'm not biased because I'm a Mai/Zuko shipper. Absolutely not. I deny everything and you can't prove it.)

Not that Toph can't be slim, although it seems more likely she'd be stocky and muscular, since her character bible specifies she has broader and stronger arms than Aang. As for feminine and straight, well Toph sneers at your binaries. She is vast and contains multitudes, and knows that there's more than one way for a woman to be attractive.

Hair!

Okay, so we wound up being out for most of the day, instead of just a couple of hours. But that's okay, because in the course of our adventures, I did something I've never done before: I walked into a salon, pulled out a photo (okay, on my phone) of a TV character and said, "Like this, please."

Fauxlivia:



Me:



I mean, okay, I've got some length to go. And it took forever to straighten my hair. But the point is, I have a Fauxlivia fringe. Now all I need is a stylin' jacket, and I can go infiltrate an alternate universe.

(Oh, Anna Torv, you are the prettiest stealth!Australian! I was obscurely pleased to realise that Fauxlivia's hair is real, and it's the blond Olivia hair that's a wig.)

(I like to think that John Noble and Anna Torv hang out on set and talk about cricket and working for really terrible Australian dramas.)

(Also, I think that Jennifer Garner is maybe a fraction too old to play Chapel/Number One in the Star Trek rebootverse, so I'd like to thank JJ Abrams for finding Anna Torv. Who looks like Garner's younger sister anyway.)