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[garran]

The Batgirl thing makes me happy. I think that it's a genuine meme, at least as far as I understand the term - someone put up their drawing of the character, at which a few of their friends were inspired to design and draw variant Batgirls, and then some more of their friends thought, "Wow, everyone is drawing Batgirl! I think that I'll draw one, too," and then...

I looked through the whole list on Friday night (I think that this one might be my favourite), and every once in a while I would see someone speaking as though this were a more conventionally premeditated thing - using the word 'contest', or complimenting himynameisjamie on the idea, just as though this had begun with his sitting down to figure out how to convince everyone on the internet to draw Batgirl. I think that to talk about it this way is really to undervalue how cool a phenomenon it is: it happened organically, and it happened by accident.

I have not drawn as many hiragana as I should have this weekend so far. I need to telephone some people, and then I suppose that I will get to remedying that.

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One of the neatest things is how they even feel pretty to write.