#american girl limited edition

[haveamagicalday]

Duel of the American Girl Dolls: Collectors (Round 3)

This is a poll in the Duel of the American Girl Dolls. Other polls can be found here

[desertdollranch]

American Girl® 2024 Pink Stardust Holiday Collector Doll

A dazzling tribute to dreamy pink hues, this collector doll is a captivating display of rosy radiance with a celestial headband, sparkling satin-and-organza gown, and more than 200 Swarovski® crystals. The limited-edition American Girl® 2024 holiday collector doll is perfectly poised for a celebration as the latest 18-inch doll in the American Girl® Collector Series. No more than 13,000 American Girl® 2024 Pink Stardust Holiday Collector Dolls have been created worldwide.

[kylejsugarman]

i feel bad for being automatically prejudiced against new outfits that julie gets post-beforever transition because she was the only historical i ever had, but i just still don't like her new outfits 😭 the school outfit has some cute pieces but i don't understand why all of her outfits now need to have sandals and the rollerskating outfit just doesnt have the charm, quality, or authenticity of her og rollerskating outfit (the terrycloth!! i miss the terrycloth!!)

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

A CONJURING RIGHT OUT OF YOUR GRANDPARENTS' UNDERGROUND COMIX COLLECTION.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a Robert Crumb "Mr. Natural Conjures the Devil Girl" Limited Edition Print #59/210 (Wildwood, 2003, also titled "Profane Tales of That Old Mystic Madcap" (No Minors Allowed). 

EXTRA INFO: The image was originally used as the cover for the 1995 Fantagraphic collection titled "The Book of Mr. Natural."

Source: https://comics.ha.com/itm/a/121810-12836.s (Heritage Auctions -- Comics, Comic Art, & Animation).

[jadenvargen]

free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources

**edit

James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.

---NOVELS---

Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."

Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."

+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)

Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."

Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."

If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."

also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins

Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. 

---ESSAYS---

Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film

--DOCUMENTARIES--

Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.

Meeting the man

--DEBATES:--

Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )

Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )

Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)

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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.

[spicymancer]

Does Madison's design and character owe anything in particular to Karin Kanzuki?

This one is a big Yes And! Madison's character and archetype is deeply inspired by every Classic Fighting Game Ojousama, Young Lady who Kicks your Ass rich girl, including but not limited to Karin Kanzuki (Street Fighter), Ingrid (Capcom Fighting Evolution), and Lili Rochefort (Tekken)

Her command normal "Witte Wieven Sweep" is a specific reference to the common low-kick pose that these characters are often given. But also it references a Dutch mythological spirit. (Also as the name Rembrandt implies, she's American Dutch!)

So yeah! Thank you for the question! I love Fighting Games and Rumble After Dark is sort of my own personal love letter to the genre.

EDIT: updated the explanation to clarify, I am aware Rembrandt is traditionally a given name and the name Madison isn't Dutch at all! She's an American rich girl with Dutch ancestry!

[em-ontv]

Hii, I was wondering if you could write something for Soldier Boy? Just something where he’s down bad and obsessed with the reader? Love your writing, thank you 😭

Honestly, thank you for this, I needed it to feed into my Soldier Boy delusions. Here you go, anon! Hope you like it <3

Guilty pleasure.

Pairing: Soldier Boy x fem!supe!reader

Warnings: vulgar language/cursing, obsessive behavior, Ben is really down bad, no use of y/n, English is not my first language, mistakes should be present, apologies beforehand :)

Word count: 439

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Ben was the fucking Soldier Boy, the All-American hero, the one-man army who could singlehandedly fight a whole battalion. He had the whole country eating out of the palm of his hand. But he had a secret — a guilty pleasure, if you will. And it was you.

You were more than just a supe. You were a sensation, neatly crafted by Vought to be the perfect girl. The kind that made men weak in the knees.

And Ben was no different.

Yeah, you had no fucking clue, but he had a serious crush on you. He was your biggest fucking fan, and he felt pathetic about it — Soldier Boy didn't do crushes, but here he was.

He had stacks and stacks of magazines of you, posters hung up on the walls of his room, and even some rare, limited-edition shit that he paid top dollar for. He'd never admit it, but he had spent countless hours staring at printed images of your face, tearing his way through Supe Weekly to find you in there. It was ridiculous, and he knew it, but that didn't stop him from acting like a totally obsessed fanboy every time he saw your face anywhere he walked.

America's hardest badass — hoarding fan memorabilia like a fucking teenager — what a joke. And he'd be damned if one of his teammates from Payback ever found out about his little obsession with you, he'd never be able to live it down, but he’d probably punch their skulls in.

So when the word came down that Payback had a working opportunity with you, Ben almost lost his shit. He'd practically jumped out of his chair when the news hit. But he wanted to keep it cool — be the stoic leader who didn't bat an eye at you. But inside? He was thrilled. A chance to meet you, to work alongside you? It was like someone had handed him Christmas on a silver platter.

When the day finally came, Ben stood in front of the mirror in his quarters, checking his reflection for the twentieth time. The thought of embarrassing himself in front of you made his stomach twist.

And the conference room.

He was fighting the urge to just bolt for the door. And then you walked in. Holy shit, you were even better in person. It made his brain short-circuit when you walked directly to him.

"Soldier Boy," you greeted, your voice smooth. "Been looking forward to this."

When Ben opened his mouth to speak, nearly no sound came out except for a voice crack. And it was at this moment that he knew. He was fucked.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Do you have a list of good sex ed books to read?

