#belville

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Belville

OC belongs to @murmurlilies Happy Birthday!

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Lego Belville (1998-2007)

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from the lego catalog

[murmurlilies]

PERIMETER BREACH

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Lego Belville Dolls Commercial (1994)

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finally retrieved my old lego collection from my mom's house! looking through it today, i found a belville set that had originally belonged to my sister, and i'm realizing how much i missed out by never getting into belville. when i was a kid i first came across the belville theme on the lego website where it was cordoned off (along with the scala theme) in a special "girls" section of the site - with the clear implication that all the other lego themes weren't for girls. tiny proto-feminist annie did not like that one bit, and refused on principle to engage with a theme that had such sexist marketing. (i was equally pissed when bionicle won an award for "best boy toy", but i figured that, since that was coming from an external party, and the lego company wasn't deliberately advertising bionicle as being only for boys, it was still politically acceptable for me to play with bionicles. besides, i had major gender envy for gali.)

anyway, belville is like a fairytale princess sort of theme, and it's adorable?? it's got like, giant flowers with lanterns strung between them, and snaills delivering the mail, and just all around cute cottagecore vibes. i'm pretty sure i would have loved it when i was a kid, if it hadn't been for the sexist marketing. i know it was a theme that was designed to primarily appeal to girls, but they could have just let it speak for itself as a whimsical fantasy theme and find its audience that way, instead of beating you over the head with Gender Roles. truly the 90s and 00s were a dark time.

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Since my nieces are 7 and almost 6 I think I'm finally ready to let them play with my precious childhood lego sets

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Welcome to Ra's new bachelor pad! He's finally living on his own for the first time :)

This house is called The Belville & can be downloaded here by Fakehousesrealawesome

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I bought LEGO part 45024pb01c01 lol

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I have never really played MMOs in the past, my only experience is with ESO and black desert online(I'm not gonna count destiny)

But I did grow up with a ps1 despite how young I am.

I know the game is supposedly more inspired by ps2 era games, but I remember those as being more detailed than atlyss. But it just kinda has the same dreamlike feel as n64 and especially ps1 games.

it's something about the low detail and fog that just feels like trying to remember a dream.

At first glance everything seems perfectly normal, but when you look closer and think a bit more about everything. It's just not quite like reality.

And I just love that vibe. It's why I still think the original spyro games look better than the remasters and why I think sm64 is still one of the best 3d mario games even without having grown up with the game.

I imagine it's quite easy to end up with things feeling frustrating and like those dreams where you mostly just wanna wake up and stop having them.

But atlyss hits the mark of being like one of those dreams you wake up from in the middle of the night and just wanting to fall back asleep to keep on dreaming

I love atlyss so much.

I have said it before and I'll say it again. I am not a furry. So normally games like atlyss stay kinda off my radar.

But like, booba. I also heard the gameplay was great, so I figured I'd give it a go.

ANd just, the gameplay, the visuals, the sounds. It's all so wonderful.

The gameplay is snappy as satisfying, the artstyle is delightful to look at even if you don't care about big boobs and fat asses.

The game plays it's low poly style to its strengths. Everything is as detailed as it needs to be and the OST of the game plays into the sort of dream-like atmosphere the rough textures and low poly end up producing.

And it just fits the lore of the world. The world is surreal and supposed to be somewhat beyond reality.

I can't believe I came just to be able to play as a wide hipped animal girl, and I stayed because hopw incredibly loveable the world kissef is making has turned out.

here is the soundtrack on youtube btw

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Telecommunications building, Belville, Cape Town

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when I was a kid I had a ton of these legos from the belville line supplemented with regular legos

these were just perfect for me. good combination of doll play and building play. there were enough buildable parts to customize but it had more of a dollhouse feel. the figures had great articulation and a small amount of dressup potential with different skirts and accessories. as I was growing up they switched to less articulated figures and less buildable environments and then discontinued the line :(

but I'm looking at the current line of Girl Legos and they actually look really good

it gives me that same vibe of "build your own dollhouse"

[murmurlilies]

meanwhile, in another universe...

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I can't believe how STUPID some people are girls Lego is NOT something modern. Lego Scala Lego Barbie dolls 90s, Lego paradisa girls lego Lego Belville YOU ARE ALL IDIOTS IF YOU THINK LEGO FRIENDS IS SEXIST. IT JUST DISAPPEARED AFTER THE 90s AND HAD AN UNEXPECTED RETURN LEGO FRIENDS. STUPID STUPID STUPID PEOPLE I'M DOING THIS IN CAPSLOCK BECAUSE YOU ARE ALL IGNORANT STUPID.

 

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February 17th 1796 saw the death of poet James MacPherson.

MacPherson is mainly known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems, he was born at Ruthven in the parish of Kingussie, Badenoch, Inverness-shire and educated at King's College, Aberdeen.

Macpherson presented the Ossian poems as authentic translations of an original oral work by a legendary Gaelic bard, Ossian. They turned out to be hugely influential -inspiring artists, composers and writers. The poems evoked a coherent, mythic world, equivalent to the classical legends and characters of Homer. However, controversy soon followed, with detractors claiming that Macpherson had written the works himself. It is now believed he used existing Gaelic ballads, adding themes and references from other sources.

His first book of poems, The Highlander in 1758, was no a success but after collecting Gaelic manuscripts and having orally transmitted Gaelic poems transcribed with the encouragement of the poet John Home and the financial support of Edinburgh Minister and author he published the English-language text "Fragments of ancient poetry", collected in the Highlands of Scotland. The next year he started publishing the Ossian poems.

So who was Ossian? He was a legendary Irish Bard who is said to be the son of Finn or Fionn mac Cumhaill, anglicised to Finn McCool.

Macphersons poems were a massive success, admirers and people who took inspiration are like a who's who, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth, Napoleon and Diderot were great admirers, and Voltaire wrote parodies of them. Thomas Jefferson thought Ossian "the greatest Poet that has ever existed"

In his later years he bought an estate, to which he gave the name Belville or Balavil, in his native Inverness-shire, where he died at the age of 59. Macpherson's remains were carried from Scotland to Westminster Abbey.

Whether or not The Ossian poems were genuine or not we will never know but they are hailed as classics in their own right.