December 11, 2007
Cross-Stitch Tomb-Raider
I originally found this a while ago, but you know what? It’s still cool! 
I linked it from an artist featured on Game Girl Advance, who blogged about another interesting link in this vein; www.subversivecrossstitch.com. (Heads up to the sensitive, it really is subversive.)
I find the messages in both the Lara Croft needlepoint and Subversivecrossstitch.com to be really, really interesting. Subversive Cross-stitch really said it best already, as these artworks are subversive in their way, one art more than the other. They make statements about femininity and then turn those ideas on their heads within one of the most long-lasting traditions of feminine art. While Subversive-Cross-stitch is clearly working to undermine traditional cross-stitch, Cross-Stitch Lara is almost finding a level meeting ground between the very controversial character and girl-gamers.
I think anyway. D: It made sense in my head, okay?
December 9, 2007
Another flavor of nerd…
So far you’ve seen everything from game and anime reviews to in depth discussions on Disney movies (something I’ve been known to do) to cakes designed to be every video gamer’s dream! What hasn’t been seen yet is a another side to nerdiness: Cosplaying. I’m a nerdy seamstress. I like to create clothing from anime, video games, movies or books that I’ve fallen in love with.
The Cake is NOT a lie!
You know, it’s my birthday soon. I’ll be one and twenty years old and I just thought I’d ask.
If you love cake, especially when other people do the baking, and you love video games; Gamecakes was baked just for people like you. It’s on our blogroll, there’s a link in this post. You’ve no excuse and nothing better to do so please, please go visit, browse, and wish you knew how to cook if you’re me, while making very advanced wedding plans. (I want to get married now just so I can have a tower cake in the shape of a stacked Xbox360, Xbox, PS2, and golden Gamecube.)
Let’s talk academic-like about SEX!!! in Disney’s ‘Enchanted’…
…Because I seriously need a break from my finals workload and the G.N.A.C. monkey-coding and Enchanted is a deeper movie than critics and moms are really giving it credit for and it’s a ramble I’ve been trying to fit into coherence lately. Anyway, this post contains some spoilers for the movie.
The Courtroom of Love– Phoenix Wright 3 (mild spoilers)
One of the neatest things I noticed about the third entry of the Phoenix Wright series was the addition of an overarching plot that tied all of the cases together– the strange case of Dahlia Hawthorne and all the people whose lives got ruined because she was a crazy bitch (the story of which, in turn, was tied in with DL-6 all the way from the first game. Dammit, Gregory Edgeworth, if you hadn’t gotten a penalty on Von Karma none of this would have happened!) I sat around for a long time after I beat the game going, “Well gee, isn’t that just nifty? Everything is all tied together.”
December 8, 2007
Hey Everybody!
First post, WOO! *breaks a bottle of sparkling-grape-juice on the bow of the imaginary blog ship!*
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