#I need a mini Claudie

[lunarhobbits]

using the tiermakers made by @americangirlstar and coming up with some interesting metrics for how the girls' collections are distributed. Samantha has the biggest one, despite currently being cubed (T_T), with Molly as a close second, partially due to all the reprints and re-releases she's had. Poor Claudie has the smallest collection by far.

even MORE info/observations under the cut:

i accidentally put caroline's cow under outfits instead of accessories, o o p s

Rebecca's last category is supposed to say "Somehow both clothes and furniture/accessories" - Rebecca's Costume Chest and Rebecca's School Play Set were both available at one point or another with the furniture/accessories as separate components and at a different point bundled together like in the pictures, and her Seashore Set always came with the chair.

NOT adjusted for reprints, re-releases, revamps that change the accessories (i.e. Addy's Kite-Flying Outfit/Flower-Picking Outfit aka Dress and Bouquet/Blue Dress, which are all the same dress but with different accessories) or adjustments under the same name (i.e. the four variations of Molly's dog Bennett)

best friends and their collections are grouped with the main historicals

some of these were kind of hard to determine what was "furniture" vs "accessories", so my general rule of thumb was:

Dolls: if what you purchased would include the doll itself, as well as mini dolls

Outfits: clothes for the doll - had to be composed of at least either a full body outfit OR shirt/pants - shoes/socks/hats/ribbons/etc that came with them are included

Accessories: shoes/socks/hats/ribbons/etc that needed to be purchased SEPARATELY from the doll or an outfit (i.e. Samantha's Elegant Hat and Muff was sold separately from her Plaid Cape and Gaiters despite always being pictured together) OR small handheld items, such as dolls for the dolls and other toys OR pets, as they're clearly meant to compliment the collection.

Furniture: obviously things like tables and chairs, but also big items like trunks or playsets, and small items, like table settings. basically if it could qualify as a household furnishing, it would go here.

Girls + Misc: Clothes or other accessories, life-sized edition.

Books + Misc: books, puzzles, games, you name it, as long as it's printed and for humans to use

??????: stuff that didn't fit anywhere OR i couldn't tell what it was

I couldn't decide where some items belonged - the horses are big and expensive enough that they should qualify as furniture, but theyre yknow. animals. which were all going in accessories otherwise, since they're clearly part of a collection complementing the doll and not just a standalone item.

The funniest case of this is probably Felicty's sister Polly, who could reasonably be categorized as either of those (comes with cradle, which is household furnishings; is clearly meant to compliment Felicity's collection, like the pets) OR a doll (cause she. is one.)

[mintyasphodel]

alright, so. american girl order.... ohoho. i ordered the silly hannukah sweater because i love it So much and i’d cry if it went away forever and i missed it haha. i also picked up the witch costume for the same reason, and... 🥁 corrine! so i can reqig her and make her my mini me haha. her outfit is.... okay. i don’t love how thin the sweater dress is, but that’s okay. i wonder if her meet outfit would be good to sell on ebay or something? i have no problems keeping it, but i probably wouldn’t use it, and i’d rather someone who loves it, have it. than it take up space in my crowded storage lol. but i love her face!!! it looks So similar to mine, i might cry when she gets here haha. her eyebrows match mine exactly, i’ve never seen that before and i got really excited. i think i’ll keep her wig on until i get the right one (haven’t ordered it yet) just to chill with her.... and my ends are dyed right now, lol. it’s green, not teal, but i was torn between them and desperately wanted to dye my hair with koolaid as a teen (remember when that was huge?)

i’ve been wanting to sew and knit for AG dolls, but i only have lindsey right now and i am just... in love with her outfit. it’s so cute. i would have loved getting her when she first came out. so i haven’t changed it yet, haha. i still need to see how much i can restore her wig, take some micromesh to her face shines, and tighten her limbs, but i don’t have any tools i need for anything. oopsies. 

