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[BEANIE BABIES - TRANSPARENT PNGS]

pls credit if you use

i'm actually obsessed with classic beanie babies, my neocities (find in my pinned post) is themed after them!

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Measurement requests!

If someone has Kit's quilt could you please measure it and let me know the length and width.

If someone has Addy's quilt could you please measure the size of the squares and the red border around the squares.

Thank you!

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more posts from Marisol's fake instagram account

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I have a whole area I've named my dolly morgue. All the bodies and pieces are in separate bags and I call them body bags lol

amazing. nowhere but in doll collecting do you get to do this. I love this hobby.

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May photo challenge, day 17? I think?

Marisol Luna-Santiago is a 12 year old latinx, Mexican-American conservative Jewish girl. She lives in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, where her dads George and Lance run Challahpeño, a Mexican-Jewish bakery. Marisol's first love is dance, but food is a close second! She also loves dancing folklórico and ballet. Marisol is proudly queer and loves her girlfriend, Zuzu.

One day I'll write all her book titles and synopses, but for now her stories would be: Meet Marisol, Marisol Learns a Lesson, Marisol Lights the Night, Mazel Tov, Marisol!, Marisol Takes the Spotlight, and Marisol Changes the Game.

Edit: updated cover!

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I think I've said this somewhere before but my neighbors' daughter is a few years older than me and an only child and so I inherited her AG books and a handful of the magazine issues when she aged out of it. These were Sam, Kirsten, and Molly through Kit. I couldn't tell you which I read first though because I tore through them all.

American Girl fans of Tumblr, what was your very first exposure to the brand?

Mine was finding a Meet Kaya book in my primary school's library.

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I was inspired by ivylingstanacc on Instagram to mock up book covers for if my girl Ivy Ling had been the main character.

There aren't a ton of Ivy illustrations, which is a huge shame because I'd like to make her a cover for The Puzzle of the Paper Daughter, one of Julie's mysteries that heavily features Ivy and her grandparents!

Ivy is such a sweet character, I really wish AG had made her more than a sidekick.

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don’t mind me just collecting some data. feel free to rb for sample size and elaborate on your thoughts in the tags <3 peace and love

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outfits from samantha's collection and their movie equivalents (6/11)

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this is a little psa for all the newer ag blogs here: if you feel like the fandom is too quiet, don't wait around for other people to create the content you want to see. post your headcanons! write about what books you like and why! share your ocs! write fanfic! take doll pics and share them! fandoms don't thrive without creation, and putting yourself and your creativity out there is important!

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the fact caroline's mom never got a name is a LITERAL crime. one of theee most badass ag characters and she's just "mama abbott." american girl drop her and grandma livingston's names right now

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Winter in Minnesota Territory can feel endless. Right now is the dullest and coldest part of winter, but Kirsten Larson has made the short days a little bit brighter by finding the perfect skating ice!

This shallow section of the creek has frozen solid, all the way down to the riverbed. Kirsten's brothers Lars and Peter and her cousins Lisbeth and Anna meet her there to join her on the ice.

After an hour, everybody is ready to head home and warm up, but Kirsten doesn't follow right away. She's feeling a sense of familiarity here as she fastens the straps on her snowshoes. Why does she feel like she has been here before?

Kirsten contemplates this feeling for a while until she suddenly remembers why this place feels familiar.

The bluffs and overhangs by the creek guide her. Kirsten follows them deep into the woods, looking for landmarks along the way. She is long past anyone's footprints. Even the hunters and trappers don't come this way.

She couldn't give directions to the place if she were asked. She's only navigating by remembering each turn.

This is the one, she thinks. Something about the shape of these rocks tugs at her memories. She climbs the rocks and sees the cave.

She came here often with her old friend, Singing Bird. Their secret place, where they hid from the world. It's also where she and Papa took shelter from a snowstorm the first winter they lived here. But she hasn't been back here since then.

Kirsten wonders where Singing Bird is now. If she comes back, will she know how to find Kirsten, since her family's cabin burned down?

So Kirsten leaves a little drawing in the dirt, just like they used to do to communicate with each other. She draws the Larson family's new house, with its many windows and the tree with the swing by the front door.

If Singing Bird returns someday, she may be drawn back to this place, just like Kirsten was today. And she'll know Kirsten is still close by, waiting to see her again.

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mutuals can always dm me but be warned i talk like your coworker who is trying too hard to get to know you and my response times are akin to the response times you might get if we were communicating by letter

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This is one of my favorite pieces I’ve done because it is so nostalgic for me! I used to make AG stop motions and draw AG dolls all the time as a kid, they were such a big part of my childhood and I made some of my favorite memories with them! ♥️

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something about the way nerd and hobbyist communities will settle for the bare minimum.

i'm a doll collector, and in my twenty years of collecting i have seen the quality of dolls, doll clothes, and other doll accessories degrade massively within the last decade, with the steepest decline in the last five years. yet whenever mattel does a release for barbie or american girl, everyone is CLAMORING for it. Doesn't matter if the factory face paint is wonky, doesn't matter if the clothing is thin or has loose threads. People will show up to spend their money. pcs and consoles are getting more and more expensive and everyone says that's just the price we have to pay to in order to game. games will release, unfinished, full of bugs, charging you out the ass for expansion packs and stupid shit like that, and we'll just shrug and say "well it's better than nothing."

shows on different networks and streaming services will cancel despite their loyal followings and we just accept that's the way it is now. they will botch storylines and lead fans on for seasons. and this is normal.

wizards of the coast literally used ai art for a magic expansion pack and people still bought it.

we need to stop riding these people's dicks. mattel, wotc, disney, or any other company does not give a fuck about us man. they care about increasing shareholder value. the customer liking the product is literally just an additional perk to them, not the goal.

i just dont understand why we keep doing this to ourselves. they aren't going to change. we gotta stop giving them our support.

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Happy Lunar New Year!

Ivy and Julie are all set for a Lunar New Year dinner at The Happy Panda in their matching dresses. Have a happy and prosperous Year of the Snake 🧧🐍🏮