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If you like these posts, please share one of your special toys! We've just passed 1,200 posts! This is my daily invitation to visit my website www.saidtheskinhorse.com - it's a site that celebrates the special relationship we have with our favorite toys from childhood. Here's one of our newest toys!

lobter-invasion-march1

Lobsters say huzzah and if you don't believe that you are unconcerned with the joy of lobsters

#spread the lobsters

artifacts-and-arthropods

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This artifact was sealed within the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that runs below the barrows provided an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produced a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

Currently housed at the Hermitage Museum.

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@glittervermin

This is exactly what I feel too. There's no way there weren't stuffed animal toys before steiff, maybe in a commercial level but people would've been making soft representations of animals for as long as humans have been making fabric, I bet!

planetbeanie

‘For The Love of Beanie Babies’

Published in 1998

oh-bother-stickers

3vageline

I relly love that Blue dog

xanaxfarts

This dog was documented chasing a 'Kakao Maps' street view camera around a small South Korean island, it is featured in more than 1000 images of the island.

8irdies

holding my comfort plushie softly in my hands, staring into their eyes with love, knowing that they understand me more deeply than anyone and bring me more joy than you can imagine, and they will always be with me as long as they have a choice and we can get through this together

furballfaggot

does anypony else get sad when they buy thrifted plushies sometimes or is that just me

furballfaggot

like someone Loved you. someone cared enough to repair you and give you a new face and give you a little necktie. and now youve turned up at a flea market for a single quarter. and its my turn to love you now

furballfaggot

who did you give joy? what did you get to see? how long were you loved and cherished before you ended up with me? how long were you out there once you were given away?

do you miss it? them?

im sure they miss you too

furballfaggot

anyways say hello to plaidsley the very bear who inspired these posts and who i will love and cherish in the stead of all his old friends

mascula-sappho

Aren't plushies beautiful? They were created so a sick child had something to hold. They were created so an adult living alone might have a friend to keep them company. They were created for a teenager to clutch to her chest as she cries. They were created to accompany a college student to his geology classes. They were created not for any material benefit, they don't change tires, but to be loved.

They were created for the purpose of love.