Hi everyone! Our vendor spotlight this week features Tulu Tulu Lolita!! Tulu Tulu Lolita will be remote vending at our #RoyalVegasRetreat2021 event. Check out the mini interview below.

Announcement: we will have a limited number of GA and VIP tickets available for purchase at full price ($125 for GA, $200 for VIP) starting August 14 at 12:00 PM PT on Eventbrite. If you purchased ticket reservations last month, we will email with you with instructions on how to pay the remaining cost of your ticket.

As a reminder, you can reserve your room onsite at the MGM Grand right now using our Passkey portal: https://book.passkey.com/go/sroy1121mg. Using our room block guarantees you a great rate as prices fluctuate, and it helps us keep our event financially viable!

Hi everyone! Welcome to another vendor spotlight! This week, we would like to introduce you to Basura Gang. Please read on for the short but sweet interview!

As a reminder, you can reserve your room onsite at the MGM Grand right now using our Passkey portal: https://book.passkey.com/go/sroy1121mg. Using our room block guarantees you a great rate as prices fluctuate, and it helps us keep our event financially viable!

Hi everyone! It’s that time of week where we introduce a vendor that will be participating at RVR 2021.

As a reminder, you can reserve your room onsite at the MGM Grand right now using our Passkey portal: https://book.passkey.com/go/sroy1121mg. Using our room block guarantees you a great rate as prices fluctuate, and it helps us keep our event financially viable!

Please stay tuned for announcements about COVID restrictions and August ticket sales. Thank you for your patience as we work with our venue to ensure as safe of an event as possible.

Hello everyone! Hope you’re all excited to attend Royal Vegas Retreat 2021 in November! Starting this week, we’ll be introducing different vendors and guests that will be participating in person or remotely at RVR!

As a reminder, you can reserve your room onsite at the MGM Grand right now using our Passkey portal: https://book.passkey.com/go/sroy1121mg. Using our room block guarantees you a great rate as prices fluctuate, and it helps us keep our event financially viable!

Happy Friday, everyone! Welcome back to the Pretty Princess Club newsletter, where we hope to both inform you about Royal Vegas Retreat 2021, and inspire you and your journey in Lolita fashion and J-fashion. This week we’ve got an update on RVR 2021 ticket sales.

Hey folks! Ticket reservation sales start TOMORROW, June 26, 2021 at 12:00 PM PT on our Eventbrite page. As a reminder, at this time you’ll be reserving your ticket for a fraction of the cost (either $5 for a GA ticket or $20 for a VIP ticket) and paying the remainder of the cost starting . Please keep in mind that , and you must .

Hey everyone! This week we're talking about VIP perks, and what comes with your VIP ticket. We hope this helps you plan for Royal Vegas Retreat 2021!

As a reminder, you can purchase a ticket reservation starting June 26, 2021 at 12:00 PM PT on our Eventbrite page. You can reserve your room onsite at the MGM Grand right now using our Passkey portal: https://book.passkey.com/go/sroy1121mg. Using our room block guarantees you a great rate as prices fluctuate, and it helps us keep our event financially viable!

Hello, friends! Today we’re talking about post-vaccinated travel, and how you can plan for your trip to Vegas for RVR 2021.

As a reminder, you can purchase tickets starting June 26, 2021 at 12:00 PM PT on our . You can reserve your room onsite at the MGM Grand right now using our Passkey portal: . Using our room block guarantees you a great rate as prices fluctuate, and it helps us keep our event financially viable!

Howdy, everyone! This week’s email is from our swap meet and content coordinator, Ruthie, who will tell you all about how to have a successful swap meet experience.

Happy Friday to you all! This week’s post is a bit of inspirational content, and the Bibliotheca blog prompt: “What’s in my bag?”

First, please see our latest posts for updates on Royal Vegas Retreat 2021:

Hey everyone! This is a super-special, fun, and important announcement - we’re talking about when and how you can reserve your ticket for RVR 2021 and how to book your room onsite at the MGM Grand Las Vegas.

Ticket Reservations

Ticket reservations will open on . At this time, you will be able to on . (Our Eventbrite page still shows us as postponed right now - don’t worry! We will be making updates behind the scenes to prepare for ticket sales.)

Hey everyone! We know you are full of questions about Royal Vegas Retreat 2021. This week, we are going to explain a few important things about the event, what is changing for 2021, and what to look out for next.

