It's a follow-up with results to this post. Here is also the post with the arrival that I didn't cross-post here because I wasn't sure it was related to this comm. I think this one is also a bit on the off-topic side (the hair and clothes don't resemble the original character), but assume some of you wondered whether the project succeed 🙂

Recently, I rerooted a Barbie head that already had factory rooting holes. For this new project, however, I used a head from AliExpress that came without any holes (original post here). On the plus side, it had a molded groove marking the hairline, and most of the scalp was pre-painted in the correct color.

The doll owner chose the hair color. The hair is saran.

First, I covered the factory part lines and marked a new one. I used good-quality acrylic paint for this. I also inserted sewing pins along the back hairline. This is useful for several reasons:

1. The rerooting needle breaks much faster when used to make the holes.
2. It makes it easier to keep the spacing consistent.

After that, everything is pretty much the same as in my previous post.

The next steps followed a simple pattern: I marked the holes with pins, removed the pins, and filled the holes with hair. It's important not to leave the pins in for too long. Larger holes hold the hair less securely. I used one of my factory-rooted dolls as a reference to keep the hole spacing and density consistent.

Once I had finished the back of the head, I continued rooting along the hairline up to the part. After that, I started filling the inner area of the scalp, saving the part for later.

I also pre-marked the part with pins, but never more than four holes at a time. When only one hole was left, I inserted the next set of pins. For the part, I inserted hair into each hole four times. The part needs much thicker plugs than the rest of the head, but making larger holes is not a good idea. That's why I prefer using a smaller rerooting needle multiple times instead of switching to a larger one.

The head was fully rooted. At that point, I filled it with glue (in my case, Fabri-Tac) and left it for 24 hours.

The next day, I poured boiling water over the hair, washed it, trimmed it, and styled it. The doll was finally finished.

Video here

When I started watching the series, I had this doubt. As the three seasons went by, I came to the conclusion that she was simply a woman.

There was a character in the Fallout series, Dane, and I completely missed the fact that they were non-binary. I thought they were more of a tomboy character, but no—the character is non-binary, and the actor is a trans man, if I'm not mistaken.

I want to know if I was the only one who thought Erica might be the same case.

It's weird to say because I usually try not to make assumptions about people, but sometimes I feel rude for not noticing these things sooner.

While kdramas having been established in global popularity, cdramas are having a bit of a moment with international audiences.

Pursuit of Jade was recently the first to crack mainland China production to crack the Netflix non-English language top ten, and stayed on it for several weeks.

Outside China, cdrama fans seem to intersect with Star Trek fans more than one might expect. Perhaps it’s the willingness to watch massive numbers of episodes to enjoy a series? cdramas typically come in with 40 episode series, and in earlier years some had 60 or 70 episodes.

So, it seems inevitable that Star Trek cdrama fans would want to fancast reboots of classic Star Trek legacy characters with top Chinese Idol drama actors.

u/universalaxototal created these and posted them on cdramafans subreddit today. Shared with permission.

More are in the works for some of the women characters.

From the original post:

• ⁠Tan Jianci righteously commanding as Xiang-Luc Picard mic drop 🎤

• ⁠Liu Yuning looking so natural in Starfleet uniform. He definitely plays the saxophone […and towers over everyone at 1.91 metres.]

• ⁠Hou Minghao as Captain Kirk, absolutely seducing an alien woman on a distant planet while the away team pretends not to notice

⁠Deng Wei as Spock/Data 🖖

• ⁠Deng Wei also somehow managing the wearing of a hair accessory on his face (it is the future, luxury brands have collapsed, so the House of Chanel has had to pivot into quantum optics and interface technology)

cross-posted from: https://futurology.today/post/10412593

Researchers say they have made a significant step towards Drexlerian nanotechnology - programmable atomically precise manufacturing

Have you ever mixed up episode titles to a degree that the stories would be humorous if the titles were swapped? For a long time I confused “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” and “Miri”. Imagine if there was an episode about kids turning into robots or a a virus that made robots act like kids.

Yesterday I decide watch another TOS episode, I like "Let THat Be Your Last Battlefield".

Something I notice people forget about old Star Trek is how the enterprise was capable of terraforming entire planets or even decontainment it in just a seconds in the episode.

This is also funny to me because Spore game did the playeable spaceship into capable of creating life or destroying it at player's will.

I have the feeling Star Trek writers just forget about this.

What you think about this enterprise feature?

Image is courtesy of a Duck Duck Go image search.

It makes me so happy that this documentary was produced as an Asian American fan. I want the directors to autograph my Blu-ray in Vegas.