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SSR Confidential 2017 planning posts are up
Planning post on Dreamwidth | Planning post on LJ | Tumblr post
Basically these are just asking for input on this year's schedule (tagset nominations in early March, signups in late March, fics due in early June - similar to last year) and a couple of potential rule changes.
On a completely other topic, I was in the school supplies aisle last night looking for a 2-pocket folder (this kind of thing) to replace the falling-apart one I've been using since middle school and don't really like anyway. Don't they have pretty ones anymore?? Do you guys remember all the different fashion folders we used to be able to get, with unicorns or cats or butterflies or whatever? Are those not a thing anymore? It was all solid-colored folders with a tiny handful of sports-themed ones. I wanted unicorns, dammit. :P They didn't even have very many colors. At least I was able to find a purple one.
Basically these are just asking for input on this year's schedule (tagset nominations in early March, signups in late March, fics due in early June - similar to last year) and a couple of potential rule changes.
On a completely other topic, I was in the school supplies aisle last night looking for a 2-pocket folder (this kind of thing) to replace the falling-apart one I've been using since middle school and don't really like anyway. Don't they have pretty ones anymore?? Do you guys remember all the different fashion folders we used to be able to get, with unicorns or cats or butterflies or whatever? Are those not a thing anymore? It was all solid-colored folders with a tiny handful of sports-themed ones. I wanted unicorns, dammit. :P They didn't even have very many colors. At least I was able to find a purple one.
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Google suggests that I may be thinking of Lisa Frank, but I remember my folders being less cutesy and more fantasy. •searches more•
...this is going to bug me all day.
But yeah; I have noticed a general trend for folders in stores to be Male-Coded Pop Culture Figure, Female-Coded Pop Culture Figure, which means that basically it's all BB-8 and Elsa or something whenever I look for things. Which... well, I don't use those types of folders much at all any more, and my personal aesthetics have moved off of it, but it still kinda makes me sad somewhere in the deep recesses of my soul.
Maybe I'll go did through my ancient file bin and see if the folder I remember is: A, still in there, and B, prominently branded.
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DOLPHINS IN SPAAAAAAAAAACE.
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I think the Lisa Frank empire basically swallowed the middle-school accessory market in the '90s, and now it's all you can find when you search online for that sort of thing. which makes me sad because I was always WAY more into the OTT blue-and-purple airbrush aesthetic. After some industrious google image-searching (because heaven knows I don't have anything else to do this afternoon) I have managed to figure out that the artist who did most of my favorite binders, T-shirts, and other period sins against airbrushery was Sue Dawe. Unicorns, sentimentalized cat people, unicorns AND dolphins, bizarre Tron-inspired backdrops for fantasy subjects ... she's got it all.
But yeah, the only patterned ones I see around anymore are the Boy Stuff and Girl Stuff licensed-merchandise ones (same problem with kids' birthday cards, both in the ridiculous commercialization and gendered-ness of it, and the lack of variety), or occasional not-relevant-to-my-interest ones like the sports ones I was looking at last night. Maybe middle-schoolers would no longer be caught dead with unicorns, dolphins, and rainbows on their binders.
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*dies laughing*
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NOSTALGIAAAA.
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