#taking care of your plushie

[letterstoear]

Caring for your plushies

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I was recently asked about this from a very sweet anon and well here it is! Now as for taking care of the bears I wrote a guide for taking care of the bears below. This guide will actually work for the Ikemen series plush as well.

I actually have never really had to deep clean my bears but for this I tested it out just in case it didn’t work. I hope this guide is clear, if not feel free to ask for more details! Please read through the entirety of the directions to find the solution that works best for you.

For all bears, do not put in the washer, or dryer! This will ruin the original texture of the fabric. This goes for a majority of fabrics made from felt. Doing so will cause the felt to become distorted as well as shrink in size.

In the case that your bear has been dropped onto a dirty service these are the following steps we recommend.

Step 1.

Brush off any remaining dirt.

Step 2.

Spot clean. Simply take a lightly wet towel with a bit of soap to gently brush over the dirty area.

Be especially careful when it comes to details made out of acrylic paint. Such places are the eyes, nose, and small details on the bows of the bears. Harsh rubbing with water may result in those details rubbing off.

Step 3.

Take a dry towel and gently pat dry. Then leave the said plush to air dry.

In the case that you would like to deep clean the plush we recommend the following steps. Do note that this method will result in slight distortions.

Step 1.

Fill a small bowl with cool or cold water. Do not under any circumstances use hot water, that will cause the fabric to shrink. Add a very tiny amount of soap, this can be dishwashing soap.

Step 2.

Gently submerge the plush into the water, take the time to gently clean off any dirty patches as well.

Step 3.

Squeeze out any excess water from the plush. To squeeze properly, take the bear between your flat palms and press down. You want to get as much water out as possible. Then once you have squeezed out as much water as you can, leave to air dry on towels.

Do not use clothespins to dry said plush. That will cause distortion and pulling of the felt fibers. The drying process will take about 3 days.

Now, if your plush has accumulated dust or lint we recommend,

Step 1.

simply take a piece of tape and gently tap over the area. You may also use a lint roller.

Step 2.

Typically the area will puff up with felt fibers clumping together. In that case, take a pair of scissors and simply cut it off.

On the occasion that your bear is in need of surgery, as in the stitches are falling apart. Read the following:

To fix the plush, use a blanket stitch to close the bear back together. Here is a link to completing a blanket stitch.

Video link: Blanket Stitch How To - Basic Sewing (Embroidery & Hand Sewing) (youtube.com)

You can also ship the product to us, although you will have to pay for shipping to us, we will repair it free of charge (re-shipping said product will also be covered by us). If you do not wish to follow through with that plan that is okay!

With that we close out our guide for cleaning our Twisted Wonderland bears. Thank you for consulting with us as well as those of you who took the time to read through the entire directions. Once again, if none of these answers your questions feel free to reach out to us via ask box, DM, or email.

[blackbackedjackal]

I miss my taxidermy mentor. Like my ACTUAL mentor.

[dusty-pistol]

If you're cold, they're cold. Share the blanket with your plushies

[good-beanswrites]

WAH HEY BEANS!! okay so i was looking at the plushies and merch again and i suddenly had a thought in LCSyS, what are their thoughts on like merch?? i have no idea if you've mentioned this before and if so i am silly. i can totally see fuuta go OH NO IVE BEEN TURNED A MARKETABLE PLUSHIE

YES AHAHAHA I love that!! This is for the gone-public variation of the au

This made me realize the wide range of official merch, plus I think a lot of them would love supporting artists once they're out and have access to the internet again lol. Overall I think the plushies would cause the biggest stir around the facility 😂 I mention bootleg merch, like when you have random companies making weird/ugly knockoffs -- I don't think real Milgram has that but it was a fun idea for the story lmao

Haruka isn’t used to having his own image on so many things. The others are really sweet about taking care of his plushie and doing kind things for it to boost his own confidence (although there was One Singular Moment of jealousy where his tiny counterpart was getting more attention than himself and needed to be talked down lol) He and Muu have plushies of each other that they’ll plan cute matching outfits/accessories with.

