He/him. Call me Zoomy. This sideblog is for rediscovering a childhood special interest as an adult. Recently got Addy and waiting for time to sew things for her. Just extremely tiny fanart you'll have to zoom in to enjoy. check #ZoomInAG for just the art without other stuff. I hope you like it.
I've realized that on the individual outfit posts Tumblr mobile does the zooming in for you, so it'll be blurry to look at. It shows up tiny and unblurred on browser though.
Here are some links that might be helpful:
Zoom In AG tag (just the art posts).
Rules of the game for how the series works.
Send me your doll or OC to draw link goes to a post with more info, which in turn has a link to a Google form with space for you to describe your idea or upload pictures or collages.
MistakesThere are definitely mistakes, and I'm open to corrections, especially if I got your culture wrong. Here's how to let me know.
Asks: I'm happy to post clips or zooms of anything I've posted before! Let me know if you would like to see:
A specific outfit and year ("Show me Addy's meet dress in 1875")
A specific run of an outfit ("Show me all of Addy's meet dress variations")
A specific year ("Show me everyone's meet dresses in 1875")
A decade or series of years ("Show me everything from the 1870s")
Any individual figure at 8x zoom ("Show me Addy in 1875 at 8x")
Links to specific posts below the cut.
The big posts:
(* to indicate ones that haven't aired yet; after they air I'll add links. Check later to see these!)
Canon main girls (Imgur link), no OCs or Best Friends
Canon and my original characters, no Best Friends
* Canon main girls and canon Best Friends (in other words, all the historical dolls that have been released)Canon main girls and Best Friends for each (per @americangirlstar's Best Friends series)
Canon and original characters and Best Friends
* Historical OCs by AG Tumblr users! If you'd like me to include your historical OC(s), please fill out this Google form, which will guide you through sending me your character's collection, with space for reference pics, collages, or just descriptions of what you'd like to see. More info and guidelines at this post.
*Reboot this will address a variety of issues in Caroline, Courtney, Molly, and potentially others.
*Canon characters and their siblings
*Canon characters, OCs, and siblings
Individual meet outfit posts:
(* to indicate ones that haven't aired yet; after they air I'll add links. Check later to see these!)
My OCs' Best Friends:
Agnes Jonker, 1684
* Jane Finch, 1724
Abigail Schorr, 1790
Delia Freedman, 1834
Florence Coburn, 1875
* Mabel Kaplan, 1884
Medha (Possibly changing name to Mahtab), 1890
* Matilda Greene, 1894
Lawrence Ross, 1925
Liora Blickman, 2001
Other people's OCs:
Susanna Hanchett, 1664, by @desertdollranch
Héloise Cormier, 1765, by @autistickirstenlarson
Violette Metoyer, 1833, by @getintothesun
* Aoife Callaghan, 1846, by @autistickirstenlarson
* Charlotte Devereux, 1853, by @gardner-n-pardner
* Lucy Morgan, 1874, by @queer-nanea-mitchell
* Alice McDougal, 1914, by @mapleleagirls
* Francie Whitman, 1917, by @futuristicsaladparadise
* Francesca Vitale, 1920, by @autistickirstenlarson
* Dinah Hope Bellini, 1924, by @lorsdollventures
* Lilyann Bonney, 1939, by @kirstenlarsons
* Honoka Oishi, 1949, by @autistickirstenlarson
* Adrienne Davis, 1957, by @addywalkerstan
* Karine Bedrosian, 1971, by @autistickirstenlarson
* Remy Blake, 1997, by @americangirloftoday
* Brielle Walters, 2012, by @kylejsugarman
* Sophie Dwyer, 2003, by @kaileeandag
* Lexie Sarah Gilbert, 2016, by @adventuresindolls
* Summer Louise Williams, 2016, by @adventuresindolls
make that blorbo disabled. hit them with the disability beam. especially if they obviously were or should have been disabled in canon but canon didn't meaningfully dwell on it
Get you a bestie like Lila, who will sign up to be an usher so she can be at all of your orchestra performances 🎻🤎 Raquel is rocking this Pleasant Company recital outfit!
On a FaceBook comment under a post about Kaya's creation, Nez Perce Language teacher Harry Hayes Slickpoo, Jr. claimed that he is on the advisory board for "updating" Kaya.
I doubt American Girl would go through all the trouble of updating Kaya's books if they were not planning more re-releases to go with her, or getting a new advisory board just for a few outfits. Thus, my assumption is that she's getting a full story AND collection revamp. With his use of the word "currently," I would expect a full collection re-release for Kaya and potentially the other historical characters by 2027 or 2028.
Considering he is also a Nimipuutímt expert, I also wonder if AG will release Nimipuutímt translations of her books.
i NEED american girl to realize that this does not look to us like "oh what a nice diverse friend group <3" after all the shit they've been pulling it looks like "remember kids! you can be any race or disability, but you're always second-fiddle to the white main character. now go act as fuel for her character development"
we said this with summer's best friend too but legitimately why the fuck couldn't that girl holding the dog have been the GOTY. any of the other characters look like a more interesting design. Daisy is clearly them desperately trying to ride off the Lila high now that she's about to be retired.