i have a whole list of AG stuff i want to get from the store! i’ve never been in person, and it’ll probably be a few years until i’m able to go, so online ordering for me right now. i can’t wait to get claudie and sew period fashions for her, like that tea/play dress i reblogged a while ago (still so captivated by that! i hope to make something even half as cute!)

i can’t wait to make doll clothes aha, it’s my favorite thing to do. i also really want to sew the pomegranate outfit from the rosh hashanah ideas zoominag made about a month ago now. there’s a huge joann fabrics maybe 30 minutes from me and they had a large selection of fun prints, including fruits! i’m hopeful to find a cute pomegranate print the next time i go. i also have a skein of ravelry red sock yarn from malabrigo that i might try and make a cardigan with, but we’ll see when it comes in. 

i’ll probably make another post about it, but i’m stuck on a name for my mini me (not keeping corrine). i would give her my name, but mine is.... incredibly recognizable. i don’t feel comfortable putting it on tumblr or reddit, lol. something to research, i guess!

[whenimgoodandready]

Let’s hear it for the moms of “Miraculous Ladybug”! (cheers and applause). We have Marlena Césaire, the head chef of the restaurant in Le Grand Paris with four amazing daughters (“Rogercop”), Claudie Kanté, conductor of the high tech state of the art submarine traveling Startrain and now astronaut (“Startrain”), Tomoe Tsurgi, a no-nonsense and regal like fencer who doesn’t let her disability get in the way of anything (“Ikari Gozen”), Nadia Chamack, news anchorperson and talk show host (“Prime Queen”), Anarka Couffaine, a modern day pirate lady who takes charge like the captain she is (“Captain Hardrock”), Gina Dupain, badass globetrotting biker babe (“Befana”), Emilie Agreste, the “loving and caring” matriarch of the Agrestes and (I’m adding these ladies cuz I’m sure they have fans) there’s also Amelie Graham de Vanily, who may have questionable morals, but is still sweet and appreciative to her son (“Felix”) and finally, Audrey Bourgeois, who’s trying to learn to be a better mom and with style! (“Queens Battle Part 2:Queen Wasp”). They’re all so amazing! Let’s see how the miraculous mother herself is doing:

*Qilin-What do know about Sabine? Well, she’s kind and helpful, she runs the bakery with her husband and seems to know kung fu too! (“Troublemaker”). Here’s another thing she does! Every morning, she wakes up, does a little feng shui, some qigong and prepares for whatever disaster Marinette might fall into (the last one obviously grew with time and became routine). Yup! She’s well organized and graceful very polar opposite to her forgetful and klutzy daughter, but hey, Marinettes the guardian now and life’s tougher on her than it was before.

To show her gratitude for all she’s done, Marinette takes her mother to lunch for a Mothers Day outing and during a bus ride, we see that Sabine as well has a certain “vision” when it comes to solving problems and that she too doesn’t stand idly by letting injustice happen. Like mother, like daughter. Marinette realizes she forgot a gift for Mothers Day, so she lies saying she needs money to buy a magazine for a presentation she’s working on, Sabine gives her her purse and she gets off the bus to buy some flowers (cheaply, with her own mothers money😒) and misses the bus when it leaves without her. Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!