Yuno loves her own plushie, and is excited to share it with Yura. She takes really good care of all the plushies she has, and they genuinely bring her warmth, especially post-milgram when they all separate <3 She (or maybe Mikoto, I haven’t decided) gets only the weirdest/most concerning buttons on her personal bag. She loves her Borderline Suicidal Fuuta, Crazed Bug Muu, Grieving In A Hospital Shidou, Rats Mahiru, and so on. She asks Amane for permission to add Waterboarding Button to her collection. For her more public displays, she likes the aesthetic things from the anniversaries and birthday art. She loved those days of dressing up for the photoshoots, so they carry nice memories as well as being super cute. 

(I tagged you in the art I thought of, but yeah,) Fuuta puts up a big act about how weird and capitalistic it is to have merch of oneself, how plushies are “for kids,” and also how ugly/skrunkly his t2 one looks... His refusal to interact with it only makes the others interact with his more. I can see some of the prisoners (*cough* yuno *cough*) carrying around their Little Fuuta and sharing full conversations and activities while he looks on in horror. In the end, he caves in order to set a good example for Amane, and keeps a few in his room. He never admits that he also gets really attached >:3 Another secret -- he likes using the special bluetooth headphones. He thinks they look cool and the voices are a fun touch, but he’d never dare tell the others. 

Muu has one of those really aesthetic merch bags where she keeps buttons, plushies, stickers, keychains etc. She has a little something for every prisoner, but there are definitely a few who have some shameless favoritism… Once out of Milgram, she makes a lot of social media posts focused just on the plushies in different locations and outfits. She keeps them in pristine condition, caring a lot for them.

Shidou gives the plushies to his kids, and the prisoners laugh/brag about which one each child chose as their favorite. (I also like to imagine the conversations Shidou must have with strangers: “aww your daughter is so sweet! Who do you got there, honey? Aw, you’re squeezing ‘em real tight! Is that your favorite disney princess or something?” “Ah, that’s a little doll version of the divorced cop who lives a few streets over. In a prison uniform.” “O.oh…?”) He likes adding stickers to his tech, using some of the cases, and thinks the album covers look nice to display.

Mahiru goes crazy over the plushies. She sews little mv outfits for all of them, alternate outfits, and other accessories to hand out. She starts planning on making custom plushies for other people – her bf, Hinako, Shidou’s family, Lucky, etc. She was genuinely upset by how sad her T2 plush looks, thinking no one will love it – Jackalope breaks his experiment-long internet ban only once to sit with her and scroll through pictures that people had posted of them treating the plush kindly because of her looks. Also, even though they broke up, she excitedly shows her bf the buttons that feature the two of them 😅

Kazui already has a lot of records/CDs collected, and he makes a really nice display of all the albums for his wall. The other prisoners love gifting him bootleg merch of his own videos – tshirts and things from random companies that are juuust off somehow. (I have no clue about her sense of humor, but maybe one day Hinako wears one of the Cat marriage buttons like “I got married and traumatically divorced and all I got was this this stupid button)

Amane would have tried to match Fuuta acting too cool for the plushies… if it weren’t for every single other person absolutely fawning over them. She can admit to loving them and carries a different one to set with her each day, treating them kindly and dressing them up with Mahiru. She also enjoys adding stickers to her notebooks and things, they end up completely covered by the time the later mvs come out. At the very end of the experiment, she ends up using merch to cover up the old cult stickers on her backpack.

Mikoto owns the most of his own merch, claiming “it’s John :)” (and then John points to the same things claiming “it’s Mikoto :)”). They each have a T1/T2 plushie to carry around, though they end up like that Garfield "to be loved is to be changed" plush -- they really go everywhere. Mikoto gets those anniversary art shirts with the prisoner’s face taking up the whole center, and wears it to each of their mv shooting sessions, much to their embarrassment. He owns a lot of the stands to keep on his desk while he works, using them for rubber-ducking when needed. He posts I feed him rocks.

Kotoko prefers the more general things when she goes out, feeling like it’s odd to show off the other’s faces out in public. (They claim they’re famous anyway, but she insists you can never be too careful.) So she wears a lot with the main milgram logo/inno and guilty symbol/Jackalope/etc. In her personal space, though, she has a ton of the others’ things, and tries to play down how much she really likes the plushies :3 When Mahiru’s finished with it, she’s excited to show Lucky both of theirs.

