#sorry there’s blank spots

[the-goose-thats-a-goose]

redraw of a scene from TADC episode four!!! I miss you so much gummigoooooo

original under the cut:

[wanderershu]

Remember when Cale told Alver that the White Star gave him cookies and that they even tasted better than Alver's cookies? And then for some 'odd reason', Alver felt upset? And he also felt as though he had lost to White Star?

Because I think about it everyday. The whole Naru Von Ejellan arc was insane in so many ways and this is just one small part of it.

[katblazeparttwo]

magma tma sketches <333

[tanejineri]

this is a manga halftone test

[chrliekclly]

jst realized i cn post this whole page now since i didnt draw n e thng while we shot mental health day, so heres all the doodles i did on set to try to remember things this season!

[thegreatbuttoneer]

Everybody knows about the spoons analogy, right?? You wake up with a certain amount of spoons that you can use to spend on the day?

I woke up and got metaphorically bashed in the face with a metaphorical plank of wood, kicked in the side of the head, got hot coffee dumped on me and then bashed in the skull with the metal travel mug, hit by a car, had all of my spoons stolen, water boarded, kicked in the face again, and then was swarmed by tiny gnomes that used my stolen spoons to gouge out my right eyeball.

Metaphorically of course.

[alliluyevas]

dream historical American Girl year/place/demographic etc???

Oh, great question! As I said earlier, I think the most glaring gap in the American Girl historical canon (both current and retired dolls) is the lack of an Asian-American doll. I've seen people say that Julie's Chinese-American Best Friend character, Ivy, should have been the central character of the 1970s arc, and I personally also think there's no reason why Courtney from the 1980s couldn't have been written as Asian and added elements of her cultural traditions in with her general 1980s storyline. (I believe she likes video games? I haven't read her books. A little Asian-American girl can also enjoy going to the game arcade and having Care Bear pajamas). That being said, since I think it's more interesting to come up with a new addition than to retroactively change an existing character, here are some ideas.

This is definitely not my area of historical expertise, so I'm probably going to be a bit vague here. I think AG could potentially do a Chinese-American doll set during the big blank period in between Addy and Samantha. The main issue here in terms of historical accuracy is that immigration even before the Chinese Exclusion Act was heavily weighted towards single Chinese men (or potentially married, I guess, but if they had wives already they often remained home in China and the husbands came over as lone men). So there was not as much of a family life and community culture involving children. However, our character could be either the product of a relatively rare but not unique family immigration unit, or potentially biracial with a Chinese father. (There were legal restrictions on interracial marriages between Chinese men and white women, but still some marriages happened, and actually a lot of Chinese laborers in the South married African-American women, apparently.)

Another alternative would be to have a Chinese-American character whose storyline is set during the 1950s or 1960s, after anti-Chinese immigration bans were lifted and more people started to come to America. Obviously, we already have 1950s Maryellen and 1960s Melody, but we have overlapping dolls from the 1940s as well (Molly and Nanea), and I think it could potentially be very interesting to be able to compare girls with very different cultural backgrounds living in the same time period. (I'm inspired a bit here by one of my favorite children's historical novels, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, about a little Chinese-American girl who comes to New York with her parents in 1947.) Depending on what works best time-frame wise, the character could be either an American-born child of immigrant parents or have immigrated along with her parents. (Kirsten herself is an immigrant, and Rebecca iirc is supposed to have been born after her parents came to America, but either "type" of immigrant story could be very interesting looking at a different time in American history and a different country of origin.)

I think a Japanese-American character could also have interesting potential. I do think that having a storyline that directly includes experience in an internment camp would be inappropriate. There's a lot of discussion about "struggle narratives" versus narratives that are a bit more...idk, affirming? when it comes to writing historical stories about children of color. I think you can have a story that acknowledges racism and oppression without centering it in a way that can be traumatic for readers who share the characters' identities. (Or go the route that Addy's books do. They don't shy away from the trauma of slavery on Addy's family, but the first book is mostly about her and her mother escaping and the rest of them are about her life in newfound freedom.) If they were to do a Japanese-American character, they could also do something in the 1950s or 1960s, which could work with acknowledging the impact of internment camps (perhaps through the remembered experience of the character's parents or older siblings) while not feeling like trauma-dumping. Or they could go for something older, like a character set in the 1920s.

I also have some more ideas about potential storylines for a historical Mormon character, but I think that might have to be another post. (And, as previously stated, I think the lack of an Asian AG historical doll is much more glaring.)

[lale-txt]

why won't you just say what Sunarin said in the voice memo 🙄🫥

big fan of not spelling everything out for the audience

[nyxypoo]

as much as i LOVE kiryu, i could never STAND being in the same room as him bc ik for a fact he'd dress better than me

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

i could draw anything but i decided to draw this. carlo and rocco in 1932 aka my headache

[nightsandreala]

wizeman said it’s his turn on the computer

[creatively-cosmic]

heres my disaster of an expression meme i made for personal use! i uhhh dont care if you use it i don't care about credit whatever. go crazy (though if u use it n post it a tag might be cool.. 🥺)

heres an id bc it might be hard to see ig

[ID: A blank 4x5 square expression chart. Across the top row from left to right reads "Relaxed, Notable, Intense, Extreme" corresponding with four columns. Across the left side from top to bottom reads "Vocals, Tears, Teeth, Shaking, Silly Lookin'" corresponding with five rows. The first row of boxes reads "Talking, Laughing, Yelling, The Madness Takes Hold." The second row reads "Yawning/Tired, Happy Tears, Sobbing, 'You just killed a loved one and I'm not holding back anymore.'" The third row reads "Smiling, Grimacing, Snarling, HELL HATH NO FURY." The fourth row reads "Stimming, Anxious, Scared for their Life, About to Snap." The fifth row reads ":3 / :< / -_- / etc, TBH, Pog, Low Quality MSPaint Doodle."]

[acasternaut]

asha said yes so everyone has to look at these guys. THIS IS STILL DEFINITELY A WORK IN PROGRESS. btw

[rodeoromeo]

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[fruitgoat]

And I just want to mention, For The Record, that I was very clearly floundering in middle school and high school.

*random Janet gif until i can find my passive-aggressive totally fine you haven't noticed Janet gif*

Thanks, I guess, for letting me take all those days off from school when the Pressure and the Anxiety made the Migraines and the Ulcer Too Much To Handle. But.... For The Record, I really shouldn't have been put in charge of a whole fucking family (even accidentally) when I was TWELVE YEARS OLD. (No asked me to take charge, sure, okay, but was anyone else going to step up and put an actual fucking meal on the actual fucking dinner table every night? With vegetables? Before Sibling had to leave at 6:45pm? *a symphony of crickets* No one else? Just me? Okay. *rolls up sleeves*) I was prescribed heartburn medication for what no one wanted to admit was a developing stress ulcer when I was TWELVE YEARS OLD. My PEDIATRICIAN prescribed me heartburn meds powerful enough that I wasn't allowed to have them on my person, I had to go the school office to take them. He ignored the chronic headaches/migraines because that was just Anxiety (he called it "stress") and said I should just Get Over It.

All I remember in those years is being told to try harder, do better. My siblings had done this already; it was easy.

No, you motherfuckers! It wasn't ever Easy for me. Not once. You All either didn't listen or you didn't understand why it was important every single time I mentioned a symptom or asked for help. In your defense, I also didn't really figure it out for twenty years either. But still.

[ladyintree]

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