i'm so in love with these little friends 😭😭😭😭😭
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i'm so in love with these little friends 😭😭😭😭😭
The Care and Keeping of You American Girl Doll book never instructed me on what to do when my friends keep wanting to hang out at an extremely mediocre restaurant
Woaghhhh
get disabled, idiot. been wanting to make knee braces for my Draculaura doll for a while, finally got around to doing it. Not the most complicated piece of doll clothing, but I'm really happy that we match.
✨Sailor Venus✨
Feat. Beansprout 🩷🌱
Anyway, I made a gloriously shitty, lightly slutty peplum blouse mockup.
I can’t think of a single time I’ve regretted making a muslin mockup of a pattern first. I can definitely think of some times I’ve regretted not doing one though… ha
I think one of the biggest strengths of the American Girl books, which can only really be appreciated retrospectively, is the fact that they don't paint childhood in an overly idealized light. Being a kid is full of frustrations, even if you aren't living through major historical events. Kids worry about birthdays, they struggle with school and fitting in, they're often ignored by adults and belittled by older kids, and generally do a lot of dumb things as they're trying to figure themselves out, and all of that is present in the books. At the same time, they also portray the immense amounts of fun that can be had, which a lot of people have a hard time holding onto as they get older. It always made the characters feel more relatable as a kid, and as an adult it makes me appreciate all the good things that I've gained by getting older, as well as some of the things from childhood that are worth retaining.
all the historicals have 'about' pages now! :D
here are the behind the scenes facts for the newly added girls:
American Girl spent five years researching and creating Kaya’s world.
American Girl consulted with an advisory board of niimíipuu elders, educators, and historians, who reviewed both Kaya’s stories and her entire collection, from hair ties to moccasins.
Author Janet Shaw read over 90 books on niimíipuu history and culture, worked closely with the advisory board, and retraced the tribe’s traditional routes from hunting grounds to berry-picking and root-gathering fields.
The advisory board requested that Kaya’s story be set before permanent European colonization to show niimíipuu culture strong and intact.
Kaya’s unique face mold was developed with input from the advisory board. She’s the only American Girl hictorical-character doll without visible teeth, reflecting the cultural belief that smiling and showing teeth when first meeting someone can be considered insincere.
Niimíipuu women were master weavers, and Kaya’s belt bag and corn husk bag both feature motifs that would have been created with dyed corn husks.
Author Jacqueline Dembar Greene drew on her own family’s immigration history to create Rebecca’s world. The scene in which Rebecca is told to make Christmas decorations at school was based on an incident that actually happened to Jacqueline in third grade.
Rebecca was released in 2009, and American Girl partnered with the Tenement Museum in New York City for several of her debut events.
American Girl worked with Jewish cultural consultants and historians to ensure that Rebecca’s religious practices, holiday celebrations, and family dynamics accurately reflected Ashkenazi Jewish traditions of the early 1900s.
Rebecca’s original collection included authentic items like a Sabbath set with candlesticks and challah, a Hanukkah set with a menorah and dreidel, and Russian nesting dolls. Rebecca also carried Bubbie’s “Clever Karina” brooch.
Rebecca’s character was intentionally crafted to highlight her intelligence and entrepreneurial spirit, reflecting the diverse roles girls could aspire to in 1914.
Rebecca was the first historical character to focus specifically on the Jewish-American experience.
Brit Bennett’s involvement began with an impromptu tweet about wanting to write an American Girl book. To her surprise, the company reached out to collaborate!
Author Brit Bennett grew up reading American Girl books and was particularly inspired by the historical character Addy Walker, making Claudie’s creation a full-circle moment for the bestselling novelist.
Brit Bennett was especially intrigued by the Harlem Renaissance’s renewed focus on Black childhood—a pivotal moment when communities emphasized teaching Black children to value their heritage and believe in their potential.
American Girl partnered with Harlem’s Fashion Row designer Samantha Black to create special 1920s-inspired outfits that reflect the era’s distinctive style.
Claudie’s development process included a five-person advisory board, cultural consultants, and sensitivity readers to ensure respectful, accurate representation of the Black experience in the 1920s.
Authors Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy are real-life twins who drew on their 1990s childhood to bring authentic detail and voice to Isabel and Nicki’s world.
As kids, Julia and Jennifer passed journals back and forth, filling them with notes. Years later, they traded manuscripts the same way while writing Isabel and Nicki’s stories. Just like old times!
The twins’ collection includes authentic ’90s accessories like inflatable furniture, dial-up computer sounds, a Pizza Hut® set, and replicas of actual American Girl Grin Pins from the era.
Seattle was chosen as the setting for its perfect mix of tech innovation, music culture, and coffeehouse style that defined the late ’90s.
Isabel’s cat, Buffy, is based on a real cat the authors had as kids who loved to climb curtains and leap off to startle people.
American Girl teamed up with the nonprofit organization Girls Who Code, supporting women in tech and reflecting the story’s themes about the twins’ mother working in a male-dominated field.
The release coincided with American Girl’s expansion into digital platforms like Roblox, allowing children to interact with Isabel and Nicki’s world through immersive online experiences.
I wish they gave Raquel a cat or some other pet instead of another dog
does ag realize we've had dogs for five GOTY years in a row or
I'm over here still waiting for a GOTY with a pet reptile!
The start of the story of rapunzel is really goddamn funny if you're aware that the name refers to a type of leaf salad. Like imagine a pissed off witch shows up like who took my fucking cabbage, give me my shit back, and you're like oh please have mercy my wife is pregnant and we are very poor and she was craving that salad so bad.
And the witch is like okay then wow fuck you then, you took my cabbage for your baby and I can't have my cabbage because it's in your baby now so I'm taking your baby and I'm fucking naming that little bitch Cabbage.
Kelly Pringle
So I picked up a weird little odd job today off of my local gay fb page helping some lesbian across town organize and clean out her house in order to move across country (to live that backpacking lifestyle ofc after her life exploded: lost her job, girlfriend cheated on her uhhhh well gangbang style with 8 men, aaand her dog died). So anyway, she clearly has MONEY (literally the other girl I was working with took home a pair of Louboutins… curse my large feet!) and I could tell because not only did she instruct me to toss almost EVERYTHING, most of these things were in no way trash. I did what I could to save stuff but…. I mean, I was getting paid to clear this place out and there was a lot to do. Everything in the house was nice or Very nice (albeit dirty) and she was just like, oh take it, take that, throw alllllll this away. So anyway I can’t list everything but some highlights I’d like to share from my haul:
- a marble topped side table
- a partially full bottle of adderall
- 8 bottles of expensive booze
- two giant murano glass vases
- 4 large skeins of primo quality yarn
- an entire 12 setting set of vintage celestial sun/moon/star patterned dinnerware
- vintage enamelware jug (soooo cute)
- so much nice glassware
- a little jar of cocaine (hey, it was free ok)
- four partially used bottles of EVOO
- 3 partially used bottles of Advil
- unused very pretty longboard (no I don’t ride)
- an iPad in perfect condition (that she told me to throw out)
- a miniature laptop (that she also told me to throw out)
- Lego flowers set (also plucked right out the trash :| imagine having “throw out iPads and legos” kinda money)
- an Hermes tie
- pair of walkie talkies
- pipe that looks like a pussy
- an entire box of change! No I will not throw out these quarters????
- ray bans sunglasses
And so much more!!!!!
She’s a crazy lady.
I counted the quarters and those alone were $10