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reminder that this is a 99% dead blog
i dont do anything. i log in sometimes and that will be the only proof of my existence anyone will get
this is the woods. dont go here why would you go here. back where you came boy(gender neutral) lest your hope disappoints you
i think its nice that people still look at the art ive posted but there would be no more to come ok. ok
I do not know why but seeing the slightest mention of that quartermaster guy makes me experience a raw unbridled hatred. kill him. I need to kill him
my best friend is like the ceo of quartermaster and im a relatively equal enjoyer of him and raven and every raven fan is like âohhh heâs so SWEET and Kind and the best ever in the whole worldâ and every qm fan is like âi need to curbstomp him in a dark rainy ally. immediately.â which is an interesting phenomenon to me
i love this. my favorite little guys are put into categories like that as well i either want to tear them limb from limb or hold them gently no inbetween
sometimes i want to do both
Oomfie, I miss you. Come back to Tumblr the trepang2 brain worms got my ass
i too miss you oomf whoever you areâŚâŚ.. sometimes i think about being active again but i digress. you all will have to munch on my remains(art) forever
Heres a fun fact, I got into trepang because of you
holy shit man
omg itâs dr. roberta bobby, author of one of my favorite tweets ever written
Omg she wrote one of my favorites also
we need to give this tweet more credit for im pretty sure coining "die mad about it"
checks out, thank you melanie
happy "die mad about it" day to those who celebrate
i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadnât popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed
So uhâŚ.some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.
Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!
Give credit to the 30-year-old who worked on this for free and offers this service for free!
WHAT?!
I study graphic design and my tutor recommended and used this in his classes at art college last year, itâs so good it has SO many features for free, I really recommend it, even if youâre just trying to learn the basics of PS, such a wonderful thing <3
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NEVER KILL YOURSELF YOU'VE OUTLIVED CHARLIE KIRK TIME TO OUTLIVE TRUMP
I'm sorry, the charlie kirk situation just keeps getting funnier.
- gun nut insists 6 year olds getting shot in elementary school are a necessary sacrifice so that we can all have the 2nd amendment *gets shot at a school
- gun nut literally advocated for public executions to make kids stronger *gets shot in public in front of a bunch of students
- gun nut was an open racist, who constantly tried to incite race wars *got shot by a white guy in the whitest state in america
- gun nut insists empathy is fake *no empathy for him online, except from the same people who gleefully mock the deaths of trans people and Democrat politicians and anyone they don't like on a daily basis
- GUN. NUT. *gets shot and killed instantly by a gun.
The âboth sides bad, voting is useless, I wonât choose between evilsâ leftists are still at it in my notes. âWell, maybe instead of just voting you could educate people and organi-â YOU CAN DO ALL THAT AND VOTE. AND YOU FUCKING SHOULD. In the interest of minimizing harm and improving the world in small increments for you, your neighbors and your fellow man, you should vote in local, state and federal elections. You do, in fact, have a moral imperative to vote if one candidate is running on a platform of being âtough on crimeâ and cutting social programs and the other is running on a platform of improving education and protecting the path to citizenship.
Not voting is what they want you to do. It is why there is a Twenty-fourth Amendment. It is why the Republican Party continues to attempt to put up additional barriers to voting, why fascists keep âjokingâ about repealing the Nineteenth Amendment. Voting for the lesser of two evils creates less harm than passively allowing evil to choose what path it follows. Until there is revolution, you must continue voting despite the abysmal choices. The rhetoric you spread is harmful, about how absolutely nothing would be different under a Kamala Harris presidency than under the current Trump administration, about how all candidates are equally evil and you will have blood on your hands when you cast your ballot, you are saying exactly what they want you to say.
State terrorism charges have been dropped against Luigi Mangione. He is still on trial for the lesser charge of 2nd-degree murder.
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WONDERFUL to hear on 1,221 days left
reminder: keep up with saying he IS NOT THE UHC SHOOTER, they haven't proven that he is, keep insisting he and the UHC shooter are separate entities.
Important reminder- thank you
American Girl stories were the best tbh
Dude, read the books, she and her mom freed themselves in Book 1. We donât disrespect American Girl in this house
Donât you dare disrespect Addy, or any of my girls for that matter. American Girl used to be legit. Good stories, good dolls, good movies.
Felicityâs 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.
Samanthaâs stories centered around the growth of industrial America, womenâs suffrage, child abuse, and corruption in places of power. Also, it emphasises how dramatically adoption into a caring family can turn a life around.
Kitâs 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.
Mollyâs 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 theyâre always presented honestly, yet in ways that kids can understand. They just go to show that you donât have to live in a perfect time to be a real American girl.
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.
Donât 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 schoolâs 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 thatâs without even mentioning the âgirl of the yearâ 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.
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.
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 girlâs first lessons in diversity and cultural awareness (hopefully burying that insensitive âweâre all Americansâ 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 âaging outâ of the books, but hearing about some of these kinda makes me want to revisit them!
I wasnât 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.
Iâd like to point out that the company that makes American Girl dolls actually doesnât skimp when doing their research and they donât make the dolls with the intent to be offensive in any way:
And they departed from the norm in Kayaâs 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 weâre taught in school. And these books are targeted at ages 8+, which is a pretty critical time for developing your own thinking and morals.
