{"id":2679,"date":"2012-09-28T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:10:46","slug":"amusement-and-poo-flinging-on-tumblr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/09\/28\/amusement-and-poo-flinging-on-tumblr\/","title":{"rendered":"Amusement and poo-flinging on Tumblr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the summer, I’ve enjoyed following a few BJD-related Tumblrs, mostly whatshouldwecalldolls.tumblr.com,<\/a> followed by bjdtextconfessions.tumblr.com<\/a> and bjdconfessions.tumblr.com<\/a>. The first entertains me by applying animated gifs to hobby-related experiences. The second and the third bear anonymous witness to the barely coherent rage apparently simmering just beneath the surface of your average BJD owner. >_><\/p>\n

Recently, much of said barely coherent rage has concerned recasts, or bootleg, knockoff BJDs. When I first discovered that there was even a controversy about recasts, I did not understand. Recasts are clearly wrong.<\/a> Don’t buy them. How hard is that?<\/p>\n

Pretty hard, apparently. Defenders of recasts have loads of justifications for their immoral and illegal deeds, including the following:<\/p>\n

“I can’t afford a legit one.”<\/p>\n

“Only the recasters supply the resin color that I want.”<\/p>\n

“It’s just like downloading music.”<\/p>\n

“You’re just being elitist.” [In the BJD community, calling someone the E-word is just about the worst insult ever. I could write a whole entry about that,<\/i> but it’s kind of a tangent.]<\/p>\n

And my favorite: “[Keep your]\u00a0noses, moral choices, and all that jazz out of everyone elses dollie buying decision.”<\/a> Because right and wrong are completely irrelevant to human social activities! Whaddaya mean — you didn’t know that?!<\/p>\n

Interestingly, most arguments in favor of recasts boil down to, “You’re not the boss of me! PPLLLBBBHHHTHTHSSSSST!” Historically speaking, this has never been an effective rhetorical strategy.<\/p>\n

The amount of poo-flinging generating by the subject of recasts [see this thread,<\/a> for example] fascinates me. O_O<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the summer, I’ve enjoyed following a few BJD-related Tumblrs, mostly whatshouldwecalldolls.tumblr.com, followed by bjdtextconfessions.tumblr.com and bjdconfessions.tumblr.com. The first entertains me by applying animated gifs to hobby-related experiences. The second and the third bear anonymous witness to the barely coherent rage apparently simmering just beneath the surface of your average BJD owner. >_> Recently, much… Continue reading Amusement and poo-flinging on Tumblr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[729],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}