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[svvply]

do you wanna top or bottom?

I wanna be a star

[vodcar]

country gnomes,

take my bones

[cryptidfuckery]

to a place,

they don't belong

[remakesihavetoremake-deactivate]

Bandersnatch sounds like British slang for pussy

[potstickersandpizza]

and yet “family-friendly” disney still hired him to play doctor strange. what a disgrace

[dykebisclavret]

this post is like getting smacked in the face twice

[brownsknkid]

You will find a friend with a similar soul You will get that job that you applied for You will get that good grade in your class You will make it through your loneliness

Speak it into existence.

[funnymemes-and-kinkydreams]

[lilacwine1966-deactivated202212]

i can have a little unrealistic romantic fantasy. as a treat

[gahdamnpunk]

American Girl stories were the best tbh

[that-catholic-shinobi]

Dude, read the books, she and her mom freed themselves in Book 1. We don’t disrespect American Girl in this house

[allthefandomss]

Don’t you dare disrespect Addy, or any of my girls for that matter. American Girl used to be legit. Good stories, good dolls, good movies.

[smugkoalas]

Felicity’s story was set in the beginnings of the American Revolution, and addressed the conflict that she faced when her loved ones were split between patriots and loyalists. It also covered the effects of animal abuse, and forgiving those who are unforgivable.

Samantha’s stories centered around the growth of industrial America, women’s suffrage, child abuse, and corruption in places of power. Also, it emphasises how dramatically adoption into a caring family can turn a life around.

Kit’s story is one of my favorites. Her family is hit hard by the Great Depression, and they begin taking in boarders and raise chickens to help make ends meet. Her books include themes of poverty, police brutality, homelessness, prejudice, and the importance of unity in difficult times.

Molly’s father, a doctor, is drafted during the Second World War. Throughout her story, friends of hers suffer the loss of their husbands, sons, and brothers overseas. Her mother leaves the traditional housewife position and works full-time to help with the war effort. They also take in an English refugee child, who learns to open up after a life of traumatic experience.

American Girl stories have always featured the very harsh realities of America through the years. But they’re always presented honestly, yet in ways that kids can understand. They just go to show that you don’t have to live in a perfect time to be a real American girl.

[chaos-in-the-making]

Dont you fucking dare disrespect the American Girls in my house. ESPECIALLY Addy!! That was my first REAL contact with the horrors of slavery, as I read about her father being whipped and sold and her mother escaping with her to freedom, but also how freedom was still a struggle.

A slave doll. Please. Read the books.

[ironwoman359]

Don’t forget Kirsten, the Swedish immigrant who had to deal with balancing her own culture and learning the english language and customs of her classmates, or Kaya (full name Kaya'aton'my, or She Who Arranges Rocks) , the brave but careless girl from the Nez Perce tribe, or Josefina, the Mexican girl learning to be a healer.

And then there are the later dolls, that kids younger than me would have grown up with (I was just outgrowing American Girl as these came out), like Rebecca, the Jewish girl who dreams of becoming an actress in the budding film industry, or  Julie, who fights against her school’s gender policy surrounding sports in the 70s, or  Nanea, the Hawaiian girl whose father worked at Pearl Harbor.

These books, these characters, are fantastic pictures into life for girls in America throughout the years, they pull no punches with the horrors that these girls had to face in their different time periods, and in many cases I learned more history from these series than social studies at school. And that’s without even mentioning the “girl of the year” series where characters are created in the modern world to help girls deal with issues like friend problems, moving, or bullying. We do NOT disrespect American Girl in this house.

[razzleberryjam]

American Girl is probably going to be the only exposure young girls are going to get to history from a female perspective. This is actually kind of important considering that in history classes we dont really get that exposure. We dont hear about what women felt and endured during these time periods cause schools are too busy teaching us about what happened from the male perspective, which is not unimportant, but we need both. Girls need both.

[star-linedsoul]

These books were such a crucial part of my childhood and shaped my love of history, which still ensures today. These books can be a young girl’s first lessons in diversity and cultural awareness (hopefully burying that insensitive “we’re all Americans” tripe) and looking at history from more perspectives than just that taught in school. They also are an example of how women have ALWAYS been part of history, which some people would rather us not believe.

I think Kit and Kaya were the newest American Girls when I started “aging out” of the books, but hearing about some of these kinda makes me want to revisit them!

[breezeinmonochromenight]

I wasn’t gonna say anything, but you know what?

Nah.

OP (of the tweet thread) was either a actively trying to start shit or is just a huge fucking moron. Probably both.

I’d like to point out that the company that makes American Girl dolls actually doesn’t skimp when doing their research and they don’t make the dolls with the intent to be offensive in any way:

[physicsandfandoms]

And they departed from the norm in Kaya’s doll to fit her culture! The other dolls all show their teeth, and Kaya does not because that is considered rude in the Nez Perce culture!

It is absolutely true that these books covered the stuff in history that was absent from our history books. I still distinctly remember reading about Addy being forced to eat bugs she missed on tobacco plants, and that started me out from a different perspective and made it easier for me to know to reject the sanitized version of the slave trade we’re taught in school. And these books are targeted at ages 8+, which is a pretty critical time for developing your own thinking and morals.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Are you guys following what's going on in Milwaukee? It's happening right now, June 23/24 depending on where you live!

There are conflicting reports about who set the house and van on fire, some say it was the police to cover up evidence, some that the neighbors did it.

But people managed to recover tons of documents from the house before it burned down and already one of the people mentioned in them was identified as a register sex offender! The house is also allegedly registered to a member of the clergy?

Summary:

[unrealunearths]

Rebekah Jones was fired from the Florida Department of Health because she refused to report altered data. Florida is now actively deleting cases and hiding data in order to move forward with Phase 3 of reopening, despite actually currently leading the country in COVID-19 cases. It is likely my state will become the new epicenter of the virus in the US, and more tourists and locals are here, without masks, every single day.

We are breaking records for new cases each day even with the state government hiding information from the public. They are letting us die so the shops can reopen. I am absolutely disgusted, but not surprised with the (lack of) leadership from our Trump-loving leader. IMPEACH GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS AND STOP LETTING PEOPLE DIE.

Some more sources for further reading: x / x / x / x

(All info as of 12pm, June 24, 2020)

[lesbianshepard]

99% of all murders committed by women in ancient greek plays are completely justified

[lesbianshepard]

[ikariyuiofficial]

[ottermatopoeia]

Clytemnestra: crack? Is it crack you smoke?

[cruelladatrille]

You ever think about the fact capitalism created a class full of newly rich(not wealthy) highly publisized celebrities to serve as a scape goat for the insanely weathly super elites?

Like I know every time Hannah Montana takes a shit but know absolutely nothing about these large conglomerates board of directors who have considerable more power and wealth than any rapper or actor

[beyonslayed]

[anarchistcommunism]

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments

[criticallyalexandrite]

Would be a shame if this thread became viral.

[politicalprocrastinator]

Here's the finished painting of the softest scene in televisual history that murders me every day because they're never going to happen

[wadey-wilson]

do u ever realise that you’re gonna be an adult for the rest of your life

[coffeeandmoorland]

There are so many other words in the english language and you just had to go and say these

[gahdamnpunk]

Ding ding ding

[mindflayedr-blog]

i would just like to say that I am billy hargrove’s defense attorney, so if I see any billy hargrove slander on my dash best believe legal action will be taken

[flightyfinch]

i miss the days when people would discreetly cough blood into their handkerchiefs instead of everyone always trying to be this season’s Little Miss Tuberculosis