#will bryers

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Quick mike fanart

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1958 Duane Bryers Hilda Calendar Cover (via: Pinterest)

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The doll maker

This one was an idea I had when I was listing to play date by Melanie Martinez, let me know if you would like to be tagged fir anything Eddie munson, also just stranger things.

Warning: Metions of death. please let me know if i missed any.

Hawkins, Indiana was known for very little, but there was something about a shop that called people to it like a spell was cast to pull you towards. The shop was that of a toy or doll maker shop, the owner, an old man and his wife, made dolls of each little girl who wanted one, the doll always looked like its owner, who bought one. The wife of the owner could always be found cleaning the dolls on display, caring around a feather duster, and a wipe. She spends at least about five minutes with every doll cleaning them, but one she spent about 30 minutes, and that was the doll that was made to look like their daughter. The story goes that their daughter had died in a fire that happened years ago. But things changed every year, like it was aging. Her legs appear longer than a doll, almost life-like, though the height stopped at 5ft. Her hair had reached the hair, and the wife would braid it in a three strand dutch braid, with flowers placed in different spots. One morning in 1986, the doll still sat in the window with her legs crossed and hands placed on her lap. Her dress is a beautiful, lilac purple, with a dark blue bow on her chest. As the wife went around cleaning each doll, a group of young high schoolers walked by, with more older high schoolers following behind. One looked towards the window, locking eyes with the doll. “Man, that doll is creepy. I remember the day I first saw it.” The voice of Gareth sounded next to the taller one. “Why does it feel like it’s not a doll tho.” Eddie asked, as he watched the eyes of the so-called doll. “I don’t know, but it was made after the shop owner's daughter died, it was made to look like her in memory.” Gareth left no long after, their last sight of Dustin and Mike, Eddie had stayed behind looking at the window display, when The wife finally came over noticing the young man watching the doll. She smiled at the young man, then proceed to clean the arms of the doll. That afternoon, after school let out, Eddie, Gareth, Jeff, and Barry found themselves in the shop of the doll maker, Gareth had been meaning to find a gift for his sister. As the three looked around, Eddie found himself being pulled towards the doll in the window, her face framed with little bits of hair laid across her cheeks. His ringed hand reached to twirl the little bit of hair. Once the soft strained was wrapped around his index finger, he lighty pulled away, and watched as it fell back into place with a slight curl now in it. “She’s pretty, isn’t she.” The voice of an older woman made Eddie jump a bit, looking toward the graying haired lady. Her smile was strained as she looked from Eddie to the doll. “My daughter would have liked you, she was into all that metal music. I remember when my husband came home, and found her listening to it. Man, he went off like a volcano.” She said with her eyes filled with sadness, and something else that Eddie couldn't figure out. Eddie listened to the older woman, with a sad smile. “Well, I think we would have been friends. I’m sorry for your loss. How old would she be by now.” He spoke to her, with his arms across his chest. “She would have been 16 going on 17.” She smiled as she looked at the doll, until she heard husband call her. “I’m sorry, I have to go now. It was nice talking to you.” She said as she held out her hand for him to shake, Eddie took her hand with surprise at the woman. When she walked, Eddie made his way outside, still looking at the doll. When the paper in his hand, made him look. Opening it up, the words made him freeze with wide eyes. ‘She’s not a doll, please help her.’ Eddie looked back to the window to see the wife cleaning the doll again, her eyes moving to look at him again. Eddie nods, one that if you weren’t looking at him closely you would miss it, once the rest of his friends made their way out, he grabbed Gareth by the arm pulling him towards the way to Dustin’s house. Gareth was yelling at him. “Hey, what the fuck. My house is the other way.” Eddie looked at him once they reached the van. “Just get in the van, I’ll explain on the way.” Once inside, Eddie handed Gareth that paper. Gareth looked over the words with frowned eyebrows, until he looked towards the shop window, then to the page again, then at Eddie. “What are you gonna do?” He asked his older friend, Eddie looked at the window then to Gareth. “Well, we’re going to see Dustin Henderson.” He said as he started the car up.

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September - art by Duane Bryers

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Hilda Weeding the Garden by Duane Bryers

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Duane Bryers - July/August 1979 Hilda Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection - Happy Monday!

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Autumnal Hilda!

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someone said Naomi reminded them of a pinup girl from the 50s-60s named Hilda! I can definitely see what they mean ^^

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this is how lifetime achievement award went I think

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FEMALE HROTHGAR

FEMALE HROTHGAR ARE REAL

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HER NAME'S WUK LAMAT, HER VA'S SENA BRYER AND TRANS!

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I've been trying to find good references for drawing/painting double chins and GOD BLESS DUANE BRYERS!!!!!

That man did God's work!!!

[torpedopickle]

A small PSA about Dawntrail

In the wake of all the harassment and blatant bigotry being hurled at Sena Bryer for her performance as Wuk Lamat in FFXIV Dawntrail, I really think it's time we have a conversation about knee-jerk reactions and how the inability to process them can very easily be a slippery slope to hate.

Like most people, I have sadly at a few points in my life heard a trans woman speak and then my brain takes a second to process it and then goes "That doesn't sound like a lady. That's not a lady"

These knee-jerk reactions aren't uncommon when for instance first meeting a character voiced by a trans VA in a video game. But what's important is that you stop and tell yourself;

"I just had a thought I did not like. Why is that?"

It's SO important that you interrogate yourself whenever you have thoughts like that. You need to dismantle those thoughts, pull them apart and refute them. Only then can you start to unlearn programmed prejudice.

Teach yourself that "they don't sound feminine/masculine" is an invalid train of thought. Ignore it and go on with your life until you stop having that thought. Then you've grown.

It's important that you DON'T indulge these trains of thoughts. Don't follow them, they don't go anywhere good. They go to a place that starts to make you irrarionally upset every time you hear trans people speak because you're not allowing your brain to ignore the disconnect it believes exists between voice and gender.

Thats how you end up with dozens of forum threads where gamers rant about how angry they get when a rather inoffensive character opens their mouth.

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July - art by Duane Bryers

[emoshep]

so this is terrible.

not liking Wuk Lamat is one thing, but going after Sena is not cool. it is, dare i say, way fucking uncool.

and let's be clear: we know this case is because of transphobia. people will make all sorts of excuses for this behavior, like "oh this always happens to VAs," which doesn't make it okay regardless, or "well the performance was terrible," which wouldn't make it okay regardless, or whatever else. (also what the fuck were you listening to?)

well, we're not idiots and it's not fucking rocket science. the hatred against Sena is rooted in transphobia. it is so glaringly obvious that only a genuine idiot would fail to realize it.

and all the while, her industry is doing nothing about it. because of course it isn't. fuckin hell.

i'll leave it here: wuk lamat is fucking awesome and i thank Sena for bringing the character to life the way she did. she doesn't deserve to be treated like this.

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Duane Bryers - Hilda, 1973

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Duane Bryers - 1970s Hilda Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - Original art sold by Heritage Art Gallery - Happy Monday