Bestest idea ever!! Or, another doll drama

Last night I came up with the next obvious storyline for creation in a 1:6 doll drama format: the story of a young woman and her relationships, emotional, sexual and otherwise, with her three muses. "Me and My Muses" is its title. Is it based on my life? Why certainly.

There are four main characters:

• The young woman. A morbidly introspective and self-analytical person, she is, as the series starts, a college student who is confused about her sexuality and increasingly disturbed by the robustness of her muses. She writes and plays with dolls.
• The first muse. Also morbidly introspective and lonely, he combines playfulness, pushiness and seduction in a threatening and irresistible combination. He writes in his diary and makes paper.
• The second muse. Sunny, buoyant, extroverted and confident, he is an androgynous, polymorphously perverse hermaphrodite [mythologically speaking]. He invents things and designs fashions.
• The third muse. Quiet, conscientious and punctiliously correct in all things, she is the second muse's servant. She rides her mountain bike and sketches human figures.

There are also a limited number of secondary characters, including, but not limited to:

• The protagonist's long-distance girlfriend. Passionate, loyal, insecure and possessive, the long-distance girlfriend is going through her own difficulties in college. She resents the closeness between the protagonist and the first muse.
• The protagonist's sister. Creative, imaginative and similar in temperament to the protagonist, the sister used to be very close to the protagonist, but going to separate colleges has driven distance between them. Succeeding socially and emotionally at school [in contrast to the protagonist], the sister worries that the muses are driving a wedge between her and the protagonist.
• The protagonist's first actual non-long-distance girlfriend. As a struggling poet, the first actual girlfriend, who is signifcantly younger than the protagonist, is attracted to the protagonist's mind and creativity. She and the protagonist break up over the protagonist's lack of sexual confidence, among other things.
• The protagonist's second girlfriend. Extroverted, high-strung and enthusiastic, the protagonist's second girlfriend is much different temperamentally than she is. This contributes to their relationship's downfall, as does the protagonist's unwillingess to talk about her muses.
• The protagonist's third girlfriend. As a vampire lover and fan fiction writer, she is involved in sci fi and fantasy conventions. The protagonist tells her about her muses up front, and the third girlfriend thinks that they are awesome.

Me and My Muses...the plot

The plot goes something like this:

• Introduction. The protagonist creates the first muse, tending him with all the frustrated energy of her muddled sexuality and her loneliness. They have lots of fun.
• Uh Oh. Because she spends so much time on him, the first muse becomes realer and realer to the protagonist. She wonders about the nature of his existence and also her own sanity.
• Cracking. Things come to a head. The protagonist's sister expresses worry about the protagonist. The protagonist's long-distance girlfriend delivers an ultimatum: me or him.
• Banishment. The protagonist chooses her long-distance girlfriend over her first muse. He tries to reason with her and come back. She refuses sadly. All is desolate.
• Substitution. The protagonist, unable to live without muses, substitutes the first one for the second and third ones. Frolicking ensues. Meanwhile, the protagonist has a mentally stimulating, sexually unsatisfying relationship with her first actual girlfriend.
  
• Coming Back. After breaking up with her first actual girlfriend and moving on to the second, the protagonist decides to bring the first muse back.
• Rage. The protagonist and the first muse fight.
• Coexistence. The protagonist and the first muse reconcile. Meanwhile, all three muses get used to each other. The first and the second muse fall in love!
  
• The Boot. The protagonist and her second girlfriend fight because of their temperamental differences and because the protagonist won't tell her second girlfriend about her muses. The protagonist and her second girlfriend break up.
• All By My Selves. The protagonist swears off romantic relationships for a while. She becomes closer to her sister. She feels less dependent on her muses. She writes stories that aren't about them and thinks about them, but doesn't talk to them all the time.
• Beginning Again. The protagonist meets her third girlfriend. From the outset, the protagonist tells the third girlfriend about her muses. Everything looks promising...

Me and My Muses...names

Names

• The protagonist: Ellery 
• The first muse: Lucian
• The second muse: Mazzy
• The third muse: Jessica
• The protagonist's sister: Avery
• The protagonist's long-distance girlfriend: Kristin
• The protagonist's first actual girlfriend: Melinda
• The protagonist's second girlfriend: Jo
• The protagonist's third girlfriend: MacKenzie

Me and My Muses...dolls [or, Sponsored by Lumedoll]

Dolls

• Ellery: Lumedoll Arine, large bust
• Lucian: Lumedoll Lucas
• Mazzy: Lumedoll Blaze head on large bust fem body
• Jessica: Lumedoll Elin, small bust
• Avery: ?
• Kristin: ? [the doll formerly known as Cory?]
• Melinda: ? [the doll previously appearing as Maybe?]
• Jo: ? [the doll formerly known as AJ?]
• MacKenzie: ? [the doll formerly known as Tamsin?]

Check drawer of heads and doll parts for parts for other characters.

Yark, what an anti-romantic, coercive gesture! The "surprise wedding"

Via Shakesville, I learned today about the "surprise wedding." What is this wretched idea? Apparently, according to the Windsor Star, this man's idea was to plan an entire wedding behind his fiancee's back, with friends and family keeping her in the dark until the moment that he proposed, at which point he said that the wedding would occur within hours.

So let's get this straight...

• One partner willfully deprives the other of any input in planning a significant, life-changing event, assuming that he knows best for the both of them.
• The depriving partner even brings the other partner's whole social and familial circle into collusion, basically trapping them in a lie of omission.
• Finally, as if this weren't enough, the depriving partner sets up a highly public event at which the other partner may be embarrassed, shamed or coerced into submitting.

Such a series of events is not romantic and loving. By degrading and ignoring his partner's agency and input, the depriving partner is saying, in so many words, that his plans matter more than hers, that he matters more than she does. No matter how many of her preferences he incorporates into the wedding, the mere fact that he set everything up without her consultation, basically leaving her only a slot in which to insert her "yes," devalues his partner in general. It's arguably abusive!

What the poop is this?

This trailer for Twixt is of the sort that obviates watching the actual movie. Based on the trailer, this movie looks overlong, overdone and overacted. A pity because I think there's an interesting idea rattling around in there somewhere.