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Pictures of baby harp seal by Sakai Mayu.

I...don't really have much else to say about today. But I've only been awake for 9 hours! Who knows what other fun things I'll find before I pass out?!!


The plushie I have, Chou, is...loved. I mean, she's a little grungy and her fur isn't very neat anymore. But she's the best and only baby harp seal plushie I have ever had, and frankly my favorite stuffed animal ever. And she's a Wild Republic stuffed animal that, for all appearances, isn't being made anymore and cannot be replaced. I'm trying to keep her out of harm's way, but I always want to hug her, or play with her, or have her roll around inside Mom's laptop and say, "TANNING SALON!!!" or make her do little seal dances to the opening music of Law and Order. (...)

So I'm looking for a new body for Chou. To house her...soul ._. And then I can keep Chou safe someplace where she won't get torn up or covered in dirt, while still playing with her. (It just...isn't this kind of dark, though? Would a child think this way? Am I a mad scientist?)

For some reason, looking for a baby harp seal plushie nearly killed me. I felt like I was having a heart attack, or like I was experiencing heart break, at the same time I was going OMG SO CUTE ILU. I just wanted to explode---like, I would have felt much more comfortable stuck to the wall in a million pieces.

Eventually I bought a "Yomiko Classics" baby harp seal that is 18.5" long, just about the same size as Chou. The order hasn't been sent out yet, but I'm not hanging by a thread waiting for it like just about everything else I order online. =_=

Does anybody know Tenshi ni Bara no Hanataba wo, by Higuri Yuu? I uh, I apparently bought the first volume of this YEARS ago, possibly around 2000? 2001? Read it once, and ignored it until now. My God. Campy? corny? stereotyped? shameless? Anyway, what is interesting is not the content, but my reaction to it. It features an uke who turns into a pretty girl when he smells roses. He changes back into a guy when the resident seme kisses him. So basically, when the seme kisses the uke, the uke is a girl.

Back when I first read this MINIMUM 5 years ago, I was like "But he's kissing a GIRL :(((." When I reread it a week ago, I was like, "But he's kissing a girl ♥♥♥."

...am I a grown-up now? D: