#I gotta draw the fnaf kids more often

[chloesimaginationthings]

i love the way you draw abby so much she’s the cutest little pumpkin my baby ugh i just want to hold her haggaggghgghhggagagaggagag

She’s just a silly goober

[starlit-mansion]

I hate to say it but i do have funko pop opinions, yeah. these opinions are about aesthetics and not the ethics of pumping out vinyl figurines or mistreating employees or whatever funko as a company has done wrong. i mostly buy these secondhand when i do, which is often not true of me buying other toys. part of that is because they cycle out of print so quickly. part of that is that they're disposable impulse purchases that people move on from, or perhaps tried to mine value from due to artificial rarity. but that's just... all toys, to some extent.

As for my opinions:

The eyes aren't that bad. maybe it's just that i am a toy liker and someone who doesn't shudder at porcelain dolls. but they're literally just button eyes. the lack of pupil prevents wonky paint jobs and wall eyes, and it's iconic. it's why youtooz stole their lunch with the ^_^ face template. it's a cohesive identity. iconic, even.

it kind of is your only decent option for merch for a lot of stuff. and like... yeah you can just be like 'you don't need merch' but no one NEEDS merch. it's a comforting luxury. i could hunt down shitty quality kids toys of roger rabbit from when the movie came out, or get the soda figure of roger, which looks cute as hell and makes me happy to see every time i look at him.

Nonhuman pops are often pretty cool. i think part of it is that humanoid bodies look way too tiny in funkos but animals with big black eyes look fine. pokemon often look pretty cute. see this figure that i do own:

4. this is especially appropriate for fnaf, a series that exists because the creator's 'cute' animal models from an older game got called demented animatronics and then he was like 'sure fine i'll give you some demented animatronics,' but if you have a series where the characters are already uncanny, the big black eyes add to it. i adore this lolbit pop... it was the first pop i ever bought and it's so appropriate for the character:

i obviously dont have beef with pops but i literally only have one human template figure and it's balloon boy, a notoriously hated creepy little motherfucker. however, the original post was inspired by me looking at mtg stuff on shop goodwill and seeing a funko pop of jace belaran (normal ass white dude with glowing tattoos and a cape) and being like AWWW he's ugly. i want one! also the nicol bolas one, which i weirdly did genuinely like aesthetically because 1) dragon so non human rule and 2) he's an ass-ugly dragon so being extruded through the funko tube made him almost appealing. ugly-cute is fun! i like when things are a little ugly and weird. i'm also ugly and weird. and frankly, pretty garish, when you consider i have about 15 inches of backlight reactive neon green hair. i should not really be a person anyone is coming to for any aesthetic input besides 'how do i make my apartment look more like house on the rock?"

i was going to have a disclaimer about like. capitalism bad, but like. what am i doing? funko pops are the ur-example of 21st century capitalist consumption and trash art. they're bad. you do not, on any level, gotta hand it to em.

but it's still an art, still something a craftsperson did, and a medium i can appreciate on it's own level. i remember when the steven universe pops came out and steven's hair had a rose pattern in it, which was such an interesting way to weave in something deeper to this 3d representation of a 2d drawing.

i feel like my most cancellable trait is not hating funko pops