#just curl the wig

[all-da-ladies-luv-nico]

it’s not because you can’t pull off blonde hair. it’s because that wig looks like someone at party city thought “annoying karen” would make for a really funny halloween costume

[portsandstars]

AAAAA IM SO HAPPY I FINISHED IT TODAY!!

[strwbrryvagabond]

wanted to get on here and yap about American Girl for some reason today

I'm far from a brand loyalist, and honestly, I was shocked I didn't grow up with the off-brand dolls you could get at Walmart or Target since I grew up poor until recently when my mom informed me that I would save money up for months and months at a time so that I could buy the dolls, and my parents only even actually purchased one for my birthday once we started to do a bit better financially, and after they saw how much I loved and took care of the dolls

I bought accessories for them myself as well, both from the actual company and from other brands like Target and Walmart ones, and even paid my mom to order me a bunk bed for them off of Etsy or something because I was so distraught that they didn't all have their own beds.

Anyways, I know brands are bad and stuff, and American Girl is not without faults and controversies, but tbh those dolls really shaped me as a kid, like I intentionally bought Rebecca Rubin as my first doll when I was a kid after seeing her in a catalog that we got sent by mistake because she was Jewish and looked like me. I had never seen a doll or character, or pretty much anything at that age who was Jewish like me and looked like me, and she wanted to be an actress, and at the time, I also wanted to act

I took that doll very literally everywhere, half the pictures of me from that age, she's tucked under my arm in a different outfit, her hair as well taken care of as I could manage for being so little. I accidentally messed up one of her curls while trying to fix her hair, and I cried for like a solid half an hour until my mom helped me fix it. even after I got other dolls, all of which I still loved and took care of religiously, Rebecca was the one who came everywhere with me

I'd already been a big reader before that, which is a whole other post, but I devoured those books, and I totally blame them for my current love of learning history and historical fiction. and the different dolls were all depicted as activists and feminists, and do not get me wrong here (I say on the 'taking things out of context' website) they were far from perfect with their diversity and activism, like oh jeez they did some very questionable things sometimes, but for the early 2000s and 2010s? revolutionary

the store closest to me closed a little before my birthday last year. I didn't know that it was even happening, and honestly probably still wouldn't have known if I hadn't been shopping with my friends at that mall like two weeks before my birthday since that was the only day we could all make work. Despite not having touched my dolls in a while, everything was super on sale, and I had been planning on taking Rebecca to college with me, so I figured I might buy her an outfit or something.

while the store was pretty ransacked, I was shocked and, no joke, teary-eyed over how many things they had for different cultures, different religions, and how many little girls I saw in there with big starry eyes looking at a doll that looked like them

I ended up buying a Channukkah outfit, and one of the friends I was with convinced me to, against my nature, let them buy a Lunar New Year outfit for me as well, which almost made me cry again. What really did it was seeing one of the previous Girls of the Year, Corrine Tan. Oh my gosh if they had had her when I was a little girl, she would've gone right beside Rebecca with how obsessed I was with her. I don't think I've mentioned it here before, but as a kid, I LOVED Mulan, and when I went to Disney World and the dress up boutique they had, I was DEVASTATED that they didn't have a Mulan costume. I latched onto her so hard for a very similar reason that I latched onto Rebecca so hard; because even though she wasn't the same ethnicity as me, Mulan was Asian, and so am I. I wore out I think three burned copies of that movie I watched it so often

I'm just weirdly sadder than I expected that American Girl is closing so many stores and not making as many sales I guess. I'm really fighting being a brand loyalist right now, because there are about a million other brands that make super similar dolls that I'm sure little kids all over loved, it's just always stuck with me that they at least seem to care about representation in the stories they make for these dolls

