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please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

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Long time no see everyone! I haven't abandoned this blog quite yet. I have transitioned into writing short stories. I won't be writing imagines or fanfiction anymore, however, the ones that I have written will remain on this blog.

I will remove the masterlist for the imagines on this blog in order to make another one for my short stories/other writings.

My username used to be that-one-fangirl-person and I recently changed it to sour-coconut. This blog's name has also changed. My goal is to eventually publish an ebook with my stories. I appreciate any support that you are able to provide. Thank you all for your patience!

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spinningrims

i’m seeing a lot of people reblogging suicide hotlines and this is just a reminder that this is a suicide help line that works like a text-based instant messenger for people who may need to talk to someone but have trouble/are uncomfortable making phone calls

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nochillpikachu

well damn…or just anxiety

infj-dreams

Accurate

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NO JUSTICE NO PEACE!

B L A C K L I V E S M A T T E R

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:

bookishbathingbeauty

Growing up as a second generation Hispanic girl who read voraciously, I will never forget the first time I saw myself reflected in a main character - Josefina.

That series meant the world to me (I still have all six books).

Plus, here, in the US, the books were also published in Spanish!

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They were!!! And It gets better!!!

The writer even went to New Mexico to and spent a couple months living their so they could interview all these older/elderly Hispanic women to know about their lives now and how their lives were growing up.

just-shower-thoughts

You can just change every letter “e” to its Russia counterpart, which is “e” it looks exactly the same but plagiarism tools will see the texts differently

poptartpaladin

I need a gay lifetime movie. Especially if it's a Christmas one.

I love watching them with my stepmother, but they're all soooooo straight and predictable. Like, give me one where the smooth talking business person is a high femme, we'll call her Caroline, who goes to the small town of Noel to oversee the construction of her new hotel and meets a butch named Amanda, a Christmas tree farmer and, obviously, mayor or the small town, and who is just a super softie and is absolutely in love with the season.

The town is a bit away from the nearest city, and so when a storm shuts down the airport, Caroline finds she has to use the only ready room in the under construction hotel, but Amanda, who was initially put off by her because the hotel that Caroline is building will bring tourists and noise into the sleepy mountain village, feels bad as there's no heat or electricity in what will be the town's first hotel, and so invites her over for a warm meal. Over a couple days they get into conversations and situations that show that they are more similar, and compatible than they previously thought, and begin to fall in love.

There will be a trans woman who runs the local bakery, a trans man who is the head contractor hired by Caroline to do the construction, and an enby and their husband who give advice to Caroline and Amanda in a pivotal scene as they have a crisis of what to do with their budding romance.

Who wants to fund this for me?

hinatulka

You don’t need to bash skinny people to say that bigger people are beautiful.

You don’t need to bash men to promote women’s rights. You don’t need to bash white people to promote racial equality. You don’t need to bash a certain genre of music to promote another. You don’t need to bash straight people to promote gay rights.

You don’t need to bash anyone to advocate your opinion.

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i learned about Congressman Charlie Wilson’s revenge. When he was 13, his neighbor, Charles Hazard poisoned his dog by mixing glass into its food. Years later, when Hazard was running for office, Wilson drove 96 people to the polls, telling them how Hazard had killed his dog. Hazard lost by sixteen votes. (x)

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one day you will wake up refreshed, drink coffee and be able to read a book the same way you did when you were little. you will have a cat who curls up to sleep on your lap or a playful dog who is happy to see you. you will be the kindest you can be, listening to stories, and checking up on people often. you will make pancakes in the morning and decorate your abode with plants, your old paintings and cozy cushions. you will fill photo albums with blurry photos of your new friends and road trips and summery evenings. you will visit your favorite bakery and library often, and keep in touch with people you love. things won’t be perfect, but you’ll be at peace with yourself and you will be in love with life again.

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funkyfatbabe

if I have to hear one more time that lizzo is ‘glorifying obesity’ im going to lose my goddamn mind. are skinny people gonna go out and gain weight bc of her? no. fat girls are gonna see that theyre worthy of respect and love and arent the scum of the earth bc of their weight. literally just shut up.

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yo-daddys-my-bitch

May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨

hermes-is-my-homeboy

10 of Pentz came thruuu

violaslayvis

Omg this actually works!!! Thank you 10 of Pentacles!!!

borkdork

I could seriously use this money right now….

ashashi-corner

Please give me my refund of 400$ soon…

hermes-is-my-homeboy

I feel obligated to reblog this every time it shows up in my dash

hermes-is-my-homeboy

No bragging, just 100% floored and grateful. Work hard, maintain a positive attitude, and believe that anything can happen.

virgocity

So I reblogged this exactly a week ago because I thought it was funny and uh lo and behold, a family friend wrote me a big ol’ check just to help me out of a tough financial spot AND my bank refunded me $32 for fees they’d originally taken out. SO UH YEAH. Reblogging this again in hopes that it brings equally good fortune to my followers.