And she's a soccer player too? Cool. you know who else was a soccer player and also fun fact had a storyline about being anti-ICE, something extremely relevant to the current year? THE LATINA DOLL YOU RETIRED.
listen i am a sucker for nostalgia-marketing. it works on me. it totally worked with Raquel. but pulling that two years in a row really makes it seem like they think we're completely braindead and will buy anything that has the word "Molly" on it. god i need some molly rn
also theyre not even doing the white girl nostalgia-marketing right. "Davenport" was the last name of the Ruthie actress. should've been a kithie descendant you morons
Powerchair in the woods... As a powerchair user, how? Unless it's four wheel drive (unclear if that's even something that's possible to get) you can't even get on ramps that are not fully flush with the ground. A sidewalk in my town has a tree growing out of it and trying to get over it sends me careening into the wall every time. But sure, let's stick the powerchair user in the woods because that's inclusivity
Right? Like the place we're going for vacation this year has one trail powerchair with like, caterpillar treads for rent that you have to sign up for a week ahead of time, and the offroad wheels for my wife's own manual chair were out of pocket because of course going outside isn't important to one's health or anything. Like, I work summers at a camp with paved sidewalks and we still have accessibility issues in all kinds of ways. It raises Questions.
i NEED american girl to realize that this does not look to us like "oh what a nice diverse friend group <3" after all the shit they've been pulling it looks like "remember kids! you can be any race or disability, but you're always second-fiddle to the white main character. now go act as fuel for her character development"
we said this with summer's best friend too but legitimately why the fuck couldn't that girl holding the dog have been the GOTY. any of the other characters look like a more interesting design. Daisy is clearly them desperately trying to ride off the Lila high now that she's about to be retired.
And she's a soccer player too? Cool. you know who else was a soccer player and also fun fact had a storyline about being anti-ICE, something extremely relevant to the current year? THE LATINA DOLL YOU RETIRED.
listen i am a sucker for nostalgia-marketing. it works on me. it totally worked with Raquel. but pulling that two years in a row really makes it seem like they think we're completely braindead and will buy anything that has the word "Molly" on it. god i need some molly rn
also theyre not even doing the white girl nostalgia-marketing right. "Davenport" was the last name of the Ruthie actress. should've been a kithie descendant you morons
Powerchair in the woods... As a powerchair user, how? Unless it's four wheel drive (unclear if that's even something that's possible to get) you can't even get on ramps that are not fully flush with the ground. A sidewalk in my town has a tree growing out of it and trying to get over it sends me careening into the wall every time. But sure, let's stick the powerchair user in the woods because that's inclusivity
Right? Like the place we're going for vacation this year has one trail powerchair with like, caterpillar treads for rent that you have to sign up for a week ahead of time, and the offroad wheels for my wife's own manual chair were out of pocket because of course going outside isn't important to one's health or anything. Like, I work summers at a camp with paved sidewalks and we still have accessibility issues in all kinds of ways. It raises Questions.
There’s a wrinkle in the AG multiverse we all need to be aware of that has come to my attention through the readathon.
We’ve discussed Courtney having a Molly doll and Nicki reading Addy’s books, meaning that Courtney and Nicki exist in a different universe than Molly and Addy.
We’ve also discussed McKenna and Lila’s connection, as well as Samantha and Raquel’s. They are all AG characters together in the same universe, and that means they are in Addy and Molly’s universe, but not Nicki and Courtney’s. But here’s the new dimension:
I noticed in both Summer and Raquel’s books (and this could include Lila, but I don’t remember) that when they are illustrated with outfits AG sells, the clothes have the AG logo. This means they exist in a universe that has the AG company. For Summer, this is fine. That means she exists in the Nicki/Courtney universe. But what about Raquel? Does she exist in a 3rd universe where AG is a thing but Samantha isn’t a character?
(This is what happens to your brain when you read every single AG character book I guess 🤭)
It's a few days late but here's Nellie's finished Christmas dress!
I used the party dress pattern from Samantha's Pleasant Company dress patterns, adapted to make the bodice gathered. I made it based on the illustration from the short story "Samantha's Winter Party".
The story occurs before Nellie and her sisters are adopted by Gard and Cornelia. But the dress is so pretty and festive, I really wanted it included in my Nellie's collection that I'm creating for her.
Genuine question, whats Dyscalculia? I heard of Dyslexia before but not that one :0
It’s a learning disorder that impacts arithmetic & math-related tasks!
It affects the person by making it harder to understanding number-related things: which also includes things like reading a clock or managing money!
In the same way dyslexia also has problems with left/right or spatial distances, so does dyscalculia! I also know that mental math is near impossible & a lot of people with dyscalculia need a calculator for all their math work.
My partner has dyscalculia!
His words are basically “think dyslexia but make it numbers”.
I have severe dyscalculia! I can read perfectly fine in two alphabets, but my fourth grade students can do way more advanced math than I can! I can barely read clocks or calendars, so getting my first smartphone was a huge step in independence for me--and it took a long time for me to get one, because I needed help evaluating the prices and specs!
In my daily life, I have a lot of coping mechanisms that help me, like frequent, labelled alarms on my phone, and carefully chosen fonts and backgrounds for logs I fill in for work. Still, I end up with funny stories like the time my class turned up to snack at the wrong time and missed a minor disaster, or less funny stories like the time my son was waiting after an appointment because I had misread the time it ended, and my friends are used to getting texts from me that says things like "Help, I'm doubling a recipe and I can't get it to hold still: what's 3/4x2?"
I've recently been experimenting with fonts made for dyslexics (OpenDyslexic for English and Dyslex-Kriyah for Hebrew) and they really do work! I wish more programs we use at work supported them.
