Bongo's Bumbles

 Scissors? No.   Casper is undergoing dolly surgery.        Recently, I accidentally damaged Casper's right arm when I tried to spot clean it with distilled water, so I'm going to have to make an update to one of the Reborn doll pages on this blog. Now, I am not yet a Reborn doll artist, so I do not have the experience to repair someone else's artwork in this hobby myself. Fortunately, I was able to get in contact with Casper's artist, Joanne Donovan over at Lullaby Lake Nursery , and she was kind enough to allow me the chance to mail his arm to her for repairs. Today, I finally got up the guts to approach removing his arm to be packed and sent off and despite having watched a lot of tutorials on how to remove Reborn doll limbs in the past, I still almost made a terrible mistake. I am writing this post to let other collectors know not to do what I almost did and that I feel very lucky that what I did, did not actually get to do any harm.     ...

 What About Misinterpretation? An  Astro Boy  fan sits at the PonyTown docks, eating a slice of cheesecake.      A new law set to go into effect on September 1st, 2025, SB-20 , is intended to help protect minors online by banning fictional content, whether AI or created by artists (i.e. animation, comics, art) within the state of Texas. On the surface, this is a good idea that has good intentions- after all, encountering explicit imagery online involving underage characters can be a bit mentally damaging for internet users who are minors. So the effort is understandable. However, the impact seems as if it may be much wider than simply protecting people who are under eighteen years of age online. This law also holds possible negative impact for content creators who have created works that feature underage characters in a myriad of other, non-sexual ways because the language in the law's document does not strongly define what constitutes an offense within thi...