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Posted by vesperae
on April 30, 2008, 4:41 am, in reply to "Re: Identity"
Howdy Ross, 
Thank you for the clarification! I'd also like to thank you for your interesting comments in this earlier thread, including your reply to M G F, and I apologize for not being able to reply. (It's a time constraint thing; not an interest thing, by any means.)
Your experience really strikes a chord with me, because I have long suspected that inside many of the most outspoken and zealous anti smokers is either someone with a deeply repressed SF, or someone who could very easily find their deep hatred/fear involuted and transformed into lust. 
As for this week's header image:
Although slightly redesigned by me to show her actually holding the product that she's pitching, "Sunny" was not drawn by me. She is the anime spokesmodel and "adviser" featured on this site; which promotes "Kiss" cigarettes to young Russian women supposedly over the age of 18, although given the design, graphics, and content, it seems pretty laughable to me that the approach is intended for adults. Shocking, I know... 
I'm working a bit of a sneaky feminist angle in this one, and also playing with the idea of what is real, what do we make real for ourselves, and how do we change reality to accommodate our fantasies.
Cheers,
V
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