BOY DO I

please bear in mind that some of these books are a little old (10+ years) by research standards now, and that even the newer ones are all flawed in some way. the thing about research on human beings, and especially research on something as nebulous and huge as sex, is that people are Always going to miss something or fail to account for every possible experience, and that's just something that we have to accept in good faith. I think all of these books have something interesting to say, but that doesn't mean any of them are the only book you'll ever need.

related to that: it's been A While since I've read some of these so sorry if anything in them has aged poorly (I don't THINK SO but like, I was not as discerning a reader when I was 19) but I am still including them as books that have been important to my personal journey as a sex educator.

additionally, a caveat that very few of these books are, like, instructional sex ed books in the sense of like "here's how the penis works, here's where the clit is, etc." those books exist and they're great but they're also not very interesting to me; my studies on sex are much more in the social aspect (shout out to my sociology degree) and the way people learn to think about sex and societal factors that shape those trends. these books reflect that. I would genuinely love to have the time to check out some 101 books to see how they fare, but alas - sex ed is not my day job and I don't have the time to dedicate to that, so it happens slowly when it happens at all. I've been meaning to read Dr. Gunter's Vagina Bible since it came out in 2019, for fucks sake.

and finally an acknowledgement that this is a fairly white list, which has as much to do with biases with academia and publishing as my own unchecked biases especially early in my academic career and the limitations of my university library.

ANYWAY here's some books about sex that have been influential/informative to me in one way or another:

The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (Michael Warner, 1999)

Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences (Laura M. Carpenter, 2005)

Virgin: The Untouched History (Hanne Blank, 2007)

Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education Before the 1960s (Susan K. Freeman, 2008)

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Mary Roach, 2008)

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution (Revised Edition) (Susan Stryker, 2008)

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women (Jessica Valenti, 2009)

Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex (Amy T. Schalet, 2011)

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (Hanne Blank, 2012)

Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships (Meg-John Barker, 2013)

The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Realities (Rachel Hills, 2015)

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Tranform Your Sex Life (Emily Nagoski, 2015)

Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men (Jane Ward, 2015)

Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education (Jonathan Zimmerman, 2015)

American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus (Lisa Wade, 2017)

Histories of the Transgender Child (Jules Gill-Peterson, 2018)

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights (Juno Mac and Molly Smith, 2018)

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Angela Chen, 2020)

Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (Kim Gallon, 2020)

A Curious History of Sex (Kate Lister, 2020)

Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity (Peggy Orenstein, 2020)

Black Women, Black Love: America's War on Africa American Marriage (Dianne M. Stewart, 2020)

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality (Jane Ward, 2020)

Hurts So Good: The Science and Pleasure of Pain on Purpose (Leigh Cowart, 2021)

Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs (Ina Park, 2021)

The Right to Sex: Feminist in the Twenty-First Century (Amia Srinivasan, 2021)

Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles (Eric C. Wat, 2021)

Superfreaks: Kink, Pleasure, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Arielle Greenberg, 2023)

[haveamagicalday]

Duel of the American Girl Dolls: Collector Dolls (Round 1)

This is a poll in the Duel of the American Girl Dolls. Other polls can be found here

[desertdollranch]

The holiday limited edition dolls are starting to drop, exclusively for Berry rewards members! There will be more after the first one.

[lschmidtartblog]

In a little art rut and not feeling super motivated so it's a perfect time for me to return to the basics and draw very self-indulgent American Girl art. This time, Samantha Parkington's extra/limited edition outfits

[historicalfictionsims]

Clara and the Nutcracker Prince - BGC

This one goes out to @theroyalthornoliachronicles for our mutual venting sessions. Happy holidays, Ali!

Inspired by American Girl's 2019 limited edition Nutcracker costumes. Clara's dress doesn't really fall into any one decade, but can be flexible. The Nutcracker Prince outfit is perfect for Victorian-era costume balls.

The hat works without the slider. If I'd had more time I might have added a chin strap, but it just wasn't happening.

The prince outfit is full body and will override shoes.

The transparent parts of the dress are not compatible with laptop mode. It will not work with accessories in the tights/leggings category, but will work with accessories in the socks category.

All items in my Combined Diary palette.

Download for free on SFS | Patreon

Download for free on CurseForge: Clara | Prince Outfit | Hat

Support me on Patreon or buy me a coffee?

Feel free to tag me if you use them, I'd love to see! My TOU are here.

@mmoutfitters @twentiethcenturysims

[doll-princesse]

I saw this on instagram and thought it was a customized doll by someone, but no. It’s a real American girl doll brand collectors limited edition doll.

[americangirlstar]

alright i got updated truly me tiermakers for y'all but i THINK the first one might be glitching. lmk if the actual tiermaker isnt showing up on the first one

[jovaline]

✨ I’ll have a new 26 page mini comic at NYCC this year! JUST A SPELL is a love letter to magical girls, witches, Filipiniana, and art-making, among other things. 💖 Edited & colored by @artofchira, lettered by Joamette Gil, and written and drawn by me~ I’ve been working on this project forever and I’m super pleased to share this excerpt of it with you during both witchy season AND Filipino American History Month~ Limited amount of stock on Thursday with more available over the weekend. 💖 Also!! There’s also a super fun bonus related to this that I’ll post more about in a bit! 👀✨

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

American Girl Doll Limited Edition Catalogue (omg I LOVE Coconut! One of the cutest toy dogs I've seen!)

Holiday 2003

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