As Sabine gets off the bus, she’s stopped by a (strongly implied to be) racist ticket inspector who rudely confronts her about not having a bus ticket or any identification cuz Marinette took her purse with all of that inside and takes her to Lt.Roger. Although, Sabine tries to reason both ways with Roger by reminding him that she’s an honorable woman and to just wait for Marinette with her purse as evidence that she in fact did have a bus ticket, he’s too by-the-book to listen and the a**hole ticket inspector guy manipulates him to just arrest her when she starts resisting authority and he does so by handcuffing her. Sabine gets upset and is akumatized as Qilin, a Chinese mythological dragon lady with telekinesis and air powers. All while still handcuffed! I was wondering what being a dragon had to do with the injustice that was going on with Sabine and it turns out that one of the things it represents is “protection” like how Qilin was trying to protect herself from all the police, S.W.A.T. team and military that were coming at her using her wind powers like how they’re said to sound like. Interesting, it doesn’t have much of the feel of trying to stand for justice as Sabine was trying to do, I was hoping for a fully akumatized Verity Queen (“Ladybug”), but I guess since the idea behind the hostility of the situation was all implied to be about racism, so I guess it works that she’s akumatized as something representing it. Oh well, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Bomb #20, we get to know a little bit more about Sabine Cheng! From the Shanghai special, we got a mini backstory on Sabine and how she has a sister, a pet parrot (that Chef Cheng keeps with him), immigrated to Paris and had to change her name (Xia Bing) and now, we see she does other things aside from running the bakery, she also teaches a community Chinese art class! (where a certain lying little fox is one of the students). Nice to see how we’re expanding on the characters for the show and I’d like to see more. Especially the parents of Marinettes classmates of those that we still have yet to see. The big issue with this ep. was the whole racism that was the ticket inspector guy. Fans didn’t like that this didn’t directly voice the topic at hand and just used a visual for it cuz I believe this was because it’s a children’s programming show where it’d be too controversial for this to be addressed, but given what we already saw in the show, such as abusive parenting, depression and the “No means No” stunt we saw (“Felix”), why shouldn’t we just lampshade what’s going on already!? The kids who were watching this since the beginning would obviously be getting older to notice these kinds of things in the world and even the tweens will mature to wake up to this kind of “after school special” type of episode that’s goin’ on in the real world! Also, the way the a**hole ticket inspector guy and Roger handling the situation was done terribly too. The ticket guy was way too eager to have Sabine arrested showing what a sadist he is and abusing his authority by falsely making her look bad in front Roger and didn’t even apologize after everything was cleared up! With Roger, we’ve seen him do a lot of screw ups on the force, but this takes the cake! He believed a racist prick over a decent woman and was trying to make himself look like he’s in charge which just made things worse! Even not listening to Ladybug when even she tried to reason him and had no choice, but for her to use force on him to save the day. Not to mention nobody on the bus even vouched for Sabine when she was being arrested like the bus driver who happily ate her snacks she gave him and was a witness to her and Marinette getting on the bus with tickets and seeing Marinette get off or the handicapped guy she rightfully gave his spot to when an a**hole was in his zone and wouldn’t move! WTF!? The only good thing to come out of this ep was Sabine breaking free from her akumatization, like Alya and Nino did, cuz she’s a hard believer in justice when Ladybug promised to free her from the handcuffs she’s been begging to get off this whole time in exchange for stopping all this villainy and she agreed and thus didn’t need to stay akumatized. Goes to show Shadow Moth isn’t as strong as he thought he was and why we’ll be seeing a new butterfly holder in the future.

[coille-sunmane]