Everyone owns a lot of Es merch. They try to be subtle about it post-reveal and not overwhelm their poor guard, but it comes out eventually and does scare them just a bit. 😅 Later, Es really enjoys having something of each of the prisoners close even when everyone goes back to their lives.

[kindred-spirit-93]

life update! and other things

hello everyone :D

im going on hiatus till i am freed of my (mental) burdens and attain inner peace after a feature film length journey of solitude and soul searching complete with several plot twists and a training montage.

goodnight x

hello again :)

i am indeed going on a hiatus for the duration of september to study for 2 major exams i have that will determine the trajectory of my career forever. such fun!

also as soon as i finish said exams ill be starting third year nearly right after so thats another quasi hiatus. ill pop by every now and again because this place is my blanket fort and i love the friends i made on here dearly (ive adopted some of u lol) so yeah ^-^

in other news, today i went on a lil date with my platonic soulmate and we did things. enjoy:

i told her very briefly all about my greek mythology hyperfixation and watched the light leave her eyes as i explained how exactly zeus was a 'family man' lmao

P L U S H I E S

we passed a back to school themed stall thing right as she was telling me how she was trying out & obsessing over drawing with charcoal. we went for a look (famous last words):

friend: ok so this many pencils for this much. count with me me: *blue screen of death* ...this means? friend: this means im buying it >:) ... me: *still processing* friend: the girl math is girl mathing me: XD

(for reference shes an engineering student and im a med student. i do not do the calculations in this relationship lol)

anyway yes thats all from me. have a good morning/afternoon/ evening/ rest of your lives and ill be seeing you whenever x

[boinky-spoinky]

The number 1# thing I hate about self ship is that there’s a specific person who once kicked me out of VC all because I said I once made matching bracelets with Shadow (for fun) and the person kicked me out of the VC just to say they are uncomfortable with me talking about him 💀

Like dude, he’s a fictional character, if your uncomfortable by me talking about him you could’ve told me yourself instead of letting your “knights” talk to me about it, Jesus Christ you fucking dumb

Mind you I’m talking about somebody on self ship discord server who were “uncomfortable” by me

[explodingstarlight]

everyone should draw Raph in cute cardigans because i said so

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

All of the terrible disaster advice on this website is gonna make me cry

Your "go bag" for a fire shouldn't have canned goods, it should have water, money, any medications, and a copy of your important documents for fuck's sake 🤦

[kandidandi]

The virgin y/n needs to take better care of their moon plushie. Holding it by the hat like that can cause brain damage

imagine thats the whole reason og moon attacked y/n was for how they hold their plushies lmao

[tallytals]

lowk a mha x hades au would go so harddddd

[theuwuafterhours]

If you were magically turned into an inanimate object then what would you be?

I think I’d like to be some sort of plushie. Cute, fluffy and very huggable~ +doing nothing all day but look super cute chillin in bed lol (sounds like the life)

I just love fluffy things and if I could I’d probably wear something fluffy all the time if I didn’t have to experience the Australian summer

[scraemoo]

My cat baby and his plushy he sleeps with every night :)

I Hope you feel better soon

Ohhh baby! Thank you so much <3

Please let him know that I love him ;;

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

Hi Jammy! Should we hope for some ficlet chapter today/tomorrow??👀

Yes! 🤗

I have planned only writing today, so I should get things done! 😊

[strongheartneteyam]

my kiwi birdie says: it's OK to eat junk food but eat healthy too 💕

I'm eating some salad for dinner tonight to help me get the nutrients I need to get well from my sickness sooner and bc I LOVE salad too 😋🥗🙏🏻🤍

[silent-sentinels]

the second we woke up the first thought we had was from lili and it was "jachi c: ⭐🌟✨☄️"

[cakesexuality]

I've been disabled for almost 29 years. Here's what I've learned.

Tablets sink and capsules float. Separate out your tablets and capsules when you go to take them. Tip your head down when taking capsules and up when taking tablets. Liquigels don't matter, they kinda stay in the middle of whatever liquid is in your mouth.

If your pill tastes bad, coat it with a bit of butter or margarine. I learned this from my mom, who learned it from a pharmacist.

