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Claudie is ready for the holidays!! 🎄🎁

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a square of Besties™

i would have used the og addy portrait but i can't find a version that's not a scan :(

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Made a transparent of Claudie's portrait since I couldn't find one online. Don't wanna talk about how long it took to edit out the yellow-and-tan background :)

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Finally purchased proper shelves to display the collection and managed to dress dolls in all the holiday outfits I currently own 🎄🎁🕯️

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Do you still have the playlists you made for the AG characters? Could you list the links because I am having a hard time finding them. Also, I am wondering what playlists you would make for the other non doll characters? I would really like to see one for Stirling! :)

americangirlstar.tumblr.com/playlists :D

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Movie Costumes | Samantha's bridesmaid dress in Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004)

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claudie is excited for the holidays!! i made her this dress yesterday, it’s from a stretch lace dress i thrifted. i have plenty more material but boy was it frustrating to work with lol!!

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🌻 Ivy Ling 🌻

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Oh god it gets worse

Okay, before I go any further I should give a little disclaimer that there's nothing wrong with doing a Christian-themed line of dolls. Toys and stories as a way to teach faith are nothing new and can be perfectly appropriate ways for kids to learn.

However the Life of Faith dolls are a unique kind of fucking horrible because they are obviously American Girl knockoffs. Instead of meaningfully engaging with the difficult themes of history like the AG dolls did, they present a disgustingly white-washed, pretty, frilly, and pleasant view of history that straight up ignores the dark stuff.

So the Life of Faith dolls are based on the Elsie Dinsmore stories which were published between 1867 and 1905. They're about a deeply faithful little girl who grows up on a plantation. In the books, when Elsie turns 18, she marries HER FATHER'S BEST FRIEND, because, to quote Wikipedia, "He has been her knight in shining armor who constantly helps her when other people are cruel to her; he has loved her for a long time." Yeah we call that "grooming" today.

Yeah, that's pretty sickening. But there IS a girl who escapes slavery in this series lemme see how that gets addressed....

WAIT YOU'RE TELLING ME SHE ESCAPES FROM THE SAME BEAUTIFUL PLANTATION THE OTHER GIRL WAS RAISED ON?! So when Elsie came of age she would literally own Laylie. Seriously did no one see the conflict in this?! Did no one involved in all of this stop for a moment and think, maybe we're not presenting a fully accurate view of history?

What really galls me is the playing Robin Hood stuff. While enslaved children did find ways to play and have fun, their lived were still dominated by the grueling, demeaning work they had to do. And they would not be given luxurious playthings like bows and arrows and green silk capes. And they didn't have frilly pretty dresses and elaborate hairdos.

I know the dolls are Christian and they all come with a little Bible but like.... Are we just gonna ignore the whole "slaves weren't allowed to read" thing?

While all the other dolls come with lots of dresses and accessories, Laylie only has the one dress and her Robin Hood accessories.

So yeah we're just skipping over the whole Civil War and Reconstruction. Violet is Elsie's daughter still growing up on the plantation like always.

So moral of the story, when you're trying to teach kids about history, maybe try a book series that wasn't written by this lady:

Because you actually can write stories about faith and being Christian that DON'T involve romanticizing slavery.

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So, sometimes dolls will have eyes that discolor. (Either due to being poorly stored - in hot environments, for example - or just because they kind of sucked to begin with and time passed.)

Life of Faith was a "Christian alternative" to American Girl in the early 00s. (These spring up from time to time. Most of them only last a few years with a very niche market. I think, at the time, they had because people were flipping out about American Girl partnering with Girls Inc to fund after-school science programs and stuff, because Girls Inc was - according to the conservatives - "A pro-abortion, pro-lesbian organization".) The dolls were based around the Elsie Dinsmore books and it's all . . . big fluffy dresses on a plantation in the antebellum South. With all that that entails.

It was pretty fucking bad.

With that in mind, this is perhaps the funniest toy defect I have ever seen.

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Hi! I want to know what type of bender the AG characters would be if they were in ATLA and who you think would be the avatar? I personally feel like Caroline would make a great waterbender but I am not sure about the others.

(P.S. This is optional but I would also like to know what type of benders the WellieWishers would be.)

GIRL YOU HAVE ASKED THE RIGHT FUCKING PERSON

i will say that gwynn could also be a candidate for the Contemporary AG Avatar considering the Everything about her

also i aaaaam considering moving Elizabeth to Waterbender but idk

also as for the Wellies (which I don't think there's a tiermaker for)- Camille's a Waterbender obvsly, Willa's Earth, Emerson's Fire, Ashlyn and Kendall're Air. Bryant probably fits Air better with his interests/hobbies but his "work together" attitude gives waterbender "sense of community", yknow? tho fire would also work...

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Hi! I saw when you made picrews of the American Girl characters as pjo characters, and I was wondering what cabins Summer and the book characters in the Historical and Contemporary series would be in? I am asking because I want to make a pjo au with the AG characters.

ooh i do need to update that! idk where i left off, but i'm assuming around kavi? Kavi would be a Bacchus kid bc theatre girl, I'm liking Lila as Arcus (Iris), and for Summer... idk. Maybe another Arcus?

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Hey! I saw your Descendants AU and I was wondering if you would ever consider finishing making mood boards for the newer characters? Or do you know who everyone's parents are going to be?

Honestly, I really should; I do love my lil Descendants AU.

IIRC I left off at Kavi, so:

The Genie was suggested as the parent for Kavi and I'm liking that currently. Open to other options if we can think of Wicked Witches for her to be (just as a Wicked ref lmao. but Genie is good)

I have NO idea for Lila. Since she's so connected to McKenna maybe we could think of another Herc character for her? IDK tho; she's hard to place. Disney make a horse girl movie challenge

I like the idea of Summer as Jim Dear and Darling's daughter. Mainly because... guys...... her having Angel as her dog........

As for the Hoffmans, someone suggested them being part of the Gravity Falls Pines Family and I'm liking that. If I can get away with it, I'd like to have them as Pines-Northwest but I just don't state which twin is their other parent so both Dipcifica and Mabifica shippers can be happy

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Julie and Ivy from American Girl <3

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Feliz Dia de los Muertos!

May the memories of your loved ones bring you peace and happiness

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TIERMAKER NOW LETS US REORGANIZE IMAGES. THE AG DOLLS ARE NOW ALL IN ORDER