#probably because I have dark hair

[kaisturntoshine]

Characters I would cosplay | Pt.1

If I had the money, space, time and most importantly...guts

|-*Sua, Alien Stage*-|

She is beauty, she is grace, she could destroy the human race. I wouldn't even need a wig since we have the same hair.

|-*Kai Satou, Kimi ga Shine*-|

Does this really surprise anyone, considering this blog? I might be a 5'4 teenage girl, but that is not going to stop me.

|-*Reko Yabusame, Kimi ga Shine*-|

Isn't she the coolest? Like, look at her!

|-*Akane Aoi, Jibaku Shonen Hanako-kun*-|

Nostalgia is hitting hard with this one (TBHK was one of the first anime I watched as a teen)

|-*(Genderbend) Ranpo Edogawa, Bungo Stray Dogs*-|

I just need the clothes, but coats are expensive...

|-*Akiko Yosano, Bungo Stray Dogs*-|

If only...if only I could find a butterfly clip...

|-* (Genderbend) Dazai Osamu, Bungo Stray Dogs*-|

No excuse, I just need the tie...

|-*Sal Fisher, Sally Face*-| ft. my cat as Gizmo

One of my cats (Diego) looks pretty similar to Gizmo.

[krisalyce]

how long do we think she takes to shampoo that mane

version without gradient mapping under the cut !

[totheidiot]

i am going to combat the babygirl-ification of elias bouchard by saying that he is balding. the top of his head is hairless and he has got a little ring of gray hair around his head.

[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

[feliciadraws]

👁️ W I T N E S S 👁️

- I've been meaning to do something with Onmyoji, the awesome @bamboorocket's Lancer AU!Waka, for a while now, but since it's Bamboo's birthday I went ahead and did a thing inspired by the current campaign she's playing him in as a birthday present!

So without further ado, Happy Birthday to the awesome @bamboorocket! Thank you so much for being one of the coolest, most awesome friends I could ever ask for 🎂🌙✨

[thedrotter]

filler doodles about how i comedically whitewashed myself as a child (despite also being the darkest i had and still have ever been in my entire life) because i cannot wrap my head around it

[sysig]

Oh he is So baby (Patreon)

[queensparklekitten]

time princess players how do y'all picture the MCs of every story

like since every set and piece of official art has a different hair colour, length, and style with every picture of them, and sometimes there's descriptions that don't match the images, which one do you go with

and do you make half of them look like your avatar or have your own designs

[allisonreader]

I'm currently too warm to sleep/am having trouble going back to sleep because body wants to sleep hot due to reasons I fully understand/know why and I don't like it. (Because my room is actually a wonderfully cool temperature and it's just my body regulation that is off due to reasons.)

So I'm going to write about the dream that I had tonight. It's one that I've had before but not in this particular form, but the story line is the same vaguely.

(This is vaguely Top Gun Maverick like in plot in some ways...)

Myself and a group of others have to find this unmapped island and destroy(?) a military base or something on it after being able to find it. To find it we have to go by how much energy the island is putting out.

So a bunch of us were pulled into this and I had the responsibility of contacting @siena-sevenwits to help with this operation. What the two of us were doing as part of this team, I couldn't tell you, but we were. I know there was planes involved and sitting in a car and watching my one coworker's husband drive an old firetruck and park it, though he had nothing to do with the team. Though his wife might have.

I think we were successful with our objective but I couldn't tell you how at all.

[cloudstongue]

i love that guy gary. :3

[steampunk-raven]

now it’s drawing oki time >:3

[wildsaltair]

UNMATCHED

[novadraem]

Okay so finally after like a couple of days of working on this and my art program crashing or lagging every time I wanted to continue drawing this, I have finally finished the fanart!

Oh and I’d like to say that I only made the drawing. The designs don’t belong to me they belong to Alohafromangel. And this is fanart of “Hawaii and the Celtic Nations” which was written by Weirdestarrow. Check them out they’re both amazing writers and artists!

Here’s the art!

[kosmos-dan]

deciding

[th3swarm]

what they dont tell you about liking something with a large cast is that you cannot do anything with your hair without looking like one of them

[wren-of-the-woods]

If I had a nickel for every time I had strong feelings about a character matching this description, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.