I mean, it clearly impacted me growing up, and I think it was for the better. I remember reading Addy's book being one of the first times I was exposed to the idea of children being slaves because they obviously didn't talk about that in an elementary school in the 2010s. I really just wanted to get all of my thoughts out, I've been thinking about it a lot recently since I took Rebecca to college, and I've now been hearing stories from girls who see her in my room about what doll or what toy shaped them as a child. Very excited to dress her up for Channukkah when it comes around, and tbh I've been looking for more outfits for her online. I just want her to be something I take with me throughout my life I guess. I mean, I took her everywhere when I was little, so it kinda feels wrong not to take her with me on this super big part of my life.

yeah anyways uh, if you had one of these dolls go... idk kiss em on the forehead or something. remind the toys that shaped you that you love them for what they did for you and all that. yap session over

[crplpunkklavier]

enough holmes adaptations there needs to be a herlock sholmes adaptation where some sexy french guy (honestly? omar sy again) plays lupin but whoever plays sholmes is constantly dressed in really obvious and terrible b cumberbatch cosplay, doing a bad accent and everything. wilson can just be played by martin freeman again since hes gonna break his arm 5 minutes in and then disappear for the remainder of the show

[widevibratobitch]

Since we're both as unwell about him as we are I consider you to be someone who knows a fair amount and what do you genuinely think the real James Fitzjames would feel if he saw the Terror's depiction of him? (As in watching the whole show)

HUH good question. first of all i think he'd be a little discombobulated by the very experience of watching a tv show but personally i choose to believe he'd at least be happy he was made into one of the main characters?? and that so many cool and sexy insane people are obsessed with him now <3

having said that. as much as i love show!fitzjames they did nerf him down A LOT. they robbed him of the joyous whimsy that was such a characteristic trait of the real jokester supreme fitzjames (show!fitzjames also has little to no relationship with his irl lieutenant buddies which. sad.)

we also know now that. most probably. he was actually fully english so i can only imagine he'd be Not Pleased about the cairn scene to say it lightly lmao imagine you and your adoptive family making significant efforts throughout your whole life to disguise the fact of your illegitimate birth and then 150 years later some people make a high rating show where they babygirlify you not only spill your secret to the millions of people watching (or secrets, plural, and make you call yourself a fake as a cherry on top lol) but they also get it wrong and make it Even Worse (from a victorian englishman's perspective) like stop guys he's already dead lmfao

having said that. he would have loved the britannia costume and the your nails are a terror line. i know he would.

[rorschachdanmaku]

» mentions of otherkin intolerance cw

I got my wig today

I finally look like myself

Soon enough I will take a photo of me wearing my old clothes. Some would call it cosplay, I'd call it my usual normal clothes that i was meant to wear since the beginning or something stupid like that

I missed all my classes last week but today I'm going back to uni. My friends must be mad at me, I left them in the middle of our group assignment. Last time, one of my classmates tried kicking me out of our group because I was nonverbal for a bit, but my dear buddy helped me keep my spot

She doesn't like otherkin unfortunately. Sometimes I feel like expressing this sense of terrible dysphoria to her but she'll never ever understand. I only met one person in real life who ended up coming out as fictionkin of a character she used to be obsessed with. But my parents don't let me hang out with her anymore. So I'm forced to hang out with people who probably would call me a weirdo for all of this fictionkin stuff

I do have online friends who know about it, but they're all not into this stuff either. They just tolerate it coming from me because they were my friends before i came out about it. I have a friend who seems to be touhou fictionkin but every time i try to bring it up to them, they always avoid the question and it makes me all confused

...I think I said too much

I'm not even sure how this turned into a vent post

Anyway

I got my wig today.

I will buy my cosplay soon.