Being in pain every day isn't normal. Average people experience pain during exceptional moments, like when they stub their toe or jam their finger in a door, not when they sit cross-legged.

Make a medical binder. Make multiple medical binders. I have a small one that comes with me to appointments and two big ones that stay at home, one with old stuff and one with more recent stuff.

Find your icons. Some of mine include Daya Betty (drag queen with diabetes), Stef Sanjati (influencer with Waardenburg syndrome and ADHD), and Hank Green (guy with ulcerative colitis who... does a bunch of stuff). They don't have to be disabled in the same way as you. They don't even have to be real people. Put their pictures up somewhere if you want; I've been meaning to decorate my medical binders with pictures of my icons.

Take a bin, box, bag, basket, whatever and fill it with items to cope with. This can be stuff for mentally coping like colouring books or play clay or stuff for physically coping like pain medicine or physio tape.

Decorate your shit! My cane for at home has a plushie backpack clip hanging from the end of the handle and my cane for going places is covered in stickers. All of my medical binders have fun scrapbooking paper on the outside. Sometimes, I put stickers and washi tape on my inhalers and pill bottles. I used my Cricut to decorate my coping bin with quotes from my icons, like "I've seen enough of Ba Sing Se" and "I need you to be angrier with that bell".

If a flare-up is making you unable to eat or keep food down, consider going to the ER. A pharmacist once told me that since my eye flares can make me so nauseous that I cannot eat, then I need to go to the hospital when that happens.

Cola works wonders for nausea. I have mini cans of Diet Pepsi in my coping bin.

Shortbread is one of the only things I can eat when nauseous. Giant Tiger sells individually-wrapped servings of shortbread around Christmas or the British import store sells them year-round. I also keep these in my coping bin.

Unless it violates a pain contract or something, don't be afraid to go behind your doctor's back to get something they are refusing you. I got my cardiologist referral by getting in with a different NP at my primary care clinic than who I usually saw. I switched from Seroquel to Abilify by visiting a walk-in.

If you have a condition affecting your abdomen in some way (GI issues, reproductive problems, y'know) then invest in track pants that are too big. I bought some for my laparoscopy over a year ago and they've been handy for pelvic pain days, too. I've also heard loose pants are good for after colonoscopies.

Do whatever works, even if it's weird. I've sat on the floor of the Eaton Centre to take my pills. I've shoved heating pads down my front waistband to reach my uterus.

High-top Converse are good for weak ankles. I almost exclusively wear them.

You can reuse your pill bottles for stuff. I use my jumbo ones to store makeup sponges and my long skinny ones to hold a travel-size amount of Q-Tips.

Just because your diagnostics come back with nothing, it doesn't mean nothing is wrong. Maybe you were checking the wrong thing, or the diagnostic tool wasn't sensitive enough. I have bradycardia episodes even though multiple cardiac tests caught nothing. I probably have endometriosis even though my gynecologist didn't see anything.

You can bring your comfort item to appointments, and it's generally a green flag when someone talks to you about it. I brought a Squishmallow turkey (named Ulana) to my laparoscopy and they had her wearing my mask when I woke up. I brought a Build-A-Bear cat (named Blinx) to another procedure and a nurse told me that everyone in the hall on the way to the procedure room saw him and were talking about how cute he was. Both of those ended up being positive experiences and every person who talked to me about my plushies was nice to me. If you don't feel comfortable having it visible to your provider during the appointment, you can hide it in your bag and just know it's there, or if you're in a video appointment, you can hold it below frame in your lap.

Get a small bucket, fill it with stuff, and stick it in your bed (if you have room for it). I filled a bucket with Ensure, juice boxes, oatmeal bars, lotion, my rescue inhaler, etc. in October 2023 in anticipation of my laparoscopy and I still have it in my bed as of January 2025.

If your disability impacts your impulse control (e.g. ADHD, bipolar disorder), you should consider setting limits around your spending -- no more than X dollars at a time, nothing online unless it's absolutely necessary, and so on. Or, run these purchases by someone you trust before committing to them; I use my BFF groupchat to help talk sense into myself when I buy stuff.

Feel free to add on what you've learned about disability!