Why RVR is different from your local anime convention

As anime conventions start to gear up to put their show on in person, you may be wondering what all of the fuss is about, and why we are treading so cautiously as we begin planning. For one thing, Even the largest J-fashion events tend to have 100s of attendees, rather than 1000s. This is good news for our event, as it means the potential blast radius is much smaller, right?

Hey, everyone! Happy Friday to you all - I hope you had a great week. This week’s blog post is short, but perhaps our most important one yet.

As you may remember, last summer, we postponed Royal Vegas Retreat. We are currently on the books with our venue, the MGM Grand Las Vegas, for November 19 - 21, 2021. With only a little more than 6 months to these dates, it is time for us to start planning in earnest, despite the continued ambiguity around the end of pandemic life. We are moving forward with planning with the caveat that we may postpone our event again.

Hello, friends! Welcome to the last post of our validating content for newcomers series. Growth in Lolita fashion can look like a lot of different things - settling into your favorite substyle, fusing your aesthetic with other types of J-fashion, or just making coords that make you happy. Today, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite resources for growing in the fashion. These are only a few resources among the many, many resources out there - what are your favorites?

@plussizelolita Linktree

Howdy, friends! Nif here as always, and this week we’re taking a break from our “newcomers” series to say hello to new subscribers and those of you who are along for this ride that is our new content strategy.

We recently joined Bay Area Kei’s . If you’re a J-fashion blogger, I highly encourage you to apply! Or if you’re trying to figure out the perfect blogging platform for your own works, you can take a look at all of the wonderful blogs on Bibliotheca to decide which format suits you best. Bibliotheca organizes a monthly theme to inspire bloggers - and this month is .

Hello friends! Nif here with our first real post written directly on Buttondown.

Content warning: discussion of recent acts of police violence

Take the time to take care of yourselves, your families, and communities in the wake of Daunte Wright's murder at the hands of police, the sham trials of convicted cops, and callous and complicit local governments allowing it all to happen. We encourage you all to give directly to Daunte Wright's family's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/dauntewright and support mutual aid projects in the Twin Cities, like Minneapolis Northside Mutual Aid: https://opencollective.com/mpls-northside-mutual-aid

Beyond that, we encourage you to get involved in your city's fight to defund and abolish your local police. Discuss ways of keeping your community safe that don't involve calling the cops - see the zine 1 Million Experiments by Project Nia. Keep having discussions with your family, friends, and comm. Lolita fashion isn't an escape until it's an escape for all of us.

Hey folks! This is going to be a short post to explain why we moved platforms from Substack to Buttondown.

Substack has recently become very public about the way they curate and fund writers on their platform. They fund writers like Graham Linehan (notably banned from Twitter - which, if you're on Twitter, you know that it takes a LOT to get banned), Jesse Singal, and other anti-trans bigots whose rhetoric prevents trans people from getting effective medical care, be respected as human beings, and be safe in the world. Substack has allegedly addressed these issues in a non-explanation, and I don't really recommend you read that. I would take a look at Jude Ellison Sady Doyle's post that addresses this issue directly from a trans perspective.

Lolita fashion is and has always been political, and as such, if we hope to monetize our blog/email newsletter to raise funds for Royal Vegas Retreat - whether it happens in 2021 or in the future - we have to do so in a way that aligns with our values. Non-normative gender presentation and identity are integral to Lolita fashion and its history. We cannot tolerate Substack's anti-trans hatred, we do not endorse platforms that thrive on outrage, and as such, we have moved to Buttondown.

All of our existing subscribers have automatically been moved over - so you should be seeing this email in your inbox on Friday, April 9 at 4:20 PM PT. Our Substack will stay up so our links stay intact, but all further email updates will come from our Buttondown.

Hey folks! I hope you’re all hanging in there. Here in the Pacific Northwest, the long, dark winter feels like it’s going to be over soon. And we’re hearing that some of you may even be vaccinated already! Is it too soon to dream of our shared vacation in the desert? We’re still cautiously optimistic.

This week in our validating content for newcomers series, I’m here to talk about, well, coords I made and didn’t like! Real clunkers, honestly!

Before we get started, we’d like to draw your attention to the organization Red Canary Song which provides advocacy and mutual aid for the intersection of Asian migrant and sex worker communities. If you have the ability to donate them, or to individuals who were affected by the mass shooting in Atlanta this week, we encourage you to do so.

Content note: this post mentions shopping, addiction, alcoholism, cigarette smoking, and elitism.

Hey everyone! Welcome to our newest content series, unofficially titled "Validating Content for Newcomers." For the next several weeks, we're going to focus on new Lolitas and J-fashionistas, and how the Lolita fashion community can welcome them in with open arms.