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Amateur writer and artist, aspiring creator. Creator of Afterman, pls check it out

[segamascott]

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Jonathan Harker In College vibes

[soulless-bex]

the monster high design team saw the fans bemoan the poor fashion of g3 and instead of ignoring us like a good mega corporation would they listened and came up with the refresh core dolls

[harbingerofsoup]

dracula is defeated by 1) autism, 2) true love, and 3) incredible violence, and the fact that this isn’t the mainstream understanding of dracula in pop culture is a fucking travesty

[identitty-dickruption]

being abused or neglected really makes it clear how many things are skills that nobody really treats as. skills. exercising autonomy is a skill. listening to your body is a skill. resting is a skill. being liked and being loved are skills. nobody tells you how to do this shit because nobody even told me I was supposed to have learnt these things when I was a kid. I kind of just have to manually figure out what makes me freak out and work from there. unfair as shit

[czym]

With the Bionicle GWP set I see some people talking about how we should buy it to convince Lego to make Bionicle G3.

They sure didn't learn the Bionicle history. What forces Lego to make Bionicle isn't giving them more money but putting the company into financial crisis 💸

[dolliestbunny]

saw this on twitter and it is a really important message, if you were planning to buy skulltimate series 1. please do so!

[coconutcows]

I’ve been thinking about this post for awhile now, I just can’t get over it (and I mean this all to who made the image OP, not you for sharing it)

Like first off if the leaks hurt Mattel then maybe they should do something about them??? Retail employees sharing pictures of line names you can’t do much about and aren’t too bad but stock pictures being released early is an internal issue I’d think.

And if sales determine things that much, maybe a toy company that’s been around for 78 years should be able to figure out that if you want something to sell you actually need to make it available to buy. Every release of every line so far has been an absolute mess, and they aren’t sending most of the dolls outside of the US. Even Canada, the country that is *right* there is barely getting them let alone anyone on any other continent. Maybe their sales would improve if they stopped thinking all their customers are in the US???

I’m genuinely worried G3 is gonna go down the drain again and posts like these don’t help. But it’s going to go the same way as G2, with Mattel citing lack of sales and dwindling interest while ignoring the fact their treatment of the franchise are the main cause of that.

[shinesurge]

stop calling indie comics webtoons for the love of god

[shinesurge]

how are we not all objectively disgusted that a company swooped in and turned a punkass art medium like webcomics into a brand like i can't believe we just rolled over and allowed this where's your goddamn rage

[beesmygod]

BEEN SAYIN THIS

[chocolate-and-discourse]

Sorry, I could never be a capitalist, I suffer from “wanting humans to have their basic needs met” disorder, where I care about people who aren’t me.

[chocolate-and-discourse]

Someone once asked me if, assuming we got universal healthcare, I would be okay with the rise in “healthcare tourism” where people who are sick come to our country to get their medical bills taken care of and life-saving medical treatment cheaper than in their home countries. I was just like, yeah thats fine, I’d actually prefer it if 0 people died from preventable causes kept behind a paywall for no reason.

[spoopy-valkyrie]

“even the addicts?” yeah dude did i fucking stutter

[kimmywithay]

“but surely not the criminals!” YES even them!

[fem-fatalist]

There’s something noxious in American culture where people are obsessed with being judge, jury & executioner. That people should somehow earn the inherent “right” to live.

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

We were, for hundreds of years, a slave society. In such a culture, things like having rights and freedoms, rather than being assumed, are explicitly virtues of being a member of the overseer group. In America, that’s white people, and especially wealthy white people.

This is why all of our public services that assist the poor are “means-tested” and punitive. This is why many people prattle on about the “deserving poor” versus “leeches”. And, it’s also why so much of our political discourse is centered around “protecting our freedom”: because in a slave society, freedom is a mark of privileged status, not a base level of human needs that society must provide for all.

[marzipanandminutiae]

it’s also an artifact of certain kinds of 17th-19th century Protestantism. we’re a country founded in part by Puritans, after all, who were great believers in the importance of Earning One’s Keep and Being Industrious and the idea that poverty- or ill health -could be a divine punishment for “moral impurity”

[arthurdoe-deactivated20240217]

which fandom was your first introduction to fan OCs

Homestuck fantrolls

Warrior cats ocs

Steven universe gemsonas

Invader zim irkling ocs

MLP ponysona

Minecraft mobsona

BNHA herosona

AUification of an existing character (eg sans)

A really cringe fandom that you don’t want to say

Other (comment)

Voting ended onFeb 19, 2023

[snail-speed]

This is so fucked up, where’s the Sonic OC option?

[crazy-brazilian]

Holy shit he’s back

[dolliestbunny]

saw this on twitter and it is a really important message, if you were planning to buy skulltimate series 1. please do so!

[xfirecorex]

No one should feel obligated to spend money on non-essentials. Don’t try to coerce people into purchasing something they don’t 100% want.

It’s Mattel’s fault for putting out an inferior first wave, it’s not collectors fault for not buying them.

Don’t buy a doll “because the entire line might end if we don’t.”

Also, if G3 is primarily for children, and adult collectors are a negligible part of total revenue (10-15% of all girls product sales) then why does it matter if we buy them or not? 

The target market will decide its fate, adult collectors are not going to be the ones determining if it is a success or failure.

[monster-lili]

22$ vs 75$

HC dolls have the same quality as G1 playline dolls used to have but for more than three times the price

(Obviously not all playline dolls used to have a Sweet Screams, Gloom and Bloom, DOTD, etc like quality, but still none of the Skullectors are worth more than 50$)

[xfirecorex]

This isn’t exactly a bad design, and I would’ve absolutely loved it if her body suit was also green. I love the idea of a Frankie doll with bright apple green as her main color.

But for $35 AT MOST, not $75.

At least the first wave of HC included hairbrushes and a purse.

[cherryfemm]

I really don't like Midnight runway collection of haunt couture dolls.

I honestly dislike all three designs. And the fact you've done a line based on masquerade and masks and didnt choose Operetta, a character you insisted on always wearing a mask.

Thats all.

[mh-midnight-wanderer]

[lilmarysunshine]

[spyglassrealms]

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

[dolliestbunny]

"well its mattel, so quality is not expected" is such a bad excuse towards any criticism of the monster high dolls. these are great dolls being held back because this company refuses to up their quality. i want g3 mh and skullector to be around for a long time, but if mattel wont listen to criticism im afraid that wont be the case.