You can have no possible idea of how much I coveted this as a kid. Siiigh.

Instead, I got heinous pink sets from my relatives. Because girls love pink! You know what else girls love? Horses. Girls just loooove horses.

Because my parents were not clueless, I also had the Imperial Flagship, the Imperial Trading Post, and the Enchanted Island. The Enchanted Island is especially funny because it is filled with itsy little barbarians and a rare girl Lego person. Obviously my sisters and I wanted girl figures, so we pitched some of the boy heads and stole the girl ones from our lame pink sets to use with our cool ones. We had girl pirates, and we made up stories about the Admiral's daughter stowing away on the Imperial Flagship and disguising herself as a soldier. Or sometimes she joined up with the pirates and ended up fighting her TRUE LOVE, who was in the Navy, etc.

I also had the extremely awesome Black Knight's Castle. Were there any girls in the set? HA HA HA. But I was a clever child! ( I think you know where this is going. )

Seldom has an LJ entry made me happier you guys. I love my Legos! Even though they OPPRESSED me! And are STILL oppressing me. They have a new Lego set of knights and castles and various other medieval sundry. And there is one girl in the entire series. She is a princess. And you can only get her in one set. THE ONE WHERE SHE IS IMPRISONED IN A GIGANTIC SKELETON CAGE. I am not even joking.

+ More discouraging news out of LJ. Brad Fitzpatrick is leaving Six Apart for Google. For reasons unrelated to the "strikethrough" debacle, but still.

+ Speaking of Strikethrough, there's a fair write-up of the recent mess here.

+ And in the NYT's continuing quest to be the biggest playa-hatas ever, they've gone and revealed the identity of Fake Steve Jobs. BOO.

+ Still can't find any information about the Katara action figure Mattel promised would be released this summer. But, of course, they've found time to make a King Bumi, like anyone cares about him.

+ We've added another Mac to our family! Which makes... five currently and eight in total, since the mid-90s! I think this officially means The Sullivans = MacHeads.

+ And MOST IMPORTANTLY, my hair is possibly tragically short. I won't know for sure until it's dried entirely, but it's looking scarily short. I was sort of sad about it earlier, but QUE SERA, SERA. (Kelly, if you're reading this, it's not your fault. It's my fault.)

Siege of the North was on TV tonight, which was totally wicked! My sisters and I sat around and watched it and made fun of Zutara shippers. We specifically looked for and did not see the alleged sexual tension in their fight scene. I did think it was funny that he called her a peasant, though. And, you know, totally meant it. Besides being a racist terroist traitor to all that is good and holy, he is also totally a snob. And yet somehow indispensible to the show. He's weird like that.

Watching Siege of the North also generated a fresh batch of rage for Mattel, because it reminded me that Admiral Zhao has an action figure and HE'S BEEN DEAD FOR AN ENTIRE SEASON! And as much as I prefer Zhao to Princess Azula, I must admit that Azula kicks a helluva lot more ass than Zhao ever did. And, you know, KATARA IS THE ASS-KICKIEST OF ALL, and yet no action figure! Yes, I have been here several times before, I know. But the INJUSTICE and SEXISM of it all really infuriates me. Especially when Mattel is being all liey over in Pleasant Company Land about how they think girls are awesome. (BTW, Kierra's American Girl stuff arrived today in PINK boxes, OMFG.)

While Kelly was taking a shower tonight, me and my other sisters stole her door! It was much with the awesome, only we botched it up because Kierra freaked out midway through and tried to warn Kelly. She was afraid that Santa was going to bring her coal or something because we were being naughty. But Kelly deserved it, so I say we were merely dispensing karmic justice. But anyway, Kelly heard what we were doing so the effect was mostly ruined. But otherwise, it was A+! And I still have the door right here in my room! Mwahahahaha.

I finished my Christmas shopping! I will be venturing out into hell the mall again today because I am nice to my Mommy, but my shopping is OVAH! Which is fantastic because I hate to shop all of the time, and everyone hates to shop at Christmas time. So I double hate it!

I got my sisters $150 total in Best Buy gift certificates. Hopefully that's what they're getting me too, so we can all get a Wii! Kierra really wanted stuff for her American Girl doll, but I just couldn't. Mattel has totally raped my childhood -- the outfits are cheap and historically inaccurate. And most everything has that Barbie™ look to it. Felicity's default dress is now purple and made of plastic-feeling fabric with flowers embroidered on it. And her tea set is pink! And her (pink!) shoes come with rosettes on them! It all makes me very, very sad. I hope Pleasant T. Rollings can sleep at night while she floats around the Caribbean on her giant yacht.

I think I did a similar post about Lego sets last year, too. And Mattel also swallowed Lego. Coincidence? I think not. Mattel is also the reason I won't be getting a Katara action figure for Christmas. Sexist bastards.

I have felt opressed by The Man this week for various reasons, and of course the one I'm blogging about is the most inane of them all. I was at Target with my mom to buy... I can't remember what. But we bought a lot. (Target is like that.) And I saw Avatar action figures and reverted to toddlerhood. I may have jumped up and down and done my hand-claspy thing and squealed a little. And Mom bought them for me, for Christmas! She bought me an Aang and a Sokka. (She would have bought me a Zuko, but they only had Zuko in his racist-terrorist stage, which I am so not about.) So I told her she had to find me Katara! And then when we got home, I got them out of the bag to look at (because I am five), and on the back it says that they don't have a Katara! TRAVESTY!

Katara is practically the main character of the show! She was the first character we met! She narrates the opening! Is Nickolodeon so sure that stupid, nose-picking little boys won't play with a girl action figure that they can make three types of Aangs and two types of racist-terrorist Zuko's but can't even be arsed to make a non-boobified Katara?! Or even a boobified Katara?! Oh, I am pissed off. I want my damn Katara action figure.

And I finally picked up Terrier today. I groaned when I saw it because it looks like a tome. Except, really the writing is just FREAKING HUGE. And I hate the design. What's with the boxy frame thingy around the edge of every page? Anyway. Now I just have to force myself to read the damn thing. And I do mean force.

Last but not least... Heather and I agreed to trade episodes last night, so I had to watch Supernatural in order for her to watch some FNL (which I am obsessed with, yay!). And I suppose I owe all the SPN fans on my f'list an apology. I didn't say anything bad about it because so many of you like it, but I have been thiking very nasty thoughts! And not the fun kind! Anyway, it's not quite as terrible as I thought it would be. And not really terrible at all, but it's just not my kind of TV. And I still think Jenson Whatshisface sucks at acting, but admitting that I know him from the most painful seasons of the many painful seasons of Dawson's Creek and Smallville probably means my glass house on the sand is now fully furnished. Or something.

YAY FALL BREAK!