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Tumblr-- at least the parts I visit-- is blowing up about the Flame Princess from Adventure Time, so I tracked down the episode this morning (SMH at Tumblr's organization, Gawd what a terrible place) and actually twitched when I heard the Flame King.

"Anderson!?"

IMDB doesn't have the credits listed on Adventure Time's page or Keith David's page, but Google tells me that it is, in fact, Anderson. I was just taking orders from that guy last night!

Speaking of Mass Effect, I finally DLed the ME3 demo because of a post on The Hairpin, of all places. I never expected to see that pop up on one of my ladyblogs. Hairpin has always been a pretty cool place, but the only ladyblog I follow where I'd ever expect a Mass Effect post is Autostraddle (yeah yeah, the lesbian blog. But they've had gaming posts before!)

Worlds collide in strange ways, sometimes, but it's so nice to be in a place where femShep is the standard for all the conversations going on, especially a place I didn't have to seek out or have "feminist" in the bylaws somewhere.

I, uh, may only be in the early stages of ME1, to boot. I've been busy OKAY. And I'm not very good at this type of game (and the ME3 demo is even unfriendlier than ME1 for controls, as in OH MY GOD GET OUT FROM COVER AND JUMP OVER THAT THING ALREADY, JEEZE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M OUTTA BULLETS WHERE IS MY ENERGY GUN THINGY).

But I accidentally made a Shep with a hawkish nose-- I didn't intend to, I was just trying to make someone that didn't look totally off, and never figured out/bothered to turn her head. So I was like "narrow nose profile, awesome" and then I got into game and it's this huge, beaky schnoz. To which I said AWESOME. You don't even get women with nose bumps most of the time (my nose is awesome, designers! NYA) and now I can make a character with an even bigger one?

The things that please me, man. There is no explaining it.

Anyway, the ME3 demo is kind of fun, but also kind of pointless and I hope there's better tutorials for getting stuff done because it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to open a door or understand what my power-set did. Also if I never hear the word "female" to refer to "woman" it will be too soon. "Get the female!" NO, SHE IS A WOMAN NOT A LAB SPECIMEN. GODDAMN.