05-01-2021, 03:20 PM
(04-30-2021, 04:15 PM)Elfy Wrote: I feel like Boxing Day should be renamed in honour of the Ameliae.
Then Boxing Day could last all year long... because that's how long it would take to open the boxes (or are they presents?) Amelia-style!
(05-01-2021, 01:58 AM)Alliecat Wrote: Wow. The only time I ever leave something in a box is if I’m busy “right now“ and want to have time to enjoy opening it, later today. Suspense is fun for a while, but not that long!
That's precisely why my items remain in their shipping boxes, because I want to have time to enjoy opening them, only, that window of time never seems to open up. After a while, the suspense wears off, and all those exciting boxes just become part of the clutter, which takes a lot of the fun out of it. I suppose there's a fairly obvious lesson staring me in the face here.
(05-01-2021, 08:07 AM)Lejays17 Wrote: More boxes! That’s quite a pile you’ve accumulated there, with more on the way?
A couple more are on the way. Then no more buying for a while. Or, that's the plan. The postal and other parcel services have been really messed up here lately. One small parcel has not arrived after three weeks. It has been sitting in a postal processing facility on the east coast. The seller shipped the item promptly, but it has been hung up in postal limbo ever since. Another item was shipped by FedEx, a parcel service here in the states, and lingered for nearly two weeks at a sorting facility here in the state, about a four hour drive from where I live. Shipping costs are skyrocketing while quality of service is in a steep decline. It's reaching the point where the situation is more disturbing than frustrating.
30 April – A Doll A Day 2021:
30 April – Good-Bye, Emily!
I sold the last of my "Emily Army," which at one point numbered four Ashton-Drake Emily the Strange dolls, on eBay tonight.
Well.. I think I sold her. The buyer hasn't paid yet. It's eBay, so ya know how that goes.
This was my first and favorite Emily. She was slightly different than the others; cuter, actually.
But the secondary market retail has appreciated to a point where it was worthwhile to let the Emilys go.
A contributing factor; or, actually, the primary motivating factor: during the last election cycle and throughout the COVID cycle, the official Emily the Strange Instagram account and the personal Instagram account of the Emily creators became quite political. And, I felt, they were using their character... which is their right, because it is their character... to espouse beliefs and positions that I thought were out of context for the way the character has been portrayed since her inception; which were often out of alignment with my personal ideas; which were often coercive and oppressive; and which were divisive, discriminatory, and alienating.
It made me sad to see one of my favorite characters being used in this way. I tolerated the trend for a while, but as it became more pronounced, I decided it was time for Emily and I to go our separate ways. I do not wish to support the views and opinions now being ex-pressed through the character, and I am saddened to see this formerly rebellious and apolitical character being used as a political tool to blatantly push an oppressive agenda.
Fortunately, I was able to turn a few bucks profit in the process.
Good-bye, Emily! I will miss you!
Or, the TL;DNR version: DON'T POLITICIZE MY #$%^ DOLL HOBBY!
30 April - A Doll A Day 2021
They're not dolls, they're action figures!