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when i was in 3rd grade i was reading the Meet Addy book at school & a couple boys made fun of me for reading a âdoll bookâ - my teacher overheard & started reading Meet Addy to the class after every recess. everyone became extremely invested & by the end of the year we had read the entire collection of Addy books & did a presentation on the civil war at the end of the year that we all presented to the class one by one.
i think back on this & realize that as third graders we were talking about how awful slavery was & because we were simply innocent kids without any societal or institutional influence yet, all of us could kept saying âwhy would you treat a HUMAN like that ?!â this one girl for her birthday invited all of us for her party & she got the Addy doll - every single one of us (boys included) held her & was in awe of this doll - it was such a touching experience.
i went back home about a year ago & ran into my third grade teacher in the grocery store. she said that year opened up a whole new teaching structure for her. she now reads american girl stories to her students starting day one of class every day to calm them down after recess & sheâll get through maybe four or five sets of books a year. she has the dolls in the room with packets on information from the dollâs time period that her students can âcheck outâ to take home for weekends to care for them.
we oftentimes overlook how powerful toys can be in influencing young children & american girl honestly knew that kids could read intense moments in history & synthesize the issues to learn how to be a better person. my grandma bought me my first doll, molly, when i was only six & the dolls became a huge part of my childhood. when i turned 21 a couple years ago - we were living in minneapolis - she took me to have lunch for my birthday at the american doll place in the mall of america & bought me the Addy doll for my birthday. it was such a powerful moment i hasnât expected.
iâve since gotten rid of majority of my childhood toys, but i still have every single one of my dolls & all the books that i plan on gifting to my future children.
Iâm white and my first real introduction to slavery and the underground railroad was Addy. She was a young girl like me I could connect to and care about her story. American Girl does a great job of making history relevant to kids.
Also American Girl sells all sorts of books unrelated to the dolls. The Care and Keeping of You books were super important as I started puberty and were the most comprehensive, non judgemental account of what was going to happen.
They also have âthe smart girls guideâ series which covers topics like crushes, worry, middle school, drama and gossip, sports, friendship, the digital world, communication, money, confidence, etc.
Oh I had those too and I loved them!
I want to say I think there was an American Girl Doll magazine series that came out, but donât quote me on that. there were lots of helpful girl guides that used the American girls as examples for doing good or learning lessons or trying to understand why girls did what they did
I learned a lot of my core beliefs from these girls.
I remember being very invested in Molly, Addy, and Kaya. Mostly cuz I look like Molly, and the other two had a lot of information on two of my favorite time periods. But I owe a lot of my personality to these lovvely girls
yo donât forget my girl Caroline. Her father was captured by the British during the war of 1812 and she basically learned how to sail and rescued him herself.
omg yeah i love caroline
I can confirm that they really do their research - during the creation of Caroline the company called a museum I was associated with and quizzed them extensively about what sort of food kids would have eaten at the turn of the 19th century.
When i was like ten I wrote a letter to the American Girl magazine saying that the girls in their magazine were all really skinny and it made me, a chonk, really sad because it was showing that I couldnât wear any of the outfits they suggested, and I got a personal letter back from the editor apologizing for making me feel that way and saying they would work on that. Dunno if they actually did, i canât remember, but they did promptly personally respond to a letter about something that was not exactly on the radar for girlâs media in fucking 2002. So thereâs that.
Iâm happy to report that the messages from American Girl have only gotten better in recent years.
These are from one of their latest books, A Smart Girlâs Guide to Body Image:
They got a lot of flak from conservative parents for this and they did. not. back. down.
Their newest historical doll, Claudie, is a black girl growing up in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Her story is about Black artists thriving, and making a safe, beautiful place for themselves in a society that tries to reject them. It teaches about the NAACPâs protests against lynchings, in ways kids can understand, but thereâs also so much Black joy and creativity showcased in her story.
Another historical doll, Melody, is growing up in the 1960s during the Civil Rights movement. She faces the struggles and triumphs of attending a newly integrated school, and learns about the bombing of a Black church in Alabama that killed four little girls her age. Her stories show how black people found support and community within the church, as well as musicâ she loves to sing! If you have a free hour, I highly recommend watching her special on Amazon (free with prime). It stars Caila Marsai Martin from Blackish and it will make you weep.
The girl of the year for 2022, Corinne, is Asian, and her story touches on the issues of anti-Asian hate in the wake of covid. When conservative parents threw a fit about this, American Girl went ahead and made the girl of the year for 2023 Asian, too.
Any of their dolls can be customized with assistive devices like hearing aids, service dogs, and wheelchairs. They also have bald dolls, to include stories about girls battling cancer or alopecia. And itâs not just girl dollsâ they have boy dolls now, too! And dolls with no gender assigned to them! People complained that they couldnât find any dolls in the Just Like Me line that looked like them, so they now give people the ability to create their own custom doll, with tons of different options.
Iâm not claiming American Girl as a company is perfect, but I am saying theyâre important. Girl perspectives, girl stories, and girl communities are IMPORTANT. If there are kids in your life who would benefit from these stories, or if youâd like to read them yourself, you can find any American Girl book for pretty much dirt cheap on eBay, and libraries usually stock tons of them!
ADHD and autism has always existed throughout history but I think the difference now is the extreme stigma around the labels and the rush to figure out a cause. So many historical texts, newspapers and journals describe people who are potentially neurodivergent, had a learning disorder or intellectual disability. Theyâre like âMy son is really helpful around the farm but heâs got a habit of repeating himself over and over again, he didnât do good in school and he doesnât seem interested in going to dances and meeting new people. Heâs a good boy, just quiet.â or âMy sister is a sweet girl but she is very sensitive and it takes a while for her to get used to changes. Sheâs house proud and very particular about where everything goes.â and that is just how it was. Institutionalization was part of the reason you didnât âseeâ autistic and intellectually disabled people and another reason was that they just lived out their lives without anyone looking.
In case you writers ever wondered. Made by Carrie Patrick on Facebook.
The object comparisons are things of an equivalent weight, not things you can cut with the swords. Just saying so to preemptively stop cursed comments.
Like a claymore it takes two hands to properly wield a baby