THE OLD MEMES

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Relationship Status: In a long term relationship with @shoujax11 Favorite Color: Basically any green, though I really like Forest Green and other dark shades Three Favorite Foods: Mac & Cheese, Baked Beans, and Hot Dogs. I don't feel super strongly about food, so these are what I've been enjoying recently. Song Stuck in my Head: Kainé (Final Fantasy Main Theme Version), fell in love with this when I heard it Last Song I Listened To: Kainé (Final Fantasy Main Theme Version) Last Thing I Googled: unlocking copied factory ffxiv - Was helping a friend unlock cap level content on Final Fantasy XIV Time: 11:30 Eastern Standard Time, I need to be in bed Dream Trip: Hard call between Japan or Scotland. I've technically been to Scotland, but it was part of a tour group, I would love to go and just stay for a bit, and have the freedom to travel where we wanted. Anything I really Want: To be able to live comfortably, or more likely to happen Warhammer minis and getting my FFXIV jobs to 80 Last Show: Some episode in the middle of season 1 of Bojack Horseman Last Movie: Feels Good Man on Amazon Prime Tea or Coffee: Coffee, Medium Roast with a healthy amount of sugar and this M&M creamer I found and have been enjoying. Currently Reading: I am very slowly making my way through City of Strife by Claudie Arseneault. I keep forgetting where I am and having to find it, but that's not the book's fault, it's mine for not making time to read it. I actually have been enjoying it so far as I've read. Currently Watching: I've recently finished watching a full playthrough of Drakengard, and am currently watching one for Drakenguard 3. Just familiarizing myself with them in preperation for finishing NieR Automata and starting the new remaster for NieR Replicant. Sweet, Spicy, or Savory: I prefer sweet or savory. I don't like spicy stuff, and can't handle much heat in general. I'll tag @ntera @shenanigansintime @tigernach575 @shoujax11 @pewterkat @frozenifection and anyone else who follows me who wants to give it a go, but no pressure to anyone if you don't want to of course

[mydollsaregay]

I overall like the redesign! I like the move to make each doll in the line more distinct from each other.

I also think the increased colorful hair options make a lot of sense - I know there’s a lot of adult collectors who don’t like the colorful hair dolls, but I think they’re cute, and kids (the actual target audience) ADORE them. it makes a lot of sense to center that aspect a bit more. (Though I’m very glad there’s a mix of colorful and natural hair colors)

I don’t hate the lashes, but they’re not my favorite in execution. I think the lashes look wonderful on all the WBU dolls, and I don’t know what’s changed where it seems hit or miss how they look on other dolls. Has the lash design changed since WBU??? I would also have personally loved to see some variation in terms of lashes - it seems like since the dolls are so distinct from one another, having only some dolls with lashes would have added to that. However, I would bet that AG did think of that, and probably did focus testing and found that their target audience (which are, again, kiddos) prefer the dolls with lashes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I love the idea of multiple meet outfits, I think it’s super fun, even if I personally dislike some of them. I also LOVE that the dolls come with a cute activity book.

My first actual gripe with the redesign is the overabundance of light eyes. Brown eyes are beautiful, and most kids have em!

Additionally, as many of the dolls have moved away from the more down to earth “lookalike” style dolls and now come across as more like cool characters with the funky hair (and even the light eyes, though I’ve expressed my displeasure with that), I’m not sure the branding of “truly me” really fits super well anymore. I’m honestly really surprised they didn’t rename the line with the redesign, but I think it would still make sense to do so. Moving instead back towards something like “girl of today” (though there’s boys now so they might need something different) would make a lot more sense for this new line. I expect most kids won’t be picking out a mini-me from this lineup when they have all the super cool hair options (when I was a kid, the only jly I got looked nothing like me - I just thought she was pretty! So I certainly get it). I saw a post by @lesbiansamanthaparkington about this part of it earlier which clued me into this issue with the line.

Finally, my biggest issue with the line has nothing to do with the actual dolls, but with the timing. I think it’s totally unacceptable that AG released the redesign right after Claudie, totally overshadowing her. I mean, she didn’t even get the cover of the magazine for goodness sakes! It feels like they didn’t promote her on purpose, which I hate. I’ll bet the profit margins on the TM line is higher but like. That’s a dumb excuse. It leaves a really sour taste in my mouth for the whole redesign as a result, which totally killed the joy for me of seeing all the new dolls :/

What are people’s thoughts on the new Truly Me dolls and redesign? Genuinely curious! I reallllly love a lot of the new dolls I think some of them are beautiful and I love that many of the new face molds were included, but some of them are a big miss for me and one of the outfits is sooooooooooo hideous. I do really like most of the outfits though and I think it’s fun that there’s multiple outfits.

[famousenthusiastcollectionb-blog]

Methods sexy mini dress to dress just like a French girl this wintertime

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