You're probably not going to ever see me in real life since I don't leave in america, but if you do spot me at cons, be gentle. Please. I'm bad at conversation

I'm not sure if anyone would ever be interested in this blog, let alone seeing the dress, but... Ah, I'm doing this for myself, am I not

And no, I'm probably not getting my third eye, I don't have enough money to buy more props

[hauntedpotat]

I bought a 40" wig and I just got it and tried it on and DAMN! THIS SHITS LONG! that's literally the point but STILL!! DAMNN

[diverbots]

I honestly agree w you on the life weaver skins like- I'm sorry I get what they were tryna do but like....I HATE THEM SJSKBAKWNWKW HE LOOKS- I DUNNOOO THEY COULDVE DONE HIM SO MUCH BETTER THERES SO MUCH TO WORK WIIIITTHHH

Yeah??? At the very least I’m thankful that they supplied him with a different looking legendary skin cause Ram and Kir’s weren’t THAT different and they just wore different clothes from their default, but like, man… Though when I sit down and think on it more, I kind of do like the skin, and my only gripe with it is the hair. It just makes me think of this video.

[lesbianraskolnikov]

I have decided to remake rodya dolls wig but now hes sadly looking at me because hes bald again. It feels like hes so real. hes so sad about it. smack his bald head

[seekingthestars]

@it-begins-with-rain replied to your post “she's beauty she's grace she's Miss Eevee Cosplay...”:

THE FLOWERS LOOK INCREDIBLE!!!! YOU DID SUCH AN AMAZING JOB!!!!!!! So obsessed with how cute the flowers turned out!

THANK YOUUUU THEY WERE SUCH A PAIN TO HAND SEW ON THERE BUT I LOVE HOW THEY LOOK fjewiaofjewa and SO happy i found these flowers to use, i was going to go for like 3D fabric flowers at one point and i don't think they would've looked as good at all!!

@it-begins-with-rain replied to your post “she's beauty she's grace she's Miss Eevee Cosplay...”:

Also, I know it's a wig, but in case you were wondering, you can pull of blonde hair REALLY WELL

it's a little more brown in person than it is in pictures but i do love this wig jfeiwoafjaw and for once i didn't have to cut it, always a good day when i don't have to cut my wigs, that gives me anxiety LOL

[clove-pinks]

I didn't have a chance to make any tumblr posts for today over the weekend because I was too busy with academic stuff, and I also went out to brunch with my in-laws. Thankfully, my father-in-law cut his hair and is no longer combing it back into a pompadour that made him look like a mobster version of Sheev Palpatine.

According to him, the breaking point was the fact that he needed to use product to achieve the Mobster Palpatine look. He thought he could "train the hair" (his words) to somehow automatically style itself that way. Boomer men really out here thinking they can change the direction of their hair follicles by yelling at them.

Granted, when I was a child I was frustrated that I couldn't get my hair to stay in the side part look of the 19th century men who were my style icons. I thought maybe it was some kind of magic gender thing but it turns out that 19th century men were also using product, a lot of it.

[snapeysister]

Should I go as Bellatrix?!

The (Jewish) Purim holiday is coming up in some 2 weeks and with it the traditional fancy dress parties. Since I've already donned my Snape fancy dress once but still am not off my Harry Potter obsession, and my hair has got some nice crazy curls lately, I was thinking about Bellatrix. I like to torture people anyway

I don't want to copy Helena Bonham Carter's movie look but on the other hand she nailed it quite well...unless there is more to Bellatrix' appearance in the books which I have missed. Anyone any ideas for a possible Bella costume? 😁💃🤯

@pet-genius @sistersblack @charlotterhea @bellatrixlestrvnge @i-will-steal-your-intestines

[bhaalsdeepbat]

multiple people asking me if i dyed my hair just for my HQ act like no babes i styled this wig. and then them being all U DIDN'T BUY IT LIKE THAT ?!

[bumblingbabooshka]

Varith cycles through a lot of looks.

[connordevianthunter]

so like

what's the android's hair made of

if it's not real hair but can be cut but the color can be changed at will?? what are these guys even made of

[the-lord-of-the-things]

I have physically been too busy to get thee to a professional haircut for the last couple months and my hair got so long that it was becoming an actual quality of life issue, so I did the thing and gave myself the bathroom haircut and it looks way better than it has any right to