gwenfrankenstien

Today I decided to avoid the crowds & commercialisation of Pride Toronto and bought books instead!

- The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein (about Mary, and her life, and also about Percy and Byron and Claire and Polidori and all the surrounding ~drama~, and about Frankenstein and The Vampyre.)
- The Vampyre: The Secret History of Lord Byron (in which Polidori was not making things up and Byron actually is basically Lord Ruthven)
- So Shelly (a high school AU where Keats and Byron bond after the tragic and untimely death of their mutual friend girl!Percy)
- The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (narrated by Victor but also featuring all the various associated real-life literary figures, because that is what Peter Ackroyd does.)

It is distinctly possible that there is a Theme here.

(I also bought another monster doll, Dead Tired Draculaura. But to be honest, right now I'm more excited about the books.)

So this morning my mom woke me up early because Something Very Exciting had come in the mail!
( Sassy Monster Doll )

And so there’s a DVD store near where my dad works, right? And I asked him if next time he was there he could pick me up the original Little Shop of Horrors if he found it for ten dollars or less.

Well, he did way better than that. He came home tonight with a couple box sets.
( Seriously rather a lot of vintage horror )
Fuck yes, today is awesome.

Yesterday colonize had the BEST ADVENTURE. My mom works at a daycare, so she has a membership at a local toystore, where we've been saving up points for basically the last twenty years. We cashed those points in for $75 in store credit, which for some reason you had to spend all in one go. .....So I now have $75 worth of Playmobil that I hadn't had before! Including Evil Mermaid Queen (who is for some reason making the 4chan logo face) and her Purple Barbarian Soldiers (seriously they were exactly the same colour as the Queen, it was sort of perfect). They were engaged in a bitter feud with King Culturally-Confused his champion, Sir Glowing Chainsaw-Gun-Lance, and their allies, Barbarians who carry enough weapons for their wolves to be armed too.

...I FUCKING LOVE PLAYMOBIL, THE END. (There is a point to buying these, I promise, there are Things that will come of it at some point. Possiblymaybe.)

ALSO! Yesterday NEW BIRDS OF PREY CAME OUT, have I mentioned that they are my FAVOURITE? I just. HOW SO AWESOME? Here, I'll just link to the last time I gushed about BoP. I'm tempted to do a page-by-page review at some point, inspired by nevermore999's Super Mega Batgirl Reviews.

But I can't do that now, or this weekend. Because! This weekend! My mom and lufwood_emilius and I are going to the STEAMPUNK WORLD FAIR. WE LEAVE TOMORROW MORNING. THIS IS GONNA BE SO AWESOME :D. Expect pictures!

For my own reference, behind the cut is a collection of Steam-y stuff that I am considering buying and/or wishing I could afford. From Etsy and Clockwork Couture, images are also links.

( Things and Stuff and also Things )